Award-winning planning & design for multicultural celebrations and long-distance couples with an eye for style.
What’s involved in planning a wedding?
Dreaming up a wedding day involves three main parts: planning, design, and execution. During planning, we’ll
help you make all the key logistical decisions like when and where you’re going to get married, and who you’ll hire
for your creative dream team. We’ll also offer etiquette advice, vet vendors for you, and help you come up with a
cohesive look during the design phase. Design involves coming up with a visual look for your event that reflects
your personal style and makes your event unique to you. As your event designer, This Love Weddings will help
you develop this aesthetic and turn it into reality (with the help of other creative vendors). We begin production on
design once the design guide has been approved. Finally, execution is when all of your planning and designs are
implemented. When it comes to your wedding — one of the pinnacle celebrations in your life and probably the most
expensive party you’ll ever throw — we always recommend hiring an experienced wedding planner like This Love
Weddings who can create a celebration of a lifetime.
What’s the difference between a wedding planner, venue coordinator, and church coordinator?
Church and venue coordinators are people who work for the best interest of the church or event space where
you’re hosting your wedding. They can help you plan out details for your big day (often for an added fee), but their
priority will always be how to best serve the venue or church where they work, rather than best serving you as a
couple. At times, there’s often high turnover in these positions, meaning you might end up working with several
church coordinators or venue coordinators over your wedding planning experience. Meanwhile, a wedding planner
like This Love Weddings works with you directly. Our job is to look out for your best interest, including prioritizing
your vision over what other wedding professionals may want. It’s important to note that many premier wedding
venues in the Twin Cities require a wedding coordinator.
What is your specialty at This Love Weddings?
We love working with all types of couples, but there’s a special place in our hearts for couples who are planning
their wedding in the Twin Cities from afar, and for couples planning a multicultural wedding. Both types of affairs
involve complicated logistics that could make anyone’s head spin. To us, though, these kinds of logistical challenges
make our hearts flutter. We want all of our clients to feel empowered, and it’s our pleasure to point you in the right
direction during planning with our expert knowledge and etiquette advice.
Who does This Love Weddings serve?
This Love Weddings serves all couples — of any color, any creed, any age, any sexual orientation. We are especially
equipped to help couples who are planning a wedding in the Twin Cities from afar, and those planning multicultural
celebrations.
We love to travel and have connections across the country to offer support for your special event. There are
Destination rates available. Schedule a Meet & Greet to learn more.
For couples with smaller budgets or wedding locations beyond the Twin Cities who are looking for an alternative
option, we’re delighted to serve you through our shop, which is filled with resources created by our expert wedding
planning team.
Who is on your team? Who will be at my wedding?
Award-winning wedding planner Faith Folayan, CWP, leads the This Love Weddings team. She founded the
company (formerly Urbane Montage Events) in 2009. There is also a Wedding Manager, several wedding
assistants — who help plan and execute your event — and wedding concierges — who serve as a personal
assistant to the wedding party on wedding day — on the team.
This Love Weddings will have a wedding manager and a signature wedding concierge on-site on wedding day to
help get everything ready for the festivities. Depending on which offering you booked and your event date, Faith
or a highly-skilled wedding manager will be executing your wedding plans. This information will be disclosed no
later than two months prior to your wedding day. Your wedding day team from This Love Weddings will be
involved in coordinating your wedding day details from the moment you accept our proposal and pay your retainer.
What is your design aesthetic?
A good event designer can adapt to any aesthetic, and that’s our goal as your wedding designer. Still, all of our
designs have a clean look that embraces white space and intentionality, and a strong sense of style that’s both
on-trend and timeless. The end result is a look that represents you as a couple and will still look chic in photos
decades later. Event design is included in our Wedding Management & Design and Complete Wedding Planning
offerings.
What tools do you use?
This Love Weddings has always been a digital-first firm. We love using next-generation technology to make
wedding planning easy, convenient and collaborative. We send all of our proposals, agreements and invoices
electronically, and use a wedding management software to keep track of all of your wedding details in one place.
Technology also makes our services inclusive to the disabled community. If you have any special needs that
technology can help accommodate, please let us know.
Did we miss your question?
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