Hiring Shawn to organize and plan our wedding was probably the second most important decision I ever made only behind proposing to my husband. I truly don’t know how anyone plans a wedding without her. We had lots of wild ideas going into this – we wanted a wedding that somehow combined my Japanese heritage and imagery with a rustic upstate NY barn aesthetic, not exactly the thing that Pinterest has examples of, and she took our ideas and solidified them into something coherent, doable, and beautiful all while respecting our vision. Among our other wild requests was to bring a grand piano into the barn so I could perform with my best friend from college. From a logistical standpoint, she is incredibly organized and responsive, sending out timeline after timeline to us and interfacing directly with our vendors, making sure that everyone is on the same page, every license is acquired, every truck arrives at the correct time, etc. With her we always felt that nothing could possibly be overlooked or go wrong. The day of the wedding she was there to help set up, and she was there at the end of the night to help take everything back down again. She decorated our pergola with the boxes of cherry blossoms we brought! She was 100% the guardian angel of the wedding day, making sure everything went completely smoothly to the point that my wedding day was ironically one of the least stressful days in recent memory. And it looked awesome too!!

Working with Shawn was such a blessing!  I would hire her again in a heartbeat.  Our venue did not have an onsite coordinator, so Shawn stepped in to set up all of our decor, coordinate deliveries, and make sure everything ran smoothly with the venue itself (drink service, food, band coordination and timing, logistical timing of events throughout the night, boxing everything up at the end of the night for us to pick up the next day).  She was everywhere and completely unseen all at once.  She was helpful in the months leading up to the wedding to answer any vendor related questions, and her locality to the Ithaca area definitely came in handy.  She is an effective communicator, by email and phone, and an absolute ray of sunshine the day of our wedding at at rehearsal.  I knew that I could relax with our big day in her hands.  She also comes at an incredible price point, which is a major plus.  Of note, I am very organized and controlling and was super anxious leading up to the wedding... she eased all of my worries while still allowing me to have my hands in the production of the wedding. 10/10 recommend!

Shawn came into our wedding plans when we thought we had most of the planning complete. We were looking for someone to tell us what we were missing and help cross off the final checklist items. We also needed someone we could count on on the day of the wedding. Shawn came through in a big way. She reviewed our plans with a fine tooth comb and totally took the reins from there. She got all of our vendors on the same page and took care of all of the day of coordinating. We really were so lucky to work with Shawn on our wedding and recommend Happiest Days Design to anyone who will listen!