On Sept. 26, the rain paused at all the right moments.
Synclaire Alexandria Warren and Shane Daniel Clancy had been closely monitoring news of the looming nor’easter set to barrel through the Northeast during their wedding weekend. Not the type to leave things to chance, Warren enlisted some supernatural help.
“I paid two Etsy witches about $15 total,” said Warren, a content creator, consultant and writer in women’s health and rights.
She requested help conjuring weather conditions pleasant enough for photos to be taken outside. Though the Etsy witches didn’t thwart the storm entirely, the worst of it seemed to bypass their nuptials. The occasional drizzle and cloud of mist on the horizon even added a desirable effect for Warren, a self-described “spooky fall kind of girl” and “feminist fairy” with nearly 50,000 Instagram followers. (Fittingly, the couple’s dating anniversary is Halloween.)
Warren and Clancy met on Bumble in 2021. For their first date that August, they met at the cocktail bar Jungle Bird in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Synclaire had arrived 10 minutes early, but “I wanted to have this grand entrance,” she said, so she killed time at the bodega across the street.
Once she saw Clancy, the connection was immediate. “It was like instant comfort,” she said. “I felt like I knew him.”
The two talked about Clancy’s recent move to New York, his new finance job and her community engagement internship at UNICEF USA. They discovered that despite growing up on different coasts — she in Sacramento, Calif.; he in Worcester, Mass. — they had similar interests, like going on long walks and watching competition shows.
After the bar, they went for a stroll along the piers at Hudson River Park.
“It was really calm, serene,” Clancy said. “I felt like this person is the perfect match for me because I don’t feel stressed or nervous.”
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Since the pandemic was still ongoing, their early dates were decidedly relaxed and included home-cooked dinners and visits to bakeries.
In 2024, they moved into an apartment in the Financial District.
“It really made our relationship better because we no longer had to figure out whose place we would stay at and I didn’t have to pack big bags and lug them on the train,” Warren said.
Clancy, 28, holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Villanova University. He works as a technical analyst for Major League Baseball.
Warren, 26, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in humanitarian studies, both from Fordham University. She is a frequent collaborator with VOW for Girls, an organization working to end child marriage worldwide, and earlier this year she was interviewed by Gloria Steinem, an admirer, in Cultured magazine. Warren also spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
On Aug. 15, 2025, Clancy proposed to Warren in Kingston, N.Y., surprising her with a “dream day” filled with her favorite pastimes like antiquing and bookshop browsing before getting down on one knee.
“I had written a super-long thing, but obviously you get the nerves, so I said maybe one-fourth of what I had written,” he said of his proposal. What he managed to say was their relationship had made him the happiest he had ever been and each day he felt “so lucky,” promising to love and support her in all her endeavors.
Their Hudson Valley wedding gathered 180 guests at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y. On their wedding day, the forecast was cloudy with occasional showers. The wind had lessened in severity.
As it turned out, Warren and Clancy could still have a tented outdoor ceremony and take photos outside the mansion, selected in part for its proximity to Sleepy Hollow.
A lifelong fan of the film franchise “Twilight,” Warren walked down the aisle to “Turning Page” by Sleeping at Last, featured in a movie in the popular vampire series. She wore a Pnina Tornai gown.
“It honestly felt like ‘Twilight,’” Warren said. “It was a very beautiful fall day with light showers that added to the ambience of the venue, especially with the gothic mansion vibe of Lyndhurst and the leaves changing.”
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