Multi-Award-Winning Arizona Wedding Planner.
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This isn’t just a wedding in Arizona. It’s a world shaped entirely around you - electric, immersive, and impossibly alive. The kind of beauty that steals your breath and quiets everything else. In that moment of stillness, you both know: this is what you’ve been waiting for. To be seen. To be certain. To feel fully, wildly you. And yet somehow, it’s even more than you imagined.
This Is What It Feels Like to Be Truly Understood
Voted Best Wedding Planner and Best Event Designer in Arizona
Named Best Wedding Planner (2023) and Best Wedding Designer (2024) by Arizona Bride Magazine. We are recognized because we think differently. We start with why; Why this texture? Why that shape? Why this experience? We build sensory worlds, layered, immersive, and deeply intentional. Every element has meaning. Every detail answers a deeper question. That’s how we think. That’s how we plan. That’s why we win.
Taylor Dornik
“We received countless compliments from our guests on how smoothly everything ran and how beautiful every detail was, and we know that this is all thanks to Chelsea and the BTO team. We are so grateful for her expertise, professionalism, and kindness throughout the entire process.”
The Most You-Looking Wedding Anyone’s Ever Seen.
You say yes when others say no. Because expression isn’t optional. It’s oxygen.
It’s the thing that keeps you breathing, feeling, living. To care deeply. To love boldly. To celebrate like it means everything. And your wedding needs to feel like that too; A full-body, unapologetic, wild-hearted expression of everything that’s shaped your story as a couple.
As your Arizona wedding planners, we take your vision and stretch it beyond what you thought was possible. We’re here to honor what matters most to you and transform it into something more nuanced, more breathtaking and more alive than you ever thought to ask for.
A wedding that feels like a world built entirely around you.
You want to lean into the wild beauty around you, to let the rugged elegance of Arizona’s landscapes and endless skies carry your story as a couple. To deliver gasp moments. The kind that lifts your guests off their feet and into something euphoric, because they can feel exactly what this place means to both of you.
But this day isn’t just about honoring the earth; It’s about layering it with your meaning. An experience so moving it brings you both to tears, because it’s more personal, more breathtaking, and more yours than anyone imagined a wedding could be.
Where the natural world and deeply thoughtful design become one expression: your story together.
Where the Earth Grounds You and the Experience Transforms You
Catie Menke
“We’ve had so many friends and family tell us how much the wedding felt like us - from the unique touches to the overall vibe, it was unmistakably our celebration. That’s exactly what we hoped for, and Black Tie Optional delivered above and beyond.”
The Blueprint of
This is how wedding planning and design is done - the BTO way, where everything feels like you, only better than you imagined.
You
Feel a rare kind of peace in knowing you can fully let go. Because when someone’s holding the vision as tightly as you are, you finally get to breathe.
BREATHE
We don’t just ask what you want. We ask why it matters. We ask why until we hit the gold. Then we keep digging until we know FULLY who you are. We plan and design from there.
What does it mean to be you?
We translate your essence into something tangible, something iconic. Something never seen before. Inspired by you. Executed entirely by us.
What’s your story in form and detail?
It’s about full-body memory. It’s emotional architecture. It’s sensory direction. It’s the moment when the world fades and something bigger takes over.
We plan and design the full experience that speaks to your soul
This is where you stand, surrounded by everything you are, and everything you’ve ever wanted to be. A wedding so true, it feels like the earth conspired to make it happen.
Feel the power of being fully understood
It feels like home, in the most expressive, aligned way possible, like everything was always leading here. The result is immersive. Intoxicating. The kind of experience your guests surrender to. And they leave calling it what it was: remarkable.