CALGARY – A Calgary wedding and event planning company has received international recognition in the pages of Vogue.
Hera Wedding and Events is listed on Vogue’s Ultimate Wedding Planner Master List, published this month. Only five Canadian companies made the cut.
The magazine cites big-name clients like NHLer Mike Green as part of the reason the company has garnered so much attention.
READ MORE: Wedding planning 101: What to do as soon as you get engaged
Owner Rachel Andrews said she was sought out by the magazine, who contacted her via email.
“It feels amazing, and it’s also more amazing to be on the same pages as the people that I’ve looked up to for so long like Mindy Weis, Sinclair and Moore, and Preston Bailey. These are the world’s best celebrity wedding planners,” Andrews said.
“What girl wouldn’t want to be in Vogue?”
“I have always known that I wanted to do this,” Andrews said. “I planned my brother’s first wedding on our driveway when I was like six, and it was actually really nice.”
READ MORE: Mobile apps to help you plan a wedding
Although Andrews admits it is a high-pressure job, she also said she enjoys the chaos of it all.
“It’s someone’s biggest day of their life, well one of them for sure, and it’s such a production… there’s so many details.”
READ MORE: The ‘tacky’ wedding invite faux-pas to avoid
The other four Canadian companies listed were based in Ottawa, Toronto, Victoria and Vancouver.