Like the rest of us, Shallon Hunter is obsessed with Instagram. “I follow designers, stylists, street-style influencers—it’s part of my job,” says the Austin, Texas, native, who works as public relations director for Tuckernuck, a clothing company in Washington, D.C. In 2016, she discovered @provencepoiriers, an account documenting a family’s renovation of an 18th-century farmhouse in Provence. “I loved the owners’ taste in everything from antiques to paint colors, and the gardens were gorgeous,” she says. For Shallon, the estate, known as Le Mas des Poiriers (“The Pear Trees Estate”) was yet another Insta fantasy, a place she’d likely never see in real life.
But on September 9, 2018, Shallon and her longtime love, Brian Manion, found themselves marrying in front of 118 loved ones in the very grand gardens…
