Margo + Tony

Margo and Tony do not take photos. Their camera app is hidden deep in a folder on the last page of their phones, and their social media is sparse and filled with snaps taken by other people who happen to tag the couple. So having an engagement photo shoot was the last thing on their minds, but lucky for them, they're friends with me.

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Margo and Tony met on Bumble in 2017. Margo's first photo was of her in a Feminist AF T-shirt to weed out any man not worth her time. Tony still remembers seeing that photo and knowing he had to swipe right. From then on, it was a steady move forward, everything easily clicking into place as they built a life together.

Walking around Huntington Beach, we talked about anything but wedding planning. While Margo and Tony are excited to be married, planning the wedding is far from their favorite thing. They both said they are most excited about getting back to focusing on the things they love to do together, like travel. They would much rather plan trips than pick table settings.

Margo and Tony got engaged on one of these trips in that brief window at the end of the summer of 2021 when COVID let us get out of the country. I hinted more than once that Tony should tell me his plan so I could take pictures, but he politely declined my insistent offers. Instead, he and Margo spent a hot day exploring Athens, an engagement ring hidden in his phone case (a ring box would have been too obvious in his linen shorts). He tried three times to find the perfect place to ask the question. Athen's National gardens were too hot and off-season. The climb to the top of Lycabettus Hill to see the Holy Temple of the Saints Isadore was also a no-go because it was August in Greece and exceptionally hot. Finally, they decided to get a drink and some snacks at A for Athens. Tony suggested they go to the roof to take a look, but Margo was not feeling it. She was hot and tired from a day of seeing the city and wanted nothing more than a glass of wine. But Tony had a ring burning a hole in his pocket, so he persuaded her to climb a few more stairs, at the top of which, with the Acropolis in the background, he found himself on one knee.