Kay Northrup Events, LLC -

Jessica Singer

My husband & I met with several planners, but KNE stood out from the others for several reasons. Kay utilized our call to ask us a series of questions & to provide us with a realistic budget range based on our needs. She was extremely transparent about what KNE offers & was able to provide examples based on previous weddings they've done in Positano. Out of all the planners we met with, Kay & Niara made us feel the most at ease, excited, & understood.
We began the planning process in February 2024 with Niara & Bea as our main contacts, & our wedding was in October 2024. Though our wedding was small (25 guests), this was still a relatively short planning period. We never felt like we were compromising on anything nor did we feel rushed, stressed, or pressured with our decisions. Niara knew the owners of our first choice venue, Villa Oliviero, & was able to help us secure the villa in our desired date range. From there, everything fell into place beautifully. Niara and Bea connected us with vendors that fit exactly what we were looking for. Additionally, our vendors were all people we genuinely enjoyed getting to meet & work with. KNE's network of connections in Positano was a huge asset during the planning process & wedding itself. We did not visit Positano before our big day, so knowing we had someone advocating for us & who had a good feel for the area was invaluable. KNE uses Aisle Planner, & it made coordination & communication easy. We were always on the same page & up to date, & we knew exactly what we needed to do and when. As someone with a type A personality, I greatly appreciated this. There were no surprises about anything.
The KNE team created our website & also initiated contact with our guests to help answer questions. Whether it was about finding a place to stay, travel from the airport to our venue, or anything else, Niara was there to help. She also let our guests know that they could reach out to her during the wedding itself, which allowed us to truly enjoy the experience rather than answering tons of texts about logistics.
When we arrived at our venue, Niara and Casey came to check in with us & to review our schedule. Over the three days that our events took place, Niara & Casey ensured everything happened seamlessly for both us & our guests. We knew exactly where we needed to be without feeling like we were scrambling from one activity to the next. We felt taken care of the whole time, & so did our guests!
In terms of the wedding itself, we are still blown away by how it turned out. Bea worked so hard bringing our vision to life, & it was even better than we could have anticipated. The details were incredible & truly reflected who we are. I will never forget the moment I saw our dinner table for the first time. Several people have told us that they've never seen prettier flowers and decor at a wedding.
For our wedding favors, Niara contacted a friend with a shop in town, & they created hand-painted glass jars with lemons, our name, wedding date, and the location. Niara & Casey purchased tons of Italian candy and our guests were able to fill the jars at our reception. This is just one example of how the team helped add personal touches to our wedding.
We recognize that planning a wedding can be an extremely stressful process & can create high-pressure scenarios. I can honestly say I enjoyed the process & did not lose a night of sIeep worrying. We trusted KNE completely. Our monthly then weekly meetings were something I looked forward to. Niara and Bea always showed up smiling, positive, & got us excited about everything ahead. Their enthusiasm was infectious, & I know our wedding would not have been the magical fairytale it was without their efforts. The whole team poured so much into our event. If they were tired or stressed, they never let it show.
In sum, we loved every moment of working with KNE & already miss them. We wish we could do it all again! We never could have anticipated how incredible our wedding would be & we owe it all to KNE!

Chloe Johnson

There are no amount of words on this planet to describe how amazing Kay, Niara and Bea are as human but also as wedding planners and designers. I reached out to Kay as soon as we got engaged because my husband and I knew we wanted an out of the box, untraditional, fun wedding but definitely didn't want to plan it ourselves. All we knew we wanted specifically was to dance as much as we could and have a pizza truck and they delivered so much more.

I went to Bea with calm, simple colors and she came back with a vibrant disco theme and I fell in love. I looked at that mood board and told her that she created a mood board that represented me in a nutshell and I didn't know it. I am forever thankful for Bea creating that and bringing my vision to life, she is so incredibly talented!!

Kay is so incredibly talented, organized, hardworking, creative, professional, sweet and made wedding planning with her so enjoyable! Our monthly calls were my favorite and I always looked forward too them. We truly became friends through this process and I am so grateful to have met her! She truly delivered on absolutely everything that we wanted for our wedding!

Niara is a venue searching queen, funny, hardworking, creative, talented, nice and an awesome person! She delivered on finding us the perfect venue that fit out needs and wants and just was an absolute joy to work with!

Kay and Niara absolutely crushed the day of our wedding! I felt no stress at all and was just so excited to know that I had to amazing people to set up and execute the wedding of the century. People are still coming up to us and telling us that our wedding is the most fun wedding they have ever been too and that is because of Kay and Niara and Bea. I told Kay I wanted to dance and boy did I get to dance pretty much the entire night. I stuffed my face with pizza, alcohol and mamma mia and I couldn't have been happier.

We love you all so much!! Now lets drink wine and hang again, I miss you!!!

Alex Kennison

If you’re looking for a sign to have a destination wedding and use Kay and team to help you plan, this is it!!!

The KNE team exceeded every single one of our expectations when it came to wedding planning.

Throughout the entire process they were incredibly communicative, helping to ease all of our destination planning worries and truly enjoy planning our special weekend.

The KNE team taught us to lead with our values when it came to building our dream wedding weekend and focus on the things that mattered most to us. Because of their planning style, we had the most wonderful weekend filled with love that accurately reflected who we were as a couple vs. giving in to standard wedding elements that many couples may otherwise feel pressure to do.

Their team lead with honesty, hard work and kindness. We are still in awe of what they helped us create and will forever recommend all couples considering having a destination wedding to work with this fabulous group!

