I am so, so glad that I hired Bri at the beginning of wedding planning. It's been two years since…read moreI hired her (covid postponement), and she has been an enormous help every step of the way. We just hired her for month-of coordination services, not her full planning services, but she was always quick to reply to any questions we had, even before the "month of." She had great recommendations for vendors and was willing to give us her honest opinion, so I felt much more confident in the choices we made. Bri was also incredibly flexible and understanding when we postponed out summer 2020 date to summer 2021, which we really appreciated. As the wedding approached, I became even more thankful for Bri's help. Knowing that she had everything totally under control was such a relief. She put together a lengthy timeline, coordinated with vendors to make sure everyone was on the same page, and helped me organize all the items that we would need to have for the wedding. It was great to know that nothing would fall through the cracks! Finally, at the rehearsal and on the wedding day itself, Bri was such a source of calm. We were able to enjoy the day without worrying about logistics at all. I can't imagine wedding planning without her, and I would highly recommend her to any future couples!

A wedding is a happy moment in your life, but it can also be stressful. I'm a big CONTROL FREAK and…read moreI wanted to be hands on from start to finish, so I was very weary when searching for a day-of-wedding-coordinator, but Bri put me at ease! My first impression of her was that she was very quiet and smiley. I was slightly afraid she wouldn't be able to withstand my enthusiasm (which often gets confused with aggression) but don't let her smile fool you! She's just listening to what you have to say and she knows how to respond to each request / question very professionally; she never missed a beat! I met with her for our introductory meeting and she drove all the way to me even though I offered to meet her half way, she emailed me to check in throughout the wedding planning process, got in contact with all my vendors, scheduled meetings with the venue and site coordinator and built the day-of-timeline. Although I wanted to be hands on in everything, when I had to actually let go and let her handle things, I was so confident in her and wasn't afraid of anything going wrong. I trusted Bri and she proved herself with all the curveballs that got thrown at her the day of the wedding. I'd have to say my wedding was a perfect day! Yes, there were tiny things that nobody could control, but she was there to ensure that I didn't notice a thing. She managed the day really well not only overseeing the other vendors, but actually setting up my reception decorations (she even asked me for photos examples just in case I had a vision). - I went to a few weddings where I had no idea that there was a wedding planner; I helped the families of the Bride and Groom set up / clean up the reception décor because their planners "didn't include that service". Bri stayed until a little after midnight on my wedding night making sure I got back everything that I wanted, packed up my gifts, and ensure that everything was taken cared of. I didn't lift a finger! HIRE HER! It will be the best thing you do for your sanity!

Felicia was a wonderful day of event coordinator for our tiny June wedding at a local winery. She…read morewas flexible and very detail oriented, which was great, because my husband and I were not super into having everything a certain way or according to a set schedule. Neither did we have much of a wedding party, so we really relied on her for a lot. Everything turned out wonderfully in the end - but we know that didn't happen without a lot of help. Felicia went out of her way to meet us at the venue in advance to get any required information ahead of time, and she was really easy to work with and reach out to for quick feedback or questions we had. She also followed up with our vendors ahead of the day itself, which was a huge relief as it was one less thing for us to worry about. Our family and friends all commented how sweet and amazing she was, and we would love to work with her again for our eventual larger reception. We highly recommend her work for anyone looking for a skilled wedding or event coordinator or planner! Thank you again Felicia!

I wish I could give her more than five stars. I don't even know where to start, she just did an…read moreabsolutely amazing job. She made the process of wedding planning much less stressful, more enjoyable and really worked hard to make sure that my wedding dreams came true. She was super organized, and an advocate for me with vendors, made sure that I had nothing to worry about the day of and did a beautiful job arranging our decorations at our venue. She totally got my vision of having an elegant winter wedding with some Disney touches. Not only did she do an amazing job setting everything up, she was just a joy to work with. She is so genuinely sweet and went above and beyond in making sure everything went smoothly. I cannot recommend her enough, you will be so glad to have her help you plan your big day.

