Overall, my partner and I's experience with this company was frustrating. We paid for the top tier…read morepackage with YWYW. It feels like we were let down by how things were handled especially in the last few months leading up to the wedding. They use an online tool (aisle planner) which is super helpful when there are items to discuss. However, there were numerous times we needed to email because something we wanted to discuss was not on the checklist and many times that things were lost via email. Also, the tool didn't have a convenient way for us to upload things to the portal. The vendor quotes we got for things were very limited. When we wanted an outside vendor (not on the list provided) it felt like we needed to handle that ourselves. It also was much much faster turn arounds when we spoke directly to the vendors. Stefanie is a very personable, friendly and kind person. She really does a good job of making you feel important. However, the follow through was not there leading up to our day. For example, after several weeks up no response, we finally got a response to start on invitations. We had already sent save the dates. However, the invitation design/send process started so late we had guests reach out to ask if they were uninvited because they hadn't received their official invites. Plus, we sent them so late our guests had less than 2 weeks to respond. Towards the last 6 weeks leading up to our wedding, there was a medical related incident that caused some delays - which we completely understand. People first!However, the communication, transition and delays were horrible. For example, we had another several weeks without YWYW contacting us at all. Then, we received an email stating the radio silence was based on a medical incident. We had a HUGE mishap with catering and most of the communication with the vendor was handled by the wedding planner themselves. Meaning, it was hidden from us - which is good normally. However, the day before our wedding, I asked about the final invoice and it was 30% larger than the last invoice we saw (we didn't add that much). When I seemed shocked, the first response from our wedding planner was don't worry, it's still within budget. That felt unsettling to me. It turned out the cater had misquoted the cost of staff (buffet versus plated). The wedding planner did step in and fix this once we communicated frustration with it. On the day of, everything went well. However, our wedding planner could not make the event. They had a medical issue and had first, communicated that they were going to be well enough to attend our wedding and then week of, told us that they were no longer coming. Which was totally good but the replacement wasn't good. They were often short with me, my partner, my sister and my matron of honor. They snapped at my wedding party a few times in front of me. They were hard to find often and did not have the catering issues handled - I was asked where the special diet person sat (even though this was communicated thoroughly with YWYW). If we were to do the experience again, we would do most of the planning ourselves and then hire a day or week of coordinator. We are both very organized, detailed and informative. We felt like we could have found cheaper, tested and still lovely vendors. On the bright side, I didn't like my first make up trial and the wedding planner worked really hard in one day to get me set up with another trial and contract. It helped immensely because I felt beautiful on my wedding day. They even gave me their business phone number to text/call when needed. We felt really supported here. However, it was by far the best turn around we saw. We feel overall that the ball was dropped for our wedding multiple times towards the end. However, our day ultimately was beautiful and magical. We will be grateful for some of the wonderful vendors YWYW provided to us. We wanted to get a wedding planner to alleviate some of the stress around wedding planning but felt it frustrating at times.

Do yourself a favor and hire Your Wedding, Your Way to plan your wedding. We had the best…read moreexperience working with Stefanie, and she is worth every penny! My wife and I got engaged in October 2021. We knew we wanted a spring wedding in Austin Texas. We live in Scottsdale Arizona so for us, this was a destination wedding. My wife had a few converstons with other wedding planners in the Ausitn area, and she left the conversations even more stressed, overwhelmed, and felt it was impossible to plan a wedding in 6 months. When she met with Stefanie, she was blown away (and even cried tears of joy on the first video call). Stefanie was helpful, direct, honest, and let us know we could absolutely plan a wedding in 6 months, we just had to be decisive. She sent us dozen of wedding venues, and we landed on The Hyatt Regency, Lost Pines Resort and Spa. She read and edited our venue contract, kept us within our budget, and helped us plan every step along the way. She set us up with weekly tasks, would check in every day or two, and give her honest opinion on questions we had. Stefanie is organized, quick to respond, and made us feel comfortable every step of the way. Our wedding ran so smooth, and my wife and I didnt think about any details the day of. We knew Stefanie had everything under control. We made the best decision to hire her. If you are in the Austin area, and want 100% of your wedding stress to be lifted, work with Stefanie.

Cheryl was a joy to work with on my daughter's wedding!! Love her personality and creativity! She…read moreand her team did an incredible job and I highly recommend Stems Floral!!

The flowers were incredible for my daughter's wedding. Cheryl worked so well with her to create…read morethe exact vision! Everything was perfection! Loved it!

