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| - Hiring Laurie & her team will be the best dollars spent of any vendor in your wedding budget. I interviewed 8 coordinators who came recommended to me. I ended up hiring the team who I found on my own through google and immediately after talking to Laurie, could sense a level of attentiveness that was unparalleled to the others.
I was married 5 days ago so my thoughts right now are fresh from having gone through the wedding planning process.
First, you learn that the true value of hiring a good planner is how much stress you can offload from an overwhelmingly stressful process. Second, though you hear hiring a good wedding coordinator will save you money, I can't stress how much the team's advice and vendor connections helped to optimize my budget. More importantly, I was saved from hours of researching for mediocre conclusions- a team with their rolodex and experience will always be savvier than a bride planning her first wedding.
Some more points:
Veteran Experience is Invaluable: Every detail that we could not have imagined planning for was covered. Just a sampling:
- The Team made us consider what part of the property, what time to have the ceremony, and where and how many umbrellas given the position of the sun
- Laurie brought a measuring tape the first time we ever met to ensure our Farm Tables, Ice Luge, Dance Floor, Desert Table would all be positioned in their perfect spots
- We had a last minute issue where our Venue had to break up our Reception into 2 different areas. The Team updated every detail across 5 Vendor Parties to make sure they were on board with changes. They took care of even the SMALLEST of details we forgot about, such as, getting vendor meal orders and ensuring no food allergies across the board.
- The Team scheduled reception speeches with food & beverage vendors so they wouldn't distract guests who we wanted to make sure were listening to the speeches
- We unexpectedly fired a key vendor only weeks into the wedding. Laurie diffused the situation, allowed us to maintain calm, and did not fault us or allow this to get out of hand or cause more stress on an already stressful situation. We really think this is where her veteran status and professionalism really shined through for us.
Vendor Rolodex and Selection: You hear that sometimes wedding coordinators will try to push their own agendas or vendors on the bride. Nothing could be further from the truth with Laurie and her team. They were an objective source of information (that saved me hours of more tortuous google searches) to let me know exactly what was out in the market, what their experience was like if they had worked with those vendors, and expressed opinions on what they thought was valuable spending money on vs. what was not (without ever directly or passively pushing any of their recommendations on me).
They have Style!: If you look on the Sip and Twirl website, you see that the team has planned multiple types of weddings: Garden Settings, Estates, Airport Hangars, Museums, etc. Each are different (coming from San Francisco and Los Angeles, I was beginning to worry I could only find coordinators that planned the same wedding out of "Martha Stewart Weddings"). They are up to speed on the latest trends in addition to knowing when to keep things classic. I was so happy with the décor of my Ceremony, which centered around our logo of a big green STATION WAGON! Trusting that your team understands your stylistic vision is invaluable when you are a bride stuck with analysis paralysis from having to make so many decisions.
Execution and Staying on Schedule: The Team understands what jobs need to be taken care of immediately, what you can fudge and get away with if you can't make a decision in time, and when to be stern and let you know that you need to get something done.
Responsiveness / Reliability: At this point, I already know the review is too long. But I couldn't leave without mentioning how incredibly hard the team works on your behalf, how responsive they are to every detail and question, and how reliable they are. Laurie was responding to questions late into some evenings which shows how dedicated they are once on board.
Thanks Sip and Twirl Team for understanding our vision and getting it done! We just lived out our dream wedding!
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