Planning a wedding in 2 months is not what most folks recommend, but we did it anyway. Our wedding…read morewas 10/16/2021, and I found my venue in August. Ferris Steakhouse, Rocky River, OH. See my review of it. Mary Jane Ferris, wedding and event coodinator extrodinaire, sent me to Ferris Steakhouse for a venue. Then she connected me with Brenda, SociallyArtistic for all my flowers and decor. OMG Brenda is unbelievable! She worked with me and completely understood my personal, crazy situation of family etc. My daughter decided the colors for the wedding because she is a busy doctor and hates shopping. Brenda was so understanding and let me wait until my daughter told me the color of the dress she chose before we decided on our pallet. So cool. Socially Artistic delivered all the bouquets and boutonnieres to the church for the ceremony. She was there when we all arrived and pinned the flowers to the men and made sure all the ladies had their bouquets and corsages. It was a little hectic bug Brenda was like a rock in the torrent. I also got a wrist corsage for my mother-in-law. It was exquisite and perfect. My mother-in-law spent a lot of money on her gorgeous dress so I did not want to stick a pin in it. She loved her flowers. In fact, she has not had one word of criticism for the entire wedding and I've been her daughter-in-law for almost a week! I am just getting to the reception. Brenda and her team turned the party room at Ferris Steakhouse into a fairytale scene! Glorious hydrangeas an roses of every pink hue everywhere. And lovely candlelight at multple heights all around the room. There were candlelit flower garlands on the fireplace mantle and over the doorway to the party room. Every table was laden with small and large arrangements. Unbelievably charming!!! There was a topiary on the appetizer table that was magnificent. I told Brenda that I wanted twinkle lights and she delivered! Our reception was magical, thanks to Socially Artistic and Brenda's magic. Now I will tell you how easy Brenda made the whole thing. Really easy. Whether your wedding is in 2 months, or a year or more, call Brenda. You will be so happy you did.

I hired Brenda to be the day of coordinator at my wedding this past weekend and I don't know how I…read morecould have gotten through the day without her help. The first time I spoke with her she invited me to meet with her in person and made me feel at ease to choose her as my coordinator. About a month before the wedding, we met again to go over all the final details. She was extremely helpful in polishing up the last minute details, such as how to add some time to the ceremony. Any uncertainty I had, she had a solution, and a good one! She was very responsive to me during those days leading up to the wedding. The wedding was so well put together the day of. She helped coordinate and communicated our bridal party schedules. She was calm and comforting during what could have been a stressful time. She set up all of my décor in a perfect way. Everything was just perfectly coordinated. I highly recommend Brenda for your wedding. Although we didn't hire her for her full planning package, I am certain she would do a fabulous job on that as well. Thanks again Brenda for everything you did to make sure our wedding was perfection!

I literally contacted Lily ONE week before my event. She accommodated my short notice and jumped on…read morethe challenge. Within two hours she had already secured a venue and started shooting me different options for decorations and appetizers. She literally made my life so easy. Especially since I live in Virginia and the event I was planning was all the way in Cleveland, Ohio. She got to the event a few hours early day of and set up everything. She even organized the games. I didn't have to do anything! It was such a good experience I will be using her again for in February for the baby shower. :)

From the owner: Let's grab a cup of coffee and plan your next event! I love making others happy so if I could it by…read moreplanning, decorating, and making each process easier for others then I am all in. We can go through all steps of the event planning process, making your event a unique and beautiful expression of your vision. My passion for event planning was sparked by my own life events. I found myself devoting all my time to make these memories special, personal, and exquisite. Now I want to do that for my clients. My inspiration for your special event isn't just to find out what you like, but to better understand who you are. As your dedicated hands-on event coordinator, I am personally involved from start to finish! Let's start planning!

Cute setting for a child's party, or, just stop by and enjoy a delicious cupcake, brownie, or…read moreanything freshly made. The owner is super friendly and don't leave without taking home enough treats to share.

I love this place!! The workers are very nice and the cupcakes and macarons are amazing. The store…read moreis super cute, it has this beautiful carriage and the decorations are really fun.

