This past weekend I went to New York for my dear friend Celia's wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and a fun weekend in the big city!
First, let me backtrack and quickly cover her bachelorette party which was a month ago, and which I also attended in New York (I flew straight there from Anchorage!). It was 90s themed, and included a private trolley tour (sort of 1890s themed) of Brooklyn, a big taco dinner, and singing 1990s songs in a private karaoke room.
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| My 90s outfit |
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| Her 90s outfit (and our private trolley) |
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| A Polaroid from the after-karaoke party. I think I went to bed around 4am that night. |
Okay, back to the wedding weekend. Friday there was a pre-wedding dinner at an Italian restaurant. There was so much good food! And I got to catch up with a friend from junior high who I probably hadn't seen since college.
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| I got to sign her ketubah! |
Saturday morning I went for a run along the water in Long Island City. Then I joined Celia and some others in her bridal suite to get ready for the ceremony.
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| A beautiful day for five miles! |
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| Celia and her dad (whom I adore) |
The wedding itself was on the rooftop of a hotel in Brooklyn with views of the city. It was a little too cold to keep the roof open but even with it closed it was a pretty amazing venue. The ceremony was lovely, the cocktail hour had jalapeno margaritas, and the dinner was really good. Throw in ice cream sandwiches, a roving photo-booth-type thing, and the highly-entertaining cover band Vanilla Pop all the way from New Mexico, and it all added up to an awesome and fun wedding.
Sunday there was a wedding brunch, after which I visited the Brooklyn Museum, ate ramen, stopped by Times Square for kicks, and ended the night tasting a few beers at the Fifth Hammer Brewing Company.
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| The new Kehinde Wiley statue that will eventually move from Times Square to Richmond! |
Monday my flight wasn't until later in the evening, so I had time for my first-ever visit to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Liberty Island has a new museum that was pretty neat, and though I spent nearly two hours on Ellis Island I wish I'd had more time to see all of the immigration museum. Alas, it was time to take a boat back to Brooklyn to enjoy a big polish dinner in Greenpoint before heading home.
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| I'm on a boat! |
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| The Great Hall on Ellis Island, which used to be the Registry Room for processing new immigrants. |
It was a great long weekend in New York and I'm so happy I got to share in Celia's big day!
