I had the good fortune of meeting Emilie through mutual friends in 2008. I followed her work over the over the next half decade, admiring all the beautiful weddings and invitations she posted on her blog/Facebook page. When at long last, I was faced with the daunting task of getting married, I immediately knew I needed the help from a professional whose work I completely trusted.

While I consider myself a relatively organized and competent person, there is just entirely so much about wedding planning and coordinating that most laymen never realize. It was so comforting to have Emilie there to guide, advise, recommend, and reassure during this entire process. During the final stages of planning, Emilie ensured that everything was delivered as contracted by each of our vendors. Moreover, during the day of the wedding, as far as I had been aware, the day was completely seamless. It wasn't until days after that I realized that at some point, my husband had forgotten his undershirt and socks, and my father had temporarily gone missing during our scheduled family photos.

After months and months of planning, and a small fortune invested into this day, Emilie is the insurance to the most perfect and wonderful day. I cannot recommend her enough, as I cannot imagine having been able to have had such a magical day without all her hard work, attention to detail, and excellent rapport with our other vendors.

We were extremely happy with Emilie's work as our wedding planner. She is thoughtful, responsive and creative. She really made us feel like we were her only client. She strikes the right balance of professionalism and friendliness. We could not agree more with the many reviews offering effusive praise. To put it simply, Emilie is great at what she does.

We were particularly amazed with her detailed and quick responses to questions. She will suggest several options for vendors and ways to handle an issue. She is proactive and will not miss a detail. Many of vendors commented that she used the most detailed schedule they had ever seen.

We would highly recommend Emilie's services and were thrilled that she helped make our wedding day seem so easy. She is a class act that delivers.

I've heard many nightmare stories that things go wrong on the wedding day, but that did not happen to me! All thanks to Emilie! The wedding was perfect just how I envisioned it leaving me a lifetime of wonderful memories! Even the hotel coordinator commented "thank god Emilie is here to pull everything together!"

I was clueless where to start for wedding planning, my hubby bought me two books and these hundreds of pages made me stressed out even more. Right then I decided that I need a wedding planner. I hired Emilie as my DOC, it may sound like she's only the help of the day, but trust me that's not the case. The contract includes 2 in-person meetings (mainly a few weeks prior to wedding to go through detail), unlimited email contact, monthly check-ins, produce day of timeline, contact and coordination with all vendors, misc setup items, and unlimited time on the day of. Those monthly checklists are much abbreviated, tailored to me and logical version compared to the book. Throughout the planning phase, I emailed her whenever I had a question and would get a response within half an hour! Emilie is very responsive!

The two meetings prior to wedding really made the entire planning seem as a whole, all the doubts, uncertainty and insecurity while I planned for each part is gone and put together just like a film. The day came and gone, whenever I look at the pictures and videos, they remind me how perfect that day is. Emilie made my dream wedding come true.

We worked with Emilie on our 8/31/13 wedding and I cannot tell you how professional, organized, helpful and truly amazing she was throughout our entire process. We had found her via Yelp about a year before the wedding and after a short face to face meeting, I knew this was a great choice! From that meeting on, it was so helpful receiving checklists from her each month just to make sure we were on track with our plans. After learning Emilie was a fantastic graphic designer, we also took advantage of her creative and printing services. She did absolutely every single printed piece for our wedding from the Save the Dates to invitations to escort cards to thank you notes. Everything! It was so great to have one look carried over through all of our pieces and people raved about our designs for each piece!
As the wedding got closer we talked more and more about details and during a longer meeting went through a minute by minute timeline, which was just so helpful. In the days leading up, Emilie and I were in regular contact ironing out details and she was so helpful with even the smallest, most annoying (I'm sure) questions I had!
As wonderful as she was in the lead up to the big weekend, it was from the rehearsal on that really blew me away also. Emilie organized our rehearsal, which was such a huge help and was there very early on the wedding day getting all of the set up items arranged, directing traffic of the vendors, helping to predict weather even! ha ha Once the wedding started, if anything went wrong, I certainly didn't know it. It was absolutely seamless. It was by far the best day of our lives and we would not have survived without Emily! :) :)

