03.01.2009 The Engagement Party

Food is a passion for Sam and myself, and we wanted to have an engagement party somewhere that was small, cute, cheery, and above all else, took food seriously!! We settled on P*ong, the restaurant of my former pastry chef at spice market and 66. Pichet Ong is an extremely talented pastry chef who ventured out on his own opening a restuarant on west 10th street in the village near 7th avenue. He makes savory dishes with dessert techniques, and has gained critical acclaim from blending the sweet and savory palates. Pichet also owns Batch next store, the cute bakery that serves salted peanut butter cookies and ovaltine pudding among other things!

01.29.2010 Wedding Venue - Footprints On The Beach

01.28.2010 The Rehearsal Dinner Site

Dennis and I visited Turks & Caicos in March of 2006 and one of the places we fell in love with is The Conch Shack. It's this charming little ramshackle place that serves everything conch (side of scotch bonnet peppers optional).

It will always be memorable to me because it was the first vacation that we took together and he had told me the that he loved me (for the very first time) the night we were packing for the trip. And also because he dared me to eat the side of scotch bonnet pepper straight-up and I did it - you just can't say no when someone double dares you. Needless to say, my lips were on fire and I was sweating for about 20 minutes straight.

We thought it would be the perfect place to have the rehearsal dinner - casual and intimate at the same time and definitely evocative of life on the island.