Extraordinary and Definitely Not Ordinary!

There are so many details involved with putting together your wedding day, milestone family celebration, marketing, or fundraising event. 

So very many!

There is no doubt you have many more important things to do with your life than worry about when to send out invitations, how much to spend on flowers, what music should be played when, where to find a really big tent, what size linens to order…

Let us do it for you!

Planning your event should be giant amounts of fun – from start to finish – and the day of should be worry and stress free. We work closely with vendors to get the best prices and, with more than ten years of event-planning experience, we know how to make sure you get only what you need for your event so you can stay on budget.

Bringing Cork & Petal on board will make your celebration just that – celebratory!

Make It Yours! 

You are not an average girl.  Or boy.  Or couple.  Now why would your wedding be average?

It has to reflect who you are and what you know is beautiful and how very style conscious you are.

Within your budget.

We get it.

So we listen to you and do what it takes to realize your vision – whether you want to do it all yourself and just need some help getting started, have it mostly under control but don’t want to actually fuss on your big day, or know how you want everything to be,  but can’t possibly find the time to get it all together.

Here’s what we can offer you:

Start-up Help for the DIY Couple

  • Planning timeline template

  • Budget outline

  • Guest list and etiquette consultation

  • List of preferred vendors in your budget range

  • Advice on planning a green, sustainable, locally sourced event

Day of Wedding Support

  • One in person meeting with couple

  • Unlimited email/phone contact within month of wedding

  • Planning timeline template

  • Budget outline

  • Guest list and etiquette consultation

  • List of preferred vendors in low, medium, and high budget ranges

  • Advice on planning a green, sustainable, locally sourced event

  • Confirmation of all vendors two weeks before wedding

  • Rehearsal planning and coordination (does not include rehearsal dinner planning)

  • Day of timeline

  • Up to 10 hours of day of assistance – including checking set-up, making announcements, crisis handling, distribution of vendor payments

  • Managing end of day break down to venue specifications

  • Emergency kit

Wedding Planning and Execution

  • Up to four meetings to begin up to one year from wedding date

  • Unlimited email/phone contact from first meeting

  • Work with couple and family to develop wedding day vision

  • Identify potential venues

  • Develop list of vendors within budget range

  • Negotiate contracts with venue and vendors

  • Manage budget

  • Etiquette, guest list, and inter-family relations crisis management

  • Communicate with couple about deadlines for guest list, save the date reminders, and invitation mailing date, vendor payment deadliens, etc.

  • Wedding website set up on template site – ie. theKnot.com

  • Registry advice

  • Advice on planning a green, sustainable, locally sourced event

  • Ceremony development – including non-traditional, same-sex, and culturally specific

  • Classical music consultation

  • Rehearsal dinner planning

  • Rehearsal planning and coordination

  • Help with assigned seating

  • Day of timeline

  • Up to 10 hours of day of assistance – including checking set-up, making announcements, crisis handling, distribution of vendor payments

  • Managing end of day break down to venue specifications

  • Emergency kit

Extras

  • Invitation addressing/mailing

  • Planning of rehearsal dinner, day after brunch, bride and groom events

  • Customized wedding website with your domain name

  • Managing RSVPs

  • Help with thank you notes

  • Honeymoon planning

  • Destination weddings

  • Theme weddings

  • Vow renewals

  • Green, sustainable, locally sourced weddings

Contact us for a free consultation. We will  then develop a customized proposal based on your budget, number of guests, location and style of your event.

Oh What a Night!

Gala benefits, anniversaries, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, sweet sixteens, quinceañeras.

All really important events and that everything be just right.

No worries – we can get it all perfect so that you get to spend that time celebrating with your family and friends and special guests.

Here are some of the services we offer:

Full Service Event Planning and Execution – Including:

  • Theme development
  • Venue identification
  • Budget management
  • Contracting with vendors
  • Identifying and soliciting sponsorships
  • Developing invitations and mailing list
  • Managing RSVPs

Day of Event Coordination – Including:

  • Confirmation and coordination of venue and vendors
  • Day of timeline
  • Coordinating venue set-up and break-down

Other Services:

  • Live, silent and online auctions
  • Walkathons
  • Awards dinner script writing
  • Innovative fundraising ideas tailored to the organization
  • Gift bags
  • Ad journals
  • Classical music consultation
  • Advice on planning a green, sustainable, locally sourced event

Contact us for a free consultation.  We will  then develop a customized proposal based on your budget, number of guests, location and style of your event.

What People Are Saying About Cork & Petal

Cork & Petal helped make my November wedding a dream come true. We didn’t have a big budget, but Eve’s advice, ideas and hands-on help from the early planning stages to the big day made it a stylish, elegant affair.  Eve has an artistic eye, a creative edge. She came up with lovely ideas for decorations and  party favors, interpreting our wishes and desires and coming up with ways to bring them to life.
–  Ariana Markoe Bullard

We hired Cork & Petal to organize a 70th birthday celebration for my in-laws.  Eve planned everything from the venue, the caterers and music. The venue was in a unique historic theater. The catering was excellent, with beautiful presentations and decor (including beautiful fresh flower displays).  My in-laws are music fanatics, so Eve commissioned a pianist to play while guests arrived and gathered and also arranged for a “mini concert” involving several brief musical performances.  All of this made the event very special and unique–a truly memorable way to honor my husband’s parents!
– Michelle Gottlieb

Eve/Cork & Petal has helped coordinate several fundraising events for my nonprofit.  Eve is fun, outgoing, professional, creative and reliable.  Our organization has limited resources and Eve manages to organize a classy fun event everytime – from check in to check out, we can rest assured that everything is handled perfectly.
– Andrea Brown

About Us

A really great event reflects the vision of the people throwing it – their style, their personality – even their childhood dreams.  And it goes off without a hitch.

For more than 20 years I have planned and executed anniversary parties for 50 guests, weddings, wine tastings and musical soirees for 100, and fundraising events for 900 that raised more than $1 million – and pretty much everything in between.

Regardless of the size of the event, I love every minute of the planning and designing and negotiating and creativity that goes into making it a smash!

Working with Cork & Petal to realize your event will mean that every detail is thought of well in advance, leaving just about nothing to chance on your big day.  Except the weather – and we can plan for that, too!

Eve Orenstein
Event Planner
Cork & Petal
Weddings and Events by Design