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A Muskoka, fine art wedding planning company for the timeless and romantic couple.
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I serve couples who value their time and don’t want the planning of their wedding to rob them from enjoying their life and engagement season.

08/07/2024

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12/06/2024

I’m deep in packing and planning for tomorrow’s brand photoshoot. I don’t love the camera but adore my team and am so excited to have professional pictures and introduce you to them all!

Throwback to last year’s brand shoot! Stick around in my stories tomorrow for all the bts!

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28/05/2024

Precious getting ready moments. When should your photographer be there to capture it all?

It depends. First, we will figure out what’s important to you, then we’ll make the timeline to match. If you don’t have a planner here is my recommendation:

1. If you want candid photos, no flatlays and your photographer to get you into your dress, some bride portraits I suggest an hour before you need to get ready for first look.

2. If you love the details! You want flatlays, pictures of your dress, mimosa photos with your girls and first looks with your dad or wedding party plus all the above from number one, I would suggest 2.5 hours.

3. If you want a mix of the above schedule that time accordingly.

Giving yourself time in the morning really sets a peaceful and fun timeline for the rest of the day!

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12/05/2024

We get to witness and be a part of the sweetest mother-daughter moments on wedding days. It never gets old to us!

Celebrating all the moms and mother figures today! & of course wishing my mom and mother in law the happiest day (swipe to the end for my sisters with our mom🤍)

This year I’m sharing Mother’s Day with my son turning EIGHT so let’s of celebrating him today…. but going to try and sneak in a nap after church 😴

xoxo

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25/04/2024

That time my assistant and I moved every table a couple inches one way or another. We used the same chairs for ceremony and dinner so set the tables without chairs. We measure with a few to get it close but after we brought 100 into the tent, it wasn’t perfect. So we made it perfect. It’s the little things. We care about your guests being comfortable at dinner, we care about good tent layout photos with the tables spaced correctly. We care about understanding your vision and executing it to the very best of our ability. It’s a joy to be able to move tables during cocktail hour for you.

We are on site today for an event and I’m so excited! Can’t wait to move tables/chairs around and make it perfect!

Thanks so much for getting this bts! Means so much 🤍

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18/04/2024

Last day to buy tickets to the Wedding Industry Event - Create & Celebrate happening next Thursday evening!

We’ve gathered the best in the Simcoe-Muskoka wedding industry to celebrate and talk about the industry and our business goals! All while donating to the best charity () while eating all the food and sipping on incredible drinks by . Trust us, if you know no one, you’ll leave with new industry connections and friends - this is NOT a small talk networking event.

Comment TICKET below and you’ll get the link or head to my bio and it’s super easy to find!

April 25
6:30
in Orillia

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Need I say more? If you service the wedding industry in any way, you’re invited!

04/04/2024

All couples getting married this year, repeat after me: “I will make time for golden hour photos in my timeline.”

Every single wedding this year has them scheduled in. It’s pretty much a non-negotiable. You get amazing photos and time just to two of you to breathe and soak it all in.

If you are working with a planner, they’ll ensure you get to eat ALL your food (very important) and sneak you out at an appropriate time, watching sunsets, speeches, catering timing etc.

If you don’t have a planner schedule it in your timeline and let you photographer know you’d really like this! Then if someone’s speech goes long etc. or catering comes out a different timing on your timeline, someone is vouching for you.

Had so much fun working with Valerie and David last summer and these golden hour photos .photo took are amazing!

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20/03/2024

A moment for the details 🤍

08/03/2024

Happy International Women’s Day!!

Honoured to witness so many incredible girl gangs in this career. The girls who are there for our bride supporting them on such a memorable day, it’s stunning to witness.

Grateful to have been raised in an all girl family. Grateful to be able to raise my own daughter.

Grateful for the many women I look up too personally who are running in their own lane. Grateful for the women who are leading successful businesses that they are proud of. Grateful to have women business owner friends to go through the highs and lows with. Grateful for a female business coach who has taught and encouraged me that women can run businesses they are so proud of and still be a present wife and mom.

Grateful for you, for being here and for your support. I’ll never be able to express my gratitude that I get to do this. Every like, share, kind DM is noticed and cherished.

On international women’s day let’s continue to cheer one another on. Community is so much sweeter than competition🤍

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11/02/2024

If you don’t remember yourself laughing on your wedding day…

We want nothing more than for you to have fun at your wedding! We’ll make it happen🎉

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29/01/2024

Double tap if you feel January has already been 4832 days🙋🏼‍♀️

Excited to get out of “the office” (aka my house🤣) this week for a work retreat!

