We hired Joyce from Bash Events for a wedding this past September as our "day of" coordinator and to help us with the event design.

Joyce and her team met and exceeded all of our requirements. As the other reviews have alluded to, Joyce goes well beyond "day of" duties. She and her team took the reins two months out, drafting the schedule, coordinating walk-throughs with vendors, and ensuring everyone was on the same page. She was also a perpetual sounding board for any and all wedding questions and concerns we had throughout the process.

As someone who has a nose for detail and wanted the day to unfold a certain way, Joyce's team delivered soundly. On the wedding day, someone from Bash was always a few feet away from us to address any issues that arose (in our case, a missing wedding license before the ceremony).

We would highly recommend Joyce and Bash for anyone looking for excellent service, great value, and flawless execution.

We hired Joyce of Bash Events to be our "day of" coordinator. From our initial conversation, I knew we made a good choice. Joyce started working with us a month out to coordinate directly with our vendors and create a complete minute by minute schedule for our day. Her professionalism, deep experience in wedding planning, and her outstanding coordination skills helped our wedding day come together exactly as we had hoped it would. She was also truly a pleasure to work with and an excellent sounding board fielding questions from me along the way. I highly recommend adding her services to your planning efforts!

Selecting Joyce and BASH as our wedding coordinator was one of the very best decisions we made in wedding planning. Our wedding was in Washington but we live overseas, so I knew up front we would need some level of assistance. Joyce put together a package that worked for us, allowing us to do some of the early planning, but was available by phone or email any time we needed to bounce ideas off her. We initially settled on a venue, but Joyce's detailed budgets and advice on vendors made us realize what we thought was a simple set-up was actually far more complex and would be significantly more expensive than we'd envisioned. The savings in cost and headache Joyce achieved on that decision alone was worth her fee. As the big day drew nearer, Joyce took over all planning, which was a wonderful relief. I had utter confidence in her decision-making. On our wedding day, Joyce and her assistants were omnipresent, and we were able to relax and just enjoy. Beyond anything else, Joyce's calming presence and zen attitude were exactly what we and our families needed to truly appreciate the experience and live in the moment. I can't recommend her highly enough.

We really enjoyed working with Joyce from Bash and she ensured our wedding planning and our actual wedding day ran efficiently and smoothly. Joyce had so many creative ideas for our reception and her planning experience is a real asset. Joyce's skills in organization, logistics, and communication helped us pull together a variety of vendors in a coordinated way. She is professional, punctual, and was so pleasant to work with throughout the planning process. We were able to completely enjoy our wedding day and reception because we were in the excellent hands of Joyce and her assistant Erin from Bash!

We made the decision to work with Joyce and the Bash team for day-of coordination and have absolutely no regrets about the decision, from start to finish, she was spectacular.

During the period leading up to our wedding, Joyce was responsive, professional and helpful every step of the way. As anyone who's gone through the wedding process can tell you, planning a wedding involves a lot of decisions large and small. Having a resource like Joyce who could deliver her experience and knowledge through top notch service was absolutely invaluable. There were countless times where we went to her to inform our decision making, use as a sounding board for ideas and execute on putting concepts to action. Additionally, during the hectic period immediately preceding the wedding, having Joyce around to keep us calm and focused on the process was an absolute necessity.

On the big day itself, everything went off without a hitch. Whether it be directing vendors, getting us to where we needed to be or making sure the festivities stayed on track, Joyce was in command of it all, allowing us to focus on what was most important to us, enjoying our wedding! Joyce was organized and kept us as informed as we needed to make sure everything ran smoothly. Also she was extremely flexible in adjusting the plan to our changing desires throughout the night. We can't imagine what the night would have been like without Joyce by our side.

If you're considering going with Joyce and the Bash team or on the fence about hiring her as a planner, don't hesitate. It will be prove to be a great decision, providing you with peace of mind leading up to the wedding and the chance to enjoy the festivities the day of.

My mom, husband and I did most of the planning for our November wedding, but knew we wanted a day-of-coordinator from the very beginning so that we could sit back and relax on the big day. This was the best decision that we made.

Joyce was absolutely AMAZING. From the moment she started working with me I felt instant relief. She was so detail oriented and helped with anything we asked for advice on. She really went above and beyond just day-of services, which was so very much appreciated in the hectic weeks leading up to the wedding day.

On the day of the wedding Joyce and her assistant, Elizabeth, were incredible. They were so professional and had every little detail just perfect. I wasn't aware of anything that went wrong and had the best day of my life without having to worry about anything at all.

If you're at all hesitant about hiring a coordinator (or even a planner) I would say go for it. You're going to be so happy that you did. Especially if you choose Joyce!!!!

I cannot imagine a more brilliant, professional, responsive event planner than Joyce. She was essential to making my wedding everything that I hoped it would be and hiring her was *the best* decision we made. She ended up being so much more than an event planner: she was an etiquette expert, a design maven, a confidant. And, she was a ton of fun to work with.

