Green Apple Weddings & Events


Service levels: Full-service planning

Team size: 1 – 5


About Green Apple Weddings & Events

Green Apple Weddings & Events

Designing, planning & coordinating weddings & events.

After fifteen years in theatre and television production, Kate O’Donnell Diaz discovered a love for planning events but wanted to do so with a different approach from what other planners were taking. Kate desired to help couples cultivate weddings that truly reflected them and not just what bridal magazines, their future mother-in-law or high school frenemy said they just HAD to do. The literal and financial waste she witnessed going into weddings because of something “someone” said the couple HAD to have made Kate feel incredibly uncomfortable. Kate saw a need for a more eco-friendly approach to event planning.

Green Apple’s reputation for creating and executing fabulous, guest experience-focused weddings has led to relationships with wonderful corporate and charitable foundations. We aim to create events that not only reflect the vision of the organization but foster socialization, communication, and collaboration among the attendees culminating in memorable events for all in attendance. Green Apple has planned, designed, and coordinated hundreds of wedding & events parties, corporate, promotional, non-profit, private, showers, or any other kind of event that requires special attention in New York City, Connecticut, Long Island, and beyond.

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Services by planning level

Full-service planning

Pricing starts at $15,000*

*Plus % of total wedding costs

Partial planning

Pricing starts at $10,000

Day-of coordination / wedding management

Pricing starts at $4,400

Event design

Pricing starts at $15,000*

*Plus % of total wedding costs

Destination wedding

Pricing starts at $15,000*

*Plus % of total wedding costs

Elopement / microwedding

Pricing starts at $7,500*

*Plus % of total wedding costs


Services


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5.0 (5 reviews)

  • Highly recommend

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    Suzie3 months ago

    We had a wonderful experience using Green Apple & Elevate Green for wedding planning, coordination and design. Communication was always timely, professional and extremely helpful. Our floral design and execution was beautifully done as well by the team and we could not have been happier. Kate and Jen's combined knowledge and experience helped to execute our wedding day perfectly. They both genuinely care and go above and beyond!

  • The Perfect Wedding Planning Team

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    Karen Wise Photography3 months ago

    Kate and Jen of Green Apple Weddings are an amazing wedding planning team! As a professional wedding photographer, I’ve had the pleasure of working with them on a number of their clients’ beautiful weddings in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and in the Berkshires. They have excellent design taste, are very organized and detail-oriented. They are kind and approachable too, making them the perfect planners to reach out to for your wedding!

  • Phenomenal Pair of Planners!

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    Jenny Yoo4 months ago

    Kate and Jen at Green Apple Weddings were great partners throughout our entire wedding planning process. They were knowledgeable, highly-competent, and kind – so easy to work with! Planning a wedding is not easy, and we cannot imagine pulling off such a large, complex, and important life event without them. They were a huge value-add for both the big things and the little things, from the day we started working with them right until the last guests left our reception nearly a year later. They wrangled our many vendors with ease, calmed our anxieties with their warm yet calm professionalism, and guided us through the busy day. We highly recommend this team for any couple looking to get married in NYC – you’ll be in good hands!

  • Amazing time working with Jen and Kate!!

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    Kaitlyn Kwan5 months ago

    I absolutely loved working with Jen and Kate for my wedding in October 2023!! They were both always so communicative, understanding, and organized, and the amount of attention they put into all of our details really showed on the day of our wedding. They handled so many of the logistics as well for us with our vendors, so that we could better focus on the parts we considered more fun; that truly made the planning process so much easier and enjoyable for me and my husband. In the end, the two of them captured our vision perfectly and gave us such reassurance and confidence in their abilities that it removed all of the stress leading up to the big day. So grateful for getting the opportunity to work with both Jen and Kate — our wedding truly would not have been the same without all of their help!