I had the opportunity to participate in a photoshoot styled by The Test of Time Weddings and I was…read morenot disappointed. The vast collection of vintage props is absolutely amazing. Not only was Mandy so friendly and personable, but her attention to detail was absolutely incredible. We were able to make my stylized pinup and retro dreams come true with her amazing collection of pieces. No matter the theme or occasion, The Test of Time Weddings has the perfect props and accessories. It doesn't get any better than fabulous vintage coupled with amazing customer service. Should you book with The Test of Time, you will NOT be disappointed!

I've had the pleasure of seeing Mandy at many weddings and she is on-time, thorough, professional,…read moreand knowledgeable. I know that when she is involved in a wedding, that event will run smoothly. She is highly respected in the industry and I recommend her to anyone! Thanks Mandy for all that you do! A+

Marcia was the coordinator for our wedding, and we were beyond impressed with how everything turned…read moreout. She was warm, organized, professional, and really had our best interests at heart. Her attention to detail was beyond impressive. Her 10+ page timeline ensured that our event went off without a hitch, and that everyone knew where to go and when. It was her birthday on our wedding day, and she still said she wanted to be a part of our celebration, which was so awesome. The day would not have gone as well without her there.

Marcia is amazing! If you're looking for a kind, warm, organized, patient, attentive, creative,…read morethoughtful organizer, look no further than Marcia Coleman-Joyner at A Joyous Occasion. Not only does she possess all the qualities listed above, she has years of experience and contacts. I had no idea how to even begin planning a wedding, and she handed me a packet of information including everything from florists, to caterers, to bridal stores. She has tips and tricks galore including a handy little one for the exchanging of rings. My husband and I (as well as all our friends and family) couldn't have been more pleased with Marcia. She made the wedding day fun, relaxing, stress-free, and memorable. Thank you, Marcia.

I had the pleasure of working with Nicole when she offered her event coordinating service while…read moremeeting with her for my wedding dessert table design. Nicole's pricing was very reasonable and she was willing to "negotiate" what service to provide. I wanted to be in control of much of the event leading up to our wedding and Nicole totally respected that and stepped in for tasks only when asked. This is a huge deal and so appreciated when you're someone who likes to have control of a situation. Nicole was willing to text with me late nights and weekend mornings, helping me find wedding details and decor when my sleepless mind wouldn't stop. She was full of suggestions and recommendations but was never pushy. On the day of the wedding, Nicole was a life saver. I am not kidding. We couldn't have done it without her. She was timely, responsible, and extremely proactive. She spent all morning making sure everything was perfect. When I tell you I didn't have to life a finger, I mean it. Nicole did absolutely everything from managing the floral design when the florist showed up, setting up her entire dessert table, managing the wait staff, recruiting venue staff, chatting with guests, getting all our vendors their dinner plates, getting US our dinner plates. All of the details you wouldn't think of, she was already 10 steps ahead. My entire family was floored at how incredible this one woman team was. Nicole would take control of situations as they'd come up day of and would come check in with me to confirm what her suggestions were worked for me. She helped us with our marriage contract too which easily could have been overlooked. I cannot say enough good things. I didn't even see our venue space day of until I walked down the aisle and had our grand entrance. The room took my breath away, she did the best job making a space reflect all the elements I had told her I wanted. I would recommend Nicole as an event planner to anyone who wants to be heavily involved in their wedding planning but wants someone who will make their vision come to life day of.

