We hired Priscilla about a year before our October 2013 wedding. Upon meeting her my mom, (now) husband and I loved her! We knew her focus was on her customers: the bride and groom and this planning was about marriage. She has her priorities straight in this world that often finds wedding vendors thinking of you and your special day as their art project and their vision. Trust me...we met enough crazy vendors during the wedding process to know someone with their head on straight about marriage! Priscilla made our wedding come together in wonderful ways! Our wedding was everything we ever dreamed of and more. She helped us mostly with day of planning, selecting and communicating with vendors and making recommendations throughout the process. During wedding planning crazy-ness she made myself and my mom feel comfortable with all aspects of the process. Being a project manager and graphic designer at a busy publishing company, I had little time to focus on the smaller details of the wedding. I wish she could still help me plan out my weeks at work!! Priscilla had an answer and a solution to any questions or concerns we had. I definitely recommend having a day of coordinator at the very least! My mom and dad wanted to enjoy the wedding and not worry about details like making sure the caterer arrived on time, everyone walked down the aisle in order, coordinating the setup of the ceremony, dismissing tables to eat, etc. And things you think won't go "wrong" will sometimes. It doesn't matter how many spreadsheets or phone calls you make before the wedding either. For instance, the cake my husband and I were to cut didn't arrive for whatever reason from the baker. Priscilla was there to fix it on the spot. She was so calm and came over while we were eating dinner and asked us what our favorite cupcake flavor was. Priscilla quickly re-organized the cake cutting into a cupcake cutting! I was so caught up in the joy of marriage, love, being surrounded by family and friends that I totally forgot we had ordered a smash cake to cut! Priscilla made it work without it being a big deal. It all worked out as we got to enjoy the cake the next week when the baker delivered it! And, as a project manager myself and working with 60+ clients at a time...she does work on your wedding behind the scenes and as certain deadlines near, she will respond promptly and you'll find your concern was already taken care of. I don't respond within 1 hour of my clients calling me about their project that is printing in 6 months or in a year. Of course, I do try to respond within a few days, but like everyone else in the world your best friend is prioritization! Just make sure you have your expectations in order when booking any vendor wedding or what have you in your life. I highly recommend Priscilla and her team. She is very personable and knows what weddings are truly about! Plus, she gets stuff done! :-) read more

We hired Priscilla just a few months before our fall wedding & we absolutely fell in love with her. The first thing we really noticed (and LOVED) about her was how prompt & prepared she was. She was early to all of our meetings which is a big plus! She was very attentive & got to know us so that she could incorporate aspects of our personality into our ceremony. Every little idea she came up with thoroughly impressed us. She worked very well with our budget, using her various connections to get us the highest quality at the lowest price. She spent alot of time listening to our ideas and making suggestions. Our ceremony was a dream come true. Priscilla saw to each detail so that we were virtually worry-free the entire day.She is amazing at what she does and is destined for greatness in her field. For someone so young, she is extremely dedicated, professional and passionate. We would recommend her for any event you plan on having people talk about for weeks, months & years! read more

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Priscilla Erwin from Orangerie Events was great! She had a unique situation with us in that we signed up for the middle package, then I got surprise-deployed to Afghanistan (which required us to change the date as well), so we stepped up to the highest package and she worked with my husband and mom for much of the time. When I got home I joined them and we got back into the full swing of things. It was wonderful planning together when I got back. She understood exactly what I wanted really quickly, and is much better at verbalizing that to vendors. She could also tell when I wasn't sure if their vision matched mine which is both an amazing and necessary skill for a high quality wedding planner. As someone who didn't dream of weddings growing up, but is a 24 yr old with certain things that I decided we wanted over our 2 yr engagement, this was just perfect! She chose our florist, cake vendor, hair and makeup, transportation, and invitations/stationary. All of these vendors did absolutely beautiful work (both wedding party and strangers commented on all of these individual vendors and their amazing products), and everyone but the invite vendor was easy to work with. On the day of, she was fantastic and my husband and I were stress-free. More importantly, our parents on both sides were stress-free. That's the MOST important part to us. She is WONDERFUL the day of! People joked that our wedding looked like it was sponsored by Pinterest. She made all of that happen, with the gorgeous details and intricate touches, while everyone involved with the wedding was able to enjoy the day and appreciate time with our loved ones. The only reason we didn't give a full 5/5 is for responsiveness. My family is both military and type A. To us status updates are crucial for our comfort in the planning process. Priscilla had it covered, but she didn't want to bother us with the info because she thought that's what we preferred. I told her that I actually preferred updates and liked to be inundated with info rather than wondering, so she adjusted and things were smooth after that. She's great at what she does, and is a pleasure to work with. She never shows stress which is great for brides. I was SO happy with her work and loved spending time with her! One thing I'd also like to add. My mother-in-law used to work with a florist and did a lot of weddings. Our flowers (Gregg Kennedy by the way) were gorgeous, and the price for which we got these flowers were a STEAL. My mother-in-law is still talking about what a great deal we got, and we would not have gotten such a deal without the benefit of Gregg and Priscilla's great relationship. read more

