Black tie event planner website design: Ivory
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Ivory is our black tie event planner website design: a crisp, luxe site for a wedding and event planning studio, with a hairline serif wordmark over full-bleed photos and long, calm sections that swap between white, stone and true black. On the demo it is dressed as Linden Row Events, a fictional planning studio in La Jolla, California. The business, its team and its events are made up, so you can judge the design on its own.
What does Ivory look like?
Ivory looks like a black tie invitation turned into a website. The first screen is one full-bleed photo that slowly crossfades and zooms, with the studio name set huge in a hairline didone, flanked by the city and the year it was founded. A slanted champagne-gold script adds one word under it. Photos sit like framed prints: square corners, offset outline frames, a small print overlapping a big one, and an arch crop for portraits.
The menu is split in two around a small arch monogram, with an outlined button on the right. After you scroll past the photo, a compact light bar slides in so the menu stays close.
What colors does Ivory use?
Ivory uses five main colors: gallery white, pale stone and true black for the structure, and two champagne golds for accents. A darker gold, #6e5430, handles small gold text, and a soft charcoal, #393631, sets the body copy. The palette was made deliberately crisp, white, black and champagne instead of warm cream, because crisp and organized suits a planner.
Gallery white
#fcfbf8
Page background
Pale stone
#ebe7df
Alternate sections and the inquiry
True black
#0b0b0b
Text, the work carousel and the phone menu
Champagne gold
#85663a
Script kickers
Soft champagne
#cfb98f
Accents on black
What fonts does Ivory use?
Ivory uses three typefaces: Antic Didone for headlines, Montserrat for labels and body text, and Monsieur La Doulaise for script accents. Titles run in capitals with light tracking, while statements and quotes stay in sentence case. Labels are tiny, 11 to 12 pixels, uppercase and widely spaced. Body copy is 15 pixels with generous line height. The script only ever carries a few words, never anything you must read.
Headlines
Antic Didone
A hairline didone, like an invitation. Capitals with light tracking for titles.
Labels and body
Montserrat
A crisp geometric sans: small, wide-spaced labels and calm body copy.
Script accents
Monsieur La Doulaise
A slanted script in champagne gold, one short line per section.
The type at work: script kicker, didone headline, Montserrat body, and the press names set as type.
How is the Ivory home page laid out?
The Ivory home page runs in ten sections, alternating light and dark grounds so each one reads on its own:
- A full-bleed crossfading hero with the name as the wordmark, the city and the founding year.
- An intro with a framed photo, an overlapping second print, the monogram and a row of press names.
- A black work carousel: three portrait frames, the center one taller, with the title over it.
- A sticky statement on how the studio plans, with photos drifting up over it as you scroll.
- An about teaser for the lead planner.
- A testimonial band with a counter.
- The inquiry on pale stone, with an arch-cropped photo beside the form.
- A journal list whose cover photo swaps as you hover each story.
- A social strip with a pinned label, linking to the studio's own Instagram.
- The footer.
The black work carousel shows whole events, one frame at a time.
The inquiry asks a planner's questions: event type, date, venue, guest count and total budget.
On a phone the layout is recomposed rather than squeezed. The wordmark sits on the left with a Menu button on the right, which opens a full-screen black menu with big serif links. The hero keeps the full name, the headline and both buttons on the first screen.
On a phone, the first screen still says who, what and where, with the consultation button in reach.
Why does this design suit an event planner?
A planner sells calm, and Ivory is built to feel calm. White, stone and true black do all the structure, so the photos stay the hero. Champagne gold is the only warm note and it stays small, a script line here and there, which is why it reads expensive instead of flashy. The long sections and narrow text columns, about 34rem at most, give each idea room, the way a well-run event gives guests room.
The layout also fits how planners actually sell. A planner's work is the whole event, so the black carousel and the statement section show events and process rather than single portraits. The inquiry asks for the facts a planner needs before a first call, and the demo's main button is simply Plan a consultation.
Can I get a website like Ivory?
Yes, though not a copy of it. Our templates are a starting direction, and every site we build is custom: send us a site you love, or point at Ivory, and we build yours in its feel with your name, your photos, your words and your services. Ivory is not for sale as a template.
Every site comes with:
- A custom, high-end website
- F-Stop CRM included
- Booking built in
- Edits whenever you need them
- The auto blog uploader
- Search set up for Google and AI answers
- Your own portal (analytics and change requests)
- Real support
Read how working with us goes, or see pricing. When you are ready, Inquire now.
For a softer, garden take on the same quiet luxury, read about Ellery, our botanical florist design. For a photographer's version with an editorial feel, see Solace.
