The Lane Weddings
We create MAGICAL events that stretch the IMAGINATION beyond the traditional world of weddings and spill with INIMITABLE beauty.
Led by The Lane’s Founder and Creative Director Karissa Dalton with 15 years experience running the world’s leading luxury destination wedding platform. We take on only 3 weddings per year, to invest the time and energy each bespoke celebration requires.
Inimitable Beauty
Extraordinary Locations
Researching and discovering extraordinary locations and event canvases is our passion. From the most iconic private villas, hidden gems never intended as wedding venues, to dramatic productions in historic castles, the marble quarries of Carrara and Menorca, Sahara Desert, Iceland, Kyoto, or the salt flats of South Australia — we’ve created magical moments in some of the most beautiful pockets of the world.
Authentic & Unexpected
Everything we do is bespoke and authentic to each individual. You’ll never see replications of other weddings, or trends that quickly date.
We believe the weddings that truly imprint on guest’s minds are those that deeply reflect a couple’s personal style. We make sure that in decades to come, your wedding holds the same resonance.
Beyond aesthetics, we’re obsessed with how a wedding feels. Our unique process helps uncover exactly what lights you up, and we translate your values and vision into visual poetry — a wedding that shocks with beauty. We want you to be elated, emotively moved, creatively stirred, wildly in love, blown away that that day was even real. We want your guests to leave truly inspired by an experience that lingers long after the wedding day.
The Lane Team
Lead by The Lane’s Founder and Creative Director Karissa Dalton, we are storytellers that translate your values into visual poetry. We create potent moments that shock with beauty.
As the world’s leading luxury wedding and event publication, our team of Creative Directors, Art Directors, Producers and Stylists, intimately understand what it takes to create emotive, transportive experiences deeply imprint.
From runway shows, weddings and events, brand activations, travel features, campaign and editorial shoots, The Lane Creative Agency imagines, and brings to life, inimitable experiences.
Wedding & Event Inclusions
Booking The Lane includes full service planning, design, styling & coordination. We take care of every detail from start to finish to make sure your event is meticulously planned, visually cohesive and executed at the highest level, working with a network of the world’s most talented creatives to bring every detail to life. Our services include:
Creative Direction
Creative Strategy development, Detailed Creative Brief, design direction and bespoke styling
Planning & Production
Vendor sourcing, selection, negotiations and management; budget development and tracking; venue layout and detailed run sheet
Communication & Coordination
Custom wedding website, planning platform, RSVP tracking, unlimited meetings and correspondence
Execution
On-site styling, guest experience management, full wedding weekend coordination
Travel
Flights for Creative Director and Producer included
Phase 3: Design
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Wedding Dress
Bridesmaids
Groomsmen
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The Lane’s Creative Director and Art Director will dream up a bespoke design for your event that spills with inimitable beauty. We will create a design mood board and intricately detailed creative brief to inform every element and creative decision made for your celebration.
We plan and source every element of your styling - from hired pieces, having custom items created and scouring for hours on end to track down special items.
Bar/Beverage
Finalise Florals
Decor
Lighting
Dessert / Cake
Catering
Signage
Videographer
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All final vendors booked, based on design.
Transport
Music
Celebrant -
Design & Send Save the Dates
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Phase 4: Coordination & Styling
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Timeline & Vendor Run Sheet
Floor Plan
Venue Walk through
Favours (optional)
All final details
RSVP’s, Dietaries
Seating Chart
Vendor Meetings
Ceremony Rehearsal
Rehearsal Dinner
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Vendor Management
Bump In
Bump Out
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Our team of stylists will bring your wedding design to life, making sure every planned element is executed with meticulous attention to detail. We coordinate packing, shipping, set up and installation, dismantle and returns. We take care of the creative chaos (and the non-glamorous parts) so all you see is the magic.
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Your dress captured as art through The Lane lens. Elevated bride and groom portraits, executed with the same eye and level of detail we bring to The Lane’s editorial fashion shoots. A dedicated session, directed by The Lane Founder and Creative Director, whether before or after your wedding, or as part of your first look on the day.
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The Lane Process
Phase 1: Creative Direction
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Once your booking and date is secured, our team will connect with you to embark on your planning journey. We guide you through our unique process, map out a production, design and coordination timeline, ongoing work in progress meetings, and make sure you know what to expect at every point.
Before any plans commence, our Creative Director dives deeply into your vision, gets to know you and your personal style
Onboarding & Welcome Information
Creative Vision Questionnaire
Creative Vision Meeting with Producer & Creative Director
Creative Strategy Development
Draft budget
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Our Creative Director then develops an overarching creative brief for your event that informs any logistical or creative decision.
Design meeting to explore creative brief & sign
off before production commencesFinal budget (percentage allocations finalised)
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Mood board developed based on confirmed creative brief
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Item description
Phase 2: Production
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Once your creative strategy is confirmed, we commence production, researching and planning major logistics, including sourcing and booking your venue/s , key creatives and suppliers.