Let me know what you’re up to this week? Cheering you on as we finish January!

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25/01/2024

My kids have another snow day today so blessing us all with some stunning photos of Jacquelyn and her girls.

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08/01/2024

We’re Hiring! 🎉☺️💍

Scroll through for all the info and comment “careers” to receive a copy of the job description with next steps to apply.

Feel free to share with someone who would make an amazing planner in the Muskoka area!

29/12/2023

This is who we are and how we love to serve. Comment “learn more” to see if we are right planning company for you!

29/12/2023

We have the privilege to work with the best couples!! It’s a joy to serve them and bring their vision to life. We create incredible designs + logistics and have fun while doing it. We are humbled and honoured by their kind words.

Desire wedding planning to be fun and have someone get it? Be sure to comment “contact” and we’ll be in touch 🤍

29/12/2023

Comment “packages” to learn more about our pricing and packages.

After our discovery call, we send over a custom proposal to ensure our planning aligns with what you need.

So excited to hear from you and bring your vision to life!

- Your Simcoe Muskoka Wedding Planners

21/12/2023

Been working on a few intimate weddings recently, and can’t help but think of how perfect S+S wedding was!

We’ll get a lakeside venue, design it how you’d like and then set up and execute your day.

Pro tip: mid-week weddings are the best for this. You don’t need to meet any min spends and most vendors are available and would LOVE to serve you!

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18/12/2023

Who is setting up your late night or sweets table? Every one of our packages from full planning to event management will ask and cover this question.

For this wedding, we had to connect for delivery of the donuts the day of, and keep them cool in a spot not near the tent. We set up all the platters and got the donut wall assembled before guests arrived, did a mock up to make sure everything worked and then tucked it away. It was our job once dancing started to swiftly take everything out, set it up and make sure photos were taken before everyone started eating. The donuts were soft so it took our team time to carefully put each one on without ruining them, with gloves of course. We cleaned up all the boxes, storing a few under the table for extras and we were ready to go!

Want to know what our bride and groom were doing during this 30 minute set up? Enjoying their wedding on the dance floor and spending time with their guests! They trusted us to get it done or find a way to get it done without disrupting them- we love this so much for them!!!

Let us think of all the things with all the set up and timing. This is one example of the 194742 things we’ll do on your wedding day so you can be present and enjoy ☺️

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28/11/2023

Double tap if you can feel emotion in these images.

When we talk about creating a feeling, vibe, atmosphere —> this is exactly what we are talking about.

You can feel the love, peace, calmness (almost) to their wedding day, and that’s EXACTLY what Guilia and Blake wanted.

To achieve this it takes:

1. Your planner to ensure you have a same “vibe” and to do the work to understand what you value and create a vision around that to secure a vendor team that gets the job done but isn’t hurried or phased when things arise (aka a professional).

2. Logistics. I can’t stress this enough. Your timeline has to have space, margin, breathing room to flow seamlessly from one event to another.

3. Design and Decor: we designed it to feel a sense of calmness, not cluttered and Giulia had some many amazing DIY ideas to bring it to life!

you captured what we’d been planning for over a year better than I could have hoped! Thank you x 1000 and for sharing this gallery so I can review every image with a massive smile on my face!

If you know what you want, the feelings you want to evoke but aren’t sure how to capture that into your vendor team, logistics and design, send me a message and I’d love to brainstorm with you!

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20/11/2023

We believe weddings should be FUN and you should be celebrated!

If this has not been your planning experience so far (we are so sorry) we want to fix that!

We are offering $200 off event management and $300 off partial planning packages for remaining 2024 dates!

Call us biased but this is the best investment you will make with your wedding. After all the planning, time and money spent, you want to be able to enjoy your wedding and not be the point person.

We will not only be the point person for you but your venue and vendors, and support your wedding party and guests. We will advocate for you and do the million jobs on the wedding day so you can be present with your favourite people. We’ll create timelines, and help with all the questions, decisions and problems that arise.

Our partial planning clients start working with us immediately after the contract is signed, so if you are feeling overwhelmed, we’d love to chat!

Dates are limited so send us a DM or fill out our contact form on our website to get started.

We honestly can’t wait to serve you! Now let us get to work on your behalf 👏🏻

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We are HIRING 🎉💍🤍Send us an email for the full job description (info@madelinehockley.com) If you are hospitality obsesse...

27/10/2023

We are HIRING 🎉💍🤍

Send us an email for the full job description ([email protected])

If you are hospitality obsessed, amazing at admin work and are looking for supplemental income, we’d love to meet you!

