City Club Open House featuring The Wedding Suite at Nordstrom

Come join the City Club in welcoming the newly launched Wedding Suite at Nordstrom. As a new bride we recommend you pay them a visit! A Nordstrom Wedding Stylist will help you every step of the way, from choosing a gorgeous dress to everything for your wedding party! And what’s even better, their styling services are complimentary.

The City Club of San Francisco will be featuring the Wedding Suite team at their monthly Second Tuesday Open house coming this Tuesday, June 14th from 5-7pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

Cassie Harris

Sales & Catering Manager

Sunday, March 27th - City Club Wedding Workshop & Champagne Brunch

WEDDING WORKSHOP & CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH
Join us at The City Club of San Francisco for a wedding workshop that will help set the tone for your special day.

To purchase tickets, visit:

http://www.cityclubweddingworkshop.eventbrite.com/

Sunday March 27, 2011 10am-1pm

The Stock Exchange Tower
155 Sansome Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104

$35 general admission
$40 at the door

Registration and Meet the Partners
10–10:30am

Brunch
10:30am

Champagne Brunch featuring Robin Wilkey

Editor-in-Chief of San Francisco Brides

“Tips & Trends for 2011,How to feature your Wedding in San Francisco Brides”

Rehearsal Dinners: Kicking-off your wedding celebration
Whether you’ve thought about it or forgotten about it,

join Kathy Goodmanowner of Well Rehearsed to learn how to plan a creative, stress-free rehearsal dinner that will set the tone for your wedding day.

Perfect Your Tabletop Décor

The City Club of San Francisco and Classic Party Rentals willteach you how to select the right
tabletop pieces for that extra special touch that your guests will appreciate.

For more information please call Catering Sales at 415.362.2480.
Featured Partners: San Francisco Brides, Classic Party Rentals, Well Rehearsed

To purchase tickets, visit: http://www.cityclubweddingworkshop.eventbrite.com/

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2011 has a nice ring to it!

Happy New Year! Thank you to all of the Members and Guests who hosted events with us in 2010. December was a joyous month. The Club looked amazing decorated for the holidays and we enjoyed several events including our Grand Holiday Celebration and a divine luncheon with Paula West. Photos from these events can be found on our Facebook page.

The New Year brings many special occasions from birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, annual galas, corporate celebrations and business meetings.It is customary around this time of the year that many couples are engaged and begin looking for that special venue to celebrate their union. We bring back after two successful years, The City Club 2^nd Tuesday Wedding & Event Open houses.

The next open house will be Tuesday, February 8^th from 5-7pm. We invite you to visit us and enjoy complimentary Champagne and Hors d’oeuvres. Our special featured partner for this show is none other than our very own Member, Natasha Miller from Entire Productions who will be providing live musical entertainment. We invite you to join us and ask about our preferred wedding pricing for 2011.

This month the Sales & Catering team is working with two very special organizations who have opened up their events to our Membership and guests.

Information about both events are below:

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 6:30pm

Exiles, Emigrants and Entrepreneurs: Archaeology of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)

The island of Tasmania, long renowned for its unique geology, pristine landscapes, and delicious food and wine, is also home to five newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Join us at The City Club of San Francisco where Eleanor Conlin Casella will take us on a tour of Tasmania, including its archaeological sites and memorable landscapes, through an exploration of the history of the island and its founding as a penal colony. She will discuss the famous male convict sites incorporated within the recent World Heritage listing, and then turn towards some of the results of archaeological excavations she's directed at the Ross Female Factory - a Tasmanian prison site established for exiled British female felons and their dependent children. The sites she will discuss offer some of the best-kept records of convict history anywhere in the world. Followed by a reception featuring a Tasmanian wine and whiskey tasting.

Please contact jklahn@aia.bu.edu or 617.353.8709

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Please join us and over 150 Bay Area professional women for the Women's Business Luncheon: EXPERIENCE. EDUCATE. EMPOWER on January 27th, 11:30 am - 2:30 pm at The City Club of San Francisco. The guest speaker for the evening is Kathy Tierney, Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Sur la Table.

