Quick Facts
Biography
Marcy Blum is an American author, event planner and owner of Marcy Blum Associates in New York City.
Education
Blum is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and began her career in the restaurant business, later creating a segue into the then developing field of event planning. In 1986 she became one of the first in the industry to develop the vocation into a successful career
Career
Blum has been a guest on the CBS Morning Show, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Nate Berkus Show.
Among her clients are Billy Joel and Katie Lee Joel, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi, Colin Hanks and Samantha Bryant, Lebron James and Savannah James, George Soros and Tomiko Soros, The Rockefeller family, Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, and Andre Iguodala and Christina Iguodala. She was also the planner of the The Knot's "Dream Wedding" in 2014 of Boston Marathon bombing survivors, Rebekah Gregory and Pete DiMartino. New York magazine described Blum as a "desired wedding planner to the wealthy and famous."
Vogue Magazine named Blum one of the top wedding planners in the world by, Harper's Bazaar, and Martha Stewart Weddings.
Blum has written and contributed to many articles, including The New York Times, New York magazine, The Knot, Brides magazine, Elle, Modern Bride, InStyle, and Town & Country.
She coauthored, with Laura Kaiser, two books, Wedding Planning for Dummies and Wedding Kit for Dummies.
Personal
Marcy is the sister of American author and journalist Howard Blum.