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Want to enjoy your event? Don't have time to plan? Need expert guidance? GLOW Weddings and Events offers planning and coordinating services throughout Washington DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia and beyond.
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Planning
- Day-Of Coordination
- Full Service Wedding Planning
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Wedding
Awards and Affiliations
2024 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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4.8
out of 5.026 reviews
We unfortunately did not have the best experience with GLOW. The biggest issues were that they never provided the wedding party with the schedule that we spent many hours working ...
with them on (one of the main deliverables), and then did very little to manage us, the wedding party, or the photographer on the actual day, creating several stressful scheduling snafus at the reception.
A close friend was coordinating the ceremony part per our church’s requirement, which was on time and went very smoothly (we even finished the church pictures early). So it was a bit confusing why there were so many issues at the reception when GLOW did not have the added job of managing the ceremony.
There were also some staffing surprises, as the only employee who attended our rehearsal was someone we had never met or interacted with, and we were not told about this until the day before the rehearsal. And one of the other employees, with whom we had worked consistently, was not at the wedding, and we were not told about this at all. This undoubtedly contributed to some of the coordinating/schedule issues on the day-of.
We also felt like GLOW staff were sometimes condescending toward us leading up to the wedding, but overlooked it, thinking that might just go with the territory re people who are really good at hyperfocusing on details and schedules. This included being dismissive of the more detailed schedule/script we prepared at the request of our ceremony coordinator.
We wrote GLOW a few months ago, explaining our concerns and that we didn't want to just write a bad review, but never heard anything back other than the initial acknowledgment of our email.
We were prepared to offer at least a qualified recommendation based on how GLOW responded and/or explained what happened with us, but at this point we do not feel we can recommend them at all, especially if you are working with vendors who are new to your venue. In our case, most of our other vendors were familiar with our venue (DAR), and all of them were excellent, which made a big difference!
We hired GLOW (Kristi and Missy) for day of coordinations services for our wedding in April 2025 and they were excellent. They did a LOT of organizational work for us before the we...
dding including creating itineraries and doing vendor reach out for last minute details. They knew a lot of our other vendors personally which is a testament to their work and network. The day of the wedding went perfectly - we were actually ahead of schedule which we loved because that meant more time for dancing! I think my wife and I were the most relaxed people at the wedding and that was in large part because of how capable and professional Kristi and Missy are. Highly recommend!
My wedding day could not have gone as amazingly as it did without the help of Kristi and her team at Glow. O hired her as a day-of coordinator and felt I got so much more from her ...
services than I bargained for. Since our initial contact, Kristi has been responsive, thorough, and communicative. Our actual coordination kicked off about 6 weeks before my wedding day, and she and Melissa worked with me to ensure every single detail was accounted for and all potential problems were mitigated in advance. I know her team worked so hard to organize the day, and she even caught some issues missed by my other vendors. Her attention to detail and knowledge is truly unmatched! Even more helpful, Glow offered additional services like paper printing and miscellaneous item rentals (ie, car box) so I did not need to find additional sources for these needs. Regardless of what package you choose with Glow, your expectations will be exceeded by the high quality of support you receive!
We hired GLOW for our February 2025 wedding at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We worked with Kristi and Missy and they were absolutely amazing! They helped so much in th...
e lead up to the event with coordinating vendors, and were amazing on they day of. They took care of everything expertly and we were able to just enjoy the day. Highly highly recommend!
We hired Glow (Kristi and Missy) for day-of coordination of our wedding at Woodend Sanctuary and Mansion. Despite not having initially budgeted for a day-of coordinator, we quickly...
realized that hiring one would be an investment that would allow us to fully enjoy the day we had worked so hard to plan. With Glow, "day-of coordination" feels almost like a misnomer. Kristi was so responsive and helpful, offering vendor recommendations and answering questions long before the day of the wedding. In the weeks leading up to the wedding, they walked us through a questionnaire that ensured nothing would fall through the cracks, and, from it, they created personalized checklists to guide us through the home stretch of tasks and itineraries for our wedding party and vendors. By wedding day, we were so confident that Kristi and Missy had everything under control that we were able to truly relax and enjoy the little moments. Hiring Glow was the best (and best-value!) decision we made!
