From the Bride: "Our wedding weekend was a roller coaster, full of surprises, twists and turns and ended fantastically. Both of us and our families come from Boston, MA, but decided to have a destination wedding in one of our favorite cities, New Orleans, where the bride attended business school at Tulane. All 150 of our guests were traveling from the Northeast area, and the majority had never been to New Orleans before! We received news of Hurricane Nate's impending arrival on Friday, which almost forced us to cancel the entire wedding, but somehow we woke up on our wedding day to clear blue skies and the perfect day for our wedding! Race and Religious was magical and everything we dreamed of for our wedding. We planned a menu with our caterer to give our guests a taste of the best of New Orleans, including an oyster bar, a Creole themed cheese and charcuterie station, and other classic NOLA dishes for our cocktail style dinner party. Our guests attitudes were amazing and everyone was ready to party and celebrate the passing of the Hurricane. We were so glad to be able to show our guests the celebratory attitude of the city. The threat of the hurricane made us realize that all that mattered was having our friends and family with us to celebrate our love and joy - but being able to actually get married in the place we dreamed of with our vendors who executed flawlessly was just the cherry on top of a perfect weekend."