I booked Janice as a month-of coordinator and she was an actual lifesaver. She helped me implement my extravagant vision, while keeping me grounded on the reality of some logistics. She knew the answers to my questions before I even asked them! I honestly wish I had booked her sooner in my planning process. I couldn’t have done it without her – seriously. 10/10 I highly recommend!

There are many words I could use to describe Janice—organized, sincere, friendly, persistent, knowledgeable—but one of the best words to describe her is unflappable. That is certainly a quality you need when managing a wedding! We hired Janice for day-of wedding planning and she calmly took all the worry out of orchestrating the complex operations of that day! What a relief! Her in-depth knowledge of how things actually work and all the little details that matter (that most people are unaware of) are her forte. She’s a true professional. The detailed timeline she generates is a MUST and keeps everything running smoothly! Her long-developed relationships with well-known vendors is evident and helps assure a flawless event. Janice is an absolute necessity to assure you, your family, and guests have a stress-free day! I would recommend her services to anyone planning a wedding —no matter the size or venue. Janice is truly incomparable!

My husband and I found Janice through her blog and were drawn to her transparency about an industry that can often feel opaque and hard to navigate. We met with two other potential planners, but we decided to follow our initial instinct and put our trust in Janice. She did not disappoint! Janice kept the entire planning process incredibly organized and did an amazing job of finding vendors that aligned with our (sometimes very specific) vision. Anytime we started to feel overwhelmed, Janice was ready with a detailed timeline, polite-but-firm reminder emails, and a very encouraging attitude. Janice was also very receptive and enthusiastic about helping us incorporate important cultural elements into our day that she had not had experience previously (ex. A Japanese kagami biraki ceremony). Most importantly, Janice was extremely reliable. For example, my bridesmaids and I were supposed to get our hair and make-up done at a hotel the morning of the wedding, but after we woke up to a power outage and alerted Janice, she immediately jumped into action arranging a new location and updating the beauty and photo teams about the change. She then raced over to the hotel to help me and my MOHs pack up my wedding dress, shoes, accessories, and bridesmaids gifts and convinced the concierge to let us use the emergency freight elevator so that we wouldn’t have to run down 15 flights of stairs. Her husband drove us all to the alternate location and, miraculously, all of the hair, make-up, group photos, and dressing were completed with a whopping 15 minutes to spare! Despite the early morning switch-up, the rest of the day went off without a hitch and we knew the wedding couldn’t have gone as smoothly as it did if it weren’t for Janice’s work (both in the planning and the day-of coordination). We are so glad to have hired Janice and 100% recommend Bellwether Events.

We worked with Janice for a year planning our April 2024 wedding and it was the best first decision we made - we knew immediately she was the right fit for us! Janice was clearly experienced, seemingly knowing everything and everybody needed to make the day just what we wanted. She was extremely organized and kept everything and everyone moving during the planning process. Janice struck the right balance of listening to what we wanted, but didn’t shy away from making recommendations based on her years of experience - and she was always right! She also handled so much behind the scenes with the venue and vendors that we often didn’t even know about until after the fact. Not only was Janice fantastic, but she introduced us to the most amazing team of other vendors and worked with them to make the entire wedding day absolutely perfect - it was all totally seamless, which is the first word we told her early on when describing what we wanted from the day.

Janice helped us plan our covid-delayed wedding not one time, not two times, not three times but four separate times over the course of three years. Without her, we would have been lost, overwhelmed and alone. During an unprecedented time for the wedding industry, she competently answered every single question we had for her and never once led us astray. She quickly got a sense of what we wanted and flawlessly guided us through many difficult decisions. On the big day, she was in complete control of all the scheduled events, managing everything from ensuring our pup had the right flowers on her collar, to organizing the numerous vendors, to adorning our cake that required a final touch up! We had the day of our dreams and have Janice to thank for it. We cannot recommend her enough. She is organized, knowledgeable and most importantly a lot of fun to work with!

Let me just start this review by saying that this review is long — but only because Janice is 100% WORTH the word count. Second, FYI my (now) husband I both STRONGLY dislike planning "social" events. As two busy young professionals living in NYC, we are great at managing work-related projects, but for some reason, completely fall to pieces when tasked with organizing birthday parties, or even something as simple as a casual happy hour with friends. As such, the thought of planning our OWN WEDDING (a super important life event, btw) seemed overwhelmingly daunting for us. Don’t get us wrong; we obviously enjoy going to parties, and have attended a number of weddings over the past few years — all of which were lovely and fantastically executed. For some reason, however, the thought of planning our own wedding just felt so…unattainable … … …

ENTER JANICE CARNEVALE - who swooped in like an ABSOLUTE BOSS to save the day (and our sanity).

