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Nancy Swiezy Events And Suger Flower Cake Shop Join Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Spring Gala

I'm very honored to have been invited to design a table for The Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Spring Gala Celebration. A charity event showcasing NY's finest designers.

Joining me Is Amy DeGiulio of Suger Flower Cake Shop.

We will be Co-Designing a table together !

The 2011 Spring Gala will be on Wednesday

April 20th at Cipriani 42nd St.

This is the Inspiration for our table.

Nancy Swiezy's Flowers of the Week

By Nancy Swiezy Events and Flowers
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Photo by www.alexzphotography.com

Well Wed The Hamptons

Nancy Swiezy Events is proud to be included in Well Well The Hampton Issue this year!

A Hampton Affaire www.ahamptonaffaire.com
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Nancy Swiezy's Flowers of the Week...Pinecones

By Nancy Swiezy Events and Flowers
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Photo by www.alexzphotography.com

Kudos to Will Ryman and The Fund for Park Avenue On CBS Sunday Morning Segment

There was a wonderful segment today on CBS's Morning Show about Will Ryman and his work on the Park Avenue Mall. He lent models of his work to decorate a table for a gathering of members of The Fund for Park Avenue’s Sculpture Advisory Committee last spring.

I so enjoyed participating last year!

ww.panachemag.com/Web/BeSeen/FundforParkAvenue10/Fund_For_Park_Avenue_30th_Anniversary.asp

Will Ryman’s 38 booming bloom sculptures, ranging from 4 feet to 25 feet in height, will be on view starting today January 25 through May 31, and is a lovely reminder during these bleak winter months that spring will indeed be coming. A native New Yorker, Will Ryman is know internationally for his large scale sculptures, incorporating all sorts of materials, from stainless steel to plaster. As a writer turned artist his work often is influenced by playwrights and philosophers. For further information regarding Will Ryman’s work please contact Paul Kasmin Gallery.

Burberry Wedding Theme

Hand Made Vase, Flowers and "Trench Coat" Pintuck Linen by Nancy Swiezy Events www.nancyswiezyevents.com

Recycle Revive Regift @ A Green Bridal Show in SoHo NY

March 10th. Come Join me at The Glittering Conscience in SOHO.
More information to come!

Inspiration... A Girl Best Friend

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Here are a few of the elements for my New York Horticultural Society Gala table.

The New York Horticultural Society's The New York Flower Show Soiree

I'm so honored to be asked again to take part in The New York Horticultural Society 2011 Gala .

This Year Its all about "Fire And Ice" So my table will be called "A Girls Best Friend!"

Previously known as Flowers & Design, this year the event will reprise The Hort’s famous and historic New York Flower Show.

Each designer will receive an award for their table based on categories determined by our judges, and for the first time ever, there will be a ticketed Public Viewing and Press Preview from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

Flowers for Housing Works "Bride on a Buck"

This is the Topiary I did for the Housing Works Bridal Event.

























The next one will be in April
www.Housingworks.org

A WELL WED Photo Shoot

I just finished a photo shoot for Well Wed Magazine.
Heads up on what the color palettes will be this spring.
I took some close ups not to spoil the surprise.


Berry-Inspired
Calla Lilly's, Blue Veronica, Black Berry's,Green Rununculus


Woodland-Inspired
Hand made pine cone flowers,wild turkey feathers, snail shells, pearls, white freesia, Dutch tulips,white spray roses and acorns.
Adorned with a pine cone Corsage


The Preppy Palette
Peach garden roses,grape hyacinths and cream spray roses Periwinkle and royal blue preppy ribbon with pearls

Well Wed The Hampton's http://www.thehamptonsweddings.com

A New Web Site For Nancy Swiezy Events

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Please stop by and visit me!

