Catherine Gretta Affairs of Distinction

What Catherine does well is understand the good vendors out there, and provides recommendations for those photographers, caterers, etc. She also has good taste and would probably make a lovely interior decorator. Where she failed miserably was execution. She suggested invites done by hand, which sounded lovely, but since they were not digital, all of the revisions became very confusing and cumbersome, and as a result our event invites were sent out with no start time. So embarrassing. As it was approaching the event she was ill with a cold and was not focused on getting key tasks done. The room was supposed to be set up the night prior and it was not. The morning of she was scrambling, and it was totally stressing me out. She did not follow the directions given to her by the synagogue and was putting in a bar for cocktails before the ceremony, and the rabbi started yelling at her because he was very upset. She then ran off and I needed to work with the staff on where to hide the bar. For most of the rest of the event (4+ hours) we could not find her anywhere, and concluded that she was hiding out of embarrassment. She also missed key details. There was no silverware by the appetizers, and so one could eat the food. I personally asked the guests to move from the social hour into the main dining hall because Catherine was not there. I spoke with the DJ to let them know that we were ready for the introduction and the dance where the Bat Mitzvah girl is raised in the chair. And finally, because Catherine was no where to be found, the caterer did not communicate to her or us that there were leftovers packaged up from the event, and the food ended up being thrown away. In summary she cannot be trusted to get the job done — her focus is with the nice extras instead of the essential aspects of event execution.