Kelly McWilliams and her team are elite. I am still in absolute awe at the wedding weekend they created! Every one my dreams and my partners' needs came to life, and I never wanted the weekend (or the party) to end.

First and foremost, Kelly made me feel like more than just a client from the very moment we got on the phone. She made me comfortable like you'd feel just speaking with a good friend, and I knew she was truly listening to everything I was looking for in our planner and wedding. We had come into the process with her after already obtaining a venue and a few vendors, having realized we were in over our heads trying to plan this, especially with being at a distance early on. She took over as a full-service planner immediately.

Kelly and Catie helped us connect with top vendors in the area and arrange contracts swiftly, and with her mark of approval and good working history, we were able to be confident in our selections. We were getting the best team together! Calls with Kelly were extremely organized, and the "homework" she had me do allowed us to come into each of those conversations with all the information we needed to make important decisions with ease and no regrets or waffling. She was always able to answer questions, and helped us when our original venue pushed us around or wouldn't respond.

When Hurricane Ian hit, the Fort Myers/Sanibel/Captiva area was devastated. We watched from afar, awaiting anxiously, as we realized our original venue in Captiva was no longer in any condition to host our January wedding. Despite having no electricity or water and with a practically non-existent cell signal, Kelly wasted no time in reaching out to reassure us that she was ON A MISSION to make sure our wedding would still happen, despite the tragedy. Within days, she had found us a new venue that was PERFECT in the Sanibel Harbour Marriott, and she was able to arrange the contracts and notify all our vendors about the new location while we still maintained our original date! In that moment, there was no question, Kelly was invaluable. She was worth her weight in platinum, and then some.

She attended a second venue tour and menu tasting with us, now that we had to redo a lot of decision-making. She reassured me that all the new changes to the carefully crafted wedding plan would come together beautifully. At this point, she had also hired Nicholas, whose involvement in our wedding planning was just an incredible addition. The pair ensured every detail was managed, and his logistical execution paired with Kelly's design allowed for a gorgeous wedding landscape. They handled every little snag that came up along the way, and were always a text or call away no matter what. They organized everything down to the minute, and no stone was left unturned.

When wedding weekend came, they were on site at almost all times. They executed a gorgeous rehearsal dinner (with a surprise theme just to excite us) and a beautiful welcome reception that our guests adored. Kelly and Nicholas ensured I could focus on enjoying the party and my guests, and any time I needed anything, they were there to take care of it, while still taking care of starting to prepare the ballroom for the reception the next night.

On wedding day, things were stunning and seamless. The vendors were all on time and everything was set up without me having to be involved. The team she recommended executed beautifully. The design Kelly had shown me came to life in a more stunning manner than I could have ever imagined. The ceremony went perfectly, with every detail covered. Our guests loved every minute of it. Dinner and the reception were unbelievable - if only that night could last forever! We loved it, and our guests are probably now ruined for all other weddings. We didn't have to lift a finger the whole weekend, and my husband and I are so blessed to have work with Kelly and her team. We are going to absolutely miss working with them!

There's no question about it, hire Kelly to plan, design, and coordinate your wedding. You will never regret it.

Kelly is an amazing wedding planner and I would highly recommend using her! She navigated us through a date change and many other obstacles, and was always reliable and able to problem solve efficiently. Her relationship with local vendors in Naples is invaluable, and she put together such an amazing team to make our wedding day a huge success. She was also a comforting voice of reason throughout the planning process. I cannot recommend her enough!

Kelly has been through the ups and downs of planning a wedding pre and post-covid and despite multiple date changes and location change, she was there through it all! She helped us plan our DREAM wedding in the Carribean without knowing the venue or the island, and used her expertise to make everything we had planned perfect. She's patient, flexible and understood really well what we wanted.

I hired Kelly one month before my wedding to coordinate day-of and my only regret is not hiring her sooner. WOW! Kelly seriously has her stuff together (my husband affectionately calls her kick-a** Kelly). I consider myself an organized person, but Kelly’s attention to detail is next-level. She came with me to a final venue walk-through and whenever I wasn’t sure about a decision, I knew I could look to her for advice. She lets her brides exercise their creativity, but is there to guide you in the right direction. The day of our wedding, I hardly had to think about any planning or execution, because Kelly and her assistant were making sure it was done before I even asked. They anticipated everyone’s needs and took care of things I never would have thought of. Apparently it rained briefly right before I walked down the aisle. I was blissfully unaware inside while Kelly moved my guests under an overhang, wiped down the chairs, and started the ceremony on time. She’s an angel you need overseeing your wedding. I would recommend her to anyone looking for a coordinator, but would really urge you to not make the same mistake I did and hire her early on to plan and design everything, too!

Words cannot describe how happy I am that we hired Kelly as a wedding coordinator for our wedding. Even though we hired her as a coordinator I had Kelly’s support and expertise throughout our year and a half of planning.

I never had to question if my wedding would go smoothly because I always knew Kelly would make it happen. Hiring Kelly was the single most important decision we made in our wedding planning. No small detail was missed and nothing went wrong because of her expertise. She is also one of the sweetest people I have ever met. You will not regret hiring Kelly for your big day.

I have absolutely loved working with Kelly! She is incredibly creative, super attentive, and authentically puts her heart in to every event she touches. She's never afraid to try new things, and has the experience to conquer any obstacle that might come up. Her personality is so fun and calming to be around - you'll love having her lead your wedding team!