Anderson Mill Terrace hosted our baby shower this past March! Christina, the coordinator went above…read moreand beyond to help us throw the most elegant and beautiful shower we could have imagined! The catering and other staff were so helpful and made sure everyone was restocked, filled, cleaned etc! The even made a greenery wall just in time for our shower so we had a lovely backdrop for photos and for opening gifts. When you first see the site, you think it looks just like someone's home with a large parking lot, but once you step inside you are welcomed with lovely layout indoors and a spectacular patio outdoors. They have a whole storage room for decor, table clothes etc so you won't have to even bring anything for set up! We would 1000% recommend having your shower, wedding, or special event here!

I can not thank enough Shari, Angelica and their staff…read more Everything was AMAZING, more than what we expected, the venue was beautiful,food & music was great, I honestly I have nothing but GOOD things to say about this place, we had the wedding of our dreams and we're so glad we choose you guys. 1,000 times recommend this place!

Brook with Best Day Ever! made the preparation and flow of our wedding day perfect! We didn't have…read moreto worry about a thing, she was on top of it all. She is so easy to work with and just a wonderful, kind person overall.

Brook was fantastic! So organized, so experienced, so ready to do it all for a perfect wedding! My…read moredaughter's wedding went great and we couldn't have done it without Brook! I highly recommend her!

Cheryl and her team made our wedding feel so seamless and smooth! I truly got to just enjoy my day…read moreand not stress about anything because they were so on top of things. They kept us fed, took care of the logistics, improvised when needed, managed guests-- everything!! Couldn't be more grateful!

Cheryl, Rohit, and Simran are such amazing planners. We hired them in the middle of our planning,…read morejust four months out from the wedding. We had tons of open tasks and many unfinished decisions to make. Cheryl's project management skills were invaluable, not only for getting things done but also for keeping us organized and helping reduce our stress. Cheryl, Rohit, and Simran are a wonderful team to have by your side. They're always honest and caring, and they genuinely want the best for you. It wasn't just the planning leading up to the event that was superb; on the day of, they were on top of things. I was truly never aware of any hiccups or mishaps; they would simply fix issues before they became problems. If you want a team who dots every 'i' and crosses every 't', if you want a team who will keep you accountable for all the tasks that need to be done, and if you want a team who genuinely cares about you and your family's experience every step of the way, hire Cheryl, Rohit, and Simran.

Dawn and Angel are absolutely the best out there when it comes to planning a wedding. My wife and i…read moregot engaged exactly 6 months before our wedding and they were able to not only work with my wife to put together exactly the wedding she had envisioned, and ran it perfectly and flawlessly to the schedule we had discussed but they also surprised us with some gifts/extras on the wedding day that blew us away. Extremely thoughtful and effective team. As a groom the number one thing they did right: they made my bride VERY happy :o)

My husband and I used YVOFG for our wedding last year in Austin. I was unsure whether hiring a…read morewedding planner was necessary-- it just seemed like such a luxury. But we didn't want to have to force one of our mothers to do all the directing! So we bit the bullet and hired YVOFG-- the owner of which I had met at my friend's wedding and seemed to be great. I have to say hiring YVOFG was one of the Best things we did in our wedding preparations. Our planner was Ashley, and she was RIDICULOUSLY good. We never dreamed for someone that thorough. She did an amazing job and allowed us to enjoy our wedding and know that someone else was worried about all the little stuff. My first recommendation to anyone I know getting married now is hire a wedding planner!! And definitely hire YVOFG if you are anywhere in TEXAS.

There aren't adequate words for how awesome Heather is and how thankful my husband and I are that…read morewe booked Vintage & Lace for our wedding last month, but here goes! We were already leaning toward hiring a coordinator but then our venue (Ma Maison) required us to have one so we contacted their entire list of preferred vendors for coordinators and we are so glad we did because that's how we found Heather from Vintage & Lace!! Of all of the planners and coordinators we talked to, I was just immediately drawn to how warm, friendly, AND organized she is. Heather is an absolute pro with countless weddings under her belt, but still so kind and easy to talk to. Then, despite planning our wedding from another city, Heather made it SO easy and smooth. We technically only booked her for day-of coordination (with full communication/access the month prior) but from day one, she was still always available via call, email, text, whathaveyou, no matter when or what kind of (ridiculous, I'm sure) questions I had. We didn't actually meet Heather in person until our rehearsal the day before our wedding, and she was an absolute ROCK STAR the entire weekend. She managed to wrangle our large wedding party (14 bridesmaids and groomsmen) and all of our family (including bilingual and non-native English speakers, as well as divorced family) with both grace and authority. It's also worth noting we had several extras (a Chinese tea ceremony before our wedding ceremony, two large shuttles to transport our guests to and from Dripping Springs, getting Whataburger delivered to our venue for a late night snack) and Heather handled EVERYTHING seamlessly. Anything I thought of or had concerns about, she handled before I even voiced them to her! If anything went wrong on our wedding day, I have no idea what it was, because Heather was ON it. She was also incredibly thoughtful and adaptable, from my mom wanting to move the cake-cutting earlier, to making sure all of our belongings were packed away and that we had plenty of snacks and drinks in our getaway car. Her day-of assistant, Jasmine, was also so helpful and sweet. They both made the entire weekend just a wonderful, fun, amazing experience where we got to fully enjoy getting married and celebrating with family and friends. I can't recommend Heather and Vintage & Lace more highly -- BOOK HER NOW! I won't say "you won't regret it," but rather, you'll regret it if you don't! Heather, thank you thank you thank you SO much for all your hard work and support in making sure our wedding was an amazing, dreamy, unforgettable experience!

