Our wedding was perfect! We chose Marisa and I Do Events to be our wedding planner. My husband and I wanted someone who would listen to our vision for the wedding, and deliver that vision. It was also important for us to have someone loving and accepting of the LGBTQ community. Marisa exceeded our expectations.

We had about 120 guests at the wedding. Marisa met with us numerous times during the planning process. She walked us through the process step-by-step, created a detailed cost estimate, and went over each line item on the cost estimate with us so we understood it. She made herself available any time we had questions (or my husband and I changed something, which happened several times). She was extremely professional, flexible, patient, and understood your wedding day is one of the best days of your life, and she and her staff worked hard to deliver high quality results, attention to detail, and magical moments.

Prior to hiring Marisa, we researched the costs to deliver the type of wedding we wanted, including the venue, servers and catering for 120 people, flowers and decorations, photographer, videographer, bartender (see comments below), and a DJ. Then we hired Marisa. Marisa came in way under budget, several thousands under budget. Marisa has a large network of contacts and we were able to save money by using her contacts. Marisa also owns a lot of wedding assets and she made them available to us for use. We were able to use many of hers, which also helped save us money.

My husband and I originally hired a bartender for the reception before we hired Marisa. That bartender canceled on us 5 days before the wedding. Marisa not only got us a replacement bartender, she got us 2 of them for the reception.

If you are thinking about getting married, I highly recommend Marisa and I Do Events. She is professional, organized, and can be trusted to help make your wedding day full of happiness without any of the stress. You won’t be disappointed.

Marissa with I Do Events was superb. I went from being a very high stressed bride that didn't know how she was going to accomplish everything to being very low stress. Marissa handled it all. The day of the wedding she helped tremendously by handling everything and all I had to do was enjoy my wedding. She was a wondeful personality and is very easy to get a long with. She has many ideas and connections. She helped me find the best officiant I could have asked for (he let us paint him up like a sugar skull) and my makeup artist was perfect! Thank you for everything you did.

~Danielle and David

From start to finish, everything was great with Marisa. I hired her to basically to do everything, from contacting vendors and locations to organizing the decor. She was EXTREMELY flexible as we changed the plan for our wedding a couple different times. She was quick to respond to e-mails and texts, often responding to my late night e-mails on the same evening. I would often give her ideas of what I wanted and she did an amazing job of taking my ideas and making them a reality. She was extremely familiar with the locations and vendors who would be gay friendly, as this was one of my concerns when planning the wedding. When my fiance and I had certain vendors picked out (for example, we had a friend do our invitations) she worked with those people to provide what was needed to get the job done and I was able to watch from the background (so to speak) and simply enjoy the end result with minimal stress. On one or two occasions there was some delay in response to e-mails by a day or two but in most cases if Marisa knew she would not be available to respond right away she would give me a heads up. One of the things that I thought made Marisa great was that I didn't want to have to deal with a lot of decision making but wanted to be given one or two options. By getting to know our tastes, she was able to find the right options for us and I didn't feel overwhelmed. She would even think out of the box, present us with an option, and ask us what we thought. If it wasn't the right option for us (for example, she suggested a possible venue that didn't fit our tastes) she took that info and always came back with something that worked. Sometimes, it was something we didn't even know we wanted. Overall, I feel like we had a good working relationship. We had ideas for what we wanted and she made all of them happen. We couldn't have been happier with the planning process but more importantly with how it all came together.