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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Full Service Wedding Planning
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Rehearsal Dinner
- Wedding
- Ceremony
- Reception
- Rehearsal Dinner
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Amanda Scott and the team at A Swanky Affair made sure our wedding day ran so smoothly. It was wonderful to have utmost trust in our coordinator and to not have to worry about any ...
of the logistics on our wedding day. From our first meeting, to our regular contact starting 8 weeks out from the day, to the day itself, Amanda helped us feel confident in our decisions and made sure all the little details were taken care of. She knew exactly what questions to ask both us and our vendors to ensure our wedding day vision came to life. And on the day, she handled all of the logistics perfectly, and not a single thing went wrong, which is incredible!
Amanda at A Swanky Affair is a literal wedding angel. From start to finish, she made planning stress-free, joyful, and actually fun. She handled every little detail, brought so man...
y creative ideas to the table, and kept everything running smoothly on our wedding day. I never had to worry — I just got to enjoy being a bride. If you want someone who will treat your day like it matters just as much to her as it does to you — she’s it. A total pro and an absolute gem!
You always hear the wedding horror stories, of something being forgotten or missing. Want to avoid this? Then you need to hire A Swanky Affair and all your worries will be gone! I ...
highly recommend Amanda and her team! My husband and I were looking to have the wedding of our dreams within our budget. Wedding planning and the wedding itself has a lot of details and you just can not be in control of them all. Having Amanda as our wedding coordinator was essential to us having a great wedding! Amanda was wonderful about answering my many questions and providing tips and options. Leading up to the wedding Amanda covers all details and final contact with your vendors! A HUGE HELP AND ESSENTIAL TO A SMOOTH WEDDING DAY! She knew exactly what our vendors needed and got all the final details and logistics into place. The wedding ceremony and reception layout that Amanda helps you with and lays out was a huge help and a big part of everything starting to come together in our planning. The day of the wedding she and her team were early and a calming presence to us all. They kept things moving and ensured everything was running smoothly and that we were having the best day! I never had to wonder if we were on time or worry about what was next. Amanda was always there gently guiding us through the day. I am so thankful for her help!
I recently had the pleasure of working with Amanda as our wedding coordinator, and I cannot express how grateful I am for her outstanding service. From the initial planning stages ...
to the big day itself, Amanda demonstrated a level of meticulous organization that truly set her apart.
Amanda's attention to detail was nothing short of impressive. She was thorough in ensuring that every aspect of our wedding was thoughtfully considered and flawlessly executed.
One of the qualities that stood out the most was Amanda's kindness and patience. She was always there to address any questions or concerns we had, and she handled each interaction with a warm and understanding demeanor. Her patience was truly commendable, especially when it came to gathering the necessary information and details.
On the day of the wedding, Amanda and her assistant worked tirelessly to ensure everything ran like clockwork. Their dedication and professionalism were evident in every aspect of the event. Thanks to Amanda's expertise, our wedding day was absolutely perfect. Not a single thing went wrong, and I credit this to her and her amazing team.
I wholeheartedly recommend Amanda as a wedding coordinator. Her organizational skills, kindness, and unwavering patience make her an exceptional professional in her field. If you want a stress-free and flawless wedding experience, Amanda is the one to trust. My sincere thanks to Amanda and her team for making our special day truly magical!
Amanda is spot on when it comes to organizing and ensuring that your wedding will unfold without any hitches or unforeseen problems. She stuck with us through the pandemic delays...
and always had a positive and upbeat attitude through all of the challenges we encountered. I've had another daughter's wedding in which I did not have a wedding planner so I know just how valuable her services were. I highly recommend Amanda - she will help you keep your sanity and enable you to have exactly the kind of wedding that you want. I was able to fully relax and enjoy the ceremony and reception because I knew Amanda had everything under control. That is priceless!
Amanda did an amazing job as our wedding coordinator. We enjoyed working with Amanda from the moment we met her. She is very upfront with what she does and communicates everythin...
g in a very clear and effective way. Amanda made sure everything was lined up with all of our vendors and made sure that all of our ducks were in a row. Amanda made a clear and simple timeline for the wedding party and family to follow the day of our wedding. The rehearsal went smooth and the whole wedding weekend was a great success. We highly recommended Amanda from A Swanky Affair as your wedding coordinator.
Planning a wedding long distance requires local expertise, and that's exactly what we got. Amanda is very professional and totally reliable, has lots of great experience that saved...
us from costly mistakes, and is so organized. She offers a variety of services, so you can get just the help you need. She was always keeping an eye on the budget, gave us great information for making decisions, and has a really good relationship with so many vendors in the Durham area, which gave us lots of options and made things go smoothly. Thanks to her, our wedding day was close to stress free (amazing). She really helped make our wedding day a dream come true and we absolutely recommend A Swanky Affair.