This is a long review but we encourage you to read it…read more Overall, our "Lasting Impression" is that the company was unprofessional and did not deliver what we paid for. JP, the President, was incredibly rude and awful to work with. We rented a large tent (40'x120'), dance floor, chairs, tables, glassware, etc for our 200 person backyard wedding. They created a digital layout for us, showing exactly where the tent poles would land and where our dance floor and tables would be. They also visited the event site twice to make sure the tent would fit there. JP visited the site himself and told us it would work. A crew delivered and set up the tent. They left large holes in the yard which we had to repair to avoid injury to our guests. They also mistakenly put an extra anchor in the yard which we had to ask them to remove. Many of the poles were crooked and the tent had visible stains. When the crew came to install the dance floor, we were told they couldn't install it as previously diagrammed by Lasting Impressions and as agreed to/contracted/and paid for by us. The floor installer commented on how crooked the tent installation was and couldn't seem to figure out how to install the dance floor with the tent poles in place. My father had to spend several hours working with the floor installer, loaned him a tape measure (since he barely had any tools) and helped him figure out how to get most of the flooring installed. In the diagram, the tent poles were shown to go on top of the dance floor. However, when they showed up to install it, they told us that the pole would have to go on grass instead. So, we had a dance floor with a hole in the center, another trip hazard for our guests and not what we had agreed to or wanted. In addition, due to the pole placement, we had to forgo an entire row of our dance floor, which we had already paid for. As for pick up after the wedding, there was no communication. We were originally told Monday or Tuesday, and that they would follow up with an exact time. We emailed and called JP to see when everything was going to be picked up, but never got a response. Instead the truck showed up in our driveway in the afternoon. Thankfully we were home to receive them. Afterwards, we reached out to JP to ask for a refund for the dance floor that his team did not put down for us. Not only did he refuse to refund us, he accused us of making his team wait for us to remove lighting from the tent (they were not delayed) and he didn't even apologize for their error. After a mistake that big, that's the very least he could do. Additionally, when trying to rent everything for the wedding, JP would send us quotes with items missing and inconsistent prices. In the few weeks leading up, we had to follow up with him several times to make sure that we did, in fact, have everything reserved. We had never received a final agreement or notice for final payment so we reached out to them. JP blamed us, claiming he had asked us for the signed estimate many times but never received it. We forwarded him the email where we had sent the signed estimate several weeks earlier, but he never acknowledged it. When JP eventually sent the final agreement, the prices had been raised from the original quote. We asked about it and were told that we were supposed to be charged for an extra delivery charge, so really we were still saving money.  The final agreement was also missing several items from the original quote, including the propane oven that was going to be used to cook our guests' food. If we had not double and triple checked everything, it could have been a disaster. Lasting Impressions was disorganized, hostile, and made promises they couldn't keep. They put their customers in an impossible position because it's too late to make changes or hire anyone else. The bottom line is - don't trust Lasting Impressions with your event, especially something as important as a wedding.

Just flat out unreliable. I got a call the DAY OF the pickup saying that they were going to give us…read morebigger bases because they weren't sure how heavy our drapes were. I thought sure that's fine. They never told us they also gave us different size uprights than what we ordered. So, day of, we're setting up and uprights are way too big. We couldn't use a single piece of the equipment. I was very upset with how they handled it after. No phone call, just repetitive emails 2 days after I tried to contact them denying any mistake on their part. No following up unless I kept bothering them. They appear to be very disorganized and just downright don't seem to care about anything but getting their money. There are plenty of other rental business in the area that you can depend on but sorry, this is definitely not one of them.

My son and daughter-in-law held their wedding and reception at The Estate on Coffee Creek this past…read moreweekend. We worked with the owner, Nick to make sure that everything went off without a hitch. We had heard some bad stories and read some poor reviews, so they also hired a Wedding Coordinator whom had held events here in the past for extra assurances. We're really glad we did both because everything went so well! The venue looked beautiful on the morning of the wedding! Nick had everything ready and had the outdoor landscaping trimmed as requested. The food was amazing and everything was presented right on time. Our guests were all treated wonderfully by the staff. Thanks for assisting in making our son's wedding day such a success!

