Our wedding was September 8th at the gardens of Woodstock, and we hired Kristen to be our day of wedding coordinator. Kristen first started out with a questionnaire to get an idea of what our wedding day would be like. She then gave us a link ...to her website called the aisle planner that is EXTREMELY helpful. Their system is VERY organized, and works great! Kristen had excellent communication with us via e-mail/text/phone, and at all of her meetings was extremely helpful with giving honest input on what would work or not work for our wedding. She created a timeline that was EXTREMELY detailed, and attached us to e-mails she sent to our vendors.
On the day of the wedding, Kristen made sure all of the vendors were there and helped coordinate where they needed to set up.
She brought an assistant to help her set up everything. She had reference pictures of exactly how I wanted everything set up, while I was getting ready in the bridal suite. She helped set up the cocktail hour building, updated me on how the tables were looking in the reception area, and showed me pictures asking if I liked how things were set up. Kristen made sure I had the rings, vows, marriage license, and distributed the envelopes with the tips for the vendors as well.
I had a lot of mental breakdowns! Kristen helped get me into my dress when one of my buttons popped off, and I was having a panic attack. She checked in on me often to make sure I was okay, and was great with communicating and coordinating with my bridal party. She made sure all of my signs for the wedding were put up. She dried off the bouquets before the bridesmaids held them, and pinned the guys' boutonnieres on. She coordinated everyone lining up, and made sure my dress was fluffed before going down the aisle.
After the ceremony was over, she moved all of my ceremony flowers and arranged them how I wanted them to look in the reception area. She moved items from the cocktail hour to the reception, and made sure they looked like the photos I attached in her aisle planner. She made sure we had food and drinks after the ceremony, AND helped coordinate the photography for the family photos.
When it came time for the reception. Kristen bustled my dress based upon the video we showed her. We really wanted to do an inflatable dinosaur entrance. Kristen helped us get into them and out of them for our grand entrance. She then helped teach us how to cut our cake, and helped move the cards/gifts to the van later on that night. WOW! Seriously, our ceremony/reception/ EVERYTHING looked absolutely incredible thanks to Kristen. She followed my pictures, and made it look even better than I imagined!
BY THE WAY. She ALSO has beautiful icicle backdrop lights you can rent from her from her package. We had a sweetheart table, and our table LOOKED INCREDIBLE with her lights behind us. Great for photos too!
There is only so much I can type here, but Kristen did SO much more on our wedding day AND rehearsal. Kristen is so incredibly detailed, kind, compassionate, and goes ABOVE AND BEYOND your expectations! Thank you so much Kristen for making our wedding day so special. We COULD NOT have done this without you! Seriously, hire her. You won't regret it.