Coolly Coiffed Family Affair

• By Lauren Murrow
• Published Summer 2012

Caroline De Sousa & Zak Mascolo

Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Brooklyn Museum
July 17, 2011

Caroline De Sousa, 27, and Zak Mascolo, 38, met while working at a Toni & Guy hair salon in 2002. (They’re now the brand’s fashion director and creative director, respectively.) “I had dated weirdos in New York for five years,” says Caroline. “When you finally meet someone sane, you know he’s the one.” The couple had a child together, Fabiana, and Caroline was five months pregnant with their second (Gaetano, now 1) when Zak proposed. “He flew my mother in from Brazil and his mother from England,” she recalls, “and walked into the house with one on each arm, then got on his knee.” Following their Botanic nuptials (Fabiana was the flower girl, and Gaetano, the ring bearer), their guests walked to the Brooklyn Museum for a “John Derian–meets–Alice in Wonderland”–style reception, where the newlyweds swayed to “Baby, I’m Yours” by the Arctic Monkeys for their first dance. Afterward, the guests launched an epic dance-off. “A hairdresser, my Brazilian sister, and my 5-year-old daughter were all doing the Dougie,” says Caroline, laughing.