DECISIONS FIRST. DETAILS SECOND.
Taste is instinct. Order is design.
Clarity Before Contracts.
Just engaged? Before you book anything — venue, planner, photographer — decide these three things first.
Most couples lock in vendors before they’ve defined:
• What kind of wedding they’re actually having
• What they can realistically spend
• Who this day is really for
That’s how budgets drift and stress starts.
When you decide in the right order, everything gets easier.
Your budget stops expanding.
Your venue choice becomes strategic.
Your design actually makes sense.
You stop reacting.
You start directing.
That’s the difference between planning and just booking things.
Every system has a first step.
Start Here
The Wedding Jumpstart™ Journal & Planner Set is the first step inside the Calyx System™.
It organizes early decisions before vendors, deposits, and pressure take over.
A structured foundation — before the full suite.
Inside The Calyx System™
Six sequential decision frameworks. One complete system. Nothing to assemble, nothing to guess. Built for the DIY bride who wants a stunning wedding — without the $10K planner or the $50K bill.
Designed with decades of experience.
Beautifully executed.
Calyx & Cabana™ is an independent studio, designed and guided by its founder.
Sara Alpert is a RISD-trained designer with four decades of experience across interiors, gardens, professional organizing, and weddings.
Her work has always centered on one principle: turning chaos into harmony.
The Calyx System™ reflects the tools seasoned planners rely on — sequencing, structure, discernment — refined through a designer’s eye.
Wedding planning shouldn’t feel like another job.
It should feel like art direction for your best day.
Built On Discernment.
The most beautiful weddings aren’t built on more ideas.
Sequence.
Restraint.Structure isn’t restrictive.
It’s liberating.