Emily Katherine Events is one of the best wedding planning companies in Durham. Emily Katherine is the founder, chief wedding planner, and mischief manager of Emily Katherine Events, with more than 7 years of experience. Emily's passion for weddings arose while she was planning her own. Emily Katherine Events provides the best event planning and day-of coordination so that their customers can enjoy the planning process and experience their event as if they were guests. She has knowledgeable staff to provide exceptional service. Their team specializes in creating custom celebrations that reflect each couple's love and shared passions. They offer complimentary pre-wedding consultations and unlimited email and phone consultations for their full-service clients. They also provide planning services for other parties and events. Emily Katherine Events creates events that showcase the passions of their clients while focusing on reducing their environmental impact.
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EMILY KATHERINE EVENTS REVIEWS
Emily is worth her weight in gold. She provides unparalleled support at all phases of the wedding planning process. Her kind demeanor, creativity and patience were exactly what my wife Jenny and I needed navigating planning our wedding during COVID. We both appreciate her attention to detail and her efforts towards incorporating positive environmental and social change, such as donating our leftover flowers to a local homeless shelter and using bio-friendly transportation for our guests. During the day of our wedding, we were so impressed with her organizational skills and her ability to handle potentially stressful situations with grace and focus. We truly did not worry about a thing on the day of our wedding and for that we are grateful to Emily. We would highly recommend Emily to anyone that is looking for a wedding planner. Emily will help you realize and execute your vision for your wedding and you will be relieved that you have her the day of your event. We won't need it, but we would gladly work with her again in the future.
I could not have been happier to work with Emily and I’m so thankful the venue required a coordinator. I do not know how we would have managed all the final details leading up to the wedding, much less all the moving pieces without Emily (and Eva). Emily took so much pressure and stress off of us, all the while taking care of additional details such as environnemental considerations. Emily also used very inclusive language throughout the planning process, which while we are a straight couple, was important to know that ALL our guests would be affirmed throughout the evening. I would highly recommend Emily to anyone looking for a full planner or a month of coordinator. Truly fantastic!
We couldn't be happier to have hired Emily Katherine Events for our wedding! Emily is an invaluable resource, and extremely organized and responsive with all of the moving parts in weddings. Our wedding could not have gone smoother! We also appreciate her passion for eco-friendly options. I even heard from a wedding vendor at one of my best friend's wedding that Emily is one of the top planners/coordinators that they love working with. We highly recommend Emily Katherine Events to any engaged couple!
A Swanky Affair is one of the well-known wedding planner companies in Durham. Amanda is the proud owner of A Swanky Affair, who has won The Best of Durham award for eight years running. From planning gorgeous weddings to bar/bat mitzvahs, she has experienced everything. She has helped over 250 brides, grooms, and parents successfully pull off the event of their dreams. Amanda's passion is to get to know her clients and their personality. She takes pride in her clients and her portfolio are very diverse. A Swanky Affair specializes in wedding and event coordination in Durham, North Carolina, and the surrounding Triangle region. A Swanky Affair provides clients with custom designs for every detail from start to finish. A Swanky Affair builds a kind event that is remembered for a lifetime and flawlessly executed events. They specialize in full-service coordination, event design, and day-of production for social and corporate events.
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Amanda is simply the best! We started working with her in early 2020 for our January 2021 wedding. We thought the world would have recovered from COVID by the time our wedding rolled around, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Amanda took the re-scheduling in stride and was able to move every single one of our vendors to our new date in November 2021. She was always two steps ahead of us with anything we would need to anticipate, and kept in contact with us through frequent emails, texts, calls, and Zoom meetings. Amanda has incredible connections with vendors in the Raleigh/Durham area - she always presented the best three options to us for each vendor type so we could pick what we liked, and then she set up all the meetings. She walked through every step of planning (twice!) and we loved each minute of working with her. Beyond Amanda's connections and organization skills, she is so kind and personable. She was excited with us as we grew closer to our wedding, and really empathized with us through all the changing of plans. Despite her having many other clients, it always felt like we were a priority to her. We are forever thankful for her hard work. Our wedding was pulled off flawlessly, we couldn't have asked for more!
If you're looking for a wedding planner and/or coordinator, look no further than Amanda. She is simply the best. We met Amanda in 2019 for the first time to meet about our (originally) summer 2020 wedding at Bay 7 in downtown Durham. She saw us through a complicated postponement towards the beginning of the pandemic and was able to reschedule in such a way that we could keep all the vendors we had booked. All of our vendors were excited to hear that Amanda was our planner because they know that she is a professional who knows how to pull off an event with a great attention to detail. Amanda is incredibly organized and kept us and all our vendors on track. Many times I called or emailed her with a new concern I had just thought of, and she always had already seen around the corner and solved the issue. She coordinated between all our vendors flawlessly and the event was truly beyond our dreams. Because of the postponement, we were wedding planning for about two years with Amanda and it feels weird to not have a reason to speak to her! She becomes a part of the family and we cannot recommend her enough.
I was a “covid bride” so I had a long journey with Amanda in 2020 and into 2021 where the big day finally happened! Amanda was AMAZING throughout it all! She is extremely professional, talented, and very knowledgeable of wedding planning and making sure things go smooth and perfect for your big day! If you are looking for a wedding coordinator, seriously look no further, A Swanky Affair is THE ONE! You won’t regret it!
Sabrina Seymore Events is a full-service planning company that helps clients with all aspects of the planning process from inception to execution. Sabrina Seymore is the respectable owner of Sabrina Seymore Events who is also a Certified Wedding and Event Planner. She earned her Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy in liberty university in 2010-2012. She specializes in individual and corporate events planning at all ranges of uniqueness and complexity. Her planning team is creative, detail-oriented, organized, and most importantly-experienced. They creates an event suitable for their client’s personality and lifestyle. The company collaborates with highly recommended vendors to ensure the best quality and perfection during their event. The team provide ideas and expertise to create the perfect atmosphere for their occasion. They are very detail-oriented, stylish, organized, and, most of all, creative. They focus on providing a unique service to their customers.
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Sabrina was amazing. She made my 50th Birthday Celebration the talk of the town. I was thoroughly impressed with her professionalism, expertise, recommendations, and assistance throughout the planning and the executing of my special day. I wanted to not worry about anything the Day of the event, just show up and enjoy. She made all that happen. Everything went off without a hitch, was so perfect and Beautifully decorated! She made everything look just like I imagined and assisted me in finalizing anything I didn't think add. Loved it and so did all my guest. They are still talking about it and posting pictures. I have already started recommending her to all that ask who my event coordinated was for my 50th Birthday. She is very good at what she does, and she has an excellent team to help her. Thank you Brienna for all you do. :-) Definitely would use her again in the future. Thank You. :-)
We couldn’t have pulled this day off without Sabrina Seymore Events. I highly recommend hiring Sabrina and her team if you want your day to go smoothly. They are very professional and Sabrina has a very calm demeanor that helped me through several panic attacks while planning my wedding. Thank you.
Sabrina and her crew were the best! Very professional and helpful in every aspect of the wedding. She and her company made our day just as special as it was!