Economy takes bite out of East End parties

The economy may not be raining hard enough to stop the East End party parade. But it may be making it a little bit less boisterous.
Fewer companies are holding parties, people are spending less on weddings and conspicuous consumption isn’t quite as in style on the East End as a few years ago. Christopher Robbins of Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs summed it up, saying the “2009 focus is not on beluga caviar and foie gras.” Part of it is economics and part is esthetics and ethics.
“You’re scaling back on the things you’re requesting to eat,” Robbins said. “That makes sense financially. It’s also how you’re perceived.”
Nancy Swiezy, owner of Manhattan-based Nancy Swiezy Events, said in an uncertain economy people are waiting longer before deciding where to hold wedding celebrations.
“The timing’s shorter,” she said, noting that sometimes leads to better prices. “They’re planning three months out instead of a year.”
Even weddings booked a year in advance are scaling back. Two out of five weddings Robbins is helping organize this summer eliminated sushi bars or raw bars, which often cost $25 to $30 a person.
Swiezy said she’s seeing more people book weddings on off nights, such as Sunday and Friday.
And she’s seeing wine and beer at rehearsal dinners instead of open bars, and barbecues and clam bakes instead of sit-down rehearsal dinners. Wedding food more often includes stations rather than plated dinners.
“They’re getting married, but the head count is down,” Swiezy said. “The guest list is sometimes smaller by half. Instead of 200 guests, we’re looking at 100.”

by Claude Solnik
www.LIBN.com

Retying The Knot .....From Special Event

Many young girls dream of fairy tale weddings complete with big gowns, a bevy of bridesmaids and bouquets tossed over the shoulder. But what happens when a bride's attitude is “Been there, done that”? For the growing population of adults who have divorced and then found love again, “They don't want that 20-something wedding,” says Kendall Brown, owner and president of Media, Pa.-based Eclatante Event Design. In fact, while Brown feels the traditional wedding has its place, she has found a niche producing “subsequent” or “last weddings,” as she calls them. The market remains, perhaps strangely, untapped; Brown notes that many couples wonder if subsequent weddings are appropriate to celebrate. Yet, her research reveals more than 50 percent of the U.S. population is on its “second or third or fourth marriage,” she says. And a growing group of these brides and grooms want to celebrate, albeit in a completely different manner from their first wedding. But as Brown puts it, “Why wouldn't you want to celebrate your last wedding?” Read on to discover how these wedding experts help couples do just that.

OLDER, WISER
Planners agree — second-time brides typically are easier to work with than first-timers. As wedding coordinator and co-owner of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based An Elegant Affair Heidi Caldwell says, “Second-time brides are more organized and prepared, so there is less guesswork.” Wedding and event planner Nancy Swiezy of A Newport Affaire in New York adds that these brides, often busy professionals, don't have time “to waste on fantasy.”

Yet what these brides lack in time, they make up in resources. “They certainly seem to assert their own priorities the second time around,” says Yifat Oren, president of Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based Yifat Oren & Associates, “mostly because they are usually older and, second, because they usually pay for it themselves.” She notes, too, these brides seem to enjoy the process of planning their weddings more as well.
Brown offers one more reason for the ease of working with these brides: “Their mothers aren't involved.”

HERE COMES THE BILL
Second weddings tend to be smaller, the experts say. “Fewer guests, less pomp and more relaxation,” as Caldwell puts it. But that doesn't necessarily make the budget any smaller. Tara Guerard — owner and lead designer of Soiree by Tara Guerard in Charleston, S.C. — puts it bluntly, “They're spending the money!” One wedding she produced — the second for the groom, the first for the bride — had a guest count of only 80. But Guerard notes, “They spent, budget-wise, the same as my bigger weddings. And with age comes wisdom. “Money seems to be used more wisely,” Caldwell notes. This can be seen in the choice of venue: “They aren't hotel brides,” as Brown puts it. And a striking venue requires less decor, “which is less money than if you have to create a unique feel in an empty hotel ballroom,” Caldwell explains. Another difference she has noticed in second-time brides: They're more likely to forgo expensive flowers in favor of atmospheric candles.

TRADITIONS BANISHED
Heeding tradition is of little concern to the encore bride. Instead, Brown notes, subsequent wedding couples focus on “the traditions that {they} have built throughout their lives, individually and together.”
To that end, “Out is the mandatory sister-in-law bridesmaid,” Caldwell says, “out is the $5,000 gown they'll never see again, out is the 100 extra guests who are friends of their families.” And mature brides show no interest in removing and tossing the garter. As Brown puts it, “Nobody is taking any clothes off.” She adds, “Half don't even carry flowers,” much less toss the bouquet. Instead, the bride may hold a meaningful heirloom.
Another tradition these brides and grooms show little interest in is the cake-cutting ceremony. Instead of doing the “typical big cake-cutting” at one wedding, Guerard and her team had “individual cakes for each person at a seated dinner because it felt a little bit different,” she explains. The favors, too, were nontraditional: a green box hung on the back of a chair with the guest's name written on an attached tag — the box served as a leftover cake to-go box, favor and dinner place card.
Traditions that seem sweet for a 20-something bride are less suited to a mature bride. The first dance between the bride and her father is often not considered an option. And as one woman put it when speaking to Brown, “If you have to be given away at 50, that's a problem.”

