Amy Champagne Events

uld tease out creative solutions without prompting. The thing that I was most struck by was her GENUINE nature. Although my fiancee and I had not made a decision yet on a planner, she really wanted to get to know us as a couple. She asked questions beyond just "How did you meet" and "What are your interests" (that you usually receive when you meet with a wedding planner). Thank you Amy- you were incredibly professional and I hope to cross paths again!

that I needed help putting the decorative aspects together. Amy was amazing - she literally took my inspiration (a Caravaggio painting) and made it come to life with her own inventive design ideas for our venue (and she worked very hard to stay within our budget). Amy had GREAT ideas for thoughtful touches and details and was helpful in coordinating our vendors and making sure that everything was in place for our big day. On the day of the wedding we had Lindsey take the wheel, making sure that everything was in place, setting up the room, making sure that it looked beautiful and festive and that our vendors were on point. We couldn't have asked for a better team on our side!

o we had to completely build a venue. On top of that - we were across the country planning a wedding on the East Coast. During the process, Amy took away all of my anxiety - she thought of everything we needed, adapted to our taste, and made sure to recommend the right vendors for our budget. We had unexpected rain the day of the wedding, but with Amy, I had no worries about our outdoor wedding at all. Her team was absolutely amazing and really helped us create the perfect day. She made sure that we felt the day was about us and treated our guests and family as her own. While we worked with Amy, Lindsey was also an amazing help throughout the process, even doing some hand lettering for us. I cannot recommend working with this team enough!

ns we made was to work with them. The wonderful team is surely recommended for your event!

he perfect dynamic duo of design and execution. From the beginning - a year before the wedding- they were incredibly responsive and open to making our wedding everything we wanted it to be. From a design perspective, Amy put together a design plan and a website that was phenomenal. Lindsay handled all of the execution beautifully and was so fun to work with. They recommended GREAT vendors including our photographer, DJ, and florist who all knocked it out of the park. During the month of the wedding, Lindsey was available any time for all our last minute questions and worries and even came up with a few additional items to make our wedding feel special (including a camp banner and some awesome little stamped rocks). The weekend of the wedding was where Lindsey and her assistant Tes really shined. Lindsey went above and beyond to save the day multiple times, including picking up extra full sized bedding for some of the cabins, driving a few lost attendees back to their hotel at 11pm after our Friday night welcome bbq, and grabbing a few more bottles of whiskey for us when partygoers snuck into the alcohol the night before the wedding (oops). Lindsey and team handled all the setup and breakdown and, again, saved the day when it rained just as our ceremony was supposed to start. They set up our backup location so beautifully that we both cried with how happy we were. We could not have pulled this wedding off without Lindsey and I’d recommend her 1000 times for any event. Thanks Amy and Lindsey!!!

anning. Best.Investment.Ever. I only met Amy a few times in person over the course of planning but after a short time I felt like I had known her for years. Before the year’s end and amidst the holidays, Amy developed a venue report for our big day and we set up some tours in early 2018. We decided on Eolia Mansion at Harkness Memorial Park in Waterford CT. Having lived in CT for over 20 years, I never knew of this hidden gem! Amy worked quickly to secure a date for us in 2019! And then we were off to the races. Planning with ACE is such a organized dream. They use BaseCamp to communicate and upload all the documents, quotes, pictures, etc and developed a timeline/to-do list. We were involved in every step of the planning process but it was not the logistical nightmare I had heard about from my friends. ACE took care of the endless phone calls and made it such a stress free process for us. It was so easy for us to trust them with our vision and the execution. I knew what to expect with our big day because we had ACE recommend the best vendors—and they were indeed the best! On our wedding day, Amy & Lindsey came in as I had finished getting my hair and makeup done. Lindsey, steamed my dress and veil for me! They truly went above and beyond for us and they both have hearts of gold. I felt so special on my wedding day & was able to take in every moment. Reflecting now, it is hard not to get a little teary eyed! Lindsey and Amy (and vendors), worked endlessly behind the scenes to get our venue set up in a very short timeframe (as required by our venue). Seeing it all put together it was like they had been there for hours and hours making our romantic mediterranean paradise. Amy had suggested having some scented candles burning in our venue—which was genius & now I just have to burn that candle to take me back to that day! There was a moment right before our ceremony that Amy reminded me to take a moment, take a breath. It is a moment I will never forget. It set the tone for my day and may seem so simple but was just what I needed in that moment. Our day was better than we could have ever imagined. Amy and Lindsey LOVE what they do and it is so evident in their work. True visionaries. Our day was beyond what we envisioned. Every detail was so personal and thoughtful. I am still in awe. Our guests feedback was phenomenal and many said it was the best wedding they had ever been, too. I owe this all to the ACE team, the incredible team vendors I could not have put together on my own. There was not an ounce of stress on my wedding day and that was the greatest gift for our wedding day. We are forever grateful to Amy Champagne Events. Highly recommend—they should be your first call!!