I don’t think I will ever find the words to properly thank Kay, Niara and Bea for making all our Italian wedding dreams come true. We love KNE!!!

Mighty Mouse

My fiancé and I purchased Kay’s De-Stress Your Wedding program November 21, 2024 and have already made our deposit and booked our venue as of December 22, 2024!

Simply have faith and follow… the program works!
My bride to be and I went from not knowing where to begin planning a wedding, much less a destination wedding, to deposit paid and venue booked all within a month of following her program. Kay had taken us from frustrated, stressed and unsure of the reality of an Italian wedding to confident, secure and most of all de-stressed! The simplicity of her plug and play spreadsheets helps keep the bottom line in sight allowing you the freedom to add and remove options to accommodate your budget. Her instructional and informative videos give insight on how to successfully navigate planning a wedding abroad, what to expect, and how to accomplish it.
Her knowledge of current vendors, venues, and pricing along with her exclusive directories made choosing a venue and potential vendors a breeze.
Having Kay available to us for any questions we may have has been amazing! Kay always responds quickly with a plethora of options and expert advice not to mention her weekly zoom call!

We love working with Kay and can’t wait to make it to Italy in 2026 with her by our side!

Daniel & Valentina

Ava Smith

Updating my previous review now that our wedding is over.

Kay Northrup Events is nothing short of amazing. We initially reached out to Kay to do an initial "Power Planning" session 2 years ago. We went from having no idea how to start planning, to us feeling comfortable and excited about the planning process with the confidence of what to do next!

Through the course of our conversations, our vision evolved from a destination wedding in the Mediterranean to a music-festival themed wedding. Since KNE specializes in untraditional weddings, Kay was so excited about the concept and directed us to their Production Manager, Niara, who has helped plan and execute music festivals!

Niara became our go-to for the next year, alongside KNE's Designer Bea, the three of us met monthly to talk through logistics and make decisions. They kept us on track when our ideas ran away with us, but encouraged our creativity and energy and helped bring this concept to life. Through their contacts they found the most perfect location for our wedding, that allowed us the flexibility to make a music festival event and wedding happen. With their help, we had an amazing stage for multiple acts, a grilled cheese food truck, custom made wristbands that acted as everyone's seating chart. Day of - they coordinated with our vendors to ensure delivery went smoothly, steamed dresses, dropped off breakfasts, helped us get dressed. Everyone had such a great time and had nothing but nice things to say about the vendors, the location, the theme and how everything turned out.

Niara and Bea, and their team day-of, went above and beyond to make our day special! They're a full-service team, and they love what they do and it shows. Anyone considering a planner should hire them - full stop.

[Photos courtesy of Bold as Love Studios]

Ariel Schuman

Kay and the KNE team are without a doubt the best wedding planning professionals on the planet. My husband and I were so overwhelmed by wedding planning, and hiring Kay was the best decision we ever made.

We couldn’t verbalize and didn’t know exactly what we wanted in a wedding, but through discussion with Kay and with her talent, she created our dream experience. It’s like Kay reached right into our hearts to create exactly what we wanted. Guests continue to tell us that our wedding reflected us/who we are in all the right ways.

Kaleigh is professional, highly organized, communicative, kind, enthusiastic, and exceptionally talented. Our wedding weekend was truly perfect, and it is 100% due to KNE’s effort and expertise. Our wedding party and family were so grateful for her, especially on the day of. KNE allowed everyone to relax and be truly present, because they took care of every. single. thing. & then some!!

The wedding planning process was easy, successful, and as stressless as possible because we had Kay and the KNE team. I loved our experience with Kay so much that I bought two of my best friends her power planning sessions. Everyone should have a Kay!!

Kay and her team are truly wonderful people and professionals. We feel grateful to have worked with them - their clients are the luckiest!!

Rehana and Vatsal

There aren’t enough words to capture the unparalleled effort KNE dedicated to our wedding. My husband and I knew two things going into wedding planning: we wanted a unique, authentic, non-traditional but still traditional Indian Hindu wedding. The other? That we had nowhere near enough time between both of our demanding careers to plan it. I had a strong vision, the algorithm was feeding me ideas, but I didn’t know how to make it happen, especially within our budget. Enter KNE – Kay and Niara were absolute rockstars from day 1. We asked them to do something so far outside of their comfort zones, and they overdelivered. Planning was seamless, they handled our anxiety well, and we felt super prepared going into our wedding weekend. On site, Kay, Niara, Melina and Casey absolutely killed it.
Let this be a lesson to everyone – you may not think you need a wedding planner, but who is going to make your niece a plate of chicken nuggets when she’s not feeling the dinner menu (an actual thing Casey did!) This team went so far above and beyond to make our wedding the dream we envisioned; they helped our parents understand where they needed to be, they tied bow ties and draped lehengas, they handled catering nightmares (all with us having ZERO clue,) and just crushed it. We asked this team to basically handle producing 3 “typical” weddings, in the middle of nowhere, with new and foreign cultural traditions, and they absolutely exceeded our expectations. KNE was recommended to us by our friends, and in the same tradition, we’d wholeheartedly recommend them to any couples out there.

Valentina Gerbasi

Where do I begin? Kay and her De-Stress Your Wedding program has been such a blessing to have!! I have never been the type of person to plan anything so following her program and being able to ask her questions and get feedback has been the best thing in the world for me! Her program itself comes with so many tools and resources that I would’ve never even thought I needed in wedding planning. If you are thinking about joining her program, I would say “stop thinking and just join it because I promise you, you will not regret it!” Again, I cannot express how helpful and efficient her program is! It’s been a life saver!!