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Spectacular New York City Event Spaces
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
One of the many advantages of having your wedding in New York City is the spectacular event spaces you have to choose from – spaces that are blank slates where you can go in and customize the aesthetic just the way you like it. The above photos come from our most recent wedding at Studio 450. With sweeping views of the city, the Hudson river and New Jersey, this space is one of the city’s best. With its New York City-loft-space character, it’s always fun to create a new environment for each of our couples. And during the warmer months, the outdoor space is unbeatable for ceremonies, cocktail hours and after-dinner partying. This wedding was the final wedding of the winter season with a hearty menu that included red-wine braised short ribs with root vegetables and quinoa, seared halibut with grilled polenta and minted peas (the first sign of spring!), and chocolate passionfruit mousse cake. Next up, tapas-style spring wedding!
Brides Get a Bad Rap
Friday, February 11th, 2011
The question I get asked the most when telling people we cater a lot of weddings is “do you always deal with Bridezillas?”
Thanks in large part to the reality shows all over cable, brides have been effectively mis-characterized as unreasonable, irrational, and indeed, irritating women. Simply by planning their weddings, they’re assumed to be impossible.
But our experience has been just the opposite. In fact, we have grown to love not just catering weddings, but the brides (and grooms) for whom we cater and plan. Our experience in helping our brides realize their vision for their big day has been one of the most rewarding parts of running our business. Our brides have consistently been reasonable, creative, mature and thoughtful women, interested in organizing an event for their family and friends with fantastic menus, creative signature cocktails, specialty desserts, fun music and a memorable atmosphere. Working with them has been fun, exciting – simply a pleasure.
I understand why the bride shows appeal to audiences. I get it. I understand the draw to reality television. The more irrational the participants = the more dramatic = the more appealing the show. In fact, I was on a reality competition show for pastry chefs, and I quickly began to realize what the producers and directors were looking for. Although I won the competition, and the experience was fun and rewarding overall, I quickly became aware during the taping that I didn’t make for good reality television. One of the directors became increasingly and clearly irritated when I was unwilling to bad mouth my fellow competitors, create drama (where there wasn’t drama), or lose my cool in the kitchen.
I suppose my brides, who keep their cool throughout the planning of their weddings, would not make for good reality television either. And they certainly wouldn’t qualify as Bridezillas….so, no, to answer the question, we don’t always deal with Bridezillas, or ever…..