Kate David Events

f experience to draw on, and was just generally fun to work with! But we really realized what a gem Kate was once we ran into some challenges. We had to cancel our hotel block late in the game, and Kate was able to get us set up with a new hotel block option within a week. She convinced this new (and better, more highly rated) hotel to make exceptions to their policies, match our previous hotel block rate, and transfer all of our guests over for us. Given the stress and inconvenience of the situation, Kate supported us to handle this as smoothly as possible. As the date neared, COVID became a reality, and we had to indefinitely postpone as many couples did. Kate was extremely supportive, professional, and empathetic throughout this entire process, doing anything she could to make the decisions and refunds easier. In fact, over six months after our cancelled wedding date, Kate even convinced one of her clients to use one of our vendor credits, procuring a significant refund for us that we hadn’t expected. Kate is an experienced pro, but beyond that she’s a fantastic human that you’ll want to be part of your big day. Couldn’t recommend her highly enough.

chaos. Everything she did, she did with a huge smile on her face. She was constantly there helping with veil, handing us a drink, lipstick reapply, etc. The night was flawless, and she definitely played a huge part in that. We couldn’t recommend Kate enough!

about the wedding! She was extremely professional and at the same time I felt as if I was working with a friend. Kate was fantastic at negotiating contracts and helping in keeping to a reasonable budget. Our reception was at home, and Kate made sure that the only focus was that I was going to marry the love of my life. I never once worried about a thing. I could never have enough words to thank Kate for all she did!

has wonderful taste and negotiating abilities. She kept everything smooth sailing the entire time, and I recommend her highly. I can’t imagine planning a wedding without her! Thank you, KATE!

ot have done it well or right without Kate. She reads contracts with a fine-picked comb, keeps all the vendors seamlessly organized and orchestrated, and always works to keep her bride and groom’s personality in the planning. Equally important, she is just a joy to be around and calming spirit when there is so much to do! Her experience in the business really helped us stay on budget. Once we hired Kate, I truly enjoyed every moment of being engaged and getting married.

ther planners before interviewing Kate and it was an easy decision selecting her for wedding management for our daughter’s wedding. The value and experience she brings to the table is second to none. We would give her 10 stars if we could!

e we talked, because I realized she had literally thought of everything. She helped me to execute ideas that I thought were impossible on my budget and gave great suggestions that made such an IMPACT on our big day! Kate was particularly crucial in organizing our large guest count through a second line downtown and onto buses to our reception venue. It was flawless and my guests continue to tell me how much they loved it! And even better, I wasn’t worried about it on wedding day because I knew Kate had it under control! She helped me develop a timeline that made sense for what was important to us at our reception and then she was there every step of the night. Kate even drove to the hotel downtown to retrieve some gifts my husband had forgotten to give earlier in the day. She gave me confidence and reassurance in my ideas when I would spin into overload frenzies and she was so easy to communicate with. I had lots of help with my family but my mom and her sisters were SO thankful Kate was there to help them tackle things that day. (And I’m thankful because I know they were able to relax and have a good time!) I can’t explain enough how INCREDIBLE this woman is! She helped me navigate through planning the biggest day of my life and I’m forever grateful! SHE IS AMAZING! WORTH EVERY CENT!!!

to event planning with a particular concentration on weddings. She has great relationships with vendors and made great suggestions when I was picking venues, florals, music, photographer, candles, etc. She was able to get our out-of-town guests the best deal on rooms at my first-choice hotel (which btw overlooked the iconic Mississippi River). Some guests even commented to me later that they had never stayed at a place so nice for such a reduced rate. Kate also did all the legwork to organize my entire transportation fleet (charter buses, limo buses, and vintage Bentley). After every meeting with Kate, I found that I had gained even more peace of mind each time. One such meeting was our final meeting when she sat with me and planned out MINUTE BY MINUTE the run of events during my entire wedding weekend. This schedule proved to be PRICELESS!! It took any guesswork out of answering "what's next?" throughout the weekend. It really helped me to remain in-the-moment at all times and focus on the fun stuff and the significance of it all. I can't say thank you enough to Kate for helping me flawlessly pull off the biggest event in my life thus far!

ot have asked for a better experience!

