Chelsea Moccia-Schwartz, MBA

M.B.A from Ball State University, Entrepreneurship and Operations Management

Founder and Owner/Operator of Chelsea Evelyn Weddings & Events

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Chelsea attended her first wedding at the age of 3 when her

mother and father got married on a boat on the 4th of July.

Though she only remembers eating cake - under a table

apparently - from that day, she is confident that that first

wedding engrained a love of them in her heart. Growing up she

attended MANY weddings due to the fact that her mother was

a notary public working at a large resort on the Maine

coast. In Maine a notary is able to marry people and came in

very handy for the numerous elopements that occurred at the

resort every summer. Chelsea was a lucky attendee at a large

number of these as an unofficial photographer or videographer

and - when she was old enough - a witness to the beautiful

event. As if this all weren't enough, she grew up working at that

- and other - venues that hosted beautiful midcoast Maine

weddings. In high school she found her love of planning, but it would be a number of years before her dream became a reality.

                                                                                                   

Chelsea first dreamed of opening a business like Chelsea Evelyn Consulting in the fall of 2013 as an MBA student after a long (and virtually unquenched) desire to plan weddings and other events. Following her graduation in 2015 she returned to Maine where she finally found her first official weddings and event planning job at a small ocean side Inn. She quickly learned the value of her experiences outside wedding and event planning (specifically in different service industry positions at restaurants and hotels) over the years when it came to the process of making a couple's dream a reality. She had learned patience and versatility from the positions she held as well as through her education. Both important qualities to be able to bring to the table when planning a couple's special event.

 

On a more personal level, after returning to Maine from graduate school, Chelsea met her now husband, Andrew. Andrew is a proud member of the United States Coast Guard. Given the nature of this job soon after marriage they were re-stationed moving them from the Maine Coast to the Texas Coast. She realized that starting the business that she had dreamt of back in 2013 would become a reality, especially in the midst of a life of constant adventure moving from place to place and with the addition of their first child in December 2018, their second in April 2021, and their third in September 2023! Read more below from Chelsea herself!