Christine is very detail-oriented and easy to work with. And she seems to enjoy planning ahead. She…read morewas really helpful to me as my wedding was relatively complicated in terms of timing issues. (I believe even for the simplist wedding it can be much different and easier with Christine's help.) My wedding had a church ceremony and a golf clubhouse reception. The two venues are more than 10 miles apart, and each of them had other events before/after my wedding using the same site. I thought I could handle the wedding planning all by myself until I started arranging for the transportation and logistics of the big day. Even though my two venues provided their experienced site-coordinators separately, they couldn't help me with the time limitation, the transition from one site to another and many customized details. I realized that I definitely need a day-of coordinator dealing with the whole wedding day and the rehearsal the night before. Fortunately I found Christine. She offered a lot at very reasonable price. And most importantly, she did a great job helping me plan ahead and executing my ideas on the day. From 3 months ahead, she started scheduling meetings with me and my fiance to customize our timeline and "To-Do" list. After knowing what we want to include in our wedding, she suggested a sample schedule/timeline. Then she went into detail asking what restrictions my venues may have, what special requirement/difficulties my wedding party members may have, what are provided by my venues, and so on. Then she would suggest modification on the day-of timeline accordingly and document them well, until we are all satisfied with the schedule. At the end, she would contact all my vendors and confirm the final version of timeline with each of them. We had 3 pre-wedding meetings with her in total. I found those meetings extremely helpful in two ways. First, they help me screen out relevant stuff which I neglect and improve on the timing and all the lists (must-take photo/video lists, drop-off item lists, wedding party's task lists, etc) to be much reasonable and managable rather than wanting everything and making things impractical. Second, she assigned "To-Do" tasks to me and my fiance respectively as well as a deadline of each task. As a result, my fiance became more involved in the planning process and released part of the burden on my shoulder. When my fiance lagged on his "action item" or running behind deadline, Christine would kindly reminded him to finish his part, preventing me from blowing up on my fiance and being pissy all the time. She was effective in executing my plans and ideas. I guess her key is to make sure everyone (wedding party, vendors, other site-coordinators) is on the same page. She even printed out schedules and tasks on a small card for wedding party members to carry with. I was so glad she could constantly take my "order" and designate right person to do stuff I suddenly came up with, considering I didn't have a cellphone on me that day. Except for going through the rehearsal with us the day before and coordinating my wedding the day of, she also threw in a favor of picking up all the decor/stuff which I couldn't drop off to the venues beforehand. She made a check list of those items and checked them off one by one when she fetched them from me or my bridesmaids. And she also transferred everything from church to reception. Later on, I found out there was not a single item missing or late. All in all, I and my husband were very satisfied with Christine's coordinating. I couldn't imagine what my wedding would be like without her. I am sure if I tried to save a few hundred bucks by not having a coordinator, I would regret now.

Christine is simply fantastic. I don't think anything I could write would really do her justice…read more She is everything you'd hope one of your bridesmaids would be, but better. Because I used to plan events and know the extensive details involved, I procrastinated delving into my wedding details. Christine was on top of them sending me gentle reminders monthly before my wedding. At our few meetings leading to the wedding she asked me questions and gave helpful suggestions that I just wouldn't have thought of. It was definitely a huge burden lifted to have Christine there the day of the wedding to hunt vendors and give directions to the lost ones. The only thing I would suggest is that you don't torture her the way I did by only having one Maid of Honor and no bridesmaids to lend a few helping hands. Christine excels in wedding planning because she is intelligent organized, detail-oriented, sweet but not a pushover, and has been a recent bride herself. Her passion and true love for weddings is the ray of light that helps to center you when your wedding dress doesn't fit, guests are being fickle about attending, and people tell your fiance his only job is to show up to the wedding. Going above and beyond, Christine also gave me two shoulders to cry on. Love her!

When we were interviewing officiants for our wedding, we did a lot of research and narrowed down…read moreour candidates to a select few. My wife and I scheduled an appointment with Carolyn--it was just supposed to be a twenty minute meet and greet, and then we'd go from there. We ended up chatting and planning for over two and a half hours--and it didn't even feel like the planned twenty minutes. Carolyn is so funny, sharp, charming, and intuitive... in addition, she asked the right questions about what we wanted for our ceremony--and within a night, she already had a framework planned for our ceremony. When it came down to officiating our ceremony, she was fully prepared, and gave a very graceful delivery. Several of my family members commented that she greeted them before the ceremony, which made them feel included in the proceedings. This was such a fantastic occasion for everyone involved, and Carolyn was a crucial part of making it happen for all of us.

Carolyn was very accommodating to our ceremony needs. She gave us a template to work with for the…read morelayout of the ceremony. After reviewing we came up with one that fit our style and occasion which included our children. She made the ceremony special and I would definitely recommend her to anyone that is looking for an officiant. She also gave us a copy or the ceremony with a certificate. Thank you Carolyn! You made Our day Special!!! The De Santiago Familia....

