Best. Wedding. Planner. Ever!…read more
I cannot say enough good things about Shy and the dream team that she assembled for my wedding! Shy was helpful, compassionate, very thoughtful, and just an overall wonderful person to work with.I would absolutely have no reservations recommending her to anybody who is planning a wedding....in fact, I would insist on anyone looking for a wedding planner to throw Romp Events into the mix! I am a picky person who wanted more than just the cookie cutter wedding planner, one who truly had my best interest at heart, and wasn't going to recommend vendors because of their own self-interest...who was going to be there and help design my wedding so it felt like me and my husband. I interviewed 11 different wedding planners. Shy was the last wedding planner that we met with and from day 1 of meeting her, we knew that she was the wedding planner for us.
We knew we wanted the full wedding planning/hand holding experience, because...well, we don't know what we don't know because neither of us had been married before! There is still a lot of leg work from the bride and groom's side because you have to make the decisions leading up to the wedding, but Shy was the one who gave us vendors to look at and had already vetted them so we knew we didn't have to worry. Where Shy and her team really shined was the last 2 months before the wedding - design, organizing the vendors, and making sure everything was good to go for our big day. I tend to be a worry wart and can stress about things easily, but Shy always had my back and reassured me that things were fine. When our photobooth guy couldn't make it because he got hurt, Shy put together a light ring with an iPad and ordered props so that we could still have a photobooth for the same low price - and honestly, it was just as good as the real deal and I don't think anybody noticed any different. When I was freaking out because I felt overwhelmed with my wedding checklist, Shy was there to calm me down and let me know I was doing things just fine and not lagging behind. When we were considering extra things that would have put us out of budget, Shy was there to kindly reel us back in. We had our wedding at The Dunlavy, which has a huge beautiful tree outside one end of the restaurant with a base tree light that shines up the tree. Shy surprised us by having the light shine up be plum purple (one of our wedding colors)....which just gave everything this magical feel!
Shy went above and beyond to give us our dream wedding and she with Lisa (the wedding coordinator) executed it perfectly. It was a wedding that felt like us and not just copy and pasted from another wedding. I didn't want all the "popular" trends that you see in wedding magazines...it wasn't for me, but Shy is very creative and really personalized the design for what we wanted. She was able to take my abstract/random thoughts and turn it into a reality. I wanted this casual, but elegant feel to the wedding and Shy absolutely nailed it. I honestly would not change a single thing about my wedding.....and I know I'm biased, but it was the most fun and beautiful wedding I've ever been to. The DJ was AMAZING, food was great, drinks were great, Lisa was awesome, flowers were beautiful, and our photographers were fantastic - it truly was a dream team and it would not have been possible without Shy. With Shy, you're not just getting a wedding planner, you're getting a confidant and a friend.
TLDR: Shy is AMAZING. Hire Romp Events. You won't regret it.
P.S. I forgot to add that aside from being awesome, Romp Events won't break your budget ($3500). You definitely get your money's worth and she is worth every single penny and then some! Out of the 11 wedding planners I interviewed, there were 3 that I found that cost less; however, I have no doubt that I would NOT have gotten the same value as I did with Romp Events.