As meetings and events near returning full-swing, attendees are looking for experiences outside of boardrooms and conference centers, hoping to leave having learned something new both about the industry and the destination they visit. While onsite venues provide easy-to-access solutions for gathering attendees somewhere close, offsite venues offer unique opportunities and surroundings guaranteed to make your meeting memorable and full of local flavor.
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Antoine James, the father of the groom and an Assemblies of God minister, performed the ceremony before 42 guests.Credit.Annie Flanagan for The New York Times
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Friends and family members joined the celebration via Zoom.Credit.Annie Flanagan for The New York Times
In 2019, on the day after Thanksgiving, Mr. James proposed to Ms. Myer in Lafayette, while the couple was in town to celebrate Mr. James’s grandmother’s 90th birthday.
“With a turkey carcass for Aaron’s dog in hand, I walked into a room lit with candles with Leon Bridges’s ‘Beyond’ playing, and I knew what was about to happen,” Ms. Myer said. “I immediately put down the carcass and slipped off the rings I had adorning my left ring finger.”