Missy and her team of professionals at ACE helped create the wedding of our dreams for my husband and I! Missy went above and beyond to communicate with all of our vendors, get us connected with the best wedding professionals in the Hampton Roads area, organize the flow of the wedding weekend so we could enjoy our special day, and listened to our creative ideas and wants for our wedding! She was even able to track down my husband's dream vintage car (model, year, and color!) for our getaway vehicle, which was such a special treat! She worked with us consistently through all parts of the wedding planning process, and we simply would not have been able to put on our wedding with this much ease if it were not for her and her team. Especially with my husband and I planning our wedding from out of the state (Military and grad school), Missy's help and guidance was crucial in getting us the wedding of our dreams! If you can afford a full-time wedding planner, Missy's guidance and connections in the wedding industry are a must to have on your side to help create your dream wedding day! She was able to help create the most stunning day for us and joyous memories to last a lifetime!

Missy and her team were absolutely amazing. They made our wedding so much fun and absolutely perfect. I am a person who is very particular and somewhat OCD. Missy was so understanding and knew exactly how I think. We were so sad when the wedding was over, because it meant we wouldn’t be with Missy anymore! She feels like part of our family now and we are so thankful for Missy and her team!

Hiring Missy with Antonia Christianson Events to lead the design and execution of our daughter’s garden wedding at The Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk, Virginia was absolutely the best decision. While we interviewed others, Missy was by far the most professional yet personable.
The level of guidance and creativity Missy provides is exceptional. She will engage in the design process to whatever degree you desire – we didn’t go into the process with a definitive picture of what we wanted. She asked questions to get to know our daughter and helped us to define a style and then kept us on track throughout the process to ensure our choices would have a cohesive result. She will direct and offer input but not take over, she always has an option up her sleeve and she’s not afraid to have a difficult conversation should the need arise all while keeping the process fun and enjoyable. Missy brings a wealth of experience to the table and is well connected to area vendors. She knows their inventory and their strengths which gives her the ability to guide you to those who best fit your vision. As we began working with those vendors it became clear that Missy is a very well-respected professional in the industry. The strong working relationship she maintains with other vendors provides a rock-solid foundation for flawless event execution.
Missy is a perfectionist. One of her greatest strengths is her attention to detail. Throughout the planning process she tracked our thoughts and preferences, little details that could easily have been missed but she constantly revised and clarified each desire. The result was a document 20+ pages in length that pulled together our vision for the day along with key information from every vendor contract – a schedule for beauty and hair, a list of florals and where each was to be placed, a list of lighting features and where each was to be installed, who would arrive at what time by what mode of transportation where they would wait where they would stand during the ceremony the list went on and on – literally every detail was planned and the ACE team was on top of it all.
When the day came, we were able to completely let go and enjoy the event because we were 100% confident that Missy and the ACE team had it under control. When we walked into both the ceremony and reception space, we were overwhelmed by how beautifully everything had come together – the end result exceeded our every expectation. Did anything go wrong? Maybe, more likely probably as there we many moving parts but did we know? – nope - because it was handled. That is the greatest gift you can give yourself - a stress free wedding day. One of our guests who also happens to be a professional event planner commented that every detail was executed flawlessly – yep that’s an ACE event trademark!
We cannot thank Missy and the ACE team enough for making our dreams come true.