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hroughout the planning process. Instead, I often felt like I was planning my own wedding while paying a significant planning fee. Communication was a consistent challenge. Calls were frequently missed, regular check-ins were difficult to schedule, and I often found myself following up repeatedly for updates. Rather than feeling supported, I felt responsible for keeping track of where things stood with vendors and reminding our planner of important details and next steps. One of the biggest frustrations was the lack of involvement in vendor management. We had expected assistance with negotiations and coordination, but much of that responsibility fell back on us. As the wedding approached, the stress only increased because I never felt confident that details were being managed proactively. The most telling part of our experience was that several vendors who were involved in our wedding expressed concerns about the planning process and encouraged us to consider making a change. Hearing that from professionals who work in the industry was both surprising and validating. Wedding planning should be an exciting and memorable experience. Instead, much of our engagement was consumed by unnecessary stress, constant follow-up, and uncertainty. Looking back, I regret not making a change sooner. I rarely leave negative reviews, but given the significant investment involved, I feel it’s important to share my experience so that other couples can make an informed decision.

cause the head of events used to work for her (just a heads up). My venue provided an assistant for our wedding, and she really handled most of everything - I'm still not sure exactly what she did to help that our venue assistant couldn't have done. She was unclear during the ceremony run-though, causing confusion about where everyone was meant to sit - her timing was completely off for a big surprise reveal I had for my husband, and she was generally unhelpful leading up to the wedding as well (other than assisting in getting materials to the venue for me). She also provided zero assistance in getting our beautiful wedding published as she had promised. She was happy to ask for a generous extra gratuity to her team at the end of our wedding night, even though I was left in charge of frantically tipping everyone else during the closing of my wedding (should not have been my job). Claudia has been doing this a long time and if you are someone who wants to just hand over your entire wedding to be taken care of, I'm sure she is competent enough, but if you are super hands-on like I was, I would just save your money.

tight amount of time for so much planning to still happen - she made it work, and helped create a beautiful event for us! We only wish we had hired her earlier and made things so much easier for us from the beginning. Since I am an artist/illustrator, I did all of the artwork for my own wedding, and Claudia was not only incredibly supportive but wanted to find as many ways to showcase my art and creativity as possible! She came up with fun ideas to display table numbers, escort cards, and even put together the programs herself, tying ribbons on 150 programs! We were so happy with how beautifully the event turned out, and how we were able to personalize it with so many fun details, thanks to Claudia's ideas and hard work. She was so much fun to work with, and has a fun and bubbly personality. Wedding planning was very overwhelming and stressful to us at the beginning, and when Claudia came onboard we were struggling with our vision and also with some vendors. Claudia took the reins and helped straighten things out, and helped us visualize many of the ideas we had, and made sure that they were all made possible, and that they all worked together. She also made it fun for us - finally! - and we really enjoyed working on the project together and actually getting excited about it. Although I am sad that our time together as bride/planner has come to an end, I am hopeful that we will have a chance to together in the future professionally, when I design the art for another wedding! She is amazing!

e months before the wedding - she not only helped us finish planning but also helped bring our somewhat complicated vision to life beautifully. We had hired her initially because we were very late with securing some vendors and were overwhelmed by the process of wedding planning. Claudia helped us manage all aspects of the wedding and helped us stick to a timeline/schedule. Although we had many ideas for fun ways to personalize our wedding, Claudia helped us streamline these ideas and helped make them happen, tying them all together in one gorgeous event. Claudia was always very professional and remained in constant communication while we were working together. We could always rely on her to smooth out wrinkles if there were any issues. On top of her professional attitude, she is warm, caring, fun, and easy to talk to and work with. She made what was initially a very stressful thing for us an enjoyable process, and it was also very helpful that she knew our venue extremely well, having worked many events there in the past and having a good relationship with the team at Blue Hill. Overall, Claudia was a wonderful person to work with. She had many fun and cute ideas that I think really made our event different and more personal. She coordinated with all of our vendors and made sure that they were on schedule. And when there were complications, she helped us figure them out. We were so happy with how the wedding turned out. We couldn't have done it without her help in putting it all together in the end. We would highly recommend her to anyone in the future! Beyond wedding planning, she is a warm and friendly person and we look forward to continuing our relationship with her.