Elaina and the Revel and Joy Events Team were the ideal wedding planner. We hired her after we decided on our venue, and she instantly made the planning process so much easier for us. She took the time to get to know us as people and what we envisioned for our wedding day, and was able to connect us with the perfect vendors who fit our personalities. She answered every question we had thoughtfully, and made sure every step felt personalized to us and not just what a wedding “should” have.

Elaina will advocate relentlessly for you to ensure that you love everything about your wedding. When we unexpectedly had to find a new caterer just months before our holiday weekend wedding, Elaina kept everyone (including our parents!) calm and positive, and within a week had two other incredible options for us to be excited about. We didn’t have to worry about any logistics and were truly able to just enjoy the day.

We cannot thank Elaina and her team enough for their hard work and passion they bring to their work! We could not have done it without them and recommend Revel and Joy to any couple looking for a passionate, expert planner for a dream wedding.

We cannot recommend Revel and Joy Events highly enough. From our initial meeting, Elaina took the bits of a vision we had and fleshed them out into a detailed and on point plan for our wedding. We knew we wanted a more low key event than many weddings we had attended, ditching many traditional aspects, and Elaina made us feel fully supported and celebrated in our choices. She helped assemble an all star team of vendors who made our wedding day seamless and amazing. Elaina works very intentionally to craft a design plan and event that reflects the couple she is working with.

When she saw rain was in the forecast, Elaina worked with our photographer in the week leading up to make sure we had a rain plan for photos that we loved as much as our sunny day plan and she and her team cheerily ran around Boston with us in the rain. On the day of the wedding, the RJE team orchestrated everything perfectly. We and our families were so well taken care of and we were able to enjoy the day stress free, knowing they had everything in hand. So many of our guests have commented on how smoothly everything ran and how beautiful everything was. All the credit goes to the RJE team - we never could have pulled it off without them!

There really aren’t enough words in the universe to capture how we feel about Elaina and the truly spectacular planner and person she is. First and foremost there is no question in our minds that hiring Elaina to guide us through our wedding planning journey was the best investment we made. Elaina made us feel like we were her sole focus throughout the whole planning process even though we know she is a superwoman who is planning other weddings and making other couples feel the same way at the same time.

Our year of working together was joyful and personal, organized and seamless. Elaina always had the right words to help ease our fears and the knowledge and insight to help us make the most informed decisions. She captured our personalities and vision in a stunning and comprehensive design plan and was always flexible and open throughout when the vision evolved. Video calls and site visits were something we looked forward to knowing that Elaina had every detail in hand and we were going to be one step closer to our dream day. And it most certainly was!

Our wedding day was pure magic! The vendor team that we (she) put together absolutely crushed it and if anything went awry we did not know about it because the entire day was so smooth and absolutely perfect. Elaina’s calm demeanor and attention to absolutely every little detail, coupled with a killer day-of team, made it so we could be present with each other and made sure we had the best day of our lives. No question that full-service planning by Elaina of Revel and Joy Events was 11/10 amazing!

I truly don't know where to start with Elaina - she is absolutely incredible and I don't know what our wedding day would have been like without her! Leading up to the big day, she was responsive, so helpful, always professional and so kind. It put me at ease knowing I had her on my side and I was amazingly stress free in the weeks before our wedding. The day of, she kept everything on track and was ready for anything. The day was absolutely seamless because of her!

Elaina from Revel & Joy Events is truly the best! We couldn’t be happier. She helped make our magical weekend wedding dreams come true. She was always very attentive, patient, professional and organized starting at our very first call. Elaina helped with our design plan, as well as coordinating vendor meetings and calls leading up to the wedding and was the full day of coordinator on our wedding weekend. Having Elaina allowed us to enjoy wedding planning without all the tedious stress. We had full trust in Elaina which allowed the wedding day to be absolutely perfect. We absolutely recommend Elaina & her team without hesitation!

We got engaged in May 2020, and being the oldest siblings in both immediate families and the first couple of the majority of our friends to get engaged, we were lost on where to even begin with planning a wedding. Fortunately, Alex’s aunt is the owner of a florist company, Copper Penny Flowers (Concord, MA), and Jennifer kindly passed along the names of some of her favorite wedding planners in the Boston area. Among the list of names she provided was Elaina, and Jennifer’s direct words were, “LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Elaina…She’ll be one of your besties by the end.” After our first phone call with Elaina, we knew she would be the perfect person to help plan our dream wedding.

