We hired Layla as our wedding planner for our wedding this spring. So far, she has been great!…read more We're having a destination wedding in Savannah so it's so helpful to have Layla, as a Savannah local, help guide us. She's put us in touch with great vendors and is skilled at networking with the best vendors in Savannah so she has options in every category for us. She listens to what we want for our vision and helps offer ideas and suggestions for how to pull it off. Wedding planning can be soooo overwhelming so it's nice to have someone like Layla help along the way. She's got a calm and kind demeanor that I know is going to be a great help the day of the wedding when I'm sure to be stressing. Layla is super easy to communicate with and always prompt to reply to emails. I'd definitely recommend her.

I had the pleasure of working with Layla on a wedding in Spring 2011. She displayed an obvious…read morelove of what she does, as well as a love of working with her clients to ensure that their special day is perfect. Layla brings a great deal of excitement and creativity to the table, and I would be thrilled to work with her on future events!

Beautiful building inside and out, my stylist was Naomi and she is absolutely great. She listened…read moreto what I wanted, and was super friendly. The selection is nice and sizable, I do think there's something for everyone here and the dresses aren't too expensive at all!! I also found a veil, and had to order extra fabric and was able to stay in budget. A perfect experience.

Allie is a rockstar…read more I went into the space back in December to see what options were available, and it was great to be paired with Allie. We went through several dresses, and for someone that is very anti all the traditional things, Allie gave me options that made me feel beautiful. Although I didn't go with I&B because my partner and I decided to go a very non traditional route, I will say that going in and working with Allie helped me to make the best decision for me- which is one of the hardest things to do for a bride to be. I also did a small package with champagne and got a robe, I highly recommend the tailored approach to ask all the questions. Whether you're local or visiting, this place needs to be on your list for dress shopping and bridal ideas.

Choosing Jardiniere Events for my daughter's wedding was truly one of the best decisions we made…read more Dakotah and her team came so highly recommended and somehow still exceeded our expectations. The flowers were absolutely breathtaking and so beautifully chosen. We made a last minute change to the reception seating and they handled it with such grace and in the end the new layout made the florals shine even more. Even weeks after the wedding, we were still receiving compliments about how beautiful the flowers were!

We absolutely made the right choice in hiring Jardiniere for our wedding weekend in Hilton Head!!…read moreFrom the first call Dakotah was kind, joyful and excited to understand our vision and how she could help us make it a reality. Dakotah was amazing to work with on design, she was prepared with ideas and open to our preferences and leaned in to make it more fun and beautiful than we had dreamed! When it came to the wedding weekend, the florals and design were absolutely AMAZING! We couldn't believe it when we saw it, it was beyond what we could have ever imagined and it made the day so special and memorable. Our guests were gushing over how beautiful it was! We had asked Dakotah to source specific roses from our family history and she made it happen! The team's love for their job is apparent and it truly comes through in their work! We would hire them without question again and again!

I used First City Event's DJ, Jeff for my wedding reception on April 23, 2022 at Garibaldi's…read morerestaurant. Jeff was fantastic to work with leading up to our wedding. He was easy-going, flexible, and very professional. We had a phone conversation a few months prior where we were able to work with him to pick out the songs for our wedding reception. Jeff provided his expert opinion which was so helpful in planning our big day. Throughout our wedding, Jeff did a great job playing music that kept the crowd dancing and having fun all night. The dance floor was never empty or even had a quieter period. He did a great job with announcing all of our wedding party too. His wife Bonnie was our wedding planner. She was also amazing. Bonnie is also easy to work with and has a lot of patience. A truly gifted wedding planner who deeply loves and enjoys what she does. We all can't say enough great things about both of them! I strongly recommend using them both for your wedding.

First City Events made our wedding day the most smooth, relaxing, & fun day that we had always…read moredreamed of. Bonnie was an absolute joy to work with; balancing her expertise with having a GREAT personality. She handled our wedding party, who can be rather rambunctious, without a hitch. Our parents absolutely loved her & are still doting on her (& her team) to this day. We also used First City Event's DJ services and were overly pleased with the entire ceremony & reception music! If I could, I would attach videos of how packed the dance floor was the whole evening. Let's run it back once more, FCE! I would recommend you all 100 times over.

