Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada Turned Their Wedding Into a New Orleans Love Parade

The couple decided upon Hotel Peter & Paul in the lively Marigny district: an eclectic boutique hotel that speaks to both the old European and Big Easy styles prevalent in the city, restored from a former church and schoolhouse that dates back to the 1800s. “It was so fun to picture our family and friends partying in the chapel and then stumbling 50 steps back to their hotel room,” says Eva.

“We had always envisioned our wedding [as] a big family vacation in our favorite city,” says Reeve.

Quickly, Eva found wedding planner Michelle Norwood, who got to planning their dream day in six months. “We wanted someone who really knew and loved New Orleans,” explains Eva. “I never ever dreamed of having a destination wedding. Reeve and I knew for several years that N’awlins was the city that we would ‘celebrate our love’ in, so we just wanted everything to feel as special and perfect as we felt about each other.”

While menu tasting and enjoying the maritime fruits of Louisiana was a highlight, the hardest part of the planning process, by far, was putting together the guest list. That said, once they had settled upon the list, they found joy in arranging the seating chart. “It was just so wonderful to picture all of those wonderful people from various parts of our lives, all in the same room, and being tasked with putting them together in a way that we imagined would magnify that joy even further,” says Reeve.

Working on the gruesome gothic series Penny Dreadful from 2013 to 2016, Reeve wore many beautiful costumes designed by Oscar-winning Gabriella Pescucci while playing the role of Dorian Gray. “One in particular from season two stood out to me,” recalls Reeve, a bespoke Italian three-piece ivory tuxedo, complete with custom ivory Italian leather ankle boots. “I remember first trying it on, and saying to Gabriella and her assistant Giovanni Lipari, ‘Wow, this is beautiful! I’d wear that at my wedding one day!’” Gabriella excitedly asked when he was getting married. “I’d wear that at my wedding…one day!” Reeve repeated. At the end of the season, a few members of the costume department came to Reeve’s dressing room and handed him a red satin-wrapped package with a handwritten note: ‘To Dorian, for your ‘wedding.’ Love, Gabriella.’”

Reeve told Eva early on about the tuxedo that sat tucked away in a storage unit. “I wanted to make sure that whatever I wore would complement the incredible dress that Eva would end up choosing, [while] being open to something more traditionally black tie. Eva insisted that I wear the tuxedo. She was even looking at photos of it when choosing her dress, I later found out.” The tuxedo wasn’t originally paired with a tie, but Reeve bought a few cravats while they were in London. The tie he eventually landed on was from Ede & Ravenscroft, chosen less than an hour before the ceremony.

Eva grew up loving designers like Vera Wang, Monique Lhuillier, and Dior, and harbored a particular penchant for the reality show Say Yes to the Dress. “I was actually saving wedding-dress pictures for a few months before getting engaged!” she says. “I had a good sense of the dress that I dreamed of.” Once they were engaged, she made an appointment with a crew of six friends at Lovely Bride in New York. With the color palette of Hotel Peter & Paul’s chapel in mind, Eva knew she wanted to go all in on the vintage-inspired, Southern Gothic direction. At Lovely Bride, brides are asked to put dresses on a wishlist from their stock prior to a physical appointment. “I was scrolling through dresses and I saw one that made me gasp! I just felt it in my bones that that was my dress.” And with Reeve’s look in mind, she “wanted to feel as ethereal” as she knew he would look. The gown Eva fell for was the Salomé by Saint Bridal Couture: a dropped-waist corset gown with pleated organza billowing through the skirt. “When I first saw the almost-eight-foot train, it made me feel like a little engaged Mexicasian fairy underneath the starlight,” she says. She added a long, Old Hollywood–inspired silk scarf.

“My angel of a mother-in-law, through happy tears, was holding up a picture of Reeve in his white tuxedo to see if the two looks would be simpatico,” Eva says. Accessories and finishing touches were powered by Eva’s thriftiness: Depop for her fingertip-length tulle veil and a pearl comb, and Dolce Vita white tulle slingbacks she got on sale at Nordstrom’s 57th street for $150 bucks. When doing the Musical Con in London, she perused a nearby wedding convention and found her pearl drop earrings.