Last night was our second opportunity to enjoy the culinary talents of Chefs Nicholas Kustala and…read moreMichele Kucinich. Chefs prepared a seven course private dining experience for us again. This time there were six of us celebrating an important event in our lives. We walked away having just two words to say... "ohhhh my!!!" Such an amazing night. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you both. ONLY thing missing was the Yelp extraordinaire young, yet highly qualified Maitre 'D, Master Nicholas Kustala. Sorry we missed you.

I don't know where to start because my expectations were exceeded by far!! My baby shower was not…read morethe first event she has done for our family but this one for me was extra special...I got more than what I wanted!! Everything turned out beautifully and I honestly can say I won't go to anyone else besides her best prices in the city!!

From the owner: Adored Events by Kelly specializes in Wedding and Event planning as well as decor services for any…read moreevent. We also specialize in creative balloon art services which is always a great touch for any event big or small. Contact us today to start planning your event!

My wife signed my son up for some cooking classes at Young Chefs Academy recently. He's been to two…read moreclasses now and he's made some tasty vittles. He likes cooking, but he doesn't like eating that much. He's a very picky eater. The teacher is friendly and the classes are reasonably priced. The location is good, but I'm not a fan of overcrowded Strongsville in general. I wish we had one of these closer to home. It's nice that my son doesn't have to wear a hat, bring a folder, a food container, or an apron. At other classes, we have to bring a bunch of stuff, but here, you just show up and cook. Easy.

I was looking for a birthday gift for my 10-year-old daughter when I found cooking classes at the…read moreYoung Chefs Academy as a potential option. I'm so glad I looked into it because from the moment she found out about the class, excitement took over. We arrived a little early at the class that was scheduled to start at 6 PM. The hours of the facility vary and the building may be closed until closer to the class time. The store front is located in a strip mall, so it's easy to find things to do to kill time until the Academy opens. Once opened, the staff were extremely nice and receptive. I chose to enroll my daughter in to the senior class. This would make her the youngest in the class although I thought it would be best because she has cooking skills. Parents are encouraged to leave once the youngsters are settled in. I came back to pick up about two hours later and to see what creations she made. Much to my delight, all of the kids were sitting at the table together eating. On this particular night, they made chicken, cheese, and broccoli turnovers with a strawberry pie for dessert. Everything looked amazing and the kids were happily eating away! My child had a blast and is so excited to return for the next class. This is a great idea for a present especially when looking for an activity to do. Highly recommend! Can't say enough about the wonderful staff!

I highly recommend DWE Decor ! They are affordable and everything turned out so nice exactly how I…read morewanted ! I couldn't ask for more I am so please & I'm coming back to DWE Decor to help with another party I'm having as well ! 5/5 great job !!!!

We hired Fawzia Kahook of DWE decor who now works at Laplace banquet center in akron ohio, for my…read moredaughter's wedding reception on may 22,2021. She did a good job with the pre wedding event on may 21st but let us down miserably for the reception. She under decorated the stage and out of the 27 tables, she only did 6 floral centerpieces and did not do the centerpieces we had discussed for the other tables. She arrived 3 hours later than she was supposed to, at the venue. She informed me that even if her staff had arrived 3 hrs earlier , they would not have been able to do anything in her absence. It is unbelievable that a decorator would not go over the plans for the decor with her staff prior to the event.When I asked her if she was satisfied with her work on may 22, her answer was a definite NO. She even admitted that if she had had the 3 hrs , she would have been able to finish what she was supposed to do. Fawzia has poor time management and the quality of her work is not consistant which makes it difficult to trust her with any event. She is not organized and frequently does not read her emails. My daughter had been planning this wedding for 2 years- she had to cancel last year due to covid. My daughter is extremely organized and sent multiple emails with pictures, images etc of her vision.(I also sent them to Fawzia).My daughter emailed her the wedding mood board she had created with stage and decor ideas including floral colours and centerpiece ideas.Yet , 6 days before the wedding, Fawzia still did not have an idea of her vision for the stage or centerpieces. she told me she gets so many emails and texts, she doesnt have time to open them. A good decorator would have improvised when short on time. obviously Fawzia does not fall under that category.