Westchester planning firm whose two founders work every wedding together, with no rate, minimum or fee structure published.
C&E Event Productions is run by two founders, Carley and Erica. The site states that both of them work each wedding rather than assigning one lead planner and a junior. Both hold hospitality management degrees. For full service planning, that structure is the product, because the person who negotiated your catering contract in March is the person standing in the room in October. Services run from full planning through day of coordination with event day assistants, plus corporate work. The firm is based in Westchester County and works across New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Two things are absent. There is no rate, no minimum and no percentage of budget published anywhere on the site, which we read on 11 September 2026. And the portfolio venues named lean outside the county.
With no fee structure in public, start by establishing which one applies: flat fee, percentage of budget, or hourly. Get the minimum and what it buys in meetings and hours. Pin down whether vendor commissions or referral fees are ever collected, and get that answer in writing. The number of event day assistants included should be stated, along with the cost of each extra one on the day.
The company site at ce-eventproductions.com, read on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
Neither a rate nor a minimum appears anywhere, and the weddings shown in the portfolio sit mostly beyond the county line.
Planning firms scale by handing weddings to associates. C&E states its founders both work each event. That is checkable in a contract, so ask for both names in it, with a clause covering what happens if one is unavailable.
Establish how many weddings the firm takes in a season and how many fall in your month. Two people can only be in one room at a time.
Day of coordination is offered with event day assistants, which is a different product from full planning and should carry a different price. Settle when the coordination package starts and how many weeks of work it includes. The number of assistants that come with it is the third thing to settle.
The venues shown include New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, Trump National and Hudson House. None of them is a Westchester room the site identifies as such.
If you are marrying at a Westchester club or estate, ask for three weddings the firm has run in the county in the last two years and the venue contacts who can confirm them. A planner’s value sits partly in knowing which maitre d’ answers the phone.
Flat fee, percentage of total budget and hourly are all standard in this category. They produce very different totals once a budget is large. The site publishes no rate, no minimum and no structure.
Check which model the firm uses before anything else. A percentage model aligns the planner’s fee with your spending, which is worth understanding early.
Both founders hold hospitality management degrees, which the site states plainly. That training shows up in reading contracts, negotiating with vendors and building floor plans.
What it does not supply is local knowledge. Which Westchester venue requires a licensed electrician for uplighting, which one enforces a midnight curfew, which town needs a noise variance for an outdoor band. Ask how the firm handles those, with examples from real weddings.
Ask for the vendor list the firm recommends in the county, and whether any of those relationships involve a fee flowing back to the planner. A straight answer to that question tells you a lot about how the rest of the engagement will run.
Arcadia Floral Co., Events by Marygrace, Jack & Grace.
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