Working with Orpha Events to plan our wedding was the best decision we made throughout the whole process. Katie was incredibly reliable, communicative, and receptive to our ideas and values. She was creative, strategic, and persistent when it came to executing our vision, and the Orpha team pulled off a stunning wedding without any major stress placed on us or our families. It was really fantastic to work with them!

I first met Marisa from Orpha Events when touring wedding venues for our May 2020 wedding as she was setting up for another beautiful wedding! After chatting for just a few minutes, she instantly felt like family and was so warm and inviting. Choosing Orpha to help plan our wedding was hands-down the easiest decision we made, if only the rest could have been that simple! After visiting the Charlottesville area only briefly to look at venues, we booked a venue that I soon came to regret. Marisa and her team did not hesitate to schedule visits to many lesser known venues that felt more suited to us and never made me feel bad about being so indecisive, they were all just supportive and wonderful and wanted us to be happy. We finally settled on a brand new venue that Marisa knew of because of personal connections--she is so well-connected in the area, it is so helpful, she has so many creative ideas! The whole team was great as we finished off the planning and were ready to go come March 2020 and then the Coronavirus pandemic changed everything. Even as the wedding world was turned on it's head, Marisa and Orpha were nothing but supportive, empathetic, flexible, and available to help us navigate these uncharted waters. I think we had weekly calls and some were just checking in to see how we were feeling. We quickly pivoted from a large wedding to an elopement with a new date (just a few days before the original), new officiant, and new photographer! Marisa was able to work with our vendors to alter everything and made it so easy on us. We moved the time up because of rain, had the venue to ourselves, and had such a wonderful time, we also arrived home to an amazing catering delivery that had been specially customized to our now tiny celebration. Our wedding ended up being beautiful, personal, and intimate. Marisa and the Orpha team pulled everything off with such ease and grace, and bonus they are all very fun and funny to be around! We will never be able to thank them enough!

Marisa and her team at Orpha are absolute wedding magicians on top of being some of the friendliest, kindest people in the Charlottesville area. In pre-pandemic times, Marisa (whose artistic eye probably can't be beat in this industry!) designed the wedding of my dreams, which was going to have about 120 guests. Then spring 2020 rolled around (ugh) and we had to very quickly scale back and adjust. Even though that was an incredibly stressful time for everyone, Orpha didn't leave us hanging for even a second. Marisa and Sarah worked with me and my husband to come up with a whole new Plan B that still allowed us to have a perfect (and I really mean perfect) wedding day in May. You know you have the world's best wedding planning team on your hands when you can go from expecting a big-ish wedding to an elopement overnight and STILL end up looking back on your wedding day and thinking, "That could *not* have been more beautiful or more exactly what I wanted." I truly can't recommend Orpha enough!! I wish I had an excuse to work with them again!