A Tribeca Wedding at Home: What This New York Celebration Gets Right

Some weddings feel memorable because they are enormous. Others stay with you because every decision seems to belong to the couple. Colette Macari and Matt Duggan’s New York wedding is a good example of the second kind.

Vogue reported that the couple married in April 2026 in Colette’s childhood living room in her parents’ Tribeca apartment, before celebrating at The Odeon, a restaurant with long-standing family significance. Colette is a wedding planner herself, which makes the restraint particularly interesting: instead of treating the day as a portfolio exercise, the couple used familiar rooms, family help and personal rituals to make the celebration feel unmistakably theirs.

Start with places that already mean something

A private home is not practical for every wedding, but the underlying idea travels well. Before building a venue shortlist from scratch, ask whether there are places already woven into your relationship: a family garden, a favourite restaurant, a local hotel, a village hall, a museum you visit together, or a neighbourhood where your story actually happened.

The benefit is not merely sentimentality. Familiar places often make the event feel less staged. Guests understand why they are there, and the setting does some of the storytelling for you.

Professional experience does not have to produce a perfect-looking wedding

One of the most revealing details in Vogue’s report is that Colette, despite working professionally in weddings, still included handmade elements. She embroidered napkins and helped bake the wedding cake with her mother and sister. Those are not the details a planner necessarily chooses because they are the most efficient. They are chosen because they create memory.

If you are planning your own wedding, this is worth keeping in mind. Not every task needs to be outsourced. Equally, not every task needs to become a DIY project. The useful question is: which two or three things would actually feel meaningful to make yourselves?

Use one strong personal idea instead of ten decorative ones

The couple’s day did not need a complicated theme because the locations already gave it character. That is a useful design principle. A room with history, a family object, a favourite restaurant dish or a piece of music can carry more emotional weight than a dozen decorative motifs.

• Choose a setting with an existing story.
• Let family skills become part of the day where it feels natural.
• Use design to support the setting rather than overwhelm it.
• Keep one or two playful details that guests will remember.

What couples can borrow from this wedding

You do not need a Tribeca apartment or a famous New York restaurant to use the same thinking. The lesson is to identify what is already yours and make that the starting point. The strongest weddings often feel less like a production placed on top of a couple’s life and more like an unusually beautiful extension of it.

If you are still choosing a setting, our guide to choosing the right wedding venue gives you a practical checklist. For visual ideas, browse Wedding Style.

Source

This article is original commentary based on Vogue’s reporting on Colette Macari and Matt Duggan’s wedding. Read Vogue’s original wedding feature.