Welcome to the land of queer folks and offbeat weddings! Home of bold colors and f-bombs. Based in Seattle and working throughout the Puget Sound region, including Snohomish County and the San Juan Islands. We celebrate LGBTQ+ weddings and voices through non-traditional planning, eye-catching design, and thoughtful, personalized officiating services.
This is the place to find a wedding planner who gets you and will create a wedding that truly celebrates you, while handling all the details!
It’s one thing to find an LGBTQ+ friendly wedding planner, and it’s another to be seen for who you are, through each step of the wedding planning process. There really is no one size-fits-all for wedding planning. And we get that!
Aisle Less Traveled is a queer-owned wedding planning business in Seattle that provides high-touch support to kickass couples through expert planning and creative design.
Our team has over 50 years of combined experience in live events. We offer a full range of planning services, from a la carte options to wedding day management to our signature planning and design experience. Our founder, Cindy Savage, is also a wedding officiant offering custom, semi-custom, and paperwork-only ceremonies.
I (Cindy) often tell people that my career is wedding planning, but my calling is LGBTQ+ inclusivity. Years before I became a wedding planner, I was protesting for our right to get married. I will continue to advocate for our rights until the day I die, whether I’m planning weddings or not.
Wedding planning for LGBTQ+ folks is the perfect way to use my best skills and continue to fight for us. I’m a bit of a mama bear when it comes to our clients – there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make sure that your wedding planning process and your wedding celebrates YOU. Your whole, true selves.
You deserve an experience and a wedding day free from hate and bigotry and misgendering and any number of phobias. You deserve a day surrounded by people who enthusiastically support your relationship and who are nothing short of absolutely thrilled to play a part in it.
Why do I do this? Because I’m still needed. Trust me, like every small business owner who has ever existed, I regularly have days when I just want to get a “real job” because the hustle required to keep on keeping on is A LOT. But then I think about the people who need me.
If I can step in and round up a venue and a vendor team who are proud to serve our community, many of whom are LGBTQ+ themselves, and keep our clients from ever having to be on the receiving end of those rejection emails? I’m sticking around for that. If I can be the one to come out for you so that you don’t have to do it over and over as you plan your wedding, on pins and needles every time in fear of rejection? That’s why I’m here.
I also happen to be a really fucking excellent wedding planner and I’m fun, so there’s that.
Rest assured that you won’t be an experiment when you work with us. Not only is the majority of our team LGBTQ+ ourselves, we can truthfully brag that we have more experience with LGBTQ+ weddings than just about any other planner out there. No matter how you identify, you are welcome and seen at Aisle Less Traveled.
If you’re sick of the sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobia, and generally exclusive tone of the wedding industry, you’ve found the right place. You deserve a badass wedding, without a care as to what the mainstream industry says you need.
With a background in fine art and theatre, we bring an expert eye and fabulous taste to our full-service planning packages. There are no rules to what your design looks like, but we’re passionate that every detail be carried out with excellence, and we handle that for you! Learn more about our full-service offerings here.
The good news is that you don’t have to be Type A to have a fantastic wedding! If you are? That’s cool too. Either way, you’ll love our proven process for getting shit planned. Our clients rave about how organized and detailed we are throughout each step.
“I tell everyone that the best money I have ever spent was on professional movers and the second best money I have ever spent was with Aisle Less Traveled. And that’s a close call!
Cindy and her team planned our wedding and my husband’s 40th birthday party, and both went phenomenally well. Cindy and her team heard some of our ideas and translated them into reality so beautifully that it was hard to believe my eyes. They made for absolutely perfect experiences and we were not stressed out at all on the day of. Whatever issues came up, they solved. The team was reliable, on time, on budget, and so easy to work with. If you find yourself able to work with Cindy, do it. You will be so glad you did.”
-ANDY & VICTOR
If you you took one look at a wedding planning checklist and decided there is no fucking way you are doing this alone, then this is for you. Designed for couples who want to hand off as much of the work as possible, our planning and design experience allows you to enjoy your engagement while trusting the rest to an experienced team of pros who can bring your vision to life.
Our high-touch service, creativity, and attention to detail are a premiere experience for you and your guests. You only get one chance at your wedding, so let’s create something unforgettable together!
Behind every amazing wedding is a great plan, and we make sure you have that plan! There’s nothing more stressful than handling vendor calls and chaotic family and friends on your wedding day. When you have the fun design and planning details handled, but need to leave the heavy lifting of your wedding day to the experts, we’re on it. We’ll make sure your day is executed smoothly so that you can be fully present. Learn how we do wedding coordination differently.
Just like the rest of your wedding, your ceremony can be whatever you want it to be! If you and your partner are looking for something tailored specifically to you and your story, our services help you bring the essence of who you are to your event through personal, secular, and LGBTQ+ inclusive ceremony officiating.
A first duel instead of a first dance
Drag queen MC’ing the wedding
Bounce house on the lawn during cocktail hour
Puppy playroom where your guests bring their dogs
Get married in a haunted house
Seafood boil for dinner
Once you throw the bullshit of weddings away, you have a blank slate to do whatever you fucking want.
Inviting people to your wedding – optionalOrdering catering – optionalMusic – optionalFlowers – optionalCake – optionalBooze – optionalA “pretty” event – optionalHiring a wedding planner – optionalAny wedding tradition – optional
The only thing you have to do for your wedding is pick the right person - and you’ve already done that. The rest is details, and we’re really good at those, so let’s get to partying!