Professional Services in New York City

Lively photographers play off their high-energy subjects, moving around the studio as families, kids, and pets laugh, play, and display their natural character during relaxed in-studio portrait sessions. While cute and cuddly subjects often light up PortraitBug's flashbulbs, the photographers welcome a variety of other subjects, from families and expectant mothers to professionals in need of resume-worthy headshots and teens looking for the right glamour shot for their social-networking profiles. A link to a password-protected gallery grants continued, unlimited access to any previous shoots, shareable with friends and relatives for direct viewing and ordering.

To achieve a style that it describes as "fine-art photojournalism," the boutique studio employs an award-winning team of photographers and videographers. Instead of churning out the usual stand-and-smile wedding shots, Funico's crew focuses on capturing the little moments, the candid moments of laughter and tears, the subtle gestures of a deep, abiding love, and the living, breathing human rhythm of your celebration (see here for examples of recent engagement photos). After your shoot, you'll receive a webpage with a slide show set to music and an online gallery to share with loved ones, plus two high-resolution images of your choice that you can treasure forever and reprint as often as you like—use them for save-the-dates, wedding invitations, or to blow up for life-sized cardboard cutouts of yourself for your living room. To reserve your slot, make sure to contact Funico Studios at least seven days ahead of time.

Ovando follows the Gregorian calendar's lead with a seasonally changing array of fresh-cut flowers. Peruse Ovando's secret garden of seasonal arrangements, white blooms, and orchids arranged by owner Sandra de Ovando in stylish minimalist designs. The Romance in Red arrangement ($150+), housed in an ice vase, conveys amorous affection better than a cherry popsicle. The Floating Flower Ball ($125+) is a planet of petals ideal for a home, office, or top-secret surface-of-the-moon astronomy station. Be Prince Charming with the Lady Slipper orchid ($100), or wake up from a slumber of plastic petals with the fresh blooms of the Sleeping Beauty ($95+).

Using EPA- and NRDC- approved cleansing chemicals, Green Apple Cleaners professionally purifies fabrics without shrinking, fading, or leaving noxious odors. Inside of a specialized laundering drum, the conscientious cleaners suffuse shirts ($2.39), pants ($7.49), skirts ($7.49), and other articles with biodegradable detergents to dissolve stains and soils, then flush them with pressurized liquid carbon dioxide. Once fabrics are fully rinsed with the carbonized concoction, the machine depressurizes, causing the newly gaseous CO2 to rise out of every textile like the Ghost of Wine-Stains Past. Clothes are left dry without the shrinking and stain-setting effects of heat, and the gentle cleaning chemicals allay the risks of pilling and fading. Once stains are fully exterminated, a careful European finishing process holds togs such as dresses ($13.99) and two-piece suits ($14.99) on a specialized three-dimensional dress form before imbuing them with steam, computer-controlled tension, air-drying, and a cool-iron touchup to leave garments as well shaped and wrinkle-free as a steam-rolled hourglass.

Pure Cleaners provides quality, personal service and state-of-the-art garment care, expertly removing stains and fishing-vessel stink with a detailed personal touch. Utilizing environmentally safe equipment and cutting-edge closed-loop machines, a trained staff and an army of grime-blasting cleaning robots clean shirts, skirts, pants, sweaters, and blouses ($5.75–6.50) as well as specialty fabrics ($1 extra for silk and linen). Remove cocktail sauce from a brand-new three-piece suit ($16) or pudding stains on a raincoat ($20). View the dry-cleaning pricing for all garment types here.

Iris Cleaners have been keeping garments looking sharp for more than 20 years. A team of cleaning enthusiasts and expert tailors perform an array of services, including dry cleaning, wet cleaning, alterations, and fire restoration for everyday clothing, and couture items such as wedding dresses previously worn by Dickens characters and 30-piece suits. They’ll also tend to household items including drapes and bed linens. While placing their orders, customers can make special requests such as extra starch, no pant creases, and extra candy in the pockets. Pick-up and delivery is free for residents below 145th Street in Manhattan and in Queens.