Six weeks before my wedding, I panicked and contacted a multitude of wedding planners and…read morecoordinators. Due to COVID, I was exhausted from cancelling an overseas wedding and dealing with two reschedules; I could no longer handle all of the logistics. Enter Heather. She was quick to respond and schedule a meeting with me and my then fiancee to discuss details. She was calm, interested, and prepared. She assuaged my panic and let me know that 6 weeks for a 30 person wedding was easy peasy. I cannot recommend Heather enough! With my hectic work schedule, she contacted me via email as my preference. We are based in Philadelphia, and while we didn't meet until the day before the wedding, you definitely couldn't tell as everything went off without a hitch. Well if there was anything wrong during the ceremony and reception, we had no idea. She handled all of our vendors seamlessly and made everyone feel safe during the pandemic. I definitely know now that we couldn't have pulled it off without her!

I generally don't write reviews but for Johnell I think she definitely needs an appreciation!…read more We reached out to Johnell for my 3 year old's birthday party recently. We hardly had two weeks for the event day and Johnell worked day and night to get everything planned and coordinated according to the theme of the party. She provided great suggestions like the claw machine, face painting and a magician. It was tough to get a magician in that short time period but she did her magic to find the best one for the event and it was great! All our 50+ guests who attended the party raved about how well the planning and coordination was done for a 3 year old's birthday. It wouldn't have happened without her! She also helped with my baby shower back in early 2020 when Covid didn't hit us yet. My husband worked with her to throw me a baby shower and it was amazingly done. That baby shower event has made us reach out to her again because we knew she will do an excellent job and can trust her because she puts her heart in every event that she takes up. Thank you so much Johnell for all the efforts and an outstanding work even with such short time that you had.

