Working with Courtney was one of the BEST decisions we made during the stressful wedding planning…read moreprocess. Courtney was our month and day-of-coordinator, along with her partner, Brooke. They were both so warm, communicative, and were an absolute pleasure to work with! I knew my husband and I were in such good hands. Leading up to and on the day of the wedding, she was very timely, organized, detailed, and stayed on top of things including having full control of all the coordination between the bridal party, vendors, and venue. She was absolutely amazing at executing our planned timeline, answering all my questions, and making sure all the vendors were on the same page. It made for such a stress-free day for my husband and family where we were able to fully enjoy and soak in every minute of our day. My husband, parents, and bridal party even commented about how on point they were throughout our wedding. DO NOT HESITATE TO HIRE COURTNEY TO PLAN ANY EVENT. Hiring her was worth every single penny and then some -- If it were in my budget, I definitely would've sprung for the full planning package. Courtney & Brooke - Thank you SOO SOO much for everything, I couldn't imagine our day going as perfectly without you !

Hiring Courtney was the best wedding decision I made. I am a type-A DIY get it all done type of…read morebride. At first I didn't understand why anyone would just "throw away" a lump sum of money to a person who would just show up the day of and execute what was already a beautifully organized plan. And then it dawned on me: there is no way to get everything you need to happen when and where it's supposed to happen without someone running the show, and that person CANNOT be the woman in the big beautiful dress. I interviewed about 10 different coordinators (did I mention I'm a perfectionist?) leading to yet another excel sheet of pros/cons for each potential hire. When I narrowed my list to the top 3 Courtney really stood out. While everyone was easy to talk to on the phone, she seemed the least like someone who was trying to up-sell me on "my big day". She also didn't put hour limits on the package, which showed that she really was just going to be there to help in any way possible, not to nitpick over one line charges in a contract. During the first meeting we set up with her I still had my reservations, but by the end of the conversation I was happily writing a check. At the walk-through she agreed to also come to the church and was on top of every picky detail I requested. At the rehearsal she helped navigate a tense situation when I was 20 minutes late. She also exerted herself when necessary among a pushy priest and uptight church coordinator. My maid of honor said that Courtney won her over when she overheard her say to me at the rehearsal: "Is this the way you really want it, because if you have doubts tell me and we'll get it done." On the morning of the wedding Courtney was waiting for us with multiple things already underway. She gave me quick calm updates and brought me in whenever there was a decision to be made. If I told her it didn't matter she would quickly take care of the problem on her own and I wouldn't hear another word about it. If I had a strong feeling on the matter, she made sure it happened my way. When I told her I was concerned that some family member's criticism would shake me up before the ceremony, she politely steered them away from me whenever there was an issue. When the church coordinator got snippy with her she was overheard saying: "I was hired by the bride and groom to make their dream wedding come true, and doing things your way was not part of that plan". Meanwhile, she was completely professional, kind, and welcoming to everyone. The wedding party loved her! She was also dressed stylishly (and in heals!) for the wedding, which makes a difference to me. Your guests are going to see someone following around the bride all day, you don't want them to be wearing slacks and an over-sized button down. Courtney handled a million big and small details for me the day of, but one that stands out is something I hadn't fully thought through. At one of our meetings I mentioned I was going to have some decorations ready to set up in the honeymoon suite for us to come back to. While this was a great idea, it just kept getting moved lower and lower on my list, and I never got around to setting anything aside. Since we were up until the wee hours of the morning I didn't think it would matter, but when I went to my room to change I was blown away. She had taken small extra flower arrangements and candles from the reception and arranged them beautifully all over the suite. There were flower petals leading to the bed, and my veil beautifully draped over the arm seat. Food and candles were waiting for us on the table and all the extra boxes had been tucked away. It was beautiful and an amazing end to a perfectly-executed day, all thanks to Courtney. I could write endlessly about every little detail she did, but instead I will say this: Hire Courtney, it will be the best decision you make.

