If you’re planning a wedding, stop what you’re doing and give this absolute force of a woman a call. We hired Kelli as our day of coordinator for our October 2024 wedding. In the last few months leading up to the wedding, we had a few issues with our venue. Kelli became involved and talked us through every obstacle. She did a site visit, multiple phone calls, and went above and beyond to help ensure we had the best day ever. Her professionalism, organizational skills, and people skills are top level. Also, she was funny and nice to talk with while doing our planning calls. On the day of the wedding she was the boss. I told her I didn’t want to make any decisions that day and I didn’t have to! She was in contact with my vendors, set up my decor, and at the end of the night boxed everything up and packed it into cars. Guys, she even helped me change out of my wedding dress and into a more comfortable after party outfit. On the day of the wedding she brought an assistant, Sheila. Sheila was so sweet and friendly and just as involved as Kelli in making our day go smoothly. Kelli made sure me and my husband had time to breathe, food to eat, and drinks to drink while we were waiting for our entrance away from the guests. Her knowledge and experience in the wedding business is unmatched and was so helpful along the way, down to the little details that I never even thought of. Wedding planning is no joke and she has the exact set of skills to help you get through it. I cannot stress enough how much I recommend hiring Kelli for your wedding. Her day of coordinator fee is very reasonable and absolutely worth it. I didn’t know at first if I would need a day of coordinator, and when you’re spending so much money on a wedding it may seem like an extra luxury. Now that I’ve experienced it I can say it’s not a luxury it’s a must! Pick up that overtime to fit it in your budget if you need to! Kelli, you are dynamite. Thanks for making our day so very perfect!

How to not stress on your wedding day - hire Kelli! I worked with Kelli in the few months prior to my wedding (after hiring my vendors) to pull the whole production together! She coordinated with all vendors / venue, created an intricate timeline, helped me with packing lists and so much more. I wish I could tell you all of the work she did to ensure the perfect day, but I dont even know because she handled it to perfection. If anything went wrong, I never knew and no one noticed. Not only that, but Kelli took care of all gratuities, packed the entire bridal suite and loaded it into our cars, leaving us to have fun on the dance floor. When the wedding concluded, we (and our families) just hopped in the car and took off! Such a dream. I hope to be able to work with Kelli again in the future.

We booked Karla as our Day-of Coordinator for our wedding in September 2022 with just under a year until our wedding date and truly the experience was nothing but fabulous! Right away, Karla was warm, friendly and a wealth of information as we began the planning process for our special day. Karla is super experienced in the wedding industry and she has a specialty in Hudson Valley which proved super helpful during our planning process. We felt like she was always going the extra mile to check-in with us via text between our planning calls. She came prepared to our calls and helped us find vendors throughout our process. She kept us calm and continually laughing in a stressful planning process. During the weekend of the wedding, Karla was awesome! She worked seamlessly in the background with all of our vendors and venue to ensure our wedding went super smoothly. When she needed to involve us in a decision, she did so quickly and efficiently allowing us to have an amazing day despite the many logistics. We look back on our wedding and think how Karla was one of the key pieces in making it as beautiful and memorable as it was. We highly recommend working with her, she will be trustworthy, personable, knowledgeable and will go the extra mile to ensure your needs are met.

I recently hired Karla as a day of coordinator for my wedding on 10/28/22 in Peekskill, NY and she did a wonderful job. Not only did she help make my day go seamlessly, she also kept in contact with me for 6 weeks prior to my wedding day for check ins. Karla asked questions and provided ideas that I would not have thought of without her help. On the day of the wedding, Karla set up everything that I needed to and at the end of the night packed away anything that I had therefore I was able to enjoy my wedding from start to finish and didnt need to worry about a thing. I am so grateful for her help and highly recommend anyone to hire her if they are looking for a wedding coordinator.

We booked Kelli for day-of coordinating, and she really came through. Prior to the wedding, she also did several check-ins with us and helped us iron out all the fine details, letting us enjoy the wedding and not having to think about all the months of planning beforehand. She's very organized, personable, and pretty hilarious!

Kelli Teglas is a reliable, superbly organized wedding planner with tremendous knowledge and experience, a great working style, excellent feel for what goes into making an event unique and memorable, and a fantastic network of vendors.
When my daughter got engaged in October 2020 and announced that she and her fiancé wanted to get married 7 months later, my husband and I, though thrilled for them, knew we had a challenge ahead of us. Experts were predicting new waves of COVID, vaccines hadn’t yet been approved, and we had little if any experience with weddings.
Speaking to Kelli on the phone for the first time, I felt a huge sense of relief come over me. She understood immediately what we wanted and, undaunted, began to put the wheels in motion to have an elegant, socially-distanced outdoor wedding reception for 50 people, then the allowed number in New York State, with tents in case of rain, and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and dinner served in a safe manner.
In a very short time, Kelli drew from her vetted network of top-notch vendors to help us book a caterer, florist, photographer, and tent supplier. All turned out to be fantastic. Perhaps her most amazing feat, however, was finding Shadowbrook Manor, a beautiful estate in Tarrytown that was home to the legendary jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. This little-known gem of a party venue has an expansive, flat yard that would fit our large tent perfectly. The stately circa-1890 manor house and gorgeous landscaping and gardens would be the perfect backdrop for the reception.
In the months and weeks leading up to the wedding, Kelli kept us on schedule regarding decisions that needed to be made and, importantly, on budget. Her warm, down-to-earth, unflappable personality kept us calm throughout the entire process, even when the wedding day weather forecast looked worrisome.
On May 22, 2021, the unseasonably warm day turned into a cool evening without a drop of rain. Everything--from the gorgeous nuptial mass to the beautiful pre-plated appetizers and string quartet music at the cocktail hour, to the delicious sit-down dinner and spectacular flowers--turned out even better than we could have imagined. Kelli and her team were the stealth backbone of the day, making sure things got done on schedule and according to plan. For the majority of our family and friends, this was the first time they’d been out socially in over a year, and they couldn’t stop commenting about how beautiful and perfect everything was.
It was a day we’ll never forget, and it couldn’t have happened without Kelli.

