I am a florist and as such get thrown together with all varieties of coordinators and wedding planners. Sometimes you really have to work hard to not step on each other's toes as each of us only wants to do a superior job for our mutual client, the bride. Liz was a pleasure to work with. Yesterday's wedding was scheduled to be a pick-up rather than a delivery and demanded coordination on both of our parts. Prior to the event we had several conversations and a meeting and I found her to be very organized, detail oriented , an excellent communicator and a super nice gal as the cherry on the top! Liz was not only dedicated to her bride and groom, but was sensitive to making my job flow easily as well. I could not have asked for a better team effort. I enjoyed her sense of humor...and believe me, working under strict time deadlines sometimes is a real humor suck! Kudos, Liz, for your smiling face and extreme competency! read more

Working with Liz was such a pleasure! From our very first meeting up to the big day itself, she was always friendly, accommodating, and was an amazing stress reliever. She makes herself very available to her clients, and is always there to help, whether it's a simple question, or figuring out how to assemble wedding decorations (as we learned together, even the simplest wedding arches can be super confusing...). Thanks to Liz, our wedding went off without a hitch, and everyone was able to relax and have a great time. Working with her feels like you're having a friend help you out - only Liz knows way more about the wedding game than any friend I know. I cannot recommend her highly enough! If you're searching for a coordinator, definitely do yourself a favor and give her a call. read more

Liz was beyond wonderful! From the first moment we talked, my husband and I knew that we had to have her as our day of coordinator. She is a wealth of information and always had a solution for my problems within 24 hours (like when our DJ moved to the Phillipines 6 weeks before the wedding). While we only had her as a day of coordinator, she met with us at the venue beforehand, to help us ask all of the right questions. She even went with my husband to our food tasting because I had a 103 fever (note, wedding planners LOVE food tastings). The two days surrounding the wedding, Liz was on top of everything. She made sure everyone stayed organized at the rehearsal dinner. The next morning, she and her two assistants began setting everything up for us at the venue! Liz bounced around between venue and hotel all day - making sure we were all going according to plans. When I arrived at the venue I was in awe of how amazing everything looked. They took the image that was in our minds and brought it to life! Liz and her assistants came prepared with everything and smoothly handled every hiccup we had (like my garter falling down every two seconds, or when my husband almost saw me before getting to the aisle). Truly, Silver Charm Events thinks of everything! read more

Liz, indeed, may have been Wonder Woman in a past life. Hiring her as our wedding coordinator was hands down the smartest wedding investment we made. We booked our wedding venue based on it's beauty alone but we quickly realized that it came with NO amenities - no water, no power, no bathrooms, no lighting, no furniture, etc. It could have been a logistical nightmare but Liz expertly managed all the vendors, insurance, deposits, and set-up & breakdown times. I had extremely high standards when it came to the look and feel of the wedding, but not exactly the biggest budget. Liz helped us find exquisite vendors that exceeded my expectations and were right within our price range. I tend to dream big and when I went to Liz with my outrageous ideas she never said "no" but simply helped figure out the logistics to turn them into reality. On the big day, she and her assistants managed our packed timeline so that everything flowed seamlessly. The entire day was perfect. Seeing that Liz had everything under control allowed me to have the calmness I desired of my big day, and the result was the most magical day of my life, surrounded by loved ones, good vibes and awesome food. Thank you to Silver Charm Events... you are dream makers! read more