All proceeds benefit Immaculate Conception Academy, an all-girls high school in the Mission District of San Francisco. Tickets available online: http://icaluncheon.eventbrite.com/ or call Caroline Curran at 415 824 2052 ext40

We look forward to a prosperous and exciting New Year!

Best Wishes,

The City Club Team

A City Club Affaire- Sunday, October 4, 2009

The City Club of San Francisco invites you to our A City Club Affaire
Wedding & Event Show on Sunday, October 4, 2009 from 11am-3pm.

Don’t miss this special opportunity to meet The City Club’s preferred partners in our beautiful venue. We promise you will find just the right collection of experts for your next event.

We are proud to feature the following partners:

Amy Kushel Bride

Arrowood Photography

Artists in Music

Bay Music and Entertainment

Blueprint Studios

Branch Out

Cakework

California Chocolate Fountains

California Parking Valet

Carol Irvine Photography

Carolyn Wong Cakes

Chapin Court Salon

Classic Party Rentals

Darcy Padilla Photography

Denon & Doyle

Dilek Sezen

Dot the I Designs

Dreams on a Dime

Elle MusicEntire Productions

Floramor Studios

Floreal

Galleria Park Hotel

Have Your Cake

Hyegraph Invitations & Calligraphy

Jade Studio Productions

Jay Kelly Photography

Justin Fone Productions

Karina Marie Diaz Lifestyle Photographer

Kimpton Hotels

La Tavola Linen

Mandarin Oriental

Marianne Kent & Bay City

Mosaic Transportation

Nancy Liu Chin

Napa Valley Linens

Omni Hotels

San Francisco Brides Magazine

Sibby's Cupcakes

Simayof

Sound in Motion

Stacey Miller Designs

Sylvie Gil Photography

The Buttercream Studios

Thomas Hughes Video

Under the Chuppah

Well Rehearsed



Enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres and champagne mimosas provided by The City Club, a full day schedule of live entertainment so that you can sample sounds from our collection of artists, tasty treats from our dessert partners, a copy of San Francisco Brides Magazine, and the opportunity to meet in person with all of our premier partners.


Complimentary Admission
Complimentary Valet Parking will be available.
Please register at http://www.cityclubsf.com/

Have you been Well Rehearsed?

If you are a new couple planning your upcoming wedding celebration, don’t lose thought of the Mother of the Groom. She can be your biggest resource, your biggest supporter, and is probably just as thrilled and excited as the Bride, that her son is now getting married!

And most importantly the Mother of the Groom creates the kick- off celebration to your BIG day!

Rehearsal dinner planning is something that most couples do not think about until much later in the planning, but they don’t have to. Kathy Goodman from Well Rehearsed is the best resource for her special niche market, Rehearsal Dinners.

Not only will Kathy customize and create a memorable and unique celebration, but she will work directly with the Mother of the Groom to help make your celebration one of a kind, personal, and of course enjoyable by all.

Groom’s here’s something for you!
The Groom’s Checklist:

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Bride’s- if you were running out of tasks for your groom-

Think Kathy Goodman, Well Rehearsed, Rehearsal Dinner-

Then sit back and enjoy your pre-wedding surprises and celebrations created especially for you!

Don’t miss an upcoming event hosted by Well Rehearsed and Nieman Marcus, Palo Alto

Kathy Goodman and Well Rehearsed will also be featured at our upcoming A City Club Affaire, scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2009.

Happy Planning!
Michelle Kimmins-Director of Sales & Catering

Got Light?

There are many aspects to wedding planning, food, cake, floral, dress, etc. One aspect that can be become over looked is lighting. Fortunately at the City Club, we have an in house lighting package called “Up Lights” that illuminate our white leather walls in the Café, and our walls of ash, ebony, pear wood and Philippine mahogany in the Main Dining Room with a warm amber glow.

If you’re looking for more, you can add more to our up lights with outside vendors. Lighting sets the mood of a venue, and enhances the atmosphere you are trying to create. I compare lighting to floral…..it illustrates the ambiance and look you are trying to showcase.
Recently, I have experienced the work of Got Light at a wedding at The City Club. The look requested by the bride was a “champagne glow”. The Café and Main Dining Room had this look throughout the event, and especially during dancing. The dance floor lighting had a scroll design on the dance floor, as well as the cake, and colored spot lights on the bar, cake, and dessert station. Everything matched impeccably, and perfectly reflected the look of a modern, elegant, and the "champagne glow strived for".

