Party Planning

Your wedding favors create that all-important final detail and last impression made on your guests. They’ve enjoyed your fabulous wedding menu, they’ve toasted you with amazing wines and [...]

Wedding guests love slow-dancing with one another, so the new trend in reception music is to have your band or deejay play a greater number of slower songs at the start and at the end of the [...]

by Rolf Shick, Banquet Manager, The Manor Wedding showers aren’t just for the bride and her female friends and bridesmaids anymore; today they can actually be co-ed affairs. Some couples are [...]

By Christopher Gellings, Banquet Manager, Highlawn Pavilion Honeymoons can be as diverse as weddings are nowadays. So don’t feel you have to do the traditional honeymoon destination. Do what fits [...]

By, Caitlyn Bradley, Director of Sales and Catering, Pleasantdale Château Let’s hear it for commitment! We’re seeing more married couples in the New York metro area having ceremonies to renew [...]

By Christopher Gellings, Banquet Manager, Highlawn Pavilion Here at the Knowles restaurants in the New Jersey, New York metro area, we’re seeing more interest in all things “eco friendly” and [...]

By Rolf Shick, Banquet Manager, The Manor We want everything to be perfect on our wedding day. But sometimes things out of your control go wrong – for example, a vendor messes something up. Maybe [...]

By Laura Madden, Senior Sales Manager, Pleasantdale Château The ceremonial “First Dance” at a wedding reception often looks uncomfortably like its name implies: The newlyweds are usually nervous [...]

By Rolf Shick, Banquet Manager, The Manor By now we’ve all seen the crazy freestyle dance on YouTube, and again during The Office’s season finale when Pam and Jim got married. But that style of [...]

By Laura Madden, Senior Sales Manager, Pleasantdale Château Remember playing the daydreaming game, “He loves me, he loves me not?” Well, if he’s marrying you, he obviously does love you, but some [...]