I'm Nicole.

Why sustainability sits at the center

~ Add your personal version here. Why this work, why this niche. A paragraph or two ~ honest, specific, in your voice. Mention the events you've run, the values you carry, the moment you decided "this is the kind of planner I want to be." Leave the polish to the page; the substance has to come from you.

The short version: an event is a system. Every choice ~ caterer, vendor, signage, music, paper, lighting ~ either reinforces what the night is supposed to mean or undercuts it. Sustainability isn't a checkbox bolted onto the budget. It's the discipline of asking, at every fork, does this choice align with what we're celebrating?

That discipline scales. It works for a 40-vendor Earth Fair. It works for a 200-guest cultural night. It works for a beachfront wedding where the bride wants the linens recycled and the surplus food driven to a shelter the next morning. The tools are the same; the brief is different.

What I work on

• Sustainability events. Earth fairs, eco-launches, ESG gatherings, mission-aligned corporate. Vendor-vetted for sourcing, waste, and impact.
• Cultural & community. Farmers markets, festivals, cultural nights, neighborhood programming. Designed to respect the community it serves.
• Beach & tropical. Weddings, proposals, bridal weekends, milestone birthdays. Tide-touched, sand-friendly, designed for the camera and the memory.
• Corporate & nonprofit. Galas, launches, donor nights, off-sites ~ for organizations whose values pencil out. I won't run a greenwash event. Ask if you're unsure.

How I think about the work

~ Add three to five short principles in your own voice. Things you actually believe about events. Replace these examples with your own ~ they're placeholders to react to.

• Every event has a center of gravity. Find it first. Everything else falls out of it.
• Vendor relationships are the work. The night looks like magic because someone spent eight months on the phone.
• Sustainability is a practice, not a label. If it's not in the procurement, it's not in the event.

For corporate & institutional clients

If you're vetting me for a corporate, nonprofit, or institutional engagement and want to see how I think about strategy, sustainability frameworks, and business analysis ~ Strategy & research has a few longer pieces: ESG analysis, sustainability pitch decks, event analytics. Useful for procurement, less useful for the curious.