Covenant Weddings LLC

Diane was amazing during our wedding planning process!!! She is sooooooooo responsive and professional at all times. She accompanied me to many appointments and gave great advice! She definetly kept us on schedule with all planning. The day of our wedding went smoothly. Many thanks to Covenant weddings!

Dellin and Nicole Smith 10/8/11

Covenant Weddings was extremely professional and friendly. They made planning my wedding a seamless and enjoyable process. Diane made me feel like I was the only bride that she was working with which made it a pleasure to work with her.

I would recommend Covenant Weddings to any bride.

Thanks again for everything!

-Andrea

Great job, great service, Diane did an amazing job with my wedding. She worked with me throughout the process and was hands on with the 30 day walk through, rehearsal and the day of. Assistants worked hard and did a great job as well. Through the rain (quick change to indoor cocktail hour), Diane worked with all vendors to ensure all went well. Thank you!

Diane was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She definitely put my fiance and I at ease with her professionalism and attention to detail. She is also so very kind and inviting, which was just icing on the cake. Even us event planners need help and added experience when it comes to your own big day! I definitely recommend her to anyone looking to work with someone who is experienced and well versed in everything wedding planning. In fact, one of my bridesmaids is a bride to be and will be working with Covenant Weddings after seeing first hand Dianes work the day of our wedding. Thank you Covenant Weddings!!!

We cannot thank Diane enough for all of the insight and hard work that she provided to us during the year and a half period of our engagement. She was truly a blessing to us.

Prior to our wedding day, Diane worked overtime to help secure a band for our wedding reception. She was always responsive and kept us updated on the progress of our planning. We were extremely pleased with all of the vendors recommended by Diane. They were all professional, personable, and great at what they do.

On the day of our wedding, Diane and her team helped everything run smoothly, which allowed us to enjoy our day without any concerns or worries. All of our family and friends continue to rave about how well the wedding flowed and how everything came together beautifully. Without Diane's guidance and experience, we would not have had the wedding day of our dreams!

Diane was always around for me to ask questions, bounce ideas off of, etc. She suggested vendors, I chose them and they pampered me to no end. If there were any wedding day mishaps, I didn't know about them. She and her team swooped in, took over and I was the most beautiful, pampered queen for my wedding day! Although she won't be working with me anymore as a wedding planner (unless my daughter gets married) I have found a friend for life! I Love Diane and you will NOT go wrong with her services! She is a blessing in disguise. I thank God that I chose her services for my life's most personal blessed event!

Diane George of Covenant Weddings is the best wedding planning service that I have seen in a while. Diane remained with me throughout the entire planning process and executed the wedding day flawlessly. The majority of the vendors that I chose were suggested by Diane. She has extensive list of vendors who are just as great and professional as she. Diane and her staff are professional, courteous, timely, and provide service of excellence. I would recommend Covenant Weddings to anyone in need of a wedding planning service for years to come.

Diane was a gem- extremely responsive and always professional. I always knew she had our best interests at heart. She was truly a joy to work with- my new husband and I consider her part of the family now!

I have to say I really don’t know what I would have done without Diane. I had a vision and love to plan events but, I found it difficult to plan my wedding. I second guessed every decision but when I hired Diane she made me confident and really helped me streamline my choices. She was very helpful with making my vision a reality. She has a large list of vendors at a variety of price ranges. I loved the fact that she went to all my appointments and was available at all times by phone. My wedding stated on time and everything went to plan. It was organized, elegant, and classic and if there was something that went wrong I didn’t know it. I had a beautiful and romantic day. I want to thank her for making my dream come true.

Saturday, August 11, 2010: Diane, my husband and I cannot thank you enough for everything that you and your staff did to make his 50th Birthday Surprise Party a huge success. You and your staff and all of the vendors we used from your rolodex were amazing. We connected immediately, shared the same vision for the event. They were all very helpful and exhibited a high degree of professionalism. All of our family and friends are still talking about the decorations, the music, the cakes and the skill and attentiveness to detail of the videographer and the photographer to capture all of the "keepsake" moments. You and your team made this a night to remember for my husband and I and for that we are eternally grateful. Our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to you for a job very well done!!! Denise and Fernandas Jackson

Diane was great under pressure! Due to a storm the night before, the power went out at the venue and she handled everything with ease...I had no idea until the wedding was over!

