New York City has always stood as something of a mythological landmark for the Brides. Both Morgan and Maureen’s maternal and paternal ancestors passed through Ellis Island and didn’t venture far to make their homes. Their resulting heritage is a collage of identities that, when filtered through a generational grind of New York, Long Island, and New Jersey, share a unique cultural marker all their own. Consequently, New York always feels familiar to them, even a bit nostalgic. In this city, there are impressions of the lives our great-grandmothers lived; the settings of family legends; faces, gestures, and accents that tug at our hearts. Think of it as a bit of a homecoming.