ll of my e-mails with questions, even before the month-of timeframe. She worked so hard throughout the entire planning process, and WORKED HER BUTT OFF the day of the wedding. She made sure she checked in with me a few times on my wedding day to ensure that everything felt good on my side, and everything that I brought to include in the wedding was laid out beautifully (and it was a lot, my mom went a little nuts with the special touches!) I literally could go on for so long about how pleased I was and continue to be with Lindsey, but I'll just say that she was by far the best and most valuable vendor at my wedding. I cannot recommend Lindsey and Amy Champagne Events enough.

dad found out about Amy and it became clear how incredibly personal our day would be. We have quirky taste and Amy took it all in stride. I am both gluten free and vegetarian and she helped us find a caterer and pick a menu that had everyone raving and still made it so I could eat almost everything including the desserts. We had picked a bright color palette and I mentioned that I wasn't the biggest fan of cut flowers. My mom and husband both mentioned that they loved triangles. I showed her a single picture of a bouquet I liked. Based off of that she created the most stunning Southwestern themed wedding. There were towering cactuses, air plants, bold linens, and a triangular install over the dance floor. My parent's home is decorated with a lot of Southwestern art and our tent felt like an extension of their home. The day felt intensely personal and like a representation of what we loved. I hate attention and dreaded things like walking down the aisle but, when the day came, everything Amy had designed was so perfect that I felt comfortable and at home. The design was not only stunning but personalized and unique. She made the process so easy for us. All along the way she connected us with fantastic vendors and ensured that everything was arranged. The week of and day of she and her team were always there. The flow of the day was perfect. They coached us when we weren't sure what to do when and made sure everything we needed was available. I came into this process about as skeptical and unsure as a bride can be but I can really say that it was the best, happiest, most perfect day that me, my husband, or my family have ever experienced. And it was due to Amy's vision, creativity, and talent!