The TLDR: Hire this team. Stop looking, just hire her!!
The Details: We threw a 60-person wedding at an Airbnb in upstate New York over Labor Day Weekend 2021. This meant every detail was DIY - tables, dishes, decor, catering, vendors, all the things! I love planning and knew I was happy to do all the research and booking, but I needed someone to execute on the day of - enter Kelli and her team! Kelli spent time with me in the months/weeks leading up to the day to talk through details, offer advice or help, and ensure she was up to speed for the event. Even though I booked a "day-of coordinator", she really provided support if/when I needed it before the actual day-of, so that I was confident that everything would actually go smoothly the day-of. Kelli's experience really made the whole event come together...she offered lots of wisdom and ideas for the flow of the day (for instance, don't rush into dessert right after dinner) and helped me think through a plan when I got stuck. COVID created a ton of challenges across the industry, and when an emergency with another event required Kelli to shift scheduling on her team, she made sure that she seamlessly introduced me to a new coordinator from her team, Karla, and got her up to speed (including a visit to the venue the day before the event). I had a ton of little details, and while everything was perfectly planned in my head, I hadn't done a great job of writing it all down or making mock-ups/pictures etc...but somehow, it was like Karla could read my mind - the event was as near to perfect as any event will ever be. We were ON SCHEDULE thanks to coordination between Karla and our DJ, the tables were beautiful set, the cocktail hour was gorgeous, the gift table was perfect, and the dessert table that she set out was exactly how I dreamed it. The most amazing part about using this team is that they have a network of people ready to help - 5 days before the wedding, our bartender/servers cancelled because of COVID, and Karla reached across her network to find a us a bartender, a server, and two helpers that could move tables/chairs and clean up. It really saved the event. And then Karla was able to coordinate those servers, the pizza truck, the DJ, the live musician, the late-night taco truck, the bonfire and smores, the cleanup, the tipping, even pulling up extra chairs when the Airbnb host and his wife showed up for dinner! THANK YOU Kelli and Karla, I would hire you again in a heartbeat!

My now husband and I got engaged in March 2020, and after months of covid-related uncertainty, in August we decided we wanted to get married at an intimate outdoor ceremony in October 2020. In September we hired Kelli to help us coordinate remaining details and run things the day of. It was the best decision we made about our wedding! From our first conversation, Kelli put me at ease and gave me the confidence that we could, indeed, pull this microwedding off. During our planning conversations, she provided so many suggestions that helped me focus on the final touches we needed. And the day of was fantastic. Kelli and her assistant Shauvan did it all--from setting up our tables to running our Zoom for our out-of-state relatives to cueing our entrances to distributing our boxed dinners to our 14 guests--I simply can't imagine what our wedding would have been like without Kelli! Working with her was the best investment we could have made--and absolutely necessary even with our microwedding. Kelli thought about every critical detail so that my husband and I could enjoy our experience. Kelli is organized, professional, good-natured, and reassuring. I'd recommend her to any couple planning their wedding, regardless of the size of your event.

After postponing our larger wedding (to 2021) about 2 months before our wedding date, my now-husband and I scrambled to find new vendors that could support our small backyard wedding. I reached out to Kelli in hopes she might be able to help us figure out our day. I could not have been happier with our decision. Not only did Kelli help to coordinate with vendors in the final weeks leading up to the event, but also handled set-up & decoration for the entire day with her assistant, Courtney. They even went so far as to help serve the cake & prosecco for a toast! I cannot express how grateful I am to Kelli for everything as she really helped me have the day of my dreams.

If you want a wedding planner that not only knows what they are doing but is just an awesome person, then Kelli is your person! She is there to help at every turn. She helped me plan a gorgeous ceremony through COVID! And when I was ready to throw in the towel, she kept me going and calmed me down. I had an extended ceremony, we included some speeches, a first dance and handed out individual food boxes, which Kelli coordinated all of it. She also set up chairs in family groups and 6ft apart so everyone was safely seated. Day of, she was a rock star. Running all over the place and getting everything set up and ready and keeping us on our timeline. We were having some technical issues with our zoom and she made that happen too (She knew how important it was for me). I can not speak higher of Kelli. I’m so happy I had her or my wedding would not have been half as beautiful as it was. Thanks so much Kelli! And her assistant Courtney was also amazing. Any time I needed something, it would appear right in front of me! Like magic!