Nadira & Dave’s
Joy-Filled and Colorful Tattoo Parlour Wedding
Brooklyn, NY
Where do we even start with Nadira and Dave’s completely awesome Brooklyn wedding? They are two of the coolest, smiliest, smartest, funniest, and warmest human beings on the planet, and their wedding day absolutely did them justice.
The Couple
We first met Nadira & Dave on a rainy day at Pershing Square Cafe right across from Grand Central. Over steaming mugs of tea we talked for more than hour, and could have kept going for several more hours if work hadn’t beckoned.
“Nadira and Dave connect with people effortlessly, so it’s no surprise that their wedding was a neighborhood wedding.”
They met each other at last call at their local bar, the Crown Inn in Crown Heights, and their first date was at Aita Trattoria. Guess where they headed for wedding portraits on the big day, and where they hosted their high-spirited reception? Yup, portraits at the Crown Inn, reception at Aita Trattoria.
The Day
The pièce de résistance of their wedding day was the ceremony. Both David and Nadira have some very special tattoos, and one of their favorite places in Crown Heights is Electric Anvil Tattoo, a cozy shop filled with framed prints, Japanese noh masks, and exotic little talismans. When they were trying to find a small wedding venue in Brooklyn to get married, one of their friends suggested Electric Anvil’s back garden. It was a left-field idea, and Nadira and Dave had no idea what the owners of the shop would think — but when they asked, they got an enthusiastic, “Sure! Let’s do it!”
“The ceremony was colorful, intimate, and deeply touching. We love this picture of Nadira’s sister, watching them exchange vows with tears rolling down her cheeks.”
And the after-ceremony cocktail hour was joyfully rambunctious.
The Details
Nadira and Dave managed to make a tattoo parlour feel like an obvious choice for a wedding venue! They pulled in two extraordinarily talented professionals to help them make it happen: Brooklyn-based wedding planner Sarah Campbell of Pollyanna Events, and flower designer Molly Oliver. You can see from the pictures how everything came together.
The Photography
Somehow, Kyo and the Electric Anvil crew corralled everybody at the ceremony into a group picture in the garden, smiling and waving, transmitting all their well wishes to Nadira and Dave at the center of the photograph.
Cheers, Nadira and Dave! Keep doing what you do; making the world a better, funnier, happier place.
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