Other companies whom have great lighting ideas & packages are Elle Music & Events; contact Brandon Cruz at 925-236-2663 for assistance and booking. Pictures are compliments of Got Light? Cake by Carolyn Wong Cakes.

-Alison Angelo
Sales & Catering Manager

Weddings at the City Club Whinston & Kim 4.03.09

One of the things that I love about weddings and particularly about the wedding venue is how every couple makes it their own. Each couple selects the venue that they feel is perfect for their day and if you ask they reasons that they find it so well fitted the answers run the gamut. Whether it be the location, the food, the atmosphere and decor or some combination of it all, eventually the decision is made. Chances are, other people have also been married in the same location so personalizing the venue to reflect you as a couple and your journey to that day becomes the next step!

Julie and Adam did such a wonderful job doing this and I think that was one of the main reasons that I’m still hearing compliments about this particular event. From the first conversation that I had with them I could tell that they were true adventurers always looking for their next destination. They happened to become engaged on a trip to Morocco and had decided to work this into the wedding day. It was really important to the couple that who they were as individuals and a couple shone through and that their guests had a wedding experience as unique as their relationship.

A Moroccan themed print (picked out on the trip) was present from the Wedding Invitations, to the Ceremony Programs all the way to the Cake made by Carolyn Wong. They customized a masterfully prepared menu by Executive Chef Michael Munoz, including Seasoned Veggie Skewers, Panzanella Bread Salad and Moroccan spiced Tri-Tip, all served family style. A photo-booth provided by Photoboof, Henna Artist from Henna Gardens and jeweled trinket boxes for place cards all helped to complete the theme. With San Francisco street names as table numbers and a personalized song about their life, there was no doubt where this couple was from, where they’ve been and where they are going! Congratulations to Julie and Kim on beautiful day!

All Photos by Traci Griffin
To see a slideshow of the day, click here

-Cassie Harris, Sales & Catering Manager

Spring has Sprung!

As a Wedding & Event Planner at the City Club I work with many creative people and the creative process. Each season brings new themes, colors, trends, and cuisine. I am lucky enough to work with different designs aspects all year long. Each event and/or Wedding couple is different. Usually the wedding date dictates the theme or “look” of the wedding they wish to create. Due to so many professionals in the Wedding market there are several ways to design the perfect atmosphere.

As we head into spring and Wedding season, I have seen some great colors pop within the club walls. Recently the work of Classic Party Rentals, and Nancy Liu Chin came together to create the perfect Spring Wedding atmosphere at The City Club in March. The colors of Pea & Kelly Green, Soft Ivory, and Canary Yellow complimented one another. Pictures provided by Darcy Weddings captured the light and colors in a beautiful way to portray the essence of Spring. Creativity is just one aspect in Wedding Planning which can really enhance the atmosphere. Each season of the year has signature colors & themes which can be incorporated to enhance any celebration.

-Alison Angelo
Sales & Catering Manager

The City Club recommends San Francisco!

Thinking about where to have your next event or Wedding?
I recommend San Francisco!

San Francisco has so much to offer within its mainland of seven square miles.
At your very fingertips you have sites, smells, and sounds of such a diversely populated city. From the restaurants, neighborhoods, historical sites, museums, and sporting arenas, the culture that San Francisco offers is truly one of a kind. Your guests can experience all of this by taking urban hikes, jumping on our Cable Car lines or by utilizing our public transportation system. It’s really easy to travel around, take it from me, I grew up in suburbia!

If you are out of town planning for an event in San Francisco I recommend checking out: http://www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com/

If you are local to San Francisco and want to provide your guests valuable maps and information about San Francisco, head downstairs near the Powell BART station and you’ll see the Visitors Information Center at 900 Market Street. Here you can grab complimentary maps, visitor’s guides, restaurant coupons and Bay Area tour information, great for welcome bags.

Looking for large party restaurant ideas, check out San Francisco Private Dining Venues, http://www.sfpdv.com/. Here you can access the city’s finest restaurants with private dining space. You can search by group size and even view photos of each restaurant.

