I Do Events

hired her to basically to do everything, from contacting vendors and locations to organizing the decor. In fact, on multiple occasions I felt like she was doing more for me than what I paid for. In my contract I was offered unlimited texting/e-mail communication and 5 or 6 meet ups. The meet ups were sometimes at a vendor (for example we met at the florist) or just to catch up and see how things were going. Each time Marisa had a list of topics to discuss, was able to answer my questions, and if she didn't have the answer she would find it very quickly. She was EXTREMELY flexible as we changed the plan for our wedding a couple different times, originally wanting to do a destination wedding, then a large local wedding, and then finally deciding on a smaller local wedding. She was quick to respond to e-mails and texts, often responding to my late night e-mails on the same evening. When planning, I would often give her ideas of what I wanted (I'm not someone who had every detail picked out, hence why I hired her to do most of the planning) and she did an amazing job of taking my ideas and making them a reality. She was extremely familiar with the locations and vendors who would be gay friendly, as this was one of my concerns when planning the wedding. When my fiance and I had certain vendors picked out (for example, we had a friend do our invitations) she worked with those people to provide what was needed to get the job done and I was able to watch from the background (so to speak) and simply enjoy the end result with minimal stress. On one or two occasions there was some delay in response to e-mails by a day or two but in most cases if Marisa knew she would not be available to respond right away she would give me a heads up. With Marisa's expertise she was able to think of things we never would have to make sure the day went smoothly, and when there were things that we needed/wanted that I thought might be a little unusual she was always able to come through. One of the things that I thought made Marisa great was that I didn't want to have to deal with a lot of decision making but wanted to be given one or two options. By getting to know our tastes, she was able to find the right options for us and I didn't feel overwhelmed. She would even think of the box, present us with an option, and ask us what we thought. If it wasn't the right option for us (for example, she suggested a possible venue that didn't fit our tastes) she took that info and always came back with something that worked. Sometimes, it was something we didn't even know we wanted. For example we wanted something like a chuppah to create a focal point for the ceremony but she found a beautiful arch that fit our style so much better. Overall, I feel like we had a good working relationship. We had ideas for what we wanted and she made all of them happen. We couldn't have been happier with the planning process but more importantly with how it all came together.

gay wedding experience and hired Marisa Tristan, owner & primary employee, after she said she could deliver what we were looking for. She helped us secure a venue, but after that things fell apart. In our planning meetings, she had no agenda and it was up to us to bring up topics to discuss and remember deadlines. She took notes but later could not recall the information. One of the primary tasks she was hired for was vendor coordination, but most of our vendors said she never contacted them so this crucial task fell to us. We even asked her if she was going to contact a vendor and she’d say yes, but then never did. Our vendors had to contact us directly for direction during this busy time. We wouldn’t have been able to have a wedding had we relied on Marisa to do it. She was also in charge of decorations which were a failure. She got the colors of the wedding flowers wrong(!), and other decorations were missing or not as agreed upon. She didn’t get the guest count right so many chairs were left without decor. Her staff was extremely unprofessional: they walked into our dressing room without knocking, were rude to our other vendors, sat at the guest tables eating and drinking, then tore decor down early causing guests to think it was time to leave. We hired I Do Events for wedding planning and decorations, and all we got was substandard decor.