Sixty guests, a four-course arc, and a small hot pass at eleven for the dancers who skipped dessert earlier.
The couple wanted nostalgia without kitsch: one course nodded to the city they met in, the rest stayed firmly in the present.
We staged the late snack from a side gallery so the dance floor stayed visually clean until guests actually wanted sustenance.
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