Your wedding. Your people.
A planner in your corner.
Wedding planning in Grand Rapids and across Michigan.
Photography by Andi B
Good things happen when your people come together.
There’s something special about having your favorite people in one place. Sharing a meal, telling stories, and celebrating the life you’re building together. That’s what we want you to have room to enjoy.
Getting there takes decisions, conversations, and plenty of details. Whether you’ve already made most of the plans or want help figuring out where to begin, we offer different levels of planning support to meet you where you are.
Based in Grand Rapids and planning weddings across Michigan, Futtitinni Events brings more than 20 years of event experience to the process. You can expect thoughtful guidance, honest conversations, and people who care about how your celebration feels.
photography by Mary Sheldon (left)
photography by Jenna Greenawalt (top right)
photography by The Fourniers (bottom right)
How much would you like us involved?
You might love researching vendors and choosing the details, but want an experienced planner to help bring everything together. You might want someone to talk through decisions with along the way. Or you might be ready to hand over the planning responsibilities.
Our collections give you room to choose the support that makes sense for you.
Planning Support & Wedding Management Planning & Design Intimate & Micro Weddings Virtual Planning Services
Need focused advice? Explore the Planning + Design Intensive.
Need a little
EXTRA guidance?
Not every couple needs full coordination—but sometimes a second set of professional eyes makes all the difference.
Hourly consultations are available for focused support, including timeline review, logistics troubleshooting, vendor questions, or walking through specific planning decisions with clarity and confidence.
The Essentials Collection
Planning Support & Wedding Management
You’ve made the plans. Let’s make sure they work together.
You’ve chosen your vendors and have a vision for the celebration. We bring an experienced eye to the details: what needs more thought, how the spaces will function, and what everyone needs to know before the day arrives.
Our work starts before your wedding day, with an early timeline framework and a closer review of your plans as the celebration approaches. We develop your ceremony and reception layouts, look at how your décor plans fit the space and flow of the event, and bring the timing and vendor details together.
When the day arrives, our team leads the plans so you can settle in and enjoy being with your people.
Early timeline framework · Layout and practical design review · Final vendor preparation · Wedding-day leadership
Investment begins at $4,750
You lead the vendor choices and overall design. We help turn those decisions into a workable plan and manage the celebration.
Final investment reflects your venue, location, guest count, coverage, and production needs. Travel and additional services are quoted separately.
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Onboarding and an early timeline framework
Final logistical and design-function review
One coordinated ceremony and reception floor-plan set, plus one consolidated revision
Master timeline, vendor instructions, and final confirmations
Vendor details gathered through your completed planning questionnaire
Qualified lead planner for up to 12 consecutive wedding-day hours, plus two assistants
Ceremony and reception oversight, contingency support, and organization of client-owned personal décor
You retain responsibility for vendor selection, primary planning, and original design decisions. A ceremony rehearsal of up to 60 minutes is available separately for $250, plus applicable travel and lodging. Vendor sourcing, procurement, offsite décor delivery, and vendor-owned installation or strike require a separate scope.
photography by Brittany Bradley Studio
Planning Support & Wedding Management
The Enhanced Collection
Guided Planning & Wedding Management
Make the decisions with someone experienced in your corner.
You want to plan your wedding and make your own choices. You’d also appreciate someone who can help you sort through the options, spot what needs attention, and tell you when an idea needs another look.
Along with everything in Essentials, Enhanced adds monthly planning guidance, a shared planning workbook, and scheduled opportunities for advice. A dedicated design-direction session and written summary help you see how your ideas fit together, with feedback on details such as linens, stationery, rentals, and the guest experience.
You keep the research, booking, and ordering in your hands—with professional guidance along the way and our team leading the final preparations and wedding day.
Everything in Essentials · Monthly planning guidance · Dedicated design-direction session · Written design recommendations
Investment begins at $6,500
Final investment reflects your venue, location, guest count, coverage, and production needs. Travel and additional services are quoted separately.
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Everything in The Essentials Collection
Monthly planning guidance and educational resources
Shared planning workbook to organize decisions and deadlines
Dedicated Design Direction + Cohesion Session
Concise written Design Direction Summary
Scheduled planning and design guidance aligned with your priorities
Professional feedback on proposals, logistics, rentals, stationery, and guest experience
We gather the vendor details you provide and lead final vendor coordination closer to the wedding. You remain responsible for research, selections, ordering, and implementation. Custom design production, sourcing, and unlimited communication are outside this collection.
