Unfortunately I wouldn’t recommend. She should have stayed retired.
This was by far the worst experience with a wedding planner. She was great for some things, I will say, however as far as a “team of wedding professionals” to help with the day..., absolutely BS. She had my groom and his groomsmen the DAY OF the wedding in the HEAT, in their suits, moving everything around for her while she stood there and pointed and yelled at them.
She told me 10 minutes before i walked down the aisle after telling her I forgot one drink sign, that “this is why You don’t do things last minute” while scoffing at me and my mom.
She didn’t organize any of the transportation, I did it all. I organized all make up and hair. All transportation. All busses and shuttles to venue. I did the caterer.
She lost all of our stuff the day of and expected everyone else to find it, our cake topper, guest book, etc all things that were given to her.
THEN to top it off, even though there’s more to that, we paid extra for her and her “helper” to come and clean up the next day as it was at a private venue..
My husband and I got there and NOTHING was taken down, all the $5000 worth of flowers still up, trash EVERYWHERE, alcohol and food all over the ground.. and her response was “I didn’t know we were supposed to throw the trash in the dumpsters..” the desserts were still out not thrown away, cake wasn’t saved just left out, garbage EVERYWHERE so instead of enjoying our first day married and packing for our honeymoon we spent 4+ hours cleaning up everything that we paid her extra for… it was absolutely such a horrific experience. She doesn’t do anything she promises except getting the settings from Celebrations and doing the seating chart. Everything else was up to me, the bride.. and OUR GROOMSMEN AND MY GROOM! She even came up to me at the reception and said “if you want the flowers moved from the ceremony, your groomsmen need to do it” and I finally told her to leave me alone.. then to top it off too she didn’t put out any of the wedding favors we gave her and spent $300 on and hours putting together, she just said they weren’t important and didn’t put them out. So I got stuck with that cost too.
It was horrendous and she was at one point asked to leave the property given her behavior and how she was acting, yet she will claim it was all everyone else. When everyone has the same opinion on ONE person, it will show who the actual problem is.
She was entirely a waste of money and I’m extremely disappointed. The wedding was beautiful and we just ended up ignoring her which made it better, but she was just not prepared like she claimed. She made our guys do EVERYTHING. She had NO helpers. Nothing. It was a shit show and then to scoff at me and give me shit 10 minutes before I walk down the aisle, was absolutely ridiculous. Instead of making me not anxious and helping me, all she did was make me more anxious and more nervous on MY day. I wouldn’t recommend her to ANYONE and there are several people and vendors I’m sure who would say the same. My dad ended up texting her after saying she was horrific. Because she was & the fact that we had to clean up for hours after paying her EXTRA, was beyond us. “Didn’t know to put the trash in the dumpster” just left it on the ground. I was crying for hours just so overwhelmed the day after. We told her we would pay whatever it takes to not do anything, yet we still did everything. If you hire her, just know you’ll do it all yourself.