About this vendor
Moments to Memories Events by Melissa is a wedding planning company based out of Evans, CO. Only an hour outside of Denver, the business happily works with couples planning special days throughout the city and the state. From full-service to event coordination, this talented team can do it all.
Owner Melissa Flowerdew and her coordination assistants adore collaborating with couples from all backgrounds to bring one-of-a-kind wedding visions to life. Together, they have creative backgrounds in design, customer service, and event management. They can't wait to meet you and your partner to curate a personalized plan for your milestone occasion.
Whether you already have a distinct vision for your day or need help putting it all together, Moments to Memories Events by Melissa has got you covered. Melissa offers to-be-weds inclusive, luxury, and exceptionally detailed services in the form of three packages. Each option can be customized with add-on services such as rehearsal dinner coordination, RSVP and website management, wedding favor assistance, and much more.
Details
Business Attributes
- LGBTQ+-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- Honeymoon Planning
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Honeymoon
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Bachelor Party
Awards and Affiliations
2-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2024.2023.
Best of Weddings
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We were truly so fortunate to come across Moments to Memories. Melissa was so on top of every detail and met with us my time times before the actual date that I felt confident in h...
er decision making o the day of. My favorite part is that there were some things that did not go to plan due to external factors (learned from guests or photos) and we had no idea day of. That to me speaks to a high standard of trust with Melissa and in her ability to execute our vision as best as possible while allowing us to just be in the moment of such a dreamy day. 10/10 would recommend this agency again and again!
When we started to plan our wedding, we quickly realized we had no idea what we were doing and had no vision or direction other than “we need a big fun party for our big fun family...
and friends”. In comes Melissa, who was able to take our vague ideas and turn them into the wedding of our dreams. During the initial planning phase she was attentive, helpful in guiding us toward vendors, and was realistic with us and our budget. She never once said we couldn’t achieve our crazy ideas (tattoo artist at the reception? “Hell yea!” Live band performance in the middle of the speeches? “I’ll figure it out!”) As we got closer to the wedding she made sure we were prepared and comfortable with every detail, and on wedding day she was there with us every step of the way, along with her fabulous team. Hiring Melissa was truly the best money we spent on our wedding, and we couldn’t be more thankful for her expertise and friendship!
Honestly have been putting this off because I want to leave her such an amazing review.
Melissa is beyond worth her weight in gold. I only used her as my event coordinator and she...
was helping me and holding my hand throughout the entire 18 month process. She helped me fill in gaps with things I’d never think of, and had stellar connections for other amazing vendors. Would re-book her in a heartbeat, but one wedding is enough for me.
We had a crazy weather event the day of, and she helped me get things last minute so I could pull off the outdoor ceeemony of my dreams. Forever grateful to Melissa and the MtM team!!!
Melissa and her team were the best of the best. Melissa went above and beyond to help us figure out our designs and gave us tips and tricks throughout the way, which we wouldn't ha...
ve known otherwise. She was by far the best investment we made in our wedding, which went off without a hitch thanks to her! If you are looking for someone who will help you plan, give you peace of mind, and execute your vision, look no further than Melissa.
I have to share our incredible experience working with Melissa as our wedding planner. From our very first meeting to the final moments of our wedding day, Melissa's calm demeanor ...
and meticulous attention to detail made our planning experience truly exceptional.
Melissa’s organizational skills are unparalleled. She ensured every aspect of our wedding was flawlessly executed, seamlessly orchestrating every detail. On our wedding day, everything went seamlessly, allowing us to fully immerse ourselves in the day, keeping us completely stress-free (probably for the first time in my life- it was wonderful).
Communication was a key element for us when looking for a planner and Melissa excelled in this area. She adapted to my communication style (I'm very type A), consistently keeping us in the loop with updates and checklists and ensuring we felt involved in every decision. Her prompt responses and proactive approach meant we were never left wondering about any aspect of the planning.
Our other vendors also sang praises for Melissa. They often commented on how wonderful she was to work with, noting her clear communication and professional coordination. It's evident that she fosters positive relationships and creates a collaborative environment, which contributed significantly to the success of our wedding.
