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Here We Go
From a four-part formal affair to an eight-person dinner,
how seven couples threw their dream weddings.
Kelsey Falter and Steve Martocci, page 74
Photograph by Brian Dorsey Studios
summer 2015 | new york weddings
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THE DETAILS
dress:
Reem Acra
event planner:
Firefly Events
flowers:
Saipua
catering:
Creative Edge
band:
The Heathens
photographs by
Brian Dorsey
Studios
black-tie blowout
Kelsey Falter
& Steve Martocci
St. Peter’s and the High Line Hotel
sep t e mber 20, 2014
f or h i s f i r s t da t e with tech entrepreneur
Kelsey Falter, start-up founder Steve Martocci came
up with quite the itinerary. “I was amazed by how
creative she was,” Steve, 32, remembers, “so I felt like
I needed to pull out all the stops.” After picking her
up in an Uber, Steve took Kelsey to a rooftop dinner
at STK, while the TaskRabbit he’d hired waited in
line for tickets to Death by Roo Roo at the Upright
Citizens Brigade. “I loved his cleverness and ingenuity,” Kelsey, 25, remembers. A year later, Steve
popped the question on a private seaplane en route
to the Hamptons, and a year after that, the couple
wed at a lavish, four-part, 220-person fête. A ceremony at St. Peter’s was followed by spicy tequila
cocktails and sashimi push-pops in the courtyard
of the High Line Hotel. Dinner was served in the
neighboring Gothic-style Refectory, where banquet
tables strewn with branches and apples evoked an
enchanted forest. The night concluded with an Alice
in Wonderland–themed after-party at the Maritime
Hotel where guests donned papier-mâché Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat masks. “One of the masks
caught fire and we danced around it like it was part
of the décor,” remembers Kelsey. “We took it as a
sign of good luck.”
n.s.l.
“We printed place settings with facts like
‘Someone at this table has skinny-dipped
in five different states’—then everyone
guessed who it was. It was a fun icebreaker.”
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