Working with Elaina over the past (almost) 2 years has been the most seamless and enjoyable process we could have asked for. Being completely swamped with medical school and PA school, neither of us had much time for all the phone calls, meetings, etc. necessary for planning a wedding. Further adding to the chaos, neither of us actively live in the Boston area due to school; but without fail, Elaina would be at every in-person meeting for us (FaceTiming us in when possible) and was always flexible and understanding when scheduling our monthly meetings or when we needed to make last minute changes. She is truly one of the most reliable, professional people we have ever worked with (or met for that matter), and her ability to handle all conversations and interactions with such grace so as to not add to our already busy and stressful lives made all the difference. To top it all off, Elaina had never planned a wedding at the Boston Public Library, but when we chose the BPL as our venue there was absolutely no hesitation, just pure excitement for us.

Our wedding was utterly magical, and we have Elaina to thank for everything. Even when our officiant tested positive for COVID the morning of our wedding, Elaina handled everything behind the scenes, preventing any worry for us or our family/friends. While there is no such thing as a flawless, perfect wedding (there is something that always comes up in that 11th hour), our wedding was in fact perfect. We are so fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Elaina, and we recommend her to everyone who hopes to get married in Boston. Her calmness and positivity is unlike anyone we know - she is compassionate, caring, genuine and kind, and we are so happy to call her a friend for life. Thank you Elaina for everything you have done for us, and we cannot wait to see you bring the immense amount of joy to other couples as you did to us on our wedding day.
Xo, A&E

I don’t know if this review can really capture how fantastic Elaina is and what an essential addition to our wedding she was! She was so incredibly helpful in so many ways. She has so much invaluable expert knowledge of the industry, vendors, traditions, process, you name it! She is incredibly organized and kept us on track with planning, doing so much of the leg work. She navigated some possibly tricky/awkward situations with such grace, managing to be persuasive and help us get what we wanted for our day without being pushy or off-putting. I am certain that our investment in her services ultimately saved us time, money, and so much stress. Elaina is also just the kindest, most genuine person and I truly felt she did everything possible for us to have the best day possible. For example, we didn’t have a wedding party so she volunteered to carry my dress train and help bustle it after the ceremony. Some of my guests even commented on the beautiful moment when I turned to walk down the aisle and my “friend” threw my train, letting the wind carry it 😊 I cannot recommend her enough for anyone planning a wedding! Thank you from both of us, Elaina!!

Elaina literally made our wedding dreams come true, the entire day was a fairytale.

We reached out to Elaina in 2020 after postponing our June 2019 wedding due to COVID and she was a complete game changer. We were exhausted and couldn't fathom having to re-plan all over again. Elaina made things so easy/seamless for us and graciously entertained all of our questions and concerns no matter how big or small. She is so easy to work with and was able to translate our vision into reality with all of our vendors to execute the most PERFECT day. We are so grateful and even more excited now to call her our friend!

OMG and can we talk about how she and Blackstone Caterers made sure my dad got his milk and cookies at the end of the night? It was a running joke that he wanted them and I never really believed it was going to happen and honestly didn't know it did until I saw our full album afterwards. The best surprise.

RUN, do not walk to work with Elaina. I can confidently say that I would not have been able to relax and enjoy every moment of my wedding day without Elaina’s thoughtful planning, special touches, and unwavering support leading up to and throughout the entire wedding. Elaina acts with such precision and intention that she immediately earned the trust of a very type A person. Working with Elaina was as easy as reconnecting with an old friend, and truly made it so effortless for me to be fully present throughout my wedding. From thinking of the smallest details during the planning process that helped our wedding come together beautifully, to saving my husband and I numerous times by greeting us with a glass of water we didn’t know we needed after a stream of photos or greeters, there is no doubt in my mind that the best decision we made in the wedding planning process was choosing to work with Revel and Joy Events. Elaina, thank you for making our wedding the most magical day of our lives!!!

We could not be happier with our decision to work with Elaina! In our first meeting with Elaina, we gave her a few adjectives that described the ambiance we were hoping to create, along with a handful of very rough ideas, and she got back to us with an INCREDIBLE design plan that perfectly captured the bold, modern, and quintessential Boston wedding that we envisioned. And it only got better from there. We were so impressed with Elaina's ability to keep us organized, to help us assemble an all-star team of vendors, and ultimately to make our wedding day as special (or really, even more special) than we ever could have imagined. Hiring a wedding planner is definitely an investment, but hiring Elaina is worth every penny!