About Ultimate USA Weddings

Your New YorkWedding Planners

For more than 18 years, Ultimate USA Weddings has helped couples from around the world plan elegant, intimate, and unforgettable New York City wedding experiences with calm guidance, thoughtful coordination, and polished wedding-day support.

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18+ Years of Experience

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Exclusive Top of the Rock Planners

Preferred 620 Loft & Garden Vendor

NYC Elopement Specialists

Global Destination Couples

NYC Elopements & Destination Weddings

Personal planning support for couples getting marriedin New York City.

Ultimate USA Weddings specializes in New York City elopements, intimate destination weddings, vow renewals, proposals, and elevated ceremony experiences for couples traveling from across the United States and around the world.

From your first questions to the final wedding-day details, our team guides the planning process with warmth, organization, and care. We help coordinate iconic NYC locations, trusted vendors, meaningful ceremony details, and the guidance needed to help ensure the correct paperwork is obtained for your home country, state, or region.

Whether you are eloping from the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Colombia, France, Spain, Italy, or anywhere else in the world, we help your New York wedding day feel beautifully planned, deeply personal, and easy to enjoy.

NYC Elopements Elegant, intimate wedding experiences in unforgettable New York City locations.

Destination Weddings Thoughtful planning support for couples traveling from near or far.

Marriage Paperwork Support to help ensure the correct paperwork is obtained for your home country, state, or region.

Iconic Locations Thoughtful guidance for Top of the Rock, 620 Loft & Garden, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, and more.

Meet the Wedding Team

The sisters behind your beautifully plannedNew York wedding day.

Marisa and Sandra bring warmth, polish, and years of hands-on planning and ceremony experience to every celebration, helping couples feel supported, prepared, and genuinely cared for from the first conversation through the final wedding-day moment.

Owner, Wedding Planner & Wedding Officiant

Marisa Peña

Marisa is an owner, wedding planner, and wedding officiant with a true love for helping couples from around the world experience the magic of getting married in New York City. She brings calm guidance, thoughtful organization, and genuine excitement to each celebration, supporting couples through planning decisions, ceremony details, and the meaningful moments that make the day feel personal.

“I get to meet couples from all over the world, and it feels amazing to help plan one of the best days of their lives.”

Owner & Wedding Officiant

Sandra Peña

Sandra is an owner of Ultimate USA Weddings and also serves as a wedding officiant, marrying couples and helping create ceremonies that feel personal, meaningful, and memorable. Her role allows her to be part of one of the most important moments in a couple’s life while helping each celebration feel warm, heartfelt, and beautifully guided.

“It’s the best part of what I do. I get to be part of one of their most memorable moments.”

Twin sisters with a shared passion.

Sandra and Marisa have worked together for more than 21 years, bringing a natural rhythm, trust, and steady teamwork to each couple’s planning experience.

Event experience with a polished eye.

Before entering the wedding world, Marisa worked at MTV Networks, including on major productions such as the MTV Video Music Awards and Movie Awards. That live-event experience helped shape the calm, polished, detail-focused approach she brings to once-in-a-lifetime celebrations.

Passionate about every couple.

The team genuinely loves what they do and is deeply committed to making every couple feel cared for, celebrated, and confident from planning through the ceremony itself.

How It All Began

A New York wedding company built with care,connection, and city expertise.

Ultimate USA Weddings began in 2000 with a love for New York City and a belief that intimate weddings should feel beautifully planned, deeply personal, and effortless for couples traveling from near or far.

Over the years, the company has grown into a trusted New York wedding planning team known for warm service, iconic locations, meaningful ceremonies, and thoughtful support for elopements, destination weddings, vow renewals, and proposals.

Today, Marisa and Sandra continue that spirit with a hands-on approach that blends calm planning, ceremony care, vendor guidance, and a genuine love for helping couples feel at home in the city on one of the most memorable days of their lives.

What We Believe

Wedding planning should feel calm,personal, and beautifully supported.

Couples trust us because we know New York City, we understand destination wedding logistics, and we care deeply about making every detail feel seamless, personal, and beautifully supported.

Personal Care

Every couple deserves thoughtful guidance, warm communication, and a wedding experience that feels personal from beginning to end.

Trusted Planning

From timelines to vendors, locations, and ceremony details, we help keep the experience organized, calm, and easy to understand.

NYC Expertise

We know the city’s iconic wedding locations and help couples choose the setting that best fits their style, guest flow, and vision.

Warm Ceremonies

We believe even the most intimate elopement can feel elevated, meaningful, and unforgettable when the details are handled with care.

Destination wedding couple in New York City

Couples From Around the Globe

Planning your New York wedding from afarshould feel clear and effortless.

Many of our couples travel to New York City for an intimate wedding, destination elopement, vow renewal, proposal, or iconic ceremony experience.

Whether you are arriving from another state or another country, we help simplify the planning process, coordinate the details, and help ensure the correct paperwork is obtained for your home country, state, or region so the experience feels clear, calm, and well guided.

International Couples Guidance for couples traveling from the UK, Canada, Europe, Australia, and beyond.

U.S. Destination Weddings Planning support for couples visiting New York from across the United States.

Marriage Paperwork Support to help ensure the correct paperwork is obtained for your home country, state, or region.

Iconic NYC Locations Planning support for romantic settings throughout New York City, with thoughtful guidance for access, timing, and guest flow.

Begin Your Wedding Story

Ready to plan yourNew York City wedding?

Whether you are dreaming of an intimate elopement, a Top of the Rock ceremony, a 620 Loft & Garden celebration, or a romantic New York City wedding experience, our team is here to help bring every detail together beautifully.

Tell us what you are imagining, where you are traveling from, and how you want your day to feel. We would be honored to help you plan it with care.

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