Melissa’s ability to balance professionalism with a personal touch made our planning process enjoyable and stress-free. We are deeply grateful for her dedication, flexibility, and the genuine care she showed in bringing our vision to life. We couldn't have asked for a better planner during this journey, and we wholeheartedly recommend Melissa to any couple looking to make their wedding day unforgettable.
Thank you, Melissa, for making our wedding day a seamless and magical experience! We love you!
Working with Melissa and her team throughout the planning process and the day of our wedding was an absolute dream. She was so communicative, thoughtful, and fun to work with and t...
otally kept our minds at ease from start to finish. We had a stress-free planning process no doubt due to how attentive and organized she and her team are. We cannot recommend working with them more and would do it again in a heartbeat.
We have worked with Melissa of Moments to Memories for a few years now. She is one of the top wedding planners we have worked with. We partner with her couples as their florist a...
nd she is the easiest to work with. One important aspect to mention is how organized Melissa is and the overall experience she gives to her clients and vendors is by far the best. She never misses a beat and you should see her emergency kit! We highly recommend Melissa as your wedding planner! You will be able to enjoy every moment of the planning process and most importantly the day of!
Melissa was a necessity for my wedding. She is kind, calm, organized and thorough. She dealt with some odd requests from me and handled with care and grace. A great energy and pric...
e point. Thanks Melissa!
We simply cannot thank you enough, Melissa, for all of your hard work, enthusiasm and fun that you brought to Annie and Chris’ wedding!!!!
From the minute we spoke, I knew you wer...
e thorough, dedicated, organized, and flexible to work with! Every step along the way was a pleasure. You always made us feel confident that you were on top of things, which you ABSOLUTELY were!
Thank you for your organization and getting everyone where they needed to be.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
We will recommend to anyone and everyone!
Hire Melissa! Other than marrying my husband, the smartest thing we did for our wedding was hiring Melissa.
We had heard from countless people that the most important vendor to h...
ire is a planner, but we were still on the fence. We booked our venue first, which required some type of coordinator and I’m so glad they did. If you are thinking you can do it by yourself, I would think about what you are missing out on. Melissa goes above and beyond for each couple. She is the sweetest and everytime we got off the phone with Melissa, Matt and I both said how much we loved and appreciated her. Because of her experience, she thinks of things you would forget. She listened to our price points and what was important to us and provided the best vendors (many of which I would not have found because they were not on The Knot). Every vendor she provided (from the spray tan to the florist to our photographer) knocked it out of the park. She handled our signage and even had a graphic designer on her team draw cats for our signature cocktail sign. If you have the means or are on the fence, I promise Melissa will be the best decision for your wedding. She is so kind, quick to respond, will take the stress of your wedding off you, and goes to bat for you. She helped ensure our wedding day was smooth from decor to show flow. We loved Melissa! We do not have one critique of her, she was the best!!!
MTM's was very easily the best money we spent for our wedding day. Melissa was an absolute dream to work with. She made packages to work within our budget and went far above and be...
yond our expectations.
It was such a relief for her team to handle all of the day of logistics and vendor management. It truly goes by in a flash and we didn’t have to worry about a thing. She made sure our only focus on that day was just enjoy every moment of our wedding!
I can’t even tell you if anything went wrong that day because if it did, she handled it without us having a clue.
Everything was absolutely perfect and me being the most indecisive person on the planet, she helped immensely with bringing our vision together and nailing down details. I was blown away by all of the signage and decor she created!
This wedding would not have happened without her. Please please please if you’re on the fence about a day of coordinator or planner. Don’t hesitate to reach out to her! She’s an absolute doll and the saddest part of the wedding being over is not getting to chat every day.
If you are looking for the perfect wedding team, you can stop looking now!
My husband and I looked through over 50 websites before narrowing our decision down to three planners. ...
Upon having initial meetings with all three, there was not a doubt in our minds that Melissa and her team were the professionals we were looking for.
