An Intimate, Low-Key Wedding in Our Favorite NYC Tea House
Photographs by Arin Sang Urai, unless noted.
Today we're taking a look at a morning wedding at Té Company, a tearoom in NYC’s West Village that is one of our favorite hidden places in the city. The couple had a tiny budget (“under $2,000 for everything wedding related,” the bride, Candace, tells us) and two weeks notice. On a Wednesday morning in March, friends of the bride’s arrived with flowers and vases, and a few hours later the wedding party of a dozen arrived for the noon event.
Té Company is located on the first floor of a landmarked Greenwich Village brownstone at 163 West 10th Street.
Photograph by Elena Liao
The bride, Candace, greets the groom carrying a bouquet she made herself.
The day before the wedding, Candace and friends got up at 5 a.m. to hit New York’s flower market: for retail shoppers, she says, “it’s not cheaper, but there’s more variety and it’s very fresh.”
Photograph by Elena Liao
Candace realized they could use a backdrop and found a crescent-shaped prop from one of the city's wedding companies.
Photograph by Elena Liao
No limo needed. The newlyweds strut up Seventh Avenue.