Marcy Blum is an American author, event planner, and owner of Marcy Blum Associates in

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Education

Blum is a graduate of

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and began her career in the restaurant business, later creating a segue into the then-developing field of

event planning Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of small and/or large-scale personal or corporate events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. ...

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What Do Padma Lakshmi and Kyra Sedgwick Have in Common? Their Wedding Planner

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'', January 11, 2005 In 1986 she became one of the first in the industry to develop the vocation into a successful career

Career

Marcy Blum has been named one of the top wedding planners in the world by ''

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,'' ''

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'', and

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. ''

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'' magazine described Blum as a "desired wedding planner to the wealthy and famous." Among her clients are

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and Allison Stokke,

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and

Kyra Sedgwick Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (; born August 19, 1965) is an American actress, producer and director. For her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama ''The Closer'', she won a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Awa ...

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Wes ...

and

Padma Lakshmi Padma Parvati Lakshmi (; born September 1, 1970) is an Indian-born American author, activist, actress, model, philanthropist, and television host. She has hosted the cooking competition program ''Top Chef'' on Bravo continuously since season 2 ( ...

, Katie Lee Joel,

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and Samantha Bryant,

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and Savannah James,

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and Jason Beckman, and

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and Tamiko Soros, The

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Nate Berkus Nathan Jay Berkus (born September 17, 1971) is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and was a regularly featured guest on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', off ...

and

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, Annie Lawless and Jeffrey Jacobs, and

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and Christina Iguodala,. She was also the planner of The Knot's "Dream Wedding" in 2014 of Boston Marathon bombing survivors, Rebekah Gregory and Pete DiMartino. Blum has been a guest on the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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, Rachael Ray Show'' and ''

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.'' Blum has written and contributed to many articles, including ''

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'', ''

'' magazine, The Knot, ''

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'' magazine, ''

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'', ''Modern Bride'', ''

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'', and '' Town & Country''. She coauthored, with Laura Kaiser, two books, ''Wedding Planning for Dummies'' and ''Wedding Kit for Dummies''. In 2018, Marcy Blum was named a 'Tastemaker' for

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Personal

Marcy is the sister of American author and journalist

Howard Blum Howard Blum () (born 1948) is an American author and journalist. Formerly a reporter for ''The Village Voice'' and ''The New York Times'', Blum is a contributing editor at '' Vanity Fair'' and the author of several non-fiction books, including t ...

References

External links

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The High-End Holiday Party: Gilded to Perfection
', a guide to dining room Décor by Marcy Blum, published in '' New York Magazine's'' 2006 holiday guide
Marcy Blum's company listing
in ''

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From Social Secretary to Party Planning Aficionado
' in the

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Marcy Blum Celebrates 30 Years of Wining, Dining and Party-Planning
in WWD'' *
Weddings of the 0.01 Percent
' in

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