If you are reading this review, you are one of the lucky couples that has been fortunate enough to stumble across Kaitlyn Brumfield’s business, A Lavish Event, and boy are we excit...ed for you. Buckle up.Â
Most couples can write reviews and rave about their coordinator because they had such a nice experience, blah, blah, etc. And of course, that part is coming. But they don’t FULLY know just how lucky they were to have Kaitlyn. We do, because we had TWO weddings: One with Kaitlyn and one without. I’ll let you guess which one went off without a hitch!
We had a very small (<20 person) wedding at our village church in England with a few people we knew couldn’t make a trip to America. Then, a year later, we had a big wedding (>120) in St. Augustine with as many friends and family as we could cram onto the White Room rooftop.Â
Even though it was small, our first wedding was a tad chaotic. As a couple coordinating, directing, and partaking in our own day, with fewer than 15 guests, we thought, “How hard could it be?” Turns out there’s a reason couples say don’t skip the coordinator! The bridesmaid driving us to the church had a car that wouldn’t start, the best person had to run from the church to our home down the road to pick up forgotten programs, and the bride (me lol) was so late the guests (& groom) got… uncomfortable. We got everything sorted in the end as we were super fortunate to have such good friends and family there to help us, but now that we’ve had Kaitlyn in our planning era, it turns out we walked so that you could run: You need Kaitlyn!Â
Ok so fast forward a year, and repeat, but multiply by 6x the number of guests. This time, the bride’s car battery died, the ring bearer’s tie was forgotten, and the MOH’s flight was cancelled. But the difference this time was that we had Kaitlyn!!! We were/still are blissfully unaware of how many fires she put out because everything went so smoothly. Our bridal party LOVED her, but for me (the bride), I think the thing I loved the most was Kaitlyn asking us ahead of time what our number one most important thing was (it was spending time together), and she made it happen.
Finding her was a scene straight out of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The first coordinator we interviewed was too lackadaisical, the second was way too uptight. Kaitlyn was just right. She’s a person I would genuinely become friends with if we met at a wedding. AND! I love that she got into coordinating because she was a MOH and was so good at it, it became a passion.
I know Kaitlyn’s other reviews talk about how she goes above and beyond (which was a big part of why I reached out to her in the first place—shout out to reviewers before me!), but she TRULY does the MOST! She was delivering leftover cake and piles of wedding stuff (the venue had to be emptied night-of!) to my mom’s house at midnight while we were off after-partying some where downtown.
Given how much work it was to coordinate our own 20-person wedding vs. the way Kaitlyn handled our 120-person wedding, this is your cue to BOOK HER NOW and we hope she has your date available!Â
We can say with 100% certainty that a wedding with Kaitlyn is much less stressful than a wedding without her because we literally tried it both ways. Five stars, 10/10 would book again.