About this vendor
Weddings By Riem is a wedding planning service based in Raleigh, NC. Owner Riem knows how much time and planning are required to design and coordinate a successful wedding celebration. She also knows that most couples want to relax and enjoy their day, not spend it rushing around like project managers.
That’s where Riem comes in. She can help you turn your vision into a concrete plan of action. Then she will attend to all of the details and logistics so that you can spend your time with family and friends, making memories you’ll cherish forever.
Weddings By Riem offers full planning, partial planning, and day-of coordination services for intimate weddings and celebrations of more than 350 people. Riem can plan and coordinate your rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. Services include event design, vendor sourcing, contract negotiation, budget management, RSVP tracking, weather contingency planning, and more. Whatever your needs, Riem is determined to help turn your wedding dreams into reality.
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Business Attributes
- 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
- RSVP Tracking
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Bachelorette Party
- Bridal Shower
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3.9
out of 5.011 reviews
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Poor service for MANY reasons :
- Showed up late to the rehearsal
- Did not coordinate with vendors timely or clearly to the extent that orders were wrongly placed by Riem and the groom needed to negotiate with the vendors on the wedding day
- Did not listen to or make note of the Bride and Groom's preferences and was unaware of multiple important aspects of the wedding (music, timeline, etc)
- Did not effectively direct or communicate with the families so the Bride and Groom needed to coordinate everyone themselves on the day of
- did not seem to actually care about details for the wedding and did not prepare and review information provided by the bride
One significant note:
*** The bride spent the night before her wedding (until 2am) preparing a timeline for herself and family because Riem's timeline was entirely incorrect and lacked significant details and to-do's.
I don't intend to tear you down Riem. You seem very kind but I don't feel like you showed up for my sister that weekend. And from talking to her about your coordination before the wedding, it didn't seem like you had your stuff together the weeks leading up to it either.
I hope you're able to improve your service for others but I can't in good conscience recommend you to another bride/groom and say that the money is worth it based on my experience.
Extremely disorganized, absent minded, a total
Fail. This woman showed up an hour late to the rehearsal wearing a jogging outfit when the rest of us were wearing gowns and then told everyone that late guests to the wedding would be turned away… what a NIGHTMARE. My poor sister cried and one of her friends had to take over the day of an coordinate with all the vendors since the planner totally dropped the ball. Stay away. This woman needs to find another kind of job… DO NOT hire her! Sorry honey but people need to know the truth before they pay good money,
I am not the type of person who writes negative reviews. I was urged by my husband and all of the family involved in my wedding that I needed to. Riem is a very nice person but when it came to the actual planning of my event she fell short. Not once did she show up with a pad or something electronic to take notes on my preferences. It became clear she did not know the details of our event when she asked me questions at the rehearsal like “how many people in the bridal party?” when I had very clearly said from day 1 that we did not have a bridal party. On the day of the rehearsal she showed up over an hour late which made us late for the rehearsal dinner. I had her communicate solely with the florist and two days before the wedding she said that two floral arrangements had been added that I had very clearly stated in an email weeks before we did not want. It felt very disorganized and made me feel like I needed to double check everything. Not the best feeling the day before one’s wedding.
She also cancelled a number of our meetings (both virtual and in person) last minute. At first I was understanding but it got very frustrating after it happened multiple times and I was the one communicating and rescheduling with vendors.
My husband walked up to the isle to the completely wrong song and I walked down the isle to the wrong part of my song. I felt like her communication with the DJ should have been better. I hired her to ensure timing and day of details were correct so I did not have to stress about it on the day of. Unfortunately that did not happen.
Initially she said she was be assertive and able to direct our families but at the rehearsal and on the day of she did not take initiative to direct people and their placement. My sisters and sister in law had to step in and direct our families on where to be.
Then the literal icing on the cake was that the cupcakes I ordered for desert had blue icing which turned out guests’ teeth blue. Although we were all able to laugh about it later, in the moment I just wished that she had the experience and foresight to let me know that it would have been wise NOT to get blue icing at a wedding.
She did a phenomenal job. She really took her time making sure my fiancé and I got exactly what we wanted on our wedding day. I couldn’t have picked a better planner. She’s 100% worth it !
Weddings By Riem really did an amazing job of helping me plan my dream wedding. They helped me find affordable options to bring all my ideas to life. She went above and beyond to give me a plethora of options to choose from whether it was venues, flower shops, caterers, and photographers. My wedding turned out absolutely phenomenal and beyond anything I could have imagined. Riem made my experience as the bride less stressful and easy.
Riem was an excellent planner for me! She was so sweet and extremely patient. She made my vision come to life and worked with me from beginning to end. Thank you so much Riem!
She was great. Helped my husband and I put together everything we needed for our wedding from picking out the right flowers to the cake. Our wedding was more perfect than we could have ever imagined and she helped us reflect both our personalities into our wedding. Thank you so much for all of your help, we really appreciate every you did for us. We couldn’t have done it without you, you were literally a lifesaver.
The wedding I had attended that was planned by Riem was by far the best way you could ask for. Robert and Amelia, some of my close friends, had the time of their lives. I have never seen them so happy.
I just want to start off by saying I had absolutely no clue how to even start off to plan a wedding before I got in contact with Riem. I was stressed and overwhelmed by all of the possible options for the wedding until I reached out to this professional business and they made it 100x easier. They took care of me like I was their family and I can say without a doubt that without weddings by riem my wedding would have been lacking most of what made it memorable.
Riem planned my sisters wedding, one thing we really liked was how she helped us save so much money and still kept the wedding classy on a budget. She knew that was our biggest worry and still made it one of the best nights for her! I was so happy to see the her reaction! She’s very easy to work with and is very good at communicating with us too.
My cousin had her wedding planned by Riem, and let me just say I’ve already decided she’s the one I want to plan my wedding if I ever have one. My cousin told me that Riem was able to bargain with vendors, caterers, venues, while still planning a wedding that’s upscale and elegant. Can’t wait to recommend her to my friends!
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Located in NC, Serving entire U.S
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