Need a place for your guests to say?

The City Club has partnered with the following hotels:
Galleria Park Hotel, contact Monica Bowman, (415) 835-6466
The Hotel Monaco & Serrano Hotel, contact Chad Schyvincht, (415) 292-0149
The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Prescott Hotel and Hotel Triton,
contact Sarika Patel, (415) 395-8569
Mandarin Oriental, contact Candace Balandra, (415) 276-9713

All of the above recommendations are easily accessible and very close to The City Club.

Once you get to The City Club your truly San Francisco experience promises to continue.
If you’re here reading this, you’ve found us, we are one of the city’s most historical and hidden gems.

Hope you are getting excited for your next San Francisco visit.
We look forward to seeing you here soon!

Michelle Kimmins, Director of Sales & Catering

A Decadent Affaire

As we all face challenges with the economy everyone is being creative with their budgets. Planning a wonderful event is just a few innovative ideas away. Earlier this year I shared Carmen and Jim’s budget friendly afternoon event. At the City Club’s 2nd Tuesday Open House last month another couple shared another great idea with me. They are looking to host an afternoon dessert and drinks reception. I’m talking about a delightful, delicious, decadent dessert display (sorry, I couldn’t help myself).

The timing for this kind of event is highly important. You don’t want anyone to show up thinking they will be having a big meal. Strategically placing the event between lunch and dinner is the way to go. The couple is planning on inviting their guests to a ceremony starting around 1 or 1:30 giving their guests plenty of time to grab lunch before they head over. After the Ceremony in the Main Dining Room, the guests will then be invited to Café for the party, where they will be greeted with Champagne, Cocktails and a variety of non-alcoholic, refreshing beverages. And don’t forget the dessert, cookies, fruit tarts, petite fours, an ice cream bar and much much more. The event is slated to finish around5 or 6 giving their guests to go and grab dinner or head out into the City for a post wedding celebration.

The best thing for the couple, aside from looking fabulously creative and unique, is that their guests will get to sample a wonderful array of treats (something you don’t get to do every day), and the couple doesn’t have to compromise on all of the wedding traditions; toasts, slideshow, cake cutting and first dance.

-Cassie Harris, Sales & Catering Manager

Second Tuesdays Does it Again! Another Home Run!

February’s Second Tuesdays turned to be another hit for many of our lucky brides and grooms who visited their Catering Managers for a tour, champagne and hors d’oeuvres. Chef Michael Munoz prepared tow of his favorites – a refreshing tuna tartare offered on a light crisp and his truffled croque monsieur – often the groom’s favorite!

Our Vendor Spotlight was a true treat! We had Artists in Music, Classic Party Rentals, Under the Chuppah, Butterfly Cakes and La Tavola Linens. Having such a great group of industry professionals available to our guests, I noticed that our visiting couples were really able to get important one-on-one advise, coaching and inspiration.

Not only were guests able to taste (in my opinion) The Best Red Velvet Cake around by Sonya Hong’s Butterfly Cakes, but they were also able to look at her light-hearted and elegant designs to see how her cakes are a perfect fit for an impeccable wedding indulgence.

Once the cake was selected, we introduced our guests to Classic Party Rental’s Gwen Ortiz who was standing by to give that creative inspiration and advise on how you can serve your cakes on a whimsical plate, or bring a pop of color and originality to your wedding day décor!

Peter Rudolfi of Artists in Music, mingled through The 10th Floor Café discussing different musical options for any musical flavor and budget. Even a bride and groom who thought they had found the perfect band listened to Peter’s careful advise on how to select a band that you can really trust to bring tapping toes and big smiles to you and your guests for the big celebration.

Carol Attia, the Bay Area’s leading Chuppah designer showed guests her elegant and colorful pictures of Chuppahs she has done for weddings at The City Club and throughout San Francisco’s top venues.

And to add a final pop of fun to our space, La Tavola Linens brought us edgy and elegant linens that offered tantalizing textures and crisp colors!! It’s amazing what fun linens will do to a room! The new Company has colorful books filled with all of their newest and latest linen options.