working with her company was a huge part of letting us do just that. We chose to work with Lindsey for full-service planning, and from our kickoff meeting, we LOVED her amazing balance of energy and calm. There were a few pieces of our day that broke from tradition (best lady/no maid of honor in the wedding party, both rabbi and minister officiated), and throughout the entire experience Lindsey embraced what made our wedding uniquely us. And even if you put all that aside, here’s what makes ACE worth every penny: • We wanted to hold our reception at The Lace Factory but have the ceremony at the Essex Steam Train, which has personal significance for me. The Steam Train had stopped hosting only ceremonies that year; you had to pay to host the entire event there in order to reserve the space. I don’t know what Lindsey used to bribe the event manager, but we were able to have just our ceremony there as we envisioned for a very reasonable fee. • Their relationships with other vendor partners are solid. As part of full-service planning, Lindsey sent us a short-list of photographers, entertainment, and hair/makeup that was truly a lifesaver for a couple who doesn’t have the time or patience to review literally hundreds of options . We also appreciated that Lindsey included a variety of price ranges in each list... • Our wedding budget was big to us but not in the crazy world of weddings. ACE was so respectful of how much we were willing to spend on each piece, and pulled some serious strings to help keep us where we wanted to be. Our décor budget was particularly tiny, and we were seriously blown away with what they were able to come up with (bonus of working with ACE: They have a treasure closet of awesome décor pieces to work with so you don’t have to buy everything!). What may be even more impressive about their creativity is we didn’t have a clear vision of our style/theme when we started – we knew the feeling/vibe we wanted to create, but ACE was so clutch in bringing that to life in a way that felt like us. • Very early on, Lindsey provided a complete run-down of what had to be done when as we got closer to the big day. It was structured as a month-by-month checklist that gave us such peace of mind by keeping us (and our families) on-track with the to-dos without needing someone to bug us. It was the perfect organization counterpart to their creativity! • Lindsey was a pro at managing concerns and last-minute changes, up to and during the wedding. She was adept at managing and integrating our parents’ POV, tweaking the order of events, and seamlessly transitioned the ceremony indoors when it started raining that morning! When our flowers were delivered, I loved everything except the bridal bouquet. I texted Lindsey right away and it was reworked to perfection before I even noticed someone had picked it up. Her team’s ability to handle every single detail on the day of, especially the unexpected ones, was what let us relax and enjoy every minute of the weekend. There’s so much more we could gush about working with ACE, but we’ll close it with this: After a year of reminiscing, there isn’t a single thing we would have done differently. THANK YOU Linds & Amy for making that happen, we <3 you!!

recommendations that we were thrilled with and worked with us on budget, timing, etc to make our day perfect... my most favorite thing about Amy, though, is her honesty. It is very clear she has lots of experience... when we were working with her to plan our wedding she had no problem telling us 'that's not the best way to do this and here's why and also here's how we can do it an even better way' which really translated into not only a perfectly executed wedding day (which very much incorporated our vision and satisfied our needs), but all of our guests had the best experience as well and can't stop talking about our day. I think there are a lot of planners out there that will just blindly execute a bride and groom's vision but we really appreciated Amy's honesty and experience! We love Amy and wish we could do it all over again! (Also, not to be overlooked... the amazing work she did to make our tent look and feel like something out of a fairy tale dream!)

nd Lindsey for their full planning package, and we are SO glad we did. They guided us through literally everything, all the way up until our wedding in September of 2017. Amy went with us to visit venues, helped us with catering quotes, secured us a tent for the venue, furniture rentals, transportation for guests, music, photography, flowers, linens, lighting, literally everything and kept it all within our budget. Not only did she deal with countless vendors on our behalf and handled the logistics of everything, she truly came up with the most incredible design that was better than what I had envisioned. She took what I had shown her and described to her and ran with it in her design. Every detail was perfect. Giving her the reins was the best thing I could have done. She executed everything perfectly. We had countless meetings, emails, and phone calls and she made planning over the course of 2 years FUN. We had rainy weather on our wedding day and had to utilize our (her) plan b, which worked out seamlessly. We had a super special surprise band performance, a tent, an indoor space, a very long day of timeline… there was a lot going on, and Amy didn’t miss a beat. Lindsey even came to my house the morning before the wedding to pick up some of our décor to take it off my hands, so I didn’t have to worry about bringing it up to our venue. The morning after the wedding, they brought my very long train, all of our décor, and anything else that was ours at the venue and put it in our garage while we were going on our honeymoon. Amy’s day of girls that were with us, Alex and Tes, were wonderful. Anything I needed they had, and no task was too challenging… including going back to the hotel mid reception when we realized our bottles of limoncello for favors were in the best man’s trunk still (in extremely heavy boxes). They all went above and beyond in every way possible. Amy and her team are not just a service or another vendor you hire for the biggest day of your life. She became like family and she constantly had our back. You will feel like you’ve known her for years from day one. We owe the entire day to Amy, I could not have done it without her. Trust me and just trust Amy… and you will be very happy with your perfect day!

