I had never thought about hiring a wedding planner for my wedding. It honestly seemed unnecessary to me. I can plan my wedding by myself. No problem, right? After going through the planning process with a couple of my gf's and seeing how stress...ful and how much tedious work was involved, I started to reconsider. Then after seeing a good friend of mines wedding and how flawless it was, I asked her how she managed to pull that off. She said she had hired a wedding planer, named Sabrina from Joie de Vivre. A few months later, I was engaged and called my friend and talk about her wedding planner some more and her thoughts about me hiring one. After hearing great things about Sabrina from my friend, I decided to call Joie de Vivre and 'feel it out'. Even before our first meeting, as I started to venture into the 'world of weddings', I quickly became overwhelmed. After meeting with Sabrina that first time, my fears and anxiety quickly subsided. She presented everything in a professional, relaxed, organized manner. I loved it!
I had expressed to Sabrina that I wanted to 'earn' hiring her by all the discounts that come along with hiring a wedding planner, specifically vender discounts such a linens, photographer, florist, and so on. Simply by being her client, we were awarded discount after discount! It was awesome!
Hiring Joie de Vivre was well worth the money spent. She not only saved us money, but she had our best interest in mind the entire time. This is something that really made a difference when it came to deciding on linens, flowers, and a photographer. She was not just my Wedding Planner, but also the girlfriend who actually listened to what I was saying and what I wanted for my wedding day, the neutralizer at times because of differing opinions between my mother and I, and was the ultimate organizer for everything wedding! All wrapped up into one person....incredible!
I could go on for pages about Joie de Vivre...... I never realized how helpful having a Wedding Planner would be until I got engaged and started the wedding-planning process. The entire time we were engaged, the ability to call, text, email, or meet with a professional wedding planner was priceless to me.
On our wedding day, I cannot express how critical it was that Sabrina was there, managing everything, rather than my mother, aunt, cousin, or whoever else thought they knew what to do. lol She allowed not only myself and the groom to relax knowing that everything was under control, but more importantly my parents, his parents, and the bridal party. I never realized how many details were involved in just one day, but I'm sure glad I had Sabrina from Joie de Vivre there to make sure everything wet smoothly.
Again, I could go on for days. Bottom Line...... Joie de Vivre was the BEST thing that I did for our wedding. Very highly recommended. Joie de Vivre was worth every cent. She allowed me to enjoy my engagement, saved me money overall, and helped me plan the best and most beautiful day of my life! We love you Joie de Vivre! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!