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Today’s review comes from Rocktsrgn of her wedding planner, Circle of Love Weddings in Georgia!

In short: Daria was the BEST decision we made with regards to our wedding. She pulled this crazy mess together and helped us have the wedding of our dreams. Also, if you’re considering a DOC and worried about your budget, please know that Daria’s fee was a full 10% of our budget, but was 100% worth it.

In long: From our first meeting, my mom and I (my co-planner) were enthralled with how organized and how VERY detail-oriented she was. We were only able to hire her as a day-of coordinator, but from the very beginning, Daria was sending me checklists, to-do lists, references, and was always available for consultations. She kept our planning on track, and helped me feel like everything was under control. If I was behind with something, she would gently prod me to get started, and she was ALWAYS reassuring. For instance, about a month before the wedding, I was freaking out about all the things I still had to do, and Daria called at just the right moment. We talked for over an hour, and went over every.single.detail for the wedding (again), and she left me feeling like a rock star. Another example of her awesomeness: About a week before the wedding, I decided I wanted drinks served before the ceremony from a dispenser I had. I thought it would be pretty complicated and had almost talked myself out of it before I mentioned it to Daria. Thank goodness I did, because she just said “Oh, give it to me, and I’ll take care of it.” And she did! And it great to have, b/c the wedding day was HOT.

We had a garden wedding, in Georgia in May (unpredictable weather), at a venue that had never done weddings, and I was planning this from Arizona. Not to mention that I’m a bit of a controlling weirdo and kept throwing things at Daria like: “Here, can you line the aisle with these pinwheels?” “Do you mind if we have another extra 5 tables over here?” “Can you set up this bocce ball set?” (Oh, and her assistant Jamie (lovely person, by the way) set up a (faux)photo-booth for us, which was decided two weeks before the wedding, when I realized that I absolutely wasn’t going to get to that. And she did it for WAY cheaper than anything else I’d seen, brought all her props, background, and hung around taking goofy pictures of us all night. Anyhow, Daria carried it all off splendidly, despite my craziness. In fact, by the end, Mom and I decided that if I wasn’t marrying my love, and Mom wasn’t already married to Dad, we’d both probably want to marry Daria. The week before the wedding, whenever anything unexpected would come up (and it does, no matter HOW carefully you plan), we would just decide that Daria could handle it, and not worry about it. I have no idea how many wildfires we produced for her on the actual wedding day, because she absolutely didn’t tell me. In fact, she and my Mom tried to hide a potential disaster from me the week before the wedding. I found out (I’m pretty nosey), but by that time it had already been handled. THAT was pretty great.

Daria was VERY in control and hands-on with all of the planning, but when the actual wedding day came, she magically melted into the background, and managed to whisk things about and just took care of business while attracting no attention to herself. Seriously, I have no idea how this wedding would have happened without her guidance throughout the planning, hand-holding through freak-out sessions, direction of the rehearsal, and absolute control of the wedding day itself, not to mention that she didn’t leave until the place was clean! Also, just a few days after we returned home from our honeymoon, we received the sweetest wedding present from her! I kind of can’t recommend Daria enough. You can see the awesome results of Daria’s work on Style Me Pretty (search for “Garden Wedding in Georgia”), and if you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

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