Chantelle Streete
Co-founder & Executive Planner, Paris English · French
Featured in: Reuters, Barron’s, and AFP (via France 24) for expert commentary on high-production Paris proposals.
Chantelle Streete is the co-founder and Executive Planner of Kiss Me in Paris — and the creative force behind its most ambitious productions. She designs evenings and celebrations from the experience inward: how the light falls, what the couple hears when the doors open, the scent of the florals, the weight of the champagne flute, the temperature on the terrace at the exact minute he speaks. The result is a sensory world built around two people — where nothing feels out of place because nothing is.
She has produced over 1,200 proposals, elopements, and weddings since 2013 for clients who include Fortune 500 executives, professional athletes, and private individuals planning from New York, Hong Kong, Zurich, and Dubai. Full-service planning since 2017. Her clients expect discretion, direct access, and a lead who answers at whatever hour the time zone demands.
Before Paris, she traded equity derivatives at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch after earning her MBA at Wharton. The instincts are the same ones she uses today: she reads a brief fast, builds three contingencies before the first vendor call, and holds budgets, timelines, and production schedules to the same zero-tolerance standard that a trading desk requires — in writing, before anything moves.
Her Paris runs deep. She is on speed-dial at the Shangri-La, The Peninsula, the Plaza Athénée, the Four Seasons George V, the Ritz, Le Bristol, the Saint James, and historic estates including Fontainebleau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, and Villette — and that list barely scratches it. She knows which terrace photographs best at which hour, which chef will rework a tasting menu for a private midnight dinner, and which maître d’ picks up when she calls. That access extends beyond venues: a desirable table at a Michelin restaurant when the client couldn’t get any table, personal shopping at prestigious boutiques for pieces that aren’t available without an existing relationship. When she recommends Vaux-le-Vicomte over Fontainebleau — or the reverse — venues and clients trust her judgment because she’s delivered at both, repeatedly, and her word carries weight.
Her creative concepts get copied — sometimes the ideas, sometimes the actual photographs reused by other planners. She takes it as a compliment. What doesn’t transfer is the thinking behind the concept: why that musician at that hour, why that floral palette against that backdrop, why the champagne is poured at that precise cue. The details are visible; the architecture behind them isn’t.
Discretion isn’t a service add-on — it’s built into how the entire company operates, from the senior planners to the admin team. Client identities, event details, and images are never shared without written approval. For proposals, that discretion extends to cover stories, misdirection, and protecting the surprise from the first WhatsApp message to the final cue. For high-profile clients, it means the press doesn’t know until the couple decides they should.
What keeps clients coming back — and many do, for weddings after proposals, then anniversaries, then milestone birthdays — is that she’s genuinely invested. Not in a brochure-copy way. In a “she flew to our wedding in another country because she wanted to be there” way. Clients invite her back as a friend because they know she went beyond what was expected for one of the most important celebrations of their lives. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Paris chapter of Société Privée, the invitation-only global network for the top tier of the luxury wedding industry.
When she’s not directing a run-of-show or scouting a new venue, she’s hunting down under-the-radar Paris restaurants, traveling with her family, and losing her ongoing battle with Chanel.
What Clients Say
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“She arranged EVERYTHING”
“Two days before my proposal, the company I’d arranged everything with called and said they couldn’t do it. I’d flown from Amsterdam, rented a car, brought friends — and suddenly it was all falling apart. Then there was Chantelle. I was stressed, I’d already been let down, and I didn’t know how to trust anyone with 24 hours on the clock. But the warm welcome, the phone calls, the confidence — she gave me the feeling this would turn around. And it did. She arranged EVERYTHING, came up with new ideas, a whole plan from A to Z. I could not have had a better person than Chantelle.”
— Malek J., August 2020 (edited excerpt) [Read the full review on Google »]
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“Somehow she matched the previous high bar”
Our relationship with Chantelle and Kiss Me in Paris started years ago, when Eric planned a surprise proposal at the Hôtel Marignan Champs-Élysées — candles, a harpist, white and yellow roses on the terrace. Walking through the doors, I thought I was walking into heaven. This year, Eric went back to Chantelle for my 40th birthday, and somehow she matched the previous high bar: a surprise magician on the Debilly Bridge, a luxury picnic facing the Eiffel Tower with an artist painting us, a horse carriage at sunset, and private fine dining at Laperouse with our own butler. The whole day felt personalized and thoughtfully orchestrated. Over the years, we’ve become friends. For anyone wanting to celebrate something important in Paris — from personal experience — Chantelle and her team deliver.
— Dany K., June 2025 (edited excerpt) [Read the full review on Google »]
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“All we had to do was ask, ‘Where do you want me?’”
“Planning a wedding across different cities, time zones, and languages felt impossible — until Chantelle and her team made our Plaza Athénée celebration something beyond what we’d imagined. She coordinated across English and Russian, always keeping Mila’s vision front and center. Her connections in Paris are unparalleled — makeup artists, photographers, videographers, vintage cars, musicians, dancers, florists, lighting experts — she brought together a dream team. On the day, all we had to do was ask, ‘Where do you want me? When do you need me?’ No stress, no last-minute panic. What sets Chantelle apart is that she listens — patient, flexible, and always adapting.”
— David C., July 2025 (edited excerpt) [Read the full review on Google »]
// PRESS & MEDIA
Chantelle’s planning approach and the Kiss Me in Paris operation have been profiled independently by Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Barron’s — with AFP quoting her directly on how high-production proposals in Paris are structured and run. That February 2026 wire coverage reached 84+ outlets across six continents, 25 countries, and 8 languages.
She has also been featured in CNN, People, Time, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Elle, Tatler, and additional outlets worldwide.
Quoted in independent reporting
“Our clients, they don’t want it necessarily for Instagram, but they want it as a bragging moment for their friends, their circle, (to) say, ‘Oh, guess what I did for my proposal.’” — Chantelle Streete, quoted by AFP (France 24, Barron’s, Hindustan Times, and others)”In another high-spec proposal production, a couple visited an art gallery featuring a painting hidden under a veil. The gallerist agreed to uncover the artwork, revealing to the bride-to-be a painting that depicted them in that very moment. Weeks earlier, the hopeful groom had planned the clothes they would wear, imagined the scene, and commissioned the painting. She turns around, he’s down on one knee and she’s very emotional.”
— Chantelle Streete, quoted by AFP View full press coverage, outlet list, and broadcast segments →
// Press inquiries
For interview requests, commentary, or background briefings, reach Chantelle directly. She regularly comments on proposal and wedding planning in Paris, romance-driven travel trends, privacy-first production at landmark venues, and the operational side of high-end event planning.
Chantelle Streete — Executive Planning, Production Direction
