multi-awarded top nj and ny event and Wedding Planners
Celebrate life with jaw-dropping, WOW-worthy, customized events!
Event Planning that’s personalized to you
With customized, unique design details and creativity, your one-of-a-kind event based on YOU is going to be a WOW event with Smiling Through Chaos leading the way.
And with high level customer service, you are able to keep the focus on yourself and your relationships and know everything is being taken care of for you. Smiling Through Chaos focuses on full service wedding and event planning, so you can just enjoy!
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 and creative events
From over-the-top milestone events and parties to the coolest mitzvahs to unforgettable weddings, if you want to wow your guests, you book Smiling Through Chaos.
If you don’t want what everyone else has, you want to work with Smiling Through Chaos as a Full Service Wedding Planner and a Full Service Event Planner.
Our mission is to not just give you incredible events, but to help you celebrate every moment and feel confident doing it. Our founder Amanda Hudes is also a wellness and nutrition expert and a behavior change specialist, which allows her to help her clients stress less and smile more.
“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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From high profile clientele to the neighbor next door, Amanda creates one-of-a-kind events and unforgettable moments for each. She has a background in fashion and design and is a certified wellness expert, giving her clients a unique experience that allows them to actually enjoy, not stress over, planning their most important events.
From beach weddings to classic ballroom extravaganzas to intimate backyard affairs and everything in between, the focus with Smiling Through Chaos is YOU.
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!!!
