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Love Central

As the city pours millions into a new, less dreary wedding bureau near City Hall, we asked four local designers to create their own “I do” backdrops.

  • By Eric V. Copage
  • Published Jun 15, 2008
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(Photo: Spencer Tucker / Courtesy of the Office of the Mayor)

New York City’s marriage bureau—currently on the second floor of the Municipal Building at One Centre Street—is an uninspiring warren of glass partitions and banana-yellow walls. But later this year a new bureau will be unveiled inside a city-owned building at 141 Worth Street, the recipient of an ongoing $15 million renovation overseen by society decorator Jamie Drake. We wondered how other local designers might approach the challenge of creating the ultimate New York wedding chapel. Here are four of their dream scenarios.

Next: The virtual-reality chapels.

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