Two people from different cultures, both with a fantastic sense of style and a deep love for each other and their families. Across two days, I witnessed Mansi and Korey’s families and friends integrate into a beautifully-woven tapestry. Their epic wedding actually spanned four complete days, but the time I spent with them seemed to pass by in a flash.
It started with a family-filled Mehndi in Uniondale and ended on the roof of 74 Wythe, with Manhattan glowing across the river.
Visually, the two days couldn’t have been more different. The Mehndi was close, colorful, and crowded with relatives moving around Mansi, children included. The wedding traded the hotel for Williamsburg steel, glass, brick, and skyline. But the real continuity was the families. The same people moved from ritual to rooftop, from henna and family photographs to cocktails, speeches, and dancing several stories above Brooklyn.
That movement was built into everything. Guests traveled between floors. The rooftop shifted from ceremony to reception. Children ricocheted through a venue designed around clean industrial geometry. Older relatives were carefully carried through a day that asked everyone to keep moving.
And then, for Mansi and Korey, it was over in what felt like “the blink of an eye.”
That is the strange arithmetic of weddings. The larger the event, the faster it can seem to disappear from the center. Photographs give it back slowly: one expression, one child underfoot, one hand covered in henna, one skyline, one relationship at a time.
Planning: Monica Duro and Imani Starr, Blossom Events
Mehndi: Long Island Marriott
Wedding venue: 74 Wythe
