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Happy New Year!

We wish all our StrictlyWeddings.com family a Happy New Year! Be safe if you’re traveling and come back and visit us often next year as you plan your wedding.

Pictured here is Jacqueline Morginstin & Joshua Wachtel who celebrated their wedding last New Year’s Eve. You can read all about their wonderful wedding under our featured weddings.

New York City Bridal Events

Chicago Bridal Events

This is a new section of StrictlyWeddings.com where we’ll be posting trunk shows and other bridal events for the Chicago area bride.

A Famous Wedding Reception – New York City’s The Plaza, Great Performances & Gruber Photography

Continuing our celebration of our New York City launch, today we showcase a trio of luxury wedding vendors.

New York City photographer, Terry Gruber of Gruber Photographers, shared this wonderful photograph from the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones that was held at The Plaza Hotel. What a joyful moment it captures! (Terry also supplied us with our New York landing page image as well!).

One can only imagine all the thousands and thousands of wedding receptions that have been celebrated in this historic hotel. Think of all the love, laughter and cherished memories that make The Plaza Hotel one of the top three wedding reception venues in New York City.

Making sure that the food is as wonderful as the ambiance at The Plaza is Great Performances. Great Performances brings consummate culinary skill and originality to the table, complemented by personalized attention to detail and exquisite service.

This fabulous trio is just one of many that you will find from StrictlyWeddings.com New York. We’ll continue to introduce you to them over the next few months through our blog.

New York City Wedding Reception Venues

With vows exchanged, your celebration begins. These carefully selected New York wedding reception venues will bring their own spirit of elegance to the party. Your selection of locale rests largely on guest capacity, location, and adaptability to your vision of unfolding events. Elegant venues are in high demand; so early booking is critical, especially for summer weddings. The venue’s event coordinator can work with you or your wedding planner to map out the details of the celebration with respect to layout of the site and its policies governing departure celebrations or decor.

Featured Weddings: A Celebration of Love – Stefani & Andrew

It’s only fitting to celebrate our New York City launch, with a new featured wedding from one of our New York City partners, Andy Marcus of Fred Marcus Photography. In fact, (and even more fun) it’s his daughter’s wedding! Congrats to the proud dad as well as to the newlyweds.

Wedding – August 21, 2010 – The Pierre
Bride: Stefani Marcus
Groom: Andrew Wiener
Florist: Atlas Floral Decorators in association with Mark Rose
Music: Harris Lane – Hank Lane Orchestra
Party Planner: Barbara Esses
Photographer:  Fred Marcus Photography

Happy Holidays to all

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful fans and followers of StrictlyWeddings.com. We wish you many blessings this holiday season and safety for you and your loved ones. In anticipation and celebration of our New York City launch, shown below is Rockefeller Center’s famous Christmas tree (not this year’s, but it’s the sentiment we’re going for).

Best wishes,

Jeannine and Kay

StrictlyWeddings.com NYC – Welcome Partners – Margaret Braun – Wedding Cakes

In the next weeks, we’ll showcase our new luxury wedding partners from New York City. Today, it’s New York City Cake designer, Margaret Braun.

Margaret Braun – Author of Cakewalk (Rizzoli), is a Sugar Artist who has redefined the art of cake decorating. Internationally renowned for her distinctive, boundary breaking style which fuses food and the fine arts, Margaret has influenced and inspired dessert and design enthusiast for years. At the same time, her emphasis on classical technique places her in the realm of genuine artisans from centuries past. Born in New York to a family of musicians and food lovers, Margaret spent the better part of her early life drawing on napkins, jeans, shoes, desks, and walls, until she found herself in a pastry kitchen where she began drawing on cakes. Then she discovered food coloring and from that moment on Margaret went on to create some of the most beautiful and delicious edible creations ever seen.

Anichini Linens – Enlightened Luxury

Kay has an obsession (other than StrictlyWeddings.com that is). She loves luxury linens. We had no idea. Some days we’re lucky if all our linens match!

Anyway, she’s experienced this designer first hand and says that these linens feel like butter to the body (so would that be melted or whipped Kay?). Anyway, she says we’ve not slept in luxury until we’ve slept on these linens. (And she’s probably right!).

So for Brides looking for something besides the usual to add to their registry that’s long lasting and promises sweet dreams, Anichini linens sound like the perfect item.

A bit about Anichini. The company, founded two decades ago, has emerged to become the most prestigious brand of luxury linens and home textiles. In an era where the word “luxury” is used to describe everything from a bus ride to a bottle of shampoo, Anichini has raised the bar on the definition of “luxury” with textiles that are the ultimate in opulence and craftsmanship.

At the heart of Anichini is the bedding collection. The Villa D’Este line is manufactured by Italy’s premier textile weaver. Voile, silk twill, and double weight sateen are considered to be the ne plus ultra of bedding. These constructions are virtually unavailable from other luxury linen companies. Anichini upholds a promise-and a practice-that exacting details and finishing will be characteristic of Anichini and lavished on every piece.

Royal Wedding – Part 2 from StrictlyWeddings.com

We continue our Royal Wedding fantasy with Part 2 from our fabulous Dallas partners. Can’t wait to hear what you all have to say about this inspiration board!

Photography - Thisbe Grace Photography
Flowers & Planning - Jordan Payne
Location - Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
Jewelry - deBoulle
Bridal Gowns - Warren Barron Bridal
Hair – Sonia Trevino
Make up - Myra Rams-Sanabria/My Fabulous Faces
Model – Megahn Moll