Stephanie Gatton Events

I had the pleasure of working with Stephanie in a former event planning role, so I knew that my husband and I were in good hands when we chose Stephanie to be our Day of Coordinator. You can rest assured that your big day will flow seamlessly, and if there are any hiccups along the way, you will never know about it because Stephanie is so ON it. Choosing SG Events will be one of the best decisions through your planning process, I assure you.

Stephanie is an amazing planner and we highly recommend that anyone planning a wedding seek her out! She was so warm and friendly, super organized, and consistently available whenever we had questions or a problem came up in the planning stages. Stephanie has great relationships with amazing vendors and helped us plan our dream winter wedding at the Greenpoint Loft with the best food, photography, flowers, and so much more for our big day. Stephanie was an absolute pro on the day of the wedding, coordinating all the moving pieces, and shielding us from the stress of surprise cancellations and plus ones. We couldn't have pulled off a wedding half as fantastic as ours turned out to be without Stephanie! Hannah and Mike

We decided to do a DIY wedding, but realized early on that we would need a coordinator for the day-of to keep everything on track and manage all the moving parts. We can’t tell you how glad we are that we found Stephanie, as she did this and so much more! From our first phone call with her it was clear we were in good hands: she made us feel that it was possible for us to achieve our vision for our DIY wedding, while giving us a much-needed plan for the months leading up to it and things we needed to keep in mind for the day-of. We immediately felt like we were in good hands and that we could trust her to answer ANY question, but more often than not she would spot a potential question or problem coming even before we did, and already have the solution for it. She is extremely experienced in event planning and wedding production, and whether you’re doing DIY or full service she will absolutely have your back. While she gave us a sense of security in the months leading up to the wedding, she blew us away on our actual wedding day! We completely exceeded our expectations as far as how efficient, organized, and on top of every detail she was. She completely understood our vision and executed it perfectly. One thing we were especially stressed about was the timing of the music during our ceremony, since we didn’t have a DJ but had several music changes. With her background in theater production, Stephanie handled this as though it were nothing at all. We really were able to enjoy the wedding and time with our guests, without having to worry about if we were on time or if the music was going to be cued at the right moment or if the people involved in the day knew their cues. If you want someone who will run your wedding like a tight ship and take care of details you didn’t even realize needed to be taken care of, Stephanie offers a total peace of mind. We cannot recommend her highly enough!!

Stephanie was an absolute godsend in helping me bring together my wedding. I chose the "Oh Shit!" Package and got married in October 2018. After seeing great reviews online, I contacted Stephanie for a consultation and by the end of the call I was basically asking her to take my money. Once you book her services she provides super super helpful wedding "cheat sheets" that aid all things planning (timeline, guest list, tipping sheet, etc.). Stephanie is professional, thorough, collaborative, and so sweet. Stephanie is very responsive and brings great ideas to the table if you struggle with indecisiveness (like me). I had most of my vendors booked by the time I consulted with her and really needed support in day of coordination. And Stephanie. Brought. It. Not only did the day of timeline go smoothly, the venue looked AMAZING and she was the point person for the vendors. I am so glad I chose Stephanie because I did not once feel worried on my wedding day and was actually able to enjoy it! I would definitely recommend Stephanie Gatton!

There wasn't a whole lot my husband and I knew for sure during the initial stages of planning our wedding. Do we want a big party or an intimate gathering? Kids welcome or adults only? In the city, or in the country? We didn't want a full-on "wedding planner" as we'd both produced and directed before professionally, and were excited by the prospect of designing everything ourselves. But following just a few meetings with caterers, we acknowledged we'd bitten off a bit more than we could chew. So as soon as we'd finished FaceTiming with Stephanie during our introductory meeting, we jumped for joy and celebrated the first thing we knew with absolute certainty - we'd found our wedding coordinator! Stephanie Gatton was a referral to us from our DJ, 74 Events. It was love at first meeting. She shared with us her extensive experience as a stage manager and we connected over our shared love of the theatre, baseball, dogs, and matrimony (yay!). Stephanie was indispensable to us throughout the entire planning process, from that first virtual meeting to making sure we had all the wedding cake we wanted before leaving the venue. She made sure we remained on track with everything and was was consistently responsive, professional, organized and just plain lovely. We wish we could hire her again! Do yourself a favor and get Stephanie to help plan and run your wedding. You'll be so glad you did.

