Something To Celebrate Reviews
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Samantha Sent on 03/20/2026Great Wedding Planners
The team at Something to Celebrate made my wedding day so much less stressful. The wedding day timeline put together by Melanie was impeccable and very thorough. Christina's bubbly energy kept me going throughout the day of the wedding. Having their services available once putting a deposit down was an added bonus as they were able to help me with vendor recommendations. Overall, they gave me peace of mind and I knew that if there were any issues on the day of the wedding, that they would be able to handle it. They were absolutely worth the money! -
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Madeleine Sent on 06/11/2025The best in the game!
Melanie rocked it!! She is so attentive and comes with a very impressive knowledge of the industry. She led us through the entire process and had an answer for every question, sometimes before we even asked! I can't recommend her and her team highly enough. Our day was perfect and we couldn't have asked for anything more 🤍 -
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Daniela Sent on 03/20/2025
Howse Wedding - Melanie Richardson
My husband and I can't express enough how amazing STC was. Melanie Richardson was truly exceptional, and it was such a pleasure working with her to plan our wedding. She made the entire planning process enjoyable and put us at ease every step of the way. Melanie executed everything flawlessly, most importantly, brought our dream wedding to life. We wish we could relive our special day over and over! Can’t recommend her enough! -
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Reno Sent on 03/20/2025Wow wow wow! Melanie absolutely made our day beautiful
Wow wow wow! Melanie absolutely made our day beautiful. My only regret is we did not hire her sooner in our planning process. She is very detail oriented, and has a knack for making the whole wedding planning process smoother and honestly less anxiety ridden. She is a gem, through and through -
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Lauren Sent on 09/08/2024Our wedding would not have been what it was without the incredible help of Melanie and her team!
Our wedding would not have been what it was without the incredible help of Melanie and her team! We met Melanie a year before the wedding as she helped plan our engagement/ engagement party. I knew after the success and endless compliments at the engagement that I wouldn't want anyone else to help plan our day. I live outside of Texas and was very apprehensive about planning a wedding out of state. Melanie went above and beyond recommending vendors for me, visiting places I was unable to attend, and made me feel completely at ease with the process. I lost my mom when I was younger and was also nervous about planning this day without her advice and support, but Melanie was so quick to answer my endless questions and help me gain a better grasp on planning a wedding, as I was completely lost at the start. She is very well connected in the wedding industry offering amazing vendor recommendations- we were not disappointed with a single one! Melanie helped bring my vision to life and I cannot thank her enough for all of her hard work. If I could give her 10/5 stars, I would!! If you are looking for a planner, look no further! You found the one:) -
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Caitlyn Sent on 07/23/2024Wonderful experience! SO happy I had Melanie as my Wedding Coordinator!
I was so happy to have Melanie from Something to Celebrate help me through the whole wedding planning process! I got married back in December and she was super helpful even before she was officially on the clock as our months before and day of wedding planner! She is a great communicator and is very organized and very knowledgeable about vendors. I appreciated that she gave me a timeline/checklist of what she's taking care of and what I needed to do all leading up to the big day.
On the day of the wedding I was stress-free because I knew the day was in good hands with Melanie! -
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Kathryn Sent on 07/23/2024Best Wedding Coordinator/Planner Every
I anticipated planning a wedding in 9 months, out of state to be a bit more stressful and challenging than it was. However, thanks to Melanie & her team we had the best day of our lives. Family and friends are still talking about how wonderful and beautiful the wedding was. Melanie helped with everything from reception design, transportation and full day planning for the rehearsal dinner and the wedding day. She was kind and calm and incredibly knowledgable/professional and I felt very grateful. Could not recommend more!! -
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Elba Sent on 01/08/2023Phenomenal Wedding Planner
Hiring Maria was handsdown the best decision and experience EVER! We could not have done this without her and her team.
Maria from Something to Celebrate was exactly what we were looking for when we started to plan for our wedding. Maria was wonderful to work with and helped us make our wedding dreams into reality! She is an excellent wedding planner who is extremely professional, organized, adaptable, friendly, works well with diversity, and is passionate about her craft. Maria did an exceptional job at supporting us through the entire wedding planning process, rehearsal and the day of the wedding!
Quick shout out to Maria's assistant Logan! You are awesome! Thanks for being super friendly, organized, and readily available to support us during wedding day! :)
Our planning sessions with Maria were always so much fun! We learned a lot in the process and which helped us make more informed decisions. The Wedding Rehearsal was fun too. Maria did a wonderful job of keeping us organized and answering all our questions!
She was a support not just for the bride and groom, but the ENTIRE wedding party and we all loved her! My wedding party and family was impressed by her professionalism, organization, leadership, and patience. My multilingual and multiracial family felt respected and positively seen/heard by Maria. She was always patient, never judged, and was always working to include my multilingual/cultural family members. Inclusion is a HUGE PLUS and an important value of ours!
