Westchester planner with a free consultation, no preset packages and no published rates; Apawamis Club in Rye is on file.
Events by Marygrace plans weddings out of Westchester County and offers a complimentary consultation, which is the one concrete commitment on the site. The company explicitly declines preset packages and builds scope for each client instead. That is a defensible way to run a planning business and a difficult one to shop. There is no price and no tier anywhere on the site. No hourly rate appears, and no percentage of budget. The service list covers wedding planning and coordination. Corporate and special events sit beside it, along with full service planning from logistics through design. The county work we can point to is a wedding at the Apawamis Club in Rye. Coverage runs across Westchester, the Lower Hudson Valley and the Bronx, with nationwide work on top of that.
With no packages and no published fee, the consultation is where every number comes from. Establish first which fee model applies: flat, hourly, or a percentage of your total budget. Then find out what the fee covers and what it excludes. The number of staff on site on the wedding day matters, and so does what happens to the fee if your budget or guest count changes after you sign.
Eventsbymarygrace.com. 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.
Nothing on the site sets a tier or a band, so there is no paper figure here to hold beside another planner’s.
Most planners publish at least a structure: month of coordination, partial planning, full planning. Those labels are loose, but they let a couple line up three quotes and see what they are buying. A planner who builds scope per client removes that shortcut.
The fix is to write the scope yourself before you call. List what you want. Venue search, vendor sourcing and contract checks are a start. Budget tracking and design come next. Add a wedding day timeline and the number of staff on site on the day. Send the same list to three planners and score the quotes against it.
Flat fee, hourly, or a percentage of your total wedding budget. Each produces a very different final number, and the percentage model is the one that grows when your florist quote grows. None of the three appears on this site.
Ask which model applies and what the figure is. Then establish what is excluded. Design, rentals and travel to your venue are common exclusions. A planner charging a percentage should tell you what the percentage is calculated on.
A complimentary consultation with a planner is worth taking even if you never hire one. A planner who works your county knows which venues have kitchen restrictions and which ones charge for a rain plan. Some require a coordinator on site, and she will know those too.
Go in with your venue shortlist and your budget, and treat the meeting as fact finding. Write down what you learn. It is useful either way, and a planner who gives away good information in a free hour is telling you something about how she works for money.
The Apawamis Club in Rye appears in the company’s own wedding work. Private clubs run differently from hotels and mansions. Member rules and house catering are part of it, and so is a general manager with firm opinions about load in times.
Booking a club makes that experience the thing to put to her specifically. Booking anything else, find out how many weddings she has run at your venue and who her contact there is.
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