The glam for the bride and her party, by Flawless Bride, leaned natural, with Eva’s hair in a relaxed and effortless slicked-back bun. “When it all came together, that was a moment I will always cherish,” Eva says. “My beautiful mama zipping up my dress and helping put my veil on before the ceremony.”

Florals became a central motif in the story: dramatic red flowers like red roses, carnations, anthuriums, amaranthus, and red hydrangeas, by Michelle West, complemented the pink interiors of the chapel. The bridesmaid dresses, meanwhile, were a deep wine red. “Mirroring what a red rose petal would look like lit by candlelight,” describes Eva. Her bridesmaids chose their dresses’ necklines and cuts, and styled their own choice of gold jewelry and heels. Reeve’s groomsmen wore personalized black tuxedos and a single red calla lily wrapped in a black ribbon with a touch of greenery as their boutonnieres. The bridesmaids carried hand-tied bouquets of red roses. Eva’s “brides-mate” Callum Francis wore black tuxedo pants and a coordinating red suit jacket with a printed sash. “When I saw my bridesmaids for the first time, it was like looking at a lineup of Greek goddesses!” Guests, too, embraced the black-tie dress code in reds and jewel tones.

Eva and Reeve got married on October 27, 2025. “The morning of the wedding, I woke up in a big, beautiful blue suite,” says Eva. “I could see the church steeple and the sun streaming through my window.”

Music across the ceremony and party was provided by New Orleans–based Harry Hardin’s string octet, performing songs meaningful to their relationship. While they didn’t get to Sisqo’s “Thong Song” in the end, there was “All I Ask of You” from The Phantom of the Opera, The Beatles’ “Because,” and Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise Op. 34.” Eva surprised a very emotional Reeve by walking up the aisle to an arrangement of one of his own songs, “Up Above The Weather,” sung by his brother Zane, accompanied by the New Orleans Classical and Jazz. Musical theater actor and dear friend Jon Jon Briones was their officiant. “Once it was our turn to walk in, it was like time went half-speed,” says the bride. “The ceremony was perfect.” The couple designed their wedding bands with Reeve’s mother, Marti Heil, which were presented in miniature top-hat ring holders.

It wouldn’t be a traditional New Orleans wedding, of course, without a jazzed-up, second-line parade, with music provided by the Kinfolk Brass Band. Glasses of Champagne in hand and crochet umbrellas held aloft, the couple led their guests out into the streets of Marigny.

Next, the couple savored some solo time while guests enjoyed an extended cocktail hour, serenaded by the Russell Welch Hot Quartet. “Eva and I sat alone on a back patio of the church, enjoying our very first moments as husband and wife over a glass of Champagne along with a selection of all of the delicious hors d’oeuvres,” says Reeve. A candlelit dinner followed that reveled in Louisiana seafood and flavors, curated by Bacchanal Wine—a barbecue-style shrimp and grit cake, blue Bayou crab, with Louisiana rose and cocktail pairings that included a micro-Cosmopolitan. A vintage-inspired, white-on-white four-tier cake with ruffled Lambeth piping by Jenny’s Cake Creations was cut and shared abundantly. BE Collective and DJ Flowerchild kept everyone dancing into the wee hours.

“While we were planning the wedding, there were some moments when it seemed like our ideas were maybe too much or too big,” Eva says. “But we just kept reminding each other that this was our celebration of love. We deserved to have whatever the hell we wanted on our day. And it was the wedding of our dreams!”

“We got to have a fun-filled week of family festivities, showing our loved ones our favorite city in the world,” she adds, noting that they returned to London right after to finish their triumphant run as the Emcee and Sally Bowles in Cabaret. “We are just continuing to live our lives together, all with these stunning matching wedding rings on our fingers! We are celebrating every first as husband and wife.”