Look no further! Use Stephanie Gatton for all of your wedding planning needs - she is the best of the best!! Her organization of our wedding and her day-of skills in executing everything with the utmost attention to details makes her INVALUABLE if you want your wedding to flow without hiccups. I was completely unorganized when I started with Stephanie. My fiancé had just gone through a horrible illness and was recovering when I decided that we could still get married - but our wedding day was quickly approaching and I was completely unorganized and floundering. I gave Stephanie only about 2 months to help me out - and I have to say that she SAVED me . She got me focused, she introduced me to amazing vendors (and I used every suggestion she gave me) and her confidence and absolute spot on attention to detail allowed me to breathe a little in this very overwhelming process. All of my guests said it was without a doubt the best wedding they had attended. There were no glitches or hiccups. The ceremony and reception were perfect in every way - all thanks to Stephanie. Take my word - you NEED Stephanie. She is magnificent. You will not be disappointed.

Hiring Stephanie as our day-of planner was hands down the best decision my husband and I made for our wedding, and I honestly don't know how the day (and all the work that led up to it) could have gone successfully without her. In our personal situation, we already had the key vendors booked and an overall vision for our day, but there are so many little details involved in planning and executing a wedding that it started to become overwhelming. That's where Stephanie came in! She had done weddings at our venue before (Frankies 457 in Brooklyn), so she was well equipped to help us navigate the rest of our wedding planning with ease, from how to set up the space given our number of guests, the timeline of the day down to the minute, helping us find transportation for our guests, and so much more that we hadn't thought to even consider. She knows EVERY question to ask, and she comes equipped with so many great planning documents and templates to make even the most disorganized person feel organized. On the day-of, she set up our decor at the venue and handled all communication with the vendors to ensure there were no hiccups. Once the event began, she ran the show and managed the timeline to a T. My husband and I, as well as our families, didn't have to do or worry about anything all day! The peace of mind that comes with having someone who is solely dedicated to the logistics of your day is honestly something you don't understand until you have it. Stephanie's organization skills, professionalism, communication, and warmth make her a dream wedding planner. If you choose to hire her, you're in great hands and you won't regret it!

Stephanie was an absolute pleasure to work with. A true professional, she both leveraged her expertise when needed but also made sure I felt heard and understood in the decision making process. She offered her advice and reassurances and truly put me at ease. The day was absolutely seamless thanks to her and I felt like I could relax and enjoy as opposed to worrying about the details!

So. I went into Danilo & my wedding thinking I did not need a wedding planner. We had committed to doing it small - 50 people at a estate over a weekend - and am I notoriously an organized, planning-minded person. I thought I had it covered. But then, we were five weeks out and I realized the sheer volume coordination needed. I had been recommended Stephanie by my photographer and I reached out. She immediately reassuring. The way worked together made the most of the planning I had done until that point but also relieved so much stress. And when it came to the day of our wedding, I didn't have think about a single detail and just was able to be in a purely happy, emotional mindset. We even ended up having to move inside the estate because of weather and Stephanie completely solved it for us. 1000% would recommend to another bride.

My friend who had gotten married last year recommended reaching out to Stephanie as I was explaining how stressed I was about the final details of my wedding day. Stephanie was a great recommendation! With friends and family coming in town and me trying to pull everything together myself, I was feeling quite frantic. Stephanie helped bring calm and ease to all of the prep leading up to the special day. I used her services for day-of and day-before services. She was able to transport all of my decorations to the venue and was able to work with the event space to make sure everything was where it was supposed to be. In addition, she gave me templates and suggestions to make sure that I had a special ceremony script and our photo shoot list was detailed and orderly. My whole bridal party was impressed with how efficient she was at keeping us organized and moving efficiently through our rehearsal and through the morning ceremony. She contacted the vendors and made sure all I needed to do was enjoy the moment. I definitely recommend Stephanie's services to any couple!

I cannot recommend Stephanie enough, she is truly exceptional. My wife and I got married in July 2018 and our wedding could not have been better thanks to her. It goes without saying that planning a wedding can be a daunting task, and one of the best choices we made was hiring Stephanie. She is tremendously hard working, responsive, and on top of every single detail. She ensured our wedding was absolutely perfect and made every step of the way completely seamless. She truly goes above and beyond for her clients, so much so that we jokingly told her she should be charging us more after we saw just how hard she worked for us. Thank you for everything Stephanie!