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t practical and economic way of executing them. She spent so much time with us in helping choose a caterer, a cake, music and decor. The weekend of the wedding she basically lived at our house putting the final touches on everything. She transformed our home into this elegant wedding venue with white fabric tents, chandeliers hanging from the oak trees and turned it into a mascaraed party. An hour before our wedding Kate was literally in our pool lighting and staging candles! The night of the wedding she made sure everything was perfect and made sure we were totally taken care of. She took all of the worry and stress off of us, and in the process became a very good friend. She's quite incredible at what she does.

s in the right direction. She was always so professional, flexible and available for us. She knows everything there is to know about planning a wedding and has a wealth of resources at her fingertips. If you need a reliable and fun wedding planner, I HIGHLY recommend this gal. She’s simply the best! :)

n planning a wedding, you don't know what you don't know, so she was instrumental in making sure every detail was addressed, without being overwhelming. Her knowledge and expertise in venues and vendors was really helpful as well. When the big day finally came, I did not have to worry about a thing - everything showed up and was set up exactly where it needed to be. Even our dog who walked in the wedding magically appeared tucked safe and sound in our room without us needing to ask! I could not recommend Kate David Events more!

good things about working with Kate. Throughout our year+ of our planning the wedding together, she was consistently responsive, organized, calm, and down to earth (the latter of which was one of the things we valued most in our partnership). She is honest and has the best interest of the client at heart. We trusted Kate with all decisions, as she thoughtfully guided us through vendor proposals with the years of experience she brings to the industry. A lot of wedding planners have a tendency to persuade clients to work with vendors they have relationships with. While Kate was helpful in offering suggestions of trusted vendors, she never once made us feel pressured to choose vendors based off of her relationships. We ended up taking a lot of her suggestions simply because she does have great relationships with incredibly talented vendors, who we ended up loving. It's also the little things that make Kate stand out and certainly didn't go unnoticed by us. Being an out of town client, she allowed me to mail boxes to her house in the months leading up to the wedding (there were dozens...!). On the morning before our wedding, she drove HOURS to a post-office outside the city to pick up my husbands engagement ring because we had to get it rush shipped. She also was sensitive to my family's needs and took my mom to the wedding venue early. This might not sound like a big deal, but we needed someone to walk my mom there, and Kate had the kind heart to take her, despite the fact that the was in full-blown wedding mode. On wedding day, she was a complete pro at keeping everything on schedule and on task. I didn't worry about a thing that day because Kate and her team were such rockstars. When our wedding was over, my husband and I were actually sad that our time working with Kate was over! Thank you, Kate, for giving us the most perfect wedding we could have asked for. We are forever grateful and can't wait for you to plan our vow renewal ceremony ;) ;) ;)

uestions. She was constantly making sure to advocate on our behalf and she fought for things to be the way we wanted it. Knowing she was there was comforting. The moment I saw that she was at our venue the day of our wedding taking charge I felt a huge load come off of my shoulders. She was in control the whole time! Literally a calm center to the controlled chaos of our wedding. Her advice was amazing, I never felt pressured to do anything a certain way. When things didn't work out exactly as planned she rolled right into plan B like that was plan A all along. Do yourself a favor and BOOK HER. And if your fiancé thinks you don't need a day of planner just have him sit in on a phone all with her. He won't ever say a single thing about not needing a day of planner ever again. Worth every penny. Do yourself a favor!

ything before it even became a conversation. Not only did she have amazing ideas and vision she thought of all the what if's too. Above all else she was so fun to work with. On our wedding day I felt like I had a great friend helping not just a coordinator. I would absolutely recommend Kate to anyone who wants to enjoy their wedding day knowing no matter what happens, Kate's got it! Thank YOU Kate! We can't thank you enough and hope to see you when we visit next for a glass of wine.

sional through it all and was so easy to have around. I have no hesitation in HIGHLY recommending her to anyone. We are truly thankful to have had her help, DF

th all the elements. She's diligent, responsive, has great ideas, and makes it look effortless with the execution. We're happy to refer her whenever we're on the front end of the wedding planning process -- Rock On, Bag Of Donuts

she was - whether it was answering our emails (immediately), or putting out fires with vendors on our behalf, we truly felt like she was always looking out for our best interests. We particularly appreciated how knowledgeable she was about New Orleans, especially since we were doing everything from Ohio. Kate's insights continually allowed us to compare different vendors objectively, and we never felt like she was forcing anything upon us. Kate listened to us, always gave us good options (at a variety of prices) to choose from, and made sure we stuck to our planning schedule. As a result, everything felt like it was *our* wedding, which is all we could have hoped for from a wedding planner.