Our wedding was perfect! We chose Marisa and I Do Events to be our wedding planner. My husband and I wanted someone who would listen to our vision for the wedding, and deliver that vision. It was also important for us to have someone loving and accepting of the LGBTQ community. Marisa exceeded our expectations.

We had about 120 guests at the wedding. Marisa met with us numerous times during the planning process. She walked us through the process step-by-step, created a detailed cost estimate, and went over each line item on the cost estimate with us so we understood it. She made herself available any time we had questions (or my husband and I changed something, which happened several times). She was extremely professional, flexible, patient, and understood your wedding day is one of the best days of your life, and she and her staff worked hard to deliver high quality results, attention to detail, and magical moments.

Prior to hiring Marisa, we researched the costs to deliver the type of wedding we wanted, including the venue, servers and catering for 120 people, flowers and decorations, photographer, videographer, bartender (see comments below), and a DJ. Then we hired Marisa. Marisa came in way under budget, several thousands under budget. Marisa has a large network of contacts and we were able to save money by using her contacts. Marisa also owns a lot of wedding assets and she made them available to us for use. We were able to use many of hers, which also helped save us money.

My husband and I originally hired a bartender for the reception before we hired Marisa. That bartender canceled on us 5 days before the wedding. Marisa not only got us a replacement bartender, she got us 2 of them for the reception.

If you are thinking about getting married, I highly recommend Marisa and I Do Events. She is professional, organized, and can be trusted to help make your wedding day full of happiness without any of the stress. You won’t be disappointed.

From start to finish, everything was great with Marisa. I hired her to basically to do everything, from contacting vendors and locations to organizing the decor. She was EXTREMELY flexible as we changed the plan for our wedding a couple different times. She was quick to respond to e-mails and texts, often responding to my late night e-mails on the same evening. I would often give her ideas of what I wanted and she did an amazing job of taking my ideas and making them a reality. She was extremely familiar with the locations and vendors who would be gay friendly, as this was one of my concerns when planning the wedding. When my fiance and I had certain vendors picked out (for example, we had a friend do our invitations) she worked with those people to provide what was needed to get the job done and I was able to watch from the background (so to speak) and simply enjoy the end result with minimal stress. On one or two occasions there was some delay in response to e-mails by a day or two but in most cases if Marisa knew she would not be available to respond right away she would give me a heads up. One of the things that I thought made Marisa great was that I didn't want to have to deal with a lot of decision making but wanted to be given one or two options. By getting to know our tastes, she was able to find the right options for us and I didn't feel overwhelmed. She would even think out of the box, present us with an option, and ask us what we thought. If it wasn't the right option for us (for example, she suggested a possible venue that didn't fit our tastes) she took that info and always came back with something that worked. Sometimes, it was something we didn't even know we wanted. Overall, I feel like we had a good working relationship. We had ideas for what we wanted and she made all of them happen. We couldn't have been happier with the planning process but more importantly with how it all came together.

Amazing, friendly, and professional service. I could not have asked for more on our special day!

Marissa with I Do Events was superb. I went from being a very high stressed bride that didn't know how she was going to accomplish everything to being very low stress. Marissa handled it all. The day of the wedding she helped tremendously by handling everything and all I had to do was enjoy my wedding. She was a wondeful personality and is very easy to get a long with. She has many ideas and connections. She helped me find the best officiant I could have asked for (he let us paint him up like a sugar skull) and my makeup artist was perfect! Thank you for everything you did.

~Danielle and David

Marisa is invredible! She took all the stress away from my wedding day! I highly recommend her services!!

Thanks Marisa! What a help bringing all the people together and assisting us for a smooth night!
Fred & Christopher

No one ever wants to have to request a refund for services not performed, but that is exactly the situation we found ourselves in with I Do Events. We wanted a wedding planner with gay wedding experience and hired Marisa Tristan, owner & primary employee, after she said she could deliver what we were looking for. She helped us secure a venue, but after that things fell apart. In our planning meetings, she had no agenda and it was up to us to bring up topics to discuss and remember deadlines. She took notes but later could not recall the information. One of the primary tasks she was hired for was vendor coordination, but most of our vendors said she never contacted them so this crucial task fell to us. We even asked her if she was going to contact a vendor and she’d say yes, but then never did. Our vendors had to contact us directly for direction during this busy time. We wouldn’t have been able to have a wedding had we relied on Marisa to do it. She was also in charge of decorations which were a failure. She got the colors of the wedding flowers wrong(!), and other decorations were missing or not as agreed upon. She didn’t get the guest count right so many chairs were left without decor. Her staff was extremely unprofessional: they walked into our dressing room without knocking, were rude to our other vendors, sat at the guest tables eating and drinking, then tore decor down early causing guests to think it was time to leave. We hired I Do Events for wedding planning and decorations, and all we got was substandard decor.

Unfortunately, I can not agree with these 5 star reviews I Do Events has received. Initially, we were excited, relieved and thankful for hiring Marisa for our day of coordination. However, as the days got closer the stress amped up and we were handed off to a different planner (who was amazing - thankfully!). We felt that the way things were handled were extremely unprofessional and as though we were more a burden. We made all of our needs evident in the first meeting. All of which were agreed upon in a contract yet we were bothered by unnecessary stress regarding these items. Days before our wedding we found out changes in our point of contact through another vendor, not through Marisa. We were given reasons as to why our wedding was being handed off, which we understood, but then days later photos and statuses were posted of weddings being worked and of upcoming events that are much larger than our wedding. I hate writing bad reviews, but I would hate for another bride to feel the stress my wife and I felt the last two weeks of our wedding planning process.