Angel Orensanz Foundation · Lower East Side

Double Happiness,
Downtown

For Shuzi's book-themed wedding, the couple's favorite titles did the decorating. Novels stacked into columns at the altar, a cake bound in beloved spines, and a historic nave washed in blue and violet. Dinner under wire chandeliers, and hors d'oeuvres carried in on white balloons.

The nave in blue and violet, wire chandeliers over gold tables

Double happiness above the bridal suite

The bride and her mother, in qipao

The last button

A quiet moment at the window

Beneath the sculpted ceiling

The aisle lined with candles and stacked novels

Married, between columns of books

The room, empty and ready

A column of their favorite novels at the altar

The cake, spine by spine, Harry Potter to Catch-22

The bride, the bridesmaids in blush and lavender

The mezzanine, candlelit

The couple beneath the vaults

Sweets carried on a balloon tray

Balloons lifting the dessert display

Hors d'oeuvres, floating by balloon

Canapés on the pass

A kiss over a cake bound in book spines

A twirl beneath the blue vaults

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