This is an overdue review, but Amanda was the biggest reason that our wedding was better than I could have imagined. I am not a wedding savvy person- in fact I pretty much knew nex...
t to nothing about how to plan or budget for a wedding, what things cost, how to organize the process, or what I really wanted in general. Amanda was able to help me through the entire process with relative ease and help me to focus on my priorities, my budget, my must-haves vs. things that were not so important, and pull together a beautiful wedding that was within our budget. She is personable while being extremely professional, able to keep you focused without being overbearing, incredibly organized and has great relationships with a ton of vendors in the area. I felt very supported by her and trusted her insight. The day of our wedding went incredibly smoothly and I found that I was able to enjoy every aspect of it- without having to worry about a thing. She worked seamlessly with all of our vendors and our venue, and if anything went wrong, I wasn't aware of it. My parents, husband, and I all agree she was the best decision we made about the wedding. I would HIGHLY recommend her to anyone planning a wedding in the Triangle area.
Amanda was so helpful as our day of coordinator. She contacted all the vendors and coordinated the entire schedule for our day. All of her help made it less stressful for me leadin...
g up the the wedding and then during the wedding I was able to just enjoy my day. I am so thankful for everything that she did!
I can't say enough great things about Amanda! My mom and I wanted to enlist a wedding planner to help us find vendors, take care of month-of/day-of coordination, and keep us in bud...
get! I live out of state and have a busy career, so I knew having someone in Durham to help us with planning would be great. Amanda was so helpful in advising us on prices for various services in Durham as well as recommending the best ways to save/spend money. We would have had no idea otherwise!
I also really appreciated Amanda's help with florals, linens, and stationary design. I got married in October and wanted a fall color scheme with navy, coral pinks, burgundy, etc. and did not exactly know how to accomplish this throughout the various elements of design. Amanda did a great job recommending linens and designing the florals (along with our florist!) and stationary so that everything went together. Everything looked amazing, and I was so satisfied with all of our vendors...all were not only wonderful to work with, but also lovely people!
The wedding weekend itself was so much fun and stress-free! The rehearsal went smoothly, and Amanda handled several small mishaps on the wedding day calmly (our cake stand did not fit the cake and the flower on my husband's boutonniere snapped off)! I knew we were in good hands and did not stress a bit! We received so many compliments on everything- the flow of the night, the flowers, food, and just how fun the wedding was! I could not have been happier with how it all went, and I'm a little sad planning is over now because it was so fun!
Amanda worked with me and my husband for over a year on our wedding - she helped us dream up our perfect wedding, and she executed it. I didn't grow up dreaming of my wedding or h...
ave any idea of what I wanted before our families decided they wanted to invite 300+ guests to our wedding, but Amanda guided us through the process. She learned about our Indian heritage and helped us create a magical weekend that was true to our culture and stayed every bit as "us" as we could imagine. Her organization and tenacity as she planned our wedding was impressive - she spent hours researching options for everything (e.g., seating, florists, floral designs, color schemes, you name it!) for us, and kept us on track even while we floundered in the details. I can't imagine how we could've made this happen without her!
Amanda provided month-of coordination services for my wedding, and working with her was one of the best decisions I made while planning my wedding. I had hired most of my other ven...
dors, but didn't know how everything was going to come together and I didn't want all of the details to fall on me and my family on my wedding day. At first, I was worried that hiring a coordinator was an extra expense and wasn't sure that I really needed one, but after meeting with Amanda, I knew I needed her help! She knows her stuff, and I could tell that she knew exactly what I needed, and that everything would go smoothly under her direction.
When I sent all of my other vendor contracts to Amanda for review, she thought of things that never would have crossed my mind. She provided great feedback and helped me with key decisions related to the wedding day. Our rehearsal was quick and easy, and everything on the wedding day was flawless (if there were any issues, I still don't know about them to this day because she just handled things!). She was there super early helping other vendors get everything delivered and set up and was around every time I needed something or had a question.
In the end, our wedding was everything that we wanted, and I don't know how I could have done it without Amanda. She had worked with most of my other vendors before, and having a vendor team that knew each other and worked well together made things even better. If you want to fully enjoy your wedding day with no stress, you need Amanda!
Preparing for my daughter's wedding in Durham was filled with challenges, as both she and her fiancé lived out of the country, and I (as MOB) lived out of town. However, the best ...
decision we made was to hire Amanda Scott, with A Swanky Affair, to help us navigate the process. Amanda's familiarity and comfort with the Durham area alleviated any need for us to individually investigate and interview the large number of potential vendors there. After understanding what the bride and groom felt comfortable with, she was able to simplify the decision process on so many levels. Amanda was prompt and professional for the entire process and we could not have done it without her. I recommend her without reservation.
My daughter was recently married in Durham. Since both families and her fiance were out of town and she was starting her pediatric residency at Duke, a wedding planner was a must! ...
