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Wild Heights Events is a full-service event design and planning company with headquarters and hearts on both coasts: Brooklyn, NY and San Diego, CA. We live to help couples wholeheartedly enjoy their wedding experience by ensuring every detail is thoughtfully designed, impeccably organized, and seamlessly executed. We passionately pursue each wedding vision and bring love stories to life by curating ideas and custom designing personal touches. Owner Willa Dunn works closely with each couple to provide the guidance and support needed during the wedding planning process, making for a stress-less experience. Wild Heights Event’s celebrations are tailored to consider each couple’s budget, personality, and style. A true dynamic duo, we handle the logistics with ease while curating unique design concepts that bring visions to life.


Services Offered
Wild Heights Event Design and Coordination believes that every celebration has meaning, and everyone deserves the wedding of their dreams. They can arrange partial or full planning for rehearsal dinners, ceremonies, and receptions. Whether an eco-friendly or religious celebration, they can help with budget analysis, event design, guest lists, timelines, and to-do lists. Wild Heights Event Design and Coordination is an ideal choice for couples planning their special day in the big apple.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$11,000

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$25,000

Do you offer an hourly rate?

Yes

What is the hourly rate?

$200

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Full Planning
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Cultural
Destination
Elopement
Eco-Friendly
Non-Religious

Reviews of Wild Heights Event Design and Coordination

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Wild Heights is praised as an exceptionally organized, creative, and calm wedding planning and design team that brings couples' visions to life. Reviewers highlight excellent vendor recommendations, seamless logistics and day‑of coordination, beautiful personalized details, and graceful problem‑solving under pressure. Highly recommended for a stress‑free, well‑designed wedding.

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Wild Heights is praised as an exceptionally organized, creative, and calm wedding planning and design team that brings couples' visions to life. Reviewers highlight excellent vendor recommendations, seamless logistics and day‑of coordination, beautiful personalized details, and graceful problem‑solving under pressure. Highly recommended for a stress‑free, well‑designed wedding.

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Alex Sent on 11/29/2022
5 out of 5 rating

We had our dream wedding thanks to Willa

Willa and her team truly made our dream wedding come to life. From our initial call to the final minutes of our wedding night, Willa was attentive, thoughtful, and intentional. Our initial call with her was super confidence-inspiring as she asked us how we envisioned our wedding and what was important to us. She made all of our wishes come true and was flexible with her time, and worked within our budget every step of the way. She has a phenomenal group of vendors she works with and has an amazing eye. We couldn't be happier with how everything turned out, and we've already recommended her to our recently engaged friends.
Sarah
Sarah Sent on 05/25/2026
5 out of 5 rating

An amazing planner!

Willa is the absolute most amazing planner!!! Cannot recommend highly enough. We can not thank her and her team enough for making our wedding day so amazing. She helped us bring our vision to life so perfectly, was an absolute joy to work with, and was incredibly organized and supportive through the planning process. Her design skills are incredible and we are so grateful to have worked with her!
Phuong
Phuong Sent on 08/17/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Willa is the best wedding planner ever!

We truly can't thank Willa enough for bringing all of our visions to life for our special day! We started working with her and her team about 18 months out from the wedding, and, from day 1 until our wedding day, she was there for us every moment along the way, whether it was helping us tour wedding venues in Southern California, meeting us at a warehouse to select furniture rentals, or making sure every single minute detail was accounted for on the day of. With our busy schedules, she was always so flexible and accommodating with her time, and we truly appreciated it.

Her eye for design and ability to translate our visions into reality is nothing short of incredible. My wife and I met on a dating app, Coffee Meets Bagel, and wanted to incorporate a coffee into our overall theme, and she was able to bring that to life with a beautiful letterboard coffee shop menu for our seating chart, along with other beautiful paper goods that played into the overall theme.

We loved getting to connect with her (and her dog Walter!) on Zoom throughout the process and she always made the conversations and process enjoyable, and the next steps felt seamless. On the day of the wedding, everything went so smooth and we didn't miss a beat thanks to her flawlessly coordinating with all of our vendors and the venue coordinator.

We truly couldn't have picked a better wedding planner and already miss working with Willa! 10/10 recommend Wild Heights if you're looking for the right person to bring all of your dream wedding visions to life!
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Evan Sent on 03/23/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Great for bespoke wedding design/planning

We strongly recommend Wild Heights for wedding planning and design services. Willa was absolutely terrific, providing premium-level service at a cost we were comfortable with. We hired her after booking our venue/caterer, The William Vale in Brooklyn, and she assisted with vendor sourcing, comprehensive planning, design, and day-of coordination. We later added coverage for our rehearsal dinner and post-wedding event, which proved invaluable. Willa was clear about her services upfront and flexible with the contract, allowing us to tailor it to our needs.

Willa immediately understood our “Scandinavian Michelin star restaurant” theme and excelled at bringing our vision to life, consistent with our modern, clean style. She designed stunning, personalized invitations and day-of paper goods that truly reflected us. Her creative problem-solving with florals and a complicated reception installation was exceptional, providing cost-effective solutions that maintained our aesthetic. She also created a cool concept for checking in guests at the reception with hosts as if it were a restaurant.

