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What is the schedule for the big day?What is the schedule for the big day?

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Please arrive at 3:30pm so that we can welcome you with a hot drink before we all head outside for our outdoor ceremony at 4:00pm. After the ceremony we'll all be going straight to cocktail hour inside, followed by a family-style dinner. After dinner is cleared we'll open the dance floor and bonfire!

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One wedding? Two weddings? How many weddings are you having?!One wedding? Two weddings? How many weddings are you having?!

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Here’s the thing- we wanted our ceremony to be intimate and really reflect who we are… but still have an opportunity to celebrate with everyone. So we’re splitting the difference! We are having a small wedding at Spillian in December 2026 with some of our closest friends and family. The wedding will be a short ceremony outside, followed by a dinner party and bonfire. We are so grateful that the Rizzolo family has offered to host a summer reception for us in their backyard where we can celebrate our nuptials with our wider family and community. So stay tuned- we can only plan one dang wedding at a time.

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What if I can’t make it?What if I can’t make it?

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TOTALLY COOL! We get it! If you can’t make it to celebrate with us at Spillian in December we would love to have you at our reception later in the summer!

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What’s the dresscode?What’s the dresscode?

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Spillian is a gilded age mansion- so dress the part! Wear your gatsby-era finery and dancing shoes!

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Fleischmann's? Like the yeast?Fleischmann's? Like the yeast?

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YES! We're getting married at the 1886 Gilded Age mansion built by the Fleischmanns Yeast family! Here’s more from the team at Spillian: Built in the early 1880’s by the Fleischmanns Yeast family, who were an extraordinary example of the sprawling, brilliantly-big visioned ambition of the Industrial Revolution, Spillian was part of a 160 acre compound with half a dozen or more mansions. Each of the five siblings from the first generation of Fleischmanns, immigrants from Eastern Europe by way of Austria, had a summer “cottage” here, as did two of the oldest sons. When the Fleischmanns arrived in the Catskills to build this property, they had a major national company and were making a point about creating their own elegant rustic mountain experience during an era of heavy anti-Semitism. Their arrival ushered in what became the first “Borscht Belt” of the Catskills, with over 500 hotels between Fleischmanns and neighboring Pine Hill, many serving middle class and wealthy Eastern European Jewish immigrant communities. The Fleischmanns were a fascinating family, with wide-flung interests in culture, philanthropy, business, and politics. They introduced commercial yeast to the United States in Cincinnati, and then grew into a national company centered in New York, with a huge production plant in Peekskill and bakery/cafés in cities around the country. In just one of many stories about them: the phrase “bread line” originated with their Vienna Model Bakery in Manhattan. It was the first large scale commercial bakery in the city, and men from the tenements would line up, smelling the bread as it baked. The Fleischmanns set up a kiosk outside the bakery to give people bread to eat, and eventually added an employment agent to help those with families find work, (baking and workforce development? A perfect spot for us!!)