Vanessa Gordon Shares Her Hamptons Event-Planning Playbook
Vanessa Gordon, founder of East End Taste, explains what goes into producing memorable events in the Hamptons and elsewhere. Her company offers event planning, production, staffing, and multimedia services for brands, private clients, agencies, and venues. She and business partner Edberg Espinoza bring different backgrounds, including hospitality, media, technology, marketing, and professional sports.
Vanessa Gordon founded East End Taste, a Hamptons- and California-based company that assists companies, families, agencies, and event spaces with planning, staging, staffing, and media work. Offerings range from idea creation and location scouting to guest outreach, publicity, visual documentation, equipment rentals, supplier coordination, and day-of management.
Edberg Espinoza, her collaborator, was born in Venezuela and has worked in tech and marketing. He previously competed professionally in tennis and now does so in pickleball, coaching multiple racquet sports, and splits his time between the Hamptons and Silicon Valley. Gordon, whose past spans classrooms, newsrooms, hospitality, and event creation, started the Hamptons Interactive Brunch. They connected over pickleball in Southampton in spring 2025.
This story may shape how aspiring planners, hospitality staff, vendors, and food-focused creators view seasonal event work. It could encourage cross-sector partnerships that blend dining, wellness, sports, and media, potentially expanding opportunities for local businesses. Audiences may also become more aware of the labor and coordination behind memorable gatherings, though the actual social effect depends on execution, access, and market conditions.