On October 25, Chase residents can don their “Cemetery Best” and join their Central West End neighbors for the best Halloween parades and party in town. With the backdrop of scary storefronts, the neighborhood will host a kids’ costume contest, a pooch parade and an adults-only costume party featuring drinks, food, a costume contest and music by INLIMBO.

Here are the ghoulish details:

Children’s Halloween Parade
11:00 a.m. @ McPherson and Euclid

Dog Costume Parade
1:00 p.m. @ McPherson and Euclid

Adult Halloween Party
8:00 p.m. @ Maryland and Euclid

A great way to meet the neighbors and have a spook-tacular time! For more information, click here.

In September and October, The Chase Park Plaza sees an influx of weddings; many couples choose The Chase for their wedding spot for the same reasons many of our residents have chosen to live in The Private Residences – the mix of location, service and comfortable hospitality. Director of Conference Services Basia Najarro has seen them all – the largest, most unique and all-around wacky weddings. Here are some facts about the weddings Basia has helped arrange:

• Largest wedding: 700 guests
• Most lavish and extravagant wedding: approximately $600,000 spent
• Most weddings held on a single day: 4 (one in each of the following spaces: the Empire, Khorassan, Starlight and Zodiac ballrooms)

In addition to these memorable events, The Chase has customized weddings to guests’ unique requests including:

• Horses in the front drive
• Fireworks lit in Forest Park as a backdrop for the wedding
• Wedding cakes made to look like a bride’s wedding dress
• A baton twirler parading the bridal party around Central West End and into The Chase
• The walls of the Zodiac’s terrace completely covered in flowers
• Acrobats suspended from the ceilings
• St. Louis “specialties” such White Castle hamburgers, Imo’s Pizza and Ted Drewes frozen custard

We invite our residents and guests to visit the Café Eau patio, have a cocktail at Chaser’s or simply relax in the lobby to witness wedding season in full swing; it’s a season not to be missed.