hich added a level of anxiety. Amy and her team (especially Lindsey) had everything prepared and the day couldn’t have gone smoother. Amy did everything ! She worked tirelessly on our behalf with all vendors- she found several options and negotiatied prices. She attended all meetings no matter how far they were from her location in CT. Amy did a fabulous job executing our vision and helped us to stay on budget. The best thing about having Amy Champagne Events plan our wedding was that my mom and I truly got to enjoy the planning process and did not worry about a thing . To quote my dad “Amy was worth her weight in gold” - which says a lot coming from him!

day. Not only that, I got to relax the entire month leading up to our wedding because we had hired her for month of coordination. She had to organize a lot that day in poor weather and she did it seamlessly. Amy Champagne was the best thing we spent our money on for our wedding. Highly recommended!

arge and rowdy group and she handled everything with such composure and grace. All of the things I was nervous about coordinating and planning Courtney helped to facilitate and bring to fruition. Alex and Lindsey assisted on the day of the wedding and were absolutely instrumental is the success of the day. Best day ever. Thank you ACE!

ion of this event. Courtney and Lindsay were incredibly detailed and professional, The day-of girls were absolutely amazing! When anyone had questions for us about anything, our immediate answer was "don't ask me, ask Courtney". What an amazing relief it was to have them with us during the day. The three girls we had that day handled everything that was thrown at them including sewing split groomsman pants! Everything ran so smoothly and the only credit we feel we can take for that is that we chose Amy Champagne to be our wedding coordinators

e - but that meant extra work to pick all of our vendors to create a cohesive event. That is where Amy came in. We hired her for "consultations plus month of", and had our first meeting almost a year and a half before the big day. We instantly connected over our design aesthetic - as two grooms, we wanted to make sure the wedding had a masculine feel and that we had the best food and music without breaking the bank. Amy provided great recommendations on vendors to research and visit with, and she was always a great sounding board for us when we had questions or doubts or trouble deciding on vendors. She also provided an amazing timeline for our to do list - basically the 3-4 things we needed to do every month to stay on track and make sure we had our pick of vendors. This was great to keep us organized and make the daunting task of planning seem extremely manageable, enjoyable and low stress. As we got closer to the wedding, our communications increased and Amy was always helpful - listening to our ideas and making them a reality. What was really great though was Amy's sanity checks - when we thought we had a "good" idea she would tell us how she had seen them play out in the past, what went wrong or we weren't thinking about, and providing a better solution that accomplished the same goal. TRUST your wedding planner! At least if it's Amy, she is always right. We were also very grateful for our "Plan B" - which Amy had developed in the event of bad weather (and that we needed to use). We wanted someone that we could trust to execute on the vision and leave us to enjoy our day, which is what Amy and her team did. Truly an incredible job by a wonderful (super)woman!

h her from start to finish over a year and a half period. She worked it on my wedding day. Every idea was PERFECTLY executed. We had our decor meeting at her office in Milford and 99% of her ideas were spot on! I had 1 -2 things I tweaked but even though I wanted to tweak them Amy always put my ideas into action in the best possible way. If you want your guests to have a "WOW" factor on your wedding day then choose AMY and her amazing team!

lax and enjoy the most incredible day of my life. Being the oldest of 5 girls and 1st to get married, there was much anticipation and anxiety around the wedding, because we had really never planned one, been to tons, etc. I just received my photos back and not only do my husband and I look completely happy, our families, especially our parents do as well. Amy's calming and assertive work style allowed them to be guests at the wedding, not have to feel like hosts. Everyone enjoyed the day to its fullest. If you don't think you need a planner that day, think again. It is the best money we spent and my dad called her immediately after the wedding to book her for my sister's wedding this upcoming June. Necessity, not optional in my book! So much love to Amy and her team. xo!