When I first began planning the big day, I thought I was only going to get a day-of planner. We secured our venue, contracted with a florist and band, and began coasting. But a month before the wedding, I started panicking. My florist wasn't being responsive, and there was so much left to do, but I was completely overwhelmed.

Joyce swooped in and saved the day. She immediately began preparing to-do lists for me, calling my florist, etc. And, she saved me a ton of money: I had told her that I was over budget and feeling very stressed out, so one of the first things she did was review my contracts and help me cut some of the unnecessary costs out.

Also, on day one I had expressed a concern that the wedding didn't have enough "personality." Joyce had endless suggestions, and, because she had lifted such a burden from my shoulders, I was able to follow through on them: we made trivia napkins, designed specialty drinks, came up with a unique favor, had fun table activities, etc. When we did our rounds, every guest had a small detail that they wanted to rave about.

Lastly, on the day of, there were many times when things could have fallen apart (including me). But, I wasn't stressed at all, because Joyce was always there making things work. For example, we had a pop-up ceremony during cocktail hours with a few dozen moving pieces. Joyce had drawn up the schedule, and then day of, executed it flawlessly.

I could not feel more proud of the wedding nor more grateful to Joyce for everything she did. She truly goes above and beyond and made the day filled with a few dozen of my favorite memories.

We hired Bash about 4 months before our wedding to help us with vendors, coordination, and styling; they provided something between full and day-of planning, since we already had a venue and a caterer. We worked with Joyce, and we chose her in part because she was the only wedding coordinator who did not sound alarmed by our general state of disarray. She was awesome. I was able to offload a portion of my brain to Joyce and kill that horrible "am I forgetting something?" feeling that plagues every bride. She kept us on task, she made great vendor recommendations, and she really helped us figure out where to spend money to make the event feel elegant on a reasonable budget. We did not have much of a vision for our wedding - we just wanted for it not to take over our lives, for it not to be terribly wasteful, and for our guests to feel loved and to have a great time. She took this scant guidance and a pretty limited budget for flowers and decor (for the DC area) and put together a wedding that was far beyond our expectations. And best of all, she's just a lovely, pleasant person and a pleasure to work with. I would recommend Bash, and Joyce specifically, without reservation.

If anyone is hesitant to spend money on full-planning services, I can assure you that working with Terri is worth every penny. We hired Terri for full-planning, so we worked with her for nine months leading up to the wedding, on the actual day of our wedding, and even worked with her to tie up a few loose ends afterwards. We interviewed quite a few planners who seemed very promising. However we decided to go with Terri due to her experience in planning events for so many years, art and design background, and positive yet calm personality.

Throughout the planning process, which started shortly after we got engaged, she helped keep us on track and gave us valuable advice and expertise. I was not the type of bride who had been planning her wedding for years. In fact I didn’t really know much about weddings, so I had A LOT of questions. Terri was so helpful and professional throughout, helping me understand how everything worked. I didn’t have any background in décor or design, but I had an idea in my head of how I wanted the event to look and feel. Terri took my ideas and created a beautiful event that was even better than I imagined!!

What was most valuable was her relationships with various vendors. We knew that using vendors through her meant that everything would be seamless on the big day, which gave us peace of mind. Bash works with reliable and hard-working vendors, which allowed us to be relaxed and happy on our wedding day. We were able to focus on being “guests” at our own wedding, dancing and socializing, while Terri worked efficiently and harmoniously with all the vendors behind the scenes. I am very picky and particular about logistics (everyone has their thing they care about) and the entire day was FLAWLESS, thanks to Terri and her team.

If you want to have a momentous, beautiful, and magical day I highly recommend Terri and her team at Bash for full-planning services.

I'm writing to provide a much belated, but very deserved glowing review of Bash! My husband and I did most of the planning for our April 2012 wedding. However, we knew that we wanted a day of coordinator to help facilitate our dream wedding. Choosing Bash, and particularly Cara, was perhaps the best decision of our wedding!

We got married at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC which offers an absolutely gorgeous event space. However, the site itself does not necessarily handle all of the day of items that need attention. This is where Cara and her team from Bash came in.

Throughout the entire planning process Cara was unbelievably professional. She allayed any nerves and fears that I had and made me feel as though everything was under control leading up to the big day. The day of, when we realized we had left our marriage certificate at home (less than two hours before the wedding!) Cara calmly approached me and helped me develop a plan to get the certificate and ensure that everything would go off without a hitch.

The entire evening was perfect. My husband and I still can't believe how smooth everything went. I know that we wouldn't have been able to accomplish this without the thorough planning and foresight of the team at Bash. Do not underestimate how important having a day of coordinator is! Bash makes the entire event run smoothly and allows you and your guests to enjoy the party!

Thank you again Cara and the rest of the team at Bash for making our wedding the absolute best day of my life!

Joy