Chicago Wedding Planner

For a Chicago wedding, start the planner conversation 12 to 18 months out. The city’s most sought-after luxury venues book roughly 18 months ahead for peak dates, May through October, so early planning protects your first-choice room and your negotiating position.

Initial investment starts at $4,500. There is no package pricing beyond that, because there are no packages: every engagement is quoted after a conversation about your venue, your guest count and how much of the planning you want carried for you. The 90-day wedding management entry point is the lightest way in and full-service planning is the fullest, with room to sit anywhere between.

Full-service planning starts at the beginning: venue selection, budget, design and every vendor decision along the way. Ninety-day wedding management picks up the last stretch, taking over the vendors you have already booked, building the timeline and running the day itself. Both are custom, and which one you need usually becomes obvious in the first ten minutes of a conversation.

The venue’s coordinator answers to the venue. We answer to you. We review every contract before you sign, negotiate with vendors on your behalf, manage your budget, and stay with you from the first decision through the last dance, across every vendor, not just the room.

Yes, and it is one of the main reasons couples hire us. Every contract is read line by line before you sign, because Christine spent more than two decades inside five-star hotels, including The Mirage and The Bellagio, writing the agreements she now reads on your side of the table. She knows where the fees hide, what is negotiable and what a venue can genuinely deliver.

Christine, the whole way through. She is supported by Regan Aycock, our Senior Wedding Coordinator, so there is always a second set of hands on the day. You will not be handed off to a junior planner or a rotating team.

Yes, and room blocks are part of the planning rather than an extra. Christine negotiated those contracts from the hotel side for more than two decades, so she knows what an attrition clause actually costs you and how to structure a block that protects you instead of the property. Your guests get a rate that holds, and you do not end up paying for rooms nobody slept in.

Both, honestly, and they make different weddings. Downtown gives you the skyline, the river and the hotels, with the ceremony, the reception and every out-of-town guest inside a few blocks. The neighborhoods give you a room that looks like nowhere else: Lincoln Park, the West Loop, the South Loop and Bridgeport each carry their own character, and a wedding there feels like it belongs to that street. Which one is right depends more on your guest list than your taste, and it is one of the first things we work through together.