Lovely Events

Wedding date / location: August 22, 2015 / Fairmont Olympic Hotel - Seattle Guest Count: 110 Type of Event / Final Total Wedding Cost: High-end / luxury / 93k spent on wedding total Final Day-Of Coordination Expenditures: Around 3k My husband and I chose Audra with Lovely Events after interviewing most of Seattle's hottest wedding coordinators. We chose Audra due to the immediate personal connection we felt with her, her reported skills and abilities and a past positive experience I knew of from old friend where Audra worked to coordination her wedding. I planned our wedding from oLas Vegas, were we live, so it was nice that Audra accommodated the request for the Skype interview for our decision making process. We ended up hiring Audra for the day-of package and later adder a lot of a la carte services to make sure we didn't have to fuss with anything regarding set up, take down and executing tuns of details. My wedding had millions of little details and Audra pulled off the entire thing perfectly. There were many planned surprises between me and the groom, a surprise Prince impersonator, fake wedding dresses and more. Audra kept it all straight and pulled off the entire wedding with no flaws. I wish I could do the wedding over again in the exact same way and I would hire Audra all over again. She is amazing. Though we hired her for her day of services she was very helpful during my 1.25 year planning process by recommending decor that saved me money and coached me in attitude-adjustments to get the most out of my vendors. I really appreciated that. She was super proactive at the rehearsal making sure everyone was listening and was a constant source of confidence and guidance to everyone. Audra even rescued one of my wedding dresses from an awful seamstress who was holding it ransom at her home / shop. Obviously living out of town I was at the mercy of this seamstress release my dress, which she refused to do and I could not combat the situation myself. She was demanding money from me for no services rendered. I was frantic and distort that someone would take advantage of me in this way and was consumed with agony as to how to explain to my fiancé that I was being extorted over a 9k wedding dress. I'm not sure what Audra did but one second the dress was being held for ransom and the next second Audra called me and told me she had the dress with her in her car and she was delivering it to my official dress prep team. I understand this is a unique experience but nonetheless, it was amazing to have someone on my side that was 100% looking out for my interests when I couldn't be there to represent myself. The evil seamstress is PA Jens / Trish Jens. She is the most awful person in all the wedding industry. Anyway, Audra is amazing. I would recommend her to anyone and I will hire her for all my event planning needs in the future. She worked perfectly in the background while making sure everything was just as I envisioned. If anything went wrong I have no idea about it and I think that's the way it should be.

Audra was lovely. We booked her services for partial/full wedding coordination. She was willing to do far more than we expected prior to the wedding, such as running errands, picking up/arranging flowers, making corsages etc. However, there were times when it seemed her schedule may not have allowed for all of the additional tasks. With that being said, our wedding was absolutely phenomenal, and we couldn't have done it all without her! I would recommend a wedding coordinator to anyone, and Audra and the Lovely Events team would be a great choice!