I'm leaving this THIEF no stars, because that's what she deserves. Lets start off with you get what…read moreyou pay for which an untrained monkey could have done better than Nicole did. She gave me a discount for "day of" wedding planning for $1,000.00 and now I know why, her services were worth about $10.00! Eight days prior to my wedding I text Nicole several times (3) in reference to meeting her, since I hadn't, because she kept blowing me off or making excuses and to make sure she was going to my venue as she had already MADE AN APT to meet with the staff their to go over the location. After 3 days of texting, she finally responded " I wasn't her priority the days I had text her and she didn't feel my text needed a response, even though they were in reference to her meeting the vendor! I'm pretty sure you don't tell a bride she isn't your priority 6 days before her wedding (needless to say she got an earful once she did decide to call, 5 days later). The day prior to my wedding she shows up with..1 of her kids, which surprises me being she told me she "doesn't like to mix her personal life and work"...so why bring 1 of your kids when clearly the 2nd child is elsewhere?? She had him sitting at one of my tables that I was decorating, and yes he was in my way. Nicole did not help at all the night before of setting up, nor did she take ANY pictures to see where I wanted the decorations to go the next day, because "it was the next day and she would remember". The day of my wedding Nicole called and text me several times for things I didn't need to know about. When I got to the venue after a very long stressful morning of getting ready, I look to see the wedding guests in the reception area at the bar drinking, which surprised me being myself nor my husband told her to open the bar prior to the cocktail hour. When my husband questioned Nicole she said "I was told you were running an hour late, so I decided to take it upon myself to open the bar". When my husband asked Nicole who told her we would be late, because we were NOT late, she had NO answer and could not show us any proof of who told her that, because it was a LIE. My husband told her to shut the bar down, being that was the only alcohol we had ( and that we paid for on our own) for the entire wedding and once it was gone, it was gone! We then had to tell her to start the ceremony, because it felt like we had been waiting for over an hour waiting on her to get everyone out of the reception area, so now people had drinks in their hands during the ceremony, nice pictures! After the ceremony we waited what seemed to be over an hour waiting to come into the reception area, and of course there was an issue with the lights which when attempting to find Nicole, no one could! Skip to we make our way into the reception to see my husband and I table not decorated as it was supposed to be done..but remember Nicole didn't need to take photos the night before...so I had to ask her where my candlesticks were, obviously not on my table. I also learned she did not decorate ANY of the tables, the catering staff did, LOL, so what exactly did she do?? Who knows. We then had people complain that their drinks were being made too strong at the bar, I look over to see the bartender in the dark because Nicole had "dimmed" the lights all the way down to where the bartender couldn't see what she was even pouring, so I myself had to go turn the lights back up , because yet again Nicole couldn't be found...although someone did find her in the cooler crying at one point??? Sometime during the evening, the kids spilled water on their tablecloth and Nicole had to ask me if i wanted it replaced, how about you just do it and not bother me with something so stupid? We will fast forward to the end of the night where Nicole had to be escorted to her vehicle by the staff because she didn't feel safe (more than half the guests were cops), so again not sure what that was about. I then am made aware by Nicole that she had stolen 2 of my decorations off the walls when she left. This was something she had mentioned she might want the night prior, while I was running around decorating for my own wedding and I said to her we will have to talk about it. My husband and I left for our honeymoon the day after our wedding, so I had no time to confront her about the decorations. When we returned home she tried to pay me on PayPal and some other scamming payment, which I don't use due to scamming. I advised Nicole numerous times that I wanted the decorations back, which yet again I got excuses as to why she hasn't mailed them back to me. It has now been over a month and no decorations have landed at my door step, so here is her review. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, but she did this to herself. There is so so much more I could add to this, but as of now my fingers are tired of typing about her worthlessness. If you're looking for a wedding coordinator/planner, I'm telling LOOK ELSEWHERE!!!!!!