We truly enjoyed working with Willa over 15 months, and looked forward to our bi-weekly meetings and calls. She navigated venue staff turnover, reassured us whenever we were stressed about things, and was patient despite us being too particular. On the wedding day, everything felt controlled and smooth. She remained calm, professional, and patient, handling guest allergies and a family medical emergency with grace.

Wild Heights is perfect for couples seeking excellent weddings, especially in NYC, upstate/Catskills, or potentially SoCal, particularly those who value design and creative input. She works well with couples looking to be in between being involved in every detail and fully handing over planning to her, and are comfortable developing their vision and plan organically (rather than relying on a preset comprehensive wedding planning checklist). Willa's advice and expertise on vendor sourcing and what aspects of the wedding were worth the budget was extremely helpful.
Molly
Molly Sent on 02/03/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Our Dream Partner!

I cannot imagine a better or more empathetic partner than Willa! We worked with Willa for the 15 months leading up to our wedding, and I can absolutely say that we wouldn’t have been able to do it without her! From day one, Willa approached our special day with an open, problem-solving attitude. She gave us realistic expectations for what was possible in our budget, while still encouraging us to dream. We loved working with a planner who was also a designer, which allowed for our weekend celebration to have a cohesive look that really felt like us. Most importantly, Willa made me feel comfortable enough to be vulnerable in front of her! Everyone should work with Willa and her team!
Lena
Lena Sent on 12/25/2024
5 out of 5 rating

The perfect wedding planner!

Words will not do justice to just how amazing Willa and the Wild Heights Team were for our wedding. My husband and I have crazy work schedules and needed help with each and every aspect of planning our wedding. From our very first Zoom meeting with Willa introducing us to the wedding planning process, touring venues (that somehow all felt like they were made for us), choosing the menu, the florals and other decor and even down to the very last detail (subtle and perfect embossed initials on our menus) Willa and her team were there every step of the way. The result was that we never worried about a thing! Willa found the most perfect vendors for us (we didn’t have a clue) and the whole experience was incredible. When I said I wanted to incorporate hiking into our wedding in the most aesthetically pleasing way possible, Willa and her team put together the seating chart of our dreams. In addition, it poured during our entire wedding day and the Wild Heights Team (including the wonderful Carly and Caroline) didn’t skip a beat - they had not one, but two back up plans (depending on the direction of the rain) and the ceremony and reception were so smooth you would never have known it wasn’t our original plan. I can’t imagine even trying to get through the planning process without a planner, but Willa and her team became more than that for us. After our wedding we missed so much our weekly calls I found myself wishing we had another event soon just so we could use the team again. If you’re wondering whether you need a planner and if Wild Heights is the team - you do and they are!!!
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Nora Sent on 12/06/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Thank you Wild Heights!

Willa helped bring our wedding vision to life!! She has a great design eye and vocabulary, which was very helpful when I lacked that. She had an amazing sense of what would go together to create a cohesive look, and she captured our desired aesthetic perfectly. We received so many compliments on our aesthetic and on the details she worked on us with, from our menus to our ceremony programs to our florals and signage. Her work gave our wedding a more elevated look. She also did a great job handing off our wedding logistics to a coordinator from Wild Heights who killed it the the day of our wedding! Thank you Willa and Wild Heights!!
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Hannah Sent on 11/21/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Labor Day Wedding

Could not recommend Willa more. She was such a pleasure to work with through the whole wedding process. Her recommendations for vendors were absolutely fantastic and she is so unbelievably creative; resulting in a day that was more beautiful than I could have possibly imagined. She recommended that we have a magnet maker instead of a Photo Booth and people are still talking about it. Willa’s execution the day of the wedding was also incredible - she was so calm and knew exactly how to ensure the day went smoothly - we were in a venue that had multiple locations but everything worked out seamlessly.
Brittany
Brittany Sent on 11/04/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Best Wedding Planner

Wila and her team were the absolute best! We were blown away with how overwhelmingly positive the response was from our guests and that was all thanks to Wild Heights. Wila was so helpful, thoughtful and attentive, our wedding day wouldn't have been a huge success without her. Her guidance was so helpful throughout the entire wedding planning experience.
Samara
Samara Sent on 05/22/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Best decision for our wedding

Bottom line: Hiring Wild Heights was the best decision and working with Willa was a dream. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

Long story: We hired WHE for our January 2024 wedding, and when we first met Willa, we were torn between having a summer wedding in upstate NY and a winter wedding in Boston (very different visions!). She coordinated and held our hand through multiple site visits in both places, mapped out pros and cons for us and made the whole thing easy, despite how intimidating it felt before meeting Willa. Once we landed on a venue, Wild Heights handled the hiring and coordination of all of our vendors, always presenting multiple options according to our specific requirements and patiently and professionally guiding us through the process. With so many moving pieces, I cannot imagine doing this again without Willa. She was respectful of our budget and transparent every step of the way so we were relaxed and excited during the planning process. At the wedding, she took care of everything so we were able to fully enjoy and she even came to the rescue when the one vendor we had booked on our own screwed us over at the last minute. Seriously, we had the dream team and wedding weekend and owe that to Willa and Wild Heights.
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Awards

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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2025 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2024 Winner
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