Maria also helped us hone in on how we wanted out wedding day to feel for both of u and for our guests. She set up vendor interviews for us, worked with our vendors to coordinate details on our behalf, and we could ask her questions whenever we were confused or split on a decision or wanted a sounding board.
Thank you for helping us find amazing cake, dj, and photographers!! Maria was patient, honest, and listened to all of our ideas and visions and always open to questions and took time to respond…ALWAYS!!
On my wedding day, I did not have to do a single thing, but show up. Maria checked on me and my now husband the night before and even the morning of! She also checked in (in person) with both bridal parties the morning of the wedding.
Maria is a Gem. I truly mean that. We loved working with her and would absolutely recommend Maria to any couple who wants to be taken care of, wants to work with someone who is both professional and energizingly fun, and wants their dream wedding to come true.
We are forever grateful for you Maria. Thank you and Gracias for everything!
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Kelsey Sent on 12/18/2022Recommended without reservations!
After getting engaged and picking a venue, we started looking at all of the things we had to do and decided to make hiring a coordinator the third stop on our list. Melanie was excellent from the moment we met and understood our not-too-spooky classy Halloweenish ideas completely. She made a huge design document encompassing all elements of our wedding and was immensely helpful in coordinating all the little moving parts we CERTAINLY would not have though about. STC is not the cheapest service you're going to find but it's assuredly worth the price when you take into account all the work that goes into the planning, coordinating, details, etc. that YOU then do not have to worry about other than replying to e-mails, making choices, and showing up to meetings. I like to think of myself as pretty organized (at least compared to the average person) but Melanie had spreadsheets in her spreadsheets. She even had to go to (figuratively) fight against some vendor employees when they insisted on messing things up. :) Overall, 5/5, would recommend, just sign the contract. -
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Kelly Sent on 11/14/2022Melanie Richardson was amazing!!
We were so lucky to even be able to GET Melanie Richardson, because she is in such demand. I just can't say enough great things about her. From the very beginning, Melanie kept us organized and on target. Our wedding was at our ranch, which was harder to coordinate, since every single thing had to be brought in. Every vendor Melanie suggested was first class and did a fantastic job. From the photo bus to the beautiful clear tents, the rented couches and furniture, to the amazing food and flowers, everything was incredible! And the week of the wedding, Melanie was in touch with the entire wedding party, keeping them updated on the schedule. Our pastor, who has conducted hundreds of weddings, commented that Melanie was the most organized coordinator he had ever worked with. Melanie is fantastic, and you will be grateful if you are able work with her. -
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Kate Sent on 06/22/2022Magical Melanie!!! ⭐️
Melanie from Something to Celebrate is without a doubt the BEST wedding planner and I am so grateful to her for everything she has done for me and my now husband leading up to the day, on the day, and since then! Melanie is always considerate, kind, hardworking, and organized. She gives so much of who she is to her brides, and there was never a time where she didn’t stop exactly what she was doing (in sickness and in heath) and offer her whole self to support me with planning, even if it was just a silly this-or-that question. She has years and years of expertise and understands Austin/Dripping Springs vendors extremely well. Whenever wedding planning felt overwhelming for me, Melanie was calm, steady and reassuring. She was my rock at every turn. When the wedding day arrived, she handled a million little timing changes and my stressful family drama with such grace and commitment to my vision that I truly felt at the end of the day that everything was “perfect” and I couldn’t even tell what had been going on behind the scenes. Melanie even went out of her way to find me a sentimental dessert I had when I lived in Taiwan for me to enjoy after the ceremony. That’s just the kind of person she is!! She listened intently to my vision for the day, took genuine interest in my life and my love story with my now husband, helped me organize my budgetary priorities, and went above and beyond to fill my wedding day with personal touches. She also helped me stay in the moment and always put my feelings first. Having complete trust in her gave me the space to soak in every moment of my wedding weekend. Looking back, my wedding day was so detailed, beautiful and sentimental, I know in my heart I owe so much of that to Melanie’s hard work and thoughtfulness. She is an incredible planner and a wonderful person!!! -
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Alex Sent on 05/10/2022Amazing 2 year old party!
Maria absolutely killed it for our party!!! It was a 2-year-old/Mother’s Day party and all the kids had a blast, the moms were pampered, and the dads also had a great time. She listened to everything we asked for/wanted and planned a truly fantastic one-of-a-kind party. Her ideas were super awesome, and she really catered towards the kids. It was incredible to show up to an already set up party and leave with little clean up, Something To Celebrate took care of it all. Maria and team were also present throughout the whole party making sure it ran smoothly and everyone was happy. She is truly awesome. You should 100% hire her! I know we will again! -
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Ashley Sent on 01/21/2022Outstanding!!
