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The Pauleenanne Design Team is here to execute your event planning, design, and invitations brilliantly!  Our Rochester event planners, led by owner Pauleen Vacca, will work tirelessly to ensure your day is flawless.  Learn more about our team below!

pauleen-anne-design-2016-1Pauleen Vacca | Head Event Planner & Designer

Being immersed in the events and marketing field for over nine years, Vacca has worked with many notable clients and companies, both nationally and abroad, including Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, Gap Inc., Shakira, and Drake.

She has a B.A. in English Writing from St. John Fisher College with minors in Communication and Digital Technologies & Culture.  Vacca has also continued her education in the areas of Interior Design, Marketing, and Business.

After working in both Rochester and New York City, Vacca opened Pauleenanne Design in 2011.  Today, she has planned dozens of events from iconic weddings to signature birthday parties to seamless corporate events.

When not busy with the business, Pauleen enjoys exploring downtown Rochester, spending time with loved ones, and dreaming up her next Disney vacation.

Mary Vacca | Event Planner

When her daughter, Pauleen, opened the business, Mary was incredibly supportive in assisting in any way possible.  She has worked with numerous weddings, private social gatherings, and styled shoots.  As, Pauleenanne Design grew, so did it’s mother-daughter team.

In addition to working with Pauleenanne Design, Mary has hosted and planned countless events, from cocktail parties to dinners to trade shows.

Mary has a knack for efficiency and details.  Her nurturing personality, as well as her ability to keep calm in any crisis, makes troubleshooting a breeze.  She loves assisting in design production, and ultimately creating an experience that adds to the amazing memory of every clients special day.

In her free time, Mary enjoys sewing, making something chocolatey and, Irish dancing around Rochester with the Shannonside Ceili Dancers.

Patti Ehrmantraut | Event Planner

Patti has been involved with Meeting and Event Planning for more than 25 years.  She got her start as the Meeting Manager at the former Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, now Thomson Reuters.  While there, Patti discovered how much she loved designing and executing unique and memorable events.

Her work has taken her throughout most of the US and Caribbean.  She has a B.S. in Marketing from Rochester Institute of Technology and earned the prestigious CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) designation in 1999.  She currently sits on the Board of the Eastern Great Lakes Chapter of MPI as the VP of Finance.

Patti wears several different hats, and is also the owner of Traut’s Treats, a homemade candy and gift basket company.  When not working at one of her businesses, Patti loves spending time with family and friends, traveling and following sports, especially hockey.  She is a longtime season ticketholder for her favorite team, the Rochester Americans.

Rachel Prychodko | Event Assistant

Rachel is originally from East Aurora, NY and just recently moved to Rochester to pursue a career in the event industry.  Rachel found that she loved this industry after helping many friends and family members plan and execute their wedding days and other events.  She has found that it brings such joy to her life to help someone have that perfect day.
Rachel graduated from The State University of New York at Fredonia with a degree in Public Relations.  Since graduating, she has worked for the Event Operations department at the Buffalo Bills and has been a Floral Assistant for Flowers By Nature where she helped create bouquets and arrangements for weddings and other major events.
Outside of work, she loves to travel nationally and internationally, trying out different coffee shops, likes to walk dogs and go hiking!  She is very excited to be working for Pauleenanne Design and can’t wait to help our clients have the day they’ve always dreamed of.

Stephanie Buckingham | Event Assistant

Stephanie is originally from Penfield, and after graduating high school she moved to New York City to study marketing.  She recently moved back to Rochester and is now studying communication at MCC, and hopes to graduate from The College at Brockport with a degree in Communication Studies.

One day soon she hopes to have a job in the communication field that allows her to be creative in her everyday role.

When not working, she loves to try out new restaurants and explore new places.

Alexandra Kelly | Event Assistant

Alexandra is a Rochester native.  Once she graduated high school she attend SUNY Albany where she was apart of the dance team and studied business.  After two years she decided to transfer to Rochester Institute of Technology to study hospitality.  Her dream career is to be a corporate event planner in a big city such as Chicago or New York City.  She loves seeing all the parts of an event come together and seeing the guests reaction when they enter the event.  She also loves how an event has the capability to completely transform a location and take its guests to a different reality.
 
When not in school, she enjoys traveling, hot yoga and trying all the different restaurants Rochester has to offer.  She has been to quite a few places already but her list of places to go is still long.

Looking to work at Pauleenanne Design?  Join our Rochester event coordinator, Pauleen Vacca, through an internship.

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