New York - October 23, 2007

Sound the Sirens

Fall 2007 Wedding Guide

Looks like we’ve got ourselves a situation.

Apprehended at first sight or trailed for years. Either way, you confess. You’re in love (in the first degree). Now you have to pay the price. Of a wedding.

Witnesses on the scene direct our attention to the renovated Mansfield Hotel for a cocktail party in the intimate mahogany M Bar and reasonably priced, masculine rooms for the grand jury.

Dispatch floral arrangements: Float a single flower (buy blooms in bulk) in a mason jar filled with water. Rent modern high boys and stools that debuted at the Milan Furniture Fair.

Alert hungry, nonthreatening citizens to new Belli catering company, where Le Cirque alums are implicated in connections to Zezé Flowers, arranging showers and engagement dinners in the chic floral shop and carriage house. Upon further questioning, learn of seasonal menus of canapes, petit fours, oysters, and apple-infused vodka in a glamorous ice luge. (Investigate with or without warrant while eating custom cookies.)

Modern Pinup’s Paula Kohatsu (917-319-7273; modernpinup@gmail.com) aided and abetted at Cornelia Day Resort before starting her (naughtier) traveling beauty service. Treatments include full-body trompe l’oeil lingerie painted delicately on the bride-to-be. Grooms: Hands up. Keep them where we can see them.

Gowns can be apprehended from the Jenny Lee trunk show November 15-17 (Mark Ingram Bridal Atelier, 110 East 55th Street, eighth floor. To make an appointment, call 212-319-6778). Fancy guests and chic bridal party perps are granted visiting rights to the black and white fall line of Redux Charles Chang-Lima. Rowdy bridesmaids showing signs of struggle are sent to Alison Dahl Kelly’s online atelier — for dresses customizable to all body types.

Guests will be hard-pressed to leave the scene given the carnivalesque toe-tapping of Loose Marbles, a roving indie ragtime band.

Hot pursuit! This night’s gonna leave a lot of fingerprints.

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