From the time I was young, I always had an insatiable passion for learning. School was never just a place I attended — it was where I found joy, structure, and endless opportunities to immerse myself in new knowledge. That love for learning shaped the way I approached the world: with curiosity, dedication, and a deep desire to understand things fully.
My journey into events began long before I ever set foot in the professional world. I started planning events when I was in sixth grade and I had this amazing graduation party theme “Candy Land”, each color was going to be assigned to a year of school and around my backyard there would be games that correlated with a memory to that color instead of having “Gumdrop Forest” or “Gingerbread Lane”. Growing up I too always went to sleepaway camp during the summer, and this left a lasting imprint on my soul. There, surrounded by nature, I discovered the magic of community, the beauty of connection, and the simple, profound joy found in shared experiences. Campfires crackling under starlit skies, the harmonies of camp songs drifting through warm summer nights, meal times filled with laughter and stories — these became the foundational layers of how I understand meaningful moments. And it’s what I wrote my college essay on!
Later, working at camp and eventually serving on its Board, I learned the importance of logistics, teamwork, and creating environments where every individual felt seen and valued. These experiences became the compass that guides my approach to event design today.
The World Through My Eyes
Being neurodiverse means I experience environments with heightened sensitivity. I don’t just look at a room; I feel it. I interpret textures, colors, sounds, and energies all at once, layering them in my mind like brushstrokes in a painting or like layers in an onion. I also am hypersensitive, people always ask me how can you do your job if you are so sensitivity. Well, I have been studying events for now 15 years, I have worked in every aspect of an event to learn every detail and now as an adult I am more in tune with who I am. So I am able to be at home 5-6 days a week and then event day happens all of my social energy gets used in that time, so by the time the new week starts I am recharging. It has always been important for me to find something where I can truly be myself, give others the best experience, and at the day have everyone smiling!
Building a Business That Honors My Mind
Traditional business systems often felt rigid and inaccessible to me and on top of that I have a few learning disabilities. So growing up it was very important to me to 1 find a work system that works for me and find a way to have a business that can run efficiently. I never liked meetings filled with unspoken social cues or fast verbal exchanges, since it was so easy to get lost in space for 2 seconds and then missed like half the conversation. So I built AVENTZ Co. differently. I created visual workflows, color-coded project maps, layered timelines that show not just “what” but “how” and “why.” And I have a created a system within my self and with my clients to complete their goals!
Client communication has been adapted to include both written and visual confirmations. Vendor collaboration is streamlined through structured outlines and visual briefs. My systems honor the way I process information — ensuring that nothing is missed, and creativity is always nurtured.
Designing Events with Depth and Heart
My creative process is deeply sensory. When I design an event, I don’t just ask, “What color is the palette?” I ask, “What story are we telling? What memory are we evoking? What feeling do we want guests to carry home with them?” I think in layers and speak in layers. Any event is a very large event with different layers. For example a wedding day is composed of 6 other events, from getting ready to your after party. But the general public will speak of it as one event. But it truly isn’t its 6 events in one day.
Every linen, floral installation, lighting choice, and guest flow is intentional. At a recent wedding, for instance, I used layers of texture — velvet table runners, worn brass candlesticks, vintage books, and dried flower petals — to echo the couple’s shared love of learning, history and using the flowers he got her after every date. Guests remarked that it felt “like stepping into their world” — a world built from the ground up, with soul and tenderness. I design through metaphors and similes.
Embracing Differences as Strengths
It took years to realize that the things I once felt self-conscious about — needing extra time to process conversations, missing subtle social norms, designing by intuition rather than formula — are the very qualities that make my work stand apart. Being neurodiverse means I think differently, and in a creative industry, different is invaluable.
Every event I design is an invitation: an invitation to pause, to feel, to connect deeply. Not just with each other, but with the beauty of a moment perfectly layered and intentionally lived.
We are richer as a community, as a world, when we welcome and celebrate the many ways our minds perceive and create. And through my work, it is my honor to show that a different way of seeing is not a limitation — it is a gift.