TIES THAT BIND
Children, too, often play a larger role in second weddings. The most common way to include younger children from a previous marriage is as flower girls or ring bearers; older children are typically the best man or the maid of honor, with no other attendants. “I've seen sons give away their mothers,” Oren says, and Brown recalls seeing one groom “given away” by his two daughters. She adds, “I have a couple who is planning to make promises to the children as part of the vows.”
Caldwell has also seen “children say vows of their own or have a special piece of jewelry — bracelet, ring, necklace — to exchange at the time the bride and groom do.” One potential problem An Elegant Affair was able to head off involved a former husband in attendance with his and his former wife's daughter, who served as the flower girl at the wedding. The new husband was “somewhat unnerved,” Caldwell says, at seeing the former husband during picture-taking of the bridal party. Yet this was easily remedied. “We arranged for someone else to look after the daughter and gave the father an errand to run to have him out of the way while the couple were having their shots done,” she says.

SECOND TIME AROUND
Everyone learns from mistakes, brides included. “A lot of brides want to fix what they felt wasn't right in their first ceremony,” Caldwell notes. Often they want “a better photographer, better venue and definitely a coordinator to make sure everything runs smoothly,” she adds. Guerard cites an example of a beautiful venue that couldn't have been used for a larger wedding but was perfect for an intimate party of 80: the back garden of the Gibbs Art Museum in Charleston.
Often, too, encore brides and grooms skip the traditional church ceremony and reception and instead marry and enjoy their honeymoon, throwing a big party after they return. Swiezy notes a sophisticated bash that took place in a New York loft for a second marriage; the hip venue needed only candles and dance music to create a party atmosphere. Because the honeymoon took place in Italy, the couple opted for antipasto platters at the party to keep with the Italian theme.

THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL
While all brides like to add personal touches to their weddings, second-time brides take this practice to the hilt. One couple Brown is working with vacations at wineries around the world and wants to infuse their wedding with their shared passion for wine. Their wedding will include long wood tables, Italian ceramics and “bottles of wine from everywhere. The food is going to be served family-style, and there is no head table — people just sit down.” She jokes, “I tried to talk them into stomping grapes for fun, but that was apparently a little over the top.”
One wedding An Elegant Affair produced was the opposite of the bride's first wedding: “The bride {previously} had the traditional large church wedding, complete with the cathedral-length train and 300-plus guests — all conducted by her mother-in-law,” Caldwell says. This time, the bride and groom — both outdoorsy types — opted for a destination beach wedding in Hawaii. “The entire event was flanked by flaming torches, incense, and with the waves not more than 15 feet away,” Caldwell says. “They were married at sunset and said their vows under a full moon.” Afterwards, islanders treated the party to a surprise private fire-dancing performance.
Some couples opt for personalized versions of pre-wedding celebrations. Brown notes, “I have a couple where the bride and groom are not into the whole bridal shower, bachelor party, etc., thing. So instead, they're all learning Israeli folk dances, which will be performed by the guests at the wedding. So fun.”

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY for http://www.specialevents.com

Giving Thanks To Three Wonderful Brides and Four Exciting NYC Charity Events!!

Many Thanks To

Sarah and Jere,

Valery and Eric

and Mary and David

I so enjoyed working on your Wedding and Flowers!

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Floral Design Created for

The Sons of The Revolution, George Washington Ball

The Fund For Park Avenue

The New England Society Dinner Dance

The Horticultural Society of New York Gala

The Accessories Accessories Council's Picnic in the Park Party

Thank you all for a wonderful year!

Why Work with Nancy Swiezy Events?

20 years of Special Events with Society Weddings and Events

Floral Design
I trained with Martha Meier Flowers and worked on many of Marcy Blum's weddings.Working on many society weddings, In NYC Hampton's and CT. As well as The Breeders Cup, Olympics and events for IBM and US Post Office.





