Planning your wedding is never easy. My wedding on Labor Day weekend 2018 was a three-day…read moremulticultural event and we were fortunate to have Samantha every step of the way. I had initially hired Samantha to perform a design session for 1 of the days of the wedding. Soon, I realized I needed her full planning package. Samantha easily and quickly switched the packages and services. She sends a wedding task list which is catered to white Christian weddings (it has items like tanning services) but I just ignored those, and focused on the relevant items. We had a clause to add on any additional hours needed. Which I took full advantage of! I added services for Samantha to track and handle the wedding budget, which fell to the wayside. Nor did she really take on managing. When it became clear we would need additional hours for the weekend due to the magnitude of the events, Samantha was mindful of our costs without sacrificing value. She is well versed on the wedding etiquette and despite never having planned an Indian wedding before, she pulled it off with minimal hitches. I am sure has she gains more experience in various weddings and cultures, she will grow and be even better than she is. When my cousin offered to help coordinate the events, she gladly accepted the needed help. Samantha went out of her way to help me at the end of her reception night, when I fell sick. She is vast in her connections with local vendors and on how to get a bang for your budget. Her creativity on how to reuse decorations and flowers saved so much stress and costs. My biggest concern on the wedding weekend was the DJ. I wish I had explicitly expressed to Samantha to feel empowered to take control on handling him, and had been on a conference call with her and him to ensure things ran smoothly. But throughout the wedding, Samantha was cool and calm and took charge on the situation. Her business is growing and is well deserved. There are times when she was not able to answer emails right away because she was out of town for another wedding, workshop or vacation. As the wedding approached, vendors would ask for a timeline and conference call to go over the details. We were able to coordinate those requests with Samantha - she does get back to her clients and vendors, even if it means a conference call at 8:30 PM or on her way to the airport. I wish I booked her full services at the get-go. However her full package does not always equate to hours needed. Hence our purchasing additional hours, after purchasing the full service package. At the end of the day, Samantha wants her couples to be happy and she tries her best. And is focused on that, despite the noise from family input. I regret on not utilizing her skill and creatively fully. In my need to not want to bother her, or stress her out on chaos of an Indian wedding, I didn't involve her in designing the cake or cake-topper, and wish I had. And not worried about putting her off. She is capable if not short staffed. Definitely book her for your wedding.

I cannot recommend Sam and SJE highly enough! As a bride living in San Francisco and planning a…read morewedding in Yellow Springs, Ohio (at my parent's house), the seamless dot connecting that Sam facilitated for us was honestly above and beyond. She did an amazing job calling on all of her experience to fill in gaps where I was looking for advice or direction (sometimes gaps I didn't even realize at the time she was filling), all while empowering me to spend time and energy on the pieces or details that I cared most about. Many things she almost does in her sleep, not even realizing the slack she is picking up - coordinating who would set the tables, compiling all of my contracts, holding a planning session with our officiant, and keeping me on schedule with things like finalizing timelines and getting my seating chart done. I can be picky (I like what I like!) and Sam picked up on my aesthetic almost immediately and represented my interests to my partners and vendors effectively in meetings and discussions that I was not able to participate in being so far away. In addition to her incredible attention to detail (did I mention she did all of our calligraphy and styled the details photo shoot on the day of?! ), she is truly passionate about what she does and that comes through over, and over again. She is not fatigued by doing weddings and events nonstop, but rather she is energized by them and always looking to do things differently and innovate. Wedding weekend would not have been the perfect experience that it was without SJE and her incredible staff. On our wedding day, I spent time with friends and family, drank champagne, and focused on the special moments and she made that happen. Sam also ran the rehearsal like an absolute pro - showing up with [beautiful] weekend itineraries for the whole wedding party - without me asking for those! I cannot recommend SJE highly enough.