As our process is heavily design-led, we will move between production and design organically to achieve the most elevated articulation of your creative strategy.Venue Research
Venue short list
Venue site visits & booking
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Marquee (if needed)
Photographer
Florist
Investment
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Every wedding we take on is bespoke. Our percentage-based fee allows us to work without scope constraints and remain fully aligned with your vision as it evolves.
The Lane’s fee is 18% of the overall wedding budget and includes full-service production, creative direction, design, coordination, and styling. This fee forms part of your overall budget and is not an additional cost.
Flights for The Lane Creative Director and Producer for the event day are included.
For venue buyouts, our fee is calculated on event spaces and services only, not accommodation, unless guest travel coordination is required.
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For weddings under $200K, a minimum fee of $40K applies. Rates are in USD.
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Included in our planning fee are flights and on-site time for The Lane Creative Director and Producer on the event day.
Additional travel and on-site staffing for destination weddings are scoped based on location and event structure. We confirm these costs in your proposal.
Exclusivity
To ensure our team can execute your event at our highest standards, we require that The Lane are the only exclusive wedding planners, designers, coordinators and stylists working on your event.
We are passionate about making sure your event beautifully embodies the bespoke creative strategy and brief developed for you, based on your vision and requirements, so we do require final approval on all vendors enlisted and styling decisions made.
Payment Structure
Your investment is collected in two parts: your planning and design fee and vendor funds. Both are managed by The Lane to ensure clarity, oversight, and seamless execution.
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Planning Fee
1. Retainer
50% due at booking, calculated on the initial estimated wedding budget (subject to a minimum planning fee). This secures your date exclusively with The Lane.
2. Second Instalment
50% due 6 months prior to the wedding date, or 6 months after booking (whichever occurs first), calculated on the most recently confirmed wedding budget.
3. Final Balance
If the wedding budget or scope increases at any stage of planning, the planning fee will be recalculated accordingly and any resulting balance will be invoiced at the time the change is confirmed. Any outstanding balance must be settled no later than 30 days prior to the wedding date.
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Vendor funds are collected separately and held in trust until disbursed to your suppliers in accordance with their individual contract terms.
Funds are requested as vendor deposits and balances become due. Each request is itemised and issued with a minimum of 14 days' notice prior to payment being required, wherever possible.
A schedule of upcoming vendor payments is maintained throughout the planning process so you always know what's ahead.
Vendor Contracts
For design vendors (including florals, décor, and styling), The Lane acts as the contracting party on your behalf. This allows design elements to be managed under a single scope, so you receive one itemised invoice rather than multiple individual contracts and payments, while ensuring cohesive creative direction throughout.
All other vendor contracts are issued directly to you for review and signature. We manage sourcing, coordination, and administration throughout the planning process.
Next Steps
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Let us know you’d like to move forward and we’ll prepare your proposal and booking contract.
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Review and sign your contract, and submit your retainer to secure your date. This reserves one of our three annual wedding bookings exclusively for you.
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Once confirmed, we'll commence onboarding and begin shaping the creative and strategic direction of your wedding.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We specialize in international events, having worked on productions in some of the most unique pockets of the world (from European castles and châteaus, glaciers in Iceland, marble quarries in Italy, crystalline salt flats in Australia, to the Sahara Desert of Morocco). We live and breathe travel.
We have established contacts in many areas of the world (and will stop at nothing to track down the very best in any location - which we have done daily for 15 years). We love both the challenge of a unique location or creating a transportive experience for guests close to your home.
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As always, the more time the better. The Lane only takes on 3 weddings per year so our availability is limited and longer lead times mean we can secure the highest quality venues and vendors for your budget.
Depending on the scope, we recommend a minimum of 12 months notice to commence planning However we can be flexible, and we are well-versed in executing all kinds of productions in various timeframes.
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No. There’s nothing we dislike more than any form of ‘package’ wedding. Every event we create is wildly unique because it’s tailored to you, so our approach is completely bespoke. We work with creatives, vendors and suppliers who are most suited to your particular brief and budget only, and no, we never earn commissions separately from vendors that influence our decision to put them forward for your event.
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When we take on your wedding, we project manage, coordinate and work closely with every vendor regardless of whether they have already been booked, to bring your event to life.
The process requires an enormous amount of production and communication with the entire team. Our percentage-based fee is based on the entire budget, regardless of whether any bookings have been made prior to us being contracted.
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The Lane will book all required travel and accommodation bookings for our team and any contractors required, including the a pre-wedding site inspection, and your wedding day.
Flights for The Lane Creative Director and Producer (2 people total) are included in our fee, for your wedding day.
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We love when couples have a clear vision in mind to help us understand exactly what you dream of for your wedding or event (and we equally love the process of determining that, if you don’t!).
Our process from there is extremely intricate and we will dive deep into the creative strategy for your event based on everything we can draw from our communications.
We invest an unfathomable amount of hours into the creative process to develop your creative brief from this starting point- both sourcing and pricing as we go, so yes we do create a bespoke brief for your event, guided by your vision.
