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Rachel MacQueen
Rachel MacQueen
Owner

Woman-owned

4 years in business

We speak English

10 team members

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!

Pricing

$2,750 starting price
$2,750 average price
Most popular
Day-of Coordination
$2,750 / starting price
Access to our 11 planning resources
Venue walkthrough
Collaborative creation of a day-of timeline
Vendor communication and confirmations
Ceremony rehearsal
Open door policy for advice and contract review
8 hours of coordination day-of with 2 coordinators
1 meeting for timeline logistics and final to-dos
Partial Planning Services
$5,440 / starting price
1 priorities/budget meeting to kick things off
Vendor research and sourcing for 3 vendors
All features from day-of coordination

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FAQ

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

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Reviews of Firmly Rooted Events

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Rachel and Firmly Rooted Events receive glowing reviews for their exceptional service and thorough coordination, with multiple reviewers praising Rachel's attention to detail, organization, and helpfulness throughout the planning process and on the wedding day. Clients highlight Rachel's assistance in creating detailed timelines and coordinating with vendors, ultimately leading to a smoothly executed wedding day. Her professionalism, warmth, and effective communication are noted, with reviewers highly recommending her services for a stress-free and unforgettable wedding experience.

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This AI-generated summary gives you a snapshot of the overall ratings and feedback from the reviews this vendor has received.

Rachel and Firmly Rooted Events receive glowing reviews for their exceptional service and thorough coordination, with multiple reviewers praising Rachel's attention to detail, organization, and helpfulness throughout the planning process and on the wedding day. Clients highlight Rachel's assistance in creating detailed timelines and coordinating with vendors, ultimately leading to a smoothly executed wedding day. Her professionalism, warmth, and effective communication are noted, with reviewers highly recommending her services for a stress-free and unforgettable wedding experience.

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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