Key Points
Last weekend at Paul Choi and Ashley Austin Morris wedding in a little stone church on Roosevelt Island, there was the sort of giddiness in the air that you might expect to find at an actual island destination wedding..
Thats because most of their guests despite years of living in New York City had never stepped foot onto Roosevelt Island, a residential waterfront Manhattan community sitting in the East River...
I took the cable tram here once and then I went right back, said David Wodka, a groomsman..
The ceremony was held at the Sanctuary, a wedding and events venue that took over this old church on the islands north side over two years ago, rescuing it from ruin..
With a leafy outdoor dining space that offers a plumb view of Manhattans skyline and an Instagrammable concrete pier that juts out into the East River, the Sanctuary has since become an unlikely matrimonial hot spot..
