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Mirabelle's Guy Reuge to Cater First Same-Sex Wedding
Patchogue residents Dee Smith and Kate Wrede will be among the first same-sex couples in the state to wed.

There will be a Cake Boss wedding cake. Norah Jones's "Come Away With Me" will be the wedding song. The color theme? Eggplant and white.
And Stony Brook-based Mirabelle Private Events will be the caterer at the wedding of Dee Smith and Kate Wrede on July 24, what's being touted as New York's first same-sex wedding.
Acclaimed chef Guy Reuge announced Friday that will donate its time, services and cuisine for Smith, 25, and Wrede, 21, who got engaged during a sunset walk on May 5. They will wed in a 12:01 a.m. ceremony July 24, with a reception that begins at 11 p.m. on July 23.
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“We are thrilled to be part of this exciting and historic milestone for Dee and Kate, and the state of New York,” Reuge said in a statement. “As the featured caterer, we aim to make New York’s first legal same sex wedding an extraordinary one.”
A spokeswoman for Mirabelle said the timing of the ceremony itself is being planned specifically so that it happens as the first in New York.
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In an interview Friday, Smith said the wedding will take place at the Viana Hotel and Spa in Wesbtury and will have "all the things you'd have at a typical wedding for a Jewish couple."
Mirabelle is among several wedding vendors donating services or products for the happy couple.
"Everything just fell into place for us," Smith said. "We're very lucky. ... We have never thought that this was going to happen like this."
She and Wrede don't have a problem being in the public eye as their wedding date approaches. They have even been featured in a Newsday series.
"We are OK with that because we are trying to break that barrier, the stereotypical view of a gay couple," Smith said.
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