REAL WEDDING: Abigail and David at Saint Elle

This past spring, architect and all-around-great gal, Abigail married David in a celebration that was sleek and stylish. We hope to see more designs like this emulated in 2022! These two weren't afraid of color, steering from the traditional (yes! Let's add cut fruit to the centerpieces!), custom built furniture, and flipping the traditional layout of the venue on it's head! (They utilized the traditional Ceremony space for Dinner, and the traditional Dinner space for Cocktails! Get it!). We love these two and their creative minds! 2022 goals y'all!

REAL WEDDING: Holly + Austin at Magnolia Acres

We will never ever ever be over intimate weddings. The quality time, the significance felt by every person in the room, every single detail important, captured and cherished. We just LOVE em! And Holly and Austin’s wedding at Magnolia Acres was just that. With 16 of their closest friends and family, Holly and Austin were married under a magnolia tree and spent the evening toasting and celebrating with their loved ones at the most magical dinner…

Surefire Songs To Get The Party Started!

How do you encourage guests to get out of their seats and start busting a move? We chatted with some of our favorite DJ’s and Wedding Band Leaders in NYC to hear all about their surefire songs to get the party started!

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The Perfect Umbrella for Your Wedding Day

As wedding coordinators we pride ourselves on planning for every possible scenario your wedding day may throw at you- including the most finicky of them all, mother nature!

Enter the TGT tried and true Clear Bubble Umbrellas!

How To Handle Unexpected Wedding Guests

In last Sunday’s New York Times Style section, The Get Together Events Co. was quoted about our recent experience with cicadas at weddings. Our cicada experience has us reflecting on other surprise “weddings guests” that can pop up during the wedding planning process. See our suggestions below for how to handle unexpected wedding guests…

The Wedding Industry is Back! (But Still Hurting).

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Featured Vendor: The Green Building

When we first started wedding planning, one of our very first “Non-Friend” clients held their wedding at The Green Building. Little did we know at the time that this wedding would be written up in The New York Times, have one of the most memorable last-minute logistical somersaults ever and sky rocket our business! Since that wedding, we have been grateful to come back to The Green Building many many times and it’s still one of our most favorite venues in Brooklyn.

REAL WEDDING: Komal + Hamza at Bordone LIC

On March 27, 2021, Komal and Hamza got married at The Bordone in Long Island City. Along with being a lovely couple and a powerhouse group of vendors, we were all the more excited for this wedding as it was our FIRST wedding back in New York City since March 2020, pre-pandemic. Following the strict Covid guidelines set by the state, Komal and Hamza’s wedding was safe, celebratory, and simply gorgeous. We are so grateful to this couple for trusting us with their day, especially after the year we’ve had! What a way to kick off the wedding season! Congratulations Komal and Hamza!

Nashville Bride Guide Styled Shoot

It’s been a real joy for the last two years to be a member of the Nashville Wedding Planners Group, a collective of local wedding planners building community within the Nashville Events Industry. And when our powers combine… watch out!

Featured Vendor: Stems Brooklyn

We’ve been working with Stems Brooklyn since 2018 and we’ve loved being squeezed into tight spaces and quick turnaround times with them ever since! . Our friends at Stems have partnered with us on many-a-wedding at this point- all different seasons, styles and colors and we truly can’t get enough of their work. We love their bold colors, their wild and free bouquets, their willingness to make 100 floral hair clips for all of your wedding guests and their bomb-ass shop in Brooklyn. If your love is as wild and free as Stems, holler at them!

REAL WEDDING: MaryBeth + Rick featured on Nashville Bride Guide!

We are thrilled to see MaryBeth and Rick’s wedding from earlier this year featured on Nashville Bride Guide! Check out the full article for a great write up about this beautiful wedding

Why You Need a Wedding Coordinator

Hello everyone. Recognizing wedding coordination as a legitimate professional service is something I feel incredibly strong about (yeah, no shit Lauren, you’re a wedding coordinator). But no matter how many times we say it, it continues to bear repeating. So today, I wanted to remind you, just exactly why you need a wedding coordinator.

Backyard Weddings

Backyard weddings are some of our most all-time favorite weddings. And lucky for us, especially in the mid-pandemic world, the open-air backyard wedding isn’t going anywhere! With that, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite backyard weddings…

Protocol for Your Safe Covid-Era Wedding.

Can you believe it!? We are still in the Covid times! And now, we are in the newest phase of Covid times- the completely-unprepared-cause-for-stress-and-PTSD-Omg-are-we-ready, re-introduction phases…

Our Favorite Fall Wedding Trends

The temp is dropping, the leaves are changing, and candy is discounted on November 1. Over here, we LOVE fall- especially fall weddings. (I don’t what season y’all are, but I’m an autumn!) No sweating, your specialty cocktails can be warm beverages, and pumpkin is in everything. In honor of our favorite season, we’ve recapped some of our favorite fall trends from our client’s weddings below:

REAL WEDDING: Kat + Steven's Fun, Low-Key Wedding

When it comes to deciding on what to include in their wedding day, I always tell clients, “Buck tradition, focus on YOU". Guests are coming to celebrate YOU, not just another cookie cutter wedding. With this in mind, as clients begin to plan for how to make their 2021 wedding uniquely theirs, I wanted to throw it back to Kat and Steve’s 2018 wedding for inspiration. Kat and Steven did what was right for THEM!

The Most Important Blog Post We’ve Ever Written

This is the most important blog post we’ve ever written.

“Stay in your lane.”

“Just plan events.”

But how can we plan events, how can we create celebrations, if equality, justice and the ability to love for all is at risk?

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REAL WEDDING: Erica + Collin’s Small Space Wedding

When Erica and Collin were planning their wedding they knew a few things - they wanted it to be a small group and they wanted it to be chic. And chic it was!

REAL WEDDING: Emma + Jaime's Intentional Wedding for 50

It was exactly one year ago this week that Emma and Jaime celebrated their love in an intentional wedding for 50 people in Brooklyn. What do I mean by intentional? Well, 100% of this wedding was carefully curated by Emma and Jaime to be a symbol of their love.

Takeaways from Event Planners on Innovative Safety Precautions For Your Event

Last week, I was lucky enough to be a panelist for WeddingPro’s Innovative Safety Precautions Webinar with a powerhouse group of panelists! This panel was geared towards other event professionals and we discussed all the ways that we can best keep our clients and guests safe while hosting events in our new reality (which, with the latest CDC guidelines, seems all the more important!).

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