Although based in New York City, Lucy Hayes often visits Naples, where her parents, Sara and Webb Hayes, now live. The bride wore a Carolina Herrera gown, the bridesmaids sported custom dresses by Camilyn Beth, and the flower girls donned outfits designed and made by Lucy’s mother.
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lthough she’s called New York City home for seven years, Naples is Lucy Hayes’ happy place. So when she and Chris Trombino married a year ago, there was no question about where the wedding would take place. “Florida is so bright and happy, and Naples is so cheery; I always envisioned getting married here,” she says. “When Chris and I go to Naples, we ride bikes and walk into town and go to the beach. Naples is magical.” Lucy balanced her own version of Florida’s casual elegance with strong family ties to tradition. The daughter of Webb and Sara Hayes, she chose to have her April 7 wedding at a private Naples beach club, selecting bold hues of orange and pink as her colors. “I wanted something people hadn’t seen before,” she explains. “When I started planning my wedding, I couldn’t get pink and orange out of my mind.” But before the color scheme and event details could fall into place, the bride had to meet her match. Lucy‚—who is the namesake of the wife of her great-great-great grandfather, former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes—grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, but spent many vacations and holidays in Naples, where her grandparents owned a home and where her parents now reside about 70 percent of the time. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is currently a recruiter in the Brooklyn advertising firm Elephant. Chris, a graduate of Fairfield University and director of equity trading at Strategas Research Partners, was raised in Huntington, Long Island, where his parents, Tony and Cathy Trombino, still live. The story of how Chris and Lucy came together is a cinematic “meetcute.” Though she felt sparks when they met at a party at his New York City apartment, she turned him down the first three times he asked her out. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to go out with him,” she says. “It’s just that he asked me out on a Monday night, and I’m not going out on Monday. And then he wanted me to go skiing with some of his friends, and I don’t ski.”
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