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Just a little ditty

Just a little ditty

Charlottesville, VA
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    Awesome to work with ! ! !

    As a Professional DJ with 25+ years of experience , some planners often stand out for their professionalism, communication and how 'well put together' the event is from start to finish. .... I will say , ALL BOXES were checked with the addition of the exceptional customer service that was displayed throughout the entire process......... I wlll be referring this company to brides and grooms this 2025-26 wedding season.

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    Dreams Perfectly Orchestrated: Our Fairytale Wedding with Just a Little Ditty and Emily King

    Absolutely phenomenal experience! We had the pleasure of working with Emily King, and it was the best decision and the most important vendor we hired for our wedding. From the very first meeting to the final farewell, Emily demonstrated unparalleled professionalism, creativity, and dedication.

    Emily took the time to understand our vision (she made my fuchsia color palette look absolutely stunning) and turned our dreams into reality. Every detail, from the gorgeous flowers to the linens, to the custom stationary, to the seating arrangements, was meticulously planned and flawlessly executed. Her expertise and passion for her work were evident in every interaction and every element of our special weekend.

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    Kathleen Sent on 01/03/2023
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    Emily & Dickie made every step of the way seamless!

    We cannot express enough how great our time was with both Emily and Dickie at Just a Little Ditty. The wedding planning process at times can be stressful but they went above and beyond to make our wedding day on 10.22 flawless and unique to us! My mom and I could go on and on about their services, but when the wedding was over, we felt we made friends out of both of them as well, as they are both such personable and intelligent ladies. Their expertise and ideas made the process enjoyable and we cannot thank them enough for everything they did. We love Just a Little Ditty! Love, Kathleen, Robin, Jon & Chapin
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    Emily = Best Wedding Planner EVER

    I wish I could give more than 5 stars - Emily from Just A Little Ditty is an absolute angel. She is a calming presence when you need one. She is organized down to the very minute. She is responsive, easy to work with, knowledgeable, detail-oriented, and just an overall good person. We would have been lost without her. The entire weekend went flawlessly because of her. I cannot recommend Emily and her team enough.
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    Megan Sent on 06/23/2022
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    Maureen made wedding planning a breeze!

    I cannot emphasize enough how amazing Maureen McKenna & the whole JALD team is! Booking JALD and having Maureen as our wedding planner was easily the best decision we made. Maureen's organization and attention to detail allowed us to relax during the planning process and actually ENJOY our time engaged.

    Maureen provided several resources at the time of booking - a budget tracker and a timeline to keep us on track with planning. These were amazing to reference throughout our planning process and ensure we didn't forget anything. Maureen would regularly update these so we knew where we stood from a budget perspective as well as what we still had left to plan for. She was very knowledgeable...
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    Marilyn made our wedding dreams come true!!

    We were so incredibly happy with just a little ditty and Marilyn Speight! Marilyn was so knowledgeable about every vendor and venue in the area, and she could quickly point me in the right direction given our desires. She was able to answer all of my miscellaneous wedding questions throughout the planning process and put me at ease through all the decisions. Marilyn was very well organized, a really wonderful communicator, and she gave the most wonderful design and detail recommendations. Marilyn made our wedding day go perfectly smooth, and she helped us have our dream wedding! We never had to worry about a single detail during our entire wedding. We were so lucky to work with her! Working...
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    AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

    Choosing Dickie Morris to be our wedding planner was one of the best choices of our entire wedding!! Dickie is absolutely meticulous in organization, executes plans beautifully, and is the queen of orchestrating products and events to be absolutely beautiful, memorable, and stunning. Dickie is so wonderful in communication- quick to respond and thorough. Our wedding day was perfect, but also filled with obstacles (rain and losing grandparents right before the ceremony just a few of them!). Dickie handled each obstacle with SUCH ease and poise. I, the bride, did not even catch wind of anything being wrong until after the wedding when fun stories were ebbing told! Dickie took our vision, ran with it and made it into...
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    Best wedding planning decision we made

    I am so beyond glad that we went with Maureen and just a little ditty as our planner. Maureen was so helpful from step one and made things so easy with detailed suggestions on vendors, budget, and all around advice. I had literally no idea how many things I needed to think about and Maureen was incredibly patient with all of my questions. She really knew exactly what would and wouldn’t work at the Clifton, and her understanding of the venue made planning so much easier. We had people telling us all day how wonderful the wedding was, and Maureen gets so much credit for how perfectly the day went. She made sure I didn’t know about any of...
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    Marilyn is the best!