My wife and I were married in July 2010, and Mrs. Diane George of Covenant Weddings was our coordinator. I'm assuming most grooms/husbands don't write these reviews, but I would be remise if I didn't speak to the superb service and professionalism Diane brings to her work. We had the true blessing of winning a FREE wedding and had Diane as our coordinator. Honestly, I feel like we stole. She was remarkable in every sense of the word. At no point in time did she make us feel like we were getting a free (aka below standard) service; she went above and beyond our expectations. And to my fellas out there (yes ladies, please share this review with your grooms because I know they aren't reading this site), Diane helps you through the process, making it fun and relatively painless. You are sure to have a better appreciation for what it takes to make your wedding day (because it's yours too, sort of) a special/memorable one for your bride. ;-)

My husband and I were blessed to win a FREE wedding which included Diane George of Covenant Weddings as a wedding coordinator. Since a coordinator wasn’t in our budget, we hadn’t planned on hiring one and we really didn’t know what to expect from her at first. Well, we quickly found out how extra blessed we were to have Diane George as our coordinator. We weren’t forced to work with her, but once I had a phone conversation with Diane I knew that we were going to work well together. The work that she does on behalf of the bride and groom is impeccable, from contacting vendors, scheduling and attending appointments, following-up with vendors, and much more beyond your expectations All-in-all she made our process easier and less stressful for sure. Diane is easily accessible via phone or email, day and night, and is quick to respond. It was to a point that we felt like we were the only couple she was working with, which we know wasn’t the case.  She answered all of our questions, and we had a lot! As with anything, there can be some miscommunication with vendors, and Diane would fight/advocate on our behalf as she could for what was right and fair based on what we were told would be provided. With a free wedding you would think that everything would have been smooth and easy, but there were some bumps along the way and Diane was there to assist us during those times. As a bride I wanted and was fortunate enough to have a very involved groom. There were times that he would talk to Diane before I would. So she is more than willing to work with your grooms with any questions they may have along the way as well. Our wedding day was beautiful and of course some minor things happened that we were able to laugh with Diane about later. However, she was good about not letting me know anything so that I would not be stressed on wedding day, and for that I’m thankful. We also can’t submit this review without acknowledging her staff that also assists in making the wedding day go smooth. My husband would like to especially thank them as they decorated our wedding night suite to perfection as a surprise to me.
Lastly, we have learned that if you are looking for a wedding coordinator you should click with him/her on a personal level to ensure that wedding day and everything up to that point is relatively flawless. Diane is a very professional, yet fun and loving person and we can say that after this process she is and will continue to be a friend. For example, we made sure that she was invited to our rehearsal dinner as a guest, not the wedding coordinator, so she could meet our closest family and friends, and we also presented her with a gift as a token of appreciation along with our bridal party. THANKS COVENANT WEDDINGS!

Thank you to Ms. Diane George /Covenant Weddings for a perfectly flawless wedding day!
Upon meeting Diane I knew, without a doubt, she was the planner to go with. Her knowledge, experience, patience and flexibility won me over and she didn't disappoint with her personality either, we clicked upon meeting. She was patient with me, answering all the questions I had, and as a bride I had tons. She took all my phone calls and came out with me on vendor visits...we really appreciated that. We were also very happy with the vendor referrals that she provided us, and choose the majority of vendors based on her referrals. It helped us a lot not having to spend extra time researching vendors. We just did our leg work based on a list already provided. We were happy with all our vendors especially with our florist, baker and videographer. Our wedding day was beautiful and so was our reception....I would do it all over again!
It meant a great deal to us having you to help us begin this sacred chapter in our lives because your spirit was sent to us to get us on this covenat journey...for that, we are eternally grateful.

We love you!
Carolin & Sean
April 3, 2010

Dianne was excellent. Dianne took the time to listen to my requests and where there was room for interpretation she asked questions so she was assured she fully understood my desires. As you know every bride is filled with anxiety and excitement and I was no different. What I loved about Dianne, was she knew how to make me focus when I became anxious. The wedding ceremony was memorable. I did not worry about a thing on my special day because of Dianne's efforts and attention to detail. Wedding days are special and I am thankful that Dianne made sure it was my special day.

