Michelle Leo Events

Michelle Leo is the best of the best! She designed the most impeccably beautiful design, balanced with the right kind of guidance/​recommendation, and worked relentlessly to fit in our budget while still maintaining the integrity of the design. Based on how smooth the whole planning process went, I had pretty high expectations for the day of my wedding — but EVERYTHING exceeded anything that I had anticipated. My jaw dropped over 10 times and I stared in unbelief at everything every interval that evening. The design was more cohesive than I imagined. The flow of the event was paced and managed perfectly. The feel and energy reflected what I had requested PERFECTLY. Michelle listened and learned a lot about me and my personality and then made outstanding recommendations to make the day fit for me and my fiancé.
Her staff were incredibly helpful and they all pitched in to solve a couple of behind the scene problems that none of us ever knew about… that’s how wonderful they are. Calm, collected, perfectly planned. Loved love loved working with Michelle!
It’s been over a month since our wedding and guests are still gushing (constantly) about how it was the most beautiful wedding they have ever attended, how relaxed they felt, how much joy they experienced, and how ever detail was beyond stunning! Every time i give a slow clap to that incredible Michelle! (sigh) She’s simply AMAZING.

Michelle is one of the most thorough, dedicated, creative, organized, personable, flexible, detail-​oriented wedding planners in Utah. She takes care of local brides and destination brides — planning their weddings from top to bottom and removing every worry from their minds. I have seen her work miracles on rainy days — creating visionary masterpieces no matter what nature or «the fates» throw her way.
If you don’t need your entire wedding planned for you, Michelle offers options for that as well.
She has an entire arsenal of recommendations for vendors for anything you need from flowers to cakes to lighting design and DJ services. You are also welcome to find your own if you would like, but I’d stick with her recommendations with absolute faith your wedding day will be perfect.
Working for another niche of the wedding industry in Utah, I especially appreciate her attention to detail, her clients, her vendors, and everyone in between.
Use Michelle Leo Events and you will make one of the best decisions of your life.

Michelle Leo Cousins of Michelle Leo Events was the best thing that we could have done for our wedding and for ourselves! My husband and I decided to have a destination wedding in Salt Lake City, Utah. Although my parents live in Salt Lake City, when my husband and I were planning our wedding, he was located in Washington, D.C., and I was working in Cambodia so we needed a wedding planner who would be communicative, flexible, and be able to be our eyes and ears on the ground as we planned remotely. What impressed me the most about Michelle was her sense of style, her openness to our ideas, and the vendors with whom she worked. Her network is extensive and the quality of our wedding was more than we could have imagined and what we could have done on our own. My only feedback would be to be proactive in asking what other vendors she has in her network outside of the one she recommends for items such as invitations and flowers. Also, be upfront about looking for samples of vendors’ work before locking down vendors to get a sense of their style and work product. What was also critical for us was that she was cognizant of our budget. She put a lot of care and thought into our wedding. We knew we were in good hands: our friends and family still keep talking about our beautiful wedding!

Michelle and Shauna were so great to work with when planning my destination wedding at Sundance. They made me feel as though I wouldn’t have to worry about a thing on my big day. All went incredibly smoothly and I would recommend them to my friends and family.

I hired MLE just over two years ago for my wedding day. Last week, we celebrated our two year anniversary last week, and I reflected on how incredible our wedding day was. MLE was originally hired primarily for «day-​of» event coordination. Soon after working with Michelle, I revised my contract with MLE and hired Michelle on as full service coordinator. Michelle provided me with the most appropriate vendors for my specifications, she arranged and attended every meeting that I had with my vendors, and she was patient with my seemingly never-​ending list of questions and concerns.
As an example of Michelle’s and MLE’s polished and competent skills, let me share what could have ruined our wedding dinner. I had miscounted my guest list. Without realizing this, on the day of the wedding I gave Michelle my table assignments, guest list, and escort card list. After the ceremony, while our guests were enjoying a cocktail hour, Michelle calmly explained the situation to me. Of course, I was totally embarrassed and panicked, but Michelle had come up with perfect solutions before she even presented the problems. MLE handled everything with complete professionalism while I enjoyed my new husband, friends, and family. Amazingly, the night continued seamlessly, thanks to MLE. Had I not hired MLE, I would have had to deal with the the potential catastrophe myself and not been able to enjoy our wedding day.
Throughout the entire planning process, MLE and Michelle were professional and organized, and above all, they wanted to make sure that I had a great planning experience, and that my husband and I had a flawless and memorable day. I will be forever grateful to them for giving me and my husband such a beautiful memory.

Michelle made my wedding planning an incredibly fun experience! She is not only professional, knowledgeable, and a wonderful woman to work with, but she really listened to what I needed and wanted. And… she managed to do this mostly over the phone as I live in CA but got married in Utah!
With her help, we were able to plan for any visits that I really wanted to do in-​person in Utah (such as: picking flowers, tables and linens, the band, tasting cakes, selecting invitations, etc). My wedding was absolutely perfect and was stunning. The day of, Michelle ran the show like clockwork while managing to make us feel at ease. I highly recommend Michelle… she’s amazing!

Michelle Leo Events are the Utah wedding planning PROS! Everything about our special day was perfect thanks to Michelle and her team. I had a vision of what I wanted the day to be, but planning every inch of my wedding was not something I wanted. Michelle took my vision and our day was more than we could even imagine! It was important to me that our families didn’t have to lift a finger on the big day as they were all coming in from out of town. We were to enjoy all the fun and beautiful parts of the wedding day without stressing out over the other things. I could not imagine our day without Michelle and her team by our side! I will never forget walking in to our event space and being completely blown away! This is the team you want on your wedding day.

I recently worked with Michelle for my «love you to the moon and back» themed wedding and she and her team were wonderful! Utah is not my home state so I was putting a lot of trust into her to bring my vision to life. For my wedding, I found Michelle’s value was in her relationship with her vendors. Her husband is a fabulous carpenter who does custom work for her clients. He made us these awesome crescent moons that now decorate our home! Michelle also has a close relationship with Diamond Rentals and their lighting expert Rusty. Michelle and Rusty put together a great lighting design for the wedding and made a custom ceiling decoration over the dance floor of paper stars with multi-​colored LED lights. Michelle also has an amazing floral contact, Erin of Urban Floral Château, who totally understood what sort of flowers we were looking for to bring a pop of color and mountain-​chic to the wedding.
I hired Michelle for her partial package because I’d already done a large share of the planning, and I needed someone to do the details and make sure everything ran smoothly the day of the wedding. She kept the timeline and I kept a smile on my face the whole day.