Just a few things we love about Janice, and why you should work with her:

* Her professionalism & proactiveness; we had a ton of anxiety about kicking off the wedding research process but Janet made us feel at ease right away. She came to our first meeting super prepared with concrete guidance, but also a willingness to truly listen to our concerns and needs.
* Her knowledge of the industry; she knows the ins and outs of the business and has also built solid relationships with great vendors in the area — makeup, flowers, music, photographers, hair, caterers, etc. We worked with her for over a year and trusted her guidance and expertise throughout.
* Her flexibility & responsiveness; I grew up in the DMV and had my heart set on getting married in the area, despite me and my husband living in NYC. That meant we had to do a ton of “virtual/remote” planning online + over the phone, which we at first, expected to be challenging…but Janice made the whole experience easy and stress-free. She was also incredibly patient with our (my) indecisiveness and never pressured us to make premature decisions.
* She has fabulous taste; her style is on point and she provided awesome guidance throughout the wedding design process. At this same time, she knew how to work with our personal styles, and made thoughtful and creative suggestions. Sounds cheesy, but she managed to successfully translate our abstract ideas and rambling thoughts into a beautiful reality.
* Her willingness to go above and beyond; Janice was technically only responsible for managing the “main event”, but she willingly lent her support and expertise to helping us plan other wedding events. — including welcome drinks and morning after brunch (which were also perfect, btw). She also personally assembled all of our guest welcome boxes — a task I was really dreading.
* Her honesty and candor; we really needed a wedding planner who was willing to work with us, but also manage our expectations in terms of budget. Janice kept us in check and managed our expectations, but still delivered a wedding that fully met our standards.
* Her general personality; Janice is fun to work with and has a sense of humor. She takes her work very seriously, but knows how to empathize and relate to her clients. Wedding planning is stressful, and she gets that.
* Her project management skills and ability to deliver; needless to say, our wedding went off without a hitch. Janice orchestrated the entire schedule for our big day, and kept our entire wedding party (disorganized family members included) on track/schedule for the main event. We were so nervous leading up to the main event, but our wedding day was gorgeous and absolutely PERFECT!
* Oh, and totally NBD, but she got us on the COVER of a freakin’ MAGAZINE…I mean, COME ON…enough said (But seriously, though, Washingtonian Weddings, Winter/Spring 2020).

In sum, BRIDES AND GROOMS: WORK. WITH. JANICE. WORK. WITH. BELLWETHER. EVENTS. We promise you, you won't regret it!


XOXO
Christina + Sam

Janice and her team took care of us from beginning to end and were an indispensable part of our successful wedding weekend for 275 guests. She was always accessible; had a huge, collaborative vendor network to tap into; and generally made everything easy for us. Highly recommend!

Janice is absolutely amazing! She knows everything and anything about throwing a perfect and seamless wedding. It's hard to find someone who can see the big picture while getting all the minor details right and that's Janice. And she takes the time to really get to know you as a couple so everything is just right for all your wedding activities. She made recommendations and asked us questions about things we would have never even thought of but were absolutely necessary. And after my wedding, when I kept asking oh what about this or that, everything was taken care of because Janice was working her magic behind the scenes. If you are looking for a wedding planner who is professional, reliable, always reachable, creative, knowledgeable and detail oriented, Janice is the best!

I highly recommend working with Janice if you're able. We used Bellwether for the coordination process. After our intro phone call, my husband and I were relieved to have found a wedding planner who was straightforward and incredibly efficient. Since we were planning from another city, her expertise during our walkthrough was especially invaluable. We are grateful that her team made our wedding day so smooth!

We chose Bellwether Events after reviewing quite a lot of positive online recommendations, and only afterward learned that she had planned one of the most amazing D.C. weddings that we had been to at the Hay Adams a year earlier. We went with "day-of" planning services which actually encompassed quite a lot more meetings and preparations leading up to the big day, than just day-of. Janice batted 1000 for our wedding!!! She made sure that everything - *everything* - including the stuff you'd never think of, were planned down to the last detail, and ready to go come our big day. We had a 150 person church ceremony, followed by a reception at Sequoia in Georgetown, with over a dozen vendors/moving parts (from photo booth, to cake, to 10-person live band, to Ice Luge), so not small by any stretch of the imagination. Everything went off completely seamlessly with 0.0 issues and I chalk that up to Bellwether/Janice's excellence at what she does! All we had to think about was enjoying the day. Where Bellwether/Janice truly excels over other planners is her friendly but no-nonsense approach to getting things done, and done 100% correctly, the first time. Even with only day-of service, I feel like we got extra value as if we had a full planner because of how great of a job she did. I can only imagine how seamless her full planning service would be. Go with Bellwether with 110% confidence and enjoy the big day!