Overall, we had a really special wedding weekend and felt super supported by our community and many of our vendors. I've written a number of glowing reviews for our other vendors regarding their professionalism, problem-solving capabilities, and general warmth and competence. Unfortunately, Kelly and the Angelic Affairs team is not one that I can say many positive things about. Kelly did our floral arrangements, décor, and wedding coordination for our wedding weekend. Our flower and décor were generally lovely and Kelly displayed an aptitude and good eye for design and helping us put together what we envisioned. However, her wedding coordination capabilities were extremely lacking, and it was her extremely unprofessional and sub-par performance in her coordination skills that made our wedding extremely stressful and difficult. I will highlight a few details below, but overall my husband and I want to emphasize that Kelly is unfortunately NOT a hire we recommend you make for your wedding; our experience with her was so stressful and negative, and we both agree that it was important to us to share this information so that future couples do not have the same experience we did.
Primarily, our negative experience reflects Kelly's incompetence and unfamiliarity with our timeline, which she was supposed to be actively managing. She showed up two hours late with no communication, explanation, or apology at the start of our weekend, which delayed our vendor walk-throughs and ceremony rehearsal. She did not know our ceremony processional details, though we had shared it in detail with her (names, music, details re: grandparents), and called my husband by the wrong name. Secondly, her lack of presence / proactivity throughout the weekend highlighted her inability to complete her duties as weekend coordinator. She was not there for brainstorming / problem-solving weather alternatives when our weather took a turn for the worst on the day of our wedding. She was not action oriented: we had to constantly hunt her down to ask her to help address issues, communicate with vendors, etc. For our Friday welcome dinner, she did not set up the venue, did not facilitate bar or food set-up, or break-down / clean-up, though that was in her contract. These responsibilities fell instead to our family members. She did not coordinate speeches - no timeline management or coordination whatsoever; our amazing bartenders stepped up to help manage this. She left before the event was over and did not tell us; in fact, she did not pay the bartenders when she was supposed to, which put us in an awkward and stressful position at the end of the night. She sent multiple versions of a new timeline, for no reason, between 1 - 2 AM the night before our wedding, and changed a number of key logistics that went against what we had clearly aligned on previously. Neither us nor our many vendors would realistically have an opportunity to review this during our wedding day. She seemed to not understand or realize that she should be managing vendors in real time
On Saturday, the day of the wedding, she was nowhere to be found during pre-ceremony photos. She did not set up ceremony chairs, reserved signs, or programs, and she did not coordinate putting our vows in the officiant's binder; these important details were, again, left to our close family and friends. There was no microphone during our ceremony - a crucial detail she should have carefully managed. She did not coordinate photos, band, DJ, speeches, or dances to ensure they occurred on time. In fact, she had already left the wedding when I noticed lights needed to be turned down (before 10 PM). Again, these small but important details were left to be managed by us (an absolute nightmare when we were trying to be present during our wedding, and a violation of her contract) or by our parents, siblings, and best friends, which was an incredibly unfair and frustrating position to put them in. It is perhaps clear at this point that Kelly overall added significant stress on the bride and groom. We had to very actively manage her, which is of course the exact opposite of what the purpose of her job was supposed to be. This, combined with her shocking bad attitude on Sunday, when she tried to leave at 9 AM (before our final event had even started), reinforced that we had to manage her actively and ask specific questions to make sure she had actually done her job (including vendor payment; clean-up; material pack-up; overall logistics and vendor management; etc).
The above is unfortunately not even a fully comprehensive list of the ways in which Kelly Teves at Angelic Affairs absolutely did not execute her duties as outlined in her contract. I am shocked by her incompetence; her lack of action or problem-solving; her stunning lack of presence throughout the weekend; her inability or unwillingness to manage the weekend, which is what we hired her to do. My husband and I felt completely unsupported. read more