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Hello and good morning, Tuesday! There is a big ol

Hello and good morning, Tuesday! There is a big ole pile of snow outside and everything looks gorgeous right now (until we all have to start shoveling, lol 🤣🥶😱!!). In the meantime, I am over here warming my soul and drooling just a teensy bit over the Valentine’s Day menu we’ve curated at @gene_georgetti 😍.

❣️Created with love by Chefs Cristiano and Luis, our Valentine’s Day menu is an annual highlight and one you definitely do not want to miss!

❣️Available Friday, 2/12 - Sunday, 2/14 this incredible offering features local favorites @northwestmeat (that steak!) and @ecbg_studio (one of the best wedding + celebration cake makers out there, and a delightfully awesome human!!!).

❣️Along with our classic menu, this one will be available for delivery, takeout and dining as well. Our outdoor dining Après Gene’s and our indoor spaces as well.

👉🏼Reservations are required, just like masks 😍😷 so please hit up the link in my bio for all the info! (Or call 312-527-3718).

💕There are still a few surprises we have to share about this holiday too, so stay tuned and be sure to follow @gene_georgetti too! Thank you @sodafountainphoto for the awesome images!

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Pretty paper is one of my favorite things in life.

Pretty paper is one of my favorite things in life. I obsess over stationery and go pretty gaga over envelope liner 🤩🤣

❣️Gorgeous invitations are of course in that category! This is the first official introduction to your wedding that loved ones receive. Creating a fluid, cohesive energy + design from invitation through to reception makes for one synergy filled wedding and those are pretty magical. ✨

💕 From that gorgeous ribbon to the hand curated details this was one informative AND a beautifully sweet suite! 🤩 Photo: @collinpierson // Invitation: @eight21studios // Floral: @taylorandcoevents

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Feeling this winter wedding vibe today. Golden can

Feeling this winter wedding vibe today. Golden candlelight, fresh eucalyptus aplenty and just enough frothy white floral. And just for fun we used jewel toned linens in a deep blue and emerald green. It all came together so beautifully golden warm and welcoming didn’t it? Loved this one. Always so fun to work with creatives who are like family and love to make magic! ✨ Photo: @collinpierson // Floral: @erinpatrickmcdonald // Location: @marcus.center

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Hello Saturday!! We may be celebrating the return

Hello Saturday!! We may be celebrating the return of indoor dining in Chicago today! Actually, while the governor has not 100% confirmed I am reasonably confident that he will today.

👉🏼For non Chi-town friends, that means we can have indoor dining:

🔹 at 25% capacity (or 25 to a room, whichever is smaller).
🔹socially distanced tables
🔹two hour (MAX) table time limits
🔹reservations required
🔹 wear masks at times unless eating or drinking.

😳25% is not what many were hoping for but it is progress. And y’all know my love of forward moving momentum towards a goal so I am happy and grateful for it.

🙌🏼We will be reopening the inside of @gene_georgetti in phases so that we get it right (these reopening are always an iteration of a first impression, so each time we have to be so mindful and incredibly detailed).

In the meantime, I am still enjoying the heck out of Après Gene’s, which will remain our covid compliant, very toasty warm outdoor dining structure regardless of what we have indoors. This way, those who feel ok with indoor dining will have that option and so will those who prefer to continue dining in the safety of outdoor structures. And of course, delivery & takeout too! All at the link in bio. ✨

(And shout out to @gocciashoesfirenze for my boots, and the @noileatherfirenze team for my gorgeous Florentine signet ring! You should definitely be following these accounts on social, and shopping their online stores!!! 💜 Saluti da Chicago cari amici miei!!)

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Sometimes when designing a traditional sweet table

Sometimes when designing a traditional sweet table for an awesome Italian American couple, you need a giant cannoli filled with mini cannoli. 🤣.

🔹I love when my clients bring familial, ethnic and religious traditions in to the day. These are usually so personal to the couple and weaving them in to the overall vision is truly both a pleasure + a privilege. It is also really fun too.

👉🏼My biggest sweet table on record was 56 feet long! And it was spectacular.

💚Tradition is comfort food for the soul and it is something so important for me -> as the third generation in an 8 decades long family run restaurant how could I not hold tradition dear?

✌🏼As a planner I get to bring all of that to my clients which is something I am really proud of. ✨Photo: @sodafountainphoto // Cannoli: @sicilianbakery

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✨✨On the left, me looking at my to-do list thi

✨✨On the left, me looking at my to-do list this morning. On the right, my mood when I check things off that list one by one. 🤣. I am so ready to get after it today! (Especially after a bit of fabulous inspiration from @bertabridal!) ✨✨

👉🏼Prepping for a photo shoot, (this one has SO many good vendors!! @amore_creative, @windycitylinen, @fleurdelisflorist, @hallsrental, @mycelebrateshop, @ecbg_studio and @sodafountainphoto are rounding out this ROCK star line up. 😍 Also getting ready for a client meeting (and she is the sweetest. Along with being our first bride of ‘21!) The BIG item is finishing up a few more details in the outdoor (heated, ventilated and oh so cozy) dining structure at @gene_georgetti. I am so flipping excited to finish the decor in there. I have been waiting for everything to arrive and it is all finally here! 🤩

🔹It is a full day with a mile long list. But I’m feelin’ pretty good about it! I love days full of work and collaboration and accomplishment.

😎What’s on your list today? Hoping it is a day full of accomplishment and good stuff.

Designer: @berta // Photographer: @collinpierson
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