From a Commune to Zoom: Party Planner Extraordinaire Marcy Blum's Fascinating Journey

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Goodbye, buffets. Hello, Zoom. Marcy Blum is one of the premier event planners in the country, having organized weddings and various shindigs for the likes of LeBron James, Nate Berkus, and Katie Lee. But before she reached the pinnacle of party planning, Marcy had quite the journey, with stops at Performing Arts High School, a commune in Vermont, Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, the emerging New York City food scene in the 1970s—and more. Marcy was among the first female students admitted to the Culinary Institute of America, and she even worked with the legendary Edna Lewis at Brooklyn’s Gage & Tollner. Marcy shares some of her stories, talks about the plight of party planners in a pandemic, and gives tips on how to make virtual events feel a little more personal.

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0:00.0	Hey, Bombs and Girls are all by herda.
0:07.0	Boys and girls are all about it.
0:10.0	I'm your host,
0:24.9	Carrie Diamond, coming to you from my apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Today's guest is Marcy Bloom,
0:31.0	event planner extraordinaire, wedding planner to the stars, and a woman with many lives. Marcy went to
0:37.1	performing arts high school,
0:38.6	the fame high school, as many movie lovers know it. She lived on a commune in Vermont,
0:43.3	studied at La Cordon Bleu in Paris, worked with the legendary Edna Lewis at Gage and Tolner,
0:48.6	right here in Brooklyn, and went on to launch her own events company. Marcy has organized events
0:53.9	and weddings for everyone from LeBron James to Nate Berkus to Katie Lee.
0:59.4	Of course, Marcy and I also talk about how the event industry is changing in the face of COVID-19,
1:05.4	and what you can do to make Zoom and other digital events seem more special and intimate.
1:11.3	Thank you to the folks at Sonos and Breyer's Carb Smart for supporting our podcast.
1:16.4	Some housekeeping. Cherrybaum has been working on a very special project since April, and I'm
1:21.3	excited to tell you about it. We help the students at the Food and Finance High School,
1:25.7	New York City's only culinary-focused public high
1:28.1	school, create their very first magazine. It's called Pass the Spatula, and it's all about
1:33.6	trailblazing chefs of color. The students interviewed some of our favorite folks around,
1:38.6	including Padma Lakshmi, Adrian Cheatham, Carla Hall, and Priya Krishna. Copies are on sale right now at past the spatula.com,
1:47.9	and they are $10. Help support both the food media leaders of tomorrow and a school that is very
1:53.5	near and dear to us here at Cherrybaum. We'll be right back after this word from Sonos.
1:59.7	The awesome folks at Sonos graciously sent me their new premium Sonos
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