special touches...

• Getting ready location: The Batcheller Mansion

• Alterations: WillfitUin (now Mosca Alterations)

• Rehearsal/Welcome Party location: Harvey's Irish Pub

• As a professional journalist, I had to incorporate it somehow. Instead of wedding programs, we put all our details in a newspaper! We put them in our wedding programs and made copies available throughout the weekend. We put in stories of our own love story, the Saratoga proposal, how our parents met (and are still together today!), the history of the Canfield Casino and our favorite places to eat, drink, and visit around Saratoga!

• During my bridal shower my mom gifted me with my “something old, new, borrowed and blue.” The old was my mom's wedding dress transformed into a bridal clutch purse to use on the big day. It's something I'll be able to pass down to my own children one day. My blue was an angel gifted to me by my grandmother who passed just several months before the wedding. Fleurtacious attached the angel and her favorite rosaries around my bridal bouquet. (I also gifted my mom a clutch with a baby picture of me, along with a favorite saying from a book we read together growing up).

• In Lieu of a memorial table, we wanted to celebrate the love of our parents and grandparents. Both of our parents have been married for more than 30 years. So, we wanted to honor that by putting wedding portraits out on display with a sign which said, "Honoring the love that built ours.”

• Since my husband and I met in Philadelphia- we wanted a nod to the 'City of Brotherly Love.’ Our cake topper was a 'LOVE' sign from Love Park in Philly. Mazzone also had incredible mini Philly Cheesesteaks (that were just as delicious as the authentic ones!)