Allie, who runs the Philly branch of PDot, is incredible. I hired her for full planning services about a year out from my wedding (Nov 2022). She helped source every vendor with creativity and organization and the calmest coolest demeanor. We started planning during covid and she helped us navigate contracts as well as help translate experiences that once were done in person into a more digital state. I had a pretty specific vision for our wedding and Allie executed 100% on it. She got me my dream vendors and introduced me to vendors I didn't know I was missing. She has every connection you need for your perfect wedding. Walking into the day everything was exactly how I had pictured it in my mind. I can't say enough good things about this company! Allie has not only the creativity and the vision, but the organizational skills, the connections, the patience, the foresight, like just literally everything was amazing. No random question too small. She was so responsive and caring. Day of ran so smoothly I didn't need to worry or be on top of anything because Allie and her team were there. I wish I could have 10 more weddings just so I could plan them with her.

Allie and the whole Polka Dot team were an absolutely indispensable part of our wedding. We hired them later in the process after having postponed our wedding and realizing that we were agonizing over small details that we wanted a professional’s help with. We decided on their month-of service to best suit what we needed. The month-of hand-off meeting and walk through put our minds completely at rest, and since Allie had so much experience working with our venue (the Foundry) she knew exactly all the options for use of the space. This turned out to be even more crucial as the weather forecast took a turn for the cold and we ended up having to move dinner from outside to inside the week before the wedding. Allie worked extensively with us on a completely new seating plan and layout plan, updated the rentals order, and helped us figure out all the dominoes so we had a completely smooth lead-up. During the day itself, Allie was a great wrangler and made sure that we didn’t have to worry about anything. Allie’s assistant Marjorie was also incredible, making sure I was hydrated and had a warm layer and had snacks throughout. We felt so at ease with Allie and her team and can’t thank them enough. If you are hesitating at all in working with Allie or with a planner in general, it’s absolutely 1000% worth it.

How do you adequately sum up *years* of working on a massive project together? But I’ll try. We originally reached out to Polka Dot after our venue (Gather Greene in upstate New York) recommended them, and we knew they had worked on a wedding that was essentially my benchmark for what I wanted for our own big event. We spoke to many, many planners, but eventually settled on Polka Dot because, a) as my sister the producer says, *always* go with the reference and their style seemed very aligned with what we were going for, and b) our initial conversation with Allie and Mandy gave us great confidence in how on top of things they would be. And they delivered the absolute 350% perfect wedding weekend. Since our primary planner Mandy was on maternity leave for much of the early stages of planning, we got to work with several members of the Polka Dot team. Early on, Allie was there at the drop of a hat, willing to get on the phone pretty much any time of day to talk me off the ledge regarding picking this vendor or that, and help us through the often murky waters of balancing quality and budget. When it came to designing the aesthetics, Tracey couldn’t have nailed more perfectly the natural, but elevated, vision we had. Every. Little. Detail. Was perfect—even down to the table numbers which Tracey and her husband hand crafted themselves by spray painting home address numbers and affixing them to wooden blocks to create the coolest, prettiest little details. And when my hair trial went horribly awry relatively last minute (we had to book hair/makeup folks sight unseen because vendors for 2022 were booking fast and we lived across the country in California and couldn’t travel during the early days of the pandemic) Tracey didn’t miss a beat in finding an alternative option, negotiating us out of our original contract, and alleviating all the anxiety I had about switching gears last minute. (I LOVED my new hair guru.) And then the weekend came. The weekend we had worked so hard to create, and we could NOT have been in better hands with Mandy and her assistants. My sister is a producer and often says that her job goes unappreciated because if you do it well, no one notices how much work you put into everything going perfectly smoothly. Well I’m here to say if you do it *exceptionally* well, not does everything go smoothly, but people also notice what a fantastic job you did pulling it all off. *Both* sets of parents couldn’t stop raving about Mandy—how prepared they felt to walk down the aisle, how they knew exactly where to go to do their speeches, how rain or shine they just knew everything would go off without a hitch. And guest after guest approached us all weekend long with essentially the same comments— “your planners are ON TOP OF IT.” I’ve heard a million times over that *something* will go wrong on your wedding day. That no matter how hard you work or prepare, there will be *something* that goes awry and you just have to let go of perfection. Well, thanks to Mandy and her team, that just wasn’t true. The whole weekend was sheer perfection. And we’re *very* particular people with *very* high standards. If anything at all went wrong, we had no clue. No one did. And though we definitely didn’t have the budget to pick the most expensive vendor in every category, we felt like Polka Dot helped us compile the VERY best team of vendors. We’ve gotten so many compliments about having the best food, drinks, music, venue, decor, even down to the *welcome bag snacks* which people couldn’t stop raving about. And honestly, biased or not, we’d have to agree. It was the absolute perfect weekend, and we were so grateful to have the whole Polka Dot team behind us to pull it off.

Where to begin about Allie and her team?? Working with Polka Dot was an absolute lifesaver for my husband and me, and from our very first phone call with Allie we knew that she was the perfect wedding planner for us!! Allie is not only incredibly organized, talented, and kind, but she is also calming, funny, and excellent at working with all personalities. Throughout our 18-month wedding planning process, she was highly responsive and detailed, which kept us on track and made the planning process much more enjoyable. We always looked forward to talking to her, and she was extremely flexible with different design ideas and last-minute changes. My husband and I are very busy, but while working with Allie we viewed the wedding planning process as fun and enjoyable rather than stressful. Our friends and family could not believe we were not more overwhelmed, but it truly is because all of the heavy lifting was handled by Allie!! On the day of our wedding, Allie's team was incredibly organized, professional, fun, and well-managed. They kept our wedding day running smoothly despite needing to coordinate nearly a dozen different vendors. My husband and I had the absolute best wedding day and weekend we could ever have imagined, and in large part it is due to Allie and the remainder of the team at Polka Dot!! We cannot recommend them highly enough!!!

