10 Wedding Planners Redefining Luxury Celebrations in Colorado — A love letter to the people who make the mountains even more magical
Colorado is not a subtle backdrop. The Rockies, the ranches, the wide open light, the way a tent in a field can feel more dramatic than any ballroom — this is one of the most visually extraordinary states in the country to get married in. But extraordinary backdrops require extraordinary planners to honor them. Here are ten who do.
Table 6 Productions Denver, Colorado — serving Aspen, Vail, Telluride, Beaver Creek, and destinations worldwide
Heather Allen and Shannon founded Table 6 Productions in 2004 — back when wedding planners, as Heather says, were mostly played by Jennifer Lopez and seen only in movies. Two decades, hundreds of weddings, multiple locations, and every conceivable natural disaster later, the company is still the one couples call when they want something that doesn't look like anyone else's wedding. Heather's work has been featured in Vogue, British Vogue, Martha Stewart, Over the Moon, Brides, and Inside Weddings. She has been voted Event Planner of the Year by Event Solutions and inducted into The Knot's Hall of Fame for fifteen consecutive years. Table 6's signature is deep personalization — they want to know you so well that when guests walk into your wedding, they know immediately whose it is.
Calluna Events Boulder and Denver, Colorado — serving the Mountain West and beyond
Heather Dwight founded Calluna Events in 2004 after a decade in non-profit and corporate events, and what she brought from that world was a rare combination: the organizational precision of corporate planning and the genuine emotional investment of someone who actually cares how the day feels. Brides named Calluna one of the Best Wedding Planners in America every year from 2018 to 2022. BizBash named Heather among the 500 most influential event professionals in the country. Her work has appeared in Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, Style Me Pretty, The Knot, and Rocky Mountain Bride. But what clients describe most is not the accolades — it's Heather's calm. The sense that everything is being handled, and handled by someone who truly loves doing it.
Bluebird Productions Aspen, Colorado — serving the Rocky Mountains and beyond
Virginia Edelson built Bluebird Productions from a career that began in the event offices of The Little Nell — Aspen's only five-star, five-diamond property — and that foundation is visible in everything the company does. Bluebird has been named a top planner by Martha Stewart Weddings, Vogue, and Brides. Their aesthetic is timeless, organic, and deeply rooted in the natural beauty of Colorado: curated florals that feel gathered rather than arranged, tablescapes that breathe, events that feel like the mountains themselves had a hand in the design. Photographers who work regularly in Aspen describe the Bluebird team as always two steps ahead, creating seamless events that run without incident. That invisible precision is the hardest thing to achieve in this business, and Bluebird has made it their signature.
Gold Leaf Event Design & Production Aspen, Colorado — with a New York City office, serving destinations worldwide
Kate Ryan and Chelsea Dillon founded Gold Leaf on a conviction that every event should feel as specific and intentional as the people it celebrates — never generic, never borrowed from another couple's vision. Gold Leaf has been named a top planner by both Martha Stewart Weddings and Vogue, and their work spans venues from The Little Nell in Aspen to The Breakers in Palm Beach to locations abroad. Their signature is the thoughtful detail: names laser-cut from wood as place cards, a snowboard serving as a guestbook at a mountain wedding, faux-fur-capped chairs for a winter ceremony under an open sky. These are not decorative flourishes. They are specific choices made for specific people, and that specificity is what makes a Gold Leaf event feel, above all else, like yours.
Sapphire Celebrations Denver, Colorado — serving Aspen, Vail, Colorado Springs, and statewide
Sapphire Celebrations was founded by mother and daughter Pamela Drennan and Angie Johnston, whose Colorado roots stretch back to 1907 — across the northeastern plains and Rocky Mountain vistas. It's a heritage that informs their work in a way no amount of relocation can replicate: these are women who know this state the way people know a home, and that knowledge shows in every venue recommendation, every vendor relationship, every logistical decision made on behalf of couples who are often planning a Colorado wedding from somewhere far away. For over two decades they have built a team-based approach that gives each client a single dedicated point of contact backed by the collective expertise of the whole firm — a structure that produces the kind of seamless, unhurried experience that high-stakes events require.
Love This Day Events Aspen, Colorado — serving the Rocky Mountains and beyond
Love This Day Events has built its reputation on a specific kind of magic: bringing together the rustic, outdoorsy soul of Colorado with showstopping moments that no one sees coming. Their client list includes Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, for whom they planned a wedding at Dove Mountain in Arizona, and Broadway star Annaleigh Ashford, whose celebration at Devil's Thumb Ranch remains a benchmark for how a Colorado mountain wedding can feel simultaneously intimate and spectacular. Barnyard doors and woodsy garlands alongside fireworks bursting over the newlyweds — that combination of warmth and grandeur, executed without a seam showing, is what Love This Day does best.
Aspen & Ivy Vail and Steamboat Springs, Colorado — serving destinations worldwide including Cabo San Lucas
Aspen & Ivy approaches Colorado mountain weddings with a philosophy that begins with minimizing stress and ends with a celebration that feels entirely effortless — which anyone who has planned a destination event in the Rockies knows is not effortless at all. Serving Vail, Beaver Creek, Estes Park, and Steamboat Springs as their home territory, and traveling internationally for couples who want that same mountain sensibility in other destinations, the team specializes in the full arc from initial coordination to executing every detail of the wedding weekend. Their clients describe the result consistently: showing up on their wedding day and having nothing to manage — because everything already is.
The Nouveau Romantics Denver, Colorado — serving Colorado and destinations worldwide
Founded by Heather Balliet, The Nouveau Romantics was named a top wedding planner in the country by Martha Stewart Weddings — an honor that prompted what Heather describes as a solo dance party and high kicks in her office, which tells you something important about who she is. Her approach is built on the idea that legacy, not just logistics, is what great wedding planning produces: events that reflect the actual couple, their actual story, their actual sense of what matters. Based in Denver and serving Colorado and destinations worldwide, The Nouveau Romantics brings a design-forward, authenticity-first philosophy to every celebration.
Karli & Co. Weddings and Events Vail, Beaver Creek, and Aspen — serving Boston, Cape Cod, and New England as well
Formerly Kelly Karli Weddings & Events, Karli & Co. brings over a decade of luxury event planning experience to Colorado's most iconic mountain destinations. Their approach balances sophisticated design with the kind of unforgettable moments that guests are still talking about years later — a combination that requires both an eye for beauty and a deep understanding of how a wedding actually flows from beginning to end. They collaborate closely with each couple from initial concept through final execution, and their reach across both Colorado and New England makes them a natural fit for destination couples coming from the East Coast.
EKS Events Aspen, Colorado — serving local and international destinations
Elizabeth of EKS Events came to wedding planning through more than fifteen years in the hospitality industry — a background that surfaces in the way she plans: with an eye for the guest experience at every touchpoint, not just the visual moments. Photographers and vendors who work regularly in Aspen describe Elizabeth with a consistency that is hard to earn: events that are beautiful, clients who adore her, and vendor relationships built on genuine mutual respect. She plans locally and internationally, and whether the event is intimate or large, indoors or out, the work carries the same quality. In a resort town where the bar is extraordinarily high, that consistency is everything.
At Painting to the People, we believe the most memorable part of any Colorado wedding is the moment when every guest in the room is doing something together — making something — that will outlast the weekend by generations. We create large-format collaborative painting installations where guests become the artists, guided by our team and refined in our studio into a museum-quality heirloom.
