Cameron and Rob chose the Harold Pratt House for their wedding. Most weddings you see at the Pratt House have around 100 guests and use the Ballroom for dinner. Because Cameron and Rob's wedding was a little bit bigger, we used Peterson Hall instead. The great thing about Peterson Hall is that it's a blank slate. Add some white ethereal draping and you can do just about anything you want in the room! We had touches of "East meets West" as Cameron spent part of her childhood in Southeast Asia. Keep in mind, while you want your wedding decor to be cohesive, you can play around with different themes for cocktails and dinner, you flowers for cocktails and dancing can be a different style and/or different colors for dinner. For Cameron and Rob's wedding we went a little more modern for cocktails and dancing and then more traditional for dinner.
Take a look at the photos from Spencer Lum of 5 West Studios and then see below for a write up from Cameron (love the story about her dress!).
From the Bride -
I had always wanted a September wedding – I love the early
fall when it’s no longer insanely hot and the really cold air has not yet set
in. My parents and grandparents
had all also been married in September, my parents and paternal grandparents on
the same day, September 14th.
We toyed with a few dates around that time of year, but then I realized
that September 14th fell on a Saturday this year. I tried not to get my heart set on the
date, but as we learned the church and our top vendors were free on the 14th,
I knew it was fate! We would be
the third generation to share the same anniversary!
Tradition comes with the territory for weddings: I inherited
a family wedding gown that was first worn by my great-grandmother in 1906. She sold her horse and sent the money
with her two maiden aunts to Belgium to buy the lace for her wedding gown. It started out in high Victorian
fashion, with a high neckline and big, puffed sleeves…it’s changed a bit over
the generations! I was the sixth
bride and fourth generation to wear the dress, which had to be completely
restored – cleaned, stabilized and relined – but the lace is original and the
silhouette is as my mother had worn it.
In keeping with our many traditions, Rob and I wanted a
classic, New York City wedding.
The church is my family’s home church, and we felt very blessed to have
such a beautiful, familiar venue for the ceremony. We looked at several venues for the reception before
settling on The Harold Pratt House.
It was certainly the most convenient (just three blocks from the
church), but it also had an old world charm that immediately appealed to
us. We loved that different
elements of the reception could take place in different rooms, giving a great
flow to the party throughout the evening.
It also had the warm and intimate feeling of a home, allowing the
reception to be formal, yet comfortable.
For the design, we kept the color palate classic and simple,
using just greens and whites in the flowers, and playing with texture rather
than a multitude of colors. We
highlighted orchids and hydrangea, my favorite flowers, filling in the rest
with a beautiful mix of seasonal flowers and greenery. The lotus pods in the groomsmen’s
boutonnieres and cocktail pieces were a nod to my childhood in Southeast
Asia. We used the linens to set
the tone in each room, choosing a light, cheerful, celadon green in the
cocktail rooms and moving to a dark, romantic, sage green upstairs for dessert
and dancing later in the evening.
In the dining room, we chose to play up texture again with a mix of
rectangle and square tables, with three long rectangular tables down the middle
of the room for our wedding party and immediate families. We kept the place settings in the
dining room very simple to highlight our (delicious!) food, and used neutral flax
Irish linen table linens with crisp white linen runners on the side tables and
a hydrangea “runner” on the center tables. I loved the way the hydrangea runner turned out, acting as a
subtle but memorable focal point in the room.
It was a wonderful evening with great food, great music and
great company – we were overjoyed at how many of our friends and family made it
to New York City to celebrate. Rob
and I were thrilled with the way everything came together, and could not have
asked for a more memorable start to our family!
Credits:
Photography - Spencer Lum of 5 West Studios
Floral - Laura Remmert Events
Catering - Feast and Fetes
Event Coordination - Valerie Post Events
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