The WORST mistake I made for my wedding was hiring Liz Coopersmith as a wedding coordinator. I work as a director of an institution. I deal with many people with differing skillsets and personalities, Liz is the worst person I've ever hired. I found her unorganized, bad with communication, and bad at planning. I have no idea how she can call herself "a wedding planner". I paid for "partial-wedding services" which she describes as "you will do some of the work, but I can help you with the most to make sure everything goes seamlessly." The truth? I ended up finding my own venue, my own DJ, my own florist, my own photographer, pretty much everything. Looking at other reviews, she seems to do well as a "day-of coordinator" but whole event planning is beyond her scope. Planning was chaotic. She was late for appointments and blamed it on traffic. She often never followed up on the things I requested. I almost fired her a few times, but didn't in part because my husband convinced me to give her a chance, and in part because I thought my nervousness about the event was making me hard on her. But it wasn't just me: vendors, bridesmaids, and multiple people in the wedding party complained about her as well . A few vendors had prior experience with her and wondered why in the world I chose her as my wedding planner. She kept calling them and asking them the same questions. A few weeks before the wedding, I reached out to few other wedding coordinators and asked their opinions regarding the wedding. They were surprised how poorly managed my wedding was. Some of them felt bad for me and offered help without any charge. (Without their advice, the decoration at the venue would have been horrible.) Here are the list of the things didn't go as planned on the wedding day: 1. Timeline - she had an old version of the timeline. Vendors, ourselves, and Liz went over the finalized revised version of the timeline a week prior to the wedding, but with her outdated version, nothing was coordinated. She kept coming up to my table and asking me "what's happening next?" "Is the father-and daughter dance happening?" (This is despite multiple emails and phone calls stating that we are NOT doing a father-daughter dance.) The DJ realized her info was wrong, so he just bypassed her and spoke with me directly the rest of the night, not an ideal situation. 2. Procession orders - She did not know who was walking down the aisle until 3 minutes before the procession started. I myself finally had to line up the wedding party and had them walk down the aisle in the correct order. 3. Procession music - I gave a listing of my requested music 2 weeks prior to the event, and asked her to coordinate with the DJ. On the day of the wedding, though, Liz didn't know what was on the music lists, so right before I was to go down the aisle I was surprised to hear the wrong music was playing. I informed Liz, who insisted it was right, but finally went over to the DJ and found the right music/right list. 4. Cake cutting - Weeks prior, the DJ had asked me to pick a cake cutting song. When the time came, Liz walked us over to the cake without any announcement to the guests, without the song playing, and told us to just start cutting the cake. I told her it wasn't right, but Liz insisted that "other people usually don't have a song with cake cutting, so just go over there and cut the cake". The DJ ultimately realized what was going on and started to play the "cake cutting song". Liz just shrugged it off saying "oh I didn't know there was a song for this," without admitting she was wrong. 5. Dismissive to our parents - Liz placed the seating chart in a non-obvious place and my mother asked Liz to move it. Liz refused, insisting that the chart was fine where it was. When guests came to me saying they didn't know where to sit, I asked Liz to move the chart, and she again refused. I had to practically demand her to move it and only at that point did Liz FINALLY agree to move the chart, and only with great reluctance. 6. Parking - We reserved a paid parking lot for our guests and vendors, but Liz did not let the vendors know, so they ended up paying a parking fee (which of course they had to bill us for). I asked Liz to put up a parking sign so that wedding guests wouldn't miss the parking lot, but she forgot to do it. I reminded Liz and told her the vendors and the guests were confused about parking....but she still didn't do it. Additionally, the parking was not properly marked off, so we saw a lot of non-wedding guests using our parking spots, while a lot of our own wedding guests ended up having to park elsewhere. There were additional incidents which happened both during the planning and the actual wedding, but I think you get the point. We were fortunate our parents, guests, and bridesmaids were all there to help out and enjoyed the wedding despite the glitches brought about by our wedding planner's ineptitude. read more

Avoid Liz and Silver Charm Events at all cost! We signed a contract with Liz for UNLIMITED FULL-SERVICE wedding coordination for a set fee. 11 DAYS BEFORE THE WEDDING, she demanded some unheard of additional fee to the tune of 4-figures or she would stop all work. When we reminded her about her contract and that our wedding was only days away, she didn't care and said she had to renegotiate the contract. We tried calling, emailing and texting to work things out, but it fell on deaf ears as she said her position would not change. She did this as we were about to make our final scheduled payment to her. We did not renegotiate with her and the business relationship ended. Earlier in the relationship, we told her that we were concerned about her lack of details. It got so bad that we had to double check all of her work as we kept discovering mistakes. It was like we were doing the work ourselves and still paying her for it. She did not keep an eye on the wedding budget. When we discovered we were around 50% over budget, not only did we communicate our disappointment to Liz about this, but we had to renegotiate with all of our other wedding vendors to make the budget work which caused unneeded delays. The only vendor we did not try to renegotiate with was with Liz - who again, demanded MORE money afterwards. I guess she thought she could hold us hostage being so close to our wedding date. I don't understand why she thinks she can perform so badly, demand so much and still be a part of the most special day of our lives. All of our wedding vendors got paid as agreed. Per Liz's ultimatum however, we got rid of her. read more

