Pennywell Events is a professional wedding planning service in New Orleans, Louisiana, committed to creating elegant and personal celebrations. Owned and operated by Alicia LaHaie, the company prides itself on crafting spectacular ceremonies and receptions. From start to finish, this professional works with ready-to-wed couples to ensure their wedding planning experience is both fun and stress-free. Pennywell Events prides itself on being an inclusive vendor to all couples as an advocate to ensure that your wedding day is exactly what you want without judgement and fully embracing the love that the two of you share.

Services Offered

Pennywell Events offers an assortment of wedding planning services and amenities. I'd love to set up a consultation call or meeting with you to learn all about your desired style and planning needs to help you host the event of a lifetime. For a truly unforgettable experience, options include the following:

• Full Planning

Full Planning is best suited for any couple that has perhaps recently gotten engaged and needs help from the start or those with an already full schedule with work and everyday life who just may not have the time to dedicate to researching and planning on their own.​

We are there to listen to your vision and help to find you a short list of the best venues that fit your criteria but that are also going to allow you to stay within your budget. We set up venue tours, either in person or virtually depending on your schedule, and work to get you the answers you need to make the decision based on available dates and the specific items that are important to you.

There is more time and effort dedicated specifically to your wedding to ensure that the planning is being handled even when you may not have the time. We curate a list of vendors specifically for you based on your desires and needs, assist you in booking all of your vendors from music and photography to rentals and transportation. We also work with each of your vendors to coordinate the events leading up to your wedding and the wedding day itself.

• ​Partial Planning

Partial Wedding Planning is best suited for the couples that have already booked their venue and their wedding date. They have booked their top priority vendors such as caterer, photographer, musicians and/or florist.

​Typically, this is the plan couples pick when they start out strong in the planning process but it becomes too overwhelming for them to sustain either due to scheduling/timing restraints or simply overwhelming stress trying to do it all. That’s where we would step in to help to get the Couple to the wedding day with less stress and a personalized resource guide put together specifically for their event and their needs.

• Event Management

Event Management, also commonly referred to as Month-of-Coordination or Day-of-Coordination, is the level of service we recommend for those couples that have booked or plan to book all of their vendors on their own and do most of the planning themselves, but really would love for someone to step in toward the end to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and be there to make the wedding weekend run smoothly.

Each of the planning levels of service include coordinating with every one of your vendors while putting together your customized Wedding Day-of Timeline so that everyone works together as a cohesive team.

• Wedding Consulting

As a human, I can only be in one place at a time. I would love to be a part of everyone’s wedding day and be there for them as an advocate to ensure that everything runs smoothly, but until they are able to clone myself and my knowledge, I’ll have to settle for one wedding at a time. However, being that I have all of this knowledge about weddings and I can’t take it all to the grave one day, I would love to share my knowledge with you to help your wedding planning go a little easier, hopefully a lot less stressful, and give you the guidance you need to not feel insane throughout the whole process. So, I am here to give you the option to pick my brain and use the experiences and know-how that I have living rent free in my head to benefit you.

Location

Pennywell Events proudly offers wedding planning services to couples located throughout Louisiana, from New Orleans to Shreveport. Destination weddings in the New Orleans area are our speciality but traveling anywhere across the globe is always an option for any couple.