Anybody get married in Prospect Park?

dailyheights

See below.

WANTED: YOUR FAVORITE WEDDING PHOTOS!

Calling All Couples Married at the Prospect Park
Picnic House: Let’s See Those Pictures!

If you were married at the Prospect Park Picnic House, we invite you to bring a few of your best wedding pictures to the Monday, September 19th ribbon cutting in celebration of the Picnic House’s restoration. Share your big day with the world by adding your picture to our special “Picture Perfect at the Prospect Park Picnic House” exhibit. Email us at [email protected] to let us know you are coming! If you can’t make it on the 19th, we’d still love for you to send us your photos (all will be returned). Mail them to:

Eugene Patron
Prospect Park Alliance
95 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215

On September 19th there will be music, tasty refreshments and fun surprises as we celebrate all the joyous occasions that have taken place over the years at the Picnic House. The Speaker and Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council and the Brooklyn Borough President will be on hand September 19th to cut the ribbon and re-open one of Brooklyn’s most treasured event facilities.



The recent multi-million dollar renovation of the Picnic House has been generously financed by the New York City Council and the Office of Brooklyn Borough President. The design work and construction supervision for the Picnic House restoration was managed by the Prospect Park Alliance.

ALSO, tell us about your favorite wedding tradition.
African-Americans “Jump the broom,” Jewish-Americans shatter a glass and Greek-Americans break plates and throw money at the musicians. What are your family’s traditions or traditions you know of? Tell us – we’ll print a list in the program for the September 19th Picnic House Ribbon Cutting Celebration. Email [email protected] (include your name and telephone number).

AND share with us the name of your favorite wedding song!
We’ll also list these in the program for the September 19th Picnic House Ribbon Cutting Celebration. Email [email protected] (include your name and telephone number).

Built on the edge of the Long Meadow in 1928, the Prospect Park Picnic House is a brick and glass enclosed pavilion with a terracotta tile roof. Over the last year the Picnic House has undergone extensive renovations to repair the roof, improve ventilation, install better lighting and heating systems and other amenity upgrades including a new hardwood floor. This airy space can accommodate up to 250 guests for concerts and lectures or 175 party celebrants. Call (718) 287-6215 for information on event rentals.

The public restroom facilities on the ground floor of the Picnic House have also been completely renovated. Divisions of the Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance will soon move into new offices on the building’s ground floor. Come the warm weather in 2006, the Alliance will operate a new food concession at the Picnic House selling snacks to Park visitors.

More information on the Monday, September 19th Ribbon Cutting ceremony will be announced soon.

The Prospect Park Alliance, in partnership with the City of New York and the community, restores, develops, and operates the Park for the enjoyment of all New Yorkers. The Alliance is dedicated to serving visitors through its facilities and programs, caring for the Park's natural environment, and preserving its historic design. Prospect Park’s 585 acres of meadows, waterfalls, forest, lakes, and athletic facilities comprise a masterwork of urban green space.

For general information on Prospect Park, call the Park Hotline at (718) 965-8999

www.prospectpark.org

dailyheights

Check it out! We just got this note from Eugene Patron:

>>Thanks so much for posting our call for couples married
>>at the Picnic House! I've already started hearing back
>>from people who saw it on the site. As a resident of
>>Prospect Heights I appreciate DailyHeights keeping
>>an eye on our 'hood.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Eugene
>>
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>>--------------------------------
>>Eugene J. Patron
>>Press & Communications Director
>>Prospect Park

anonymous

Subject: Other Prospect Park weddings

This is almost certainly OT, but I wonder if I can hijack this thread to see who else got married in Prospect Park.

My husband and I considered renting the Tennis House for our wedding reception - it was about $900 for all day, IIRC, and I think they even would have supplied the chairs - but the caterers nixed it (too "breezy" with the open air columns). Still, if our wedding had been smaller and if his grandmother hadn't been around, I would've seriously considered getting a parks permit to have an outdoor ceremony nearby (with the House as a rain location) and just skipping caterers and getting a huge delivery of pizza from La Villa or something.

The boathouse was too expensive and the picnic house was still under renovation.

Other places nearby we considered: Tempo (they successfully hosted a friend of a friend's last-minute wedding, and from what I heard it was brilliant) and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (but they're only really set up to handle small < 25 person ceremonies for free, and > 200 person ceremonies for $$$$).

We ended up having to leave the borough for our wedding but I'm curious to hear from those who were able to make it work.