If you want to ensure that your wedding timeline runs smoothly, hire Kristi and Missy from GLOW Weddings and Events! They offer a variety of flexible packages to meet your needs. W...
e hired them as our day-of coordinator, but their support extended well beyond wedding day. The coordination process kicked off 8 weeks prior to our big day. GLOW sent a comprehensive planning questionnaire that was designed to make the process go smoothly, and Kristi and Missy met with us for a planning session after our walk through. They are excellent at managing time and delivered detailed itineraries down to the minute not only the wedding party but also for other key vendors such as the DJ, videographer/photographer, and caterer. Their attention to detail is commendable, and we could not have transformed our dream into a reality without their expert advice and professional touch. They responded to our inquires in a timely manner and handled any hiccups calmly and quickly. It was a pleasure working with them!
Of all the vendors we booked, Kristi and Missy from GLOW were by far the most valuable- our wedding day ran so smoothly and it felt like we didn’t have to do a single thing on the ...
day of!
From the early planning stages, Kristi had great vendor recs, suggestions for Woodend, and clearly tons of experience. When we got to the month before the wedding and into the weeds of planning, Kristi and Missy walked us through every single detail we’d need to consider, including ones we’d never have thought of on our own! On the day of, they worked seamlessly with our other vendors, and were super flexible when Maryland weather was being its usual unpredictable self.
The pacing was perfect and we never felt rushed- all we needed to do was have a blast and trust GLOW to work their magic! One example- In the schedule we’d set out pre-wedding, my parents were scheduled to give a speech at 7:42- and at EXACTLY 7:42 they got up to the mic- without any of us having to look at the time! Just how good Kristi and Missy were at keeping every step moving comfortably and smoothly. We did a lot of our own decor, and GLOW set everything up perfectly, and were able to help load leftover alcohol, decor, and florals into cars so that we could reuse everything for the following-day brunch, which was a huge help. Can’t thank GLOW enough for helping us have such an amazing wedding day!
Kristi and her team at Glow Weddings made the entire wedding planning process so much easier. They were on top of every detail heading into the wedding day, and Kristi also helped ...
give us guidance on decor to really capitalize on our beautiful venue. I will definitely be recommending Glow to other couples.
Hiring Kristi for our day-of coordination was the best decision we could have made for our own peace of mind. Her attention to detail inspired the confidence we needed to let ourse...
lves enjoy our wedding day rather than focus on the logistical details of the day.
We had the pleasure of working with Kristi, of GLOW Weddings & Events, throughout the whole planning process. She has a lot of wedding planning experience as well as experience pla...
nning weddings at our specific venue, Woodend Sanctuary & Mansion. She is very organized and detailed oriented and did a wonderful job walking us through all the steps of the wedding planning process. She was easy to talk too and kept us on track throughout the whole year, up through our wedding, by putting together monthly to-do lists for both us and her. She also provided us with a host of recommendations for everything from catering services, to DJs/bands, to options for all the different parts of the wedding ceremony and reception, which really made the planning process much easier for us since we didn’t have to do a ton of research. You can customize the amount of support you’d like her to provide, but from our point of view, she can do it all! She was particularly effective in the last month through our wedding day, by organizing and keeping tabs on all our vendors and the venue staff. Kristi also has an assistant, Missy, who helps her the day of the event, as well as with the wedding rehearsal. Together, the two of them made everything run extremely smoothly through our entire event. They were both very attentive, helpful, and organized through our entire wedding day, and we are so thankful for all their help and support in organizing and orchestrating our wedding! Thank you, Kristi and Missy!
Kristi did a phenomenal job coordinating our wedding! We hired here for month-of coordination, and she also made herself available to answer my random questions in the months leadi...
ng up to it, which was so helpful. Our venue was Woodend, and she knows the space incredibly well - I highly recommend hiring her if that's your venue. Everything went smoothly on the day of. If there were problems, I didn't know about them! Or as my husband put it, "because of Kristi, I didn't have to think." Don't hesitate to hire Glow for your wedding! Thanks Kristi, and sorry my review is so late! :)
We are so thankful to have hired Glow for day-of coordinating services for our wedding. Exactly 8 weeks from our wedding day, Kristi emailed the initial planning document and vendo...
r contact list for us to fill out. These were incredibly thorough forms that guided us to think about our wedding from start to finish, with every tiny detail, allowing us to figure out ahead of time where there were holes in our planning. When we met with Kristi and Missy to review, they were incredibly helpful at answering lingering questions, aligning their answers with what would be best for us, not necessarily their opinions. Kristi joined us for every final vendor call, asking all of the right questions leading up to our wedding. The day of our wedding, both Kristi and Missy were incredibly calm, flexible and positive while making sure everything ran efficiently and smoothly. Hiring Glow will undoubtedly be one of the best decisions you make in wedding planning!
