Since the bride is a graduate student and both the bride and groom work full time, we knew we needed to hire a planner–and we are so, so happy with Laurie, Lina, and their team! We used their partial wedding package, meaning we scouted the venu...e ourselves, but they worked on every other aspect of the wedding. They were very knowledgeable about the various details of making a wedding happen, and helped us get good deals with vendors. We used vendors they recommended, one vendor we found ourselves, and in-house venue staff, and they coordinated well with all of them.
If ideas we had for decor wouldn’t work, they were great at coming up with ways to incorporate aspects of them into the design of the event. For example, the mother of the bride suggested having pinecones inside the jars we used as centerpieces, but it wasn’t feasible if we wanted the jars to hold flowers, too, so Lina incorporated pinecones into the bouquets themselves, which looked beautiful and worked very well with our autumnal color palette.
On the day of the wedding, they were very flexible - the decision of whether to hold the wedding indoors or outdoors was a day-of call due to changing weather, and with their help we were able to have the outdoor wedding that we wanted. They kept stress low and made sure we had food from our buffet at our sweetheart table. Their experience and professionalism is amazing- thank you so much!