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!

We worked with Marisa and Cait and they were such an AWESOME team to work with!! The planning experience with them was so fun. They were incredibly personable, professional, and on top of every one of our needs. They made the planning experience feel so easy and natural! And that's not an easy thing to do while planning any type of event. From idea generation, gift bag purchasing, coordinating with vendors, and creating the right timeline and flow, they did it all with ease. We would work with them again in a heartbeat!

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!

Last Winter I had the experience of working with the Orpha Events team at a wedding at Early Mountain. From the side of a vendor (musician) it was a very well organized event from the start of my prelude to the end of the cocktail hour.

The best decision I made when it came to our wedding (besides choosing my husband of course! :)) was hiring Marisa! I work with lots of event planners at my job, but have never worked with anyone as good as Marisa and her team. They not only put together a seamless event, but they think of every single detail to make the day just absolutely perfect. And so many event planners can make an event go off without a hitch, but Marisa actually makes the planning process fun! She knows the absolute best vendors to work with, and on top of that, every vendor loves working with her, so you end up getting super special treatment. Marisa made our vision come to life and everything was more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. Neither my husband or I are at all artistic, but Marisa took our tastes and artfully combined them and designed the perfect look for us. Plus Marisa's team is equally as wonderful and made me feel super comfortable and part of the Orpha family from the very beginning. If you want a stress-free and fun planning process (as it should be!!), highly recommend working with Orpha!

We couldn't recommend Marisa and the team at Orpha Events highly enough. Thanks to Marisa's guidance, we were able to pull off our wedding in just four months. She was able to distill a very overwhelming process down to very doable decisions and steps, prioritized in order of what was most important to us. She helped my wife and I work together to make sure the things we both cared about were represented in our ceremony and event, and to budget for each of them accordingly. Her budget insight was especially valuable in this process. As we worked to make decisions, she was always reasonably available via phone or email when it was time for a check-in. Furthermore, Marisa really tried to understand our style, especially my wife's, and then match us up with the right vendors, while also accounting for price. We loved who she recommended for a venue, catering, a cake, a band, photography, our flowers and how she handled complicated things like transportation and parking. Additionally, Orpha was able to offer smaller ancillary services like table decoration, name cards, on site lighting, and videography at fair additional prices. These elements totally elevated the event and were worth it. On the big weekend (rehearsal dinner + wedding day), it was so great to just show up and know that everything was under control. Marisa and her team allowed my wife and I to make the most of a weekend that we will never forget and also found little ways to treat us throughout the time (fun chocolates on the table, to-go food as we left the ceremony, wedding gifts seamlessly gathered and handed off to parents, etc.). Probably the highest piece of praise I could share is that time and again, our friends and our parents' friends have approached us and shared that our wedding was probably one of the most memorable they have been to. It was our goal to bless all of our guests through great hospitality and thank them for the ways they had invested in each of us over the years. Marisa and her team helped make this happen at a reasonable price that paid for itself time and again. Thank you to Marisa and her team at Orpha! Again, could not recommend them highly enough!

Team orpha redid the entire wedding as a hurricane bore down on the Carolinas and Virginia. They saved our day and put on an amazing show. We cant recommend Marissa or her team highly enough!

It was an absolute joy and honor having Marisa & Sarah as our wedding planners. We planned our wedding over the course of a year and a half with Marisa by our side every step of the way. Even when our wedding was still months away, she devoted her time and attention to each and every email. Her professionalism, creativity, and originality showed throughout the entire day. She thinks of absolutely everything - umbrellas for when it started "sprinkling" during our outdoor ceremony (yikes!) to HANDCRAFTING derby horse stirrers for our Mint Juleps (Hey, Cinco De Mayo wedding!). And yes, I said HANDCRAFTING. Our wedding day turned out to resemble exactly who we are as a couple, with many guests commenting to this day on how perfect the details and day turned out to be. We cannot begin to thank Marisa & Sarah enough for everything they did to make our wedding day stunning!

Marisa was there from the very beginning of our wedding planning and truly created the most beautiful and authentic to us wedding that we could have ever dreamed of. She really listened to what we wanted and helped us achieve that. She was great with helping us think about budget options, but she also knew when to gently counsel us away from budget selections when they were options that I would have regretted forgoing in hindsight, but could not clearly see in the moments of being overwhelmed by budget. I think that's a special skill - to know where to stick to the budget and to know the desires/tastes of their client and to know where they need to spend and save appropriately. I think the part where Marisa and crew really shone was on the day of the wedding itself. If anything went awry, no one knew about it, myself included, because they were constantly working behind the scenes to make things perfect. It began to thunderstorm just 30 minutes before our outdoor ceremony, but it was ok because Marisa had already enacted our plan B, which felt like a plan A. Marisa also surprised us with a few gift details of her own, like emerald green boxes of chocolates with little Korean duck nametags (a sweet theme throughout our wedding) for the head table. A complete surprise, but one amongst many beautiful touches from Marisa. The day was perfect and wonderfully run! Many of my guests told us how wonderful of a wedding it was. I cannot recommend Orpha Events enough!