Boston wedding planning with personality.
Contagious Events plans and designs deeply personal weddings across Boston and New England—for couples who want expert backup, bold ideas, and a celebration that could only belong to them.
IN
2010
Throw out the shoulds. Keep what feels like you.
Your wedding does not need another rulebook. It needs a clear point of view, a plan you can trust, and room for the two of you to actually enjoy it. That is where we come in.
Built from scratch
Budgets, timelines, ceremony scripts, checklists—every tool is shaped around your priorities instead of forcing you into someone else’s process.
No surprise math
Flat-fee wedding planning means no percentages, commissions, hourly overages, or mystery charges. You know what support costs from the start.
Everyone gets to be a guest
We handle the details and the curveballs, so your family is not handed a last-minute to-do list and you are not managing your own wedding.
Born to make a scene.
Joe’s route to becoming a Boston wedding planner was less a career pivot and more a lifelong pattern.
The first dinner party
Place cards, a menu, one very patient godmother, and a family gathered around the table. The joy of making an occasion feel special stuck.
More people. Bigger ideas.
Pep rallies, a 200-student leadership conference, concerts, comedy shows—and a successful Guinness World Record attempt involving a Mini Cooper.
180 events a year
Professional meeting planning taught Joe serious logistics. It also made one thing clear: cookie-cutter events leave all the best ideas on the table.
Contagious Events
Joe went rogue and built the kind of wedding planning and design company he wanted to hire: organized, imaginative, candid, and allergic to autopilot.
Care is part of the design.
We want the process to feel as good as the finished room. That means protecting your time, keeping your people out of the production plan, and staying close enough to catch the tiny details before they become big ones.
After the last dance, we refresh leftover flowers and hand-deliver them to a local hospice—because a beautiful celebration can keep making people smile.
Joe launched Contagious Events in 2010—the same year he began coming out—by intentionally marketing to gay couples in Massachusetts, where marriage equality was already law. A few years later, a bride asked if he would “consider” planning her wedding to a man. He did, they did not pay extra, and the joke today is that Ally + DJ were the catalyst to the Contagious Events rebrand, which was done to be more inclusive of heterosexual couples. Today, that weekend project known as Contagious Events is a team of six, and we're proud to celebrate all kinds of events, for all kinds of people.
Those roots still shape how we show up: thoughtfully matching couples with supportive vendors, helping our industry do better, marching in Pride, hosting drag queen bingo, and sponsoring local drag.
Serious planner.
Very unserious person.
You will spend a lot of time with your wedding planner. Chemistry matters. Here is the highly scientific compatibility test.
Sequins, yes.
Sparkly blazers are hard to resist. Wedding appearance by request only.
Disco devoted.
Small mirrorballs. Big mirrorballs. There is always room for one more.
Road trip ready.
New England autumn leaves and White Mountain roads beat a long-haul flight.
No seafood.
If it swims, it is not dinner. Corn in an omelette, however, is fair game.
Bingo regular.
An enthusiasm inherited from that same godmother who helped with dinner party number one.
Let’s make this wildly, unmistakably yours.
Tell us what you are planning, what you cannot stop thinking about, and what you never want to see at your wedding. We will take it from there.
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