My husband and I had our wedding on April 6th of 2019. It was a beautiful day full of wonderful…read morememories that I will never forget. However, if I had to do it all over again, I would not hire Jodi. While she's great as a person and would probably be good at helping plan a very small wedding, so many things went wrong at our wedding that shouldn't have. So here I am...seven months later...writing this review, in hopes of helping out a fellow bride. When Marcus and I got engaged, I had no interest in hiring a wedding planner except for maybe "day of". My mom, knowing I would eventually wish I had one, did some research and found Jodi. They hit it off right away! Jodi said she really liked my mom and would give us her full service package for the price of the destination wedding package. Amazing! So a few days later, Marcus and I met with Jodi. She clearly knew her stuff and suggested a reception venue to us that ended up being absolutely perfect. Her exact words in this meeting were, "You won't have to do a thing. You just need to show up. " Burden. Lifted. Not long into the wedding planning, I started to notice Jodi wasn't reaching out to vendors when she said she would. She would tell us that she would be sending out emails, whether to us or vendors, "the next day" or "this weekend", and after days or a week had passed there would be no follow through until my mom or I messaged her again. It was especially frustrating when this occurred with the DJ. Had my mom not reached out to the DJ herself, we would have missed out on what ended up being an INCREDIBLE DJ. We waited a week after Jodi told us she was emailing them "the next day" before my mom emailed the DJ company. A week after that, Jeff reached out to us stating they were getting requests for our date but wanted to give us a chance to secure it first.... And he still had not heard from Jodi. We let many things go because we knew Jodi had a lot on her plate, between her very sick grandchild and we knew I wasn't her only bride. I even came to her defense countless times when Marcus would ask, "Where is the wedding planner? Shouldn't she be doing this?" Now to get into our wedding day... We assumed that since she had an assistant, that one of them would be right by our side at all times so that we wouldn't have to think about what time it was or where to be next because she would be there keeping us on track. This was not the case and the afternoon was full of constant confusion. The whole week leading up to our wedding, the forecast showed rain. As part of our contract with our musicians (a cellist and violinist), we were to have a canopy at the ceremony even if there was the slightest chance of precipitation. So we bought 2 canopies just in case. The day before the wedding, Jodi remarked to my parents that she hoped it didn't rain because she didn't want to have to put up the canopies because it would take an hour. Did it rain on our wedding day? Yes. Did Jodi put up the canopies? No. Did I then have to walk down the aisle on my wedding day in absolute silence, choking back tears? You betcha. The musicians had their instruments out in the rain as long as they could before having to put them away due to water damage. For after the ceremony, we envisioned our guests being carried to the reception venue on the beautiful white & gold "Old Savannah" trolleys. We were very specific about what trolley we wanted when talking to Jodi. We looked at the contract and it says "Wedding Transportation - Standard Trolley". As we have no experience with the trolley service, and Jodi was approving contracts, how did this go wrong? Our guests were not picked up in the white & gold trolleys. They were picked up in the green & orange tourist trolleys that I find absolutely hideous. Why was the ring bearer pillow at the reception venue and not brought to the ceremony? Why did the fathers not get their boutonnieres? It appears most of the boutonnieres were wasted, as my mom looked over on the way out and saw there were about 10 left in the box, as well as some corsages. My parents went well over budget, willingly, to make the extra things happen that were important to me and Marcus. So much money and hard work went into this so we could have the wedding of our dreams. Yet ultimately, we feel that Jodi wasn't willing to put in the effort to make sure our vision was fulfilled. I feel that things got away from Jodi and she needed more help. Jodi is so sweet and caring and we really liked her as a person. But we trusted her and she let us down. We have expressed all of this to her in an email and she told us that she learned a lot of things from our wedding. I hope this is true, for the sake of all her future brides. We got married 7 months ago and it has taken me this long to sit down and write this review because I just couldn't relive the heartbreak of all that went wrong. I hope no other bride has to go through this.

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I hired Kaylee from Wedding Belles as my wedding day coordinator, expecting her to handle the…read moredetails and ensure everything ran smoothly. Unfortunately, her performance left much to be desired. Here are some of the issues we faced: Several guests mentioned seeing her drinking during the wedding, and she was rude to them, lacking professionalism and respect. She failed to set up our video camera, so our ceremony wasn't recorded. This was a significant moment for us, and we wanted a video to cherish and share with family and friends. This oversight robbed us of that precious memory. She didn't follow my instructions and used decor from unopened boxes I planned to return. I had organized everything into labeled storage bins for each table and area, but she ignored the labels and used items that were not meant to be used, wasting my money and time. She didn't use all the rose petals for decor as I had wanted, leaving the aisle and decor looking bare. Many petals went to waste, resulting in a dull and sparse look that did not match my vision. On the day of the wedding, she asked for information I had already sent her well in advance, such as the timeline, vendor contacts, and seating chart. This caused unnecessary stress and confusion. She and her assistant took the first page of our Polaroid guestbook for a self-promotion photo and signature, which I found very tacky and inappropriate. This ruined the first page of our guestbook. Nothing was on time. My husband and I had to keep reminding her when things should be happening. Dinner was significantly delayed, and she was often seen talking and drinking instead of managing the schedule and vendors. She entirely skipped over my husband's welcome speech. When we brought it to her attention, she said we had to wait until after dinner, which was very rude and disrespectful. My vendors also complained that they hadn't heard from her at all. Each of our meetings felt unproductive, as she just read off a list of to-dos from The Knot. I had to handle most of the coordination myself. In the end, while the decor didn't look terrible, I believe it would have been better if she had followed our directions and been more attentive during the ceremony. I regret hiring her and would not recommend her to anyone. She was a source of stress and did not live up to her promises or expectations. I would caution other brides to be careful before hiring her and to look for other options. She did not make our wedding day easier or happier, but rather the opposite.

From the owner: Hi I'm Kaylee Spence, the planner behind Wedding Belles Wedding Planning. I got married on December…read more18th, 2021 and just loved every minute of planning! I started Wedding Belles out of my passion for helping others. I am here to make the most important events in my clients’ lives be as memorable, beautiful, and enjoyable as possible. Along with my natural organization skills and creativity, I’ve learned to be flexible and accommodating to each client’s unique needs and preferences. I hope you’ll let me help you plan your Big Day, I promise you won’t regret it.