About this vendor
Operating out of Cary, NC, Southern Skies Events is a wedding-planning company that adores arranging unforgettable and unique celebrations. Owner and lead planner Jen Shaefer has been realizing dream weddings for years, adept at translating her clients’ visions into realities. She works alongside creative planners Becca and Krista, a pair of professionals who share Jen’s passion for event planning. Together, the trio has the skill and know-how to ensure that your big day is truly perfect.
The Southern Skies Events team has been organizing weddings in North Carolina’s Triangle region and further afield since 2018. With plenty of experience in the catering and planning industries, Jen is well versed in knowing how to facilitate a successful event. While planning weddings is her life’s work, she also enjoys playing soccer and chilling out with a glass of wine.
Able to orchestrate your rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception, Southern Skies Events has a series of planning packages for you to choose from. The Full Service Planning bundle boasts an array of features, including consultations, budget analysis, and event management services. As well as weddings and private functions, the business can plan corporate functions.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- Wedding Design
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Rehearsal Dinner
- Welcome Party
- Wedding
- Ceremony
- Cocktail Hour
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Laura was a GIFT to work with!! I could not have done it all without her. She is so genuine and so kind. I am absolutely sad that I don't get to work with her anymore. She made everything seamless, effortless, and perfect. It's like she was reading my mind.
We found Southern Skies through a friend’s recommendation and we couldn’t have been happier. We worked with Jen and her assistant Laura. They designed a beautiful wedding full of personal details that we never would have thought of - like having a gelato cart for dessert as a nod to Rome, where we met. Jen was very communicative throughout the entire planning process with e-mail updates, answering our questions, and having virtual and in-person meetings. We were planning remotely and could not have pulled this off without Jen and her team. They helped connect us with our fantastic team of vendors, many of whom we probably would not have found without their help. Jen’s thorough planning and hard work made the actual wedding day stress-free and absolutely perfect. We would highly recommend using Southern Skies!
Lauren was so amazing at keeping us confident, calm, cool and collected. Our pre-wedding meetings help alleviated any concerns that we might have had. She spent a lot of time clarifying our notes to make sure that everything was perfect so we really appreciated her attention to detail. Anything that popped up to be a potential problem, she immediately stepped in and resolved it before it even came to us! She was so personnable, and made us feel so comfortable coming to her with any questions or concerns that we had. She was also so behind the scenes that if I had a photo to share I would! Fantastic job, she was a huge help and she received so many nice reviews from my MIL!!
10/10 recommend Southern Skies (fingers crossed you get Lauren)!!
Laura is AMAZING!! First, we used the wedding mood board to get an idea of where we should start. It was so detailed and exactly what we wanted, we used everything from it. Laura was extremely helpful during the wedding process, especially with the timeline which had me stressing out. She provided what most couples did but also gave alternative options that would work best for us. During the wedding day, she helped ensure everything was on time and running smoothly. At the end of the night, she helped make sure everything was where it needed to be to help with clean up. I received many compliments on Laura from my bridesmaids, family and other guests that she was “no where but everywhere at once” and could tell the day ran more smoothly because of her. I could not imagine planning our wedding without her. 100% recommend southern skies for your wedding
We had the pleasure of working with Laura during our season of wedding planning and she was the best! She responded to any questions or concerns I had very quickly. The day of the wedding, she made sure everything went exactly how I wanted it to go. I had a few people ask me post wedding if there was anything I would change and my answer was always “No”. The day was perfect and I couldn’t have imagined it to go any better and a lot of that was because of Laura!
Laura B was my planner. Man was she amazing. She dealt with my constant emails and texts! I was all over my wedding planning but she really help piece things together. Her response time was epic anytime I needed her.
Day of the wedding she was so attentive to us and got everything setup ever so perfect! She also was good about keeping us on time and making sure people didn’t get in our way so to speak!
My day literally wouldn’t have been the same without her!
Is saddens me to write this, but we did not have a good experience with Becca from Southern Sky’s Events. Ultimately, Becca seemed extremely overwhelmed with the process of our larger wedding. And even though I paid extra for her to have a day of assistant, by all our vendors accounts, the assistant did not actually assist anyone. I never saw her myself.
After our event, I had several vendors reach out saying they were disappointed in our wedding coordinator and felt she was completely lost/overwhelmed during the day. This was unsolicited feedback. One of my vendors even wanted to charge us more due to the lack of coordination, due to the extra work it put on them.
When our wedding concluded, me and my now husband had no idea where our weddings gifts went (we had to frantically hunt them down the next day) and an entire rented table/tablecloth set-up with cans and drinks was left outside the venue. We ended up having to go back to our venue the next day to cleanup and personally had to return the table and tablecloth rental she left out. We also had no idea where our wedding cake went, along with left over desserts, and other various items. SO many things just fell through the cracks.
In a nutshell, it was a mess and she was completely overwhelmed. From all accounts, our vendors found her to be unhelpful and had to work around her.
It’s important to note she also never replied to my last text asking if she knew where our wedding cake was. It wasn’t a rude text, I had been very gracious throughout the process… she just decided not to reply. Days later we were personally able to hunt down our cake, along with our gifts and other items. It was very stressful.
There were just so many things. Too many to put into this review. Overall we were very disappointed. If you have anything other than a very cookie cutter wedding with a venue that has its own on-site coordinator, I would absolutely not recommend using Becca with Southern Skies.
Hiring Jen and her team was probably the best decision we made regarding our wedding. Not only did she help us keep on top of everything during the planning process (which included a lot more than we had expected), but she was super fun to work with. I was able to enjoy the process a lot more knowing what I needed to work on and what needed done in the next month. Jen helped handle all the little hiccups along the way and day of, Jen and Lauren kept everything running smoothly. Both sets of parents were saying how great they were following the big day. I would highly recommend hiring Southern Skies as wedding planners.
I do not have enough kind words to express the professionalism and literally white glove service that my fiancé and I received from Jen and her assistant, Brandi. Jen, single handedly made us look so good...my guests have not stopped talking about the stellar job they did coordinating our wedding. Now on every anniversary, I will be giving them thanks because they made my wedding so memorable. Don't think twice, if you want your wedding to be everything...book with Southern Skies Events!
Jen is simply the best! Her professionalism and knowledge are truly unmatched. She helped us with every aspect of our planning and if I felt stuck, she offered ideas and options that were personalized and fit our vision. I was calm and confident on our wedding day, because I knew Jen had made sure it was perfect!
We loved working with her so much that, I recommended her to my best friend and she worked her magic again!
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