I am re-posting this review because somehow it got "filtered". Suspicious. (Update: I still have not received my $750 deposit back).
We met with 3 wedding coordinators and decided on Dawn because she seemed nice and easy-going, had some creative ideas, and offered reasonably-priced services. Like Audra B., I fell for the "free advice" thing on the interview. Dawn seemed genuinely nice and like someone I could trust.
I found that you get what you pay for, or less rather.
We hired a planner to save us precious time, since we both work a lot (my fiance is a contracting manager, I'm a third year medical student). Unfortunately, I spent more time composing bulleted to-do emails to send to Dawn than it would have taken for me to just do the tasks myself. This is primarily because Dawn often would ignore my emails, so both my fiance and I had to repeatedly ask her to do things. She did not offer us price comparisons of vendors; she thought her work was done when she gave us 1-3 recommendations, basically we had to do all the work. Our only major preference was that we want to do a "green", environmentally-conscious wedding, and upon initial interview she sounded excited about this, and totally accommodating. Afterward however, she did not take this preference into account, she seemed to just offer the same vendor(s) as always, and did not screen them to see if they would fit us. My fiance and I had to again do most of the work. I found most of the vendors myself because I could not wait on Dawn to figure things out, and worried things would just not get done on time. She was seriously late on the time line SHE made. We would have been seriously over budget on the budget SHE made; another reason I had to step in and find vendors myself. Initially, she said she would accompany us on meetings (such as with the caterer), but once hired, she quickly came up with excuses to not do so. She did not once come with us to meet a vendor. After much time had passed, not a single thing on the time line was at completion. At the point the second check to her was due, she just stopped working entirely, backed out of our contract, and NEVER REFUNDED THE MONEY WE HAD ALREADY PAID HER. She did find the time to call two of our vendors (both of which I had found) and revoke our contracts. One of these vendors pulled out 17 days before the wedding, saying that we did not have a contract, so I am dealing with that at present.
Suffice it to say, I do not recommend using A Blissful Event. Dawn, if you are reading this, please send us our money back. read more
