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Firmly Rooted Events is a wedding planning and wedding coordination company based in Elk Grove Village, IL. Their goal is to provide couples with a stress free wedding planning process so that you can truly enjoy yourselves along with your family and friends from your engagement all the way to wedding day. You can always reach out to Rachel for any advice and help throughout the process with her “open door policy”. While working with Firmly Rooted Events, you can be sure that your wedding will be taken care of and you won't have to worry about a thing.

Owner Rachel MacQueen is a passionate planner that works to provide a smooth planning process for all of her couples. She has always been organized, but she realized while planning her own wedding how much she enjoyed event planning. Rachel began her work alongside her own wedding coordinator that has over 20 years of experience. She still works as a lead coordinator and timeline manager, but really enjoys getting to know her couples in her own business. Her hope is to make sure that her couples are able to enjoy themselves during their engagements just as she did while planning for her wedding. Whether you are a Type-A person yourself, or you need someone to plan all the details for you, Rachel wants to make sure you can sit back and relax knowing she will take care of you.

Firmly Rooted Events begins working for you as soon as you book. Rachel offers day-of coordination all the way to full service planning and any of the options are customizable to fit your specific needs. She will get the ball rolling and make sure that all of your details are accounted for so that you, your family, and friends don’t have to manage details on your wedding day. You can be certain that your wedding day will run as smoothly as possible working with Rachel, and you will begin your marriage on the right foot with strong, firm roots!

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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$1,200

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$4,650

Do you offer an hourly rate?

No

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Day-of Coordination
Full Planning
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Civil
Non-Religious
Religious

Reviews of Firmly Rooted Events

Mariel
Mariel Sent on 10/20/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Rachel is a true professional!

Working with Rachel was the best experience. Any questions we had she had answers for. On our day, she kept every piece moving and we didn't have to worry about a thing. Booking her booked us true peace of mind. And my family loved her too!
Alex
Alex Sent on 12/02/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Hire Rachel! You won't be disappointed

Working with Rachel and Firmly Rooted Events was one of the best (if not the best) decisions that we made. Although we hired Rachel for Day-of Coordination, she was with us throughout our entire planning process. Rachel reviewed ALL of our proposed contracts with vendors – venue, caterer, hotel, florist, DJ, transportation – catching little details that we would have missed and raising questions we didn’t think to ask. She provided suggestions on vendors and answered any questions we had at any point in the process. A few weeks before our wedding, we had a call with Rachel to co-create an extremely detailed and thorough timeline for the day of the wedding. This timeline alone was well worth the cost of hiring Rachel/FRE! It wasn’t so much about following the timeline to the minute; simply having the timeline gave us so much peace of mind and allowed us to go into our wedding day knowing that we’d thought through all the important logistical/timing aspects and had a plan – a rock-solid one – for the day’s events. Come rehearsal and wedding day, Rachel and her team were on top of everything and helped put all the final pieces into place, working seamlessly with all of our other vendors. (Rachel, by the way, also contacted each of our vendors in the weeks leading up to the wedding and made sure they had copies of our timeline.) Rachel also provided a host of other resources that helped at various stages – a budget template, a tipping guide for vendors, suggestions for an emergency kit for any day-of issues, a last-minute checklist. On top of all this, Rachel is a joy to work with personally. She’s kind, patient, warm and smart and has great planning instincts. We truly cannot recommend Rachel enough. Hire her! You won’t be disappointed.
Aubrey
Aubrey Sent on 11/14/2024
5 out of 5 rating

The support system that got me through!

Rachel and her team made not only our wedding day run smoothly, but the entire planning process. I always felt supported and I knew I could trust Rachel with anything! She's so easy to talk to and she was always happy to answer any questions or concerns that came up. Having her and her team there on our big day to handle the logistics made the biggest difference in the world. I really don't think we could have pulled off such a wonderful day without them!
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Mei L. Sent on 12/28/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing, highly recommend!

I highly recommend working with Rachel and the Firmly Rooted Events team! She is incredibly kind and makes the whole experience with her so easy. As a fellow wedding vendor, all of her communication is incredible which makes my job easier and as a result helps our mutual clients get an even greater experience. You can really feel her enthusiasm for her job and her clients which makes ALL the difference. Plus, I love that she's also a fellow dog person! 10/10 highly recommend the FRE team!
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Ally Sent on 01/15/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Book Rachel for your wedding day!

Rachel was the best coordinator to work with and made our wedding day a dream come true! She was so organized and stayed in touches with our vendors to ensure the day ran flawlessly. Not only was Rachel patient, kind, and so friendly to work with, she answered all of our questions and helped in every way possible. She communicated well and made sure all of our family members were fully present on the wedding day. I highly recommend working with Rachel to make your day truly perfect.
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Frederick Sent on 12/26/2022
5 out of 5 rating

The best day-of planner

Booking Rachel was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding day. She was incredibly professional, extremely punctual and well-prepared, as well as easy-going, and so easy to be around. She was a joy to work with. She made the whole day a breeze for us and infinitely less stressful than we anticipated. Our biggest regret is not booking her earlier in the planning process. Would highly recommend.
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