Full-service wedding planning and event design for people who are too extraordinary for a cookie cutter celebration.
Start the conversationBoston wedding planner for celebrations that refuse to copy and paste.
Contagious Events is a Boston wedding planning and event design team serving Boston, Provincetown, Cape Cod, and celebrations across New England. We manage venue selection, budgets, vendor teams, creative direction, logistics, and production so every part of your wedding feels connected, personal, and unmistakably yours.
Real New England weddings, designed around real people.
Gardens at Elm Bank Wedding
Amy and Jason’s Elm Bank wedding in Wellesley featured a garden ceremony, fresh figs, local blooms, and an intimate dinner-party reception.
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Caoimhe + Mike
We transformed a historic Back Bay ballroom into an indoor garden that balanced soft, organic florals with the couple’s Gaelic heritage.
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Nina + Bryan
Color, lighting and custom-built details transformed a modern gallery into a full-sensory disco celebration designed around movement and joy.
See the celebration →We know Boston rooms. We also know how to make them unrecognizable.
A beautiful room is only the beginning. We know the access windows, guest flow, production limits and logistical quirks that shape a celebration long before the first centerpiece arrives.
Fairmont Copley Plaza Weddings
Multiple event spaces and ballroom-scale production create plenty of possibilities. We plan the guest flow, timeline and design as one connected experience.
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State Room Boston Weddings
Sweeping skyline and harbor views set the scene for a modern wedding at State Room, while our guide balances the venue’s creative possibilities with the practical details of layouts, guest flow and planning.
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ICA Boston Weddings
Floor-to-ceiling harbor views, contemporary architecture and flexible event spaces create an incredible canvas for a wedding. We balance the creative possibilities with the logistics of transforming a working museum into a seamless celebration.
Read the venue guide →Boston is home base. New England is the playground.
Our work takes us from waterfront weekends in Provincetown and Cape Cod to Vermont farms, New Hampshire estates and celebrations along the Rhode Island coast. The setting changes. The job does not: build a clear plan, respect the place and make the celebration feel unmistakably yours.
Explore weddings across New England →A Boston wedding planner at work.
Very good plans.
The finished room is only the part guests see. Before that comes the creative direction, the vendor choreography, the production schedule, and hundreds of decisions that make a complicated celebration feel effortless.
I cannot recommend Joe and Contagious Events highly enough. Joe was able to meet with my son and his fiancé and glean from them what sort of feel and look they wanted for their event before they could even articulate it themselves. His organization and attention to detail was flawless.Jodi Picoult · Google Review
The best parts of a celebration refuse to stay contained.
Joy spreads. Laughter catches. Energy moves from person to person. One unforgettable moment creates the next. Those are the things we want to make contagious.
That is what we mean by Contagious Events.
Ideas worth stealing.
Before we start planning.
A few useful things to know about working with our Boston wedding planning and event design team.
What is Shindig, Hootenanny, and Primetime?
We think wedding planning should feel fun and celebratory, so our package names reflect that.
Shindig is full-service wedding planning for busy couples who want a creative partner from venue search through the last dance. We guide the venue, budget, vendor team, design, logistics and production from start to finish.
Hootenanny is design and planning support for couples who already have their venue and caterer but need help shaping the vision and pulling every remaining detail together.
Primetime is wedding management for couples who have done the planning and want an experienced team to take over the final stretch, coordinate the vendors and run the wedding day.
Explore our planning packages →Where does Contagious Events plan weddings?
Boston is home base, but our team plans weddings throughout Massachusetts and New England, including Provincetown, Cape Cod, the Berkshires, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. We also travel beyond New England for the right celebration.
Explore real New England weddings →How far in advance should we book a wedding planner?
There is no hard deadline. We have planned weddings in a matter of weeks, and we have begun planning celebrations two years in advance. Most couples book our Shindig and Hootenanny packages 12 to 18 months before their wedding. Primetime is typically booked about six months out.
Availability ultimately matters more than the calendar, so reaching out early gives you the best chance of securing your date and preferred level of support.
Let’s make it wildly, unmistakably yours.
Tell us what you’re planning, what you care about, and what you never want your wedding to feel like. We’ll take it from there.
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