Emily was our day-of coordinator for our September 2025 wedding, and truly she was our best investment. As someone who was worried about all of the details and wanted to ensure I had someone I could trust to run our wedding day, Emily was truly better than I could have hoped for! While we hired her to be our "day-of" coordinator, we started working with her months before our wedding, and she advised us on all things logistics leading up to the day. We chose Emily because she had years and years of experience and she has a cool, calm demeanor that put us at ease. Emily was a star at running our wedding rehearsal, and her and her team always knew what was going on day-of. Our parents and wedding party also commented at how professional Emily and her team were, and what a stellar job they did. I would highly recommend Emily to ensure your wedding day is seamless!

Emily was the glue that made our wedding work - and made all our memories of the day nothing but pure joy and excitement. I had multiple people ask me the day before the wedding what I was anxious about and I responded honestly "literally nothing" and that is completely due to Emily. We planned a Seattle wedding from San Francisco, and Emily made amazing recommendations, did a ton of legwork, lent us decor (including dropping it days in advance at our hotel), and also rolled with all of our wacky and non traditional requests (tiki mug favor table, being picky about pies for dessert, last minute changes to late night food menu, adding a coffee pickup, etc.) without a single complaint. She was also very easy to communicate with, and extremely responsive. Emily, we truly could not have done it without you - thank you for making this special day one full of joy and ease for us. You rock at your job. I wholeheartedly recommend Emily to anyone looking for a coordinator or planner - we used her full service planning package and I know it not only made things easy for us, it also saved us money. Hiring a planner was the best choice we made for our wedding - give yourself that gift too!

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Book Manette Gracie for your wedding!! I cannot recommend them enough. I have worked many weddings myself, and Thera and Emily at Manette Gracie are the most incredible wedding coordinators we could ever ask for!!

Thera went above and beyond all our expectations and we are so grateful for everything she did behind the scenes to make our weekend so special. She is attentive, incredibly responsive, and a wealth of knowledge. Thank you so much for everything!!

Emily took so much of the stress out of the wedding planning process! Not only did she help us calmly navigating the COVID situation, but brought unique ideas to help us plan the wedding of our dreams! Super experienced, dependable, down to earth, and a pleasure to work with!
We highly recommend Manette Gracie for all wedding planning!

Emily was a truly amazing coordinator and planner. She knows everyone, she's always available, she's done it a million times and she has great taste. I went into the wedding planning process already with a DJ and a photographer thinking "How hard can the rest of it be?" and holy shit, it's really hard! She coordinated a last-minute venue change, dessert pickup, worked with vendors, and even got us menus and seating charts. She remembered the 9 million things I would have forgotten. This was the best money I spent on the wedding!

We initially didn’t think we needed a day-of coordinator, but we ended up hiring Emily because we quickly realized we were in over our heads – and she ended up being the single best investment for our wedding. From our first meeting, she went above and beyond to ensure that our wedding day was perfect. She attended our venue and catering meetings and brought up questions/ideas that we never would’ve thought of. When we had to reschedule, cancel, and un-cancel our wedding due to COVID-19, she remained flexible and incredibly reliable even with the drastic changes to our plans. On the wedding day, she knew the venue layout and schedule better than we did! She lent us décor items, helped us with set-up and tear down, and even went out of her way to return some items to our florist at the end of the night. We were able to fully enjoy our wedding day because we knew Emily would make sure everything flowed smoothly. We will forever refer our engaged friends and family to Emily for wedding planning/DOC services!

We hired Emily with the initial expectation that she would help us coordinate and plan our big day. As a global pandemic unfolded and required us to re-plan our wedding multiple times, Emily was invaluable in helping us think through the different considerations. She knew all the questions to ask our venue and other vendors in the lead up to the event and she coordinated all the moving pieces on the day of so my fiancé and I could focus on being in the moment. If we had to plan a wedding again, we would bring Emily onboard!