Stephanie was very organized, engaged, enthusiastic, and above all, great to be around. My wife and I retained Stephanie as a month-of coordinator services for our wedding this past April. She really helped us stay on track and gave us peace of mind that we had checked all of the boxes and that the day itself would run smoothly.

Hiring Stephanie was the best wedding decision we made! Her organizational and planning skills made the event run so smoothly that we could focus entirely on having the best day of our lives. She was extremely accommodating to the fact that we wanted to DIY some aspects of the event, and never made us feel guilty for doing so. We could not have imagined a better day! To quote our photographer: “There need to be more Stephanie’s in the world”.

We could not have been happier that we chose Stephanie to help us with our wedding! She was incredibly professional, extremely organized, really quick to respond to email, and overall very easy to work with. We were feeling a bit stressed with the wedding approaching, but once we started working with Stephanie she did everything she could to take things off of our plate and make us feel more at ease. Our caterers were not the easiest to work with, and Stephanie completely took over communicating with them and sorted everything out so we wouldn't have to. She even came up with a genius trick for arranging the flowers on our cake. What a rock star! We highly recommend her!

Stephanie Gatton was a true treasure and one of the most relaxing decisions I made as a bride. I had a very distinct original vision and Stephanie executed all the action items perfectly. She let me roll with my ideas while chiming in here and there when she had expert insight. I can't recommend enough! Not only that she's so nice. :)

Our wedding would absolutely not have been the perfect day it was without Stephanie. We hired her for her month-of coordination, as well as to help us find our other vendors. Even though Stephanie is based in New York and we live in/got married in Philadelphia, we never felt there was any issue in her being out of town. Having never planned a wedding before, we had no idea who we needed, and what to look for. Stephanie was invaluable in helping find our equally amazing photographers, DJ, and florist. She coordinated all communications, made sure prices and contracts were reasonable, and was always available to answer any questions we had. She even made sure to meet me to chat in person when I was in New York for a weekend. During the last “month-of” Stephanie delt with all final arrangements, made schedules for all the vendors and coordinated their arrivals at the venue. When we had surprise rain storms pop up on the forecast a few days before, Stephanie helped take care of everything we needed to make sure our wedding stayed dry. On the day of, I never felt nervous about the events of the day, or making sure that things went as planned, because I knew they would! I would have Stephanie plan my daily life if that were possible.

We cannot recommend Stephanie highly enough. Stephanie helped us realize our vision for our wedding perfectly. Even (and perhaps especially) when we weren't quite sure what our vision was. She has years of event planning and wedding planning experience, and yet is somehow still excited for every wedding. Only now, in the hazy aftermath of our own wedding, can we realize just how wonderfully insane that is. We especially valued her assistance in choosing a venue for our wedding. Stephanie pointed out issues with venues that we would never have realized until too late. Stephanie also helped us identify the perfect caterer for our wedding. We were looking for something different from typical wedding food and Stephanie connected us with a wonderful caterer who provided us with fabulous food. Stephanie was extremely easy to work with over the entire 8 month process of planning and having our wedding. She was very flexible about meeting times and locations and was always available when we needed her. Stephanie was always responsive to all of our myriad questions (even the pointless ones that were really just anxiety talking, and she went further and realized the root of the problem). The timeline that she created for the day before and day of the wedding really helped keep us and our families and friends on track. It was amazing to have a document that everyone could work from to know exactly where to be and what to do at what time to keep the whole day running perfectly. On the day of our wedding, Stephanie took care of every detail and issue that arose, without needing to consult us. There was a potentially disastrous issue that was seamlessly fixed (with many trips to the hardware store) and we never knew. The process of planning the wedding with Stephanie's help meant that she knew exactly what decision we'd make on the day of without needing to ask us. Stephanie thought of things that wouldn't have occurred to us, like renting a high chair for a toddler who was attending the wedding. Stephanie also identified someone in the wedding party who could assist her to take care of things when she couldn't be in two places at once. This was really helpful and took the pressure off of us on the day of the wedding.

After talking with Stephanie for 5 minutes we could tell right away that we were in good hands for our wedding at Sleepy Hollow Country Club. From the first day we spoke through the wedding day itself, Stephanie made sure our wedding was planned for and executed seamlessly. My wife and I knew that anything she was involved with would run smoothly. She limited the thinking and worrying we needed to do and made sure the things that were important to us were taken care of. Her contributions allowed us to truly enjoy our wedding day without worrying about the execution of the wedding itself.