Photography by Brittany Carress
Yes, We Travel!
Destination weddings and out-of-state celebrations are welcome.
Interested in our services but hosting a destination wedding or planning outside of West Michigan? We’re happy to travel. For events beyond 60 miles from Grand Rapids, travel and accommodations may be required.
Photography by The Giving Tree | Jodi B
Planning & Design
The Planning Partner
Shared Planning & Design Guidance
You want a hand in the plans—and someone to share the work.
Maybe you’ve started planning and realized how much there is to keep moving. Maybe you know from the beginning that you want to be involved without managing every detail yourself.
We build a planning roadmap together and take responsibility for the parts you’d like help carrying forward. That can include vendor recommendations, reviewing proposals, tracking contracts and final invoices, and working through design decisions. We agree on who is handling what, so you know where you have support and what still needs your attention.
From paper and linens to layouts and logistics, we help the choices work together, then lead the final preparations and wedding day.
A personalized planning roadmap · Recurring planning conversations · Agreed planning responsibilities · Design and logistics guidance · Wedding-day leadership
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Complete Essentials wedding-management foundation and Enhanced planning resources
Customized planning roadmap and recurring consultations
Vendor recommendations, proposal review, and decision support
Contract and final-invoice tracking
Dedicated design-direction and cohesion review
Paper, linen, layout, and logistics guidance within your agreed workstreams
Final vendor coordination and wedding-day production preparation
Qualified lead planner plus two wedding-day assistants for up to 150 guests
Your proposal defines the active service period and each person’s responsibilities. Vendor approvals, signatures, payments, and client-owned tasks remain with you. Procurement, stationery production, website data entry, and RSVP management are included only when expressly contracted.
Investment begins at $9,500
Final investment reflects your venue, location, guest count, coverage, and production needs. Travel and additional services are quoted separately.
Photography by Amelie Ferdais
The Full Experience
Comprehensive Wedding Planning
Stay close to the decisions. Let us take care of moving them forward.
You want a wedding that feels personal, and you want to enjoy the experience of planning it. You also have a life beyond vendor emails, budgets, and deadlines.
We manage the planning process, from building the budget and researching vendors to keeping decisions moving and preparing the team for your wedding. We bring you thoughtful options, explain our recommendations, and handle the follow-through.
Along the way, we help your selections feel cohesive and consider how everything will work for you and your guests. You stay involved in the choices that matter to you, with an experienced team carrying the planning forward.
Planning and budget management · Vendor research and communication · Guidance on the look and feel · Guest experience and logistics · Rehearsal and wedding-day leadership
For couples who want us to create the visual concept and source and direct its design elements, our Event Design service can be added to the planning scope.
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Comprehensive planning strategy and project leadership
Budget development, tracking, and payment oversight
Vendor research, proposal review, and ongoing coordination
Aesthetic coordination, functional layout, and guest-experience planning
Layout, rental, linen, tabletop, and guest-experience planning
Production schedules, final documentation, and vendor-team leadership
Ceremony rehearsal and comprehensive wedding-day management
Qualified lead planner plus two assistants for up to 150 guests; additional staffing scoped to the event
Unlimited client email during active planning, within established business-hour standards
You approve selections, sign agreements, and pay vendors directly. Original concept development and comprehensive Event Design are separately scoped. Travel, accommodations, additional events, tented or private-property production, custom fabrication, and expanded staffing are quoted separately.
Custom proposal available
Your proposal reflects the total wedding budget, venue and location, guest count, planning and coverage needs, staffing, travel, multiple setup days, additional events, and production complexity. Original Event Design is scoped separately.
Photography by Jenna Greenwalt
Event Design
The look matters. So does whether it can actually work.
We develop one original creative direction into a complete, space-by-space Design Plan. From the palette and styled layout to floral, rentals, tabletop, paper, lighting, and other design partners, we source and manage the visual pieces and direct the onsite design production. Full wedding planning, guest management, and non-design vendor leadership are separately scoped.
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One original concept, visual framework, palette, and cohesive design language.
A complete space-by-space Design Plan for the contracted areas, with styled floor plan, design-budget priorities, and visual mockups.
Active sourcing and management of approved floral, rental, linen, tabletop, draping, lighting, stationery, signage, and décor partners.
One formal Design Plan presentation and two rounds of consolidated revisions.
