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Catalyst Wedding Company highlights weddings by and for game-changers. We seek to amplify and empower voices and viewpoints that are usually missing from the Wedding Industrial Complex. We're a community of badass wedding professionals who love all things funky, fresh, diverse, unique, and personality-driven; we convene twice yearly for (un)convention, a collaborative workshop, styled shoot, and dinner party. We're also the publishers of Catalyst Wedding Mag, a resource for couples looking for inspiration and affirmation that doing things differently in wedding-world is not only ok, it's wonderful!

We live in Harlem and love each other a ton. We're not going for a traditional format with our wedding, mostly because we find a lot of the gendered norms wasteful and not representative. We had a cocktail style dance party first and foremost: guests will come have a snack and a drink and mingle, we'll then have an "impromptu" Jewish-Southern-Gay Wedding (figuring out whatever that is!) before they drink too much, and that'll just lead to a full on cocktail style affair with...lots and lots of dancing.

Photos by Corey Torpie

Jewish Gay Wedding Dumbo Harlem New York NYC Corey Torpie Bindle Keep

Jewish Gay Wedding Dumbo Harlem New York NYC Corey Torpie Bindle Keep Jumping the Broom

VENDORS

Venue: Dumbo Loft

DJ: Beat Train NYC - Sam Turner

Suits: Tohm - Bindle & Keep; Darryl - Indochino

Cake: Make My Cake

Caterer: Dish Food & Events LLC

Lighting Design: Universal Light and Sound

Videography: Brooklyn Wedding Videography

Photobooth: Hipstr

Meet Corey Torpie: I am a Queens based photographer living in Astoria, NY. I specialize in documentary photography. My goal when photographing weddings is to capture the story of the day. I’m just as interested in showcasing the small subtle moments and quirky personal details, as I am with documenting the big showstoppers. I find beauty in the imperfection and chaos that is a real wedding day.