ing dressed and going to our ceremony during that time, I needed someone to oversee the mansion preparations. That's when I called Lindsey at ACE! I hired Lindsey for her 1 month coordination service. I had a good handle on planning myself and already had most of our vendors on board, but knowing that she could take over communications and relieve some stress as the big day approached allowed me to better enjoy that time with family & friends. Throughout our engagement, Lindsey was my voice of reason- she was always available to answer any questions I had and offer opinions/suggestions based on past experiences, telling me what worked in the past and what didn't. We took a trip up to the venue to do a walk-through and ensure we both shared the same understanding of where things should be, and she had so many great pointers! Lindsey was a HUGE help during rehearsal. She coordinated the entire thing, making sure everyone in our wedding party knew exactly where to be and what to expect. On the day of the wedding, Lindsey showed up with three assistants and I didn't have to worry about a single thing. They coordinated our shuttle buses, oversaw the entire set up and take down, and coordinated the entire timeline. All Lindsey's girls were incredibly nice (especially Lexi, who never left my side!) and willing to help with literally anything we needed... From bustling my dress, to making sure my lipstick was nearby, and bringing us appetizers so that we wouldn't miss out on our cocktail hour foods... These girls went above and beyond. Whenever I thought of something and went to ask Lindsey about it, she smiled and said, "It's already done." My family and our whole bridal party loved her; my mom hasn't stopped raving. I can't even imagine a better person for this job. Lindsey is the perfect balance between fun, laid back, and straight forward/down-to-business. The entire day went off without a single hitch! Bonus: ACE has a great stash of "stuff" (candle holders, picture frames, lanterns, etc.) that clients are able to use, which definitely comes in handy! I'm so thankful for the ACE team and have told all my engaged friends: *hire Lindsey!* She was our saving grace!!

lly, we decided early on that we needed someone to bring our vision to life, take care of all the details (and trust me, those details keep piling up in the weeks/days leading up to the wedding day) and make sure we actually enjoyed our big day. We enlisted ACE’s help early on in the wedding planning process, with about nine months to go. We purchased the month-of package, in addition to their design and décor services. We discussed our idea of a vintage glam/Great Gatsby/art deco-themed wedding in great detail, sent them inspirations, and at our first in-person meeting, Amy Champagne herself, and her superstar right-hand gal, Lindsey Anrico, presented us with a detailed proposal about how to achieve that look and feel. Being the pros that they are, they never propose anything outside your budget, so that was something we discussed right off the bat – how much we had to work with. I’ll say that our budget was on the modest side, but the beauty of ACE is that they made our vision a reality within the budget we laid out. And let me tell you, we don’t feel like we sacrificed anything. Our wedding was beautiful in every possible way. Some of the details they imbued our wedding with include vintage china, ostrich feathers mixed with florals, sequined champagne-colored table runners, gold candelabra, gold chargers, a vintage typewriter, a champagne tower, pearls hanging from the light fixtures, and more. ACE didn’t just propose these décor elements, they also helped us source them. They had quite a few items within their ACE stock of stuff (in-house items they’ve collected from years of wedding planning) and what they didn’t have in stock, they helped us secure at a good price, given the deals they have with local vendors with whom they work with a lot. I wish I could post a photo here because it was all so beautiful...We had constant communication with Lindsey (phone, email, and a few in-person meetings) leading up to the big day and I never felt like I was bothering her. She was so sweet not just to me, but also to the groom, and our family members and guests whom she met on the big day. I literally didn’t have to worry about a thing on my wedding day. Lindsey (and the assistants she brought on our wedding day) took care of it all. There is no detail they left unattended. They will dote on you, they will make sure you eat, that you have a drink if you want one, that you have access to that bag of essentials containing your deodorant, breath mints, lipstick, perfume, etc, that your groomsmen and bridesmaids have all their florals, that your shuttle bus is on time, that you and your loved ones are calm and beautiful because everything and I mean everything is under control. We consider Lindsey our angel and Amy a true visionary. We are profoundly and eternally grateful for all the rockstar ACE team did to give us the wedding of our dreams.

