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Brooke Shehan Events is an award-winning full-service wedding planning company located in Lexington, VA. Specializing in weddings in Lexington, VA and throughout Virginia, BSE offers full planning and design, partial planning, and month-of coordination services to joyful couples.
- Woman-owned
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Reviews of Brooke Shehan Events
Review summary
Reviewers rave that Brooke is an exceptional, calm, and highly organized wedding planner who makes planning stress-free. She expertly handles logistics, vendor communication, and last-minute emergencies (AV, rain plans), even when coordinating remotely. Clients highly recommend her for flawless execution.
Review summary
Reviewers rave that Brooke is an exceptional, calm, and highly organized wedding planner who makes planning stress-free. She expertly handles logistics, vendor communication, and last-minute emergencies (AV, rain plans), even when coordinating remotely. Clients highly recommend her for flawless execution.
5 Stars is Not Enough: Brooke Saved the Day and Made Our Wedding Weekend Unforgettable!
Event 1: Rehearsal Dinner & Welcome Party
Brooke helped plan and organize our rehearsal dinner for 90 guests and a welcome party for 200 guests in Hot Springs, VA. Since our family is not local and had only seen the venue once or twice in person, planning from a distance could have been stressful. Brooke made us feel completely at ease while sourcing, managing, and communicating with all vendors. Her communication was outstanding—she was always prompt, detail-oriented, and equipped with pricing, photos, and reviews. If she didn't have an answer offhand, she immediately researched and gathered direct feedback. Despite having never met her in person until the day before the event (we coordinated entirely via phone, email, and Zoom), we felt total trust in her. She executed our vision for the decor, flow, and logistics perfectly. Her priority was ensuring a memorable, stress-free weekend, and she went above and beyond at every step—from letting us ship items ahead of time to handling vendor logistics and event setup.
Event 2: Wedding Day
Brooke was indispensable on our wedding day. She kept the bride completely at ease and ensured everything ran smoothly from morning prep all the way to the afterparty. Two specific moments highlight her incredible resourcefulness and calm under pressure:
Emergency AV Sourcing: Just two hours before the ceremony, the venue informed us they could not supply a speaker or microphone. Without skipping a beat, Brooke took charge. She double-checked the hotel, called our venue from the night before, arranged to borrow their equipment, drove to pick it up, and had it set up before anyone even realized there was an issue.
Seamless Rain Plan Execution: Five minutes before guests were set to walk outside for the reception, Brooke calmly approached us to let us know a storm was rolling in quickly. She presented clear options, and when we decided to move to our indoor backup location, her team executed the pivot flawlessly. Within 15–20 minutes, all chairs, decor, and guests were transitioned inside. It looked so beautiful and ran so smoothly that you would have thought it was Plan A all along.
Brooke is exceptional at what she does, and we would work with her again in a heartbeat. If you are considering hiring her, feel free to ask her for our contact information—we are more than happy to share further details about our glowing experience!
Loved working with Brooke!
Brooke is the best!
Beyond thankful for Brooke!
I truly cannot recommend Brooke and her team enough! We received so many compliments from our guests about how helpful, professional, and kind they were. They did an incredible job assisting our guests and setting up our gorgeous venue.
Thank you, Brooke, for everything. We feel so lucky to have had you as part of our special day!
Great Wedding Planner
Brooke’s Magic Touch: Our Dream Wedding Come True
Brooke is the absolute BEST!!!
Wonderful!!
Brooke is efficient and organized. She asks great questions, offers a level-headed perspective for the world of wedding planning, and consistently exhibits a “can-do” attitude.
Whenever my wife and I expressed a need to follow through on a wedding planning to-do list item, Brooke calmly told us, that she’ll “take care of it”. From our first phone call, to the wedding venue walkthrough, to the week leading up to the wedding, up until the final moments of the wedding celebration, Brooke remained an invaluable resource to us.
Brooke is a fantastic wedding planner. She personifies the expression, “cool, calm, and collected”. We greatly appreciated her help with our wedding and highly recommend her to other couples in need of a wedding planner.
Simply the BEST!
Brooke made so much effort to learn about our wedding day vision and ensured that she achieved what we wanted. Her vendor recommendations were top-notch and we received so many compliments from our friends and family members about each vendor (all while not breaking our budget!). On the day of our wedding, Brooke was on her game. Everything carried on smoothly and it allowed my partner and I to relax and take it all in. Seeing how organized and thoughtful Brooke was made us have so much trust in her! I can’t praise her enough for all of her hard work and positive energy through this whole process. Wedding planning can certainly be a stressful time, but having Brooke helped me relax and trust that everything would work out- and it certainly did!
She’s the best!!!!
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