I cannot say enough about what a wonderful and professional job Kelly and her entire staff do. Her creativity and attention to detail are spot on. If you are looking for someone to make your wedding dreams come true, look no further.

Recently engaged? Planning your wedding? Where do you start?

Let me me share as a newly engaged Bride, hiring a wedding planner is the number one step I can recommend. Especially someone who is such a wealth of knowledge of the area your getting married in. Kelly McWilliams knows all the secret local places to check out. And she has an amazing vendor team set up for you to hire for your wedding day, no matter what your style is. We absolutely love working with Kelly because she takes in every couples vision of their wedding and brings it to life. While also being stress free and fun. It is a complete joy to work alongside her. And you will be forever grateful having her plan not just your wedding day but the whole week for your friends and family to enjoy.

Kelly came highly recommended from a friend of my mother’s. We only had 7 months to plan everything (with me in Cleveland and my mom in Captiva), and luckily Kelly was available on the date we had chosen. She set up an initial consult call that quickly focused us on all of the decisions we would need to make. (On a side note, Kelly is impossibly chic in person—as soon as I met her, I knew she had taste and great style).

Kelly was so valuable during the planning process because she has contacts not only in Southwest Florida, but nationally. She was able to recommend florists, hair & makeup, photographers, music and anything else we needed. Originally we were going to have our wedding on the beach, but the red tide forced us to reconsider. Kelly helped us figure out how to move it to our house and designed a schematic for where everyone would sit. The resulting ceremony far exceeded my expectations for a beach wedding—and I never would have thought it was possible (“Kelly, this is going to sound a little crazy... what if we did it at the house?”), but Kelly was quickly able to envision a beautiful, intimate, personal ceremony.

I had a very specific idea about the atmosphere I wanted to create with the flower arrangements, but no idea how it could be executed. Kelly was able to take those ideas to the florist and turned them into reality for the ceremony and the reception. When guests walked into the reception, the immediate reaction was incredible.

When our invitation designer fell behind and didn't have everything completed until the week of the wedding, Kelly quickly mobilized and got everything printed for us locally in less than 48 hours.

There were so many little things my mom and I never would have thought of, but Kelly is a consummate pro. Every part of the wedding had Kelly's touch: welcome bags, bringing parasols for guests to use at the ceremony, designing and printing the parking signs, getting a videographer for free, bringing over a cot for overflow guests at our house, reusing the setup for our reception and countless other things we probably weren’t even aware of. She kept everyone on schedule and made sure the wedding party knew their roles. She especially put my dad at ease as the officiant. (My dad was under the impression that because he was officiating the ceremony, it wouldn’t be right for him to walk me down the aisle! Kelly quickly disabused him of this fanciful notion, thank god).

From my and my husband’s perspective, there was truly nothing that went wrong the day of (that we were aware of). Our wedding day was surprisingly stress-free, and we honestly couldn’t have been happier. We went from debating whether we just wanted to go to the courthouse to ultimately having a ceremony and reception that were really suited to our personalities and we are so glad we did it. Kelly was instrumental in this successful outcome. I truly can’t imagine anyone else would have been able to do what she did. I highly recommend Kelly and if you hire her for your day you will be so glad you did!

Hiring Kelly for day-of coordination for our destination wedding on Captiva Island, Florida, was the best decision we made. After reading about and talking to several local planners, we chose Kelly because she was the planner who spent more time asking us about our vision than telling us everything she could do for us - from the very beginning she sought to understand what we were looking for and then make it happen. Kelly arrived at our introductory meeting brimming with questions to elicit our vision and seemed as excited about our wedding as we were. Even at our first meeting, when we shared our ideas, such as what we wanted in a venue, she offered options we hadn’t known about or considered - and when we checked them out, we knew she “got” our vision.

Once we hired Kelly, she immediately got to work. She sent comprehensive, clear, and very useful planning and guiding materials. The materials for planning the ceremony stood out to us, in particular because they were inclusive - but in a matter-of-fact way (language examples for mixed and same-sex ceremonies, religious and secular ceremonies, as well as simple and elaborate ceremonies). We deeply appreciated this thoughtful consideration of diversity. Kelly expanded the wedding planning space to include us rather than force us to fit into someone else’s ideas of a lesiban wedding - or any other kind of wedding.

Kelly’s recommendations reflected that she heard what we told her. She planned our wedding for us. She did not make assumptions - nothing felt predetermined, or cookie-cutter. Kelly seems to really enjoy her work and to want her clients to have a great wedding experience. Her energy and love of her work came through time and again. Although we hired Kelly for day-of coordination, she was readily available to answer questions and provide suggestions for other elements of our destination wedding. A couple of times, she talked us through a thorny issue over the phone - after all of these communications, we felt more confident and sure that everything would be great - and it was!

Kelly not only went above and beyond her actual obligations, she also exceeded every possible expectation we could have had. She thought of things we hadn’t considered (sun parasols for our guests to use at the ceremony, complete with wedding party names; chargers to augment our simple table settings; a hand-lettered sign for our signature cocktail at the bar). She helped us with last-minute challenges related to the rehearsal dinner. More than anything else, Kelly inspired our confidence and our trust, made us feel special without feeling different, and she delivered.