Definitely ask your City Club Catering Manager to connect you with any of our visiting Second Tuesdays Spotlight guests to make your wedding day exciting & different from any other wedding you’ve ever been to!

March 10th is our next Second Tuesday Open House. Please mark your calendar and contact your Catering Manager to schedule an appointment or let her know that you’ll be visiting with your friends, family or vendors for a planning session. We’ll have another great group pf Spotlight Guests to introduce you to. Stacey Miller Designs, Denon & Doyle, Lisa Huffman Hair Designs and Under the Chuppah will be available to give you their one-on-one time to talk with you about your wedding day.

See you on March 10th!

-Alison Bianchetti, Catering & Sales Manager

Weddings at the City Club De La Cruz & Oshima, 1.3.09

In our budget conscious economy, finding ways to stretch your dollar a little further is the key to planning a successful wedding. One of the best options to bring prices down is to consider moving your celebration to what are considered “off” times. Since Saturday evenings are the most desirable dates and times they are also the most costly. Why not consider hosting your event on a Friday or Sunday evening, where rental and vendor fees are sure to be lower? Or, do as Jim and Carmen did, and host your Wedding on a Saturday or Sunday Afternoon! They chose Saturday, January 3rd in the afternoon and it was truly a wonderful event.

Compared to the evening events, I felt like to focus of the afternoon was really on the couple and on the marriage. The ambiance was mellow and open and the Club had a fresh, bright feeling. On the budgetary side of things, for “lunch” they hosted a variety of different heavy appetizer stations including an Asian Station with Dim Sum as well as a Prime Rib and Salmon Carving Station along with a variety of passed hors d’ oeuvres. This option got them away for the per person full meal price but still offered enough food for their guests to enjoy a hearty afternoon nosh. They also saved on the beverage bill by choosing to host a variety of non-alcoholic beverages along with wine and beer.

A couple of other great ideas from this couple…
1) Higher a great coordinator, wait you are thinking, that costs money, but not when it’s Jessica Goldblatt with Dreams on a Dime, who specializes in working with budget conscious events.

2) Rather than the traditional tiered wedding cake, the couple purchased a sheet cake from Tartin and had them cut it down into smaller pieces. The smaller peices were then frosted on all sides and once strategically displayed it had the same great effect!

3) They used their family as a great resource for assistance. Cousins and other family members were responsible for floral, folding origami votive boxes and other décor.

I hope you will away at least one money saving tip from this couple that did it right! They had a wonderful wedding surrounded by friends and family and did it without breaking the bank.

Happy Planning!!

-Cassie Harris, Sales & Catering Manager

On Stands Now! 2009 San Francisco Brides

The City Club is pleased to have joined San Francisco Brides by the publishers of San Francisco Magazine. The Spring Summer 2009 edition has already hit stands, so get your copy now!

Whether you are a new bride, already a bride, a planner or someone who just loves Weddings, this is a great source to read through. I personally love the “Wed Dossier Now!” section. You can find helpful new tips and trends, resources from everything to jewelry, gifts, and flowers, to biographies of industry professionals. Of course if you are perusing this section, you may run across our City Club ad, which hopefully gives you the feeling and emotion of a City Club Wedding.

Don’t miss the calendar of events, where you will also see our 2nd Tuesday Wedding and Event Showcases, hosted every month. We feature at least three wonderful vendors in the industry, offer complimentary champagne and hors d’oeuvres, and set up the Club in style of a sample wedding ceremony and reception. You can also grab a complimentary copy of San Francisco Brides.

We hope to see you soon and if not you can read about us in San Francisco Brides. And remember, have fun learning more about the wonderful world of Weddings!

Happy Planning!

Michelle Kimmins- Director of Sales & Catering

Happy New Year!

Resolutions, Words of the Year (my favorite), new gym memberships, Weddings to plan, Clubs to join, Places to visit, Events to plan, Old friends to catch up with and New friends to meet. Don’t you love the beginning of a New Year?

The year ended well for us at The City Club. We appreciate all the business received from our Members and guests and look forward to what this year will bring us.