Emily officiated our Mount Rainier Elopement. Despite only talking on the phone to her twice, she did an incredible job weaving our backstory into the ceremony. Prior to the actual event, we shared details with Emily about our relationship which she then used to write the ceremony and allowed us to review the script beforehand which I really appreciated! Emily did an incredible job of filling the ceremony with emotion and familiarity, she really has a way with words. Additionally, she was up for a long hike to the ceremony location which was a great bonus. She also took care of the paperwork after the ceremony which was convenient for us since we are from outside of Washington. We can't recommend Emily enough, she made the most important part of the day incredibly special.

Emily was such a pleasure to work with!! We hired her as our day-of-coordinator when our first venue, the Monte Cristo Ballroom closed 7 months before our wedding. It was an extremely stressful time and we were fortunate to have found Emily who offered a substantial discount for Monte Cristo couples and free rentals for her gold plate chargers and cake stand. We met at our second venue, the Inglewood Golf Club for our planning session. She was very organized and experienced. Emily brought up questions and options that we haven't considered before. We were set with our wedding until the pandemic hit. Saddened that we had to cancel our big wedding, we decided to move forward on our original wedding date, May 23, 2020 and celebrated with an intimate ceremony at home.

A couple of months later, we asked Emily if she would like to help us with our bridal and groom photo session, which she was excited be a part of. Emily coordinated pick up and returns at Grand Event Rentals as well as provided gold chargers and votive candles for our sweet heart table. She gave us many options and location ideas. During the week of our photo session at Lakewold Gardens, the forecast predicted a high chance of rain on the day when we were scheduled to take pictures. Emily was super responsive and understanding of the last minute change! Grand Event Rentals did not open Sundays and she organized pick up on Friday and returns on Monday with no extra charge. The photo session went very smoothly with her help setting up and breaking down the sweet heart table and items. With so many changes to our wedding plans this year, we can't thank Emily enough for her patience and dedication during these challenging times!

Emily is absolutely fantastic!! There are a ton of reviews ranting and raving about how she is the greatest, and here comes another.


I hired Emily as my Day-Of Coordinator, and she did an absolutely fantastic job. She is insanely organized, and will ask you so many questions you've never even thought about during the planning process. She took note of everything, and would offer suggestions or assistance if we struggled with any part of the planning process. Cake baker dropped out? No problem, she provided us with two more recommendations. Don't know what to do for table numbers? She has a supply of items that you can use for your wedding, and she was able to lend us table numbers (very pretty wood-cut ones) that perfectly matched our theme and looked so good on our tables! She coordinated with all of our vendors, created a timeline for the day-of, scheduled meetings with and stayed on top of our venue to ensure that the day was going to run very smoothly. It was so reassuring to have her in our corner - any time we had a question, she was just an email or text away, and she was always quick to respond.


The day before she walked us through the entire ceremony, providing everyone in the wedding with a printed timeline of where they needed to be and when. She walked everyone through the actual ceremony, of who walks in when, from where, at what pace, and where people are supposed to stand. Every little detail was accounted for, and honestly I wasn't even nervous the day before the wedding, because I knew Emily was on top of it.


The day of was a dream, and went so smoothly! Emily coordinated everyone, and I had no responsibilities. She ensured our cake delivery, the timing of when the florist would arrive and drop off bouquets and boutonnieres. She set up our DIY photo booth, card box, and guest book signing table, which looked absolutely beautiful! She ensured that we were running on schedule, checking in with us every so often to see if we needed anything. She had appetizers and champagne waiting in our room for us right after the ceremony, which was lovely, because we were starving and got to take a few minutes to actually take in the fact that we were MARRIED before getting to return to cocktail hour and enjoy our guests. She even had wedding cake delivered to our room after the reception ended, in case we wanted to enjoy some that night.


Honestly my wedding day was perfect. Everything ran on schedule, nothing went off the rails. I give Emily the credit for it because she was so well prepared going into the big day. We knew everything we needed to beforehand, and she had clearly communicated everything our vendors needed to know to them, because everything ran so smoothly! Hiring Emily was one of the smartest decisions I made when planning my wedding, and I would 100% recommend her to anyone thinking about using her for planning services. She is worth it!!!