Thank God for Liz!!! We planned a wedding for 200 people in just 6 months! We hired Liz for her full services and this was money well-spent. Liz was helpful in every aspect of planning and organizing the biggest event of our lifetimes. Her patience and help made it possible for us to create exactly the exciting and unique wedding experience that we had imagined. She is an expert in all things wedding and just being able to ask her endless questions throughout the process was priceless. I love that she takes so much delight in the creative expressions of love through weddings. She is a gem! read more

Liz Coopersmith was 100% about making our ceremony exactly what we wanted it to be. She was easy to work and even blended in like she was part of the family. She has a great sense of humor and was very flexible. Thank you for making this part of the our day totally stress free! read more

We hired Liz to be our wedding officiant in September and it was the best decision we made!! We were so happy with Liz's professionalism and her as a person in general. She was very proficient in emailing me options of wording for our ceremony and making changes to make it perfect. Our ceremony went very smoothly and everyone commented after how wonderful our ceremony was. Even after our wedding when I had issues obtaining out marriage certificate (due to OC recorders office, Not Liz), Liz was right there to help me straighten it out and helped expediate the process. I would definitly recommend Liz and you will be very happy!! read more

I opted for the day-of coordinating services, but Liz offered so much more. She visited my venues with me, offered advice and recommendations, and checked in with me often with meetings and phone calls. I had concerns about family drama and she said she would take care of it. Obviously she did, because on the wedding day, I didn't get wind of any drama going down. She was on top of all the scheduling, setting up timeline, working with my vendors, and keeping us on schedule. She transferred items from our home to the church to the venue. She set up and tore down. She packed up everything and packed up our car for us. I'm sure we had glitches throughout the day. But I never knew about them. Liz took care of everything. My friends and family were able to enjoy the day without being saddled with tasks. Most importantly, my hubby and I had the most amazing day, without a care in the world. Whatever people threw at me, I just sent them to Liz. She shielded us from everything and we were thoroughly able to enjoy the day. And not only did she take care of us the time leading up to the wedding, and on the wedding day itself, she also checked in with us after the wedding to make sure we were ok. Some minor issues came up and Liz was still working on stuff for us. She is still helping us with recommendations and referrals, even 4 months after the wedding! She is so easy to work with, she has a great, friendly energy, she always put me at ease. Having her a part of our wedding was the best decision I made. The hubby was reluctant on hiring a coordinator, but even he admitted at the end of the night that we could not have pulled it off without Liz. People asked me how I was so calm on the day of. It was because I knew I had her running the show! We are so grateful to Liz. read more

It was a pleasure, and an honor to have Liz be the officiant of my wedding. She was professional, funny, smart, understanding, and most importantly loving. She went above and beyond on her ceremony. She was everything we could ask for. So thank you so much Liz, Mel and I appreciate everything. GO BRUINS!!! 11/30/13 read more

Silver Charm Events was the best choice I made for my wedding. Liz responded to my every need through email and phone. Not only is she a great wedding planner but a very sweet person whom I will stay in contact with! read more

Liz Coopersmith is the ultimate professional. She struck the exact right tone in coordinating my daughter's wedding. She doesn't over reach, she's efficient, unflappable and was dedicated to our vision. This wasn't an easy event to plan and it was perfect! I recommend her enthusiastically. read more

