About this vendor
Based in the historic city of Philadelphia, PA, The Utopia Collective is a firm that provides event planning and design services. The company’s professionals are talented at curating special occasions that are refined and elegant. Central to their ethos is orchestrating an event that reflects you and your partner’s personality, so your soiree feels authentic to you.
The team at The Utopia Collective is able to craft events with guest lists of various lengths. They have been working in event planning for more than a decade. This has provided them with both knowledge of the industry and enabled them to create ties with trusted vendors. The owner and lead creative is Cara who demonstrates a zeal for events that goes unmatched. She and her team have the know-how and chic style to turn a wedding dream into reality.
The planning bundles offered by The Utopia Collective are designed to suit each couple. The team offers a variety of services, from "day of" coordination to full-planning. Besides vendor contracts, timelines, and other logistics, the coordinators can also help with the event design. This means bringing together the palettes, stationery, and all those other pin-worthy ideas into a cohesive look. The myriad of services that the firm offers encompass the many facets of wedding planning, ensuring an exceptional event.
Details
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- RSVP Tracking
- Wedding Design
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Bachelor Party
- Bachelorette Party
Awards and Affiliations
Reviews
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Cara Stipa with the Utopia Collective was referred to us by the team at our venue, The Franklin Institute, and we could not be more thrilled with our experience. From our very firs...
t consultation, Cara led with confidence, compassion, and a commitment to delivering a highly personalized experience. Cara helped realize every design element that we could have hoped—and many we could never have imagined! Her elevated style and immaculate taste were exactly what we were after for our NYE wedding. With patience, creativity, and an eye for detail, Cara made every step of the design process pure joy.
We hired Cara for her design services for our wedding day, and from the moment we had our consultation call, I knew she was the one we were going to choose. She was warm, comfortin...
g, and made me feel like more than just another bride in the process. Cara took the time to truly understand our vision and executed it beyond anything we could have imagined!
On the day of our wedding, she was calm, attentive, incredibly helpful, and checked in with us multiple times to make sure we were taken care of. When we wanted to ask our venue about removing a piece of their decor, she immediately stepped in, advocated for us, and made it happen without hesitation.
Walking into our reception space for the first time took my breath away and I’ll never forget that moment. You can feel how much Cara pours into her work and her couples. Whether you’re looking for a designer, a planner, or both, Cara is the person you want by your side!
We were so lucky to work with Cara and her assistant Darranique. We booked her month of planning package and she came on full time about 6 weeks out. Cara is kind, detail oriented,...
calm and extremely organized. She took care of all of the nitty gritty details and made sure the day went off without a hitch. She easily helped us pivot to our back up rain plan when we were unable to do our first look outdoors. She kindly answered all of our questions and reassured us. Our wedding party and guests kept giving her team praise because of how smoothly our day went. Book her. You will not regret it!!
We were so glad to have had Cara and the Utopia team help us with wedding coordination. Cara is wonderful to work with, extremely organized, and gave us comfort going into wedding...
day knowing that everything had been planned for and that we were taken care of by a great team. We always looked forward to our meetings with Cara, and left each one feeling at ease about the wedding plans. She did so much behind the scenes to ensure we could enjoy our special day without a hitch. I can't thank Cara and Dee enough for their guidance and expertise leading up to the big day, and for helping to make it an incredible (and stress-free) wedding day for us and our families.
Cara and her incredible team, Nancy and Jenna, from Utopia Collective, deserve nothing short of the highest praise for making our wedding day absolutely perfect! From the very begi...
nning, Cara listened intently to our desires and wishes, and then worked tirelessly to bring them to life. Her timely, organized, and efficient approach, paired with her infectious enthusiasm, ensured that everything ran seamlessly. Cara's ability to listen to every detail of what we wanted and translate it into reality was truly impressive. She was straight to the point, offering invaluable guidance in both planning and execution. The flawless execution of our wedding day, from start to finish, was a testament to her expertise. Not only did Cara and her team ensure that our day went off without a hitch, but their vision and creativity also added a touch of magic to every aspect of our wedding. The result was a day that exceeded our wildest dreams. We can't recommend Cara and Utopia Collective highly enough. If you want a wedding planner and team who will go above and beyond to make your day truly extraordinary, look no further. Thank you, Cara, Nancy, and Jenna, for turning our wedding day into a fairytale come true!
