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Your Trusted Wedding Planning Partner in Durham
We are a boutique event planning and design company with over 20 years of combined experience in creating elegant, personalized weddings across the East Coast. Our team specializes in full-service wedding planning, partial planning, and day-of coordination, ensuring every celebration reflects the couple's unique vision. We prioritize diversity, sustainability, and inclusion, partnering with venues and vendors that share these values. Our lead planner, Emily Izakowitz, brings expertise from restaurant management and hospitality to luxury event design, while planner Dana Statkun-Howley offers hospitality management experience and a passion for seamless execution.We pride ourselves on meticulous organization, creative problem-solving, and a stress-free planning process, having successfully navigated challenges like pandemic-related postponements. Our services extend beyond weddings to include engagement parties, anniversaries, and private dinners, with a commitment to making every event memorable and joyful.
Services
Full Service Wedding Planning
Partial Wedding Planning
Event Management
Design Services
Vendor Coordination
Details
- Year established: 2017
Highlights and features
- We offer 20+ years of combined experience in luxury event planning and design
- Our personalized design presentations ensure weddings reflect each couple's unique vision
- We provide stress-free planning with meticulous attention to logistical details
- Our team successfully adapts to unexpected challenges like weather or pandemic disruptions
- We maintain strong vendor relationships for exceptional service coordination
What people say
Stress-free process
Attention to detail
Creative vision
Responsive team
Perfect execution
Services
Full Service Wedding Planning
Our full-service wedding planning package handles every detail from initial concept to final execution. Ideal for couples seeking complete support, we manage budgeting, vendor selection, design development, and day-of coordination. With structured planning systems and personalized checklists, we ensure your vision becomes reality while maintaining budget control and timeline adherence. Our expertise in luxury event design creates cohesive, memorable celebrations that reflect your unique style and preferences.
Partial Wedding Planning
For couples who prefer hands-on involvement with professional guidance, our partial planning service offers structured support. We provide monthly check-ins, vendor meeting attendance, design presentations, and timeline creation while you maintain primary planning responsibility. This option balances creative direction with budget management, ensuring your wedding details align with industry standards while preserving your personal touch throughout the planning process.
Event Management
Our event management package focuses on seamless execution for couples who prefer self-planning. We handle final timeline coordination, vendor communication, and day-of logistics to ensure stress-free implementation. Starting eight weeks before your event, we conduct venue walkthroughs, finalize vendor details, and provide unlimited support during the critical final planning phase to guarantee your vision comes to life without complications.
Design Services
Our design services transform concepts into cohesive visual experiences through customized design boards and styling elements. We develop floral vision boards, tabletop selections, lighting plans, and decorative details that reflect your personal aesthetic. By curating repeating design elements from inspirational imagery, we create immersive environments that maintain visual harmony across all aspects of your wedding celebration.
Other Event Coordination
Beyond weddings, we coordinate engagement parties, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvahs, and private dinners with the same attention to detail. Our experience extends to creating memorable celebrations for various occasions, applying our signature approach of personalized design and meticulous planning to ensure each event meets specific client needs and occasion requirements.
People
Emily Izakowitz
Owner, Lead Wedding Planner & Designer
Emily founded Events by Emily after a decade in New York City hospitality management. With experience from Wesleyan University and venue leadership roles, she combines creative design expertise with logistical precision. Her background in restaurant management informs her approach to luxury event design and vendor coordination.
Dana Statkun-Howley
Wedding Planner & Coordinator
Dana brings hospitality management expertise from 21C Museum Hotel and catering industry experience. With a background in wedding magazine sales and personal wedding planning experience, she excels at vendor relationships and client coordination. Her focus on customer service ensures smooth planning processes for couples.
Questions
What wedding planning services do you offer?
We offer full-service planning, partial planning, and event management packages tailored to different planning needs and budgets.
How do you handle unexpected wedding day challenges?
Our experienced team proactively prepares for contingencies and creatively solves issues as they arise, ensuring minimal disruption to your celebration.
Can you help with non-wedding events?
Yes, we coordinate engagement parties, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvahs, and private dinners with the same attention to detail.
Do you work with out-of-town couples?
Yes, our team successfully coordinates weddings for couples planning from different states through virtual consultations and local expertise.
What areas do you serve?
We primarily serve the East Coast including North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, Maine, and California.