If someone were to "pop the question" around whether I'd hire Susan and her team again, my answer…read morewould be a very enthusiastic, "Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!" Susan and her team are SO organized, SO professional, and SO lovely to work with. For starters, we delayed our wedding by two years because of COVID...so naturally, there were certain details I just totally forgot about. Fortunately, Susan didn't. She'd remind me of whatever comments I'd made two years prior, follow up on things I didn't even realize we'd talked about, and keep my family and me on track when we needed it most. She came to as many of our appointments with other vendors as possible, asking smart questions and helping us make strategic decisions along the way. On the day of the wedding (which we had at the Fillmore in Fishtown), every single member of her team was ON, helping us squash little issues and stay as much on schedule as possible. Her team was quick, attentive, and lovely all-around. They're exactly what you want in a wedding planning team--they're kind, yet firm. They're cattle herders, but with a friendly touch. And most of all, they know what they're doing and make you feel like you can relax and let them take care of you and your loved ones on your special day.

Wow, where do we start. Susan and her team are absolutely phenomenal. Words cannot express how…read morethankful and happy we are that Susan was there to make sure our day was as magical as we planned! She and Kate were so lovely, patient, reliable, and cool under pressure...there is no way the wedding would have went as planned without them! From the moment we brought her team on board, Susan brought a sense of calm and professionalism that immediately reassured us that we were in great hands. Leading up to our wedding, the level of communication and organization she brought was incredible. And she brought us so many creative ideas and recommendations that we would never have thought of! She's a true veteran, and also highly connected within the Philadelphia wedding scene -- she has worked with everyone! I cannot say enough about how wonderful it was to have her on our team. She was the coach, quarterback, defensive line...all in one. All we had to do was show up and enjoy. THANK YOU!!!!

Q & Q Exquisite Planning was the wedding planner for my wedding in 2010. They did an excellent job…read moreand we had one of the best weddings pound for pound out of anyone in my family or my wife's family. Are wedding was particularly difficult because we lived in TX and the wedding took place in California so planning a destination wedding is always hard and especially for a fairly large wedding of about 200 guest. Also our wedding was somewhat challenging because my wife had dreams of grandeur and I had a very small finite budget. Q&Q Planning was able to meet both my limited budget and my wife's dreams of grandeur. Needless to say we were very happy with our wedding and people still can't stop talking about how much fun they had and how good the food was. Every time I get a complement I always think of how we pulled it off with such a small budget and every time I attend these 50k plus weddings and I think about how Q&Q Planning was able to create the same or even better event for a fraction of the cost...I smile from ear to ear....and my wife smiles from ear to ear every time she looks at our photo album and remembers what a special day we had and how smoothly everything went.

After meeting with a bunch of florists in the philadelphia area I had my initial consultation with…read moreCaroline. She was sweet, easy going and truly excited about the ideas (mostly pinterest pictures) I was bringing to her. I knew right then and there that I wanted to work with her and could really trust her with my wedding at Front and Palmer. Throughout the entire process she was easy to communicate with and kept me updated with any knew ideas she had to fit my vision. The day of our wedding I was blown away. The bouquets for me and my ten bridesmaids were some of the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen. I wanted a very neutral, natural theme with a touch of succulents and Caroline delivered! When my husband and I arrived at the venue we were thrilled with the ceremony space and the reception decorations. Everything was understated and beautiful and exactly how we envisioned it! Caroline was also at the venue the day of the wedding to help reuse the bouquets and ceremony decorations for the reception which really helped me stay in budget!

Tanti and Papertini are AMAZING!!!! My wedding was fabulously decorated, the flowers were…read morebeautiful, everything was more perfect than I had imagined. The amount of compliments that I received about the decor, the ambiance, the special touches that Tanti created were so many I couldn't even count them! She and her team turned a nice space into OUR beautiful space. I cannot say enough about how awesome they are.

Having had a great experience with Eventricity for my wedding flowers, I thought I would post a…read morereview. I met with Eventricity two months before my wedding, not really knowing what I wanted. We had a very long meeting in which they helped me figure out what style I wanted (it turns out I am a "simple elegance" person, who knew?!). We then planned everything, item by item, and they were very patient with the time it took me to make my decisions. When Eventricity sent me their proposal a week later, they also helped me make a few modifications to make sure that it would fit our budget. Finally, when I asked whether we could add a few flowers for my hair at the very last minute, they made it sound like it was not a problem at all and generously offered those. This was really nice and somewhat unexpected! The result was beyond my expectations - the flowers were beautiful and exactly what I wanted. The lanterns I also asked to have as centerpieces were amazing, and many of our guests commented on how well everything was arranged. So overall, I had a very positive experience and would definitely recommend them.

