10/09/2026
Hayley Paige, our fairy dress mother is married and of course she did not walk down that aisle in white.
She married Conrad Louis Clevlen in a pink ball gown covered in embroidered lace, with a matching lace-edged veil draped over her hair, and I’m over here like, beyond amazing. Later came a crystal-beaded corset gown with a statement choker, and then she danced with Conrad in a blue toile ball gown that stopped me all over again. That blue one makes so much sense, because that’s who she is. Hayley is color. She is rainbows. She told People the designer in her had a field day, and you can see it in every look.
Now look at their faces. Her smile, Conrad’s smile, the two of them kissing while guests threw pink petals at the The Historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California. Such an amazing venue. They look so happy.
They were engaged for seven years. In that stretch she spent years unable to design or even use her own name professionally, and Conrad spent a week in the ICU in 2024, and they still made it to this weekend, three full days of celebrating surrounded by their friends and family. That’s the part that has me emotional.
I’ve been publishing weddings since 2011, and every time a bride this visible wears color on her own day, someone planning their wedding right now gets permission to wear the color they were scared to ask for.
Congratulations, Hayley and Conrad. Wishing you a marriage with as much color in it as that weekend had (pink petals included).
📷 Rich Lander for People Magazine