    Marilyn and her team at Just a little ditty helped my husband and I to have the BEST wedding experience. We hired Marilyn and JALD for their month of planning service and it was the best choice we made! Our plans changed from September 2020 to postponing until April 2021. Marilyn helped us pick our new date and coordinated all the options with all of our vendors and the postponement was honestly the easiest part of the whole planning process. Marilyn’s help on the day of was so incredible. She is kind, warm, professional, and gets the job done! I cannot recommend her more!
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    With just a little ditty you get the whole team

    As a 2020 COVID bride I don’t know what I would have done without just a little ditty. Not only was Maureen there for all my questions and advice, when COVID hit and we had to postpone then move up our wedding the whole just a little ditty team sprang in to action to make sure our day would still be special. Dickie and Emily jumped right in for our wedding and make sure everything went off without a hitch. Seriously you want these talented ladies in your corner!
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    Emily was an indispensable part of our big day and a pleasure to work with!

    It’s impossible to capture just how great Emily is to work with and how important she was to making our wedding a success. She was an absolute pleasure to work with and a wonderful person to have around when stress levels started rising. In the occasional sea of chaos that a wedding can be, she was always calm, cool, collected, sympathetic, and helpful. She met every single need we had, sometimes before we even knew we needed her. Our wedding was at the John Marshall Ballrooms in Richmond and Emily helped get 150 guests from one ballroom to another, organized cocktail hour, got our band, photographer, and hair/makeup vendors set up and fed, made some to-go boxes for us,...
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    On our wedding day we felt so supported and taken care of

    We worked with Marilyn from the just a little ditty team and were so happy with our experience. Marilyn (and Dickie) helped us pick great vendors and think through all the details we needed (and didn’t push us to focus on things we didn’t think were important). We wanted to plan a wedding that was beautiful and fun with a focus on our Jewish traditions and rituals. Marilyn worked with us so well to incorporate and accommodate these aspects into our celebration. She was a guide on the biggest and smallest questions and we would have been lost and overwhelmed without her.

    The day of our wedding we felt so supported and taken care of by the...
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    Maureen Ensured Our Big Day Was Absolutely Perfect!!!!

    Choosing Just a Little Ditty, and specifically Maureen McKenna, as our Month-Of Wedding Planner was the best decision we could have made with our wedding. We had a lot of moving parts (e.g., multi-course dinner with wine pairings, late night snacks, photographer and videographer, etc.) and lots of people to manage (I had 10 bridesmaids!) and everything went off without a hitch. Maureen ensured it was simply flawless. Anything that went wrong (which was literally only two small things!) she immediately fixed without a hint of freneticism: When the adjuster on my husband's suit vest ripped off, she grabbed the sewing kit, found our family member who is a master seamstress, and had it fixed in minutes. When we...
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    Amazing wedding planner

    Just a little ditty, Marilyn, Dickie, and Margaret were SO SO SO wonderful for our month of coordination. I honestly could not have done it without them. Marilyn was our main point of contact during the year leading up to the wedding. She was EXTREMELY organized, professional, helpful and so much more. She was always there to answer any questions and help in whatever way she could. I could not have done it without her.
    On our big day everything went off without a hitch! Dickie and Margaret were on site day of and it couldn’t have gone any better. My husband and I were able to enjoy ourselves without having to worry about anything and we cannot thank...
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    Dickie was more than anything we could have hoped for in a wedding planner! She was thoughtful, knowledgable, and creative, answering all of our questions along the way. Dickie helped us with decor planning, and our wedding was even more beautiful than I could have imagined. The week of the wedding, Dickie had everything planned our so well, managed our rehearsal flawlessly, and everything went so smoothly the day of the wedding. When issues or decisions came up during the wedding day, Dickie diffused them and helped my husband and I make the call to have our wedding site moved because of rain, and it was perfect! In the days following the wedding, Dickie texted us pictures that she...
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    The BEST day thanks to the BEST planner!