Review of design-vendor proposals, samples, mockups, and proofs; installation planning and required onsite design-production direction.
Your proposal defines the covered spaces and production team. Full wedding planning, guest management, non-design vendors, physical setup and strike labor, fabrication, purchasing, storage, transport, and travel are separate unless contracted.
Investment begins at $8,250
Final investment reflects your venue, location, guest count, coverage, and production needs. Travel and additional services are quoted separately.
Photography by Meghan Baskin
Elopements & Intimate Weddings
Elopements & Intimate Weddings
A smaller guest list. A fully considered celebration.
We lead comprehensive planning for celebrations on a more personal scale. The guest count shapes the vendor work, onsite coverage, and staffing; the planning and production still have a clear owner. Original Event Design is separately scoped.
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We take ownership of the budget, ordinary vendor categories, guest systems, aesthetic coordination, final production, and wedding-day leadership. One 60-minute ceremony rehearsal and up to 10 consecutive onsite hours with a lead planner and one assistant are included in the baseline. Investment begins at $17,500 with the venue secured. Original Event Design is separately scoped.
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We lead full-service planning for one date and one secured location, with up to seven named vendor workstreams and up to eight consecutive hours onsite. Investment begins at $12,500. Original Event Design, travel, and added production are separately scoped.
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We lead full-service planning for one ceremony and celebratory meal at one secured location, with up to five named vendor workstreams and up to six consecutive hours onsite. Investment begins at $8,500. Original Event Design, travel, and additional events are separately scoped.
Elopement Planning · up to 10 guests
Begins at $8,500. One ceremony and a celebratory meal at one secured location, with up to five named vendor workstreams and up to six consecutive hours onsite.
Micro Wedding Planning · 11–25 guests
Begins at $12,500. Comprehensive planning for one date and location, with up to seven named vendor workstreams and up to eight consecutive hours onsite.
Intimate Wedding Planning · 26–50 guests
Begins at $17,500. We lead the budget, vendors, guest systems, and production, with one ceremony rehearsal and up to ten consecutive hours onsite with a lead planner and one assistant.
Each proposal reflects your venue, location, guest needs, and production. Original Event Design, travel, and additional events are scoped separately.
Photography by Brittany Carress
Virtual Planning Services
Virtual Wedding Planning
Thoughtful strategy from wherever you are.
We bring structure, planning guidance, and accountability to the decisions in front of you. You lead the local implementation and vendor relationships, while we help you set priorities, work through the budget and logistics, and prepare a plan to hand to your onsite team.
The meeting cadence and deliverables are tailored in your proposal. Onsite coordination, wedding-day vendor management, in-person site visits, direct vendor management, sourcing, and implementation are separately contracted.
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We help you organize priorities, work through budget and logistical decisions, develop planning timelines, and prepare a clear handoff for the team you hire onsite. The consultation cadence, written deliverables, and any additional design guidance are defined in your proposal. You retain local implementation and direct vendor relationships. Onsite coordination, vendor management, site visits, and sourcing are separately contracted.
Custom virtual planning proposal
Tell us what is already in place and where you need strategic support. We will define the scope and investment together before work begins.
Photography by Olivia Anderson
The Planning + Design Intensive
Need focused planning advice?
A private 90-minute strategy session on Zoom for the planning, design, vendor, or logistical decisions in front of you. Leave with clear priorities and a concise written action summary.
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Pre-session questionnaire and submitted-material review
Private strategy session of up to 90 minutes
Focused recommendations for your selected priorities
Concise written action summary and practical next steps
This is consultation and recommendation only. Vendor contact, research, document creation, implementation, ongoing communication, and onsite services require a separate agreement.
$350 · 90-minute private session
Paid in full at booking. Additional consultations or deliverables are quoted separately.
Photography by JLB Wedding
A personal approach, with experience behind it.
Futtitinni is led by our founder, Danielle, who brings more than 20 years of event experience and stays involved in every celebration. Your collection shapes the support you receive. Later in the planning process, once we’ve gotten to know you and your celebration, we’ll match you with a wedding-day lead who’s a good fit.
You’ll know who to turn to, what we’re handling, and what comes next.
Tell us what you’re imagining.
The ideas you’re excited about. The decisions you’re stuck on. The people you can’t wait to bring together.
You don’t need to have it all figured out before we talk. We’ll help you find the level of support that fits where you are and what you need.
Let’s Talk About Your Wedding