Kristi's level of communication and pre-planning was very appreciated and allowed us to focus on other details and important items in the run up to our wedding. She connected with ...
our vendors early to coordinate information as well. Our wedding was a smooth operation thanks to her and her teams hard work!
We hired Kristi for day-of coordination based off a recommendation by our venue (Woodend Sanctuary in Chevy Chase), and we couldn’t have been more satisfied. Her professionalism an...
d experience is unmatched, and we always felt like we were in safe hands. despite knowing absolutely nothing about event planning, and feeling very overwhelmed, she guided us through and answered every question with patience and knowledge. By the time our wedding happened, we were confident and calm knowing she’d have everything thought of. She was absolutely fantastic and we couldn’t have done it without her - hire her!
Kristi Hartig is a marvel. I hired her because both my venue recommended her and two friends who got married in DC. She combines the best of both worlds: she brings a chill energy ...
that helps you calm down, while also being 100% on top of everything. She was very knowledgeable about vendors to recommend without ever being pushy. When I booked her for a six-week-out package and then decided that I needed more support earlier on, she created a custom package for me (that was incredibly reasonable) to give me exactly what I needed. She's also scrupulously honest: I only wanted part of her "alcohol add-on" package, so she charged me only for what I used. My wedding was a little complicated--a Jewish/Hindu hybrid ceremony that I made up myself with a friend officiating; a baraat at a venue that had never done one before--but Kristi had every detail in hand. I'm sure she's great at other venues too, of course, but I will also add that she knows Woodend in particular like the back of her hand, knowledgeable rattling off statistics about the capacity of each space while we planned for rainy-day contingencies. Can't say enough good things!
From the moment we hired Kristi, she was incredibly helpful and speedy in answering our questions. Once she started coordinating a month out, we were able to pass some of the vendo...
r management on to her. At our rehearsal and wedding day she was on top of all the details, patient and approachable with our guests, and worked so hard to make the day go smoothly. We felt extremely comfortable with everything in her hands. I would recommend Kristi and Glow Weddings & Events to anyone looking for a wedding coordinator!
INCREDIBLE!!! We didn't know much about how Wedding Coordinators worked, but we knew we were going to need help the month and day of ... especially in the wake of a major house re...
no at the time of our wedding. Kristi and her team were AMAZING!!! From day one, she was making recommendations on aspects of a wedding and vendor relationships we never could've even thought of ... but they made our day run so smoothly. The day of, Kristi and her team completely turned around our venue and made it look gorgeous ... and they did it in about an hour (the venue has pretty unique time limits). Then during execution of the night, she was there every step of the way - making sure we hit our timelines, getting the guests in the right places, etc. EVERYONE said how much fun this wedding was and I know it was all because of Kristi and the Glow team!!!
My husband and I clicked immediately with Kristi when we first met with her. We hired her for 6-weeks before the wedding and day of coordination. We had a very nontraditional wed...
ding in my parents backyard, so it was a big job. Kristi did an amazing job staying on top of the details and helping make sure we thought through all of the necessary details. She also did a walk through and helped with blueprinting of the site. Kristi went the extra mile during our rehearsal and the day of our wedding to make sure things went smoothly. Unfortunately, Kristi was coordinating a different wedding the day of our wedding, and thus she had another coordinator there for the day of. We felt because this coordinator was not as involved in the various discussions predating the wedding and our wedding was so nontraditional, she was not very prepared to coordinate the day of. However, I think Kristi herself would have knocked it out of the park and that the secondary coordinator would have been perfect for a more traditional event. That being said, GLOWs role at our wedding was essential and we really appreciate all of the help they provided!
Kristi and her assistant Shelby were amazingly helpful and on top of things during our entire wedding weekend. After reading lots of reviews and considering our options with Day of...