18/10/2023

Double tap if you love a good first look. Lakeside in Muskoka in the woods = perfection!

We are booking 2024 weddings and can’t wait to come alongside you to plan and execute your stunning day. Send us a DM or fill out our contact form (link in bio)!

We respect your time, so we always put our main packages and pricing on our website to save on emails!

Here’s to more of these stunning weddings like Kristen and Gary’s in 2024 💍

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13/10/2023

I remember planning a fundraising event for my Highschool and thriving in it. People told me how stressed they were with all the logistics and moving parts, and I have a vivid memory of thinking to myself “this adrenaline and stress is addicting, I want more.” Yet, my 16 year old self had no idea this could be a career.

Fast forward to university, where I was planning all the social events, I headed to South Africa for a year and met a luxury wedding planner. I did my first wedding in 2011 and that same feeling I got planning fundraisers and community events multiplied by a million. I remember her saying to me “you can’t screw up someone’s wedding day” and instead of that terrifying me, it only thrilled me more. Challenge accepted- let’s do this I thought!

That year was amazing and I realized what most people hated and wanted to outsource, I adored and wanted to produce.

My story took some time and I hard core doubted if people really would spend $ and find value in a wedding planner? 10+ years ago wedding planners weren’t so popular.

After planning weddings from 2011-2016 for anyone that would let me, when my son was born, I decided I needed to risk it all and try it! I launched my website, registered my business with the government and Madeline Hockley Weddings was born.

Fast forward, seven years and it just keeps getting better. I have a small and mighty team, our customer experience is amazing and our clients are some of our favourite people in this world.

I truly believe weddings should be FUN, and my clients should be CELEBRATED. We ensure your planning experience and wedding is that, joyful and fun and we desire nothing more than for you to feel we are on your team, advocating for you to bring your vision to life.

Our clients trust us, and as we close on another incredible wedding season, I’m so so grateful we get to produce this kind of work.

If you’ve read this far, I’m so thankful you are here! Seriously, not just saying that! You’ll find real life, beautiful weddings and planning tips on this page. & I’m always a DM away☺️

Here’s to producing many more years of weddings with a level of hospitality you’ll remember forever.

13/10/2023

03/10/2023

Bridesmaid Goals!

Galleries are starting to come in for our 2023 season and they are the most exciting emails to open.

created the most stunning gallery (seriously, please hire her and let’s all work together) for Meg and Tom. I can’t stop looking at these images! So good!

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14/09/2023

I had to do it because it’s too accurate🤣 —> see next photo

🙋🏼‍♀️ especially at the end of the wedding season… how are we all doing?!🤍

First photo: at the amazing .house with the best bride!

11/09/2023

Day to Night -

06/09/2023

A moment for the dress.

I always try to guess (in my head) after working with the bride what style/design choices she will wear for her wedding.… and I can 100% always say it’s so much better when I enter and see the dress on!

Missing this July day!

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06/08/2023

R E S T.
Can I be brutally honest with you? I have an incredibly hard time resting without feeling guilty for it. I connect rest with being lazy and unproductive. I know this is so wrong, and I don’t think this of anyone else, only me.

It’s hard having this distorted mentality while running a business and feeling like if I step away for even a day, I’ll loose momentum or will get behind and never be able to catch up. Again, I know this isn’t true- yet I struggle with these feelings all the time.

My kids are at such a sweet age and parenting is so much fun! They are my favourite and I honestly love hanging out with them so much. I want them to remember that their mom worked hard in the summer, but never at the expense of loving and caring for them.

So I hold this tension of work and motherhood and after many summers of trial and error, I’m still trying to figure it out.

We’ve rented a cottage for the week and I’m so excited to build sandcastles, paddle board, swim and make s’mores with my kiddos and husband.

I’ll have limited cell service but will check email for anything urgent in the mornings so my brain can not feel like I’m letting every client down and that all of a sudden everyone hates me for taking a vacation hahah🤣 (iykyk)

I’m signing off insta and will trade in scrolling this app for reading a book. I don’t think you’ll notice I’m gone but if you need me, send an email: [email protected]

See you beautiful people in a week☀️

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Day in the Life of a Muskoka Wedding Planner preparing for my clients incredible July wedding weekend! We are spending Friday at @muskokabayclub followed by their wedding at @sherwoodinnweddings @sherwoodinn #muskoka #muskokawedding #getmarriedinmuskoka #muskokaweddingplanner #muskokaweddingcoordinator #muskokaevent #muskokaeventplanner #muskokaweddingvenue #muskokaweddingphotographer #ontarioweddingplanner #sherwoodinnwedding #muskokabayresort #muskokabayclubwedding #muskokabayclub #sherwoodinn #lakesidewedding #ontarioweddingplanner #torontoweddingplanner #2025bride cover photo by: @emily_michelson

