Your Event - Paula Smith Designs Inc. is a wedding planning and event design service based in Millerton, NY. Owner and director, Paula Smith, has over 25 years of experience as both a designer and event planner and has overseen numerous high-profile events. Paula brings a fresh approach to the planning field along with special expertise in transforming venues, locations and party spaces as well as ensuring that each detail has been carefully considered and fits into the big picture. You’ll feel completely at ease in her capable hands!
Our standards are high; our attention to detail unsurpassed. The care and pride we take in accommodating each couple’s individual needs is something we do wholeheartedly. With Your Event, you really can have the exact wedding you want.
Depending on the nature of each wedding, we have a highly talented and reliable team of professional artisans, caterers, craftsmen and vendors to create environments, lighting effects, catering, floral arrangements, photography, rentals, music, entertainment, invitations, signage and print collateral.
Quite simply, Your Event takes pride, passion, and heart in being a dedicated and experienced team whose goal is to afford you a luxury otherwise hard to come by.
Wedding and Event Services:
Full Planning
Partial Planning
Month-of-Coordination
Micro Weddings
Design & Styling
Venue & Location Scouting
Bespoke Invitation Suites - Design, Printing and Letterpress Services as well as Curated Stationary & Invitation Lines
Calligraphy
Signage - Design, Printing & Fabrication
Gifting
Additional Wedding Celebrations:
Elopements
Vow Renewals
Wedding Weekends
Brunches & Luncheons
Bridal Showers
Engagement Parties
Bachelorette & Bachelor Party Weekends
Destinations
Design Services:
We take the greatest pride in conceptualizing what will make your event a true representation of you and your style. With many years of experience in creative development, our expertise and comfort lies in designing a unique vision for each event. We explore the nuances and arrive at a look and feel that will be on point with your aesthetic. This process is presented in a visual storyboard of color, textures and styles that will serve as a graphic road map as the details of your event unfold. It is our job to be your visionaries in the creative process, arriving at an experience that will encompass everything you imagined and beyond.
Our primary service area is within a 90-mile radius of Millerton, NY but travel to other destinations is available.
Woman-owned
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?
$8,000
What is the starting price for full wedding planning?
10 out of 5 for Paula Smith & the Your Event Team!
We will keep this short to make sure you read this all the way through – trust us and the many exceptional reviews that Paula Smith and the Your Event Team is the absolute BEST and a MUST to book for your event!
Words cannot fully express the gratitude and appreciation we have for Paula Smith and the Your Event Team for creating an unforgettable and beautiful wedding day for us. From the first moment we spoke with Paula when looking for a wedding planner, we knew she would be perfect for our special day. Her immediate care for us as a couple, unconditional support, guidance, attention to detail and the skill and love for her craft was clear throughout our entire year of communication (and beyond our wedding day). She is a true professional in every way, from managing us as clients and our vendors (who she knows of MANY and all adore and admire her), to ensuring every small and big detail was accounted for and making sure we were happy and calm throughout the entire process. Her emails and calls always brighten our days and made us feel calm and supported in both the smoothest and the most stressful days. Her consistent communication, scheduling and management of every detail (and there were many!) was outstanding. Paula always made us feel at ease, finding a solution to anything that came our way throughout the entire process and most importantly the day of. She went above and beyond to make sure our creative vision was beautifully executed, and day of events went exactly as we had imagined and more. Our wedding day was everything anyone would ever dream of – smooth, stress free and full of love and joy. We fully trusted Paula and her team, and we are so beyond grateful and lucky to have had them be a HUGE part of our special day. Paula truly made us feel like family, and she is most certainly a part of ours! We feel so lucky and blessed to have met her and will forever be grateful to her for making our wedding year memorable and special.
Your Event - Paula Smith Designs Inc.'s reply:
Dear Tanya,
I'm not sure if your review is considered "short" but it so, I can only say knowing you now the way I do, everything you do is in-depth and oh-so-generous. I am so very grateful to you for this shout out and the details that we addressed for you throughout your experience. Working with you both was a sheer joy from the first hello to the last goodbye hug in the wee hours of your night. I respected the endless details and styling you put forth in the creation of "Your Wedding Day" and was so very honored that you trusted us to manage and execute when we stepped in for your month-of. Your wedding was gorgeous and you are a very special couple indeed. You will always hold a special place in my heart.
Thank you so much!
Paula
Kate L. Married on 10/14/2022
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Talented, humble, hilarious, professional, and organized. Simply the best!
I’ve been thinking of what to write for my review for quite some time and I still cannot put into words how simply incredible of a person and planner Paula is.
Paula is one of the best people we have ever met, period. She led us, our vendors, and her team through 2 reschedulings due to COVID-19, and produced the most beautiful wedding beyond anything we ever could have imagined.
Paula is patient, kind, and so humble. Please do take my word on this because as a licensed therapist with a decade of experience, I consider myself to be a fair judge of character.
There were so many times when she easily could have fired us (and it would’ve been fair); we didn’t mean to be, but we were bridezilla and groomzilla. We’re perfectionists and both work minimum of 50hrs/week and our work became super busy in the month before the wedding. We worked with her over the course of THREE years and never once was she rude or unprofessional despite the fact that there was a global pandemic occurring that threw the wedding industry upside down and sideways. The other vendors only ever had wonderful things to say about her too.
Paula’s skills speak for herself and can be viewed on her website, but what you can’t easily see is that she is so hard working and thinks of details I’ve never heard of! My aunt has unobtainably high standards and was a bit high maintenance at the wedding and even she was impressed by Paula!
In sum, if you’re on the fence, call her and see for yourself. Paula, if you see this we love you and our next fluffy child better be adorable because they’re going to be named Paul or Paula in your honor! (No, we’re not kidding.)
Photos by Eichar photography, venue is the Sablewood by Lisa Shaul, cake by Mazzone catering, and florals by Monika Boston of Burke and Boston - I recommend all of them (and yes, Paula showed us venue and connected us to vendors other than the photographers). Photos below are from preview and not the full album; will post more professional photos with details once we have them.
Your Event - Paula Smith Designs Inc.'s reply:
WOW Kate and Chris...thank you thank you thank you!!! We've certainly logged many miles together (with wild detours!) given the hand we were dealt these last years with COVID. With that, came many opportunities to learn each other and understand deeply not only what your wedding day dreams were but what an extraordinary couple you are. My heart broke each time we had to lean in another direction and I thought no one deserves this. Your love conquered the changing tides. And I am so glad that I was able to steer, console, temper the anxiety and in the end deliver the wedding you dreamed of and so deserved. We had some good laughs because it was better than crying, right? And I can't wait to meet your 4-legged Paul(a) one day. Thanks to this "longest running replanning", I know with all certainty that "great event" are worth waiting for. Love you both so!
Karianna H. Married on 09/24/2022
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Hire Paula and her team for a magical, stress-free event!
We worked with Paula for our engagement party in a rustic barn setting, and I cannot recommend her team enough! Paula and her team ensured that our party was beautiful, on-time, and stress-free. All of our guests enjoyed the evening - it was truly magical! Paula is thoughtful, professional, and truly a joy to work with. She considers every single detail, down to the tiniest things (that add up to make a big difference!) Do not hesitate to hire her for your next event!
Your Event - Paula Smith Designs Inc.'s reply:
Dear Karianna,
Thank you so much for this lovely review! We loved being with you to kick off your engagement and to welcome your favorite people to this gem of a setting. It was such a pleasure for us and an honor!
Enjoy this special time dreaming about your next steps and big day!