I cannot recommend Cara (Utopia Collective) enough! She is sweet, creative, communicative, and supportive. I was so stressed in the process of moving first our wedding location an...
d then our wedding date (due to covid), but Cara kept me sane throughout the whole process. She gave us great vendor recommendations, managed the communication and logistics with all of them, and was phenomenal on the day of the wedding. In the planning process she rolled with my indecisiveness, always ready to give an opinion when I asked for it or support my vision. She always make me feel great about myself and my choices. I didn’t worry about anything on my wedding day because I knew Cara would take care of it. There were a few small issues during the reception (like the room temperature), but all I had to do was find Cara, who was always close by and easy to find, and she solved everything quickly. Truly, truly, I cannot say enough how amazing Cara is. I just completely adore her.
I truly do not know where to begin with our experience with Cara! We hired Cara to be our month of coordinator for a 200+ person backyard, almost fully DIY wedding. She was such an...
amazing help. She guided me through the process, made sure I didn’t miss any details for the entire weekend, recommended vendors immediately upon hire & was beyond professional. This wedding was not an easy task & Cara truly nailed every single piece. She brought in multiple assistants for the day of, worked with vendors on our behalf & made sure everybody was on the same page. She also fully helped with our schedule, kept me on top of everything & did it all with the most calming presence. Every vendor that we hired based off of her recommendations was also a 10/10. Even after the wedding, Cara followed up to make sure everything was handled properly. We had a minor issue with a non-related vendor & Cara totally handled it for me.
Not only was Cara amazing at the planning & coordination, she truly depicts calm grace. At any (& there were several) frantic moments, she took control & fully made me feel at ease. My bridal stress was brought down each & every time I spoke to her. She literally took away all of my stressors one by one. I would hire her a million times over again & could not recommend Cara & her team more.
Cara, THANK YOU for helping make our day go so smoothly. You were beyond all of my expectations & I truly can not thank you enough. I will forever be grateful for you & will always recommend you to fellow brides. You’re the best!
Cara was a dream to work with! She surpassed my expectations and was flexible & responsive through the whole process. I highly recommend hiring her for any design needs for your up...
coming wedding!
I cannot say enough great things about Cara and The Utopia Collective. Cara is so warm and fun while also being extremely professional and dependable. Cara provided so much value a...
nd made me feel certain that my wedding day was going to run smoothly and efficiently. Every bride should be so lucky to work with Cara!
Hiring Cara and her team was the best decision we made throughout wedding planning. We hired her for month of planning and she went above and beyond well before the month of to ma...
ke sure we had the best day possible. She was so helpful in every way we didn't know we needed, long before the actual wedding day she had alleviated most of the stress we were anticipating. On the day of Cara and Nancy were both incredible and handled everything so we had as little stress and as much fun as possible. We cannot thank them enough we truly would not have loved our wedding as much as we did if we did not have them supporting us throughout the day but also the entire planning process.
After lots of deliberation and many deposits already paid, we decided to go forth with our wedding during Covid-19 with some modifications. Cara had such flexibility and brought so...
me great ideas to deal with a wedding during a pandemic. With her help, we decided to live-stream our wedding, so that our elderly and immune compromised guests would be able to attend virtually. Cara also had a great idea of handing out masks to our guests that were our wedding colors of mauve and pearl. A great touch! All in all, even though we had to scale our wedding back, I would 100% recommend Cara to anyone. She really helped us reimagine our vision to have the safest wedding possible during Covid. Thanks so much!!!!
What is often considered one of the most stressful days in a person’s life, we couldn’t have asked for a better ceremony. Cara was great every step of the way! She heard our vision...
and executed it beautifully, and for that I am forever grateful. I could not have done this without her! From our initial consultation, to watching my wife join me under the chuppah (that Cara took the time to have beautifully decorated with all of our favorite flowers), I am in awe at how smoothly everything went as it did-this was no accident! The thought of organizing an event for 100+ guests is something much less daunting having Cara by my side. She dealt with my indecisiveness with poise and professionalism and went above and beyond to make sure that we had everything that we needed, and thought of details that would have never crossed my mind. She took our vision and ran with it, because this certainly wasn’t her first rodeo. I felt like we were in good hands throughout the entire time, and would certainly recommend her to plan and execute a beautiful wedding to anyone. Thanks, Cara!!!!
After two postponed dates due to Covid-19 we shifted gears to a small outdoor wedding. Cara was with us every step of the way and helped make would could have been a frustrating ti...
me very hopeful and our wedding day was seamless. It was not the wedding we originally planned but it turned out to be the most perfect day and we could not have pulled it out with Cara's ongoing support and positivity!!!
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Philadelphia | NJ | NYC | Upstate NY
The Utopia Collective