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There are truly no words that could ever adequately do justice to the magic that is Katie and her team at As You Wish. The name says it all because Katie and her team genuinely have a way of making your every wish come true.
In our culture, weddings are something parents begin dreaming about long before their children even enter the world, and Katie and her team understood the weight and meaning of that from the very beginning. When it came time for my own wedding, there was truly no one else we could have imagined trusting with the most important and special moments of our lives.
As someone who had never really pictured what my own wedding day would look like, and who struggles with analysis paralysis and decision-making, Katie was an absolute godsend. She was endlessly patient and helped me uncover what I actually wanted, even when I couldn't put it into words. I also struggle to visualize how individual concepts will come together, and Katie and her team went above and beyond to make everything tangible, from beautiful design boards to taking me in person to touch fabrics, see layouts, and experience table designs firsthand. They never once made an idea feel too big, too complicated, or impossible. Instead, their response was always, "Let's make it happen."
And they did. Again and again, they brought ideas to life in ways that somehow surpassed even what I had imagined.
One of the most special parts of the entire process was watching Katie and my dad work hand in hand to bring this wedding to life. My dad can certainly get carried away with ideas , but even the things that others might have deemed impossible, Katie and her team found a way to make happen. She never made us feel like we had to sacrifice or compromise. When I told her I was having 19 bridesmaids, she didn't even blink, she leaned all the way in and celebrated the love and the magnitude of it all.
And Katie and her team didn't just help create our wedding. They helped make our entire wedding journey unforgettable. They brought our engagement party to life and planned the most incredible bachelorette weekend in Park City. When I told Katie I didn't want our ballroom to feel like a hotel ballroom, she basically said, "Say less." And somehow, a hotel ballroom was transformed into an actual wonderland, with carpeting installed and every detail elevated so completely that it felt like we had stepped into an entirely different world. And they did not stop at the transformation of the ballroom. There were fireworks, a drone show, a personalized Pixar animation film, a surprise flash mob, light up Bollywood dancers, laser light shows, two incredible bands, the most fun DJ, endless eats and treats, a perfume bar, a custom donut wall, a personalized putt putt course, a bangle bazaar, a haiku station, a vintage photobooth, custom hotel key cards, color smoke bombs, AND SO MUCH MORE. Every detail was completely unexpected, incredibly thoughtful, and so uniquely us. It was truly unparalleled and one of a kind.
Most importantly, Katie and her team beautifully and seamlessly blended our two cultures into an incredible four-day Indian-American wedding celebration. It was everything we could have hoped for and more, and truly something I believe only they could have executed with such thoughtfulness, beauty, and intention.
Katie is present every step of the way. She is one of the most responsive, organized, and genuinely incredible people I have ever met, and I am still in awe of how she manages to do it all. When wedding planning inevitably became overwhelming, she was the person who grounded me, brought me back to what mattered, and reminded me that at the heart of everything was my husband and me.
She made sure our wedding was not just beautiful, but ours. She intentionally created moments for the two of us, protected the things that mattered most to us, and always made sure we were getting the experience we truly wanted.
There is truly no one better than Katie and the As You Wish team.
