Wishes! Wedding & Event Planning

Dear Krista,

We wanted to let you know what an Amazing job you and your entire staff at Wishes did at our April 28th wedding and reception! Thank you! You, Eric and Julie really know your stuff!

Our wedding ceremony was amazing and flawless! All of you did an awesome job working with our officiate to orchestrate an absolutely beautiful and meaningful ceremony at our favorite place on the Kirkland waterfront. Plus, our little "pre-reception" afterwards with the espresso cart we hired, that was fun! Our Reception at the hotel came off without a hitch. Everyone worked seamlessly like an incredible symphony. I could see all of you orchestrating the different parts from different corners of the room. We had so many of our guests come up to us during and after the ceremony to let us know that it was the best wedding they had ever been to. We agree! All of those thousands and thousands of little details paid off from the choices we made in vendors like your company, our officiate, the espresso cart, the venues, our magician at the reception, the band, our photographer and videographer, flowers, the cake, decor, photo prop booth, etc, to all the other many many many little details. It was all worth it!

Krista, because of your team, we were able to enjoy our entire wedding day, and relax! We took it all in and stayed "in the moment". We enjoyed every second of it. We enjoyed all of our loved ones gathered around us. We ate at our reception. We even danced. We just had the best time, and felt like it was a fairy tale and dream come true!

This whole wedding planning thing has been very time consuming and stressful, and Rick and I were very thankful we hired your staff for our "day of" planning services. You guys really pulled it off! It was great on the "day of" for me to finally let go, and be able to trust you and our wedding officiate to handle all of the details from that point on. You have all been very easy to work with from day one, and you always provided me with unique and creative ideas to make our event stand out. There have been so many details in this planning process, and it was great having you on the other end as my sounding board, to email at any time, to meet up with several times at the different venues, plus our rehearsal. You are very organized and we really appreciated that. You are also easy going and flexible, which was helpful in reducing my stress during this major planning part of my life. It's funny, because one of the things I promised myself after my previous marriage, was that if I ever did it again, I would NEVER plan my wedding on my own ever again! I would spend the money and do it right and take off some of that stress. At my previous marriage, I was so stressed out, I never even had a second to eat anything or enjoy our wedding day. My mind felt like it was going a million miles an hour! So many people I talk with who planned their own weddings tell me the same story. Well this time, I did it right and hired you! It seems it's always harder to convince the fiancé that a wedding planner is the right choice. Probably because he isn't as involved as the bride and doesn't realize all the stress that she is going through. Plus, he wants to save the money. But after I got Rick involved in the details during the last month of planning, and boy did I keep him busy, he said to me that the only thing he would change was to have hired your company as a "full service" planner, not a "day of" planner! (His opinion sure changed after he got involved!) I agree! Even though I am a super organized and detailed person, there is a ton of planning for the wedding couple or family to do even with a "day of" planner. It's a crazy time of life, of being up late that last month to usually 3:00 a.m. every night! At least it was for me, and It became my full time job! Of course, I only had 3 1/2 months to plan this wedding so that contributed heavily to our schedule! 2 years would have been ideal. One thing I realized through this entire planning process was, the details are the same. Whether it is a small, medium or large wedding, it doesn't matter. You still go through all the same motions and details!

Krista, we will not hesitate to recommend you and your staff to anyone we know who has an upcoming wedding or event. Thanks again to all of you for doing an incredible job on the planning and implementation of our wedding and reception!

Rick and Clare