Kosins has worked with our church (Washington Heights Baptist Church) on multiple events over the…read moreyears but recently we rented a large amount of staging while worshiping in our gymnasium. The crew of guys that came to set up were super helpful and set up our stage exactly where we asked them too. We also realized that we needed more steps and the owner himself (Bill) came out to set them up and to make sure we were happy with the stage. A few months later we had Kosins hang drape for one of our Christmas events and they did a beautiful job and worked with us till we were happy with how it all looked. If you are looking for great customer service and equipment/materials, Kosins in the place to go! -Robert Rhodes "Pastor of Worship Arts Ministries"

We had to cancel my daughters graduation party due to the covid 19 pandemic which is a shame. To…read moreadd insult to injury they wanted to keep some of the deposit even with three weeks notice of cancellation during a public health crisis.

Do not hire Samantha for your day of coordination. All it has caused is more stress and chaos…read more We hired her in February for day of coordinator services for our October wedding. Late July she sent an email to her current clients changing her terms. When I asked for clarification on the terms we had agreed to (set up, room flip assistance, tear down), she suggested I hire a decorator for help. Once I told her I was hiring a decorator, as she suggested, she told me in an email and verbally that I didn't need to hire help and that her team could handle it. The morning after we spoke, she broke our contract to terminate services and left us searching for a new coordinator with less than 3 months until the wedding.

From the owner: The Black Barn Event Planning knows that’s each wedding and event is unique and different and we…read morelove to help clients plan their perfect event, while taking stress off the client! Having an Event Planner helps clients achieve a beautiful celebration, while the Event Planner handles logistics, budgeting, communication, timeline and many, many more tasks. Making the value of having an Event Planner very beneficial, with the client having as much of a stress free Event Planning experience as possible! We offer Full Service Wedding planning, Day of Wedding planning, Partial Wedding Planning and A la Carte services. We also have a Private Event package for celebrations such as Birthday parties, baby showers, retirement celebrations, Bridal showers, Bachelorette / Bachelor parties, corporate events, holiday parties, pet birthdays, engagement parties, anniversary celebrations, or even private dinner events- any reason to celebrate, we are here to plan your stress free, perfect event!

Do not book Kathy Piech-Lukas and/or Your Dream Day services to help plan your wedding. You will be…read morevery disappointed with the amount of money you spend and what you actually get out of the service. We were sold at the beginning by the fancy software and planning/detail she mentioned, but on the day of the wedding, we found out Kathy had booked other weddings and was frantically jumping between them. She had promised us that we were the only wedding of the day, but we had to find out through a third party that she had lied to us. A tremendous amount of details regarding the wedding were missed because Kathy was not present and her team was not aware of the details we had asked for. Even when she was there, she messed up the food at the after-party and the honeymoon suite was nothing like she had promised. To top it all off, she was running around, sweating and yelling at our guests during the reception. On a day when the bride and groom are supposed to be nervous and in need of a support staff, Kathy was just the opposite making things hectic, disorganized, and incomplete. Sadly, she is what a lot of our guests remember about the ceremony/reception. It was a bad decision to go with Kathy Piech-Lukas and Your Dream Day services and we insist that you do not make the same mistake.

From the owner: Relax, It's Only Your Wedding! From just getting started to planning the entire event, Your Dream…read moreDay provides a variety of wedding consulting and wedding planning services to brides throughout Ohio. We serve Dayton, Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati and Columbus. Our wedding consulting services include vendor referrals, timeline management, wedding gown and flower preservation, personalized favors and accessories, and candy buffet stations. Hotel block management is available to all brides at no charge to you! Wedding planning services, ranging from day-of coordination to complete wedding planning. Your Dream Day can also serve as a complimentary rentals concierge & manage your rentals since we serve as a reseller for 7 different rental companies in the area, which translates to the same fee you would pay as if you were to visit all seven places yourself! Member, BBB; Winner Knot Best of Weddings (2007, 2011 & 2014) and Wedding Wire Brides Choice (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014).

Ordered potato salad yesterday, picked it up promptly at 9:30 AM today. Have used them for various…read moreitems for the past 30 years. Always very satisfied.

Belmont Catering is a wonderful caterer to work with. We recently had a meal on Friday, March 7,…read more2025 and the food was well prepared and tasted very good. It has been a pleasure working with Belmont Catering over the years for various events that we have planned. Bro. David Betz, SM, Marianist Community at St. Leonard.