Melissa's Creation is the decor team NYC couples call when they want a Chinese banquet venue to look like a wedding venue, not a restaurant. She's decorated enough weddings at venues like Jing Fong, Golden Unicorn, and Sheraton LaGuardia East to know the spaces and staff cold. The recurring theme across reviews is transformation: her team takes a standard restaurant setting and reworks it with custom backdrops, lighting, linens, arches, and florals, building pieces from scratch when needed. She'll work with you on the aesthetic, whether that's a classic red-and-gold Chinese banquet look or something more contemporary.

Reviewers describe her as friendly and patient, and her team handles last-minute changes well. One couple mentioned her crew moved all of the decor outdoors on short notice after the rain unexpectedly cleared. She books up quickly, so reach out early, and ideally by phone, since reviewers say that's her most responsive channel.