Amanda Paige Events -

Courtenay Krause

There are not enough words to say how amazing Amanda and her team were throughout our wedding planning process! From the beginning, Amanda helped relieve so much stress - She always came very prepared to our meetings and kept everything moving and on track. She was also very accessible and helped answer all our many questions that popped up along the way.

Her vendor recommendations were all outstanding - we were so happy with how everything turned out on our wedding day and that was mostly due to the amazing efforts by the APE team and all our vendors' incredible talent and passion for what they do.

We also were so amazed by the creativity and design from Amanda - She helped us put together a vision board based on our conversations and inspiration photos and contributed great ideas that really enhanced the overall look and feel of our wedding. She supported our vision and helped bring it to life and made it even better than we could have imagined. She designed our save-the-dates, invitations, menus, cocktail napkins, signature drink sign, seating chart, and rehearsal dinner sign - all of which were thoughtfully and beautifully put together. This also took so much off our plates leading up to the wedding, allowing us to really focus on the excitement and celebration of our wedding.

Overall, we are so happy with the services from Amanda and her team and consider her a lifelong friend - Cannot recommend her and her team enough!!

Rachel Harbaugh

Amanda is a SUPERSTAR! I truly couldn't have imagined my wedding day without her and her team! She was the glue that held our entire wedding day and planning process together. She was honest, available and thorough every time we communicated with her. Her organizational techniques and attention to detail kept us on track and ensured that we were able to enjoy our day stress free. As a type A bride I will honestly admit that I could not have pulled off planning my dream wedding without Amanda's help. We were always able to get in touch with her directly if we needed anything and she was available for our walk through and rehearsal dinner to make sure everything was covered prior to the big day. Her deep expertise helped us to establish a great timeline that was realistic and allowed us enough downtime to truly enjoy ourselves.

On our wedding day she handled everything! She popped in on all of the groups getting ready at multiple locations, got all of our decorations out of our apartment and set up flawlessly at the venue and made sure everything was packaged up and back at our hotel at the end of the night. On the morning of our wedding day, she was quick on her feet to take advantage of a better opportunity/photo spot for our first looks and was able to coordinate the slight change of plans with all of the vendors to execute it seamlessly. She always supported our vision and encouraged us to make our wedding day our own while still providing guidance where she thought she could enhance the plan.

I would not hesitate for even a second to recommend her services to any of my family and friends, as her services were everything we could have hoped for and more!

Maddie Slutsky

I genuinely wish I could give this review more than 5 stars. Amanda and her team went above and beyond every step of the way for our wedding. Amanda is more than just a wedding planner, she is a friend, a confidant, a designer, a voice of reason, and a true expert on all things Chicago weddings. I reached out to Amanda before I was even engaged! Thats how annoying I am! She took me venue shopping before that ring was even on my finger. She answered my many many questions before I even hired her. So when my husband did get down on one knee, she was (besides family and friends) the first call I made. I learned a lot about myself during the wedding planning process. Both good and bad things. Amanda was kind, loving, organized, and beyond helpful throughout our year long planning process. She listened to me and my fiance during the process, and truly was our sounding board. My husbands and my families are both out of town. Amanda even came with me to buy my wedding dress because my mom had went back home. I had A LOT of ideas, I mean a lot. Most were really bad. Amanda listened to all of them and then would put into perspective how reasonable they were.
She also designed our save the dates, menus, programs, yarmulkes, seating chart, napkins, favors etc. She took things to levels I didn’t even know I could achieve.
The day of the wedding was perfect. Everyone had the best time and it was so smooth. One of my bridesmaids had a wedding the following weekend and mentioned to me how disruptive and flustered it was. You truly don’t realize the good stuff until bad stuff happens.
Besides my husband, Amanda was easily the most important part of our wedding. We genuinely couldn’t have done it without her. She found all of our vendors (all of which I had an incredible experience with), thought of every detail, and was able to wrangle our crazy family and friends. I couldn’t recommend Amanda and her team more. Also quick shoutout to Annie and Taylor who were sooo helpful during the day of!