Melissa and her team were absolute miracle workers for us! Our outdoor ceremony was rained out, and we had to make a lot of last-minute changes to make the ceremony work in our indoor reception area. Melissa and her amazing team quickly went to action and created an incredibly beautiful space that worked for both our ceremony and our reception. After seeing how they were able to take all of our decor and repurpose it (while still keeping our original vision for the wedding environment we wanted), it is clear that there is not a challenge that they could not effortlessly conquer.
The Moments to Memories team is kind, loving, professional, patient with crazy family members, and took the time to get to know my husband and I, as well as our vision for our day. They really were the best teammates we could have asked for in the final days leading up to our wedding day.
If you are on the fence about hiring either a full wedding planner or a day-of coordinator, *THIS IS YOUR SIGN*... Do it! Contact Melissa immediately! I am confident your day will be more than perfect.
Thank you Melissa and Gabby!
Melissa and everyone at moments to memories made my wedding as great as I could have ever imagined it. When I started planning I was so overwhelmed right out of the gate and I kne...
w I didn’t want to spend the next year worrying about everything, so Melissa was a godsend! We got her info from a friend who used her services and it worked right from the get go. She made everything so easy, and knew all the answers to all my seemingly never ending questions. The most above and beyond part of the service was filling and addressing all of our invites, as well as dealing with all of the communication between us and all our vendors. Both me and my husband work 9-5 M-F type jobs and had no time to spend calling people back and answering emails so that aspect of her service was the best. I would definitely recommend her and all of moments to memories to anyone and everyone especially people who are dreading planning and organizing a wedding like I was!
We decided to hire Melissa after an extremely friendly zoom call. I zoomed with a few planners and Melissa was the only one who asked me questions that showed me she sincerely care...
d about us as a couple and our wedding day. Her positivity shined through and I knew she would go above and beyond to make our day perfect. Melissa and her team were extremely professional and personable and Melissa did her best to answer all of our questions in a very timely manner. She became an integral part of our wedding experience. Since we were planning a wedding from out of state, Melissa did so much on our behalf. She called vendors, set up zoom meetings with me--including presentations and set questions, and so much more. When we went to Colorado before the wedding, she drove out of her way to join us for vendor meetings. The weekend of our wedding, her team worked like a well-oiled machine to set everything up for us, so we could spend time with family and friends. Moments to Memories was worth every penny! She deserves more than a 5 star review!
From the first meeting, Melissa was extremely warm. She was patient and answered all of our questions. She also has experience with fun, creative weddings. Being part of the LGBT c...
ommunity also helped us feel more comfortable. Over the course of having her as our planner, she answered texts and emails quickly, and kept us updated on what was going on so we could plan for what we needed. She came up with creative ideas and continued solutions to every stress. Each time we started to get stressed, we would message her and she knew exactly what to do or say. Overall, the most helpful thing was all her resources. Her team was amazing and made everyone in my wedding feel very special. They created beautiful one-of-a-kind invitations, posters, and alterations for dresses that helped make my wedding feel personalized. She had recommendations for every kind of vendor, all of which turned out amazing, and she carried out a lot of the communication and negotiation so we didn’t have to stress about it. On the day of the wedding, she made everything go so smoothly, it felt like having a stage manager. I could ask her anything and it happened. She also made sure all our vendors were properly taken care of with tips, food,and thank yous. We obviously aren’t experienced in the wedding world, so it was so nice to have someone able to guide us through.
