Carla & Trevor

Sept. 19, 2009

At Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and Social Nightclub

Sacramento, CA

When Trevor Shults, promotions and events manager for Paragary Restaurant Group, staged the reception for his marriage to Carla Giordano this past fall, he lived up to his reputation as the city’s premier party king.

Trevor transformed PRG’s trendy Social Nightclub atop The Cosmopolitan building at 10th and K streets downtown into a romantic venue replete with rose petals and candles on the stairs leading up to the third-floor club, a pink-lighted white fabric tunnel entryway, and sparklers in hand for most of the two dozen bridesmaids and groomsmen for the couple’s grand entrance.

“It was exactly as I’d imagined it,” says Carla, an advertising manager for Sacramento magazine. “There’s so much that he did. I was so impressed.”

The two married just down the street at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, where Carla first took Communion as a child. They then hosted 400 guests at the nightclub, selecting a menu of appetizers—beef crostini, salmon cakes, prosciutto-wrapped shrimp—over a pricier sit-down dinner to accommodate their sizeable guest list.

For dessert, the couple brought in a cake from Sugar and Spice Specialty Desserts along with miniature cupcakes from Babycakes and an assortment of homemade Italian cookies baked by the groom’s mother.

In hindsight, Carla’s one misgiving was that she opted to change out of her wedding gown once she got to the reception into a second wedding dress fit for dancing. She lost a good half-hour of party time because the second dress went missing. (It did eventually turn up.)

Trevor has this advice for those planning a wedding: “Even if you are an event planner, hire somebody,” he says.