Five stars are inadequate for "rating" Emilie's work, which is perfection.
Some detailed reasons below:
1) Unparalleled professionalism. Emilie is a pro, short and simple. She will put you (her client) at complete ease, and she will earn your trust and faith (and maintain them) via her actions. My husband and I are not ones to be easily satisfied; but after our first meeting and a couple of e-mail interactions, we naturally began to rely on her more, and well before the wedding, we found ourselves completely comfortable just trusting her 100%. And it was such a refreshing feeling to be able to delegate, knowing she would do a BETTER job than we would.
2) Genuine passion. Those who are superb (superb, not just excellent) at what they do, are able to do so because they genuinely care. Emilie's true love for and dedication to her job shines through.
3) Execution. She executes, 200%. And the deliverable? A beautiful wedding straight out of your dreams. I had communicated with Emilie how I envisioned the set-up to be (for the placecard table, cards, reception tables, etc). Not only did she give such helpful input in set-up planning, but on the day of the wedding, what I saw was even beyond my expectations. All I had done was sit back and enjoy the wedding with my loved ones. I kept telling my friends and family: "The wedding was more beautiful than I had imagined possible; it was perfect." So much of that was thanks to Emilie's work.
Brief summary:
- Emilie is is one of the very best investments we made for the wedding planning process. We do not spend easily, so thought about this a long time before contacting her, but now, we are SO glad that we did. You will say the same thing in the end.
- So many guests, and especially vendors, spoke to us about how exceptional Emilie was. She made a difference, and she made an impression; we were not surprised. The vendors are now recommending her to their clients, and we think this is for the benefit of these clients.

Hiring Emilie is probably the best way you can spend your money on your wedding day. From start to finish she is the consummate professional and she will completely take all the weight off your shoulders. Even though I hired her for day-of coordination, she was helpful long before the wedding with checklists and seemingly instant replies to any of my questions, no matter how silly or complex. She made sure we had thought of everything and handled alot of stuff herself. And then on the wedding day itself she was unbelieveable. Every question or request my family or I had, she was way ahead and either had a plan or had already taken care of it. Things just appeared where they needed to be. I didn't have to worry about anything the day of. And all that is maybe easy enough when you have a straightforward or "typical" wedding, but ours had a complicated timeline, many moving parts, two ceremonies, and a minor natural disaster on top of all of it (our tent flooded!). Throughout it all Emilie was cool as a cucumber and handled everything. As a bride, knowing that she's got it made it so that I could enjoy the day even with the inevitable snafus.

We hired Emilie from Pink Orchid Weddings for our day-of planner at our wedding at the Four Seasons in Boston on 6/9/12. Initially, we did not want to hire a day-of planner...we figured it was probably not worth it, but a friend convinced me I would feel very relieved to have the help. I fully admit that I was completely wrong in my initial thinking... and hiring Emilie from Pink Orchids was the best decision we made on this wedding! It was 200% worth every penny...she was phenomenally helpful...she recommended vendors during the wedding planning stage (all who ended up amazing, by the way), she put together the the most thorough and impressive schedule I have ever seen for the day (and made sure we stuck to that schedule, without being bossy or assertive), and she put out a few fires on the wedding day that I didn't even notice b/c she was there....she was patient, classy, great with our family and wedding party, and super on top of things. She is seriously a PRO. She even helped us design our menu cards, seating cards and gift bag welcome notes and they came out great!! I would HIGHLY recommend Pink Orchids without a doubt...you won't regret it. I promise!

Pink Orchid Wedding was the best investment I had made for my wedding in Boston. Emilie was more helpful then I could have imagined. The day ran completely smooth with all her efforts - she helped me with everything from beginning to end. No detail was left unseen. The vendor recommendations provided by her were amazing.
I have recommeneded Pink Orchid to all my friends getting married and will continue to always.
Emilie - thank you above and beyond for everything. My wedding would definitely not have been possible with you!

Emilie is incredible. I cannot say enough. She thinks of EVERYTHING and is always 18 steps ahead of the game. Leading up to the wedding, she made sure everything was going to be exactly how my husband and I wanted, but more importantly, on the actual wedding day, we all would have been lost without her! Any time I needed something, she was there- and she must have stitched up my dress for me 5 times... Before we hired Emilie, we were hesitant about hiring any sort of wedding coordinator, but thank GOD we did! There is no way to be prepared for all of the pieces that make up a wedding, unless Emilie is there to prepare you. In addition, she helped my mother-in-law plan the most amazing rehearsal dinner. And according to my mother-in-law, she was absolutely, indisputably, indispensable.

Emilie is great! She understands my needs, culture concerns, and can give me valuable suggestions. We had two meet-ups, and she sends me monthly checklist through the year, which is very helpful. She's prompt on answering questions. She always keep your needs on mind. Before the big day, I have a timeline and a wedding detail form which contains every detail of the wedding. Really, every detail. On the big day, I barely had chances talking to her, but everything is in place and perfect. I highly recommend her. And I feel that I got more than the price I had to pay for.