With full-time jobs and hectic lives, we needed a full-service wedding planner and a seasoned professional. Knowing that this was going to be one of the most important days in our lives, we did a lot of homework and interviewed several planners. In addition to experience and strong references, the single most important factor to us was chemistry. Warm and genuinely caring, we connected with Carisa from the start and knew we didn’t want to entrust our wedding to anyone else.

The other factors we considered: 1) clear, reliable communication skills - including the ability to listen and really understand our vision and intention for the event; 2) strong organizational skills and follow-through; 3) established relationships with the best vendors; 4) clear design inspiration and passion; and 5) a game-day MVP who calmly directs the show behind the scenes and makes everything run smoothly.

Carisa delivered on every criteria, and, in fact, exceeded our high expectations. It has now been over a year since our special day, and we still get compliments from our guests who tell us it was the best wedding they’ve ever been to! The whole experience was truly joyous and magical, and Carisa and the entire Adornment Events team were essential in making our dream a reality. The financial investment in hiring Carisa and her A-team to seamlessly orchestrate our big day was worth every penny, and we could not have done it without them.

We cannot recommend Carisa and Adornment Events highly enough!!!

When my daughter got engaged, my friends all advised me to hire a wedding planner. This, by the way, is the best advice ever! We checked our options in the Portland area and Carisa Smith of Adornment Events matched our criteria. Carisa came highly recommended from a longtime friend who had used Carisa extensively for events.

Carisa Smith and Adornment Events are fantastic! They helped us with the initial stages of the wedding planning, including a 75 person engagement party held in our home. Carisa Smith has invaluable connections to the best vendors. She is respected and well liked in the event community. She took our vision and executed it flawlessly from start to finish. Her team at Adornment Events are professionals who can take a plan and deliver it to the highest expectations.

As the type “A” Mom of a type “A” bride—Carisa mitigated the stress. The day of the wedding came and I could just enjoy the day. It was the perfect day. In fact, my daughter thanked me at the end of the night saying it was the “most perfect day”. It doesn’t get better than that.

There are so many good things that I could say about Adornment Events and Carisa Smith. I highly recommend them for your next event. You will not be disappointed.

Carisa and her team at Adornment did an amazing job putting together our wedding! It was the most perfect day and so many of our guests named it the "best wedding ever"! She brought our vision to life - modern, chic & romantic. I appreciated Carisa working with me on all my ideas, changes and many many questions throughout the planning process. When the big day finally came, my expectations were exceeded. From start to finish the entire event was seamless. Each detail was so thought out and intentional, executed by an amazing vendor team, to create the ultimate wedding experience.

I highly recommend Adornment Events! Our wedding was everything we could have dreamed of and more.

Carisa & team were great to work with! I had found adornment Events on the knot as a suggested vendor. I reached out to my venue to see if they had worked with them before, they had and had really great things to say about them! So i reached out to adornment and set up a video call. Carisa was great, she is very kind, patient and really seemed excited about what she does! Leading up to my wedding she was always very timely with her responses back & very helpful. She made me feel like I was the only bride she was working with, even though I know she was very busy! My wedding day went very smoothly, despite it raining and having to move the outdoor reception mostly indoors, Carisa and her team did a great job! I could not have done it without them, they made my day perfect!

Best wedding and event planning company! The team makes it an enjoyable and fun experience throughout the entire process, and they delivered on the most wonderful experience ever! Look no further, you’ve found the best!

The best decision by far we made for our wedding was to have Carisa and Adornment Events! We had no idea where to start a year out from the wedding date, but Carisa held our hands the entire way. She seamlessly planned a 2 day wedding celebration and then executed it to perfection. We felt absolutely no stress about the details leading up to and on our big day and that is truly priceless. We were able to just enjoy ourselves and know that Carisa and her team had our back. Carisa is thoughtful, professional, and best of all she's now our friend :)

Would highly recommend Adornment Events for wedding planning! Carisa and her team at Adornment helped us create the most perfect wedding that captured who we are as individuals and us as a couple. They brought our vision to life, creating a true experience for our guests, which was our goal from the start. The icing on the cake was their exceptional eye for design, which made for a truly beautiful event. Because of Adornment, we believe we had a dream team of vendors that all executed so beautifully and worked seamlessly together. Thank you so much!

Carisa and her team were so incredible to partner with for our wedding! She worked with us for nearly 2 and 1/2 years and was a total rockstar through all of the COVID ups and downs. She helped put us at ease through those crazy years of planning - including helping us plan our wedding from across the world! The Adornment team helped to make sure that every last detail was thought through - truly they are the icing on the cake!! Carisa and her team are so fun, easy going, and organized - I would recommend for all your event planning needs!

Carisa and the team at Adornment are top notch. Not only are they communicative, never missing a detail, and all the other things you need in a wedding coordinator, they are also just an absolute JOY to be around. Carisa brings the energy and is exactly the person you want on your side through all the moments - from rehearsal to send off. There’s nobody else I could have trusted to hand the reigns over to on our wedding day.

Coming up with the words to describe what an amazing experience my partner and I had with Carisa and her team is truly difficult. I worked with Carisa for an entire year planning three large out of town events at Coopers Hall, CH Northeast, and Amaterra Winery. From negotiating with venues, vendor referrals, to bringing a vision to life, directing us to things we never would have thought of, sticking with our budget, and providing relief to my anxious personality-Saying Carisa went above and beyond is a gross understatement!!

Adornment events made our entire experience flawless and on the actual event days, even when things went wrong- we never knew because her team handled everything from point A to point Z. They made it so we could focus on celebrating and be completely present with our loved ones!

It’s been almost a month since our wedding and I’m still receiving calls from guests regarding how flawless and beautiful our events were.

I would rate Adornment more than 5 stars if it were possible- 11/10 experience all around. Run don’t walk.