Jamie O'Connell Weddings & Events Reviews
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Valerie Sent on 10/09/2009When we first started planning, my hubby and I weren�t thinking of hiring a DOC. I was determined to do everything myself the day of�I figured somehow I�d find a way to be SuperWoman and the glowing bride all at once. My mom and aunt even offered to help with setup! When it was about 4 months out, I started panicking about day-of details: mostly my mom and aunt missing special moments because they would be setting everything up. I didn�t want them to feel like they had to work at the wedding! I feel like Jamie swooped in and rescued me from myself!
We were married at the Hard Rock Hotel, and they provided a ceremony/rehearsal coordinator as part of our overall package, so Jamie didn�t take over everything at first. Instead she fit herself right in, and filled in all my gaps! She and I originally arranged for her to �coordinate� the reception, and just see that everything ran smoothly there. During the end of the planning process, she offered to arrive the morning of the wedding, and oversee everything anyway. She and I met several times, and she took down contact info for my vendors and both families (just in case). She also asked all kinds of questions about the reception: how we wanted everything placed, what our timeline was for the night decorated, and how we were planning to get everything to the venue the night before. (All those questions actually made me think of �little� details I�d almost forgotten�like d�cor for the cocktail tables.) During the last of our meetings before the wedding, she asked for a layout of our reception room, and drew a detailed scheme for the head table seating.
The week before the wedding, she contacted all my vendors to introduce herself in case they needed anything last-minute, and then she mostly took over from there. A few days before the wedding, she came to my apartment to pick up all our ceremony and reception stuff, and the day before, she dropped it all off safely with our catering manager. She and her assistant Toni attended the rehearsal to make sure they knew how everything would proceed the day of. (Even though our ceremony coordinator also took care of the rehearsal, Jamie streamlined everything with her. It gave me peace of mind to know there was more than one person helping out.)
All the questions she asked came together on the wedding day, and she even filled in gaps there (brought in her own votive candles, and used leftover glass stones) to decorate the cocktail table, placecard table and head table at the reception.) At the end of the night, she was still looking after us: made sure DH and I had the key to our room, rescued my purse that had been left with my aunt, and boxed all our wedding d�cor and brought it to my mom�s hotel room. Her attention to detail and extreme organization made our day truly magical.
