Laine Palm Planning + Design

05/25/2026

The question I get more than any other is some version of — what do I actually get when I hire you?

It’s a fair question. And the honest answer is that most of what you’re paying for is invisible. It lives in the decisions made before you ever had to stress about them, the problems solved before they reached you, the 300 hours of work that never once felt like your burden to carry.

A wedding that feels calm and effortless on the day didn’t happen by accident.

Someone built that. Intentionally. Long before you walked through the door. 🤍

05/23/2026

The moodboard is a promise.

Every image saved, every texture pulled, every color decision made months before anyone sets foot in the venue — that’s the idea. The commitment to a feeling before a single chair has been placed.

Then comes the part no one sees. The walk-throughs, the adjustments, the moment where everything that lived on a screen has to translate into a room that real people will stand inside and feel.

Kate and Nate’s wedding didn’t look like their moodboard.
It looked better. 🤍

Venue + Catering + Bar |
Planning + Design |
Photography |
Video |
Floral | .blooms
Draping |
Stationery | .elaine
Entertainment |
Hair and Makeup | + + .arte
Cake |
Bride + Groom | +

05/12/2026

Somehow climbing a ladder to hang a chandelier feels easier than responding to one more email.

Our brains are not normal. And honestly, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

This is where the real work lives — not in the inbox, not in the mood board, not in the planning documents that keep everything moving behind the scenes. It’s here. Hands on. In the room. Watching something that existed only as an idea on a screen become a space people actually stand inside and feel.

Styled shoots are where I get to push past the brief. No parameters, no timeline pressure — just a concept taken as far as it can go. Drapery floor to ceiling, chandeliers stacked until the room barely breathes, candlelight everywhere, and a stunning cake from that stopped everyone on set mid-sentence.

Equestria West held all of it beautifully.

This is the part of the job that reminds me why I started. 🔥

Photography | ⁠
Venue | ⁠
Food | ⁠
Planning + Design | ⁠
Floral | .blooms⁠
Lighting | ⁠
Stationery | .elaine⁠
Rentals | + + ⁠

05/08/2026

The Four Seasons has never done anything quite like this.

Four rooms. One story. A full Alice in Wonderland experience built course by course through spaces the hotel had never opened this way before — including their kitchen, where guests got to pick tasty bites among floral gardens on the tables and drank tea like they had stumbled somewhere entirely new.

It started with a violinist and cellist setting the tone before anyone had taken their first sip. It moved through the kitchen, into a ballroom with lighting designed specifically for this night, through a dessert room pulled straight from Wonderland, and closed in the Four Seasons lobby bar because the best stories don’t end abruptly — they linger.

Designing for industry peers is its own kind of standard. These are the people who know every decision that goes into a room. There is nowhere to hide and no reason to.

This is what I do when given a blank canvas and permission to go somewhere no one has gone before. ✨

Venue, Food, and Drink |
Planning |
Lighting |
Floral | .designfloral
Rentals | +
Entertainment |
Photography |
Videography |
Content Creation | .scene.studios
After Dinner Beverages |

05/07/2026

Volume two. This month I can’t stop thinking about stages.

Not the kind that gets ordered from a rental catalog and forgotten about until load-in day. The kind that stops a guest mid-conversation the moment they walk into the room.

The stage is arguably the largest install at any reception. It anchors the entire space, it lives in every photo, and it is in direct eyeline of your guests for most of the night. Treating it as an afterthought is one of the most expensive design mistakes you can make — and no one talks about it.

Swipe through what’s been living on my board lately — from sculptural florals to a center-floor circular stage to a tropical shell installation to drapery and art that makes the whole room bow toward it.

This is what it looks like when the stage earns its place. 🌿

05/05/2026

Nobody sees this part.

The hours before a single guest arrives. The measuring, the adjusting, the moving something three inches to the left because it matters even if no one will ever know why. The unglamorous, methodical, completely invisible work that makes the final room feel like it was always supposed to look exactly this way.

Emma and Cale’s wedding didn’t happen. It was built detail by detail, long before the music started and the doors opened.
That seamlessness you feel when you walk in? That’s not an accident. That’s the work. 🤍

Ceremony Venue |
Reception Venue + Bar |
Catering |
Planning + Design |
Photography |
Video | + .kutzin
Hair and Makeup | +
Rentals | + + .rent
Floral |
Entertainment |
Stationery | .elaine
Transportation |
Dessert | .zito

04/27/2026

It’s hard to put this one into words.

To be surrounded by women like this. Women who keep showing up, who keep pushing forward, who continue to choose life and connection after walking through something so heavy. It changes you.

There’s a different kind of strength in that room.
One that isn’t loud, but steady.
One that holds both softness and resilience at the same time.

To create a space where these women could be seen, celebrated, and honored in this way… it’s something I’ll carry with me for a long time.

This wasn’t just an event.
It was a gathering.
A moment.
A reminder of what it means to show up for each other.

A heartfelt thank you to and for trusting me to bring this vision to life and to hold space for something so meaningful.

I’m incredibly grateful to have been part of it.

Venue + Bar |
Host |
Event Planner + Designer |
Catering |
Entertainment |
Fashion Designer |
Hair and Makeup |
Creative Director |
Valet |
Decor | .events
Photography |
Videography |
Podcast Partner |

04/13/2026

I want to personally invite you to EMERGE.

On April 23 at The Hutton House, we’re bringing together fashion, storytelling, and community to honor breast cancer survivors and celebrate resilience.

This event is about more than a runway — it’s about creating a space to gather, connect, and support something bigger than ourselves.

Proceeds will directly fund tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy research at the University of Minnesota — one of the most promising advancements in metastatic breast cancer treatment.

I hope you’ll join us.

🎟 Tickets available at the link in bio

01/15/2026

Stay safe. Stay vigilant. Protect your neighbors. Know Your Rights.

08/29/2025

A dream day. a dream couple, and a dream career milestone.

Erin and Chris are featured in Vogue Australia for their magical wedding weekend at Zaca Lake in Los Olivos, CA this past July.

🤍 🤍 🤍

At an elegant ranch on mystical Zaca Lake, photographers Erin Pederson Squier and Chris Squier were married with a summer wedding filled with fashion and antiques.