Events With Darrell Reviews
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User2134191 Sent on 05/15/2015Darrell is an amazing planner. He puts you at ease, has great suggestions and is extremely reliable. He makes your event unique and adds a special touch to every aspect of the event so your guests are dazzled. I highly recommend his services. -
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Kazmere D. Sent on 08/02/2022I wouldn't risk using Darrell.
We hired Darrell in 2019 for our wedding that was supposed to take place September 2020. Our initial meeting with Darrell was pleasant but I should have noticed a slight pink flag when he conducted the meeting from his condo after telling us he had an office space but changed it last minute. (lie number one of 20458594) We however appreciated the conversation and decided to book full wedding planning services with Events with Darrell since we were living in Dallas at the time. First big issue – Darrell tells us that he is going to set up a week/weekend of vendors for us including catering, décor, etc and that we should plan to come to Houston to meet with them. I at the time was an Assistant Principal of an Elementary School and therefore taking time off doesn’t always come easy but we made it work. I reached out to Darrell to confirm that we would be traveling in on Friday to experience meetings Friday afternoon and Saturday. He promised an itinerary that would be sent before we left. We received NOTHING. Friday morning comes and we send a confirmation text naming we would be heading to Houston and arriving around noon and asked for confirmation on where to meet. No response. We were going to cancel the trip but also knew we needed to plan the wedding so we chalked up his lack of response to him being busy so we hit the road. Get halfway to Houston, reach out about the meeting….NOTHING. Arrive in Houston…STILL NOTHING. At this point I’m venting to one of my bridesmaids who’s a professional photographer in Seattle about the issue not knowing she’s apart of a group that includes knowing Darrell. After this vent; Darrell reached out via phone to lie about what happened and why he was unresponsive. Something to the tune of “I was traveling and didn’t have my phone.” Anyway he did manage to get us in with the caterer (who was simply amazing) and the décor company (who was equally amazing)
Let’s fast forward because we should have fired him after that experience but because we’d began to pay him I stuck with him….WRONG
Our wedding was rescheduled to 12/11/21 and prior to rescheduling the interview I asked Darrell if he was going to be ok with the change. He agreed it would work but that was yet another lie (I’ll get to that later) Ok so let me also not I did not include lots of the lies and ignoring Darrell did. Because of this I basically planned my own wedding. I booked the DJ, changed catering information, booked the marquee letters, the violinist, the photobooth, bartender, created the run of show, EVERYTHING…and I won’t even bother yall with the disorganization he had at the wedding rehearsal. NOPE.
It's wedding day and Darrell’s assistant at the time Keisha said she would be at my hotel by 7:00am. Didn’t happen. I get a call from the vendor we booked to do our cloud smoke and sparkler stuff around 11:00am saying Darrell is not at the venue (he told me he was going to be there all day) and she doesn’t know where to put the stuff. I get another text from our marquee vendor saying she has called Darrell over 20 times and needs to know where to put the letters because she too is at the venue and Darrell isn’t there. I reach out to Keisha around this time and you can tell when she answers the phone that her breath stinks because she’s just waking up. She says she will handle it and I let it go. Keisha shows up a few hours later, we’ve taken pics and we are ready to transition. Thinking Keisha is going to the wedding venue with us I give her my veil because it’s super grand and I didn’t want to walk with it. We transition to the ceremony venue (a little late but that’s ok) and they won’t let me get off the bus. Come to find out Darrell is there, Keisha is NOT and she has my muthaf***in veil. Irritated I tell Darrell that I will just walk without it and let’s begin. Ceremony occurs yay yay yay and now it’s time for the reception which is at another venue.
Let me stop and name here that ALL I repeat ALL vendors EXCEPT for Events with Darrell were amazing and if it were NOT for each of them this wedding would have won 2021’s worst Houston Wedding. (
We get to the ceremony venue and its breathtaking. But, no Darrell, no Keisha, no Pablo, and none of his other rented “assistants” Keisha shows up about 45 min later pretending like she was at the venue (lies) we FINALLY begin. We walk in as a bridal party, everything is finally flowing and the sparklers go off but they are under some beautiful pompas leaves. Well those beautiful leaves spark a fire and BAM we had to shut the wedding down for an hour to ensure that everything was safe and taken care of. This caused me to miss the father/daughter dance, mother/son dance, bouquet toss, garter toss, and all the American traditions we planned. What saved the wedding you ask? Not Keisha, or Darrell although Keisha did try to reconcile things so I appreciate that and Darrell was in a corner crying like a bit**. It was actually the Nigerian traditional ceremony we included in the wedding. We transitioned into that part and it then became a beautiful experience.
In all Events with Darrell and Darrell himself is a FRAUD. He boldly took our money AND the singers money we hired through him and DID NOT deliver. He was horrible from jump and I wouldn’t hire him if it was the last thing I would be able to do. He isn’t worth it. He’s a liar and doesn’t even have a true team to help him. Sure he knows great vendors which I’m shocked then even still partner with him but that’s it. You are truly playing roulette with your wedding if you hire him. Enter at your own risk but I don’t suggest it.
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