She and her fiance spoke with a few planners and chose Amanda Scott of A Swanky Affair. Amanda was the perfect combination of low key (for my stressed out, long work hours daughter) and very organized (for the "trying not to be overbearing but I am way out on the west coast" mother). Amanda provided a monthly check list which the young couple was able to handle nicely. She handled anxious emails from California with reassuring replies. But best of all was the rehearsal and "day of" care that she gave us. She worked so well with our priest and the church, had a detailed timeline for all involved parties, and was quietly and calmly everywhere on the wedding day keeping everything running smoothly. We all relaxed and so enjoyed the day and suddenly it was over! But there was Amanda and her sweet assistant packing everything up and getting it to the car allowing us to just savor the memory of a great day! I would highly recommend A Swanky Affair for your event! Thanks Amanda!!
My daughter met her future husband in school in Durham and they wanted to return there for the wedding. None of us live anywhere near NC so I knew the first thing I had to do was t...
o find the best local wedding planner. Somehow, from my computer in NJ, I found Amanda Scott and A Swanky Affair. The first time I spoke to her she explained that she could help us select vendors by providing us with several to review based on what WE wanted. She doesn't make wedding decisions for you, she helps you make the right ones for the wedding you want. She helps as little or as much as you need - and we needed lots of help! Amanda is very calm, confident, competent, knowledgeable and probably the most organized person I've ever met. She keeps you on track so the day of the wedding, you can relax and enjoy. Hiring Amanda was the best decision made for the wedding. Vendors love her because she's so organized - I heard that over and over! To me she was worth double her fee. She's just the BEST!
I came across Amanda's name when looking for wedding planners in the Durham area and was immediately told by friends and family that she was the BEST wedding planner in the area. F...
rom our very first phone conversation, I knew she would be absolutely invaluable to the planning process. Needless to say, she lived up to her stellar reputation in the months that followed. She got to know me and my style and helped me select from vendors that were within my budget and fit with my Duke Gardens wedding. She helped organize receipts and contracts, drew up both a budget and planning timeline, and made sure that all the vendors that I was working with gave me the best prices and the highest quality work. When one vendor planned to charge me extra to set up chairs at the wedding when the venue refused to, she knew the venue contract so well that she remembered they had promised to do so, saving me several hundred dollars. She saved me money with many other vendors as well, and she also kept me sane while I attempted to plan a wedding from out of town while in the midst of an incredibly busy work year. From the far-ahead planning to the day of coordination, Amanda's hard work and dedication to my event was unparalleled; she is one of the best in the industry (my in-laws said she was the best of the three planners that they had worked with for their children's weddings). She knew all the vendors in the area, their ins and outs, pros and cons. Every single vendor I worked with seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when I told them I was working with Amanda - "she's the best", the all remarked. The wedding day itself went incredibly smoothly, and was more perfect than I ever could have imagined. I could never have done it without her, and I would recommend her to any friend or family member without a moment's hesitation.
I interviewed 3 different wedding planner/coordinators for our wedding in Nov 2013. I choose Amanda based on my conversations with her & the high recommendations from other vendors...
who had worked with her. We choose to have her for the wedding weekend coordination and it worked out wonderfully. Amanda was so very helpful overall, I was able to ask her questions about various things in the wedding planning process with quick speedy responses (this was about 4-6 months prior to the wedding). Amanda has great organization skills & knowledge of the Durham area and wedding planning. She really thought of everything and our wedding went off without any issues. I wanted to walk into my wedding and not worry about a thing and I didn't she was there helping out and doing things before I could even get a chance to ask for help. If you want someone to take the burden off of you and feel like you have known them for a while, choose Amanda , you won't regret it!
Amanda was the best, most awesome day-of planner we could ever have hoped for. She kept every detail of our 12-hour wedding perfectly in place. We could not have asked for a better...
coordinator, and she was AMAZING!!
Amanda Scott of A Swanky Affair was our day-of coordinator for our wedding, and we were very, very happy we had her on our team. We had most of our vendors selected by the time we ...
engaged Amanda, but when she serves as the day-of-coordinator she knows as much as (if not more than) the bride and groom about the plans for the big day when it arrives. Amanda picked up the ceremony and reception boxes from our house, delivered the flowers (which I did myself) to our ceremony and reception locations, and was so helpful in making sure that both sites were set up and that all of our belongings made it back to us when all was said and done. It was a long day, and Amanda's help was worth every penny. Her fee was definitely some of the best money spent on our wedding.
Amandy from A Swanky Affair worked with me on every detail of my wedding. She was organized, offered amazing suggestions and ideas, and was tons of fun to work with. She was very ...
helpful in narrowing down vendors to interview and found us many great details, which ended up saving us a great deal of money. A Swanky Affair is willing to do as much or as little as you would like to make your wedding day absolutely perfect!!! Amanda made my wedding day better than I had even dreamed!!!!
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2902 Carver St, Durham, NC
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