A. Marie Events & Design is a South Florida luxury planning, design and hospitality company founded by Anita Craine. Its stated position is unusually specific for the category: luxury is measured not by how a celebration looks, but by how it makes the people in the room feel, guests welcomed, valued and genuinely present.
The Range
The service range runs wider than a typical wedding-only planner. Full-Service Wedding Planning, from first consultation to the team on the ground on the day, starts at $15,995. Wedding Management & Event Execution, for couples with planning already underway, starts at $4,595. Intimate weddings, elopements and vow renewals sit alongside luxury proposal planning from $2,500, event production and design, hospitality and concierge services, and corporate and private events.
The Little Guest Experience
One service line stands out as genuinely uncommon in this category: The Little Guest Experience, a dedicated children’s hospitality programme starting at $495, built specifically around the youngest guests at a wedding so their parents can stay present for the celebration rather than managing them through it. It is the kind of detail that only gets built by a planner who treats hospitality, not just logistics, as the actual product.
The Work
The portfolio spans both ends of the category. A black-tie gala fills a hotel corridor beneath a red floral installation, guests in formalwear moving between cocktail stations. A barn-style reception is strung with hanging bulb lights and a greenery installation. Sweetheart tables sit framed by full floral arches and candelabra chandeliers in formal ballrooms. The couples themselves are genuinely varied, two grooms making a celebratory entrance under a draped tent to a cheering room, two brides photographed together in garden light.
South Florida
A. Marie Events & Design is based in South Florida and works across the region’s hotels, resorts and private venues. The portfolio moves from oceanfront balconies to garden pathways to formal ballrooms, matching the range of the service list itself: a firm built to plan a wedding of any size and setting, rather than one signature look repeated for every couple.
Luxury is never about excess, it is about intention.
Anita Craine, Founder & Creative Director
Client accounts, published on the firm’s own site, describe a consistent pattern: being made to feel heard from the first conversation, a calm and organised planning process, and a wedding day the couple was able to be fully present for rather than managing themselves. “A. Marie Events & Design exceeded every expectation we had,” one couple wrote. “Anita made us feel heard, supported, and completely at ease.”
Weddings Planned by A. Marie Events & Design
For a couple who wants a planner treating hospitality as the actual product, not a line item alongside the flowers, and who values a published starting price over a mandatory consultation just to learn one, A. Marie Events & Design brings full-service planning, event production and genuine guest care into one South Florida practice.
Best for
- South Florida Weddings
- Full-Service Wedding Planning
- Corporate & Private Events
- Luxury Proposal Experiences
- Families with Young Guests
Questions
Where is A. Marie Events & Design based?
South Florida, working across the region for weddings, corporate events, and private celebrations.
How much does full-service planning cost?
Full-Service Wedding Planning starts at $15,995; Wedding Management & Event Execution starts at $4,595.
What is The Little Guest Experience?
A dedicated children’s hospitality programme for the youngest wedding guests, starting at $495, so parents can stay present for the celebration.
Does the firm plan corporate events?
Yes, alongside weddings, custom quoted per event.
- Planner: A. Marie Events & Design, South Florida, USA
- Images: Courtesy of A. Marie Events & Design
