Two wedding consultants left jobless when the owner of Brooklyn’s reBar catering hall went AWOL have found a new way to keep busy — by donating their services to the dozens of couples he left standing at the altar.
Katherine Cassell and Tyler Lindsay had worked at the Dumbo hall but lost their jobs when it abruptly closed this month.
But instead of brooding in the unemployment line, the two are trying to make new arrangements for couples who had planned to hold their receptions at reBar.
“I didn’t want to leave them high and dry,” said Lindsay, who reorganized a wedding the very next day.
Customers were out as much as $30,000 when reBar owner Jason Stevens shut down and vanished with the IRS on his tail for $2 million in alleged back taxes.
Stevens was arrested Thursday and charged with failing to pay taxes between 2009 and 2012.
The arrest was little comfort to Monica Pereira, who lost $22,000 to reBar.
Her boss, Katie Iles, is pitching in by raising money for jilted couples at saveourweddings.com.
Pereira, 32, and fiancé David Zisa, 35, considered canceling their honeymoon to recoup some of the money but are keeping their plans to go to Portugal.
“We need it more than ever now,” Pereira said.