Dear Ms. Rowley: Your company contracted to cater my…read morehusband's 60th Surprise Birthday for September 18th, 2016. I fulfilled my monetary obligation according to the contract and you did not. According to the contract (which I enclosed) my event started at 11:00am and food was to be served starting at 12:30pm, dropped off at 12. Food was not served until 1:45pm (1 hour and 15 mins late) and it was only served at that time because my sister and I had to help set up and put the food out. Not part of the contract. We had to help because the servers arrived late at 1:00pm with nothing ready and did not have the proper equipment. The food they brought still needed to be prepared, warmed up, plated and put into chaffing dishes. (Per our discussion and follow up email, this was to be handled differently.) I ordered appetizers and they were to be passed at 12:30pm. The servers did not have the appetizers ready to go nor did they have plates to put them on. When the servers finally did arrive, they were preparing the appetizers. I had to stop them and tell them it is way past lunch time and they should be getting the buffet going since people were hungry. They started to work on preparing the lunch buffet with my sister (who was my guest!) while I quickly put out my 3pm snacks that I had prepared, so the guest would have something to eat. Next I got my utensils and prepared the buffet. While in the kitchen; the servers were warming up food and putting it into the chaffing dishes. My sister assisted with the getting the salad out and I helped to get the food out once it was warmed up. You were to provide a tablecloth but did not and there were not enough utensils. The food was horrible, no one enjoyed it and they left the food on their plate. There was so much food left over! The food the servers brought was nothing like you described in the contract, the company's catering menu and website. The servers where actually embarrassed by the food and the terrible situation you put them into. You know this is true because they were texting the contact left and right about all the issues they were having. Per the contract: I was to have BBQ chicken, not boiled chicken thighs with barbeque sauce thrown on top after the chicken was warmed up in the microwave. The chicken arrived in Ziploc bags and the servers had to warm it up, did not arrive in chaffing dishes as you stated in your email. Enclosures: Pictures with descriptions Email chain of timeline and process Contract Agreement Grilled Lemon Salmon, was oven baked salmon in foil,- It arrived in individual pieces cooked in foil, the servers had to unwrap pieces of salmon, warm them up. They had no spices, herbs, or garnishes. It did not arrive in chaffing dishes you stated in your email. Chili beans looked like they were from a can, not like what explained and what your show on your website. Green Salad was from a bag and in a plastic bowl, not like what you have on your website. Salad dressing- only 1 bottle for 100ppl, which was already opened and half way empty. A leftover opened salad dressing, not refrigerated is a violation of a health code. One server had to leave to go to the store when they were already and hour late to get more salad dressing and paper plates because there were not enough paper plates to start serving lunch, this delayed the lunch further. Watermelon- Not sliced, it was cube and soggy, tasted terrible, no one ate it. Passed appetizers, not served at 12:30 as contracted, they were plated by 3:00pm on my plates and put on the buffet. Deviled eggs, arrived not stuff, the egg whites were so flimsy your server threw half of them away, she told me she could not serve them, they were not acceptable. Bruschetta did not have a spread, they needed to be warmed up because the bread was stale and there were no garnishes. - refer to pictures I included of how it should have looked per your website. Quiche, there was not enough for 100ppl and it had to be warmed up. According to your contract and your emails it is evident that you did not provided the service and product that was agreed upon. I included pictures from your website which you told me to look at to get an idea of the food I would receive for my husband's 60th surprise birthday. The appetizers should have been plated and ready to be passed at 12:30pm and lunch was to be served at 1:00pm. That is what was discussed more than once verbally and communicated through email. The food should have been prepared properly so it would be tasty, look appealing and reflect the contract.

I am extremely pleased with the level of service I received from this Company. The professionalism…read moreand creativeness is what I am most pleased about. Kristine took my vision and made it something more than I could have ever imagined. Her attention to detail is top notch. I will be using her services in the future and will refer her to my clients as well as friends and family.