    We are forever grateful to Alex Carr and the JALD team for going above and beyond to make our wedding dreams come true! Alex was professional, knowledgeable, and is clearly an expert in the field. She was so helpful throughout the process and had such creative suggestions to bring our vision to life. She is the absolute sweetest and it is evident how much she values and loves the couples she works with. She is bubbly, compassionate, joyful and has the most contagious smile! She and Emily were the most perfect planners to have on our wedding day and every detail was executed seamlessly. Our day was absolutely perfect and exceeded our expectations thanks to them. We are so thrilled to have worked with JALD for our day and couldn't recommend them more!
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    The Absolute Best at What They Do

    Emily and just a little ditty were the absolute best at bringing my daughter's wedding vision to light! We live out of town, so having a local planner was essential for us. Emily is friendly, attentive, professional, extremely organized, super fast at responding to texts/emails/phone calls, and knowledgeable with all things vendor and venue-related. There was not one time when we asked her a question when she didn't know the answer immediately. Hands down the best at what she does. The result of her hard work was a stunningly beautiful wedding day for my daughter and son-in-law. Definitely choose just a little ditty, the level of top notch service is incredible, and you will not be disappointed!!
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    Emily is the person you want to lead your wedding day!

    She asked all the right questions to gain an understanding of our hopes for the weekend, offered extensive knowledge on the process and, most importantly, provided us with peace of mind. We believe she spent as much time and energy thoughtfully planning our wedding as she would her own. We would choose her 100 times over. Emily, we are so thankful for you and happy that we get to call you a friend!

    xoxo, Rachel & Eric Schey

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    Absolutely the best decision!

    Marilyn was absolutely amazing. We interviewed quite a few wedding planners before making a decision for our May wedding. I worked in event planning for several years and really wanted to feel confident that whoever we chose was super on top of it! Marilyn far exceeded our expectations. She was wonderful - from the early planning phases to the day-of. She always offered the perfect amount of input and advice. Every time we had a call with her leading up to the wedding, I got off the phone feeling a new confidence and excitement about our wedding. We definitely picked a tough venue. It was extremely rural and almost 100% outdoors in Virginia in May - that's basically the...
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    We couldn't have had our dream wedding without Marilyn and the Just a little ditty team. Marilyn was absolutely amazing and I would highly recommend them if you are looking for a planner. Not only are they amazing at their job, the entire team is so nice and I'm so glad we had a chance to work with such wonderful people!
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    Marilyn is an absolute treasure and she went above and beyond for our wedding. From the very beginning, she understood our vision and recommended the best vendors. Marilyn was highly communicative throughout our entire engagement year and she is extremely organized. When my work life was hectic and stressful at times and wedding planning had to be put on the back burner, Marilyn swooped in without being asked and helped manage the vendor communication. On our wedding day, my husband and I did not worry about a thing, as Marilyn and her team worked seamlessly and made sure everything was on task. They checked in on us throughout the evening and everything seemed truly flawless. Our wedding was a dream come true and we can't thank Marilyn and Just a Little Ditty enough. Highly recommend!
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    It's hard to describe in words just how amazing Just a Little Ditty and Dickie Morris were. It rained on our wedding day, and there was a really tough call whether to "tough it out" or go with Plan B under the tent. Dickie was calm, decisive and reassuring, which was exactly what we needed. Sure enough, going with the indoor plan allowed our wedding to be the most fun party in the history of mankind. :)

    Dickie was highly communicative throughout--available for questions and planning check-ins along the way and relieved so much of the planning stress the month before the wedding by coordinating the vendors and helping us organize the last decisions that had to...
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    Dickie and Marilyn were truly the most treasured and best team mates Meg and I experienced during and doing her wedding. These professional young women know this industry inside and out and were always available to help in any capacity right up to delivering orchid arrangements to Boars Head for our guests at midnight after the wedding. Meg and I were extremely pleased with their careful attention to details, feelings and the overall creation of the setting we both desired to make this extraordinary venue memorable to our dear family and special friends.
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    Marilyn is simply incredible. Because of her organization, responsiveness and positive attitude, our wedding day went off without a hitch and was zero stress to me, my husband, and our family. No matter how small the detail, she had it considered and a back up plan for it in case something went awry. For example, due to certain events in Charlottesville our road in front of our church was initially blocked off. She kept in constant contact with police regarding potential routes and back up plans. Another example-- she made sure to remove my husband's boutonniere and grab my bouquet at the end of the night to keep them safe. She then gave them to us the next day...
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    There is no one we would trust more on the most important day of our lives than Dickie of Just a little ditty. Having been in the wedding industry myself, I am very in touch with the amount of work, thoughtfulness and detail that goes into an event and Dickie not only met our every expectation but exceeded them. She is not only thorough, but a wealth of information and a warm presence for all. If you are looking for a wedding planner, there is really no need to look any further. She is the best and we are so thankful that she was a part of our special day!
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