Sophia Bush designed her wedding weekend to shine a light on the city.
Actor and producer Sophia Bush met entrepreneur and real estate investor Grant Hughes on a New Year’s trip to Nicaragua almost 10 years ago. “We became fast friends but only saw each other a few times a year because both of us were travelling all of the time for work,” Sophia says. But at the start of the pandemic, the two began sharing books, articles and philanthropic initiatives. That segued into long FaceTime sessions and, eventually, dating.in August of 2021 on Lake Como in Italy.
Much to their surprise, their engagement story was picked up by media outlets around the world. “Happiness is apparently big news,” Sophia reflects. “And while it was lovely to be met with so much unabashed positivity – as a political activist I am all too familiar with the tendency of the internet to be abusive to women – it was also jarring. I play other people on TV for a reason.” But then she realised: if this personal news could travel so far, so fast, imagine what a wedding might do.
“When I thought about that spotlight, my activist brain turned on,” Sophia says. “Global attention is a hell of a platform, and as someone who doesn’t love attention but does love collective activism, I knew that this could be an incredible moment to spin the privilege of attention. And so I looked at Grant and said, ‘Honey. I think we should get married in Tulsa.’ He blinked. ‘’ he asked. ‘Yup.
Grant is from Oklahoma originally and the couple spent much of their time in Tulsa over the pandemic. “Tulsa is a place where so much progressive justice work is happening, so much deep history has been uncovered and is at long last being honoured and so many people are building a deeply inspiring future,” Sophia says. “When thinking about the purpose of our wedding, we wanted our community that pours into us to pour into a community at large that we love and that deserves all our attention.
“It all began with welcome drinks at Lowood restaurant on Thursday night to ensure that our guests could become intimately acquainted with
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