A. Marie Events & Design, Wedding Planner (Fort Lauderdale)

A. Marie Events & Design is a wedding planning and event design company based in Fort Lauderdale. It plans weddings across South Florida, naming Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Palm Beach, Boca Raton and the Florida Keys on its own site, and takes on select weddings elsewhere in Florida and beyond. Weddings abroad are planned through a separate travel brand, Destinations By A. Marie Events.

The company describes its approach as hospitality first. In its own words: "Luxury isn't simply what people see. It's how thoughtfully they're cared for." In practice that means the planning covers the guests as well as the couple: arrivals, transport between hotels and venues, and how people move through the day.

Planned from the start, or picked up near the end

Couples can hand over the whole wedding, or plan it themselves and bring the team in for the last stretch. Their Wedding Management service starts roughly 90 days before the date: the team reviews what is already booked, confirms every vendor, builds the timeline and then runs the rehearsal and the day itself.

Where the business comes from

The company says it began in Central Ohio before moving to South Florida, and it now plans weddings in Columbus again alongside its Florida work. Its client stories include a California wedding where, the couple write, the planner travelled out to meet their vendors in person.

• Full service wedding planning: budget, venue search, vendor sourcing, contract guidance, design direction, guest experience and wedding weekend logistics
• Wedding Management, starting around 90 days out: vendor confirmations, timeline, ceremony and reception logistics, rehearsal and wedding day management
• Event design and production: creative direction and the running of the ceremony and reception
• Vendor coordination from first contact through to vendor arrivals on the day
• Hospitality and concierge support for couples, wedding parties and guests
• The Little Guest Experience, a planned space for children at the wedding
• Destination weddings abroad through Destinations By A. Marie Events, with the travel booked through that brand
• Wedding S.O.S., a 60 minute virtual planning call for couples planning anywhere
• Proposals, private celebrations and corporate events alongside weddings

Their Fort Lauderdale coverage runs from Las Olas and the beach to Lauderdale by the Sea, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach and the rest of Broward County, with oceanfront resorts, private estates, ballrooms and yachts among the settings they name.

They are direct about South Florida weather. Their advice is that every outdoor wedding needs a real plan for rain, wind and heat: a covered or indoor alternative, a decision deadline, and agreed changes with every vendor. Beach and waterfront ceremonies also bring sound limits, access and parking to sort out early.

Their own Fort Lauderdale page lists full service planning from $15,995 and Wedding Management from $4,595, as of October 2026. The final quote depends on the guest count, the venue and how much of the planning you want handled.

For weddings outside the United States, the company says it plans through its sister travel brand, Destinations By A. Marie Events, and that the travel for a destination wedding has to be booked through that brand.

That brand's destinations page lists Greece, naming Santorini, Mykonos and Athens, alongside Italy, Portugal, Croatia and a long list of Caribbean and long haul places. A listed destination is not a record of weddings planned there, so if you are marrying in Greece, ask which weddings they have run in the country and who handles the local side on the day.