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8/13-8/26 2020 8/13-8/26 A Pizza My Heart East End Engagements East End Engagements Outdoor “I Do’s” SUMMER Weddings Hamptons Monthly 8/13- 8/26, 2020 HamptonsMonthly.com VOL.7 NO.5 CONTENTS AUG 13 - 26 28 28 DINING & COCKTAILS A Pizza My Heart Pies that are Worth It 28 A Properly Good Time at Etiquette Montauk Q&A w/ Richie Hosein and Enzo Lentini 34 Big Batched Booze Cocktails Made for Many 38 On the Cover 14 Photo by Gui of Weddings by Nato, weddingsbynato.com IN THIS ISSUE "Postponing our wedding was never an option for us. We realized that East End Engagements 50 a lot of our friends and family Proposal Stories from were pushing back their wedding the South Fork 14 dates and it really seemed like people were getting caught up 48 in the idea of having this grand Outdoor "I Do's" The STYLE party as opposed to what was Most Unique Hamptons most important, which for us was simply starting a new exciting Weddngs 20 Quarantine Wedding chapter in our lives. 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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Robin Singer or this annual weddings issue, unlike the to embrace the situation at hand and how Fones we’ve done in the past that aimed to make the most of pivoting from a full-on to guide brides and grooms on elaborate Hamptons hoopla to a more subdued, yet no East End affairs, we’re acknowledging the less special, ceremony and celebration. My time we’re in and are celebrating what may favorite tip was to ask a family member or have at once seemed simplistic but today is friend to offiit. Im sil hlig ot hop recognized as maybe the most beautiful kind to do this one day and have already been told of occasion. This isn’t to say that I don’t hope I can for a 10-year anniversary vow renewal weddings will once again return to packed (yeah, don’t think I forgot…you know who dance floors and a cocktail hour that can you are!). satisfy any craving! But for now, those things If you’re married, engaged, dating, or single, just don’t seem so important. we can all agree on one thing: a wedding Starting with our cover, the couple’s isn’t a wedding unless it ends with Donna perspective was clear – they were ready to Summer’s disco hit “Last Dance.” Remember start their life together, regardless of the that and all of the other details of the day, circumstance. Michelle, the bride, even from socially distanced small gatherings to saying, “Even though our wedding would be ballroom bashes, will fall into place exactly considered minimalist, we really felt like it as they’re meant to. couldn’t have been more grand.” Adopting that mentality as a guiding Cheers! ethos for the issue, we then explored ways Robin Singer EDITOR 10 HAMPTONSMONTHLY.COM @theconscious_connoissuer @travelingwith2020vision @theworldofdoug @hulahutspirits Follow us on instagram @hamptonsmonthly and tag your pictures to be featured @kenzie_barnes @hautehustla @the_wolf_of_wall_street @nounnewyork @heatherrinder @chefnikki_uli @theraylist @jgomez2388 @cheerstoalcohol @_emilyyoung06_ @sincerelybennett @travelingwithgusto @thevillagemayor @saltyvisionz @easthampton @andrew_giord @demetriakess @montaukonly EAST END EngagementsProposal Stories from the South Fork nyone who says 2020 has given us nothing to celebrate is Awrong. We couldn’t be happier for these newly engaged couples, all of whom popped the question amidst quarantine… Now that’s something to tell the grandkids about! Lisa Nicolosi Photography Bride: Gaylen Hanes Groom: Dr. Christian Vulpis Photographer: Lisa Nicolosi Location: Camp Hero State Park, Montauk Lighthouse Christian and I met and began dating Bride: Amanda Allison in our senior year of high school. He Groom: Dr. Austin Good attended Chaminade High School and I attended the sister school, Our Location: Turtle Cove, Montauk Lady of Mercy Academy. We have been inseparable ever since, even through We had planned to travel to Antigua for our our many years of long distance three-year anniversary of dating. I planned through college and medical school. on proposing to Amanda on our extravagant On May 27, 2020 in the midst of the trip in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, our trip pandemic, on a foggy day on the South was cancelled due to the increasing cases of Fork, my high school sweetheart COVID-19. Friends and family joked that it Christian proposed to me on the bluffs was a bad omen, but I knew she was the one. I of Camp Hero State Park. Christian wasn't going to let a global pandemic stop me proposed with a breathtaking custom from getting engaged to the love of my life. Stephanie Gottlieb ring using the As things began to open up, nearby diamond from my late grandmother’s hotels and resorts welcomed back guests. engagement ring. I said yes, and We are from Delaware, and we wanted to we finished off the perfect day with experience a new area. So, we took our plan a surprise photo shoot with Lisa B trip in Montauk, New York and loved Nicolosi Photography. it. The Montauk Lighthouse was the most Our favorite dates have always picturesque spot for a proposal, and Turtle included driving out East with the Cove gave us the right amount of privacy. And, top down and having picnics on the most importantly, she said, "Yes." beach. Now Montauk will always play Now, Montauk has such a special place in our a part in our love story and I couldn’t hearts, and we plan to return in the future have wished more of a perfect day. We with family and friends. It was the perfect look forward to 2022, when we will tie getaway for Amanda and me at the time, and the knot at the Peconic Yacht Club in we really got to spend intimate time together Southold, NY. to celebrate the beginning of a new chapter in our life. Lisa Nicolosi Photography Bride: Devin Triolo Groom: Steve McQuail Location: Kirk Park Beach, Bride: Ruby Karki Montauk Groom: Emile Goldstein Our worlds connected through Photographer: Mary Mor mutual friends [shortly] after Steve's Major League Baseball Location: Noyack Road, Southampton career. Little did we know...we have baby pictures together! What does one think of when searching for the perfect place to propose to a loved one? Is it Montauk became our little comfort, romance, accessibility, a scenic view getaway, so for Steve's birthday we surrounded by friends and family? wanted to escape quarantine for the day (wearing a mask of course) Sure, those are all good and fun, but for me and venture to the beach for some [Emile] it was revisiting where it all began. Not sun. A little after 2:00pm on June our first date per se which was a humid day at 10th, the day went from Steve's Yankee Stadium with enough sweat to almost birthday to our engagement guarantee no second date, but the very location anniversary – so selfless and so where I knew this was going to be the woman I sweet. I was completely caught was going to spend the rest of my life with. off guard because it was a day to It was a perfect day. Not a cloud in the sky, celebrate HIM! The beach was tucked in the backwoods off Noyack Road empty as if it was our own private this lake-view property allowed [us] to share beach; it was perfect. My sister an experience that would last in both our and niece captured the special memories.