Daci S.


Age: 24

Affiliation: Reform

Occupation: Research Assistant, Student

Wedding Date: June 2009 at the Bride’s Childhood Synagogue in Baton Rouge, LA

About Me: I’m planning a modern and slightly quirky wedding. The wedding will include a lot of DIY ideas (I like to think I could be a designer in another life!) with a yellow and gray color palette. My reception will feature a Klezmer band that also plays a lot of New Orleans jazz style music which will appeal to our mostly Jewish, mostly out of town guest list. The majority of our vendors have ever dealt with a Jewish wedding before so planning has been quite interesting!

Our Modern Wedding Venues

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Among the Southern wedding traditions I’m foregoing is the general vibe. No plantation homes or Steel Magnolias-esque affairs here!  The feel I’m going for is modern – somewhere between a cocktail party and formal vibe. No tuxedos, but no jorts please! Our reception venue lends itself nicely to this – it’s on the rooftop of an art gallery overlooking the Mississippi River.

I’ve always loved this rooftop terrace. I often frequent a sushi restaurant located at the top this building which overlooks our rooftop venue. I’ve had my eye on it for a while, and after visiting a museum, a reception hall, and a hotel ballroom which were all deemed too expensive, boring, or generic we realized that this venue fit us perfectly. And the icing on the cake – the building is silver and yellow!

Our ceremony location isn’t too shabby either. The synagogue I’ve been attending since I was ten years old completely renovated their sanctuary last year. This had been a work in progress since 2005 when Rita (Katrina’s little cousin) destroyed the roof. The new sanctuary is contemporary and as you can see, photographs really well.

I wish I could share more details about the setup of our reception but even now, with the wedding two months away, I can’t make a decision to save my life. I still have millions of ideas floating around in my head, all thanks to wedding blogs like this one. If the wedding actually turns out semi close to what I’ve envisioned, I’ll consider the event a success. And even if it doesn’t… I’ll have just married the “Nice Jewish Boy” of my dreams. That’s pretty much all that matters!

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1 adesignaffair { 04.23.09 at 11:43 am }

Ahhh that venue is so fabulous. Your wedding sounds like it will be gorgeous!


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