I write this in case it's helpful for others. I sincerely wish I'd have known what I was getting…read moreinto before I entered into a contract with Johnell. If you're not inclined to read the entirety of this lengthy review, I sum my experience up in the last two paragraphs. My wedding was only 1.5 months away. I chose the full package option. As a full-time professional & graduate student, the idea of a wedding planner sounded like heaven. Her reviews were phenomenal. I thought we'd get timelines, help with our vision, several vendor options with differing price points. Instead we got snarky eye rolls when we'd ask about details, sarcastic jokes about us needing to book marriage counseling, disinterest in getting us what we actually wanted, and extremely abbreviated access to her at her convenience. Honestly, it was devastating. The most stressful part of our wedding planning became my interactions, and oftentimes lack of interactions, with Johnell. Price points and vision would continuously get lost in translation. The pattern: Time would pass despite our requests for input on selecting vendors (for example, 3 weeks for florals) and then we'd get an almost finalized contract from a single vendor we hadn't vetted. In the case of florals, at a price of $11K when we'd explained our floral budget was $3K. She was extremely dismissive. Even requests for a quick 15 minute check in call could go ignored. Her preference most of the time was to send emails during peak work hours. And her emails, most times, left things unclear. We explained several times that a weekly 15 minute call was what we needed. But she was extremely resistant. We had, at max, 2 to 3 such calls and then she refused to participate in any others. It was maddening with our 6 week timeline as we felt like our hands were tied about really understanding the status of and options for things. My fiancé and I defaulted to doing the legwork ourselves. When we did, vendors were LOVELY. Bending over backwards to assist us. Supplying us with multiple options and ideas. They took the time to hear us and ask about what we did and didn't want for our day. I was overwhelmingly grateful for their support and availability. I was stunned when Johnell sent an angry email chastising my fiancé for calling a vendor. She reminded us that we'd have to pay her even if we were doing the work. I reiterated to her that this had nothing to do with payment. We'd started doing the work ourselves because we felt handcuffed and limited w/ her at the helm. Over and over we'd discover her "no, that's not possible" would become "sure, we can do that, and here are several other options too" once we'd finally talk to a vendor. The most important thing for me: the wedding to have our unique imprint and flair- were in direct odds with Johnell's priorities. Her priority was the path of least resistance, what's easiest & most convenient for her. Things came together beautifully. But it really was in spite of and not because of our planner. With the vast majority of vendors, we elected to go with others that we'd vetted. This brought on its own drama as we then witnessed Johnell being cold and dismissive with these individuals when they'd attempt to ask questions or share options. I made several attempts to explain to her how poorly we felt we were being treated - via several emails and voicemail when she wouldn't answer or return my call. She would eventually respond in an email days later with a dismissive, "everything will be fine" one-liner. The last straw was her denying us a 15 minute phone call the week of the wedding. Four days after we requested the brief call with her, she emailed, "No, I've done my job already. See you at the wedding on Saturday. Email me a list if there's changes." This transpired despite her contracted description of "unlimited phone calls and emails" and us only having had at most three direct phone calls with her. At that point, we decided to cut ties with her completely. It was an extremely high sunk cost. One that benefitted her (she was paid in full despite not working the week of or day of the wedding) & would cost us greatly. It was worth it though as the thought of this, in our experience, truly unprofessional coordinator running our special day was too disheartening. In sum, I felt trapped in this working relationship. I wound up having to expend more time and energy on fixing things vs had I not had a planner to begin with. All the while being made to feel like a huge annoyance during the brief times when we would have access to her. Her communication style is one tailored to meet her needs and convenience rather than the client's. In hindsight, I never should have hired her. It was the poorest decision of my wedding planning process.

We had a week-long corporate meeting in Austin, TX. To save money, we decided to rent a house…read moreinstead of using a hotel. But getting food to the hotel would have been a challenge...either cook for ourselves or cater from a chain. Our host suggested we use an events chef and connected us to Becca Schafer and her staff. This proved to be one of the best parts of the meeting. The food was very fresh. She used local fresh ingredients whenever possible. She was sensitive to the variety of dietary needs for our staff: from vegetarian, to vegan, and beyond. They made from-scratch hors d'oeuvres served to us out on the patio. They also accommodated our schedule for dinner, flexing the time the meal was finished to accommodate our evening activities. The staff thoroughly cleaned the kitchen afterwards. We had to start an email list of our attendees who wanted chef Becca's recipes, which she graciously agreed to supply to anyone who wants them. Our staff meeting planner found the prices to be quite reasonable for sit-down meal costs. Lastly, you may be able to find other great chefs, but it's not always easy to find ones that were so enjoyable. Our staff had so much fun with them in the house, they insisted that Becca and her crew join us for a glass of wine on the patio. They joined in like old friends in our conversation, shared some fun stories, and were very genuine in their interactions with us. If you need someone to plan your event in the greater Austin area or beyond, Becca Events is a "must" to put on your list.

I had the pleasure of working with Becca Schafer Events at a wedding in the Austin area. The food…read morewas amazing, not just the taste but the gorgeous buffet display Becca put together that perfectly matched the wedding decor. She and all her staff were wonderful to work with as well. The best part of the night was the gourmet pizza that was served as a late night snack close to the end of the reception. I highly recommend Becca Schafer Events for any event!

Where do I begin with the level of service Elena and her team deliver? We originally weren't…read moreplanning to hire a day-of coordinator, but after our maid of honor recommended Elena, we are so grateful we did. Elena jumped on a Zoom call just one week before the wedding and took the time to fully understand our vision for our backyard venue and vendor coordination. On the wedding day, dark clouds and rain threatened the ceremony, but Elena arrived early and embraced the challenge with grace and determination. She set up the most beautiful and seamless wedding despite the weather, and her calm, humble presence made us feel completely at ease. Even a week later, we're still getting phone calls from guests raving about how amazing the wedding was -- all thanks to Elena's skill, experience, and dedication. She staged the venue perfectly, went above and beyond in unexpected circumstances, and her 10+ years of professional experience truly shine through. We cannot recommend Elena enough!

Thank you Hermana Events for your help in bringing my ideas to life. You made our special day,…read moreamazing! Your attention to detail, hard work, and professionalism made the whole process stress free.