The Half-Way Recap

I have only two more days in New York, and yet I am only at the half-way point (in terms of appointments, that is). Time for a recap!

Tuesday my mother and I had a wonderful lunch at Thalassa, followed by a quick jaunt to the flower district to poke around Jamali Garden. On Wednesday, Mom and the Blog Sidekick helped me survive trying on dresses at Pronovias and Designer Loft. Thursday I had a splitting migraine followed by a trip to the Metropolitan Building and a consultation with Melarosa regarding flowers. The place was crawling with film crew shooting the "Celebrity Apprentice." We were denied access to pretty much every floor and wound up hunting for chairs through a warren of rooms stuffed with antiques located on the first floor, affectionately known as the "antiques store" - but as Melarosa admitted, really only a place where the building's owner gathers friends and drinks wine on a Wednesday night. We found the owner on the third floor, sprawled on a fainting couch communing in the pitch black with a man with an old fashioned big belly guitar and her event manager by her side. The place did not show well and I left feeling simultaneously anxious, amused, and charmed. On Friday I picked Ava up from school and chased peacocks through the yard of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Saturday the Blog Sidekick and my mother weathered a second dress outing to Kleinfeld's (more on that to come). And today (Sunday), Tom and I rode the free water taxi past the Waterfalls exhibitions and the Statue of Liberty to the new Ikea in Red Hook. (Definitely something we will recommend to guests for pre- or post-wedding activities.) We bought some rugs and made our way down to Van Brunt Street where we picked up some cupcakes at Baked (they make wedding cakes, you know) and popped in on Saipua. And low and behold, Sarah was home at the shop and had time to discuss flowers for the wedding with us. She had even decorated a wedding at the Metropolitan Building yesterday, but on the second floor. Score!




Tomorrow (Monday) includes a meeting with the caterer, the Day of Coordinator (at the new Magnolia Bakery on the Upper West Side, seemed like a fittingly bridal place to go), and the photographer (yay, yay, yay!). And if I can stand it, maybe I can squeeze in a trunk show...

All that's left to do? Figure out the catering, pick the florist with the best proposal, and hire some form of musical entertainment. We have gotten so far!