Altar Ego Weddings

work with and kept us on budget where we needed it. Thank you for a wonderful stress free day of and Lauren and I will never forget it! You helped make her day so very special with your vendor suggestions! They were all amazing! We could not have imagined a more beautiful day!

proposal came to life. She provided a “She Said Yes” banner and bouquet of my favorite flowers! Photography: Mercedes Morgan Photography Carriage: Fantasia Carriage

love and fairy tale dreams. I can tell she listened to my fiancé and focused on the details to make this proposal perfect for only me. I cannot think of a better way to get engaged and am beyond thrilled with my story book beginning. Thank you Jen!

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of the best things you need in a wedding planner! Jen was amazing at making sure I stayed calm about the little things that were making me stressed and the day of, I didn't even notice anything that I thought was going to worry me. She did an amazing job making sure everything looked perfect and I didn't have a worry! THANKS JEN!

e to find out she was also the planner for a good friend's wedding 10 years ago! Even though we loved our venue for the look/vibe, they weren't easy to work with, but Jen made sure to handle every detail that existed. Can't recommend her enough, stop reading review, just hire her! :)

me so much. I would have been lost planning my wedding without her! Shannon is absolutely amazing, calm under pressure, organized, responsive, kind, and just fabulous. We love her! She even calmed me down on a Friday via text when I was worried about COVID precautions! If you need a wedding planner, I highly recommend Shannon. She is the best!!!! Thank you, Shannon!!

helped us understand the vision. She wrote a detailed itinerary of the day with NO detail forgotten, but helped us through the entire planning process. She really made the experience flow. We had so much fun at the wedding and reception because Shannon took care of every detail. The event was unforgettable, thanks to Shannon of Altar Ego. As a new mother of the bride, my biggest piece of advice is: hire a wedding planner like Shannon! I was able to enjoy the entire wedding weekend and actually spend time with the people I love most.

ything! Jen made sure vendors were coordinated, everything was set-up perfectly, guests had all their questions answered, just flawless. Thank you Altar Ego Weddings for taking such good care of me, my family, and my friends. Can't recommend y'all enough!!

rdinated all of our vendors seamlessly. I had multiple phone calls, endless emails threads, and a zoom call to ease my mind during the planning process. I couldn't have done it without Shannon. Jen Krause filled in for Shannon on my actual wedding day and she was an absolute dream to work with. She didn't miss a beat when it came to organizing our vendors, setting up, and breaking down/collecting our items at the end of the night. She coordinated all of our vendors on the day-of and allowed us to be completely hands off and enjoy the day. I didn't have to worry about A THING on my wedding night. I would highly, highly recommend the Altar Ego team. Thank you guys again!

ication and informed vendor recommendations took so much guesswork out of the equation for us. Jen is also an amazing advocate for the couples she works with. When our rehearsal dinner venue closed just three weeks before our wedding, Jen was immediately reaching out to her immense Austin network to help us find a solution in our budget. Finally, Jen helped us design the perfect schedule for our wedding and coordinated all of our vendors so that we didn't have to worry about a thing!

wedding perfect. She really focused on myself and my husband to make sure we were happy. She took all my wedding worry away and allowed us to be in the moment on our wedding day which is extremely important. Not only did she make our wedding day run smoothly but she also answered all my pre-wedding questions and I had a lot of questions. We will forever be grateful that Jennifer made our day so special.

eryday flowers, they had the wow factor! String Quartet, extremely versatile band (Blind Date) that played many genres, Magic Mirror photo booth and Officiant, fabulous dinnerware and linens, photographer, coffee bar, cake, deserts, and bar!! Let’s not forget the Rolls Royce get away car. My husband, family, guests and I were blown away! This was a wedding to never forget! Thank you Jen! Feel free to show pics! ♥️

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so imagine how much control I wanted for our wedding. However, I had a lot of trust in Jen from early on and we just let her take care of everything and we didn't stress about it once. From our perspective, not a single thing went wrong on our wedding day and if it did, we had no idea and that was blissful. Jen was professional, warm, organized and on top of it and made us feel completely at ease! They are simply the best.

act for the chapel of Life Austin Church which is where we were getting married. Not only did the ceremony go perfectly but she also stepped in to answer questions, provide feedback, and guide me through the last several months of our planning process because she saw how much I was in need of help and overwhelmed! She was a blessing that I will never forget. Alter Ego is THE best in Austin, no questions asked!!! You are a rockstar, Jennifer!!!!

lso well connected and respected in the wedding community--I used her referrals for the cake and the flowers and, in addition to receiving excellent service with everyone, they all told me that I had found a great wedding planner with Jen. Then on my wedding day, Jen was an invaluable resource. I felt like we had a million balls in the air, but I didn't have to do anything! Jen was several steps ahead, communicating with all of the vendors and support staff to make sure the day went off without any issues!! Jen managed set up, tear down, and everything so I could sit back and enjoy the day! It was such a huge relief to know that all of the details were being handled by someone much more capable than myself. And on top of all of that, she's so easy to talk to and a very fun person to work with! I'll be recommending Jen to literally anyone who asks--she's the best!