Diane is perfection personified. The goal for our wedding day was simple - find someone that we could entrust for the flawless execution of every detail of what was one of the most important days of our lives. And Diane did just that - actually, she did so much more than that. From wedding day suggestions and etiquette, to vendor coordination, to the rehearsal, to wedding day execution, Diane was on it. No detail was left unattended. Even now, we are unable to tell whether there was any problem whatsoever on the wedding day - if there was a catastrophe brewing, we didnt know it, because Diane handled it. We could spend our time focusing, not on vendors, but on each other, which is the actual point of the wedding day. In addition, as we look back on the year-long planning for the actual wedding day, we can say that the process of planning was fun. Diane made the process fun, taking us step by step to ensure that we were always on target to meet the necessary deadlines, so we were not worn out at the end of it all. Diane is wonderful, and brides and grooms should consider themselves lucky if they have the opportunity to work with her.

My wedding was flawless because of the services provided by Covenant Weddings.

Diane and Covenant Weddings is the ABSOLUTE BEST in the business! Diane knows the wedding/event industry like the back of her hand. She was able to tell me average, (and realistic) prices for services and vendors, give me great ideas and handle all the details that I never knew even existed! Se had my wedding planned down to the minute all while taking my ideas and desires into consideration!!!
My wedding went off without a hitch (that I know of), was the most beautiful day of my life AND most importantly- was stress-free...all because of Diane and her wonderful staff.
My husband and I have nothing but the BEST memories of our BIG DAY!
DIANE and Covenant Weddings IS an A++++++++++++++++++++++ establishment!!!!!

I first stumbled across Covenant Weddings LLC through a search on the internet. I was automatically impressed with the website especially the pictures of other weddings Diane had coordinated. I was also quite impressed with her credentials. My then fianc? and I fell in love with Diane from the moment we met her. Her enthusiasm for weddings was contagious! We left our initial meeting extremely excited and ready to move forward with planning our wedding. Throughout the entire year that we worked with Diane we never once questioned her recommendations. She understood our vision, budget, and addressed any questions or concerns we had. I can say without a doubt that Diane has some great connections. The professional relationship that she has built over the years allowed us to work with some of the best vendors in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. My husband, my mom, and I all agree that our rehearsal as well as the wedding would not have gone as smoothly as it did without Diane and her staff's assistance. The day of, her team was extremely professional and took charge at the church coordinating the flowers, musicians, and bridal party. I will never forgot the moment my husband and I got a chance to view the reception site completely decorated. It took our breath away. We felt as though we were looking at a picture out of In style Weddings!! Ten months later we still receive compliments about how fantastic and fun our wedding was. The best decision we ever made was to hire Covenant Weddings LLC to coordinate our wedding!!

There are no words to explain Diane George's services but just awesome! She knows weddings like no other and that's so comforting for a first time bride. She was always accessible, professsional, and by the end of the wedding became a part of the family :). Our wedding had many different cultural aspects to it and she just went with the flow and made my wedding the most memorable event! I recommend a wedding planner for every bride, but it's key to have someone who can deal with vendors, opinionated family members/guests, and a nervous bride -- sometimes at the same time :). Loved her!!!

Diane is absolutely wonderful! She is very knowledgeable, well organized and helped keep everything in line the day of the wedding. Her and her staff were professional and courteous and I am sure our wedding would not have been such a success without them. She was there to calm us down when we were stressed with the planning and she really knew her stuff when it came down to the nitty gritty. It was so nice to not worry about anything the day of the wedding. All we had to do was sit back and enjoy our wonderful day knowing that we were in good hands. I can't say enough good things about covenant wedding. Trust me! You wont be disappointed

Covenant Weddings are extremely professional, detailed oriented, and truly know how to capture your dream of what you want your wedding day to be, and make it reality. You will never be disappointed in their level of service and their ability to go far above and beyond what you expect. Diane and her team are excellent!

