Multi-Award-Winning Wedding PlanneRS in Maryland, Washington D.C. & Charleston SC
Weddings that feel like home.
One you'll never want to leave.
A wedding they'll never forget.
Weddings built from the sentimental details of your life.
Every guest feeling at home in a place they've never known.
The most luxurious feeling on earth, is stepping inside your front door and feeling so completely and utterly at ease, you melt into your surroundings and nothing else in the world matters. For nineteen years, across 400+ multi-day celebrations, we've been designing weekends that make eyes widen at the beauty, and shoulders drop with the comfort of somewhere you belong.
Trusted at some of the country's most sought-after estates and venues including Peabody Library, Larz Anderson House, Whitehall, Montage Palmetto Bluff, Kiawah Island and Hotel Bennett.
Weddings grand enough to take your breath.
Warm enough to feel like home.
Where Your Loved Ones Soften, Settle In, and Never Want to Leave
Wedding Event Design & Full Production
True luxury is an atmosphere built around who you are, and that begins with the places you feel most yourself; for some, that’s the personal sanctuary you call home. For others, it’s the boldly designed hotel where you sink into deep velvet, cocktail in hand, the city you keep returning to, or the restaurant you’ve ordered the same dish from 100 times. We want to know why? What is it about those places that makes you feel at home, so we can thread that same feeling through every corner of your wedding.
The Nouvelle Way
Our Wedding Design & Production Approach
It starts with your favorite rooms in the world
You know the dinner that was meant to end at ten and somehow runs past one, because nobody has looked at the clock since they got there. We recreate that feeling for each wedding we plan. When you walk into your venue, you feel a warm embrace of familiarity. Where every detail speaks to your heart and you feel truly connected to that moment in time. It takes vendors we've spent seventeen years hand-selecting, and a thousand details no one else would think to plan. All composed to mirror the kind of night you never wanted to end, wherever it happened in the world.
A warm embrace of familiarity
Planning the feeling is one thing. Protecting it hour after hour is the real art. So we stay ten steps ahead of the day, anticipating what your guests need before they feel the want of it. Nothing is allowed to cool the warmth in the room. This is the wedding people describe for years afterwards and never quite manage to explain. They only remember how it felt like home, only more beautiful.
An ease you could stay in forever
Multi-Award Winners
Recognized Year After Year Across National Press & Keynote Stages
Multi-Day & Cultural Celebration Planning
Every heritage honored. Every guest welcomed.
With fluid, intuitive service, your loved ones don't just feel looked after, they exhale, unwind, and settle into the warmth of somewhere they truly belong.
Because our method is rooted in how you actually live and host, navigating sacred rituals, tight timelines and multi-generational life comes naturally to us. We've held South Asian celebrations, Jewish weddings, and multicultural families with three faiths under one roof. Four hundred guests or a handful, your event still feels like it was built for one family. Yours.
“They worked with us to take the ideas and vision we had and translate them into something out of a dream. Seriously, it looked like we had spent twice as much as we had, but it also genuinely felt like US. Everyone that joined us on the day from Nouvelle was INCREDIBLE; they anticipated every need, made us feel comfortable, and made sure every guest was taken care of.”
Breathtaking to Walk Into. A Feeling to Carry Home
Everything you've ever felt connected to lives on in you. We simply gather those things into one night. Because the most beautiful room in the world means nothing until it feels like home.
A feeling like that is built over months, with a devotion we can only give a few couples a year. So that's all we take. Planning across Maryland and Washington D.C., through Baltimore, Annapolis and Northern Virginia, out to the Eastern Shore and down to Charleston. If this is where you're planning to host, we'd love one of them to be yours.
Fewer Weddings, Deeper Devotion.
We intentionally limit the number of weddings we take each year
Frequently Asked Questions
Will we lose control of our vision?
Never, because the vision was never ours to take. Everything we design begins with you, from the way you live, the way you host and the small things that make a space yours. We're the translators, not the authors. We simply take what is already true about you and plan your wedding around it.
We're already busy. How much time will this take?
The most important thing we protect is your time. You never get this season of your life back, and you shouldn't spend it on email. The vendor calls, the endless threads, the logistical digging all happens out of your sight, held by hands that have done it for nineteen years. What reaches you is only ever a handful of clear decisions.
How do you handle budget and vendor recommendations?
With honesty because it would be easy to nod along to every idea but agreement isn't care. Our work is to help you spend where it truly changes how the day feels, and to say so gently when something won't. Anyone can tell you yes. Loving your wedding enough to sometimes say no is the harder, rarer thing, and it's what you're really paying for.
What if our celebration involves tent builds, or multi-day logistics?
This is where we're most at home. We frequently manage four-day estate weekends, or four-hundred-guest celebrations so the details that make these weddings extraordinary (or not) are something we know all too well. The measure of great planning isn't what you notice. It's everything you were never allowed to.
How do you handle multi-generational families or cultural traditions?
With deep respect, we've run multi-day South Asian celebrations, managed the rituals of Jewish weddings, and balanced fusion weekends where two cultures share one aisle. We build the timeline around sacred moments rather than squeezing them in and brief every vendor on what each tradition asks and why it matters. All while navigating strong family opinions with the diplomacy that only comes from having done it many times over.
With deep respect, we've run multi-day South Asian celebrations, managed the rituals of Jewish weddings, and balanced fusion weekends where two cultures share one aisle. We build the timeline around sacred moments rather than squeezing them in and brief every vendor on what each tradition asks and why it matters. All while navigating strong family opinions with the diplomacy that only comes from having done it many times over.
What if we're planning from another city, or overseas?
So many of our couples build their weekend from another city or another country and we always make sure they stay close to every decision through clear updates and well-chosen visits.
What happens if the weather turns on a private estate?
A second plan should feel every bit as beautiful as the first and definitely never like settling. In nineteen years across open farms and grand estates, we've learned to plan for the sky long before it changes its mind. With the standby structures, the backup power and a whole indoor world waiting in the wings. We cannot promise you sunshine but we can promise that nothing the sky does will ever change the feeling of home.
A second plan should feel every bit as beautiful as the first and definitely never like settling. In nineteen years across open farms and grand estates, we've learned to plan for the sky long before it changes its mind. With the standby structures, the backup power and a whole indoor world waiting in the wings. We cannot promise you sunshine but we can promise that nothing the sky does will ever change the feeling of home.
