Marianne N.
wrote:
My husband and I were married in April of 2019 at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden. When we were looking for a coordinator, we knew that the main challenges we faced with our wedding planning process were 1. We don’t live in Texas and 2. Our venue has a limited set-up window day-of. In addition to having experience with weddings at our venue, it was also important to us that our coordinator be creative, open-minded and detail-oriented. My husband and I are both trained as architects and we treated wedding planning like a design project. The most successful projects are the ones where your consultants / vendors are like-minded collaborators rather than just “hired guns” and 3 of Cups was the perfect match for us in this respect.
Jessica gave us room to be creative while helping us set realistic expectations for our ideas. She came up with the idea to do a tortilla toss for our exit since we had tacos at our dinner reception, which everyone loved! We also utilized 3 of Cups Floral + Design services, who completely knocked it out of the park with their gorgeous arrangements (probably still my favorite aspect of our wedding - shoutout to Coley who did all this while pregnant with TWINS). We used the 3 of Cups sound engineer and then added on a professional DJ for the dancing, an option which helped save us some cash and allowed us to be in control of our dinner and cocktail hour music.
Jessica’s flexible tiered packages worked out great for us and she was always conscious of our budget. Her collaborative remote planning sessions were incredibly efficient and FUN! Having a shared Google Doc was perfect for keeping everyone connected and accountable even from afar. I always breathed a sign of relief whenever we hung up the phone at the end of a session because I knew we were in good hands. Day of, Jessica had all the vendors in position at the starting line to set up in the allotted time. I really appreciated that she made sure my husband and I had a moment to ourselves to be alone and stuff our faces with QUESO (did you know you need queso at your wedding? You do.) The 3 of Cups team handled all of our details beautifully, following our obsessive architectural diagrams and problem-solved on the spot gracefully. Jessica was also wonderful with all our family - my dad to this day talks about how great she is whenever we talk about wedding day memories. She is an absolute joy to work with and I would recommend 3 of Cups to everyone.