My husband and I had no idea what we were in store for when we decided we wanted to get married. "A wedding? we're going to keep it simple. Piece of cake." Well, as the wedding day drew nearer, we knew we needed some professional help. About 4 months before our day, we hired Panache and we were so grateful we did.

Even with a small wedding (65 people), we still had a crazy amount of detail to work out. Marcia and Diana were able to offer so many helpful ideas and tips--stuff we NEVER would have thought of. They definitely went the extra mile for us.

Marcia is an amazing artist, she helped us come up with simple, elegant, wedding site decor that we were thrilled with.

And Diana was an a amazing wedding rehearsal and day of coordinator. Very professional, yet very approachable and flexible.

Though we thought we had everything worked out come wedding day, there were so many things that we had overlooked, and later when we reflected on "How did that happen?" "How did that get there?" for things we had forgotten, my husband and I just looked at each other and said "Must've been the planners!"

I can't tell you how helpful it is that to have (non-family) people who have done it all before help you plan your day.

I just love these ladies. They are talented, organized and detail oriented. I interviewed over 10 planners. As soon as I met Marcia and Diana, I knew that our wedding would be taken care of. I hired them as our "day of coordinators". The put all of the pieces of the puzzle together. These ladies also helped me find a couple of vendors, as well as took care of the week before reminders. In addition, they conducted the rehearsal dinner two days before our wedding day. In my eyes, our wedding day was perfect. You can take a look at my pictures, by visiting my personal blog at the following link:
http://openendedblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/wedding-of-our-dreams.html

Panache also took over some tasks a month before our wedding. They printed and displayed the most gorgeous menu cards at our reception. I was so overwhelmed weeks before our big day, that they took care of a couple of final details and phone calls for me. Thank you ladies!
And to the brides and grooms, good luck on your future wedding plans!

I am usually very selective about who I give all 5's to, but Marcia and Diana truly earned their stars! All of our family and friends were traveling from out of state to attend our wedding on Orcas Island. Without Panache's help and expertise, I don't know how we would have done it. The result was a perfect wedding--even our guests thought it was the best wedding they had ever been to. Even when a vendor or two started causing grief, Marcia and Diana handled it in stride with professionalism and great attitudes. We barely knew problems had even existed since they worked so hard to resolve any issue before adding any stress to us on our wedding day. Diana did an enormous amount of research in finding us the best price on rentals. Marcia used her creativity and design talent in helping us create our stationary and decorations. They both are extremely well organized and talented. My mom was quoted saying, "The only hitch was the intended one!" Everyone had a great time, and we could not be happier!

It is easy for me to see why Diana and Marcia of Panache Weddings and Events placed in the top three for the Best of Western Washington and deserve the highest praise awarded to anyone working in their field. To begin, they were not given an easy task givin that I was a hands-off bride trying to create a memorable yet affordable wedding weekend for 40+ out-of-town guests. After interviewing several wedding planning organizations, Panache were the only planners that were cost-effective, friendly, organized and able to bring to the table amazing and new ideas that catered to our specific interests. I can not thank them enough for creating a flawless, beautiful wedding that I was able to enjoy with my friends and family because I had none of the stress or planning to worry about. I trust them explicitly and recommend them to anyone planning an event.

Marcia and Diana are incredibly sweet and nice to work with. They have lots of ideas and suggestions and seemed to REALLY care about me and our wedding day, not just as a job but I truly felt like I was special and they cared. On the wedding day everything went smoothly and they set up our wedding decorations (and I had a lot of them!) better than I could have even hoped for. I was probably a Bridezilla and I felt like they handled my stress with professionalism and helped calm me down which was worth its weight in gold without all the other services they provided for us! Our ushers had been in multiple wedding parties before and commented that ours was the most organized and that they actually knew what to do thanks to Diana who directed most of the ceremony portion for us. They also go above and beyond with the little details like they had snacks for us in the morning, when we arrived at our reception they had our signature cocktails waiting for us, and they sent us to the hotel with food and wedding cake. Just those little things that are hard to do for yourself on your wedding day because you are so busy and emotional.