Manette Gracie Events Reviews
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Natalie Sent on 10/05/2025Your Best Wedding Investment
Emily was our day-of coordinator for our September 2025 wedding, and truly she was our best investment. As someone who was worried about all of the details and wanted to ensure I had someone I could trust to run our wedding day, Emily was truly better than I could have hoped for! While we hired her to be our "day-of" coordinator, we started working with her months before our wedding, and she advised us on all things logistics leading up to the day. We chose Emily because she had years and years of experience and she has a cool, calm demeanor that put us at ease. Emily was a star at running our wedding rehearsal, and her and her team always knew what was going on day-of. Our parents and wedding party also commented at how professional Emily and her team were, and what a stellar job they did. I would highly recommend Emily to ensure your wedding day is seamless! -
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Megan Sent on 11/02/2022The key to our wedding success
Emily was the glue that made our wedding work - and made all our memories of the day nothing but pure joy and excitement. I had multiple people ask me the day before the wedding what I was anxious about and I responded honestly "literally nothing" and that is completely due to Emily. We planned a Seattle wedding from San Francisco, and Emily made amazing recommendations, did a ton of legwork, lent us decor (including dropping it days in advance at our hotel), and also rolled with all of our wacky and non traditional requests (tiki mug favor table, being picky about pies for dessert, last minute changes to late night food menu, adding a coffee pickup, etc.) without a single complaint. She was also very easy to communicate with, and extremely responsive. Emily, we truly could not have done it without you - thank you for making this special day one full of joy and ease for us. You rock at your job. I wholeheartedly recommend Emily to anyone looking for a coordinator or planner - we used her full service planning package and I know it not only made things easy for us, it also saved us money. Hiring a planner was the best choice we made for our wedding - give yourself that gift too!
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Makala Sent on 07/14/2022The Best Wedding Coordinator Ever!!
Book Manette Gracie for your wedding!! I cannot recommend them enough. I have worked many weddings myself, and Thera and Emily at Manette Gracie are the most incredible wedding coordinators we could ever ask for!!
Thera went above and beyond all our expectations and we are so grateful for everything she did behind the scenes to make our weekend so special. She is attentive, incredibly responsive, and a wealth of knowledge. Thank you so much for everything!! -
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Anna Sent on 11/24/2020AMAZING wedding day-of coordinator!
We initially didn’t think we needed a day-of coordinator, but we ended up hiring Emily because we quickly realized we were in over our heads – and she ended up being the single best investment for our wedding. From our first meeting, she went above and beyond to ensure that our wedding day was perfect. She attended our venue and catering meetings and brought up questions/ideas that we never would’ve thought of. When we had to reschedule, cancel, and un-cancel our wedding due to COVID-19, she remained flexible and incredibly reliable even with the drastic changes to our plans. On the wedding day, she knew the venue layout and schedule better than we did! She lent us décor items, helped us with set-up and tear down, and even went out of her way to return some items to our florist at the end of the night. We were able to fully enjoy our wedding day because we knew Emily would make sure everything flowed smoothly. We will forever refer our engaged friends and family to Emily for wedding planning/DOC services! -
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Care Sent on 08/28/2020
A big thank you to Emily for helping coordinate our wedding photo session!
Emily was such a pleasure to work with!! We hired her as our day-of-coordinator when our first venue, the Monte Cristo Ballroom closed 7 months before our wedding. It was an extremely stressful time and we were fortunate to have found Emily who offered a substantial discount for Monte Cristo couples and free rentals for her gold plate chargers and cake stand. We met at our second venue, the Inglewood Golf Club for our planning session. She was very organized and experienced. Emily brought up questions and options that we haven't considered before. We were set with our wedding until the pandemic hit. Saddened that we had to cancel our big wedding, we decided to move forward on our original wedding date, May 23, 2020 and celebrated with an intimate ceremony at home.
A couple of months later, we asked Emily if she would like to help us with our bridal and groom photo session, which she was excited be a part of. Emily coordinated pick up and returns at Grand Event Rentals as well as provided gold chargers and votive candles for our sweet heart table. She gave us many options and location ideas. During the week of our photo session at Lakewold Gardens, the forecast predicted a high chance of rain on the day when we were scheduled to take pictures. Emily was super responsive and understanding of the last minute change! Grand Event Rentals did not open Sundays and she organized pick up on Friday and returns on Monday with no extra charge. The photo session went very smoothly with her help setting up and breaking down the sweet heart table and items. With so many changes to our wedding plans this year, we can't thank Emily enough for her patience and dedication during these challenging times! -
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Christina Sent on 08/29/2019There's a reason why there are so many glowing reviews about Emily!!
Emily is absolutely fantastic!! There are a ton of reviews ranting and raving about how she is the greatest, and here comes another.
I hired Emily as my Day-Of Coordinator, and she did an absolutely fantastic job. She is insanely organized, and will ask you so many questions you've never even thought about during the planning process. She took note of everything, and would offer suggestions or assistance if we struggled with any part of the planning process. Cake baker dropped out? No problem, she provided us with two more recommendations. Don't know what to do for table numbers? She has a supply of items that you can use for your wedding, and she was able to lend us table numbers (very pretty wood-cut ones) that perfectly matched our theme and looked so good on our tables! She coordinated with all of our vendors, created a timeline for the day-of, scheduled meetings with and stayed on top of our venue to ensure that the day was going to run very smoothly. It was so reassuring to have her in our corner - any time we had a question, she was just an email or text away, and she was always quick to respond.