I just used for my wedding and they did not do a good job At all..First of all they forgot to make…read moreall the bridal party buttoners! ALL of them! We had to take formal pictures without them, and after 3 hours of waiting,and right when the ceremony was about to begin, they show up with a mashed up old carnation with a pin for the GROOM!! really?? I had by the way requested and payed over priced orchids. My bouquet had old and brown flowers, clearly not fresh, they never decorated my cake as they were supposed too, and also after running behind them for hours they threw 3 flowers on top. I've definitely seen much better flower arrangements for the amount of money they charge. Definitely not a good experience

While this is not where I will be having my wedding, I cannot say enough great things about the…read moreArts and Taylor Hess. Taylor did an amazing job laying out what the day could look like and made us feel so welcome and comfortable. She is an amazing resource and I have no doubt that she would make anyone's dream wedding. Everyone was so willing to make accommodations if we needed them. The food selections available here are top notch and hard to compete with. This place is perfect for small-medium weddings.

I've been on the fence about writing this review as I see the owner/manager replies to bad reviews…read moreand I truly don't want to engage him, but want others to know the poor experience we had to help others. As was the case with countless others, I had a November 2020 wedding scheduled that was impacted by the pandemic lockdown. That's not anyone's fault. However. The client service from the manager/owner John is abhorrent. (The event coordinators are kind and very responsive.) We'd made deposits, and were scheduled to make another -- literally, I had optimistically send out save the dates -- but the city still had restrictions on how many people could gather in the space. My contract was for 130 people. When I reached out to Arts Ballroom to discuss the way forward, thinking that they MUST have some kind of action plan about how they were going to move forward with existing contracts and triage, there was nothing. No plan. No mitigation strategy. No flexibility to bump the date. Just an expectation of payment for my contracted amount. We asked to move the date to 2021. John told us no, because our Nov. 2020 date would be considered lost revenue because it's a date he could've sold to someone else. This was illogical -- if the city wouldn't let us gather in 2020, he wouldn't have been able to sell the date to ANYONE. That was the whole point -- we were trying to get ahead of what was very obviously inevitable: we weren't going to be able to host anything in 2020, and rather than proceed as planned -- spending all kinds of money on vendors and invitations, only for Arts Ballroom to call us THIRTY DAYS BEFORE to reschedule (yes, they were only alerting to reschedule 30 days out) we wanted to be proactive and get ahead of it. For those keeping score at home: you send wedding invitations 6 to 8 weeks out. Make it make sense. We even offered extra money to move the date for for peace of mind -- our primary concern was exposure to people who were at risk -- no dice. No dice and no action plan. But he did ask us if we wanted to just buy a new 2021 date! Ha. He then cockily talked through *his* obligations to the bank which -- I'm sorry, but I'm a paying customer. His business dealings are not my business--apply for small business pandemic support or something. His responsibility is to his customers, but I guess not. It's also telling that his business had no cash reserves so he had to hold folks' feet to the fire this way. Needless to say, we canceled and lost a significant deposit. In hindsight, it was a small price to pay to not have to work with his clueless arrogance. (He was very confident, despite saying he didn't watch the news, that the pandemic would clear up by our date.) I was walking a dog with a friend this weekend, and happened in front of the venue where I saw someone casually smoking crack on the corner across the street. I chuckled and took it as a sign.

I live in Florida and I wanted to send my Mother-In-Law a bouquet of flowers for her 94th birthday…read more I googled the area she lives in and found Urb Appeal Events. The arrangements were beautiful, so I sent her a message. Kristen got back to me immediately. We discussed what price range and type of arrangement I wanted. I needed it delivered a certain time, and it was no problem. She made some suggestions and created a beautiful bouquet! Kristen sent me pictures to be sure it was what I wanted. When it was delivered my Mother-in-Law did not hear the knock, so they were left by the door, they did an errand and then came back to make sure she got them which she had not. Mom did hear them this time, so they brought them in for her since she was using a walker. I would highly recommend Urb Appeal Events for the wonderful service and the creativity put into the floral bouquet. Sandy Coll

Bloomful works helped me with planning my wife's 40th birthday gathering. I was able to talk…read morethrough some of the aspects of it and get Marta's input into what she thought would work best. She had valuable opinions regarding venues and the different pros and cons of each and we talked through what made the most sense. We settled on a smaller dinner at a restaurant instead of a private room and saved a large amount. The biggest help was her taking care of arranging the cake and custom ordering it. She got to know what my wife likes and my wife loved the cake that she picked out and had made for her. It was delicious as well! I highly recommend enlisting Bloomful Works to help in planning your next event.