Writer, artist, and advocate Tallulah Willis and musician Justin Acee’s first in-person meetup was at Delta baggage claim. After the pair matched, Justin immediately invited Tallulah for coffee—but at the time, she was staying at her childhood home in Idaho. “We texted until 2 a.m. and decided to get on the phone,” Tallulah recalls. “I heard his voice for the first time, and at 4 a.m. we got on FaceTime. We spoke every day until I left and decided that we would officially meet in person for the first time at LAX.” Justin came to pick her up at the airport, and the rest is history. “I did a little weird dance move when I saw him,” Tallulah remembers of their meeting in January 2023. “He laughed instantly, and then we moseyed outside and snuck in a first kiss!”
They got engaged in December 2024, almost two years after they started talking, and their wedding was held on August 8, 2026, in the backyard of the bride’s family home in Hailey, Idaho. “It’s the place where I learned to run free and be the dreamer that I am today,” Tallulah says. “Justin and I have spent so much time up there that even though it has such emotional pull for me, he feels very much a part of the fabric of the property.”
They began planning the wedding in January 2026. “We toyed with the idea of making it simple and eloping,” Tallulah explains. “But deep down, I really loved the chance to be an eleganza.” Once they’d landed on the location, the couple worked with event planner Heather Minor, who is based in Sun Valley, to create their dream wedding weekend out West.
“After my mom broke the news that Balenciaga was game to make my gown, I sent some reference images of iconic 1950s Cristóbal Balenciaga designs, and not long after, we were sent a deck of about seven sketches,” Tallulah recalls. “I pulled my two favorite elements, including the jeweled petal design on the skirt and the dramatic drapery around the hips, and didn’t see anything else until the day we walked into Pierpaolo [Piccioli]’s office in Paris. With the light dappling down from a sunroof, my dress was presented in all her glory. After some minor tweaks to best support my five-foot-four-inch proportions, we tried on the leather gloves and the veil.” (The neckline was inspired by a Balenciaga look Tallulah’s mother, Demi Moore, wore to a Vanity Fair Oscar party, a simple black sheath with a sculptural Balenciaga neckline, and the final look took 712 hours to create.)
For jewelry, Tallulah’s approach was less is more. She didn’t wear anything on her neck so as to keep the focus on the beautiful architectural silhouette of the curved bodice. Instead, she wore what she describes as “mega diamond teardrop earrings” from XIV Karats. For beauty, she went for minimal coverage, as she was painstakingly devoted to her skin-care routine in the months leading up to the wedding: Makeup artist Raoul Alejandre simply added a little brown and red around the rims of the lids to offset her blue eyes. As for hair, Tallulah knew she wanted it out of her face, but not too modern or sleek, so Dimitri Giannetos created a messy but secure updo with strategically positioned delicate flyaways. “Both Raoul and Dimitri are legends,” Tallulah says. “Having them as my glam team for the day felt like being in a fairy tale!”