I.

On April 26, 2025, we, Danielle Bukowski and Mathew Suen, together since 2018,1 will be getting married in Brooklyn, NY.

II.

We would like to thank you for taking interest in our little gathering. It will be a brief ceremony of moving the right people into the right places and having them say the right words in the right order to the right people followed by a cocktail reception and delicious dinner.

III.

We will be getting married at Frankies, a beloved neighborhood red-sauce restaurant in the historically Italian-American neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.2 Please wear your best springtime cocktail attire.

IV.

For those of you in New York City, you will already know how to get to Frankies.3 If you are traveling here, we have some helpful details on the Travel page, and we’re sorry that everything is a bit more expensive but hey: I wanna be a part of it, New York, New York, right?4

V.

We will send formal invites closer to the date but if you already know your attendance, please RSVP here.

Notes.

  1. You may be wanting a story here and who could blame you? But our story is as normal and as special as anyone else’s: two people scrolled through their phones and thought the other looked nice and made a plan to meet; and then kept making plans and meeting, and decided they wanted to do that together forever. If you click on our names you can see some photos! ↩︎
  2. This restaurant was chosen as it appealed to the aesthetic sensibilities of both the bride and groom, each harboring in equal measure the pretensions of self-subscribing east coast professionals engaged in the facilitation of cultural production. Frankies has been around for over 20 years which in NYC restaurant years is ancient and institutional. It also features exposed brick with enough of a rubbly in-need-of-a-repointing quality that makes it look convincingly historic. The food is also very, very good and they host a lot of weddings. The event will be in the Frankies Spuntino Stable & Gardens, which is partially indoors and partially outdoors (covered if it rains.) ↩︎
  3. You take the F or G train to Carroll St because it’s a nicer walk and inevitably the train is skipping Smith-9th Street Station. You could take a CitiBike (no longer owned or operated by CitiBank but what a great name) if you’re a cheapskate (the groom would do this) but you’ll realize that a 10 minute ride costs as much as 2 subway fares and you’re not going to pedal in your nice clothes and in the end you will just take an Uber or Lyft or yellow cab, rationalizing that you don’t often go to a wedding and at least nobody’s making you fly somewhere and get a hotel room so you’re already ahead. ↩︎
  4. Frankies is not named after Sinatra, as far as we know. Also the song was first sung and popularized by Liza Minelli. ↩︎