~ N. Chapman

Covenant Wedding, LLC is well worth the money and you can pay on a payment plan, which was particularly useful for me. I would suggest, at minimum getting the day of service because my day went SO SMOOTHLY!!! I didn't have to think about any details from the time I woke until the end of the day. I was really able to enjoy my day and not worry about planning or working on my wedding day! My wedding planner provided a timeline for the day of the wedding and a detailed timeline for the reception over a month in advance of the wedding. Everything went as planned and the ladies from Covenant Weddings are true professionals and were a pleasure to work with. Diane is about the business and makes sure the job is done correctly!!!

Covenant Weddings also has many contacts with other vendors throughout the wedding business which is very useful. I would suggest still looking at your own vendors just to be sure you really get what you want. They can work with any vendors you choose because they are professional and they will be able to tell you if a particular vendor is reliable/quality.

The professionals at Covenant Wedding LLC helped ensure that my wedding day was PERFECT!!! The experienced and talented staff were professional and courteous and attended to the wedding party and guests every need. I had already heard great things about the company's services, and they far exceeded my expectations. As a result of nearly 20 years in the wedding industry, Diane George has a built great relationship with wedding vendors. She referred us to excellent vendors (e.g. photograhers, wedding cakes, receptions venues, and florists) who were with our budget.

I would recommended Covenant Weddings to any blushing bride who desires professionalism, excellent services, and knowledgeable staff who care. Thank you again Covenant Weddings for making my wedding day dreams a reality!!!

Diane was fantastic! We had a smaller wedding but a lot of vendors and logistics since it was actually in DC. We selected the day-of package that included great extras- I highly recommend hiring Diane and her staff to smooth out all the day-of issues. She was very reliable as the point person for vendors to contact- we just submitted our vendor info to her and she took it from there- that in itself was worth the cost- we could actually enjoy our wedding day! Diane is reliable, professional, and fun- a breath of fresh air!

Diane was terrific. I literally could not have done my wedding without her. In the middle of planning I made an international move and she was there to complete the entire event. The day of was perfect.

Diane George is such a professional; planning my wedding with Diane was such a delight. She has so much insight and referring me to her vendors saved me alot of money from the cake, uplights, seamstress etc... She was very patient & understanding to my needs and saw my vision from start to finish. My wedding day was perfect, no hiccups whatsoever thanks to Diane & her staff. We will forever be grateful; I'll refer Diane to every bride to be I come across from this point on because, I just can't say enough about Diane.

Thank you so much for seeing that my day went off without a hitch!
Love MIA & DRE
Wedding date 9/20/08

Diane was the wedding coordinator for my New Year's Day Wedding on 1-1-11. While searching for venues in the area, I always asked for wedding planner recommendations and Covenant Weddings always came up. So I gave Diane a call and we immediately clicked! We only had 4 months to plan. During this time Diane suggested great vendors, gave me useful ideas and provided moral support when things seemed overwhelming. My dream of an elegant, romantic, wedding by candlenight was executed perfectly. Diane and her team performed with excellency and my day would not have been the same without her.

I am sure Covenant Weddings has served its clients with the highest level of quality. Unfortunately, that was not the case with my experience with Covenant Weddings. The wedding planner was late to 99.9% of my meetings with my vendors. She recommended vendors who were out of our price range - she had not checked with them to see if the prices had changed. One of the vendors that I used made a mistake and another had a printer malfunction - this delayed me being able to send my invitations in a timely manner. The wedding planner also failed to confirm with my vendors my outstanding balances before the wedding. I had to scramble to write final checks at my reception. These are just a FEW examples of poor service that I experienced with Covenant Weddings. Had the ceremony gone smoothly, some of the things mentioned above could have been overlooked, but that too was a HUGE disappointment. Covenant Weddings did not bring its 'A' game to my wedding. The pricing structure is appealing, but I would consider going with another company. Don't be fooled by the years of experience on this one.

I typically don't rehash past events that have had a negative impact. I frankly don't see the point, especially in this case, seeing that our guests continue to rave about our wedding. But there are a few things I'd like to bring to the public's attention. While I realize that there are some variables in a wedding outside of the coordinator's control, there are key circumstances that should have been handled in a more professional manner.

Diane was late to practically all of our vendor meetings and wasn't always as detail-oriented as I would have expected. She would call and notify me of her tardiness, blaming traffic, even though we were coming from the same direction and traffic was clear for me only minutes prior. She'd say, "Well, I know YOU'RE there already." I tend to be on time for appointments, yes. She tended to push off her own ideas for my wedding instead of providing suggestions and support. If I wasn't so adamant about what I wanted, my wedding vision could easily have been lost in someone else's idea of what my wedding should have been.

