On the Podcast: Two Top Wedding Planners Share Trade Secrets
On this Thursday’s episode of “The Run-Through,” top-rated events producers Marcy Blum and Melissa Sullivan sit down with Chloe Malle to weigh in on etiquette, trends, and the curious requests they’ve run into while on the job at some of the jaw-dropping…
Reported by Vogue.
Wedding planning exists in a realm where logistics meet ego, and nobody understands that collision better than the people actually making it happen. Marcy Blum and Melissa Sullivan — two of the most in-demand event producers working today — pulled back the curtain on what it really takes to execute a Vogue-worthy wedding, according to Vogue's The Run-Through podcast with Chloe Malle.
First question everyone actually wants answered: what does it cost to get Snoop Dogg to perform at your reception? More complicated than you'd think. "You call the agent, they'll say, 'Make an offer and we will get back to you.' So it's like pin the tail on the price," Blum explains. Scheduling is its own negotiation — and then there's the rider. Sullivan describes the wilder asks as less about lavish demands and more about sheer volume of people: "If you're working in the Bahamas, you have to get work permits for everyone. And as the producer, you have to justify why they need, like, 30 wardrobe assistants." Blum's addition is bone-dry: "And why nobody on the island themselves would be capable of doing that gig."
On the Dog-at-Your-Wedding Fantasy: Let It Go
If you've been dreaming of your golden retriever trotting down the aisle in a floral collar, both planners want you to reconsider — for the dog's sake. "I think the dogs are miserable at it," Blum says flatly. Sullivan frames it as a sensory overload problem: crowds, noise, emotion, chaos. Her compromise is pragmatic — hire a sitter, let the dog make a brief appearance for photos, walk the aisle if you must, and then get them out. Not everything romantic on a Pinterest board translates to reality.
What Blum and Sullivan make clear, across every anecdote, is that the weddings that actually feel effortless are the ones with the most invisible infrastructure behind them — permits, negotiations, timing, contingencies, and two very calm professionals quietly preventing everything from going sideways.
The fantasy of a perfect wedding is real; it's just built by people who've already seen every way it can go wrong.
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