The Tapestry team boasts a combined 50+ years of experience in retreats, catering, waiting, events, and customer service. Our Creative Director, Kate, has been working in event planning roles since 2013 and brought her expertise to the wedding world in 2016.

We limit our calendar to 15 weddings per Lead Planner and do not take on more than two projects in a week. This gives us the time and space to craft unique celebrations tailored to each of our Tapestry couples, and to maintain a healthy work-life-travel balance. Our personalized, passionate, and connection-led experiences are why our couples leave us 5-star reviews time and time again! 

Where do we even start? Once you’re part of the Tapestry family, you’ll receive:

• Access to our exclusive Planning Portal, designed to house the entirety of your planning process.

• Personalized vendor recommendations, ideas, and resources we think you’ll love

• Honest check-ins throughout the journey to keep details in alignment

• Guidance through tough conversations and challenging decisions

And so. Much. More.

Plus, you’ll get a bonus set of friends who will lead you on this journey from a heart-centered, caring space.

We are SO fortunate to have a team of experienced, talented, service-minded planners and coordinators who lend their skills to our couples season after season. 

Because of the brilliant minds and hands behind us, we staff our events proportionally to your total guest count and the size of your vendor team—but your base package will always include an Event Lead and Assistant Coordinator. 

All members of our leadership team have a combination of 3+ years of experience coordinating weddings, site-specific expertise at our preferred venues, and/or Wedding Planning Certification credentials. Our experienced, capable team dynamic allows us to be agile with custom event staffing, provide a high level of care, and deliver confidently on what we promise to our clients. 

In addition to our planners and coordinators on staff, we have incredible administrative support throughout the year that provides the latest and greatest in vendor referrals, planning portal updates, special research projects, and high-quality planning products.

We invite you to read our About page to get to know the folks who will make up your Tapestry experience!

The traditional wedding world operates with an underlying set of assumptions: the way things are supposed to be, the way things have been done, the ways things are expected to pass. Nine times out of ten, there is a prescribed formula for wedding events that fits nicely into the box of how we're used to celebrations looking and feeling—and that can often feel misaligned with your unique vision.

You are not an interchangeable variable in an event-hosting formula: you are the center that the entire event ecosystem revolves around. 

We lead mindful inquiry about what matters most to you and support you in declaring those values unapologetically. We develop a budget, a planning strategy, and a vision that integrates your values into a planning path to your celebration. Finally, we place these skills within an intelligent and adaptive project management system that helps you understand how your event ecosystem will come together.

As our team approaches a decade of professional wedding planning, we have worked with an incredibly diverse array of couples with distinct needs. We’ve created packages to proportionally match our time, energy, and resources with the scope of your project and deliver an impactful, custom-fit planning experience.

Partial planning is the best fit for couples who want:

• To own parts of the process

• A clear division of labor

• To independently achieve planning deliverables 

• Someone to guide what decisions to make and when

• An experienced sounding board for ideas

These couples tend to benefit from a project management style that promises distinct outcomes from their planning team.

Full planning is the best fit for couples who want:

• Support in all areas concerning your celebration

• A proactive project manager

• An effective investment manager

• A readily available collaborator

These couples seek a professional who will guide and manage every aspect of their event and create the best outcomes across the board. Their work together is focused on the scope of the wedding day itself.

Full weekend planning is the best fit for couples who want:

• Support for a whole weekend slate of activities

• Full planning and execution

• Everything included in our full planning services

Schedule your consultation now and we’ll help you pick the perfect fit!

We are your fiercest advocates for executing your event on budget. We will never encourage you to invest beyond your values and your means. 

As we help you manage your budget, we will ensure that there are no surprises regarding your investments or our rates. We will help you vet, plan, and manage your investments in your venue, vendors, rentals, professional services, and anything else required to carry out your event successfully. These investments make up your total event budget.

Because we scale our time, energy, and resource investment to your level of service, we charge a percentage of your budget as our planning fee. Depending on which member of the planning team you are working with:

• Partial planning rates fall between 9% and 12% of your total event budget.

• Full planning rates fall between 14% and 18% of your professional event budget up to $100,000; then 10% of your professional event budget above $100,000.

• Weekend planning rates start at 20% of your professional event budget up to $100,000; then 15% of your professional event budget above $100,000.

Any travel fees, additional headcount fees above 100 guests, taxes, and credit card fees are added to that rate.

We do. All of our couples have a unique location for their celebration, and we love that they defy the one-size-fits-all archetype of weddings. Just as we tailor your planning process, we also customize your travel fee to make sure it’s an exact fit for the adventure required. 

For estimate purposes, you can calculate about $2.50 per mile for travel from Seattle to any location in the Pacific Northwest.This fee covers gas, mileage, food, and accommodations when required.  Most locations 2+ hours outside the city will also require overnight accommodations and a meal stipend for the team. Out-of-state and international travel is calculated on a case-by-case basis.

Absolutely! During our consultation, we will determine which package best fits your current needs. If, down the line, you decide you want more support, then we are here for you. We can easily upgrade your original package or add on services à la carte for a perfectly supportive planning experience. We love spending more time and deepening our relationships with our couples!

Great question! If you need a little extra support, we can add 1-2 meetings à la carte on top of your Homie Hook-up package to advise on your venue search and selection. Please note that this partial planning package does not include vetting, scouting, touring, or otherwise facilitating the venue/location contract.