Culinary Experience (I’m A Foodie!)
There is a technical deliverable between restaurant cuisine vs catering.
I was the first Sous Chef for Gods Love We Deliver, Catering Chef and Food Stylist for The New York Boat House and
Biz Dev. for NYC’s international catering company Tentation Potel and Chabot

Publishing Bridal Magazines, Bridal TV Shows
Associate Publisher of Bizbash Media for 5 years.
If you want your wedding published I can arrange that for you, for I have have relationships with all the Editors and Producers.

Wedding Planning
5 years I personally have produced and worked on Weddings with Million Dollar Budgets in NYC and Newport RI. To $10,000
Newport R.I., CT, N.Y.C., The Hampton's, Aspen, and Miami.

Nepotism
I work for my clients…. not my “friends”that work in the industry.
I am not related to any one in Newport.
So my advice and counsel is based on what your goals are not mine or my relations.

Marketplace Due Diligence
I have extensively sourced products and talent In NYC, Newport R.I. as well as nationally that will fit any budget and style.

Your Guest Experience
My finest complement was when my bride’s guest said,
“What didn’t you think of!”
What do you want your guests to say about your event???

No Kids or Interns Allowed
I don’t use Interns.
Why would you let some one come and to learn their craft on your time? My team members are NYC /R.I. professionals that are as multi talented and multi disciplined as I am
I do not have children and will not be getting pregnant during your wedding.

Disaster Recovery
My job is to make your event run smoothly and take care of any day of glitches.
Here are a few my saves.

A well-known Newport Catering company comes to a wedding a ½ late for a Society wedding
I was able to stall wile cleaning the gown that got dirty walking in the garden.

The NYC police would let my catering trucks, rentals or flowers delivery the street were the wedding was.
I negated with the mayors office to make it happen in a timely fashion.

A seconded tear R.I. tent company the bride hired was screaming at me because his generator wasn’t working the day of the wedding. I had a second one on it way is 20 minute by another vendor.

A bride was placed in a room with two twin beds and her gown was missing. I had her up graded to a suite in a ½ hour and the hotel pick up the charge.

And Yes I do Live in NYC and Newport RI

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Nancy Swiezy Events and The New England Socity makes The New York Social Diary

On Friday, November 12th, the New England Society in the City of New York hosted its 205th Annual Dinner Dance at the St. Regis Hotel. Members and friends gathered to honor Tom Chappell, co-founder of Tom's of Maine and Ramblers Ways, with the Reginald T. Townsend Award, as well as honor the current and past New England Society scholarship recipients.

Upon accepting his Townsend Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement while representing the finest attributes of the New England character, Tom accurately defined the New England character as the spirit of freedom that comes from acting socially responsible. He also shared the story of his New England and New York ancestry. His gracious words and personal message were enthusiastically received by the 150 guests, including scholarship recipients: Juliette Ferrigno, Class of 2013, Gregory Gumbs, Class of 2010, and Cathya Solano, Trinity Class of 2011. The dancing and celebrating continued on until midnight and an over all terrific evening was had by all thanks to co-chairs Christopher and Liz Apgar, Tom Farrell and Suzanne Milton.


Two of my brides and grooms...Valery and Eric Lourd Sarha & Jere Patterson.
Good friends Jamie Gaston, Gail Gaston, and Frances Gaston

http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/nysd/partypictures
Photos by Anne Watt http://www.society-photos.com/

Turkey, Feathers and Harvest Flowers Were Bountiful At The 205 The New England Society Dinner Dance

This was my fifth year doing the decor for The New England Society.
Feathers were accessorized not only in the Thanksgiving flower arrangements ,
but many of the guests were adored with them as well!
Many thanks to Ann Watt for shooting our event.


http://www.society-photos.com


To learn more about The New England Society please visit
www.nesnyc.org



Kathleen Schauer Vogue's her Turkey Feather hair piece and watering can!




Thumb-Controlled Watering Pot
Handmade in Maine, this delightful earthenware "thumb pot" resembles those seen in 17th-and 18th-century English gardening prints. Immerse the pot in a barrel of water to fill and, holding a thumb over the top hole, carry it around the garden to water the plants. Releasing your thumb allows a stream of water to flow from the bottom.


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