Kellye Eisworth and An Tran said, “I Do,” surrounded by friends and family May 20, 2025 in Eisworth’s grandma’s home.
Photos by: New Aera Wedding Photography
Their Couple Story:
In 2019, Kellye sat across from a tarot reader in New Orleans — the kind of reading that stays with you. The cards told her that her person would come to her by the sea. At the time, she filed it away the way you do with things that feel true but distant. Life continued. She moved to San Francisco, trading Louisiana humidity for Pacific fog, her roots stretching across the country even as she made a new home on the water’s edge.
It was there, by the sea, that An found her.
They met the way so many people do now — on an app, a small square of light that somehow managed to bridge two lives that had been moving in entirely different directions. Kellye, an artist, photographer, and archivist, someone who understood the weight of preserved moments. An, working in tech and writing, someone who understood how to build things and how to tell stories. What started as curiosity became something neither of them could easily name, and then, a few months in, they stopped trying to name it and just let it be what it was — real, and certain, and theirs.
When it came time to think about getting married, there was never really a question for Kellye. She wanted home. She wanted Louisiana. She wanted her grandmother’s backyard.
And so that’s exactly what they did.
The whole family rolled up their sleeves. Grandma supplied the space and baked the cakes herself. Relatives and loved ones showed up not just as guests but as participants, as makers, as the kind of community that turns a backyard into something sacred. It was a DIY wedding in the truest sense — not as an aesthetic, but as an act of love. Every detail carried someone’s hands in it.
For Kellye, who has spent her life archiving the beauty in things, there was something poetic about the whole arc of it — a tarot card pulled in a French Quarter parlor, a cross-country move, a city by the sea, and a love that found her right where the cards said it would.
