Wrapping up this week and year with these two NYC soon-to-be newlyweds. What a productive final walk-through laying details out for Rebecca & Orhun! Love their vision and vibe they are going for on their big day! It’s giving chill, elegant, but fun — everything them. I’m so excited to be a part of this celebration, it’s been wonderful working with you both and can’t wait to see all of it come to life!!
41 more days 🎉
10/30/2024
B & W 🖤
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10/23/2024
It’s giving fall wedding season 🍂
Cheers to the 2024 brides & grooms counting down, your time is here! Autumn weddings, weather and colors are in the air. It’s time to wrap up all your final details and prep for a smooth day from start to finish. This means preparing for a fun morning and getting you and your entourage set-up!
This is your reminder to not forget to plan for your getting ready suites. Of course we know not to forget our matching wedding pajamas with cute slippers! So here are some of our favorite checklist items we love to discuss with our clients to either provide or arrange to have:
✔️ Champagne & OJ (of course)
✔️ Flutes, plates, cups, and utensils
✔️ Ice
✔️ Coolers
✔️ Beverage garnishes
✔️ Fruit + AM bites (very important)
✔️ Water (also very important)
✔️ Coffee
✔️ Napkins
✔️ Cleaning supplies
Hope this helps with your planning!
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10/18/2024
Snapped in action 📸🤍💥
You can take the bride out of the coordinator, but can’t take the coordinator out of the bride 😅 I swear I made all internal efforts to let go for my big day, but saw her opportunity and took it! Hahaha thanks for the fun shots, these gave us a laugh for sure. If you’ve worked with me, you know we never mind stepping in to assist especially when there is business to take care of elsewhere.
. .even if it’s in slippers or my wedding dress 😂
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10/10/2024
One spin away from Friday 🥂🖤
There’s so many good B & W wedding photos and it’s time to bust them out of the vault. Cheers to for letting us play in the barrel house area, getting Zoé & Brian lost among some of Chicago’s favorite beer while taking some stunning wedding photos 🍻✨
📍: barrel house
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10/01/2024
𝒲𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒? 🍷
Happy wedding week & first fall 2024 celebration of love honoring the soon-to-be Mr. & Mrs. It’s been such a beautiful time working with Alyssa and Nick! I can’t believe their big day is this weekend and go time starts in just a few days! Couldn’t ask for a better couple to kick off the next half of the year with. Thank you for thinking of us to help you prep for this special time in your lives. Love making a comeback with groups I’ve worked with before, we already know it’s going to be the best vibes + so excited to see all the uncorked fun you’ve worked hard putting together for this partyyy!
Itinerary coming to an inbox near you ✨
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09/13/2024
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀 | 𝐌 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 🥂✨
I’ve been holding out on you guys long enough. One month and 1/2 post-wedding and we finally have found some time to ourselves to watch our wedding video + go through so many amazing moments & details captured by . We’re excited to share these with the Events One:eleven support community highlighting on all the dedicated and highly recommended vendors that came together to make this day possible. So much planning, long meetings and sleepless nights went into putting this together taking the experience of the industry into play for what we wanted and didn’t. We took all norms out and made it our own!!! We learned so much along the way and are excited to share all insight with our current & future clients. Inspiring others to make their special day what they want it to be. We skipped this, did that, made it unique, fun and everything US —
⚫️ All formal photos done pre-ceremony
⚫️ Speeches during ceremony, free flow dinner
⚫️ First dances & mini hype session pre-dinner
⚫️ 2 rooms of music for everyone
⚫️ Nintendo stations
⚫️ Wedding pong stations
⚫️ Photo booths
⚫️ Cabaret dancers
⚫️ Everything classy + fun!
Thank you to all our vendors, friends, family members, wedding party and loved ones for all the hard work, effort + warm wishes this past year. Been back at it and it feels so good to be doing what I love. The remainder of 2024/2025 is looking beautiful. It was wild being on the other side, but can’t wait to jump back in my gym shoes and hold it down for you ladies & gentlemen!!
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My name is |MEER•NA| Avila. I am a wedding consultant | planner | day-of-coordinator and onsite event catering manager based out of the city of Chicago with a long background in the service industry (food/beverage.) Today is a very little (but big) step for me towards the beginning phase of my very own small business, so if you’re reading this thank you for taking the time and for your support. After only taking referral clients, it’s time for this little birdie to spread her wings & make an official name for herself. I am so excited to share my passion with you!
𝐀 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞
Four years ago I decided to retire the serving apron, put away the cocktail shaker and enter the world of special events; specializing in front of the house operations and management in full-service catering. Though, I never really planned to get into catering (the last thing I wanted to deal with was food after 7 years being a server and bartender) I took the opportunity when it was presented to me. A man by the name of Greg Chanthalusy (@cateringmadesimple) opened the door and trusted in me to help in getting his company launched into the bridal market. Since then I’ve worked with two great catering companies where my position consisted of executing weddings and other private events. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of what it takes to execute wedding receptions—both on the catering side and bridal side. I am forever grateful for everything I’ve learned in the catering industry and experienced, for it has only motivated me and made me more stronger in my career. Today, I proudly belong to the @chicchefcatering management team (featured on Best Pick of The Knot) specializing in day-of-wedding operations and client relations. Our company continues to impress me by vigorously working its way up the bridal market ladder, making our clients our #1 priority. I am truly excited to see the potential this company can achieve with/alongside one another.
Join me on my new chapter as an independent business woman that learned to follow before she could lead.
