Gatherings for Good Reviews
Reviews
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Heather Sent on 03/09/2023Great coordinator!
Brenda Cali was there for me on the day of the event and she was organized, engaged, and in touch with all of the vendors. Highly recommend! -
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David Sent on 10/11/2024Excellent wedding planner!
Brenda was an absolutely wonderful wedding planner and made sure that each detail was accounted for on our wedding day. She was very responsive and professional and closely helped us from the very early stages with design and vendor suggestions. I would wholeheartedly recommend Brenda/Gatherings for Good! -
Maria Sent on 08/22/2023
We gathered for good!!
Brenda and her team are incredible! Brenda was in consistent contact with our vendors, zipped up nitty gritty, easily forgotten, last minute details, and made wedding planning a breeze. I was fixated on a very specific look/motif and she and her team made all my dreams come true! When I walked in I was shocked at how amazing everything looked and we received a ton of compliments! Lastly, during the reception, we had a slight issue with one of our other vendors and Brenda handled it with ease. We would book Brenda time and time again! -
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Auri Sent on 08/13/2025A Smart Move!
Hiring Brenda / Gatherings for Good was the smartest thing we did in our wedding planning process. At the beginning we were thinking we were going to plan everything ourselves, but as the wedding became bigger we decided to look for a planner and we're so glad we got Brenda's help as we couldn't have done it without her.
We already had a venue and some vendors picked out, but Brenda was able to recommend a lot of great vendors through her extensive network and keep us on track with the milestones we needed to hit to make sure the wedding went off without a hitch. She also brought things to our attention to think about/take care of that we would have never considered on our own, so it was invaluable to have her experience at the helm.
She was very communicative and she is very dedicated and detail oriented and made many revisions to our timeline to make sure everything was well planned. On the day of our wedding Brenda and her team made sure everything ran smoothly. Hiring Brenda was the best money we spent on our wedding and honestly a really great value for the services that her and her team provided! -
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Taylor Sent on 01/24/2023Coordinated, Amazing, Worked with our Budget
Brenda was professional, coordinated, organized, and prepared for our wedding day. She worked with our budget and had inventive ideas. -
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Danielle Sent on 04/22/2023Seamless, meticulous & everything you would hope a coordinator would be!!
Brenda was so well organized, thought of many things that I did not & was extremely resourceful with a wealth of knowledge! Honestly don’t know what I would have done without her!! -
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Zac S. Sent on 04/23/2023Attention to detail and creativity shone through
I recently worked with Brenda who truly exceeded my expectations. Brenda's ability to capture the theme of the event was unparalleled. From the decor to the entertainment, every aspect of the event was perfectly aligned with the theme and created a cohesive and immersive experience for all attendees. Brenda's attention to detail and creativity truly shone through, and she was able to bring the vision for the event to life in a way that exceeded even my wildest expectations. I would highly recommend Brenda to anyone looking to create a truly unforgettable event. -
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Dana Sent on 02/18/2024Brenda and her team were invaluable!
If you are on the fence thinking you don't need a wedding planner, please let me tell you that you do! First, from the planning piece, Brenda was able to customize a package for us based on our needs. She was invaluable in recommending local vendors, who we would have never known about. She ran the day of the event so smoothly, allowing me to sit back and be a mom and enjoy the event to the fullest. The wedding day was beautiful, and just what we had dreamed of. Alex and Brent recently celebrated their 1-year anniversary, and our family and friends are still talking about how special the event was. Thank you again Brenda! -
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Susan Sent on 11/22/2022An amazing experience!
Brenda was incredibly professional and really took pride in organizing our big day. Truly couldn’t have done it without her! -
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Lori Sent on 06/05/2019Mother of Bride
I am so happy and grateful that Brenda and her team were available for my daughters wedding. I can’t stress enough how they made the night a dream come true and by allowing our immediate family a stress free event, we all had such a great time! It was the best decision I’ve made in a long time! -
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Shannon Sent on 06/04/2019
Exactly what I needed!
I had a small wedding of only 50-60 guests with a limited so I didn’t originally think I needed a coordinator. This is the best money I spent on the wedding because even though I selected all the vendors and negotiated the contracts myself, Brenda followed up with everyone to make sure everything arrived and was executed the way they where supposed to the day of the wedding. All of the details that I would have not realized to do myself, she took care of.
