Eventfully Yours: Wedding Planning and Events

e getting to work with Eventfully Yours. They are extremely well organized in advance and are there every step of the way during the wedding and reception. I highly recommend them and can't wait for the next opportunity to work together.

hey also did our decor and flowers which were beautiful! I couldn’t recommend them enough!

gs are just done this way. If they are, I wish I’d known that sooner. This is a windy one, so here’s the TL;DR of it: if you hire EY, you need to either be an assertive person or have an assertive friend with you who is okay with making sure that what you wants gets done, voice record your in person meetings, and be sure to get as much in writing as you can. Or, plan to have the kind of wedding where all you want is to show up and go with the flow without any input. I would not hire them for decor or florals, unless you’re okay with the previously stated. By the end of working with EY, I feel as if I could have planned my own wedding with the same, if not less, amount of stress and work. Here’s the long of it: We hired Eventfully Yours because the venue recommended them. We met with the owner and Julie Hodges at the same time, and were taken in by their kindness and assurances. We talked about doing some things DIY because we’re a crafty couple, about having a small budget, and read over contracts. It seemed like a good deal. Due to COVID, it was quite awhile after this meeting before we got to really get going. Once we did - a full year out - the ball got moving quick. One reason why I wanted a wedding planner was because our budget was tight and I wanted someone in the know to work with our vendors and get the most for our buck that we could. The EY contract explicitly states that they will ‘work with your budget and vendors’. The first thing I was asked for (with an emphasis to rush) was a list of vendors I wanted to use. I turned it in, and because two vendors reached out to me and I was told no differently, I was under the impression that they all would. This was, unfortunately, false. To the point that when I realized this, we lost vendors because they had already been booked out. (And when our chosen hotel had reached out to me, they had been given my email incorrectly, and we nearly lost our desired suite and room blocks for guests). The contract also states consultations via in person, text, email, virtual, with three promised meetings. Getting replies from anyone on the team was quite difficult and often involved having to check in multiple times. Things that had been spoken about would be forgotten or ignored (to the point that I ended up with extra florals because they had not been removed as requested multiple times.) And I never got my promised last meeting, in which I had asked to meet the woman who would be in charge of my event prior to the day of (as it was not Julie) ((They had back to back destination weddings before mine, but after stating multiple times when we could be available for a zoom meeting, it was never accepted)). This lack of communication means that vendors were contacting me, asking for a day of schedule (two months out) that I could not get ahold of, and was eventually told that it wouldn’t be made until a week out. As vendors needed that information to be booked, I pressed for it. The woman who made it for us, and with whom we’d worked with for much prior, left EY the day after. You can see my full review in images on Google Reviews, or feel free to message me.

o contact for the wedding. Great, fine, we’ll do it. Everything is planned, mainly by my mother, up until the wedding. Great, fine, awesome. My mom is type A and she loved every second of it. But according to the wedding planner all “100 emails and texts” we sent her leading up to the wedding was just overload. Wait sorry, I thought this was my wedding, and we hired YOU. Isn’t that your job???? Weird. Anyways. My mom signs a contract, everything is IN THAT CONTRACT, as well as certain things we asked for for the wedding. That’s normal right? Anyways, wedding weekend rolls around: As a wedding planner you’d go to dinner rehearsal right? Maybe greet guests, greet family, greet the couple? Idk maybe that’s just me, but that didn’t happen. Then wedding day rolls around, no where to be found on my wedding day. We couldn’t find bouquets, we couldn’t find boutineers, etc. Also, we go to look at venue and setup and of course have questions and get met with rude comments about how we just need to let them do their jobs. Oh again, my bad, although it is my wedding day and if I have concerns I should get to voice them, right? Okay so later, my mom is looking at where the cermony is taking place, she notices there are no reserved signs on the front rows like she had asked for, so she mentions it to the wedding planner and is met with the most unprofessional, most hateful comment of “the other planner forgot them, no one is stupid so they won’t sit there”, she says this right in front of me and a lot of other people. Well guess what, some people are not the smartest, and they sat there. OH and then the wedding planner proceeds to tell my mom that we didn’t ask nor pay for those anyways. So my mom shows her the contract (this is after the wedding, via email), and the wedding planner tells her she thought my mom was a good Christian woman, and she needed to stop harassing her, lol okay got it. A lot more took place, and it was so sad. As a wedding planner, if there was something that my client noticed or brought up to me, I would immediately apologize and try to make it right. But not this lady. All she did was blame other people for her mistakes: Couldn’t find boutineers, photographers fault, the wedding planner let her know. But that’s weird, she’s the photographer??? Right??? Couldn’t find my toss away bouquet, DJ’s fault. Again, that’s weird, that’s the DJ????? Odd. Food turned out terrible (oh this was also her son she recommended), but when we told her, her response what “not my business, not my problem”. Oh I should also mention that the cook quit a couple days before so her husband stepped in (who had never cooked a brisket before AND HAD COVID) to cook our food for our wedding, and didn’t let us know this was happening. But that’s a whole other story. So if you want to hire Eventfully Yours as your wedding planner, be weary. You will: -pay $60,000 for a wedding you essentially planned on your own -pay $8,000 more in food than what it’s worth -have to call and schedule and deal with ALL vendors with no help essentially -Be told you’re harassing them when you bring your concerns up -be met with hateful comments and someone who takes absolutely no responsibility for their mistakes

kes your big day stress-free and enjoyable AND is beyond helpful!! She will keep you organized and on task. Do not hesitate to book her!

decor for our daughter’s wedding next spring. We are excited to see what magic she creates for our 2nd wedding.