Reviews of Elegant Events By Maria (Event Planner)

Ashley Price

Worst nightmare anyone could have while planning a wedding. Maria was hired by me and my husband of June 2018 for our wedding in September of 2019. After reading all the horrible reviews on the knot and wedding wire I should have stepped away then, but instead tried giving her the benefit of a doubt and continue to go forward with services. Maria appeared to be very convincing that she would be able to pull our vision off after first meeting with her and had us to believe that there would be no worries. Later that week we purchased her package which was around $1895 with a $350 deposit. I mailed my deposit to the address instructed by her and never recieved a call after a month had passed by. To summarize things up, I contacted her she act as though she never recieved anything. Made another deposit and have to her in person, did not hear from her until I contacted her, which continued on for over 9+ months! She would never contact me unless I contact her. We did majority of our booking and still had many other things that needed to be reserved with deposits. She then stopped answering calls,text and emails. When I finally would get in contact with her she would have an excuse that either she was sick or her entire house was sick with the flu on multiple occasions, then it led to she couldn't respond because she has no service... excuse after excuse... which led be to believe that our wedding was the least of her priorities. 6 to 5 months into our wedding she still had not helped with booking things or in contact with any of our vendors. She would not take the initiative to communicate about our wedding until I was able to get in touch with her. I would suggest to trust the horrible experiences that others have had with this scammer and find someone else. We were never returned our deposit by the scammer. Maria was fired about 4 months away from our wedding. BTW, there were also vendors who told us other brides had the same issues with her. Luckily we were able to find a terrific wedding planner who made our dreams come true!

Pickie Tudman

I would highly recommend you for any engagements hosted by you. Your professionalism and standards are above excellent. Your service was hired for my daughters upcoming wedding and although we had not met you came highly recommended by the brides sister. She assured me that you would go above and beyond to make this day a very memorable one, and that the brides guests would be very impressed with your presentations and displays. Everything was more than anyone could expect. The food was prepared and presented in the most delightful way. The decor was remarkable. The best part was the pride that you and your staff showed during the whole event. Thank you for your services and I would definitely recommend you to my friends. Pickie Tudman

Elaine Sarris

Hiring Maria for my daughter’s wedding was the best decision!!!! Maria helped my daughter have the wedding of her dreams! She enabled all of us to have the most enjoyable and perfect wedding day without having to worry about anything the day of. During the planning process, my daughter and I encountered a few obstacles and decided to look into a wedding planner knowing that due to the size of the wedding (final count attending was 300!), we would most definitely need a day-of-coordinator. With Maria on our team everything was stress free. She attended vendor meetings and made phone calls when needed. The day of the wedding she started early in the morning and stayed until the very end. She went to the venue first thing in the morning to make sure it was getting set up as we wanted. After this she came to the house where the bride was getting ready and handled the photographer and videographer so that we could continue to get ready without having to deal with details. Next, she went to the church before us to make sure everything was in place for the ceremony. She was always one step ahead of us making sure it was a perfect day. Without her I do not believe that everything would have ran as smoothly and on-time. Maria made me so comfortable that I was confident the venue would look exactly as the bride had envisioned. Thanks to her, I was not worried at all that morning because I knew she had everything under control. It turned out even better than we had envisioned!!!! The look on my daughter’s and new son’s face as they walked into the ballroom for their first look was priceless. Many of our guests have said it was the best wedding they had ever attended. Words cannot express how amazing Maria is. If you want a magical day for your child and a wedding that you will be able to sit back and enjoy, take her on your team!

alicia greci

Maria and her team were INCREDIBLE! She handled coordinating all of our vendors and organized our ceremony for us! She wore so many different hats on the day of our wedding, and we wouldn't have had the wonderful day we did without her! She handled things that didn't go right with vendors and fixed every little detail before our dinner reception started! Our florist totally screwed up and only brought about a third of the flowers that we had ordered (TERRIBLE), and Maria fixed everything the day of! She re-put together all of our arrangements and went out and got the flowers we were supposed to have! If we didn't have her, our reception would not have been as beautiful as it was, and we are so so thankful! We had 40 tables at our dinner reception, so that was alot of work to get done in a short amount of time. She also completely put together a flower wall for our sweethearts table and it was stunnnnnning! we are so glad we got to work with her and her team, absolutely recommend her for anyone in the Cleveland area! thank you so much maria!!!!

yiannoula sarris

Hiring Maria was the best decision I made after saying Yes to my fiancé in this whole wedding process. She made sure that I enjoyed my whole wedding day. I was not bothered by anyone and everything ran smoothly. Even on our wedding day, she personally delivered Mitchells Icrecream (one of our vendors) to me as I walked off the dance floor. Before the wedding we hit quite a few road blocks and with just one phone call, she takes over and swoops in and saves the day every single time! My only regret is not bringing her on the day after I got engaged (had I known about it, I would have). She quickly becomes family and anticipates your needs the day of and during planning before you even realize you don’t like something or something is off. I constantly hear horror stories of people not enjoying their wedding days… My whole family and I can’t say we experienced that. The whole day was a blast because Maria made sure everything went off with a hitch. Don’t even think twice about it, just hire Maria now.