MyWeddingInNewOrleans.com

This was such a useful service for us as we were getting started with the process of planning our destination wedding remotely from the Northeast. Rachel was very friendly and helpful and connected me to a multitude of vendors to get the ball rolling on our planning. Planning a destination wedding (all on our own) was made very manageable and enjoyable due to the assistance provided by Rachel. Thank you!!

I found this service when I went to the bridal show in Houston, I worked with Rachel and she was awesome! She was very helpful and prompt with her responses!

Rachel made it easy to communicate and we were not bombarded with emails. We got emails from the types of places we were looking for and the information was great. It made planning from several states away much easier and a lot less stress!

The majority of our guests were from out of state so the booklets provided about New Orleans were an extra special touch. Cannot express enough how handy these booklets were for our guests with several commenting about how they used the booklet for ideas of what to do around town. Would suggest to any bride and groom to utilize this service to add a special touch to your welcome bags!

I reached out to Rachel for help in finding venues for both my wedding and rehearsal dinner. Rachel was great to work with. She was very quick to respond, listened to what I was looking for in terms of the type of venue and ambiance/atmosphere I wanted, and the budget I was working with, gave me a list of options to check out, and made initial inquiries with several of the venues. She was also great about checking in to see how things were going, if I had any questions or needed any other help. Trying to figure out venues from far away was a bit overwhelming but Rachel really helped immensely in pointing me in the right direction and helping to narrow down the options to something manageable. Thank you!!

I would rate your help as excellent. City Park employees was professional, helpful and a pleasure to work with.

Rachel F made my life so much easier. What a HUGE help! She helped me with all my worries. No wedding in NOLA should be without her assistance. I’m a happy NOLA bride because of her care, time, locating and make my wedding a dream come true! So many words and emotions that I cannot my gratitude. Hats off to Rachel and New Orleans & Co. for the best service I have ever received!

Everything was lovely and my guests had a great time.

Very helpful in all areas!

The NOCVB helped me to narrow down my search for hotel blocks and provided visitor guides for my hotel welcome bags. It is many of my guests first trip to New Orleans so that is much appreciated. A special shoutout and appreciation to Rachel from the NOCVB team!

This is a great service, especially if you are planning your wedding yourself and just need a little help with some of those outside vendors. My fiance and I have a wedding planner but only for the reception portion and not intended to help us out with everything outside of that. I contacted MyWeddingInNewOrleans to ask for help, and they sent out our information to hotels. New Orleans is booked pretty solid for our wedding weekend so we were having trouble finding good hotels at a good price, but we did get some offers through that were pretty decent. We did not end up finalizing contracts with any of those hotels, as we ended up working with a smaller boutique hotel that gave us a great deal. But had that hotel not come through, we definitely would've ended up signing with one of the hotels that contacted us with a quote. The quotes, admittedly, did not come through super fast (they filtered in over a period of two weeks or so), but that's why we got started early. We also got a pair of complimentary wedding beads through the mail from the New Orleans Wedding website, which was really unexpected and fun. And I believe they offer to put together gift bags for your hotel guests (don't quote me on that, as we haven't used that service yet).

They made it so quick and easy to get hotel room block information. Instead of having to contact the infinite number of hotels in New Orleans, I contacted only New Orleans & Company. They took my info and passed it along to all of the hotels who then contacted me with rates and any specials they offered. Made the planning process so much easier for me! One quick email and done. Such a time saver, and their response time was same day!

We planned a destination wedding to New Orleans. We are from the Northeast and were initially a little overwhelmed and a little anxious as we began the task. Rachel Funnel was so helpful. She provided options for our guests to stay at great properties in the French Quarter and answered questions about the second line band parade, permits and was helpful with venue options based on our criteria as well. Her research helped me save time and directed me to quality vendors who helped make our October 7, 2018 wedding- an event that all 155 guests concluded, was the best wedding they had ever attended. The food, the warm hospitality of the culture, the unique wedding traditions (second line parades through the city) and an exceptional venue created an exceptional experience.

Rachel has been so helpful with helping me find my hotel blocks in New Orleans. Planning a wedding in New Orleans as a destination wedding is nothing short of challenges when planning remotely. She has helped make the process so easy!

From the very moment I began exploring New Orleans as the city for our destination wedding, Ms. Rachel Funel from New Orleans & Company has been AMAZING to work with! Rachel connected me to outstanding vendors and venues, and I am so appreciative of her kindness, enthusiasm, responsiveness, and attention to detail! I have my wedding planned, due to her amazing list of contacts.

Contacting Rachel Funel at the CVB was one of the very BEST decisions I made in planning our destination wedding! Her assistance with our hotel blocks was AMAZING! All it took was an email to get the ball rolling. She was pleasant, super responsive to emails and helpful with any questions I had. The process is a no-brainer... contact Rachel and she alerts countless area hotels with your group details on your behalf. From there, each available hotel rep will email you with their proposals. All you have to do is wait for the offers to roll in... and they will; tons of them! Trust me, it doesn't get any more simplified than this. With all of the stress and uncertainty that can come with wedding planning from afar, it's awesome that the CVB provides a service such as this (including venue & vendor recommendations, brochures, etc.). The time it will save you to focus on the million other aspects you must handle, is invaluable. Don't hesitate another minute; go for it!!

