The best decision you'll make for your wedding day!!!
Choosing Jennifer as our planner for our wedding this past summer (July 2024) was truly one of the best decisions we made throughout the whole wedding planning process! She is absolutely incredible and so easy to work with. Our initial consultation call ended up being over 2 hours (during the evening) because of how easy and personable she is to talk too, she understood our vision completely right off the bat and had so many ideas on how to make things work for our budget that it was no question we had to hire her.
We booked with her in February 2023 and ended up going with the wedding day coordination package, as well as an add on custom design package since the aesthetic of the wedding was really important to us and something I could of never done on my own! Her pricing was so reasonable compared to other planners, and she really does go above and beyond to make things happen while also being realistic about what your budget can get you.
Initially upon hiring her, she sent a link to our own wedding planning portal with so many resources to help us throughout the planning process (budgeter, checklist, contact list, guest list tracker etc.), as well as a very thorough wedding day questionnaire with hundreds of things to work on leading up to the wedding that I probably would of missed or forgotten about otherwise.
The wedding day coordination didn't start until a few months before the wedding, but she made it clear that we could reach out at anytime if we had any questions about vendors to book or just needed advice and I definitely took advantage of that many times! She always made a point to get back to us very quickly with a detailed thoughtful response and it really did help ease my planning stress as a Type A bride.
We started working on our design package together shortly after booking her, and it didn't wrap up until September 2023 so it was definitely a long detailed process which we really appreciated that nothing was rushed and really felt like it was totally custom for us! After an initial basic questionnaire, Jennifer compiled a thorough PDF of all the floral/design elements we were wanting for the wedding day, suggested vendors/pricing, a mock budget, etc. followed by a long meeting going over all the details. We also did a site visit at that time and met her in person which just solidified that we made the right decision with how much we clicked with her right off the bat.
After booking our floral/decor vendor through her, things picked back up in May 2024 with a long overview call and from that point on we were talking basically every single day via email or our Whatsapp group chat at all hours of the day/night which was so nice to have someone knowledgeable to refer to for help during the last few months of craziness before the wedding day. Jennifer truly became a friend to us throughout the process and it felt strange at first to not be talking 24/7 anymore after the wedding was over!
One thing in hindsight that I think may have been a good idea was to have done a site visit with our floral/decor vendor, we did a final one with Jennifer a few weeks out from the wedding but there were a few things design wise on the wedding day that were different than we expected and weren't exactly translated how we had hoped. I think it was more miscommunication with the floral/decor vendor since we didn't book with them directly but perhaps a site visit all together would of avoided those hiccups.
I had a hard time emotionally on the wedding day as lots of little things went wrong behind the scenes, but Jennifer handled it all so gracefully and I hope she knows how much we appreciated her! From the thorough rehearsal to the wedding day all of our friends and family were beyond impressed with her. I'm definitely not the easiest bride she's ever had to deal with but she never made us feel like we were being unreasonable or asking for too much and I really don't know what we would have done without her. We hope to see her planning all of our friends weddings in the future!!!