wedding & Event Planning in New Jersey & NYC
Creative, personalized events for people who want something different.
Celebrate life with jaw-dropping, WOW-worthy, customized events!
Wedding & Event Planning That’s Personalized to You
Customized, unique design details and creativity
White glove service for a seamless, enjoyable experience
A focus on full service wedding and event planning so you can focus on yourself and your relationships knowing everything is being taken care of for you
An event that says WOW!
Drew Noel Photography
“For anyone seeking an event planner, don't look any further. Amanda is it. She helped me plan my New Jersey wedding while I was living in Texas. From the first time we spoke until the day of the event a year later, her energy and enthusiasm never wavered. These events are once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Leave them to Amanda and they will be unforgettable for you and your guests.”
— SaraH
Villetto Photography
Unique weddings and unforgettable events
From unforgettable weddings to the coolest mitzvahs to over-the-top milestone events and parties, if you want to wow your guests, you book Smiling Through Chaos.
With a background in behavior change and counseling, Amanda brings an added level of understanding to the planning process, helping clients navigate stress, relationships, decisions, and all the personalities that come with planning a major celebration.
If you don’t want what everyone else has, you want Smiling Through Chaos for full-service wedding and event planning that feels personal, creative, and completely you.
“My goal is to have my clients stress less, smile more, and enjoy all the little moments leading up to their big day.”
-Amanda Hudes, Owner
Smiling Through Chaos’ Amanda Hudes is an experienced event planner and author of Amazon Bestseller Smiling Through The Chaos of Wedding Planning, a guide to helping people smile through and enjoy the process of planning their big day.
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Front row at the Berta Fashion Show, Esses Media
There will never be enough words to describe how amazing Amanda and Smiling Through Chaos are!
We worked with Amanda for almost two years planning our wedding. Amanda gave us access to vendors we would have never found, who all executed our vision perfectly. She is so well respected in the wedding vendor community and was able to get us discounts and negotiate pricing and contracts for us. Within the first week she saved us over 7k. Amazing! We completely trusted her creative process, and the results were STUNNING. There was never a moment where I felt stressed or that Amanda didn’t have things handled. She allowed us to truly enjoy the process and our wedding day. Thanks to her we were able to be in the moment and not worrying about the behind the scenes stuff. Amanda is incredibly hard working, detail oriented, and organized. We had so many people who told us it was the best wedding they had ever been to, and that was all thanks to Amanda! Wedding planning is a full time job, don’t let yourself do it alone! Finding Amanda was the best thing that could have happened to us and I could not recommend her more!!!
