A small and intimate late afternoon ceremony with the gentlemen in suits and the officers in dress whites, made for the perfect nautical-inspired wedding of Dan and Soley, held at the State University of New York Maritime Chapel in the Bronx, New York. Wedding and event designer, Michelle Rago, tells us what it took to pull it all together.

You can find this, and other weddings she has planned, in her inspiring book Signature Weddings © 2007 Gotham Books, a division of Penguin Group, Inc.

Photography by Dasha Wright