When you start out planning a wedding you have no clue how much work goes into it. Very quickly we realized how demanding the process was and we knew we were going to need a professional to help guide us through the process and most of all hand...le all the Day Of details, so that we could actually both enjoy the day.
We wanted to find someone who could help us navigate the world of photo booths and up lighting, while keeping those crazy ideas every Bride gets from Pinterest in check, and somehow bringing it all to life while keeping us on budget. That search led us to Melissa Crawford. wife, mother, therapist, florist, friend, and our wedding planner extraordinaire!
We hired Melissa Crawford for partial planning about 10 months before our wedding. It was the BEST decision we ever made! We had already been planning for a while, so we had our venue and our main vendors selected by this point, but we knew we needed a lot of help pulling our ideas together and bringing those dreams to life.
First of all, nothing with Melissa is "partial." She gives a 120% all the time. From day one Melissa helped guide us through the process like she had been with us from day one. Melissa worked with us on all aspects of the wedding from design, to decorating, vendor coordination, scheduling, conflict resolution, etc.
Melissa embraced the ideas we had and together we came up with a plan of how to take all those ideas (including those amazing Pinterest ideas) and make them a reality. She brought amazing vendors to the table and helped us find decor items from linens to chairs to candles for the best prices. We were even able to add things like chavari chairs, something I had dreamed of having, but never thought we'd actually have.
On top of coordinating our event and decorating our venue, Melissa created gorgeous romantic and whimsical centerpieces for us using gorgeous roses, hydrangeas, manzanita branches, and hanging votive candles. They were magnificent and Melissa was able to do all this on a budget.
Melissa played referee on more than one occasion to help us compromise and keep things in perspective. The most important thing to us was for the wedding to be about us, to have those personal touches and to truly speak to how we felt about each other and to just have fun with it. She absolutely helped us to do this! Melissa gave me the confidence to create my own DIY items to bring out those personal touches from adding hand painted framed table #'s made from our engagement photos to shadow boxes with items from our time together.
Melissa was able to bring all this together and create a magical experience for not only us, but our family and friends.
Day of, I felt absolutely confident that Melissa knew every detail and I felt relaxed and was just able to focus on celebrating. Melissa and her staff were amazing! She kept everyone on schedule and the day was all we had dreamed of and more. She kept us sane through all the craziness and most of all she’s become family to us. There is no way we could ever thank her enough for everything she has done to combine both our ideas and to magically bring our dream to life.