Wow, where to start on how incredible Taylor with Alyson Taylor Events is. Taylor is one of the warmest individuals I have ever met. She is someone you meet and instantly want to be best friends with. Her value as a wedding planner far surpasse...d the typical job description. She was the perfect sounding board when I was overwhelmed or needed advice. She made me comfortable throughout the planning process and assured me that it would all be wonderful. She earned my trust and it was this trust that allowed me to not worry about the small details throughout the process and the day of the wedding.
Taylor had her work cut out for her at our wedding. We made the call to not have a tent placed at our venue on the Thursday before our event, when there was only a 10% chance of rain. Well, it rained and then it poured. I was told by friends, the venue, and our caterer that Taylor set everything up for our reception with all of our details, pulled them back in when it started to rain, and repeated three times during the different downpours that occurred. Needless to say, nothing went according to plan. Through it all, I was comforted knowing I could turn to Taylor and she would take care of it.
To say that Taylor is one of the hardest working individuals I have ever met, would be true, but it wouldn't paint the picture of what that really means. My dad, who is a former NFL football player, said he has never seen someone run as fast as Taylor did when she would fly up and down the flights of stairs at Tredegar while contending with the weather on our wedding day. Because of the weather, we ended up only being at our reception for an hour and had a completely modified timeline, that Taylor created on the fly, but successfully managed all of our dances and cake cutting before the next downpour.
We moved our reception from Tredegar to The Jefferson, through Taylor and our cater's coordination. At the end of the night, my husband and I found 12 bags of food in our hotel room - it was all the food we hadn't been able to enjoy at our reception! Not knowing what to do with it, we ended up taking a field trip to our house and dropping it off. When we arrived at the house we realized that there had been much activity there as well. Taylor had orchestrated, with the help of our family, all of the unused beer and wine that we had bought for our reception to be taken back to our house. She must have been at our house until 1 or 2 in the morning getting it all unloaded because there was a dry spot where her car had been when we pulled up to drop off the food. What overwhelms me with this story is that at our brunch the next morning, hosted at our house, Taylor showed up and went to town with the beer and wine. She organized and labeled it so that we would be able to return the thousands of dollars in alcohol that hadn't been touched. She didn't have to do that, no one expected that of her, but I think it a true testament of what an incredibly hard worker she is.