About this vendor
Hello! My name is Ileen, my friends call me Lina. My team and I plan and coordinate weddings and social events all across Colorado and the continental U.S. We celebrate the most important thing on earth... love. We thrive on managing details so that our couples can focus on what really matters and enjoy every moment of their event.
We are proud to be part of the #OpenCO movement and we are happy to work with couples from the LGBTQ+ community.
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Business Attributes
- Black-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- RSVP Tracking
- Wedding Design
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Bachelor Party
- Bachelorette Party
Reviews
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4.9
out of 5.013 reviews
We worked Jaime and she was absolutely wonderful! She was always super responsive and helpful. Our day was absolutely perfect and we owe that Jaime. She had all the little things...
that I hadn’t even thought of taken care of and if anything went wrong- I still don’t know about it haha! Thank you, Jaime, we adore you!! We recommended Lina Hoekman Events 1000 times over
I cannot say enough good things about Jaime with Lina Hoekman Events! She was so helpful our entire wedding and made everything run smoothly. I was stress free the morning of and d...
idn’t have to worry about a thing. She literally saved the day when my husbands pants ripped 5 minutes before our first look. I couldn’t imagine not having her there, she was the biggest help and we are so grateful to have had such a great coordinator. My husband and I would highly recommend Jaime and this team to any future bride and groom!
Lina has this way of making the most crazy situations feel like a walk in the park. I work at a wedding venue, so I've seen some planners ungracefully coordinate. But Lina does it ...
with ease, plenty of grace, and an air of cool confidence. That is the kind of person you want heading up your special day, 100%.
I can not sing Ileen’s praises loud enough. My entire family & all of my closest friends live in Georgia, so I knew when trying to plan a Colorado wedding, that i was going to have...
to find someone who knew all the details and be able to help guide me in the right direction. Ileen was my right hand man and knew an answer to every questions and honestly has the best hook ups with vendors, from cake, to food, to hair and makeup. The day of the wedding ran smoothly and in my opinion perfectly with 0 stress attached. She makes sure she really understands your vision & Makes it come to life. I highly recommend this sweet sweet soul for your big day, she takes pride in and has a visible passion for what she does.
I reallly couldn't be more satisfied with our wedding coordinator! The level of detailed organization is unmatched. I thought I was organized- nope. They had EVERYTHING. With each ...
meeting and decision (which she was able to provide GREAT ideas and solutions to problems), we were less and less stressed. The musical timing was one of my greatest fears and somehow my scrambled idea was pulled off without a hitch! From start to finish, everything went amazingly! I was able to let go and enjoy my wedding and by the end of the night, everything was ready to go and we rode off enjoying our happily ever after!
Ileen was absolutely wonderful. She is so organized, and she is an incredibly kind, sweet person. We are so glad that we hired her to be our wedding planner. She went above and bey...
ond to make our day special. It was so nice to be able to fully trust someone and rely on them to make sure everything was perfect. We recommend her 100%!
Ileen helped make sure our wedding and all details got carried out and executed with perfection! We couldn’t have been happier with how the entire event ran, and our guests had a w...
onderful time too!
If you want to get married in Colorado, I suggest hoping and praying that Ileen is available! We had a destination wedding in September 2018 and made a trip out every few months to...
go to appointments and really be hands on in the process. For everything we couldn’t be there for, Ileen was my eyes and ears. She took the time to really know what I liked and didn’t, even if that made her job harder sometimes. She never shied away from a challenge or the oddest request. It is because of her that I was able to ultimately give my husband the gift of hearing his deceased mother’s voice on our wedding day. When we almost had to cancel the wedding a few weeks prior due to a family emergency, her response was never “well my contract is for this term”, it was always “breathe, and we will get through it and figure it out”. She truly builds a relationship with her clients. This is not just her job, this is her passion and it shows. While some people would buckle under the chaos that randomly pops up during planning and even on the big day, she thrives under pressure and knocks it out of the park every time. Her professionalism, organization, and attention to detail are second to none. I emailed the top wedding planners in Colorado, and from the first email she stood out from the crowd. I am absolutely honored that she was such a huge part of our day, and I’m blessed beyond measure to also call her my friend.
Ileen did a great job! She had everyone on schedule for the most part. The only thing I would have liked was a little more direct communication about our schedule and when we need ...
to be where because we were pretty late to a the ceremony and also talked too long during "table talk". Other than that she was great! Thanks Ileen.
Hiring Ileen was one of the best things we did for this wedding! Not only is she an absolutely amazing person, she’s an extraordinary coordinator. We hired her as our wedding day m...
anager, but we received so much more than just “day of” assistance. We had multiple meetings with her, and she helped us pick up last minute items, which freed us up to spend time with incoming friends and family. We also had quite a few logistics on our end, to make it easier for our guests, but Ileen handled all of it like the pro that she is. She managed to get all of our guests onto the shuttles to go to and from the venue/lodging to the USAFA Chapel without issue, and no one was left behind. And can we just talk about how awesome her little "emergency kit" is? It definitely saved the day on multiple occasions! She also made sure that the entire wedding party was eating snacks and drinking plenty of fluids, and she made sure that all the parents were taken care of, too. She additionally took all of our décor and set it up for us, and then gathered it up at the end of the night, which was a huge relief for us as the couple, as well as our wedding party and family, because we could just enjoy the day and not worry about details. I have had so many compliments on how incredibly smoothly our wedding day went, and I know that our day would not have gone as flawlessly as it did without her help! I’d 100% recommend her to anyone! Do yourself a favor and book her now; you won’t regret it!
Words cannot describe just how wonderful Ileen (Once Upon A Wedding Events) was. From our initial meeting through my wedding day, she was supportive and resourceful. Whenever I nee...
ded ideas, she was there with only the best suggestions! (I ended up going with several vendors that she recommended and am so glad that I did!) She was able to provide the guidance I needed to get everything done, and with time to spare! The day before my wedding, I was faced with the obstacle of having to find a new wedding arch because the one on the premises was too tall for the tent I ordered. Ileen resolved the issue almost immediately. Hours before my wedding, I realized I could not remove my gauged earrings (so I could wear my beautiful wedding earrings) because I had forgotten my pliers. Ileen came to my rescue again with pliers. During my wedding reception, my mother fell ill. Ileen had it under control. Ileen has got to be the best wedding coordinator a woman could ask for and I'm so glad that I had the pleasure and honour of having her by my side on my wedding day. I would ABSOLUTELY recommend Ileen (Once Upon A Wedding Events) to any bride-to-be!
Ileen is simply a miracle worker. I adored her and all of her interactions leading up to our event, but the day-of was proof that we made the right decision in choosing Once Upon A...
Wedding. While rain was forecasted for my wedding day, none of us expected the hurricane-like rain and winds on a ranch in Colorado! Ileen took it all in stride, relocated the ceremony, and revised so many details of the evening. Despite the chaos of ~100 people running around in the cold rain, and the various changes that had to be made, and emotions running high, Ileen never wavered and our day was absolutely magical. If you want a perfect wedding day, with minimal stress, and a planner you can trust, HIRE ILEEN!
Hiring Ileen as our day of coordinator was the best decision I made while planning my wedding. She was an amazing resource leading up to the wedding, and she made my wedding day ru...
n so smoothly. I didn't have to think about or worry about any details the day of the wedding because Ileen was on top of it all. She is incredible!
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