We have a few upcoming events that we want to share and remind you about:

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 from 5-7pm
City Club Wedding & Event Open Houses- scheduled for the first Tuesday of every month.
Complimentary Champagne and Hors d’oeuvres

Featured vendors: Sugarcoat It Studio cake tastings and Table Décor by Classic Party Rentals.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 from 6-9pm
Havana Nights- Dennis M Photography Showcase hosted by The City Club sponsored by f. Duncan Reyes events by design, one of San Francisco’s premier event planners.

The Café will be transformed into a Cuban Night! Join us for live music and entertainment, traditional food and flair, signature beverages and private reserve cigars. The night is sure to indulge your senses.
Please contact your Sales & Catering Manager for more information and to RSVP.

Friday, January 23, 2009 from 6-9pm
Urban Winemaker Dinner

$85 inclusive members and hosted member guests
$100 non-members
Featuring:
Connor Brennan, who will share about his Pinot Noir, recognized by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the top 5 wines in the country.
Matt Reidy, of ConnonBrennon Cellars will share about his wine philosophy.
Kian Tavakoli of Keon Wines and a consulting winemaker at Crushpad will share about small lot wineries.

January 29th, 2009 from 7:45 -9: 30 a.m.
Cleopatra Vaughns Non-Profit Leadership Breakfast

Complimentary with reservation
reservations@cityclubsf.com
Featuring:
Michael O'Neill, Ph.D., Professor of Non-Profit Management, University of San Francisco
"Is there really a crisis of confidence in charities?"
This event graciously hosted by The City Club of San Francisco & Board of Governors.

*In Memoriam of Cleopatra Vaughns, Former City Club Board Chair and true community servant.

January 30, 2009 from 6-9pm
City Club Cigar Night

$85 inclusive members and hosted member guests
$100 non-members
Join us for our signature cocktails, and selection of fine cigars.
Menu will include barbecued beef brisket and fixings.



Hope to see you soon!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Michelle Kimmins- Director of Sales & Catering

Leave the Theme to Us

Who said party planning was hard? If you are planning a Birthday celebration, Wedding, or Corporate event, leave the theme to us. You might be thinking right now, what does that mean?

Well, literally take advantage of us. The City Club of San Francisco has one of the cities richest histories. Our beautiful Art Deco interior is amazing. From the greeting at the front doors, to the outside exterior, to the ceilings on the 10th and 11th floors, don’t forget the elevator doors which brought you up to those levels, the staircase you can walk by, the marble table you can display food on, the couches and chairs you can sit on, the marble carvings on the walls, the multiple fireplaces, the secret cabinets, and the art all around the venue, leave the theme to us!

Don’t hassle yourself with new ideas, theme your event around our space. We can provide you
with all of the creative elements you may need to pull of a one of a kind event. Let your creative juices flow and use what The City Club has to offer and let’s entertain your guests.



From your invitations, to the style of your desserts, to the colors of your linens, to the type of food served, the beverages your guests enjoy, and the glasses your guests drink from, the music selection you chose, and to the attire you request from your guests, it’s easy once you leave the theme to us.






We promise to help you make all of this happen as we truly are the experts. We love to see our clients take advantage of us and in return delight their guests.
















A few photos of our timeless interior are included compliments of photographer Kate Webber, who we highly recommend. Along with photos of a past bride and groom who took advantage of us and dressed the part, photographs compliments of Muse Studios.






Look forward to helping you plan your next special event.
Michelle Kimmins- Director of Sales & Catering

City Club Weddings to Remember- Ron Smith & Rick Ritt 10.19.08

I have been enlightened. For any person planning a wedding, I have a tip that will guarantee that you will have a wonderful wedding. I was enlightened through planning the wedding of Ron Smith and Rick Ritt, who were married at the Club on Sunday, October 19th. The tip, plan a party, not a wedding. Mr. Ron Smith, a lover of all things party, food, family, friends and fun, dreamt of a truly splendid event. From the pre-ceremony reception of hors d’ oeuvres by Chef Michael Munoz and open bar (he figured there was no reason to make his friends and family wait until all the way after the ceremony to start the celebrating), to the rocking Swing City Band led Bradley Connlain who played throughout the dinner (again, Rick wondered why make people wait to dance?) it was a truly sensational event.