There’s nothing like a private property wedding! Especially when it’s lakeside in Muskoka. They are so much more work than getting married at a venue (think power, weather, tent, water, cutlery, furniture, rentals, building a kitchen, transportation of guests etc.) but wow, are they beyond magical. Can’t wait to create and bring to life so many 2024/2025 tented weddings in Muskoka. #muskoka #muskokawedding #muskokaweddingphotogpraher #muskokaweddingplanner #muskokaeventplanner #muskokalife #discovermuskoka #tentedwedding #2024bride #2025bride #getmarriedinmuskoka #lakesidewedding #weddingtips

Found this photo @avephoto took of us “in action” and it means so much to me because the picture tells so much. 1. We’re laughing + having fun. We’ll bring the positive energy! If your wedding planner has you stressed out or is running around on your wedding day looking concerned, panicked, stressing other vendors out or trying to control everything … you don’t want it. You’ll notice, your guests will notice. There is nothing that makes me more sad- this will never be your experience working with us. 2. Wedding pros come up to us every season and say “most wedding planners are bossy and rude to us, but you’re not” - duh! Who would want that? Gross. Each wedding pro is a PRO. We love working together as a team to get you married. Trust me, you’ll want this too and you’ll notice when it’s missing. 3. Going above and beyond. This picture was taken during cocktail hour. You can see we are holding flowers. Part of this arrangement was used for the ceremony and wasn’t designated for reception (due to different locations and time). Yet, we knew our clients trusted us and we were confident we understood their vision. That combo is MAGIC!! Your wedding will instantly be better. Ashley looked at the flowers, and had a brilliant idea to attach them to the podium used for speeches and it looked sooooo much better. Our emergency kit has zip ties and floral scissors and we got to work. It’s the little things guests and clients notice. If this sounds like your ideal wedding day, you’re our people! We create and design intentional, fun weddings where you are present with your favourite people and supported by your planners. We are booking 2024 + 2025! Send us a DM to see if your date is available. Here to answer alllll the questions ☺️ #muskoka #ontariowedding #ontarioweddingplanner #muskokawedding #orilliawedding #lakesidewedding #tentedwedding #muskokawedddingplanner #torontoweddingplanner #barrieweddingplanner #orilliaweddingplanner #m

To all 2024 Brides & Grooms: this is YOUR YEAR! We can’t wait to celebrate you! Our DNA is planning a wedding that you have FUN at, and boy did we have fun at this wedding last summer 🤍 Photo: @515photoco Band: @symmstudios #wedding #ontariowedding #muskokawedding #deerhurst #deerhurstresort #deerhurstwedding #deerhurstresortwedding #huntsvillewedding #muskokaweddingplanner #muskokaeventcoordinator #huntsvilleweddingplanner #parrysoundweddingplanner #ontarioweddingplanner

If you got engaged recently (congrats!!) and want to get married in 2024, I made this video is for you☺️ #weddingplanner #muskokaweddingplanner #ontarioweddingplanner #torontoweddingplanner #muskokaweddingplanner #muskokaweddingphotographer #muskokawedding #marriedinmuskoka #eventplanner #2024wedding #discovermuskoka

Does any of this resonate with you? You are getting married in 2024, have all the big vendors planned and a good idea of your timeline but are struggling to know who is going to pull it all together? Who is keeping the timeline? Who knows the transitions with the officiant and music to send everyone down at the right time? Who is ensuring all the vendors come and know where to set up and answer all their questions? Who knows exactly what you want to advocate for you and ensure the venue is set up the way you want? Who is taking care of your guests, ensuring all their needs on the wedding day are taking care of too? Who is doing set up, flipping from ceremony to reception and tidying your guest book, card box, and decor? Who is responsible when something goes wrong or comes up? If you have any of these questions, we would be honoured to step in and solve this problem🙋🏼‍♀️ We have an amazing Black Friday deal on right now! $200 off event management ($2695) and $300 off partial planning ($5195) on remaining 2024 dates. Send us a DM to see if your date is available ☺️ #muskoka #muskokawedding #muskokaweddingplanner #muskokaweddingphotographer #muskokaweddingvenue #ontarioweddingplanner #kwweddingplanner #muskokaeventplanner #muskokasmallbusiness #gravenhurstsmallbusiness #2024bride #gravenhurst #madelinehockleyweddings Cover photo: @geoffcoombsphotography

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