At the chapel just prior to my arrival, guests were being seated. One guest expressed to me Diane's disposition and demeanor and how she spoke to people and mandated certain things. She exclaimed, “Why are all these people standing out here?” The purpose was understood, but others could sense her tone was aggravation. That, in my opinion, is a problem.

Diane allowed one of my vendors to control the entire wedding timeline. Our reception began an hour late because the vendor was in the reception room. Diane did nothing to prevent the vendor from delaying our reception, which was only 3 hours. She was, however, rude to the videographer and barked at her for taking my husband and me out for 3 minutes to get some shots in a small courtyard area, only steps away. Because of the vendor's delay, I had to cut out my father/daughter dance and rush through my reception events. I also found her talking and laughing with the vendor instead of focusing on the task at hand. The vendor caused us to be away from the reception for about 20 minutes. Again, Diane allowed the vendor to run the show. When we confronted her, she pretended as if she had no idea the disruption was a problem. The bride and groom's absence from their own reception is a major problem.

At the end of the night, Diane went over to my mother to notify her that her limo had arrived to take her home. Diane told my mother to hurry up and get up because her limo was outside. She was extremely rude and abrasive. Finally, I went around to the vendors and told them how much I enjoyed working with them and thanked them for their hard work. Diane stood nearby with a scowl on her face and interrupted the conversation with, "I'm waiting for you to say something about ME." Again, she was extremely rude and disrespectful.

After our wedding, I learned from the videographer that Diane asked to use the footage from my wedding for her website. I find this interesting seeing that she did not ask if that was okay with me or my husband. I'm also concerned that she will advertise my wedding and the decor as her work, when in actuality, I hand-picked every detail myself. She merely did what I told her.

Overall, Diane was generally helpful as a wedding coordinator and my wedding was beautiful, but I look at the minute details and the experience in its totality. She isn't any better than any other coordinator in the area, in spite of her rankings on www.theknot.com. Her attitude throughout the wedding process and the day of ended up overshadowing anything good she'd done. Unfortunately, I heard about her negative reputation after the wedding was over. I'm not convinced that she personally cared about me or my husband, but rather wanted to ensure the wedding's success for her own benefit. I cannot in good faith recommend her to anyone.


Update:

I recommended Diane to another bride at the venue a month out because at the time, I felt she was worth recommending, despite some of the red flags. I felt her attitude the day of the wedding eclipsed her competence up to that point. The reception was indeed late, 45 minutes late, at least. The cocktail hour was scheduled for between 6pm - 7pm. The wedding party arrived at the venue at 7pm and the guests were still in the cocktail hour, so it did not start on time. Guests were scheduled to enter the reception at 7pm, with the wedding party entering at 7:10pm. Clearly, we did not start on time. The vendor delayed the reception for at least 30 minutes after our arrival and it took an additional 15 minutes for the wedding party to get situated to enter the ballroom and be announced. The father/daughter dance was undeniably cut out of the program, and we moved quickly through the reception because it did not start on time. I did not request to be removed fro my reception. Diane was without a doubt rude to my mother, our hostesses and appeared irritated in front of our guests. This is not only from personal observation, but from others who witnessed her behavior, which was so bad that I was approached about it afterward. This leads me to believe that Diane does not work well under pressure. I was never 30 - 45 minutes early to vendor meetings. I would purposely wait outside in my car until 10 minutes before the meetings were scheduled to begin. I, without reservation, know that she was late to at least seven of my vendor meetings. On several occasions, the vendor would ask me, "Is Diane joining us?" She even offered to attend one of my vendor meetings which, by her own admission, would have made her very late for another bride's rehearsal. I suggested that she skip my meeting because a bride's rehearsal was much more important. This is just one example of her habitual tardiness.

Alway on point, by far one of the best coordinator I have ever worked with.
Darla
Darla...

We love working with Diane and where ever we do the wedding is so smooth, she takes care of everything. Every bride is so relaxed they know all the details have been worked out. Thank Diane for always making the day so easy.