Traci Reisberg

Amanda was the first vendor I reached out to after we got engaged, the first contract we signed and by far one of the best decisions we made leading up to our big day! The partial planning package was not only very reasonably priced for the value (and compared to other planners), but it allowed us to have the support of a visionary like Amanda to help make our wedding day dreams come to life! She partnered with us from the very beginning- locking in and coordinating with other vendors, getting our budget in place, ensuring everything on the big day was squared away... she was our right-hand lady! Amanda is so thoughtful, kind and really loves her clients, that all shows through her work.

Amanda was always a phone call or a text away, at any time of day. She communicated so consistently and was always a few steps ahead. She was on maternity leave for 6 weeks leading up to our wedding, but being the amazing type-A planner that she is, she communicated the plans for her absence well in advance, everything was ready before she took her well deserved time away with the baby and her team was there for me if we needed them.

Amanda and her team built a day of schedule that was so seamless, had every last detail managed and kept us all on time and on track -- there was nothing left for us to do than to enjoy our wedding day with friends and family! Amanda is a gem; if you have the opportunity to book her for planning or day-of coordination, do it!

Louise Gangware

I started looking for a coordinator the moment we booked our venue, but to be honest I thought it was a luxury that I just couldn't squeeze into our budget. That said, I knew it was going to be a hectic 2 years leading up to our wedding and I wanted to keep everything as stress-free as possible! I had a few intro calls with various vendors, but the moment I spoke with Amanda I immediately felt a weight lifted off my shoulders.

My husband and I both agree that leading up to the wedding, every call with Amanda helped to ease our nerves and smooth out any rough edges. On our wedding day, Amanda and Annie are the reason that everything ran smoothly- they really thought of every small detail while helping to corral our somewhat reckless wedding party.

In full transparency, I DID cry when we needed to leave at the end of the night- but only because it was the best night of my life (and also the champagne). Either way, Amanda and her team are the reason the night went so perfectly!

Brittany Skorek

OMG! Where do I even begin!? Amanda & Annie are seriously THE BEST ever! I don't know what I would have done without them on my wedding day. Seriously, lifesavers. I have made lifelong friends & cannot say enough positive things about them. Start to finish, nothing but perfection!

Jane Piechnik

Where to even begin! I'm a very organized person, and I initially decided that I wanted to have the additional support not even necessarily to plan but to just be there to keep things moving along. From the very first conversation with Amanda, I ended up needing her support more than I ever realized. So many things we never anticipated popped up during the process, and Amanda kept me calm with her can-do attitude. We got help with vendor selection, bouncing ideas, and really just had an advocate that made sure our day was as memorable as possible. We did mostly DIY decor, and her assistant helped us with setting everything up. Amanda also helped us ease any anxieties the day of and kept everything wonderfully smooth regardless of any hiccup that popped up. Even when we weren't sure if we truly needed a planner, we found that having one was just the best thing we could've ever done for ourselves. Amanda is the best and we couldn't thank her enough.

Claire Fitzpatrick

Hiring Amanda, Annie, and their team to plan our wedding was one of (if not THE) best decisions we made during our wedding planning process. Let me tell you why:

- Incredible logistics management. My husband and I had a very complex Indian fusion wedding, including a sangeet on Friday night, two different ceremonies Saturday (Indian and Western), followed by dinner and dancing Saturday night. Everything went off absolutely flawlessly thanks to Amanda’s attention to detail, planning, and strong vendor relationships

- Vendor selection. Amanda introduced us to a variety of vendors who not only matched our vision and fit within our budget, but also had personalities and styles that totally meshed with ours. She helped us create an amazing team that we were thrilled to celebrate our big day with.

- Creativity in 2 dimensions. First, Amanda has great graphic design skills. She designed our invitations, menus, signage, etc. that were all so beautiful, we had friends asking what designer we used! Second, Amanda knows how to flex a budget and come up with creative ideas to deliver on a vision while staying within bounds (example - she decorated the venue for our 160-person welcome party, complete with fresh flowers, for a fraction of the price of a professional florist).

- Passion for her business and her clients. A big part of why our wedding was so great was because Amanda and her team poured their whole selves into it. They over-delivered on our contract and invested so much into their relationship with us. Through this process, we gained not just a great planner team but great friends too!

It’s hard to put into words how grateful we are for the APE team. We would hire them again in a heartbeat and recommend them to anyone getting married soon!