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Seasons Greetings

Ellen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Wishing love and laughter....

Susan Bender Designs Fall 2011

Ellen — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:52:37 +0000

We photographed the Fall 2011 leather and fur collection on a mannequin this time around. Click on these words to visit her website. For the Winter Bride this gorgeous Mink Shrug.

Community Synagogue Bat Mitzvah

Ellen — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:30:38 +0000

RACHEL PART 2

This is a continuation of my post about Rachel. You can scroll down to see Part 1 or click on these words. Here are some fun and wonderful photos of Rachel and her family from Community Synagogue-Temple Beth Am and her party at de Seversky Mansion in Old Westbury. The weather – ice cold with snow all over, didn’t keep anyone away.

Guests were asked to write their wishes and congratulations on small cards that were then attached to the tulle skirt.

Alex Citi Field Bar Mitzvah

Ellen — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:54:36 +0000

Alex celebrated his Bar Mitzvah with his family and friends at a fun dance party in Citi Field Stadium. Mr Met was there – he danced with everyone and he is so good natured, he let the kids touch his head! It seems people love to touch Mr Met on the head. Citi Field was the perfect location for Alex: he is a ranked tennis player in his age group and has spent many hours training at the USTA tennis center in Flushing Meadow. From Caesars Club you can see the tennis center and the Manhattan skyline. At sunset, it was breathtaking. I thought I would post a few family photos from the hora – the entire family went up in a chair and I love the excitement that was captured.

Kendall’s Bat Mitzvah

Ellen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:09:38 +0000

Kendall’s party was planned for last Saturday night. If you live in the North East and had the news on or looked outside from your windows, then you know we had a really big storm. Saturday night was so windy and so wet that nearly every single road on the map surrounding the Old Oaks Country Club up in Purchase, became blocked by fallen trees. The wind was whipping around at speeds up to 70 m.p.h. heaving trees sideways that were landing right across the road. It was all very dramatic. At one point those of us that made it into the Club: the event planners, the lighting designer, the DJ, myself and the videographer….. thought we may be sleeping over. Moments after i arrived….we found out that two large trees fell onto the driveway leading up to the clubhouse, possibly overlapping each other, blocking the driveway completely. This also meant no one, including Kendall, would get to her party and see her gorgeous room and cake and her!

This is why you hire a professional! Due to the weather that day, I was on the road by 3 PM from Long Island to Purchase, for an 8PM party!!! And luckily, I arrived at 5:30. Kendall’s mom told me the power is known to go out up there and since the room was basically all set up I thought why not just grab my decor and cake shots now – you never know. The room was so pretty – decorated with purple up-lighting all the way around. Well it was a very good thing I did that….fast forward…..at 8PM on the dot, 4 boys arrived (we had no idea if the driveway was cleared ) and then Kendall and her family arrived. Amazing! Many friends kept arriving. Twenty or so minutes later and we were on generators! Out went the purple up-lights! But the music played on…and for a little while we all forgot about the storm outside.