Sterling fire leads to wedding woes

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Saturday’s fire at the Sterling at Arrowhead not only caused $2 million in damage to the building, it caused heartbreak for one soon to be bride, as she now must scramble to find a new wedding venue.

“We’ve been planning it for 10 months, and it was like our dream venue,” says Alissa Londono, who was set to get married at the Akron venue on July 17th. “We drove out there right after we heard to witness it for ourselves, so yeah. Now trying to quickly pivot and figure out what happens next.”

London says she’s been struggling to find a new venue. “We’ve reached out to probably three,” says London. “We’ve got a family friend at a venue in Lockport that we’re going to see tomorrow, and I’m in a Facebook bride group, and that venues are reaching out through there, saying the dates that they have open, so just trying to see.”…

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