Sylver weddings

le remaining flexible and down to earth. She was also quick to offer advice and recommendations when our ceremony continued to be impacted by COVID-19. I'd recommend Stacy to anyone planning their wedding!

tacy assured me she could handle it. Turns out she couldn't. Stacy promised me three assistants - which turned out to include Stacy's two minor children. These kids spent most of their time either goofing off until someone came and told them to do a task, whining about the amount of work, or arguing with mom. They required insane amounts of babysitting and actually distracted Stacy from her work. Stacy's children have neither the maturity nor the training and professional demeanor required for this industry - and they were a completely inappropriate staffing choice for an event of this size and magnitude. There were also some pretty egregious regulatory violations committed by Stacy's staff. At one point the first day, I caught two of her folks SMOKING on site -- a MASSIVE legal infringement that could have gotten her entire staff kicked off the property for the weekend and landed us with a $10,000 fine from the national park service! I also witnessed her son handling bagels and rolls (and her daughter serving pizza to my guests) with their BARE HANDS! I provided Stacy with DETAILED descriptions of what I wanted in terms of décor, food service, the activities to occur during each segment of the weekend. However, any planning was made irrelevant when much of my instruction disregarded the actual wedding weekend. I kept finding jobs left undone, decorations I had provided which were never put out, reception food laid out according to specification, and my eyeball jello shots meant for our toast randomly sitting out with the buffet food. Of course our biggest complaint was how much of our time we had to devote to doing Stacy's job. When we hired her, we were told that we just needed to show up and enjoy the weekend. Instead, we had to devote half the day Friday to decorating the reception hall (when it was supposed to be done mid-afternoon and by 3PM it was maybe a quarter finished and no one was taking any steps to get it completed), a big chunk of Saturday morning to setting up the ceremony site (when it was also not done and there was no activity in that direction even after breakfast ended), and a large part of Sunday morning helping break down/pack up. Stacy's "coordinating" of events was also not in line with what she assured us of when we contracted with her. As a bride, I shouldn't have to come ASK my coordinator what the procedure is for getting me down the aisle - that should have been something she prepped me on well before the actual ceremony. (Stacy didn't.) I shouldn't have to tell my coordinator that she was sending the flower girl and ring bearer down the aisle to the wrong music (which Stacy did) - she should be so familiar with our ceremony that she knows exactly what's happening at each point along the way. (Stacy was barely present for our rehearsal - screwing around on her phone and not paying attention while I led the run-through.) I shouldn't have to tell my reception emcee "Hey we're supposed to have a garter/bouquet toss but Stacy hasn't said anything to me about how that's going to work and I don't see her setting anything up, so can you please go find out?" But the best part came late in the reception evening when I found out that Stacy had thrown away $800-$1000 worth of catering food, not only without either Ben's or my permission, but in direct contradiction of my verbal and written instructions. At a wedding where I've told my wedding coordinator that I want to take any uneaten food home, she made an executive decision to toss the leftovers WITHOUT EVER SPEAKING TO ME ABOUT IT. As far as we're concerned, that's the equivalent of destroying our personal property. To add insult to injury, when I contacted Stacy about these concerns and asked for fair compensation for the thrown-out food, as well as the level of service that we were promised and did not receive -- Stacy did nothing. I didn't want to have to leave this review - but Stacy has given me no choice. If you're thinking about hiring her for your event, caveat emptor.

lly seen the venue in person. Lauren was there to answer my questions whenever I needed her and even went out and purchased some of decorations for me as I didn’t want to bring them all from the UK. The wedding day went without a hitch and the decoration was lovely!

nd present. Then a cousin proposed being our officiant and, since we really wanted family to do it, we thanked her and passed. One week later HE FELL THROUGH! Man, I was so embarrassed to call Stacy again, just one week before the wedding. But we did call her and I am so glad that we did. Stacy rearranged her schedule for us to make it work. We had a GREAT phone call with her where we talked for probably an hour (I'm a talker, I'm sure you don't HAVE to talk that long, haha!) about everything from how we met to the embarrassing things we have done together drunkenly. It was such a fun phone call and at the end of it I knew she really understood our spirit. She had the ceremony written in just a few days and sent it to us for approval, she came to rehearsal, on our wedding day she dressed to match our all-white/pastel wedding, and the ceremony was just the most magical --I cried through the WHOLE thing! My entire wedding was gorgeous and, honestly, the happiest day of my life. So many people told me that my wedding was the most beautiful they had ever been to, and almost every one of them mentioned the ceremony and how much they loved the officiant. We were so dumb to wait so long to get an officiant, but SO lucky it worked out absolutely perfectly and we got Stacy. I couldn't recommend her more! I had wanted family to officiate our marriage, and by the end, she was exactly that. Thank you eternally, Stacy.