e wedding long distance over about a year and a half. Along the way we met Jen on a couple trips home and she was always an email or call away, which was so reassuring. My husband and I are both big planners for life in general, so we very much appreciated Jen's attention to detail, promptness, reassurance, and overall organization. It was all of this that allowed us to completely trust her leading up to and on the wedding day. We knew we were in good hands all day and that things would go according to plan with her at the helm. It was so comforting for us and our families to just enjoy the wedding day and not have to worry about logistics. Our parents were in awe of how smoothly everything ran, and we had the most special time with our friends and families. Thank you for everything Jen!! Please, do yourself a favor, and put yourself in her hands for your big day! :)

pt us on-top of all of our to-do list items starting about 9 months ahead of our wedding. I loved how Jen Ashford was willing to adapt her system and priorities to fit with what worked for us and what was most important to us. Jen incorporated what we called the "weekly huddle email" where she would check in on our progress from the previous week and remind us of upcoming to-dos for that week. It worked wonderfully for us! I also loved how Jen incorporated good humor and a good attitude with all our communications--she was also excellent at being diplomatic when tensions and stress were high between family members. And! Without missing a beat, she gave a very educated and thorough explanation to my MBA-holding, Business-minded father, as to why weddings tend to be much more expensive than other events--*note* it is not completely what you think it is--remember that you're paying for a higher caliber/ better trained personnel and vendors when you are talking about your wedding, also if you are paying for a plated dinner, you're asking that all the food be ready at essentially the same time--things like these wedding details add up! Jen can explain better than I am, but it satisfied my business-minded dad. (Thanks, Jen!!). I also appreciated that Jen had so many great vendors to recommend to us--she is a leader in her field and has many many years of experience and networking under her belt in a very competitive field. I don't know what we would've done without her guidance and recommendations--it is so easy when you're on your own to get bogged down just in trying to select one vendor. And we all know there can be MANY vendors to hire for a wedding. Additionally, I so appreciated Jen's openness to learning and working with our request for a wedding ceremony that was very reverent and religious (and which had quite a few logistical details to work out). The vendors that I selected (especially ones that Jen had never worked with before), all said that Jen was amazing and a pleasure to work with! Finally, Jen is able to calmly roll with any unforseen glitches in weather etc--since our wedding was outside, we had arranged a rain plan, but had decided to go ahead and get married outside. The morning of our wedding it was pouring rain and Jen very calmly helped my family and my husband to make the decision to continue moving forward with the plan to keep the wedding outside. The weather was amazing during our ceremony--only a couple drops of rain and perfect temperature. We are so grateful that Jen led us through and had umbrellas etc ready to go, if the rain had persisted. I also want to give a shout out to Jen for sending us to her in-house graphic designer, Jen Krause! Jen Krause is not only an amazing event planner too, but she created an entirely custom style guide and suite of wedding invitations (with beautiful hand-calligraphy), place cards (also done by hand!), thank you cards, custom return address stamps and day-of signeage that was gorgeous and stylistically pulled everything together in an amazing way! We are so grateful! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! The best day of our lives!

and was more than happy to give recommendations, connect me with vendors and answer all my questions (I had at least one a day!). I also had the unique experience of tagging along with Jennifer to work one of her weddings. From behind the scenes, she completely rocks at what she does. She took care of things before anyone knew they needed to be taken care of and made sure that everything ran smoothly the whole night. This was the experience for our wedding day, too! Jennifer is a complete joy to work with. Thank you times a million for everything!

that the day went flawlessly. Day of I seriously didn't have to worry about a thing which is such a relief after all of the work of wedding planning. Jennifer is so familiar with Austin and has close connections to the Venues which was so helpful. She thinks of everything that you would never think of and gets it done. Leading up to the wedding she went through contracts, and communicated the day of schedule with all of the vendors so that I didn't have to. Day of she not only made sure the day went as planned and that everyone knew what they were doing but oversaw all set up and tear down. Honestly could not have done it without her and her team. She is a joy to work with and you wont regret it!

or coordination and logistics was a huge relief. Jenna and Jen took care of everything we needed on our wedding day and kept things organized and on schedule. I'd highly recommend them!

at I was feeling or wanting when meeting with specific vendors. I felt very comfortable explaining my vision for the wedding and she completely knocked it out of the water, I couldn't be happier about how it all turned out! Having The Jennifer's for the entire wedding process was by far the best decision I ever made! Jennifer Krause, was also absolutely wonderful to work with on the calligraphy for the table placements and invitation details. She was very thorough and quick to respond with any changes that were made. They made wedding planning enjoyable, stress free, and breathtaking memories!!

you enjoy the wedding planning experience. Jennifer at Altar Ego Weddings did a great job as our planner. After interviewing several planners in the Austin area, we found Jennifer to be a good fit as she was outgoing, very direct, and seemed like a woman who would get things done. She didn’t disappoint on any of those fronts. We had a pretty clear idea of what we wanted for our wedding and she helped to make the wedding of our dreams a reality. Our wedding day itself was absolute perfection and wouldn’t have been possible without Jennifer. She had a very tight timeline that she held people accountable too and things went off without a hitch! The other vendors seemed to get along with Jennifer and she did a great job managing them all leading up to the big day and on the day of. Thank you Jennifer for all your help in planning our wedding!