A celebration of your life
Designed by you.
Felt by everyone
who matters.
Planned in private. Revealed at the perfect moment.
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Most people leave the most emotional gathering of their life to chance.
When someone we love passes away, the celebration that follows is the most emotionally charged gathering any of us will ever attend. Yet it gets planned in 72 hours, by people who are exhausted and grieving, with no brief, no budget, and no idea what you would have actually wanted. The result is rarely you. It's a formality. A box ticked. And the people who love you most deserve more than that.
What Encore is
A private act of love.
It's the celebration you design, on your terms, at your scale, with the people you choose, and hold close until the moment it's needed. No committee. No compromise. Just an honest, deeply considered gathering that reflects exactly who you are and what you want the people you love to feel and remember.
Encore is your planning partner and advocate throughout. We help you articulate every detail, shape the vision, and then go to market on your behalf to find the right specialist team to bring it to life.
You dream it.
We design it together.
We find the people to make it come to life.
Your family just shows up.
You control your final farewell.
The experiences
Every Encore is different.
You are in control of how you say farewell.
A dinner for eleven at a private home in the hills. Her favourite meal, made by the same chef who catered her 40th. The playlist she had been quietly building for twenty years. A single letter, read aloud after dessert, addressed to everyone in the room.
A road trip across the Scottish Highlands. Seventeen people. Seven days. Every stop a place that had meant something to him. The rules were his. The clues were written in his handwriting. Nobody knew the route until they were already on it.
A private screening of his favourite film. The same cinema they visited every year on his birthday, hired for one night. Catered, unhurried, exactly as he would have arranged it. Before the lights went down, his voice came through the speakers, a recording made for this moment, speaking directly to everyone in the room. Some people laughed. Most cried. All of them felt him there.
A long weekend on the Amalfi Coast. Fifty guests. Three days of shared meals, open water, and music she had chosen. A letter read at sunrise on the final morning, one written for each person at the table.
A board game nobody had ever played before, because she made it. Two years in the making. Every question drawn from a lifetime of shared memories. Every challenge written for the specific people in the room. Twelve around the kitchen table. Hidden underneath each chair, a small envelope with their name on it, opened only at the end. The game lasted five hours. Nobody wanted it to stop.
An Amazing Race across three cities. His friends, divided into teams, following clues he had spent a year writing. Every location was a chapter of his life. The prize was a bottle of the whisky they had all shared the night they met.
How it works
Five steps. A lifetime of meaning.
Begin your brief, at no cost
ComplimentaryComplete The Mirror: a private, guided reflection that helps you articulate who you are, what matters to you, and how you want to be remembered. No obligation. No cost. Just your time, and the rare experience of really thinking about what you'd want.
Build your vision on the platform
Platform subscriptionOnce your brief is complete, you're invited into your private Digital Atelier, an interactive planning centre designed to walk you through every element of a meaningful event. Your guest list, your moodboard, your moments, your vendors, your budget. Each section is built to prompt you, refine your thinking, and hold your vision in one place, at your own pace, under your account alone.
We find the right team to make it happen
Partnership and Planning FeeEvery celebration is personal. Encore doesn't maintain a single in-house execution team. Instead, when your vision is ready, we go to market on your behalf to identify the best available specialist for your location, scale, and style. We brief them. We are there to foster the relationship between you and them, and then we put you in their hands to address the final details and the commercial realities of your event.
Your plan is held ready
IncludedEverything is documented, managed, and updated as your life evolves. Your family never has to make a decision under pressure. When the moment arrives, the plan activates exactly as you intended.
Your people just show up
Vendor & execution budgetThe brief is complete. The right people have everything they need. Every detail has been documented, handed over, and is ready to be brought to life exactly as you intended. Your family's only job is to be present.
Where it begins
A reflection of who you are.
Before anything is planned, we ask you to look inward. The Mirror is a guided reflection, a structured deep dive into your thoughts, your people, your places, and the moments that have defined you. Not a form. Not a checklist. A genuine attempt to capture the honest, unfiltered version of who you are.
What emerges becomes the source of truth for your entire Digital Atelier. Every decision you make in the platform, your guest list, your moodboard, your moments, is anchored to this first impression of yourself. It is the brief we carry forward. The foundation everything else is built on.
There is no cost. No obligation. Just your time, and the rare experience of being asked what you would truly want.
Data privacy
Your story stays with you.
Privacy is not a feature of Encore, it is the foundation. Everything you share inside your Digital Atelier is yours alone. Your reflections, your guest list, your moments, your voice, none of it is visible to us while you are building it.
When you are ready, you choose to share your completed vision with us. Only then do we engage, to find the right people, in the right place, to bring your vision exactly to life.
This celebration is intended to be a surprise. Your guests will only ever know what you choose to share with them, at the moment you choose to share it. Until then, everything rests privately under your account, held by you alone.
What it costs, and when
Nothing is hidden. Nothing is rushed.
Each stage of the Encore journey has its own cost, and nothing moves to the next stage until you are ready and fully informed.
Your guided reflection is entirely free. No payment required. No obligation. Simply your time and your honesty.
Access to your private Digital Atelier, where you build, refine, and store your full vision at your own pace. Cancel anytime.
When your vision is ready, we introduce you to the right planner for your location and scale. A one-time partnership fee covers the full planning and proposal process.
Every vendor, every detail, every cost is documented and agreed with you before anything is committed. Your family inherits a plan, not a bill.
This is your journey. There is no rush.
Your Digital Atelier is a living space, one you can return to, refine, and evolve whenever the moment feels right. There is no obligation to move forward. No deadline. No pressure. Simply a place to think, to build, and to let your ideas develop over time.
When you feel ready, when the vision feels true to you, we come alongside you to ensure every detail of your brief reflects exactly what you want. Then we go to market on your behalf, equipping you with the right vendors and partners to bring your celebration to life precisely as you imagined.
Commence your journey
When you're ready, we're here.
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Your details stay with us. We don't share them.