They choose to let the band be the centerpiece of the reception, and placed them in front of the fireplace, dance floor next and then the couple’s King’s head table, all surrounded by tables of their family and friends. Rather the band take a break when dinner was served, the dinner was served when the band took a break! The guests enjoyed a delicious meal of Char gilled Angus Filet and Seared Blue Nose Sea Bass and then got right back to the dance floor. Aside from the great music, décor and food, the most spectacular part of this wedding was the love in the room. I have done a fairly good amount of weddings but this one brought me tears, not once but twice. The story about Rick, the last of I think 11 siblings, to finally use the family knife to cut the Challah was truly touching.

At the end of the night, everyone was full to the brim of food and drink, dance and merriment and most of all love and isn’t that the true essence of what we all want at our wedding? So take a tip from this couple, take little notice of the little details but focus fully on creating and event that will inspire love.

Photographs by Fred McMillan

See what Beth Spotswood of SF Gate thought about the event too!

-Cassie Harris, Sales & Catering Manager

A Childhood Dream Come True

As a catering manager at The City Club, I am very lucky to meet many fabulous brides who are excitedly looking for that perfect location to host their wedding day celebrations. While we talk about their wedding day dreams and visions the topic of "The Dress" is always a sure topic to brighten any bride's face, and is just as important in a bride's wedding planning as finding "The One". The wedding dress is the quintessential icon of any bride's wedding day and is always the first item on the planning to-do list – whether or not the wedding location has been selected! In fact, many of the brides I meet have already selected their dresses before they've even begun their location search!

Knowing how important this process is to the bridal planning process, I've begun a search to help brides find the perfect dress and service that will extend the elegance and fabulous style of The City Club!

My favorite locations so far are:
Glamour Closet, Alexandra's, Amy Kuschel & JinWang.

Glamour Closet is a great find located on the edge of The Financial District & North Beach. Not only is it an absolutely darling storefront with great service and style but it's easy to get in. The fabulous ladies who assist in dress trials are on a walk-in client basis and are open to bride's whimsical schedules. Perhaps the best treat about Glamour Closet is the fact that all the dresses are sold off the rack – they're samples for sale – in great condition! So – if you can imagine – the designer prices are absolutely unbeatable!!

Alexandra's is another bridal boutique that leaves you with a great feeling. It is an intimate appointment-only studio that offers a wonderful feel for great taste, variety in design and very personal service. Nicole, Alexandra's Store Manager is a natural at guiding brides to their dream gown – and is a pro at making sure that every detail of each gown is perfected before it's debut walk down the aisle! Each bride who visits receives the royal treatment – it's an experience fit for a queen!!

Amy Kuschel is a San Francisco wedding gown designer who is so much fun to love! The Amy Kuschel experience is professional and fun. The Amy Kuschel team offers a very savvy style to your gown selection that feels a lot like shopping with your girlfriends! And there's nothing more special than seeing Amy walk up to her brides and taking a personal interest in each gown's individual fit to it's blushing bride!

My final bridal location is the ever so lovely Jin Wang. Located on Maiden Lane, Jin is perhaps one of San Francisco's most royal boutiques. Jin designs custom gowns for the bride who has the perfect picture in her mind – but not anywhere else… she is able to turn your childhood dream gown into a reality. And she also carries an elegant variety of her designs as well as other designers who extend her graceful view for design and beauty.

Ok ladies! Congratulations on your engagement!! Now – happy shopping!

- Alison Bianchetti
City Club Catering Sales Manager

Same Love, Same Rights

The City Club had participated in the GLBTQ Wedding and Family Expo in July, what a great wedding and event show it was! The Expo was hosted by Rainbow Wedding Networks and I have to say they did a great job! I was glad to recognize other bay area wedding vendors whom we work with such as Denon & Doyle, Kimpton Hotels and many more.... The attendance & response at the show was amazing. I was happy to see that couples welcomed the idea of celebrating their union together, and the whole family was involved too! I look forward to the increase of same sex unions pouring into the wedding market, and the November 4th election being a positive push for couples to decide to tie the knot! We have had a union joined together right here at the City Club.

Check back with us for some great photos of couples whom have celebrated their same sex unions with us!

-Alison Angelo
Sales & Catering Manager