Susanna Barnes Treacy first met Nicholas Andrew Wiegand in June 2018, in a hallway of babyGap’s Manhattan offices, as both were headed for coffee. Ms. Treacy had just started as an assistant designer; Mr. Wiegand had been designing for the brand since 2015.
“He introduced himself, and we walked all the way together and talked,” Ms. Treacy said.
He later admitted to her that he had seen her before and thought she was beautiful. “She was a newer face, so I definitely did notice her,” Mr. Wiegand said.
The two began a friendship. But Ms. Treacy said it wasn’t until January 2019 that she “started to feel something for the guy across the hall.”
She even felt a touch of jealousy, she said, when he mentioned having a date one weekend. He was also aware of the connection. But, he said, “I didn’t jump to any conclusions.”
By April 2019, their hallway chats had become routine. One afternoon by the elevators, Mr. Wiegand mentioned he lived in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Ms. Treacy’s cousin, William Kaplan, happened to be having a gallery show the following week.
She seized the moment, asking for restaurant recommendations. “It felt like a golden opportunity,” she said. Mr. Wiegand took it as a cue and asked for her number.
On the night of the show, April 22, 2019, they ended up leaving the office at the same time. “Nick missed four elevators to keep talking to me, but I couldn’t find the courage to ask him out,” Ms. Treacy said.
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Minutes later, during a cab ride headed to her apartment in Alphabet City, she decided to text him. “I don’t think I will be at this too long,” she said, referring to the gallery opening later that evening. “Would you want to have a drink with me after?” About a second or so later, she said, she received an enthusiastic, “Yes!”
They met at FourFiveSix, a bar in Williamsburg, later that night. “The chemistry was obvious,” Ms. Treacy said. “We were laughing and chatting for almost four hours. He kissed me at the end of the night. I can honestly say it was the best first date ever.”
At their second date, a week later, they had dinner at Fiaschetteria Pistoia in Manhattan’s East Village. And for their next date, “He made me a beautiful candlelit pasta dinner at his apartment,” Ms. Treacy said. “While he was at the stove, I sent my mother a photo, and she texted back, ‘He’s a keeper!’”
They took things slowly, they said. But in September of 2019, “I referred to myself as his girlfriend, and Nick asked no questions,” Ms. Treacy said.
Ms. Treacy’s father, James J. Treacy, fought a long battle with throat cancer. Six months after the couple began dating, his cancer was suddenly diagnosed as terminal. It was “a total shock to my family,” Ms. Treacy said. “I was able to introduce Nick to my father a month before his passing, and my dad thought he was a ‘well-rounded gentleman.’”
Mr. Treacy passed away in February 2020. Just days after his memorial, the pandemic hit.
So, Mr. Wiegand decided to stay at his parents’ home in Cleveland, while Ms. Treacy went to stay with her mother in Glen Rock, N.J. Both worked remotely for babyGap for two months before they were laid off in May 2020.
“We had FaceTime dates with wine in our childhood bedrooms and phone calls every day,” Ms. Treacy said. “We didn’t see each other for months.” Then they began visiting one another for weeks at a time.
But after dating long distance for more than a year, “we decided we could no longer bear it,” Ms. Treacy said.
In May 2021, the couple moved together to Hoboken, N.J.
Ms. Treacy, 29, is now a design manager for girls’ wovens at the Children’s Place. She earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in fashion design from Parsons School of Design. She was born and raised in Glen Rock.
Mr. Wiegand, 39, who grew up in Solon, Ohio, is a senior designer for men’s cut and sew knits at Michael Kors. He has a bachelor’s degree in fashion design from the University of Cincinnati.
Mr. Wiegand proposed to Ms. Treacy on April 20, 2024. He surprised her with a staycation at the Lowell Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for their sixth anniversary.
“Our room had a private balcony set up with a bistro table with flowers, Champagne, and chocolate,” she said. “He immediately got down on one knee and simply said, ‘You know, I really love you babe. Will you marry me?’”
In May 2025, the couple closed on their first apartment together in Manhattan’s Sutton Place, where they now live.
They were wed at Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village on Dec. 12 by the Rev. Mark Robin Collins, from Ms. Treacy’s hometown church, All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Glen Rock, where he is now the rector. In attendance were 150 guests.
A reception followed at the Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side with nods to the holiday, including a 12-foot-tall Christmas tree covered in tinsel and bows, handwritten paper ornament place cards, and a three-tier red velvet cake.
“The idea of a holiday wedding really spoke to us,” Ms. Treacy said.
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