TLDR - I am SO happy that I hired Tia to be our wedding coordinator.
About a month before my wedding, I started to have some anxiety about how the day of would play out and whethe...r things would go smoothly. While my venue did come with a Maitre d', as I was putting details together I started to realize that the Maitre d' was really there to protect the venue and I needed someone the day of to advocate for our interests.
Tia was so responsive and I hired her basically immediately after speaking with her on the phone. I had spoken with two other coordinators and Tia came out as the clear winner here - out of the three, she was the most responsive, the kindest and the most knowledgable. She has years of experience with wedding coordination and it really showed immediately in our first conversation.
Tia took the lead in keeping us on time, organizing our Chinese Tea Ceremony, placing our wedding decor, coordinating and corralling guests, organizing the first look, organizing the firework sendoff, packing away all of our wedding decor at the end of the night, and so much more.
Before I hired Tia, I had to do some convincing to convince my husband that we needed a day of coordinator. After the wedding, my husband admitted that (1) having her was vital and (2) he doesn't know how we would have managed without her (and I of course agree!). I think that without her, things would have been much more stressful for us and we would have had to rely more heavily on family members and friends to pick up the slack, which is no fun for them.
Tia was professional, extremely reasonably priced, and so easy to work with.