Coordinators, I'm so happy we went with Glow Weddings! There were many transitions on our wedding day from hotel block, to church, to venue and a very large number of other vendors to manage. Glow Weddings was on top of everything with the itineraries that they helped us create and checking in with all the different groups to make sure everyone was on time. I also had a large amount of personal items and decorations and they expertly arranged them throughout our wedding venue for us. So happy we booked with them and would highly recommend!!
I can’t say enough great things about Kristi and all her help with my wedding. I give her so much credit for being so organized and helped me think of things that I didn’t even rea...
lize I needed. Her assistant, Shelby, was just as helpful on the day of and both allowed me to relax on the morning of because they had it all under control. Once my reception was over, Shelby had already packed our cars and everything was ready to go. I’m so grateful for their help, definitely 100% worth it. I would recommend to everyone! Thank you so much!!
I cannot thank Kristi enough for the amazing job that she did at our wedding. I got the 'month of' coordinating package and was so pleased. Kristi was easy to work with, profession...
al, and gave us great piece of mind the the last few weeks leading up to the wedding. Having her there coordinating everything day of was so helpful. It allowed my husband and I and our families to completely relax and enjoy ourselves. We didn't have to worry about dealing with vendors, packing things up, or staying on time...she did everything for us! Worth every penny!
If I could give Kristi more than 5 stars, I would. Sweet heavens. LESS THAN A MONTH before our wedding, my now-husband and I figured out that we really needed a day-of coordinator....
(We were doing a lot of things ourselves, and needed someone to put up and take down decorations, as well as coordinate between vendors, provide a little timeline consultation, and help with the general flow of things on the actual day.) Our caterer recommend Kristi, I got in touch, and thankfully she not only had the day open, but was willing to take on a quasi-last-minute job. From there, I swear I felt a physical weight lifted from my shoulders. She was unbelievably thorough in the (expedited) planning phase, and made the day go smoother than I could have hoped for. Since the wedding, three separate guests have commented to me specifically about the flow of the wedding/reception and how it felt effortless. A lot of that was due to Kristi. Highly recommend!
Kristi was awesome from start to finish. Her very no-nonsense, down-to-earth attitude won my husband and I's respect from the start. We ended up hiring her for month-of and were ve...
ry happy with that decision. Her support during our walk-through with the caterer was in-valuable, as was her help herding cats at our rehearsal (which would have been a complete disaster if she hadn't been there). I can only assume she did her job well the day of as I didn't see or hear anything amiss, nor was approached for any logistical issues - it was so nice just to be able to relax and have fun knowing everything was in her capable hands! I had to convince my husband in the beginning to hire a coordinator, and he has since recounted multiple times what a great decision it was. My favorite thing to say the day of the wedding when someone asked me a logistical question was "I don't know, ask Kristi." We cut costs in a lot of areas, but I am glad we didn't do that here. After all, being able to enjoy yourself on the day of is priceless!
Life Savers! When our wedding planner quit 4 months before our wedding, our friend introduced us to Kristi. She was already booked for another wedding but put together a day of te...
am with Katie in the lead.
Kristi and Katie sent us a list of questions the next day and within 24 hours were completely up to speed and had found all the holes our first planner had missed over the previous 10 months!
On the day-of I was completely carefree! Katie handled everything that came up (and things always come up) and left my husband and I to enjoy our party!
I'm so glad we ended up with Kristi and Katie from GLOW - I can't recommend them enough!
I resisted getting a wedding coordinator. I am pretty organized, so I thought for sure I can do it myself. The more I got into wedding planning, the more I realized after all of th...
e work and all of the money spent, I wanted to be able to enjoy the day and not be the one to handle problems that would of course come up. After reading reviews of Glow and seeing pictures of their weddings, I knew they were right for my event. I worked with Sonum, and she is fantastic--so responsive and organized. I got the day of coordination package, but it feels like you get more because they meet with you beforehand to make sure you've thought of all of the details (many of which you don't know about because you're not the expert). I was able to fully enjoy my day, knowing that Sonum had everything under control and would troubleshoot any problems that arose. When I walked into my reception, she had done such a beautiful job with setting up the decorations, and it looked exactly as I'd envisioned. I highly recommend Glow!
Kristi and Glow Weddings were wonderful! We hired them to do day-of coordination and they kept us calm and stress-free the entire day. They followed directions to the letter and h...
ad excellent attention to detail, all with a big smile on their faces. We can't recommend them highly enough!
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Glow Weddings and Events