Dear Future Brides,
If you are a stressed out New Yorker with a full time job and also planning your wedding with your type A personality, do yourself a favor and bring on Eleni & Co. to help assist with your wedding planning needs.
I am spea...king from actual experience (married this past October in Tarrytown, NY), hire a wedding planner. PERIOD. Even if your venue offers you one, or you paid extra for the venue's planner in your contract, hire one for the month or even day of if that's all your budget allows. I can't begin to stress how much Eleni helped me during my wedding weekend. I hired her as a month of coordinator based on recommendations through a family friend thinking to myself, "I shouldn't be going over budget for this, but whatever I'll take the chance" and the amount of knowledge and experience she brought to the table is now I can absolutely say, priceless.
Do you want someone to have your back and go to battle for you? Do you want someone to negotiate vendor fee's even lower than what you're already paying? Do you want to have that extra set of eyes over seeing everything from start to finish so it's to your satisfaction? Yes, that's right, this woman killed it the moment we got on the phone with all the questions she asked, to my rehearsal dinner the night before, making sure everything was organized and handled, to my actual wedding day, where don't be fooled by her beauty, this woman get's her hands dirty too, to my post wedding day brunch where she handled situations like a boss and made sure everyone, including my family, were satisfied with how everything was going.
I can't imagine my wedding day without her help, she honestly went above and beyond making sure my bridesmaids were OK, and always checked in on my family to make sure they were OK as well. Literally ran from hotel room to hotel room and back and forth to the venue in her car checking in on everything!! Everything I essentially would have liked to have done on my own because I am a control freak, she handled on my behalf, even stuff I had no idea until afterwards (which thank god because I would have lost it) was taken care of and handled like a pro. I consider her family now because she felt like it being around my friends and family. She even got in her car mid reception and got me eye lash glue because she noticed my fake lash was lifting up. THAT'S how hard she works to make sure that YOU as a BRIDE, FEEL like a BRIDE. My husband's parents steamer broke, and what she did do? Like a gdamn magician pulled out a steamer from her Mary Poppin's back pack and steamed the F out of my father in law's suit and MOL gown. Moral of the story is, hire her, and if you need me to give you even more examples since I clearly have not convinced you yet lol have Eleni give you my e-mail and I will gladly elaborate. Your wedding is going to be one of the most expensive and memorable events of your life, don't let a simple task of not hiring a planner make it fall short of being absolutely perfect.
xo October Bride