Bellwether Events

Service levels: Full-service planning

Team size: 1 – 4

About Bellwether Events

Bellwether Events

owner

As owner and lead wedding planner, Janice has her hands on every Bellwether wedding. She’s a logistical virtuoso with crazy-high standards. She’s never met a detail she couldn’t wrangle or a problem she couldn’t solve. You can always expect Janice to keep it real — a communication style you’ll be thankful for when dealing with budgets, wedding day mania, and drunk Uncle Ted.

Bellwether Events does things differently. We speak our minds, put our values front and center, and can’t help but embrace color. We’ve been in the biz since 2006, so yeah, we have a reputation — for being the wedding planners who aren’t just doing things differently but doing things better.

Services by planning level

Full-service planning

Pricing starts at $15,000

Partial planning

Pricing starts at $10,000

Day-of coordination / wedding management

Pricing starts at $5,000

Elopement / microwedding

Pricing starts at $5,000

A la carte

Pricing starts at $5,000

Reviews

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3 reviews

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  • We loved Bellwether Events!

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    •Ella J.•Jan 10

    My husband and I found Janice through her blog and were drawn to her transparency about an industry that can often feel opaque and hard to navigate. We met with two other potential planners, but we decided to follow our initial instinct and put our trust in Janice. She did not disappoint! Janice kept the entire planning process incredibly organized and did an amazing job of finding vendors that aligned with our (sometimes very specific) vision. Anytime we started to feel overwhelmed, Janice was ready with a detailed timeline, polite-but-firm reminder emails, and a very encouraging attitude. Janice was also very receptive and enthusiastic about helping us incorporate important cultural elements into our day that she had not had experience previously (ex. A Japanese kagami biraki ceremony). Most importantly, Janice was extremely reliable. For example, my bridesmaids and I were supposed to get our hair and make-up done at a hotel the morning of the wedding, but after we woke up to a power outage and alerted Janice, she immediately jumped into action arranging a new location and updating the beauty and photo teams about the change. She then raced over to the hotel to help me and my MOHs pack up my wedding dress, shoes, accessories, and bridesmaids gifts and convinced the concierge to let us use the emergency freight elevator so that we wouldn’t have to run down 15 flights of stairs. Her husband drove us all to the alternate location and, miraculously, all of the hair, make-up, group photos, and dressing were completed with a whopping 15 minutes to spare! Despite the early morning switch-up, the rest of the day went off without a hitch and we knew the wedding couldn’t have gone as smoothly as it did if it weren’t for Janice’s work (both in the planning and the day-of coordination). We are so glad to have hired Janice and 100% recommend Bellwether Events.

  • The Best of the Best

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    •Procopio Photography•May 16, 2024

    I have had the pleasure of working with Bellwether Events many times. From my 10 years experience of working in the wedding industry, I found that some planners are only good at logistics (timeline, having things in order, managing vendors, etc.), some planners are only good at design and creativity, some are only good at client relations and relationships with the family. Bellweather is excellent at all of these things and I see how she consistently nails every category at every single wedding I have worked with her. If you want your event to shine and to have the absolute best experience from the beginning to end, Bellweather is who you need.

  • Made the whole experience amazing!

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    •Meredith•Jan 19, 2024

    Janice and her team were an invaluable part of our wedding process. She guided us though important decisions and timelines and had every detail covered from start to finish. Janice is organized, thorough, dependable - she helped make the whole process enjoyable! I can't recommend her enough!

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