to make it exactly how I wanted (even when I couldn't even express it!!). Lindsey and Amy make the best power dou nothing was ever missed! Lindsey did most of the planning and Amy executed the day of duties!! Honestly you would be silly to over look this company, they take the stress completely out of wedding planning and make it fun and exciting! Thank you guys again!!!

to face meetings with Lindsey during our planning process because we were only able to make it up to CT twice during our planning. Most of our communication was phone, e-mail and Skype. During these meetings she brought multiple ideas for our reception and allowed us to discuss and kept us on track. Since we don’t live in CT we didn’t have any idea of who to use for vendors, she setup meetings with multiple vendors for everything from cake to photographer and got multiple bids for things from hotels to chair/tent rentals. She coordinated all of our vendors and was available when they showed up at our reception site (my parents house) to direct them how things needed to be setup. The day of she was amazing. She made sure the entire day ran smoothly from setup of chairs/flowers etc, to making sure dressing went well for me and my family and she also coordinated with the photographer for photos of my husband and his family before the wedding. She even identified party crashers before anyone at the reception even knew they were there. We wanted a very low key beach reception with a slight nod to Texas and the 4th of July and she nailed it.

rything flowed seamlessly and the level of professionalism blew me away. THANK YOU LINDSEY!

rtial planning: I would have access to Amy from day one, and she would provide design guidance for the entire event in addition to coordination. Because we hired her so early, we didn't really get to work together until several months later. But from our design consultation (October '15) onward, I knew I couldn't do this without Amy. She took my mishmash of ideas and confused Pinterest board and created a gorgeous vision that felt so true to me and my now husband. She welcomed little personal details (hello, cheesy wedding cake topper) as truly personal, never judging or worrying that they might interfere with the overall look. She executed beautiful ideas while working with our budget (which we loosened up entirely by choice when we realized all the possibilities!). The wedding day felt entirely mine and John's, but Amy gets a ton of credit. That's "creative Amy." Equally amazing is "running the show" Amy. One thing to note: I'm a control freak. I wanted to do everything as early as possible, and I wanted to understand how everything would play out well in advance. It was very hard for me to let go of things like the day-of timeline and the logistics of a wedding at multiple locations. Amy taught me to let go. Trusting her and ditching the "early as possible" mentality was a huge lesson for me as a bride and as a person. Early doesn't always mean better. The best brilliance comes in the final hours. And she is SO right about so many things: Holding off on choosing colors because you will get so sick of mint? 100% true. Staying in the limo until you are about to walk down the aisle? Genius. It was so fun sitting with my bridesmaids watching my guests enter behind tinted windows, and it totally calmed me down. Of course there were many things I had total ownership of (remember: control freak), but pretty much any "day-of" operations were in Amy's hands. By the month or two before the wedding, I had total peace of mind knowing Amy was in charge. Bustle my dress? She's on it. Confirm delivery times with all the vendors? Not my job. Iron out any kinks in the timeline? All Amy. Work with the venue to flip the space after a bar mitzvah immediately prior, and have it look like a DREAM? Amy. Amy is a wedding visionary. She's a no-BS businesswoman. She's a badass with a heart of gold. And I can't imagine my wedding day without her. It was flawless. Honorable mention to associate planner Courtney, who was also wonderful—such a pro, but I felt I'd known her for years. Even the lovely intern Marissa totally had it together and was a huge help on the day. Amy helped me go from wanting to control my wedding to letting it wash over me. I really did. It was the best. day. ever.

de us feel like we were right there with her in Connecticut. Instead of being stressed out, the wedding planning was actually really fun. We were amazed with all the ideas she came up with. The wedding day was a perfect and not a single thing wasn't overlooked. Our wedding still is a favorite topic of conversation among our friends and we've even been picked up by 2 national magazines (including The Knot and The Knot's LGBT Wedding issue) and a wedding blog. Again, you can't go wrong with Amy and you will love working with her. I can't say enough good things about her services and how much pride she puts into her work and making your day perfect.