All I have to say is 2 ceremonies and out of state. That should be enough to make a wedding about…read moreas difficult as you can make it. Seriously, I don't know how Paulina did it, but she was absolutely freaking amazing. We live in San Francisco and our wedding was at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, and man oh man, was this an easy wedding for us to plan. My husband was skeptical at first about hiring a planner in general and I told him there was NO WAY that we could do this by ourselves out of state. Finally he agreed and we hired Paulina.
When I started researching wedding planners, I was all over the internet. Between Yelp, theknot.com, weddingwire.com, etc.etc. I was all over the place emailing people left and right. Not only was Paulina quick to respond, but once I saw her prices, I was like wow...she's quick and affordable. I'm the type of person that likes instant gratification, so when I saw that she responded the same day, I was like ok, (hopefully) she will probably be like this the whole way through the process. AND SHE WAS.
We had 2 ceremonies, one Indian and one Persian. We had to have 2 separate tables set up for our ceremonies and we had to do both of them in an hour. Yes. I said 2 ceremonies in one hour. We had the Indian ceremony from 4-4:30, had a 30 minute dress change and then the Persian ceremony was from 5-5:30. We had one rehearsal with ALL the family members and let me tell you. Paulina is on point when it comes to picking up tension..lol. My mom tried to change things up at the last minute and Paulina would look over at me and see my expression and knew INSTANTLY that I did not agree with my moms ideas. She just went right with it and took it with a grain of salt and made sure to tell me afterwards "We will not do ANYTHING without your approval." And she did exactly that.
We also needed to have 2 separate Priest's. One for each ceremony, and of all the things we had to deal with, seriously that was our only hick-up through the planning. There were not enough options to choose from but eventually she found what we needed and took care of everything for us. All we needed to do was just wait for her options, go over pricing, and once we liked it we just mailed a check over. Easy.
We also listened to her recommendations. Moxie Studio did our photos and we absolutely loved them. DJ Shai was our dj and he was great. Though we had a few issues that came up, but Paulina was on top of it IMMEDIATELY. Seriously, anytime we had a problem with someone, I would just forward the email to her and she would immediately take care of it.
During the reception, she was our bodyguard. She made sure that the servers served us first before everyone else and that no one talked to us for to long while we were eating. I literally saw her from the corner of my eye watching her keep an eye out for anyone that would be interrupting our dinner. She didn't mind people talking to us, but she made sure that if it was taking to long, that she would just stand closer to us and say "Please let them eat"..lol.. I loved that.
She was also our security guard. There were 3 other weddings going on and someone happened to walk into our reception and she made sure to take care of it.
She is also Mrs. Fix it. I bought some stupid cheap hoop slip and apparently right before I walked in to our reception the metal hoop came undone and was trailing behind my dress! Paulina and Tara were in the bathroom with me trying to figure out the best way to fix it and Paulina ended up cutting out the entire metal hoop portion of my slip and away I went! lol..
I couldn't say enough about Paulina and her team. They are amazing. I know our wedding was too much for everyone to deal with because we had 2 different cultures involved but, everyone did a great job to make it one of the best weddings ever. Everyone had the time of their lives, and it definitely could not have been done without her.
If you're thinking twice about hiring her, your crazy. You are definitely missing out. If my perfect wedding wasn't difficult enough then I don't know what you are expecting. She is definitely a part of our lives forever.
Thank you Paulina!!!