The World Woven into a Wedding

fashion statement

From Ghana to Maine, saying yes to the dress and everything else!

From the day Coffee by Design opened in 1994, founder Mary Allen Lindemann (MAL) has focused on embracing and supporting the global community that is reflected both in coffee and in Portland. When it came to her November 2025, wedding to James Noel Hoban, she chose two designers whose story became a piece of her own.