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We started our contract working with Annie, Priscilla's assistant - which we still highly recommend. Once she left the company and Priscilla took over our wedding planning, things took an awful turn. Unfortunately, Priscilla does not look at us or any of Annie's old clients as a priority. We are less than 4 months out with several vendors left to find/book and details to nail down. She hasn't even responded to our email letting her know we will no longer be requiring our services that I sent 2 weeks ago. Event planners are suppose to take away the stress for the bride and groom but Priscilla added it. Her price tag is not cheap, I recommend saving your time and money by finding someone who cares about you. read more

Priscilla came as part of a package deal with the original venue we selected for our wedding. Every time I mentioned her name, other vendors and brides would rave about her. When the venue we originally chose went out of business, we took Priscilla with us! Our October 20, 2013 wedding was absolutely perfect. Whenever anyone would give me pre-wedding advice, they would always say that something would be bound to wrong on the big day, but to just smile and go with it...well, they were wrong. Absolutely nothing went wrong, everything was perfect, and I know for a fact that this is because of Priscilla! We hired her to be our day-of coordinator, and she was always on hand to help me with any questions or concerns I had. That was one of the things I loved about working with her--even though we hired her as the day-of coordinator, she went above and beyond those duties. She was considerate in working with our budget, met with us to check out the venues, offered vendor suggestions, helped with decor planning/layout, coordinated with our photographer, took care of the rehearsal as well as set up/break down, etc. On the day of the wedding, I did not lay a finger on anything...she brought two assistants with her and the three of them took care of everything! When she revealed the barn (reception venue) to me, I was amazed at how absolutely stunning it was. She had done everything I could have imagined, setting the tables perfectly, tying all the chair sashes, and even hand-writing our 120 guest seating chart on a chalkboard she brought. She even brought a vintage dresser for us to use as a gift table! She thinks of everything! From fluffing my train before I went down the aisle, to tying the "Just Married" sign on the back of the carriage, to pouring our wine and bringing us plates of food, to breaking down and cleaning up everything after it was over...she thinks of things and does things that you would never think of or remember to do. Working with Priscilla was wonderful. She's sweet, friendly, creative, resourceful, professional, communicative, and just so darn good at what she does. I know that our decision to hire her was the best thing we could have done for the wedding, next to saying "I do." read more

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They definitely made my wedding off mostly without a hitch. Priscilla was unavailable for my wedding but her assistant did a great job. They came with a team of people and made sure everything was perfect. The only things j didn't like were they asked me to walk to wet grass to do our first look pics in heels... I was so overwhelmed I didn't even question it at the time. Second I didn't like that they wore Tshirt with their logo to the wedding. I figured they'd change into something nice, but this could've been my fault since I didn't specify. I did the day of package with them and they really did do a great job. Idk what I would've done without them!! read more

My son, his fiance and I met with Priscilla and really liked her enthusiasm and energy and decided to go with her for design planning and day-of coordination. She met with us at the venue and spent over an hour walking around the wedding and reception site and listening to our ideas. My son's fiance asked for DJ recommendations. She said she would send us ideas for design as well as DJ recs within 2 weeks. Three weeks after the venue visit, after additional follow-up, she said that a family member had been ill, and she would contact us with answers to our questions within 24 hours, but she did not. Our caterer had had a similar situation requiring a tasting cancellation. We completely understood, and he kept in touch with us to work out when we could reschedule. I followed up twice with Priscilla over a 10-day period, and both times she still didn't have design ideas. All of this was especially frustrating in that we had told her that the bride's mother was having her only visit to our area during a particular week in December. We wanted to decide on a design prior to that visit, so we could take the bride's mother to visit rental and flower vendors to help make decisions. When I reminded her of the visit, Priscilla offered to go to the vendors that week -- but since we had no design ideas, it made no sense to go, as we didn't know where to begin with making decisions with a vendor. We sent a few follow-up emails over the course of about 2 weeks in December -- requesting a timeline from her, if she wasn't able to provide design ideas yet -- with no response. Two months since our initial meeting, we still had nothing concrete. My son terminated the contract, and she kept part of the deposit. Subsequently we interviewed several other wedding planners. One of the others we interviewed required a very large, nonrefundable deposit, which made me quite nervous after this experience. That planner offered to put me in touch with one of her clients, who also had had a bad experience with a planner and was hesitant to commit to contract with such a large deposit. I emailed with this client, and it turned out her bad experience was also with Priscilla, who disappeared on her a month before her wedding. read more

