Colorado Mountain Wedding Planner | Love This Day Events

Love this Day Events has been a project of love — 20 years in the making. I am delighted to introduce you to the team!!

Kara Delay::

I want to make pretty days for happy people.

Every single job and hobby I have had has led me to my passion for event design and planning. I grew up between Central Massachusetts, the Atlanta Suburbs (ohhhhh how my hair was big) and the extremely glamorous Toledo, Ohio (imagine Glee) in musical theater (yes, I really do use this many exclamation points most of the time!!) where I developed a love for art, design and production. After graduating from Roosevelt University in Chicago, I took a job as a workshop coordinator for Price Waterhouse. After a few years in the corporate world, I quit that silliness and back to my theatrical roots (and with that came the side jobs of restaurant management, bar tending, nannying, stage management, being a personal assistant, a cabaret singer . . . ) Seriously, I am so glad youtube wasn’t around 10 years ago!.

WHY COLORADO? I moved to Colorado to ski – for one season – 11 years ago. I met my husband the first week I lived in Winter Park and the rest is history. I worked and I skied and I started Pick Me! Floral and Event Design with a great friend. Together we grew the company into something spectacular. After 6 years with Pick Me!, I decided it was time to refocus my goals. Fewer events – more detail and design. The result is Love this Day Events. We specialize in Colorado weddings – either weddings in Colorado OR Colorado people getting married somewhere else. We have a unique attitude here at 9,000 feet. I believe that a Colorado wedding should be visually stunning, possess a little more of a relaxed attitude, have an appreciation for the traditional and a nod to the whimsical.

Love this Day Events focuses on the details that matter to YOU. We work one on one to create a spectacular day (or wedding weekend) that is a reflection of you and your fiance and what you two care about. Together we will create the details and manage the entire production so you can be the girl in the pretty white dress, so he can be the love of your life grinning at you as you walk down the aisle and your Mothers will both be able to enjoy the entire process. It is simply – your wedding, your way. All we do is anything it takes to make your Colorado wedding absolutely lovely so you can actually enjoy it.

I am so thankful for the team of like minded souls who have joined me in the crazy adventure that we call weddings. We don’t really have titles per say – because we all pitch in and make it happen. Allow me to introduce the amazing crew who I am lucky enough to spend my days with!!

Rachel Smith::

First off, I have never watched The Wedding Planner with J. Lo in it. I would say that is one of my most frequently asked questions. But instead, my story goes like this….

The background…

One day, I quit my job in corporate america (at a nuclear power facility of all places!) and followed a crazy idea to become a wedding planner. I didn’t really know what it would entail….at all...but I was determined to figure out every single facet of the industry. 7 years later, I can confidently say that I did (aside from the jeweler aspect, maybe that is my next calling!). From catering, to coordination, to floral design, to the creative direction of a highly acclaimed wedding publication, to photography assistance, to straight up man labor: I have done it all! And I am so thankful for the journey. I’ve worked all over the US, primarily on the East Coast, and spanning into California, Texas, Chicago, Florida, and of course, the stunning Colorado Rockies.

My style…

Raised in the North Carolina mountains, I have a healthy dose of Southern whimsy in me, but not to be worried, my years in Southern California gave me a modern edge, and my time here in Colorado has brought out a rustic chic design flair (not to mention a surprising affinity to cowboy boots). I can proudly say that my diverse background (along with the fact that I am a Pisces and a Millennial) make me highly adaptable and aware of different clients design aesthetics, needs, and desires.

Why floral and event design?

In my wedding industry journeys, it was no surprise that flowers became my passion and my forte. After all, I was the kid whose 90 year old grandmother, to this day, has 15-30 bud vases filled with hand picked flowers around her house (even if it is just a clover bloom). I was also the kid whose Dad strapped a backpack on her and sent her on illegal wildflower digs in the Appalachian Mountains (those trilliums and jack-in-the-pulpit are STILL blooming!). I am not embarrassed at all to say that my latest gift to myself was Tasha Tudor’s Garden which is basically like flower porn to me (who needs 50 Shades of Grey?!). I LOVE working with flowers! Going hand-in-hand with flowers, I also found my passion in overall event design. I am a dreamer, which is impractical in nearly every job, except for this one. I love to talk to clients; get their story, find out what their favorite item in their wardrobe is, hear about their best vacation and their favorite childhood memory, and their idea of a perfect date. I take that information and dream up an event that is personal and custom designed around their story. And that is just the beginning! Then I get to execute it and take their dreams and turn them into a tangible reality! I once took a couple’s dream of an enchanted Sherwood Forest and did a 5 hour installation of a tree in the rafters of an event space. Talk about fun!

As far as credentials, I can tell you this: I am quite skilled with a staple gun, very agile on a ladder, understand the laws of physics well enough to make sure that pretty things stay in their pretty places (also thanks to duct tape and zip ties), can set up a wedding in -30F temperatures without batting an eye, and I have a solid working knowledge of the Latin names of flowers (not that it is any use except to show off in the studio).

When not immersed in the wedding celebrations, I pretend that I am athletic and attempt to snowboard. Lots of times I sneak away to North Carolina to be reunited with my twin sister (the realcreative twin, I would recommend hiring her but she’s busy being a speech pathologist). I am completely addicted to expensive bread, A Praire Home Companion and This American Life on NPR, my down comforter, Naked Green Machine juice, and the idea of a vacation in Bali this spring (!!). I am lucky enough to be blessed with the company of THE most wonderful man on the planet. Together we spend 90% of our time laughing, 10% eating (he’s Italian, what can I say?), and 100% being thoroughly entertained by how wonderful love is.

Now isn’t that a much better story than The Wedding Planner?

Our Team