Reviews of White Ivy Events: Artful Wedding Planning and Design (Event Planner)

Cara Iyengar

Wow. Hiring Amanda from White Ivy was the best decision we made in our wedding planning process. I'm a social worker and I would always joke that Amanda is just that-- a bridal social worker. She kept us calm, helped us navigate everything and solved our problems. Amanda helped us smoothly navigate planning our Tamil-American hybrid wedding. Amanda was consistently patient and flexible and willing to learn right along with us. She is worth every penny and you will not regret hiring her!

Joyce Z. Schnieders

Amanda and her team provided huge help for our wedding! These girls were very responsible and efficient. It was very nice working with them.

Nichole Sly

I was really hesitant to get a wedding planner. I'm a very organized person so I wasn't really sure if I wanted to spend the extra money but now that it's all said and done, hiring Amanda was easily the best decision I made throughout the whole wedding planning process. Amanda is so organized and easy to work with; she was able to come up with affordable alternatives and help make my visions come to life. The day of our wedding was so perfect, literally not a single thing went wrong the whole day. Worth every penny!!

Chris Depoian

My wife and I were booked by White Ivy Events to play live music for a wedding reception. Working with Amanda on the details leading up to it was easy and clear-cut. Not only did everything go smooth, but we had a great time. We hope to work with Amanda and her team again!

Avery Whitis

At the beginning of my engagement I was so excited to plan and wanted to do everything myself. My wise fiance (now husband) convinced me to look into hiring a wedding planner and it was the best decision we ever made. We found White Ivy online and read some outstanding reviews of Amanda’s work. We were fortunate to hire her early in the process of planning our wedding. Amanda and her team are AMAZING. I cannot praise them highly enough. Amanda is organized, efficient, creative, calm, and extremely good at what she does. Throughout the planning she helped us come up with creative ideas to help blend our Indian/American wedding into one seamless, beautiful event, while staying budget conscious and organized. She recommended all the vendors for our ceremony and reception and they were all absolutely fantastic. The day of the event I didn't worry about anything- I just followed her detailed timeline and she handled the rest. The family joke was that the wedding hashtag should be #AskAmanda because she literally attended to every detail. During a moment of panic when the clasp of my wedding dress broke right before I walked down the aisle, she calmly troubleshooted options and ended up somehow fixing it with a ziptie from her emergency kit. I'm sure there were probably ten other panic moments that happened, but I honestly didn't hear about them. Amanda handled it. We were so lucky to have her on our team. The day would not have been the perfect, wonderful, dreamlike wedding day that we got to experience if she hadn't been there. Amanda, you are amazing- thank you so, so, so much for all of your hard work.

Jessica

I've never thrown a wedding reception type party before and certainly not from afar. Once I realized just how much work it was going to be trying to plan a 50th wedding anniversary party for my parents in Iowa - all the way from Texas - I went in search of an event planner. I'm so thankful I found Amanda. She went above and beyond and helped make sure the event was truly unforgettable! I can't thank her and her team enough!!

Dalton Storm

White Ivy is hands down the best in the business. I've been involved in roughly 30 weddings over the past 4 years and Amanda was the easiest/most enjoyable to work with without a doubt. Basically a guarantee your day will be stress free.

Priya Kapoor

I hired Amanda to be the day-of coordinator for my sister's wedding. The positive: She did a good job prior to the wedding, primarily because she had worked at the venue before, on what decorations to use, the # of seatings that we needed to adjust for, lighting catering, which was great. The negative: Her team really fell short of expectations on two areas: 1. managing expectation on costs and 2. day-of coordination, the reason I hired her. For expectations, she quoted us very expensive costs, such as posters being 150 dollars, linen rentals at 400, simple lighting at 1400. It didn't seem like she was working in my sister's best interest for these elements. For day-of, she really missed the mark. The groom saw that there was a hold up at the food line and jumped in. Amanda and team her sat at the tables that oversee the wedding, saw it, and did nothing. I spoke to her about it after, she said she "assumed" that he wanted to help because he knew who was vegetarian. She should have known that detail. Even someone had come up to a person working at the venue and said "Are you wedding coordinator?" which was a real indication that it wasn't Amanda and her team really coordinating or really doing anything to be fair. She didn't set up meetings in advance, she played a highly passive role to an event I expected much more. Suffice to say, I wouldn't recommend her. We discussed it after and while she was apologetic, I got a lot of excuses. This is clearly a passion but she should explore how to make it a better business.

Shannon

This summer I have been invited to 9 weddings. I could tell a huge difference between the wedding planned and designed by White Ivy Events from the other weddings I have been to. The wedding was flawless! There never seemed to be an awkward gap in time or a decoration out of place. The venue was beautiful, the food was delicious, and the bride was flawless. Thanks White Ivy Events for helping create such a beautiful celebration for my friends!

Jacqueline Otting

Amanda is absolutely lovely. She is kind, prompt, professional, and supportive. Her poise is what makes her such a gracious help on your wedding day. She always had a clear answer for any question we had. She took care of EVERYTHING. I recommend her services to anyone. Her team on wedding day were so helpful, kind, and fantastic. They kept reminding me, "Today is your day! Just have fun!" Amanda picked up all of our decor and supplies the day before the wedding. She then set everything up on the day of our wedding with her team. One of her interns drove us and the photographer around for photos so none of our family had to. During our wedding, she was such a lovely, kind, calm face making sure everything ran smoothly behind the scenes. That night, her and her team packed everything up and brought it to our home. She encouraged my husband and I to just enjoy the rest of the night and do whatever we wanted. I can't say it enough. She is amazing. She is so good at her job! Her price is fair. Her abilities to keep records, maintain budgets, contact vendors, do the work that I didn't want to do, was so, so worth it. I loved having her as my wedding planner and I will always suggest her services.