First, making the choice to have a destination wedding was one of the best, most unexpected choices we could have made when planning our wedding. We quickly became overwhelmed at the millions of options out there as well as the many “deals” that companies tried to talk us into. We were lost and confused with where to start and how to know we were making the right decisions. Finding New Orleans & Co. is what made our destination wedding experience (at Our Lady of Guadalupe), second line by (The Messy Cookers & NOLA Swing) and reception (530 Bourbon) incredibly positive, organized and full of support. Working with Rachel allowed us to make decisions with confidence. We were able to do more than we could have imagined within our trip, while at the same time staying within our means. I cannot stress enough how important this support was for us; we would not go back and do it any other way. I am so thankful for them and making our wedding day become the wedding that our friends and family are still talking about months later.

Rachel was very helpful when it came to planning our destination wedding in New Orleans! She helped us find a hotel that worked great for our family and friends. Rachel also sent us the cutest New Orleans bag in the mail that contained bride and groom Mardi Gras beads. During one of our wedding planning trips in Nola, Rachel also provided us with numerous New Orleans maps and brochures for the goody bags that we made for our guests. Our guests loved the maps and brochures, especially our guests that had never been to New Orleans! Rachel really helped ease our stress of planning a destination wedding and was a wonderful resource!

I would definitely use New Orleans & Company if your planning a wedding in NOLA. SO much useful information, along with everything you need. Great website, great ideas, and response to emails is in the appropriate time frame. My daughters' wedding is 3/2019, and I continue to get info/ideas even though we are pretty much complete on planning, securing all new need. Thank you New Orleans & Company.

Start your wedding planning here! Rachel has been an amazing at communicating and providing guidance for our destination wedding. She is an expert at what she does. She has helped me from big concerns to the smallest meticulous detail.

It was a joy and a huge help to work with Rachel Funel from the New Orleans Visitors Bureau. This Mother-of-the-Bride lives far away from New Orleans and did not know where to start. Ms. Funel was my first contact and with her advice, guidance, recommendations, and materials, helped tremendously in creating a most spectacular and lovely wedding. Throughout the planning process, she was available and friendly, answering any question or concern we might have. I cannot thank her and recommend her enough! ....from Ithaca, New York.

We were having trouble finding hotel room blocks for our guests because of a convention in town, so we reached out to the CVB. After talking with Rachel, we had offers rolling in from hotels within just a couple of days. Thanks for making that part of our planning so easy for us, Rachel!

I never would’ve imagined a visitors’ bureau would be this helpful with planning for your out-of-town guests. We had a destination wedding in New Orleans in October 2017 and found the Convention and Visitors Bureau to be extremely helpful. We were provided with visitors’ guides and walking maps for all of our guests. We added these to our welcome bags and our guests found them extremely useful. We also received bride and groom wedding beads in the mail congratulating us on our upcoming wedding, it was a sweet surprise! We must thank Rachel her help and her responsiveness to our needs. The amount of attention and care you provided us is unmatched....thank you for making us feel welcome! For the majority of our guests it was their first time in New Orleans and we’re already planning a one-year anniversary visit, everyone wants to return the the place they attended “the best wedding ever”!!!

Rachel was very helpful with all aspects of planninnour wedding. She helped us with our hotel block and our second line. She was very reaponsive and always went above and beyond. She even sent us some bride and groom beads! She was a joy to work with and we highly recommend her!

I cannot say enough good things about Rachel. She answered all my questions and always responded quickly to my phone calls. She provided great information with her knowledge and contacts. It comes thru in her voice that she really enjoys her job! Highly recommend!!!

I had the pleasure of working with Rachel while planning my destination wedding in New Orleans. She was so helpful with the initial planning by sending out requests to venues for pricing based upon our group size and date. That was such a time saver instead of having to contact the individual places yourself. Also there were a lot of venues that I probably would not have known about without their help. Once we had the venue picked, she was so helpful in providing information that we included in our welcome bags for our guests. Being that it was a destination wedding, a majority of our guests had never been to NOLA so including a information booklet about the area restaurants, things to do and then a pamphlet with the history and self guided walking tour of the French Quarter was awesome! Rachel was super responsive to all my emails and questions!! Thank you for all your help!!

Best interaction we had in planning our destination wedding. From booking the hotel block, recommendations on bakeries to actually providing bags and content, the employees here are top notch! Thank you for everything you did for us and our guests. I'll continue to 💜💛 NOLA because of you👍

Rachel helped me pick out hotel reservation blocks for my guest for my wedding in September!!!! She was very prompt on getting back to me and incredibly helpful!

Rachel was extremely helpful, prompt to reply, and had expert insider info that helped in the planning of our destination wedding. No question she couldn’t help answer or at least point us in the right direction!

Rachel has went above and beyond to help me plan my destination wedding in New Orleans. Living in New Jersey, there are many things I was unsure about regarding second line parade permits and having the right paperwork to have my friend officiate the wedding. Rachel was so helpful with providing the resources I needed. I would recommend anyone with questions to contact her since she is so knowledgeable and generous with her time. Thanks Rachel!

The CVB put together postcards, maps and other tour guides for my gift bags. They were very helpful and those items were a great addition for my out of town guests.