Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Brooklyn Wedding Weekend

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.

My 90s outfit

Her 90s outfit (and our private trolley)

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.

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.

A beautiful day for five miles!


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.
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.

I'm on a boat!




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!

2 comments:

Mom said...

Thanks for sharing. Celia was a lovely bride. So happy for her.

Katie said...

Looks like so much fun. You can come visit in Colombia sometime if you'd like...it's a whole different kind of adventure! (A very safe kind, just intensely South American!).