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après planning collective

your wedding, well-hosted.

colorado wedding planning for couples who care more about how the night felt than how it photographed.

Welcome to Après Planning Collective!

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APRÈS
let’s throw a party
Together with our most trusted vendors Après Planning Collective invites you to the best party you will ever host Your Wedding in the mountains, in Denver, or wherever you want to celebrate with your people
dancing, toasts & the party nobody wants to end to follow

All are welcome and celebrated here.

Every background, every tradition, every kind of love. Not just welcome — celebrated. Every gender, ethnicity, culture, and form of love is honored fully. Your story is yours. We’re just here to help you tell it.

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three ways to be hosted.

three packages, one goal: your guests feel well-hosted, and you get to be one of them.

Full Planning · featured

fully planned, fully hosted

From the first venue tour to the last song. In partnership with you, we build your vendor team, manage the budget, guide the design, and handle the logistics from start to finish. You get full access to our planning portal, with your planner working in it right alongside you: your timeline, budget, vendors, and checklists, all in one place. The goal: for you to feel well hosted through every step of your engagement.

Partial Planning

the same team, a lighter touch

You manage the budget, guide the design, and handle vendor communication. We help with the big decisions, recommend vendors we trust, and take over the logistics as the wedding gets close. Our planning portal keeps your timeline, budget, and vendors organized, with a direct line to us whenever you need it.

Month-of Coordination

you’ve planned it. we run it.

Sixty days out, we step in with a check-in meeting to walk through everything you’ve built. Together we create your timeline, and thirty days out we take over vendor communication and final logistics. Then we run the wedding day, so you and your family get to be guests, well hosted alongside everyone else. Includes our planning portal to keep the final stretch in one place.

Packages range from $2,500 – $10,000, with the average couple spending $7,000 on full planning.

directions

how to get from here to the dance floor.

01

the first conversation

It starts with a call. We talk about your date (or your “no clue yet”), your venue or the search for one, and who is coming to this party.

02

your custom plan

We put the scope, timeline, and cost in writing. Then we build a planning calendar that works with your actual schedule.

03

build the day

Vendors, design, budget, logistics. We do the legwork and bring you decisions that are ready to make, so the fun parts stay fun.

04

host the party

On the weekend, we run the show. You show up as the guest of honor, your family shows up as guests, and everybody gets to enjoy the party.

Our vendor relationships are deep, trusted, and already vetted. You get introductions, not a list of names to go chase.

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HOSTED BY

Amy Buchalter, founder of Après Planning Collective

About Après

Après began in Amy and her husband’s ski house in Vermont. For ten years, every day on the mountain ended the same way: friends gathered around the table, something warm on the stove, good music on the speakers, a drink in every hand, and nobody in a hurry to leave. We’d all spent the day tearing up the icy slopes, and après was the celebration that brought us back together to talk, to eat, to drink, and to connect.

That’s our favorite part of a wedding, too. Your people have been there through your whole love story, every step of the way to this moment. The wedding is the après: the night to eat, drink, celebrate, and bring everyone you love into one room.

That’s the feeling we bring to every wedding: the warmth of a good host, and the evening nobody wants to end.

Meet Amy, Founder

Colorado born and raised. Detoured to New England for a decade to teach some kids, build a couple of houses in matching Carhartt overalls with my husband, and consume as much maple syrup as possible. Former elementary school teacher and après-ski host, turned full-time wedding planner.

  • Avid skier with questionable talent. Give me snow or water, I’m strapping in and hoping for the best.
  • Empathy, energy, and RBF are unmatched.
  • Always have three drinks on my desk: one for hydration, one for caffeine, and one for fun. Never finish any of them.
  • Raising two toddlers to be preschool’s biggest Noah Kahan and Bad Bunny fans.

Based in Colorado. Ready to go wherever you are.

The Team

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don’t take our word for it.

“Because of Amy and her team, we were able to relax and enjoy every moment with our family and friends instead of worrying about the details. She was calm, organized, professional, and genuinely cared about making sure the day was everything we had hoped for.”— Denice · Jefferson · 2026
“She made our wedding day run so smoothly. She was organized, kind, and her calm presence made all the difference. Her professionalism, kindness, and support allowed us to fully enjoy our day, and we truly couldn’t have imagined it without her there.”— Kayla · Buena Vista · 2025
“Amy was definitely the most relieving money we spent on the whole wedding. She took just about everything off my plate.”— Laura · Buena Vista · 2025

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Where do you plan weddings?
Colorado + destination. We’re based in the Denver metro area and plan weddings across the state, and we travel. Wherever you want to party with your people, we’ll be there.
What does it cost?
Packages range from $2,500 – $10,000, with the average couple spending $7,000 on full planning.
Our venue has a coordinator. Do we still need a planner?
A venue coordinator works for the venue. We work for you. They make sure the space is ready and the venue’s rules are followed. We handle your timeline, your vendors, your details, your family, and everything that isn’t the venue’s job.
We already booked some vendors. Is that a problem?
Not at all. We work with the vendors you’ve already booked, introduce you to our people for anything still open, and coordinate everyone from there.
Is every couple welcome?
Yes, and that is the minimum. All genders, races, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and kinds of love are celebrated here.

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