Melissa and her team worked incredibly hard to make our wedding amazing! We were referred to Melissa/Moments to Memories Events by a coworker and are so happy she came into our liv...
es. Upon having our intro meeting with Melissa, we knew pretty quickly that she was the right planner for us. Her warm personality is immediately apparent, and she is incredibly organized across the board. We had a LOT of questions and she was always so pleasant about answering them, not to mention incredibly speedy in her replies! I would say the most valuable part of working with Melissa and her team was how insanely responsive and resourceful she is. No matter when we had a question pop up, Melissa would reply quickly and with an informative answer. If she didn’t have the answer right away, she would quickly work to find it out for us. Her tools were also super organized and effective. She uses multiple checklists and questionnaires to get an idea of what you want to see, which is incredibly helpful especially when you don’t know 100% what you want. Melissa was also great about going above and beyond when it came to ensuring that what we were getting from our vendors is what we paid for. We had issues with our venue trying (multiple times) to change what had been previously agreed upon, and Melissa was so quick to whip out our contract and negotiate in our favor, ultimately getting us exactly what we wanted and what was originally promised to us. When things ever became inflamed between us and a vendor, she was a fantastic mediator and kept stress at bay for us.
We originally had zero intentions of hiring a coordinator or planner, but after meeting Melissa we knew we had to hire her, and we are so happy we did. We both work full time and we truly would never have been able to plan our wedding without Melissa. We believe hiring her was some of the best money we spent on our wedding, hands down. She allowed us and our family to really just enjoy the day and not have to worry about details - big or small. I would re-hire Melissa ten times over to plan and coordinate any wedding or special event. She not only provides the most flawless, professional service but also provides a friendship during what can be an incredibly overwhelming and stressful time. Do yourself a favor and hire her!! You will not be disappointed!
We hired Melissa for day-of-coordination services for our wedding and could not be more pleased or impressed with everything she did. Her thoroughness, attention-to-detail and prof...
essionalism blew us away and made our wedding so smooth and happy. She completed our venue walkthrough with us 45 days ahead of time and also ran our rehearsal dinner for the bridal party. However our biggest praise is that she found and hired a last-minute vendor for hair styling services the MORNING of our wedding when the original vendor was a no-show. My wife called her in tears, feeling so stressed out, and within an hour Melissa had a wonderful replacement show up to our home and complete the entire bridal party's looks. We are so grateful and appreciative of all her and her team's hard work....we give Melissa our highest recommendation for any big event in which you may need planning and coordination assistance. We know our wedding was so fun and happy for us personally because of all the effort she put in. We truly got to enjoy our day because we knew she had things handled behind the scenes. Thank you SO much, Melissa!!
Melissa was amazing from the start. I found her through random searches in colorado brides groups on Facebook and I knew from the start she was the best decision I made in the enti...
re wedding planning process. I was worried about who would be able to set up and tear down decor during our destination wedding and decided to start working with her. Right away she set up a call to see if we were a good fit. Well, I loved her! We booked her about 4 months out from the wedding date and communication with her was very little at the time. Mostly quick questions and advice I wanted. As we got within a month out communications got more frequent and detailed. She sent multiple questionnaires to make sure that we were all on the same page and helped with every single little detail regarding the ceremony and reception. Wedding weekend she drove all the way to Estes Park for the rehearsal and was very flexible with timing due to family members flights being day before and unpredictable. She walked us through everything and made sure everyone knew where to be and when. Come day if she was more than willing to pick up coffee for us and deliver to our Airbnb. She picked up what decor she could and we delivered what we had left, which we wanted to do to talk to her and get a view of our venue. While we relaxed and got ready she and her assistant Gabby set everything up with little to no instruction and they did amazing! They were both willing to do anything and everything to help us out. Overall - this is the best money I spent through the entire wedding and if I could do it again I would do it the exact same way! Hire that day of coordinator and hire Melissa!
I cannot say enough positive things about Moments To Memories Events. Wedding planning is something that is very time consuming and overwhelming, especially when you and your partn...
er work full time. Melissa was a life saver! Her attention to detail is unmatched, and she was always willing to answer any questions I had. Nothing was too silly or unimportant to her. She really brought to life what I had envisioned. Her guidance and eye for design was exactly what I was missing! She is such a ray of sunshine and brought such a positive energy with her whenever we’d get together. I would recommend Melissa’s services to anyone who wants a positive, calm, and unforgettable experience. I could not have asked for more!!
Melissa is an amazing wedding planner, she helped me to remember so many things, and kept everything running great! So thankful for her.
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Evans, CO
Moments to Memories Events LLC