Hey there! I’m Kayla.
I help couples plan the best day of their lives so they can be present in the moment and enjoy their wedding without stress.
As you’re reading this I’m probably curled up with a blanket, in my favorite pair of leggings, pinning wedding inspo for my next bride, with a chai tea latte in hand.
Do you want to wake up on your wedding day feeling stressed out and exhausted by all the planning or do you want to feel relaxed and excited for the day?
As a bride I’m sure you prefer the second option. Am I right?
You’ve been adding pins to your “Dream Wedding” Pinterest board before you even met your fiancé.
You know what you like.
You know what you don’t like.
And you’ve been to a wedding before where it was a total mess… The bride ugly cried, the dance floor was awkward, the bar ran out of alcohol, and most of the guests left before the sparkler send off.
And now it’s your turn, planning this hundred plus person event not just for your friends and family, but for your fiancé’s friends and family too. Some of whom you’ve yet to meet…
You probably thought that planning a wedding would be easy and fun because everyone says their wedding “was the best day of my life.”
Except you’re quickly finding out that wedding planning is not easy.
It’s decision after decision… Then overthinking about that decision.
It’s months and months of stressing over centerpieces, flower arrangements, linens, ceremony decorations, and all the little details.
On top of that the most annoying thing is everyone telling you what you should and shouldn’t do, when the celebration is supposed to be about y’all.
Here’s the truth, my friend: No matter how hard you try, you cannot please everyone… and your wedding isn’t the place you should try to either.
Not to mention, you’re going to be even more stressed if you’re constantly trying to make your mother-in-law happy.
I know you want this day to be the best day of your life.
But your engagement and wedding planning should be a really special time too because you’re building the foundation and planning the first day of your marriage.
So, you need to be able take a step back and stop planning! Yes, you heard me right... Stop planning. Give yourself permission to enjoy this time with your fiancé and be fully present in these moments together.
This is an exciting season where you’re going to be showered by people who love you. You’re going to go on a “final fling before the ring” with your favorite girls! And I want you to live in each of these moments without a care in the world.
Sounds perfect, right? But, to be able to have a living-in-the-moment mindset requires having a trusted partner in planning to bring your dreamy vision to life.
That’s where I come in…
I’ll have a smile on my face, a conquer the day attitude, with a chai tea latte in one hand, and a binder filled with all of your wedding day’s precious details in the other. I’m your go-to girl when it comes to taking the Pinterest wedding of your dreams to another level, I call it reality!
My Story…
I should've known the girl who created a wedding planning subscription box for her college assignment would become a wedding planner one day…
I have always been organized, creative, detail-oriented, and excited to bring people together to celebrate anything.
I’ve always been the go-to person in my family when it came to organizing surprise birthday parties, graduation parties, and even engagement parties. I’d always have a Pinterest board ready to go with ideas and inspiration and a checklist of to-do’s since I was a teen.
But, I had no idea what I wanted to do. So, like a good girl I went to college because it’s what my mom and every other adult I looked up to told me to do.
I was mortified of picking a career I’d hate and feel stuck to work there until I was 65... Of course, my opinion would have probably been different if the corporate world was more like the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, I kept finding myself in roles that didn’t fit me. Me, the creative, Pinterest obsessed, and planner person I was.
While stuck in these roles I’d jump at every opportunity to plan anything! From employee birthday luncheons and Christmas parties that the company would host throughout the year.
But it wasn’t until the love of my life got down on one knee and asked me to marry him that I found my other love, planning.
After I screamed “Yes!” in the middle of a gallery of ice sculptures, the wedding planning began... I had been dreaming of this moment since I watched Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and started looking for “the one.”
I’m a bit of a hopeless romantic… what can I say?
Planning our wedding felt natural to me, after all I had been collecting pins on my wedding board since I was 13.
I learned that there is so much more to planning a wedding than what “The Ultimate Wedding Planning Checklist” tells you. For example, a guest book pen. This pen can’t just be any “nice” pen… it also has to write smoothly and dry quickly so your guests don’t smear each other’s signatures.
Oh and without a professional helping us we made all the rookie mistakes like assuming DIY projects were cheaper than rentals and not hiring our wedding photographer for the entire day. We now joke that the real premarital counseling happened while planning our wedding.
Closer to the wedding we started talking about all of the wedding day logistics… But we had to figure out who was going to set up the linens? Who was going to put all the signs in the right places? Who was going to set up our DIY photobooth? Who would take the rentals back?
Finally, we realized we couldn’t do it all by ourselves, so we hired a day-of coordinator. On our wedding day she kept me in the loop and made sure everything was going to plan, which helped the control freak in me remain sane. The only thing I wish I’d done differently? Brought her on sooner. It would have been way less stressful!
After we came back from our honeymoon all of my wedding vendors were asking me to send them my wedding photos because they loved how everything came together. All of my friends we’re messaging me saying they wanted me to help plan their weddings and two of them even asked me to be their matron of honor.
And that’s when I realized that I could help others plan their dream wedding day too!
Today I get to be part of the most important day in a couples’ lives. I help them plan their wedding day so they can be present in the moment and enjoy it without stress.
If you’re ready to go from stressed out to present in the moment, then grab a cup of coffee and let’s make it happen!