We hired Melanie Richardson to coordinate my daughters December wedding in dripping Springs and it was the absolute best decision we made! Not only was Melanie professional and organized, but her laid-back personality and sense of humor made her a joy to work with she was very easy to communicate with and was always prompt in responding to our many emails and phone calls. She listen to us and created exactly what we wanted, and because of her years of experience she was able to give us many ideas on how to make the event flow smoothly. We are not from the Dripping Springs/Austin area, so we hired most of our vendors based on her recommendations. Every vendor we went with provided excellent service and we were extremely pleased. Her attention to detail is amazing, and because of this I was able to relax and enjoy the day of the wedding. When the groom’s cake was delivered and it did not look exactly as ordered, Melanie was very calm and professional and quickly thought of a quick solution. None of the guests realized there had ever been a problem with it. Melanie proved her organizational skills the week of the wedding when we had to make the decision to move the ceremony indoors due to inclement weather. She spent countless hours on the phone with the florist and caterer to discuss these last-minute changes to ensure that everything was perfect. On the day of the wedding, everything looked gorgeous and the ceremony, cocktail hour and reception were just as we had envisioned them. Not only did the majority of our guests comment that it was the most beautiful wedding they had ever attended, but also stated it was the most fun they had ever had at a wedding. Everyone had a fantastic time! Thank you so much to Melanie and to Something to Celebrate for making my daughter’s and son-in-law‘s wedding absolutely perfect! I have two younger daughters, and will not hesitate to hire Melanie to coordinate both of their future weddings! -
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Ashtyn Sent on 06/08/2021Melanie was INCREDIBLE & deserves an award!!
I had such an incredible experience with STC! Melanie was absolutely amazing. She was extremely responsive, helpful and professional. When it came to my big day, she made everything as stress free as possible and kept us on schedule without being pushy. I would rate higher than 5 if I could--STC & Melanie made my wedding day and planning so much better!! She created a detailed timeline and shared it with all of the parties involved in the wedding and was there for every small planning question I had! I will recommend STC to everyone I talk to :) -
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Sara Sent on 08/29/2018HIRE THIS COORDINATOR!! I hired Something to Celebrate for day of coordinating services, which also means 2 in person meetings prior to the event to get all of the details straight plus lots of emails to answer my questions and help me prepare for the big day. Jessica Moore is a true professional, and knows everything there is to know about throwing a great party and executing a perfect wedding. I knew I had nothing to worry about with her on my team. This team is incredibly detail oriented and provides everything needed to ensure everything is exactly as I had envisioned. She took over all communication with my family and vendors for the week of the wedding so I could relax and enjoy this special time. She handled my family perfectly, managed the rehearsal, and every little detail the day of. She even made sure that my new husband and I had a few moments to take everything in after the ceremony with just the 2 of us. I could not recommend Something to Celebrate more. My only job was to enjoy my wedding, and I am so incredibly grateful for that. Thank you Jessica for making my dream wedding a reality. -
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Christina Sent on 09/12/2012Stop what you're doing. Hire uber-organized Jessica at Something to Celebrate. While some other coordinators I interviewed I would have loved to have been best friends with, I didn't hire Jessica to be my friend. I hired her to be no-nonsense and to manage the millions of details on my wedding day. Her and her assistant, Jacklyn, worked harder than any other vendor the weekend of my wedding. When there were hiccups she made sure I didn't have to know about them and made sure to iron out any wrinkles without making us, the bride & groom, aware they existed. Her obsession with details and organization, her myriad documents and layout plans, ensured that nothing was left un-coordinated. And, as it turns out, Jessica is indeed now my friend and I am so glad I know her. Thanks to Jessica and Jacklyn. Worth every penny. :) -
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User791064 Sent on 05/06/2012My husband and I were married at the end of April and Lauren was our planner. We were the first in our family to hire a planner and everyone noticed the difference that it makes. Our family could stop raving about how wonderful Lauren was and how excellent and smoothly everything ran. Everyone also commented on how nice and polite she was. Needless to say our wedding day was full of everything we wanted an more and would definitely recommend her to anyone getting married. -
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Kari Sent on 01/28/2010Jessica at Something to Celebrate is AMAZING. Our wedding was a beautiful and flawless event because of her coordination and skills. …please, please…do yourself a favor and hire a wedding planner. It is by far the best money I have spent on this whole process. I can’t imagine doing this all without an expert in the field. Even if you think you have plenty of time to “do-it-yourself”, a wedding planner offers so much more:
-They know the better and more reliable vendors.
-They have unique ideas to help you along the way.
-They can often save you money from these ideas.
-Sometimes you can even get a discount from a vendor if you are working with a planner because the vendor knows things will just go smoother.
-They will go with you on vendor meetings and ask the right questions.
-They will help you stay on budget.
-They will help you keep your theme and colors consistent across all areas: flowers, invites, decor.
-and most importantly…They will be the ones running around making sure everything is perfect on your day…NOT YOU! (This is priceless in and of itself)
-Kari Trecker Pena
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