My husband and I decided to hire a wedding planner because neither of us knows anything about wedding stuff and I (as the theoretically more competent of us by virtue of gender) am a physician with very little free time. A friend of mine, who is also a woman in medicine, recommended Liz to us, and she was, without a doubt, the soundest investment of our entire wedding planning process. She is incredibly personable and fun to work with, which is a huge plus. She is also very organized and incredibly flexible with respect to scheduling meetings (also a huge plus with my lifestyle). She has a lot of relationships with very reasonable vendors and was a huge advocate in helping us achieve our vision on a limited budget. The thing that most impressed me, however, was her availability. She is MUCH less expensive than most of her competitors, and yet she is tremendously more accessible. We had no limitation on the number of phone calls, texts or in-person meetings, and she attended all meetings with vendors with us. That is absolutely not the case with a majority of (at least LA-based) wedding planners, and I really feel the value for your money in using Liz is tremendous. I would recommend her (and have) to anyone needing help with wedding planning, particularly anyone who is either a physician or in a similarly demanding profession. She is worth every penny and many more. read more

Liz Coopersmith came in two weeks before my daughter's baby shower and put together a beautiful, fun, well run party. She did it all, flowers, food, karaoke machine, rentals...you name it. She was there for the entire event, helping with the games and it could not have been smoother. Even my panicky husband was under control! I will definitely use her in the future. read more

I hired Liz about 2-3 months before my wedding. As an attorney who works 12+ hours a day and had just opened my own firm, I had to finally admit that I simply did not have the time to take care of the wedding planning with my work schedule. It was a great relief to have her help and at a reasonable rate. Liz did an excellent job and was very accessible at all hours of the day, every day of the week; and was able to get so many things done for us at the last minute that I didn't think we could pull off. She was willing to work around my schedule, which is not easy. She did a great job negotiating with wedding vendors; and she impressed myself and many of my friends who are "negotiators" in other fields. She also thought of a lot of things that I would not have, and with very talented vendors (we got a gorgeous runner and card box, with the card box being made just days before the wedding). She was also very pleasant to work with and kept me calm throughout the process. We had a beautiful ceremony and a wonderful, fun reception that was everything we had hoped for and more. Alexa (Socha) and John Rowan read more

Liz is a blast to work with! She is very fun, charismatic, and on task with everything. She dealt with all the wedding stuff for us while we both sat back and relaxed. Liz also has excellent insight to great (and AFFORDABLE) vendors all over your area. I highly recommend Liz as your wedding planner. You will be very satisfied! read more

Hiring Liz was an excellent decision. We wanted to have a day-of coordinator to take off some of the stress of our wedding day and Liz was perfect for this. She helped us get organized ahead of time and was always checking in to see if we needed anything. She's very sweet and wonderful to work with--plus she's so organized. Then, on the day of the wedding, I didn't have to worry about a thing! Thanks Liz! read more

Liz kept us on track and on budget. She found vendors we could afford and suggested a more affordable venue when the first one didn't work out. I can't thank Liz enough for everything she did to make our day special. She also helped us plan a wedding in Burbank when we live in Northern California. I couldn't have done it without her help. read more

We hired Liz to coordinate our wedding on the day of. It was her first time coordinating an Indian wedding, so it was definitely a new experience for her and her team. Overall, Liz did a good job of handling and coordinating the wedding and taking care of things such as setting up for both the ceremony and reception, making sure the hotel staff were on standby to wait on us during the reception, returning all of our belongings at the end of the night, ensuring we got pictures on the rooftop with fireworks in the background, and coordinating the vendors arrivals, payments, and tips. Since I did all the planning for my wedding, I provided Liz with a detailed schedule that she worked off of for the day of the wedding. Even with the detailed schedule there were a few occurrences during the wedding where the coordination could have been better. For example, she didn't have a hard copy of the schedule printed out so when her phone died she wasn't sure what was next on the timeline. At another point there was nobody there to queue the DJ to start the music for the bridesmaids entrances. It's possible some of the disconnect came from the fact that I planned the wedding and she stepped in to execute the day of. These were minor issues in the grand scheme of things. If you're an organized bride, I think Silver Charm Events can step in to handle those details that you can't tend to on the day of your wedding. read more