We hired Pricilla in August of 2013., three weeks before our wedding in March we had to hire a new planner to salvage our wedding! Priscilla failed to organize important vendors for our wedding and was very difficult to get in touch with. She under estimated our budget by more than 50% and failed to organize meetings with vendors when requested. Priscilla scheduled a two week vacation in Ireland and did not inform us that she was leaving the country, we found out by reading her blog. When she returned to the US she did not return emails or phone calks for four days. We have spoken to another client of Orangie Events and they experienced the same treatment from Pricilla. We both asked for our deposits to be retuned and she refused to do so. Buyer beware, don't hire this business without references from many sources, not just her vendor friends! read more

What a fabulous day Priscilla and her team made for us! They took such good care of us and even our dog Max! The day went off without a hitch! Amazing venue, amazing team!!!! read more

Priscilla is absolutely wonderful to work with. Very professional, knowledgable and FUN! It was wonderful knowing the day would go smoothly with her in charge. And I hardly noticed her! She gets the job done without being one of those "bossy" directors :-) I would 100% recommend her to anyone looking for someone to make their big day run smoothly. Thanks Priscilla! read more

I would highly recommend Priscilla to any and everyone! She helped every step of the way. She did everything from helping design Invitations, RSVP, and Programs, to answering small questions that I had along the way, to coordinating the whole day! She was very professional and organized. Not to mention she did a wonderful job singing during the ceremony, she has an amazing voice! She also did awesome organizing the reception and making sure that everything was going in a timely manner. She even loaded the gifts into the car at the end of the night! She was a pleasure to work with & is worth every penny! read more

We contacted Priscilla Owner of Orangerie Events almost immediately when our daughter and her fiancée announced their engagement last year. We researched and interviewed a number of wedding coordinators but Priscilla stood out strongly with her personable way of making you feel at ease about wedding planning and the process. We used her services for the rehearsal and dinner as well as the entire wedding day. Priscilla and her team did an outstanding work for us! The décor turned out even better than what we had envisioned. They were able to take all the decorating items we brought or made for the rustic wedding at Snipes Farm Retreat venue and they place them so creatively around the venue both inside and out. The bride and groom were so delighted! Priscilla and team removed so much stress from the rehearsal and wedding day we can't thank them enough! She is extremely efficient at what she does and made the entire wedding move seamlessly. We had many, many compliments from the guests on how great the wedding went for all 150 guests. We made sure they knew it was Priscilla and team who made it run so smoothly and made the day such a pleasure for all of us! We highly recommend Orangerie Events for coordinating any event. read more

My husband and I hired Priscilla of Orangerie Events as a day-of wedding coordinator. She set things up for us and then proceeded to disappear before I walked down the aisle, leaving us in the hands of an extremely green assistant (at her second or third event) who didn't even know how to pin a boutonniere and seemed very embarassed to tell us Priscilla had had to leave for an emergency. Bottom line Priscila never confronted me or the groom (aka the people who hired her) either then or on the days after that to offer an explanation or an apology. We asked for our money back but I would still warn anyone out there not to hire her as hers was objectively very unprofessional behaviour. read more

I hired Priscilla as my wedding day coordinator over a year prior to the actual event, and she was incredibly helpful through the entire process! During the months leading up to the wedding, I emailed her frequently asking for suggestions on vendors, flowers, catering businesses, and asked her many questions about the process of getting married, and she was always available to answer questions. I always felt like I was the only bride she was taking care of, and when it came to the days prior to and the actual wedding day, everything went smoothly because of her. Never once was I worried or stressed on my wedding day, she didn't allow people to ask me questions about the wedding so that I could be stress free:) My wedding and reception were beautiful, I could not have had such a wonderful and stress free day had it not been for Priscilla. Her intelligence, genuine sweetness, and upbeat personality make her the perfect wedding planner. If I had it to do over, I would hire her again, but this time, I would let her plan the whole thing! read more

Orangerie Events helped our big day run smoothly by providing us with their wedding coordination services. We are located in Charlotte, NC and got married on Lake Wylie in Clover, SC. We got their "Just a Taste" package because after all the hectic planning months I wanted to be able to relax and just enjoy our wedding day. I got to do exactly that. I worked with Priscilla Erwin, owner operator, before the wedding to make sure she had a copy of the plan, the contingency plan for rain, and a schedule of events. She came out and saw the venue and asked questions and just made sure she took care of us. On the weekend of the event Meredith stepped in handled event coordination for us and the transition was absolutely seamless. The rehearsal dinner the night before and the wedding and reception went completely flawlessly. I'm not saying there weren't a few small hiccups, but Meredith handled everything beautifully. She kept the mood light, managed all the event transitions, and I didn't have a care in the world from start to finish. I HIGHLY recommend taking advantage of Orangerie Events' wedding coordination services for your special day. read more