Best Wedding Planner Ever
Other than marrying each other, choosing Susan to be our wedding planner was absolutely the best decision we could have made for our wedding. We got engaged in September 2018, already had our venue booked, who required us to have at least a day-of coordinator (but we quickly realized we needed a full planner). We started off by going through our venue’s preferred planner list, narrowed it down to only the planners who had all 5 star reviews, and interviewed all 11 of them. Susan was the only one who actually took notes during our initial phone conversation, followed up with us as she said she would, and upon the second round interview, she was the only one who actually remembered what we talked about the first time.
I am a CPA and half the year, I am extremely busy and not very accessible to be planning a wedding. She was able to break up the tasks into very manageable chunks each month so that we were never overwhelmed, even during my busiest work months. She made planning fun and completely stress-free. During the planning process, she got to know our specific vision for our wedding so that she only brought us vendors who fit that vision and were in our price range based on the budget we created together, which she diligently stuck to the entire time.
We were originally supposed to get married in June 2020 (haha…) and once COVID hit, we tried to stay optimistic. Susan was there for us through countless phone calls whenever we needed to be talked off the ledge as we went on our emotional rollercoaster of whether or not to postpone. In May, we finally decided to postpone to October. We thought that would be the craziest part of our wedding planning process but in August, due to COVID restrictions from our venue, we ended up having to change our reception venue. We didn’t want to have to move our ceremony site, so Susan worked with us to quickly find another venue very close by that would suit all of our needs and be in our price range. Our original venue provided almost everything, whereas this new venue required us to rent everything (even down to the kitchen). Susan took care of ALL of this for us and planned basically an entire wedding for 130 people from scratch in a matter of weeks (everyone was COVID tested before and no one got COVID at our wedding - don’t worry).
Our wedding day was beyond perfect. Everyone in my family kept telling me beforehand that something is going to go wrong the day of (because supposedly that happens at every wedding) and that I should just roll with it. Those weddings just don’t have Susan. The actual day went incredibly smoothly and was so stress-free that we just got to enjoy it and soak up every minute of it because we knew Susan and her team had everything taken care of. She even surprised us with custom cookies of our pups on the day for our dessert table, which was such an incredible and personal touch that she knew we would love.
Now, we just have to gush about how amazing of a person Susan is. After planning a wedding with Susan for almost 2 years, we genuinely consider her to be a friend. 5 stars does not nearly do her justice. Not only does she execute, but she makes the wedding planning process so much fun. We love her so much that we wish she could have just been a guest at our wedding. She will definitely be a guest at all future Bloom family events. We could talk about how amazing Susan is forever. We can guarantee picking her will be one of the best decisions you will make during your wedding planning process.