With a smaller guest list I didnt want to assign a guest the duty of helping clean up or get us down the aisle or make sure that the cake was cut or champagne was poured at the right time. Brenda made all of that happen so everyone, myself included had a care-free, fun-filled night.
I also had a few last minute decor items I received that I didn’t know how I wanted to use them and she found the right place for everything. Everything came together beautifully with the beach theme!
Her organization, responsiveness, check lists and run of show details she provided a month leading up to the wedding where great so I had no surprises during our rehearsal ceremony or the day of my wedding. So glad I choose Brenda and her helpful and sweet assistant Karina for the the best day of my life! -
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Chelsea Sent on 10/31/2022
Brenda is AMAZING!!
Brenda is not only incredibly skilled in her craft (and wildly organized!), but she's also such a genuinely kind, caring, and helpful human being. She truly went above and beyond the "call of duty" for me, starting from BEFORE I had even formally hired her! I was in a bit of an emergency circumstance for us, we were wanting/needing to marry quickly after the death of a parent had kind of forced us into not having the emotional capacity to plan a big wedding. By a miracle of God, Brenda came into this hard and emotional time for me and breathed new and beautiful life into helping give me a SENSATIONAL and GORGEOUS micro-wedding, all in less than 30 days! We had to work long-distance (I live about 2.5 hours from where I married) and we had to move quickly on everything... and Brenda was absolutely unbelievable at helping keep me right on track with everything and helping me think through everything. She really pulled SO much of the stress I was feeling off my plate. And she was so patient with every question I had. I really appreciated how she communicates so clearly w/scheduling and timelines, providing prompt answers, etc., she just made literally the world of difference for us to work with! She is the kind of person/Coordinator who, on our very first consult call (before we were even contracted!), generously gave me an hour of her time to ask me questions and then give me all the recommendations she had for me as to how I could pull off my wedding, whether I was moving forward with her or not. There just aren't many people in the world any more who put their heart into giving you the quality level of service and care that Brenda and her team do. I truly cannot recommend Gatherings For Good highly enough. If you are a super organized person, Brenda will be the PERFECT planner for your event who will be two steps ahead of you, keeping you right on track with every detail. Or, if you're like me, and you enjoy more of the creative side of things but struggle with the finite organizational details and can feel easily overwhelmed by all that, then Brenda will be the PERFECT planner for your event because she will lay everything out for you so clearly and cleanly and you'll be astonished how many of your worries and headaches (in planning your event from start to finish) dissipate completely simply by having her help. Gatherings For Good is also very well connected. I could not believe how quickly Brenda was able to help put me in touch with some of the most AMAZING vendors possible who all worked out perfectly. There is honestly no way that my wedding could have been even anywhere close to the magical day that it was without working specifically with Gatherings For Good. It was even through their website blog that I found my phenomenal photographer!! Brenda helped make my dreams come true, and in my case, she even did so with SO much grace, under the most stressful of circumstances with a tight timeline and helping me emotionally while I was a first time bride dealing with complex divorced family dynamics, a unique venue (antique yacht going out on the water), and still grieving the recent death of my dad. I was also SO impressed with the way Brenda handled my less-conventional choices I ended up making along the way (ie: informal officiant; saving money by going with artificial floral, having a non-traditional wedding cake, etc. ) - Brenda is SO supportive of helping make your day exactly the way YOU want it, no matter what that entails or how unconventional certain aspects of achieving that may be! And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the MIRACLE of how well-priced the services Gatherings for Good are!! Even though working with them was the best investment I made in my wedding, I still could not believe how reasonable their pricing is, especially when you start working together and learn how unmatched the quality of service they provide is. If you're looking for a person/team with utmost professionalism, genuine care for you and your event, who is extremely poised and a superstar in her field, then you should seriously contact Brenda immediately! I promise you will not regret it! She was my ideal event (wedding) planning "fairy godmother" and I know she will be for you, too!! And whenever I plan my next big (or even small!) event again, I already know for sure that I will be hiring Gatherings For Good! -
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