Meet the editorial team
Six editors writing about weddings, events, and the business of planning them. Each covers a specific beat, so you always get the person who has actually done the work.
Reuben S. Mann
Founder & CEO
Reuben is the founder and CEO of RSVP'd and sits on the executive team at TrustFlight, leading marketing for the aviation technology platform. Earlier in his career he led marketing at SKYTRAC Systems, and he is the founder of PositionScale. He completed his MBA as valedictorian at the University of Northern British Columbia after a BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UBC, giving him a background that spans hard science, B2B technology, and consumer SaaS. He writes about what AI changes in event planning, the economics of the wedding industry, and why couple-funded software wins.
11 pieces published →
Negin Kazemian, PhD
Head of Editorial
Negin is the Head of Editorial at RSVP'd and the founder and CEO of Okanagan Wedding Company, a wedding and events rental business she runs from Fort Langley, BC. She holds a PhD in microbiome research from UBC Okanagan, where she was named an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholar, and her work has been cited more than 780 times across 12 peer-reviewed papers. She also serves as Director of Research at PositionScale. Born in Tehran and raised in Kelowna, she writes about Persian traditions, the cross-cultural realities of modern weddings, and how to plan one without losing your mind or the meaning.
13 pieces published →
Priya Iyer
South Asian Weddings Editor
Priya is the South Asian Weddings Editor at RSVP'd, covering Hindu (North and South), Punjabi Sikh, and fusion ceremonies. She grew up between Chennai and Toronto and had attended 31 weddings before she was 28, which is how she ended up writing about them. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from McGill, and spent the early part of her career at South Asian lifestyle publications before joining RSVP'd to build out the cultural coverage at real editorial depth. She lives in Montreal and is usually, by a reasonable margin, the person at any given wedding who knows where the mic is.
9 pieces published →
Mei-Lin Chen
East Asian Weddings Editor
Mei-Lin is the East Asian Weddings Editor at RSVP'd, covering Chinese tea ceremony, Guo Da Li, and the logistics of multi-generational family events. A third-generation Chinese-Canadian and former food editor, she shifted to wedding writing after planning her own four-country, three-ceremony wedding in 2022, an experience that produced both a marriage and a working spreadsheet she still references on deadline. She writes about the intersection of tradition and practicality, and she is particular about tea. She lives in Vancouver.
3 pieces published →
Emma Hart
Western Weddings & Budget Editor
Emma is the Western Weddings and Budget Editor at RSVP'd, covering the money math, timeline politics, and the negotiation tactics most couples never learn until it is too late. She spent the first decade of her career as a wedding photographer, shooting more than two hundred ceremonies across British Columbia and Alberta before moving to the writing side of the industry. She now focuses on the parts of a wedding that do not photograph well: contracts, deposit schedules, venue walk-throughs, and the quiet conversations with vendors in the hour before doors open. She lives in Kelowna.
5 pieces published →
James Whitfield
Corporate & Professional Planner Editor
James is the Corporate Events and Professional Planner Editor at RSVP'd, writing about the business of running a planning firm, corporate event logistics, and the operational layer most couple-facing coverage skips. He spent fifteen years in event production, the last five of them running his own shop with a team of three, before moving to editorial. He covers pricing models, margins, contract structures, and the vendor-side relationships planners live or die by. He lives in Austin.
4 pieces published →