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Meet The Team

Our team of expert wedding planners are passionate about helping you create your own perfect day.

We will guide you through all of the planning and preparation, and take care of everything so that you can relax and enjoy your moment.

PH: +61 3 9292 6235

Angie Becker

Director Of Sales

With 20 years of experience in hotels and events, I have delivered tens of thousands of events with my teams. Weddings will always be a very special kind of event to me. Celebrating love, the union of two people in front of their friends and family.

Each wedding is as unique as each couple.

My team and I work together to deliver the highest possible level of service and quality to our customers.

We strive to personalise the experience, working closely with the couple to create the perfect event for them. From the small and intimate to the grand and spectacular – each one is special to us. In our team we have experts in all aspects of weddings and events to provide advice and help you to design the most important day of your life.

The day you will treasure for the rest of your life should be placed into the hands of a venue that has the experience, the expertise and the love of weddings.

Crown is that venue.

Suzi Amit

Sales Executive

I love helping couples plan their wedding, giving them a tour of the venue and seeing their faces light up as they envision what’s to come for their very own special day.

My clients are naturally concerned about understanding the costs involved in their plans. I can assure them that Crown’s wedding packages are inclusive, and very competitive in the Melbourne wedding industry.

Our policy is to be completely open with our clients and they know they can trust Crown from the very beginning. Sometimes it is hard to visualize the space without seeing it set up, so I help my couples look through previous wedding photos and invite them back to view a wedding set up.

I want them to be confident and excited about the venue they choose.

Once my couples are happy with their package, I cannot wait to introduce them to our Wedding Event Planners to begin the planning stages of their wedding, as I know the vast experience the planners have will help each couple achieve their dream.

Erika Hall

Wedding & Social Events Manager

I’ve always wanted to work in wedding planning. I enjoy meeting and working with new clients to make their experience more personable. Wedding planning gives me the opportunity to support couples on their exciting journey towards their special day and I feel privileged to be a part of that. I love seeing couples having fun with the planning while enjoying the journey together. Every couple is unique and there is nothing more exciting than experiencing the cultural, family and individual aspects my clients include in their big day. Drummers, dances and traditional food are some of my favourite parts of a wedding. The joy I get from being part of such special, happy occasions really makes me love my job.

Shohan Marsh

Wedding & Social Events Manager

As a natural planner, working in hospitality and events has always felt right to me. I knew early on, that I wanted to pursue a career in weddings. Since starting with Crown in 2015, I haven’t looked back. Weddings are the most personal events I have worked on and I love how creative my clients and I can be. I enjoy meeting and learning about the couples I am going to work with and planning and organising all the little details of their wedding so that they can enjoy their exciting day. It is such a wonderful feeling for everyone involved seeing it all come together. I find nothing more beautiful or stirring than the culmination of all the work and planning to then watch a bride in all her emotional excitement in the final moments before walking down the aisle.

Linley McAleese

Wedding & Social Events Executive

I fell in love with weddings, being part of the process in figuring out each couple’s dreams, vision and style and transforming these into reality.

When I left school, I studied a Bachelor of Hotel Management, majoring in Events and Hospitality. I made a gradual move from working at events and weddings into planning them. My best advice for couples who are starting their wedding planning process is to just take it one step at a time. It may seem overwhelming to start with, but the closer you get to your special day, everything will start to fall into place!

My favourite part of a wedding is the first introduction of a couple into the room. I love hearing the excitement of the guests, and it’s the time when the couple have finally relaxed and are ready to enjoy the fruit of their planning labours!

Kelly Jackson

Executive Chef

Kelly Jackson, has spent the past six years working as an experienced, passionate and highly respected Executive Chef at Crown Melbourne.

Originally, from London, Kelly has spent time as a chef on the famed cruise liner ‘The QE2‘, worked at for a The Republic Restaurant in Canberra and as Chef de Cuisine at Le Restaurant in the Regent Hotel in Melbourne. He spent 16 years working his way around the world in senior positions at The Four Season Hotels in the West Indies and London, the luxurious Sandy Lane Hotel & Spa in Barbados, Caprice Holdings in Dubai and Hotel Le Gray in Beirut. A highlight was the three years Kelly spent at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai.

In 2012 Kelly took up the opportunity to be involved in the running of Crown’s premium restaurants, and less than a year later, he was promoted to Executive Chef of Crown Events & Conferences, managing one of the busiest kitchens in Australia.

Kelly’s multicultural and modern approach to cooking, using predominantly locally sourced ingredients, gives his menus a quality rarely seen in such large scale.