Merry Me handled our day-of coordination as well as our decorations and floral, and let us tell you, it was one of the best decisions we made for our September 2012 wedding!
First, they are just wonderful people to begin with. We were planning our Indiana wedding (at the Notre Dame Basilica since we're both alums) while living in California, and decided we wanted at least a day of coordinator to handle things so we wouldn't be stressed. We found them online and, after reading their reviews, decided to shoot Cher an email. She replied quickly and was able to answer all of our questions, a huge plus for us since most of our communications would be over email. We happened to be coming back to the Granger area a few months later, so we set up a meeting with her.
Like you are probably also doing, we considered "the other" planning/florist company, aka the default for on-campus weddings. They were slow on communicating with us via email or phone, and they definitely give you a feeling that you're just one in a line of many, many Basilica weddings. Obviously, yes, since you've got a Basilica wedding you kind of are one wedding of 6 on that same weekend, but it's still YOUR wedding and a very significant day in your life! Merry Me, even though I'm sure they had other weddings that weekend, made us feel like we were the only ones getting married that month! They are so sincere in wanting to make your wedding day amazing, and really will do anything they can to make it a success!
We brought our ideas, all really rough, and our color scheme to that first meeting with her. We were kind of nervous, because what we wanted seemed kind of crazy, at least when you heard us talk about it! We had nothing to worry about though, because if she or Richelle thought any of it was weird, they didn't show it, and actually got really, really excited about "our vision"! (on a side note, we realized our wedding colors were also their companies logo colors!) We wanted to do two receptions with travel themes; the first one would be a more formal brunch with vintage travel flair, while the second one was in the evening and was more of a dance party with Star Wars undertones. Yea, crazy right? BUT, they made it work! About 2 seconds after that meeting, we decided to hire them for coordination and decor! We had another meeting with them about 6 months later where we finalized some designs, but other than that, we were communicating entirely through phone calls and emails.
On to the day of our wedding! The decorations were amazing and the florals breathtaking. Like we mentioned above, we just had 2 interviews with Cher and gave her a general idea of what we wanted. Honestly, even we didn't really know exactly what we wanted it to look like. Neither of us are particularly design oriented, so we gave Cher a lot of room to do whatever she thought would look good. We are SO GLAD we did! Cher managed to take the chaos that was what we described for her and turned it into an elegant, classy, design plan that was so very distinctly us. Both the brunch reception and evening reception looked amazing; they were distinctly different, but obviously connected. One example: she arranged to have the centerpieces from our more formal brunch morning reception brought to the evening reception, rearranged them, and set them up with our floor plan and rentals to make it look like a night club! We couldn't have asked for better décor or florals!
What Cher was able to do for decorations, Richelle was able to do with our coordination. Richelle, from the SoCal area like us, is such a professional, but also someone you could take out to coffee because she's just that sweet. Before our wedding day, she answered our thousands of questions and helped in any way she could. Thanks to her, we secured our room block effortlessly (zero drama!) and smoothed out all the wrinkles regarding transportation for our guests. She knows what she's doing, and can see upcoming problems before you even consider them to be remotely possible. She is exactly what anyone would want in a wedding coordinator - she makes sure everything happens the way it's supposed to, but no one ever actually notices she's there. Just about everything went exactly how we had discussed it in our meetings before the wedding, and when something didn't go according to plan she improvised so well that a) none of our guests noticed, and b) even we didn't notice it didn't go according to plan. On top of that, she was able to get the vendor who did mess up (through no fault of her own) to give us a refund.
If you are looking for the absolute best wedding planners and decorators in Indiana, look no further than Merry Me. If they're available on your wedding day, retain them as soon as you have a chance! Cher and Richelle make an amazing team, one that you will most definitely want in your corner on such an important day in your lives! read more
