Hi, I'm Abagail
I started Elaborate Events with a simple belief: your wedding should feel like you. Not like a Pinterest board, not like a magazine spread, not like anyone else's celebration. Yours.
I spent two decades as an interior designer, learning to read a room long before I ever styled a wedding. Five years ago I built Elaborate Events around that instinct, and the one thing that has never changed is where I begin: that first conversation. The details come later. The feeling comes first.
On your wedding day, I'm the person in your corner. The one quietly tracking down the cake that never arrived, so you never know it was missing. The one making sure every detail reflects your story and every moment is protected so you can be fully present.
Whether you need a full creative partner or a trusted day-of director, I bring the same care, intention, and narrative-driven approach to every celebration.
How I Actually Work
Photo: Catherine Straume Weddings
It starts with a conversation, not a checklist
Before I ever talk timelines, I want to know what your day needs to feel like. I came to weddings from interior design, so I can't help it: I read a room the way I read a couple, listening for the thing underneath what you can't quite say out loud.
Tell me how you met. Tell me the detail you keep coming back to. That's where your wedding actually lives. The logistics come later. The feeling comes first.
Photo: Acres of Love
I take your day seriously. Myself, a little less.
Setup is the tense stretch: vendors arriving, clocks ticking, a hundred small things finding their place. So yes, sometimes you'll catch me dancing through it.
Keeping it light is part of the job. A calm, loose room sets up better than a frantic one, and the energy I bring in the morning is the energy your day carries into the night.
Photo: Acres of Love
The unglamorous part is where the magic hides
Here's the part nobody posts: the spreadsheet. The recap email after every single meeting, so nothing important lives only in your head. The timeline I've walked in my mind a hundred times before anyone arrives.
And it doesn't stop at the planning. It's the white gloves when I set your tables, so nothing gets smudged. The plates placed just so. The details nobody will photograph are the ones I sweat.
It isn't glamorous, and that's exactly the point. All that quiet care is what lets you stop managing your wedding and start being present at it.
Photo: MXBloom
The save you never see
Something always tries to go sideways. The cake shows up as cupcakes. The weather changes its mind an hour before the ceremony. You won't hear about most of it, because by the time you would have, I've already handled it.
I'll also duck out of your photos, hold your train, and disappear from the frame on purpose. That's what I mean when I say I protect your day: not from effort, but from the noise that would have pulled you out of the moment you waited for.
I came to weddings from interior design, and I still can't walk into a room without rearranging it in my head.
I send a recap email after every meeting. My couples tease me about it. I'm not sorry.
I will make sure you actually eat something on your wedding day. This one is non-negotiable.
“Abagail protected the heart of the day — her steady presence, her professionalism, and the care she poured into making our wedding truly special.”— Elizabeth P.
Let's Write Your Story Together
Tell me your story: your vision, your date, where you are in the process. No commitment. Just a real conversation.
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