"I always dreamt that I would be the wife and mother with the apron, cooking scrambled eggs, like Lucy," she says. "And then I felt very bored." A gig in a stationery store led to a burgeoning party-planning business, and planning Brooke Shields's wedding to Andre Agassi led to working with an impressive roster of A-listers.
The most challenging events for Weiss to plan are destination weddings.
"When you're local, I can call my vendors: We need one more couch. Can you run it over?" she explains.
Aside from the Kardashians, with whom she collaborates often, the Hollywood wedding and event planner’s long list of clients includes Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, Diana Ross, Nicole Richie, and the Biebers. Thirty years ago, Weiss didn’t think she’d be rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. “I always dreamt that I would be the wife and mother with the apron, cooking scrambled eggs, like Lucy,” she says. “And then I felt very bored.” A gig in a stationery store led to a burgeoning party-planning business, and planning Brooke Shields’s wedding to Andre Agassi led to working with an impressive roster of A-listers.