Unlike a wedding planner who is hired by a couple and does everything in their best interest, a venue coordinator manages only the items that pertain to a specific venue. This often includes food and beverage services, servers, bartenders, staffing, and on-site facilities. Sometimes a couple may not meet their venue coordinator until well after they book their venue. Or at times, they may be assigned a new venue coordinator during their planning process.

A wedding planner manages all aspects of the wedding weekend and is on-site at both the getting ready location & off-site ceremony.

As your planner, our job is to orchestrate the entire event from start to finish, making sure the planning and wedding experience is as stress-free as possible. And leaving you to simply enjoy the day.

What makes us unique is how involved we are! We don't merely make recommendations or suggestions and then just help you implement your plans. We are your partner throughout the entire process. We are with you selecting vendors, confirming the details & contracts. And we will manage all of the moving parts.
Of course, you get to be part of the fun decision-making details, but we will handle the logistics so you can enjoy your engagement.

Heads up, we tend to get involved in the nitty-gritty details that may be too much for other planners to mess with. And we inform our couples, not only on the best vendors to work with, but how to merge and reimagine traditional moments so their celebration is “totally them”!

Over the years, we've worked in many traditional & unique locations in Chicago and ‘the Burbs”. From museums and libraries to hotels and historic homes (and everything in between), we been around the block a time or two. In fact, when watching the local news, we often recognize a ballroom based on just the background, architectural features, or carpeting.

To see the (insanely long) list of locations we’ve worked at, click here.

Yes! We would love to! We offer complimentary initial consultations (by phone or on a Zoom) to help assess your specific needs. Once we learn the scope of your plans - along with all of your wishes, desires & concerns - we'll offer some custom options that are the right fit for you.  

Instead of sending you a generic single option of Full Planning, Partial Planning or Day of Coordination, after our converation we'll write a proposal that give you 3 variaions of planning packages (& pricing) tailor-made to your needs, not ours.   

We believe there’s a huge issue in the wedding industry. And a lot of has to do with pricing. For couples, it’s extremely frustrating that they can’t just go online & easily find general pricing information from wedding vendors. Without this information, it becomes exceedingly difficult to put together an accurate wedding budget.

But wedding vendors experience this frustration too! It’s not easy for a caterer to quickly give you a figure without asking a lot of questions first. After all, a 7-course plated dinner is going to be significantly more expensive than a buffet. The truth is, there are so many variables to take into consideration. So it just isn’t possible to list pricing details, because every wedding is different.

Over the years, we've been lucky to have worked on weddings of all shapes and sizes. We've worked weddings with as few as 16 guests and others with as many as 400! We’ve had the pleasure to work with same-sex couples and have hosted a double wedding as well! And we've helped with weddings that have spanned religions and cultural boundaries - from interfaith to traditional Chinese tea ceremonies. In other words, there isn’t much we haven't seen!

Absolutely! Very involved! We want you BOTH to be part of the decision-making process. The more opinions and ideas you contribute, the better we can design and mastermind for you. Your wedding is personal to you, so it should look like the two of you created it together. Ultimately, we are here to implement and execute your vision!

Even if you are incredibly busy with work, school, or family, we will make sure that you are still involved in making your own decisions. We will just provide more guidance and suggestions to make the process simple. So, if time-saving is what you need, that's what we will do for you.

To ensure our attention to detail is laser-focused and you have the hands-down best experience, we take on about 15 or so weddings a year.

A couple changed both the timing & location. On the morning of their wedding! Within an hour the “plan B” was put into action and the wedding day was smooth as silk.

16 DAYS. It was like two weeks and two days before the wedding! We received a call the night of July 3rd from a panicked bride (who was expecting our voicemail). Her wedding planner had ghosted her. She was about to go on a week-long work trip and had a wedding booked at the Ace Hotel on July 20th. The Groom and I worked together daily and pulled off a perfect hipster, West Loop, rooftop wedding.