FiPS Is Giving Away 2 Tickets to Brooklyn Based's Wedding Crashers Event!

Are you a straight or gay couple in the midst of planning a wedding? Or are you unengaged but eager to start hand-selecting flowers and cakes for the future? Are you just strangely obsessed with wedding fairs? Today and TODAY ONLY FiPS is giving you the chance to win 2 tickets ($50 value) to Brooklyn Based's badass Wedding Crashers fair, where you can mingle with over 40 creative designers, photographers, planners, DJs, wedding bands, caterers, cake studios and confectioners, most of whom are long-time Brooklynites. And you won't just be peeping menus or listening to mp3s on some dude's MacBook. You'll be sampling sweets, savories and booze, all while getting your groove on to some fab live music. Interested?

READ ON.

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Vexed in Park Slope: Valentine's Edition!

 

Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day, VIPSters!  In the holiday spirit I’ve rounded up some stories of love from long ago in Park Slope. If these historical anecdotes don’t get you in the mood for romance, or at least melt a few cynical hipster hearts of ice, I don’t know what will. xoxoxo

You know those Park Slope dates where you wander around the hood, popping into one café or bar, having a drink or five, and then moving to the next locale? And you know how sometimes one person gets so drunk that they dare the other person to marry them that same night, and then they do?  Because that’s exactly what transpired one night in February1907, when Eleanor Campbell (of 823 President Street) dared a very drunk Walter Stevenson (408 6^th Street) to marry her – and he did!

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Brooklyn Based Will Announce Your Wedding!

Lauren Griffin and Jake Loiko / BB's "guinea pigs" for the project

Local blog and borough guide Brooklyn Based, whose Wedding Crashers fair couples married birds-to-be with BK's best wedding vendors, is taking their WE HEART NUPTIALS attitude to another level. In an email sent out to their subscribers yesterday, BB announced that as of now they'll be doing WEDDING LISTINGS!

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Happy Wedding! Here Is a GIGANTIC PIECE OF SCAFFOLDING to Celebrate!

A girl dreams of her wedding day forever--the dress, the flowers, the dancing, the Port-o-John...um, huh? According to the Metro, that's exactly what's goin' down for six super-pissed brides with wedding plans at the Slope's Montauk Club.

The brides say like they were screwed out of their $1800 deposits and the oh-so-dreamy historic setting they expected for their nuptials, getting instead a metric shit ton of dark scaffolding and outhouses (and probs a hefty pharmacy bill for the requesite steady stream of Ativan absued to deal with the "traumatic" experience). I mean, who doesn't find THAT dynamite combo romantic? But hey, maybe that's just me.

Anyway, what're your thoughts on the sitch: Would you be pissed as hell, too, or just kinda deal?

Photo: Alison Bowen/Metro

WHO GIVES A SHIT: Would You Get Married in Park Slope?

image via rougerougeMy day job (yes, I have a day job) deals a lot with weddings. And, now that I'm one of those "in a serious relationship" Park Slope dicks (wherein I define "serious" as, "I just added him to my Prospect Park Y membership,") my daily wedding blog-perusal for work has me curious about weddings in the Slope. (I should also add that a growing cold weather-fostered TLC addiction has not helped.)

How many people would decline the invitation to my wedding simply because I was hosting it at a venue called the "Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture?" Would I even go? Where else does one get married in the Slope, or is it just insane/expensive to do it?

So, who gives a shit: Would you get married in Park Slope? Where? Have you? Do you think marriage is an evil institution that...oh wait, I actually don't want you to reply if that's the case.

Commence.