Weddings & events

This is where I started, and it is the only thing I still do under my own name.

Ceremonies, receptions, processions — the whole shape of a day. I take on a small number each year, which means the ones I take on get all of it.

Lao ceremony

The baci. The groom's procession. House blessings, engagements, the full wedding from the morning through the last song.

Most planners can execute a Lao ceremony as a checklist — the right objects in the right order, and nothing visibly wrong. What is harder is knowing why each part is there, and catching the thing that is quietly being left out. That is the difference I am selling, and it is the only one worth paying for.

I have spent most weekends of my life at the temple asking monks and elders why, and I have been the person other people call about this for twenty years. If your family has a way they do it, I want to hear it and work to it. If nobody left alive remembers why a step is there, I can usually tell you.

Events that aren't ceremonies

Receptions, parties, dinners, community and cultural events, and days that mix a ceremony with something entirely secular.

I came up in high-end guest service and event design before any of the rest of this, so the ordinary part of the job is the part I am steady at — the room, the flow, how people move through a day, and what it actually feels like to be a guest in it.

What I don't do here

The food. All of the cooking — private chef, catering, pop-ups — lives at Eat Yum Sະlut, and it books through its own form there. If you want me on both sides of your day, say so below and we will work it out together.

Ask about a date

Tell me what you are planning and roughly when. I will write back.