The day before she walked us through the entire ceremony, providing everyone in the wedding with a printed timeline of where they needed to be and when. She walked everyone through the actual ceremony, of who walks in when, from where, at what pace, and where people are supposed to stand. Every little detail was accounted for, and honestly I wasn't even nervous the day before the wedding, because I knew Emily was on top of it.
The day of was a dream, and went so smoothly! Emily coordinated everyone, and I had no responsibilities. She ensured our cake delivery, the timing of when the florist would arrive and drop off bouquets and boutonnieres. She set up our DIY photo booth, card box, and guest book signing table, which looked absolutely beautiful! She ensured that we were running on schedule, checking in with us every so often to see if we needed anything. She had appetizers and champagne waiting in our room for us right after the ceremony, which was lovely, because we were starving and got to take a few minutes to actually take in the fact that we were MARRIED before getting to return to cocktail hour and enjoy our guests. She even had wedding cake delivered to our room after the reception ended, in case we wanted to enjoy some that night.
Honestly my wedding day was perfect. Everything ran on schedule, nothing went off the rails. I give Emily the credit for it because she was so well prepared going into the big day. We knew everything we needed to beforehand, and she had clearly communicated everything our vendors needed to know to them, because everything ran so smoothly! Hiring Emily was one of the smartest decisions I made when planning my wedding, and I would 100% recommend her to anyone thinking about using her for planning services. She is worth it!!! -
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Margeaux Sent on 02/19/2014It would be impossible for me to express how instrumental Emily was in making my wedding happen. I was a DIY-lite bride - I made all of the decor myself but needed help executing my vision. I hired Emily as my day-of coordinator and couldn't be more happy with how she made everything happen. She is beyond quick in terms of email response and worked alongside my other vendors seamlessly. I gave her detailed layouts for my decor and entered my venue to find that she tweaked them just slightly to improve them - the result was phenomenal. The space looked gorgeous thanks to her and her assistant's eye for detail and commitment to executing my vision.
Emily also made sure the event proper moved seamlessly. She always seemed to be right there when we needed her but invisible otherwise. I am so grateful for her services - definitely one of the best investments I have ever made. -
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User926290 Sent on 09/06/2012I wish there was an option to double the stars.
Lauren saved the day. Not that anything was wrong with the day, just that I didn't think about our logistics and tiny details, not once not even for a second, throughout our entire reception even though I planned and planned and panicked for the better part of a year... it was DIY to the core.
Lauren coordinated over a dozen vendors, including a shuttle that ran all night to various locations, and my big crazy Indian family. All the while, she made sure the music never stopped even though my laptop fell asleep every 15 minutes or so regardless of the settings.
Every couple I've spoken with said they didn't get to eat at their wedding. We ate a ton. In between everything, she magically appeared in front of us with a smile and offered to bring us food and drinks. We ate and drank all night and had the best time ever.
Even though I did the planning, she and Emily sent us ideas throughout the year, and they were so thoughtful about it. Instead of "can't you stretch your budget to have a photographer?" it was "Here are fun things you can do to work around it." The moment that I couldn't handle any more ideas, the suggestions magically stopped.
Seriously... magic.
Hire them. Even if you think you have everything under control, even if you've planned a million events. -
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Sarah Sent on 10/04/2011Hiring Emily was one of the best decisions I made in the wedding planning process, bar none. I was one of those "I am super organized and type A, so I might not need a planner" type of person, but came to realize that the extra help, even for the wedding day alone, would keep me calm, relaxed and focused on having fun and enjoying the day. And that's exactly what Emily did- she was professional, super friendly, creative and flexible throughout the planning process.
To start, I definitely had to keep budget in mind when selecting a wedding planner. I was aiming for a "day-of" or "week-of" coordinator. My parents, to start, thought this was entirely silly, saying, "you're so organized, what would there even be for a wedding planner to do?" By the end, they were eating their words.
Emily, from my first email with her, was courteous, knowedgeable, enthusiastic and creative. Not to mention AMAZING at helping me de-stress when I was getting anxious about one thing or another. She walked me through the planning process step by step, even though I had just hired her as a "month of" coordinator, and raised lots of questions that were helpful for me to think about 6 months before the wedding, instead of 6 days.
She kept in great contact with me throughout the planning process, and always came up with great suggestions and ideas when I was stumped, wanted to change something, or needed a budget friendly way to implement a certain idea.
My mom and I met with her several weeks before the wedding and she was so fun and friendly. She made sure to address all my questions, as well as my mom's, and took note of the few things we thought might be an issue on the wedding day. As the date got closer, she followed up with all of my vendors to confirm their schedules and even helped me coordinate with someone who I was having a hard time getting in touch with- this REALLY helped me keep my stress at bay.
A few days before the wedding, my parents could really see everything that a wedding planner can do. Who would distribute the checks to the musicians and photographer? Emily will! Who will make sure all the gifts get put away securely? Emily will! Who will make sure the music isn't too loud, and that the microphone gets handed around during toasts? Emily will! I can't name all the things she did for us that day, these were just a few. But she did ALL those little things, not just so I didn't have to, but so I didn't have to WORRY about them, because I knew those tasks were in such responsible hands.
I would recommend Manette Gracie Events to anyone who wants help planning their event- to whatever degree- as Emily is a true professional, and such a lovely person to work with.
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