Questions we’re asked before the first call

Full planning and design for multi-day weddings, most of them away from home. We take on the whole weekend, from the welcome party through the farewell brunch, and everything that makes it run: the venue and room block, the design, every vendor, guest travel and logistics, and our team on site from the first arrival to the last departure. You make the decisions; we carry everything else.

We plan the whole weekend, not just the wedding day, and we plan it the way the place deserves. A welcome dinner in a trattoria in Scala. A beach day on Rose Island by boat. A Junkanoo parade leading everyone from dinner to the after party at Ocean Club. None of it comes from a template; it comes from knowing the place and knowing the family. By the time the weekend arrives we know the stories well, and the guests feel that from the first night.

No. Every wedding we take is planned and designed by us from the start. The weekends we do, three or four days across a resort or a hillside town, can’t be handed off at the end. If you’re looking for day-of help in Houston, we’re glad to point you to planners we trust.

We don’t work in packages. Every wedding is full planning and design, scoped to the weekend you want, and we take a small number each year so each one gets our full attention. The best way to find out whether we’re the right fit is a call. We’ll tell you plainly if we’re not.

Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort in the Bahamas, more times than anywhere else. Amangiri in Utah. The Little Nell in Aspen. Montage Healdsburg and Carneros Resort in Napa. The Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel. Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, and private villas on Lake Como and Capri. Le Toiny and Eden Rock in St. Barths. Rosewood San Miguel de Allende. And at home in Houston, including full tent buildouts on private estates. You can see most of these in the portfolio.

Almost every wedding we plan is away from home: the Bahamas, Italy, Utah, Colorado, California, St. Barths, Mexico. We scout the property with you before you commit to it, and we’re on site for the full weekend, not just the wedding day. We’re opening in Miami in 2027.

Twelve to eighteen months is comfortable for a destination weekend, because the best venues hold a small number of wedding dates a year and the room block needs to be secured early. We’ve done it in less when we’ve needed to. If your date is closer than that, ask; it depends on the place more than the calendar.

No. We’ve planned in Italy for years and bring our own relationships, and for the things that should be handled by someone who lives there, like permits, local staff, and transport in a town with no cars, we hire the right people and manage them. You have one planner and one point of contact, start to finish.

Yes, all of them. We build the vendor team around your wedding, run the meetings, tastings, and site visits, and manage the contracts and the timeline so you’re deciding, not coordinating. For a destination wedding that means a mix of the vendors we bring with us, because we know exactly what they’ll deliver, and the ones we hire locally, because some things should be done by people who live there.

You contract and pay vendors directly, so every dollar is transparent and you always know where it went. We negotiate on your behalf, review each contract before you sign, and keep the payment calendar so nothing is missed.

Travel is billed at cost, separately from our fee, and we agree the number of trips before we start, so there are no surprises on either side. Scouting, the final site visit, and the wedding weekend itself are the usual three.

It depends on the place, the guest count, and how many days you want to be together. Rather than publish a number that won’t fit your weekend, we’d rather talk it through on a first call and tell you plainly whether we’re the right fit. The portfolio is the best guide to the scale of the weddings we take.

Fifteen years. Piper & Muse started in Houston and has spent most of that time planning weddings away from home, so the relationships at the venues we return to go back years. That’s what gets you the room they don’t list and the chef who’ll change the menu.