In the early months of our engagement we had decided that we would not be hiring a Month-Of Coordinator. We were trying to find ways to cut costs and figured it would be nearly impossible for someone to be more familiar with our wedding than we were. That decision changed when I went to my best friend's wedding and saw the benefits of having someone who could "handle" the day so that you could enjoy it. Our search began and we ended up with a coordinator (not Stephanie...our road to her was a little bumpy) around October of 2016. Our wedding was in March 2017 so we felt really great and proactive. In January our original coordinator could no longer work our wedding and we of course were freaking out. She handled the whole situation wonderfully and sent over a list of people who she thought would be a good fit for us; one of the name's on the list was Stephanie Gatton. As soon as I saw that she used to be a Stage Manager (I'm an Actress) I was sold and she was the only person we contacted. We met with her and our respect and affection for her was instant. In the month leading up to our wedding Stephanie designed our floor plan from scratch, dealt with all of our vendors, met us at very unusual times to accommodate my show schedule AND ended up doing the calligraphy for our place cards (they were gorgeous). As soon as we hired Stephanie it was hard to imagine ever working with anyone else or that we had ever considered doing this on our own. Our wedding day was truly the best day of our lives and Stephanie made sure that that happened. We were supposed to have her the whole time and even though getting to her was a little hairy, we are so grateful that we did. Cut out all of the middle men and just hire her first! You'll be happy you did!

Stephanie was a tremendous help to us and we’d highly recommend her. She’s got a great mix of talents and skills that make her effective and great to work with...and let us start out by saying we didn’t make it easy: we’re 3,000 miles/three timezones away in San Francisco and had a ~320-person wedding at a wedding venue that was untested in the wedding business. Stephanie ended up being the perfect fit and it was as though we were in the same city the entire time. Our first meeting (Google Hangout) showed her sensible and thorough approach as she sought to understand our vision, likes/dislikes, constraints, what we had done to date, etc. Out of that she produced a logical, thoughtful proposal. Everything Stephanie does is transparent, and she’s open to changes in direction (like when we’d forget to mention something important or fail to tell her about a certain constraint we had). She's highly collaborative. We appreciated her creative and helpful ideas as well as her communications style very much: a nice balance of listening to understand what we wanted and didn’t want, and offering ideas/suggestions when we were unsure or her experience told her there was a better way. When debating whether to have a cake vs. dessert table, she came back to us almost immediately with great ideas. When we decided to go cake table, but supplement with ice cream sandwiches, Stephanie’s ideas were abundant and helpful including options of where to get the treats and how to display them and ensure they didn’t melt! When the inevitable anxiety crept in about three weeks out, Stephanie helped us to take a breath and break things up into manageable pieces and prioritize. Her calm, organized, proactive, and positive approach was absolutely critical in getting us over the finish line. Finally, Stephanie is the perfect blend of meticulously prepared but also cool and calm when things go awry—and, yes, something's not going to go perfectly—so that combo is like gold. Thank you, Stephanie!

Stephanie acted as our day-of coordinator and helped enormously in keeping us on track and focused in the months leading up to our wedding this October, and making sure everything ran smoothly for the wedding weekend itself. We are two perfectionist theatre designers used to running our own productions, and she became our totally trusted “external brain” – keeping all the practical information together so that we could focus on the artistic stuff. Stephanie handled our detail-oriented needs with clarity and finesse, taking much of the burden of organization and scheduling off our hands, to our great relief. She even helped find an amazing makeup artist when the bride's disappeared! Her clear, warm communication was a real gift when coordinating between our multiple venues and vendors, friend-helpers and family. Her work coordinating everyone’s schedules was amazing, ensuring that all helpers, décor items, guests, bride and groom ended up where they needed to go. When we changed our rain plan at the last minute, Stephanie calmly took charge of working with both the ceremony and reception venues to make sure everyone was on the same page. It’s no overstatement to say that without her, things would have been a mess, and we feel very lucky to have had her on our team. Her calm and positive attitude were invaluable in allowing us to actually relax and enjoy our wedding day, knowing that Stephanie had everything under control.

Stephanie Gatton made it a lot easier for everyone involved in planning our son’s wedding at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, graciously and effectively coordinating with the bride and groom, parents, vendors, and venue. She was part of our team three months in advance of the wedding and I wish that we had found her sooner. The wedding was beautiful and we were all able to enjoy it fully because Stephanie was there. Jan Golann Mother of the Groom September 2017