Hiring Allie was the best decision I made. I had a long engagement over covid and Allie was with my *virtually* every step of the way. She was responsive, understanding, and made the experience fun and wonderful even through a pandemic. I really enjoyed working with her and am very detailed oriented so was pretty involved in the process. The day of the wedding was perfect. If there was a hiccup I wasn't aware of it, my husband and I got to enjoy every minute of the day and can honestly say we had the best night of our lives.

We simply could not have gotten married with Tracey and Allie’s help! Hiring them was HANDS DOWN the best decision we made for our wedding. When it came to design, Tracey took the time to help us cultivate a vision for our wedding when we weren’t quite sure what we wanted. She provided honest advice and worked with us to make our dream wedding happen. She pays amazing attention to the little details that we would not have thought of on our own—but all those little details came together in the most beautiful way on our wedding day. All of our guests were wowed! Allie was with us on the day of our wedding—and not only was she the most unbelievable coordinator, making everything run SO smoothly (even a last minute change to move the ceremony inside), she had the absolute best attitude and was so positive, reassuring and fun. Together, Tracy and Allie are the dream team. Thanks to them we had an unbelievable wedding day and threw a party that all our family and friends continue to rave about. We can’t thank them enough!

We had a wonderful experience working with Allie and her team at Polka Dot Events. We hired Allie just three months before our wedding date as COVID has disrupted our original plan, and we needed to transition to putting together a whole new backyard wedding for 100+ people. Working on a very tight timeline and starting from scratch, Allie did a fantastic job bringing our vision to life and drastically reducing our stress levels by taking the lead on all wedding design, timeline, and rental/vendor coordination. Polka Dot was incredibly responsive to all our questions and requests, and had great attention to detail. On the day-of, Allie and her team made sure everything went off without a hitch and solved any issues before we were even aware. We received many compliments on how well organized and planned our wedding was. We could not have done it without Allie and would greatly recommend her and the Polka Dot team to anyone planning a wedding.

Simply put, Allie is a rockstar (as is the rest of the Polka Dot team). It’s no surprise that planning, re-planning, and re-planning (again) a wedding in the middle of a pandemic is a challenge. Hiring Polkadot made navigating these challenges, and pulling it off, so much easier. If you’re questioning whether you need a planner, the answer is yes. And if you’re questioning what planner to hire, the answer is a resounding “Polka Dot”.

Here’s what Allie and team helped us with:
* Being flexible with us as we scaled back on the size of our wedding (from 150 to 13 people)
* Managing family politics and quickly adjusting plans as people were added/dropped from the final list
* Taking everything off our hands as soon as we had our “onboarding” conversion — it literally felt like a weight was lifted off our shoulders once we started working with her
* Negotiating tough conversations with vendors, especially when we encountered the last minute switcheroo from some who changed plans 2 days before the wedding
* Making numerous recommendations and connecting us to various amazing vendors who brought our vision to life, most of the time at the last moment
* Helping to bring everything together on the day of, from setup and organization at the event, to coordination with our guests, and handling the end of the night so that we could just walk away into the evening as a newly married couple

Allie, you were our rock in this crazy, crazy rollercoaster and we are beyond grateful for you and everything you did. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts - we couldn’t have done it without you!

We had an amazing experience with Kristi as our month of wedding planner in Leavenworth, WA. There were so many moving pieces as we had guests coming from all over the country, but Kristi was able to keep everything and everyone organized allowing us to just enjoy the moment with our friends and family. She coordinated our vendors, made our timeline and managed everything that came up day of. She was organized, calming and willing to do anything to make sure our day was perfect. We could not have asked for a better day or a better wedding planner!

We feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with Allie Beik from Polka Dot Events. We just celebrated our wedding in early November and Allie and her team made the day absolutely perfect and stress free for us. Besides being extremely professional, thorough and detail-oriented; Allie is just a gem of a person and I loved having her by my side on our wedding day. The entire team we worked with had such a great energy and instilled confidence in us that everything we needed to have handled was 100% taken care of.

The whole process leading up to our wedding was also a dream. We actually booked Polka Dot Events as one of our last vendors through a recommendation by our Photographer, Haley Richter. At the time, I didn’t realize the amount of value a coordinator could bring to both the planning experience as well as the day-of wedding execution. If you’re on the fence, let me just say booking Allie had immediate value to us; there is no question of the return on investment you get from having a professional on your team! The week after we booked Polka Dot Events many of my other vendors started reaching out to setup timeline calls and finalize details; she was quick to introduce herself, join us for vendor meetings and calls and even take over some on her own when I had conflicts. Also, if you’re still looking for a photographer I recommend booking Haley and Allie together - they are literally the dream team! I didn’t realize until the day of our wedding that the two vendors you spend the most time with will be your photographer and coordinator. Having individuals who are both extremely efficient and have worked together before kept us on schedule and added to our outstanding experience.

Thank you again Allie for everything! I’ll forever think of you as my fairy godmother on my wedding day - you made the whole experience so magical! We couldn’t have done it without you.