I am totally the girl who has dreamed about her wedding day since she was young and always hoped it would be magical. Both my husband and I, when asked about our recent marriage in June, have responded with, “we had the perfect day.” The tranquility and loveliness of our day was the direct result of the Michelle Durpettie Events team. During the first year of our engagement, I lived with my fiancé in Italy and with the help of MDE, I was able to accomplish all the typical “milestone markers” such as choosing a venue, a church, a dress, music, flowers etc without stress because they were with me step by step. No request was to extreme, no complaint was unheard, and no question went unanswered. When I would fly home to see family, they made themselves available for me at all hours and organized all the specific vendors to follow in their lead. When I was away, I would get email updates about work they were accomplishing while I was gone.

Besides being coordinators who become your friends and family in the process of planning (which we totally did with brunch, venue choosing and laugher filled meetings with my mom) MDE provided an amazing list of vendors which makes a difference when you are overwhelmed by choices. Their recommended vendors were reliable, experienced, and professional.

Two months later, our guests are still talking about the details, the creative touches, and the uniqueness of our wedding day. I really cannot express how thankful I was to have a wedding planner from day on. I tell every one of my single friends, they would be crazy not to hire MDE because with them, anything they could dream to want, is possible for THEIR day.

There is seriously no better wedding planner than Michelle and her team. From the second I got engaged, I told my mom we need to work with her! I didn't even think about going to anyone else because Michelle is simply the best! Our wedding day wouldn't have been possible without all the help and ideas from Michelle. Throughout the entire planning process she kept us on track and provided us with the best advice to make our wedding day perfect. Her attention to detail, organization, and experience is what makes her so successful. She came into every meeting with such enthusiasm and excitement while still being extremely organized and professional. Her knowledge and expertise is unparalleled. She gives the best advise and I felt truly had our backs when it came to booking the vendors. In addition to helping us plan an over 500 person wedding, she and her team also made the day run so smoothly. They were there from morning till night making sure everything was getting done/happening when it was supposed to. My mom, my dad, and I could not have done this wedding without Michelle and her team. Thank you for everything you did to make our day run perfectly!!!!! Again, MDE you are the best!!!

I don’t even know where to begin to explain how thankful we are that we hired Michelle and Jill from MDE for our wedding! These girls went above and beyond to help make our wedding the most amazing day of our lives! I interviewed several other planning companies, but knew right away that I wanted to work with Michelle and her team. She was extremely professional, yet very personal and we connected right away. When Michelle first showed me an example of the timeline that they put together for their clients wedding days, I was very impressed but was not aware of how much time and energy it took to put together until we started on ours. These girls had the day planned out, down to every minute. I have great respect for people that pay that much attention to detail and are that organized. Michelle and Jill were always readily available to help me with any and all wedding tasks! Their well-informed opinions on vendors and many other things were extremely valuable in helping to plan our wedding. The experience the girls at MDE have gained over the years planning events in Chicago made me very confident in what they were suggesting to me. They know pretty much every vendor in the city and have worked with them one way or another so they knew exactly who I needed to hire to make our wedding day everything we imagined.

While we had a few issues arise the day of our wedding due to weather, Michelle and her team handled them very professionally and none of our guests even knew that anything happened, and neither did we, until after the reception! These girls put us completely at ease the entire day. This was a gift in itself because we were able to completely enjoy our wedding day from the minute we woke up to the minute we left the reception. They were hands down the best investment we made for our wedding! I wish we could do it all over again every weekend! =) Thank you so much for everything MDE! You girls are rockstars!