The Ultimate Impresario! We had a wonderful experience working with Zerlene as our wedding planner! She worked tirelessly for a year and a half to help us plan, design and execute three wedding events over two weeks. We truly could not have done it without her.
Zerlene encouraged us to be ourselves, to be comfortable, and to have fun during the planning process and our wedding events, all while providing exceptional service and professionalism. She helped us balance multiple family traditions, religious and cultural backgrounds, while planning a wedding that truly reflected us as a couple and facets of our individual personalities. When we found ourselves stuck on specific details or encountered logistical/scheduling dilemmas, she came to us with viable options and solutions and worked with us to solve any problems that arose. Furthermore, she answered and followed up on any and all questions we had.
Zerlene has a project management background which helped keep us on schedule, on budget, and factored in all the moving parts for the scheduling and itineraries of our events. She checked in with progress updates and at times gave us necessary “reality checks” which helped us to prioritize our needs and wants…to the point of us at times making difficult but necessary decisions. It is so easy to get caught up on minor or specific details; Zerlene helped us to see the big picture. She kept us focused on items or vendors most appropriately suited to our budget and needs that could also give us what we wanted. We never felt pressured to create “her vision” to advance her career or to get her work in a bridal magazine. Her work is worthy and is of that calibre, but our wedding was important to her because it was important to us.
Zerlene streamlined the legwork we did to seek out vendors so we wouldn’t be inundated and confused, giving us a short list to initially contact and consider before moving on to others. She attended vendor meetings, and reviewed or helped negotiate every contract. She is experienced, well connected, has a growing number of contacts in the industry, and works well with other vendors. The result? Beautiful, memorable, well-coordinated and executed events filled with subtle, special touches our guests continue to rave about!
It was so much fun to work with Zerlene because of the energy and creativity she brings and the passion she has for what she does. She helped alleviate the stresses of wedding planning, particularly when things did not go according to plan. No one had any idea that things were not all as they should be, such as when one of my bridesmaids could not attend last minute due to illness and my father could not walk me down the isle because he got hurt an hour before the ceremony. She thought quickly on her feet and adjusted the procession, thought of a way for my dad to give me away how he could, ran last minute errands when items were misplaced or forgotten, and worked with us and the officiant to contingency plan and tweak the ceremony if necessary.
We look forward to working with you again for other events and won’t hesitate to recommend you! You are a truly gifted, organized, experienced, efficient, proficient, creative wedding planner and a consummate professional. Our wedding was better because you were an instrumental part of it. Your presence truly added something special to our day. Thank you so much, Zerlene, for helping us create wonderful memories we will cherish for years to come!
Sincerely,
Sophie and Doug Myles
