Love Notes
REBEKAH & CARTER
"Marie is the best! We are so fortunate to know her as a friend and also as our wedding planner. Marie was a part of our planning process on day-one and truly kept us sane. From answering so many questions and keeping us on track to contacting several vendors and helping us navigate day-of changes a week before, Marie was with us every step of the way. Her professionalism and attention to detail (even finding my dad to make sure he took home a picture from our memory table) were remarkable. She has such a passion for curating weddings to meet the couple's needs and wants, and she helped us stay focused and excited when it all felt a little overwhelming. We love Marie and could not recommend her more!!"
LINA & JASPER
Marie is an extraordinary wedding planner. She is everything one would want in a planner: organized, adaptable, professional, kind, and fun to work with. We cannot recommend her highly enough.
Marie is highly organized. From day one, Marie gave us peace of mind by setting regular meetings and laying out a month-by-month planning checklist tailored to our distinct needs. Our regular meetings were very helpful, encouraging us to stay on track and make important decisions. Even when we weren’t meeting, we trusted Marie to keep track of ever-changing details—from vendors to ideas for specific gifts for guests—and to take all steps needed to move our planning forward.
Marie is adaptable and excellent at navigating the unexpected. Wedding planning is stressful at the best of times and the unexpected is bound to happen. Marie adeptly helped us navigate a venue change
and a last minute change of one of our vendors. Marie rapidly pulled together replacement options, including additional members of her own team, that exceeded our expectations and turned out even better than our initial options. Our wedding was also intercultural, and Marie proactively learned about the different cultural traditions in order to help us integrate our cultures into the celebration. She was respectful and creative, helping all of the elements to integrate smoothly.
Marie is a top-notch professional. She is very well connected (to caterers, venues, vendors, etc), which greatly helped our planning efforts. Marie provided us with multiple options for various types of vendors and, where needed, conducted additional research and diligence to help us find vendors that met our budget and style. Marie met with vendors on our behalf and toured our venues (we lived far away), connecting us via FaceTime. We always trusted her to represent our best interests and bring key decisions to us. On the day of our wedding, Marie balanced coordinating both our large wedding party and a team of 10+ people. She was the perfect balance of assertive and kind—multiple family members and guests commented afterwards on how amazing she was.
Above all, Marie is kind and fun to work with. Throughout our year-long wedding planning process, Marie was incredibly generous with her time and efforts, going above and beyond to make our special day a success. As one example, we decided we wanted to buy over 300 glass hurricanes. To help us save costs, Marie helped us find and buy these on Facebook Marketplace, picking them up and storing them for us. Marie was always responsive to our messages and we genuinely enjoyed our regular calls. We will miss working with her.
In summary, Marie is an exceptional wedding planner and she has our highest recommendation.
ANGELA & JOSH
Hiring Marie was the best decision we made in our entire wedding planning process! She is attentive to the smallest details, very responsive, and a joy to work with.
Before our engagement, neither of us had given much thought to what we wanted from our wedding. We only knew that we wanted to get married somewhere near Charlottesville. Now that we lived in a different state and were both balancing busy work schedules, planning a Virginia wedding was a daunting prospect. Fortunately, Marie made it easy for us!
Marie walked us through every step of the process in our monthly planning calls. Her research on potential locations and vendors for our wedding was extremely helpful. She created a month-by-month to-do list for us, which helped us accomplish many critical tasks far in advance. At the same time, she was never pushy and never seemed to be stressed when we were occasionally slow to get things done. With Marie’s diligent assistance and friendly encouragement, we designed a wedding that felt authentic to us and fit within our budget.
Marie’s coordination of our wedding day was excellent as well. She helped us figure out some complex logistics (our venue was quite far from the Charlottesville hotels where most guests were staying), and shared them with our wedding party in a detailed, accurate schedule. She was very accommodating when we decided to make some last-minute changes about our send-off and afterparty plans. Our wedding day was worry-free and beautiful — it really was everything we dreamed of. Marie deserves much of the credit for that. We highly recommend her to any couple!
BRYN & NOAH
"Marie truly helped us through each step of the wedding planning process and not only acted as our planner but oftentimes my personal outlet for wedding stress and was a wonderful sounding board for ideas. She ensured that our day flowed perfectly from start to finish and despite impending rain, managed to keep me calm! She is organized, detailed, and passionate, and quickly became someone I knew I could trust to help me with the importance of my wedding. My husband and I cannot recommend her enough!"
ASHLEY & WILL
“Marie and her assistants were so on top of everything and got everything decorated perfectly. It looked better than I could have imagined. She tied up every loose end well before wedding day and just made the entire day so easy for not only my husband and me, but also our family. She was fantastic!
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We've had a couple friends get married recently and their coordinators made me really nervous. I am a total control freak and usually it would drive me NUTS not to oversee all the decorating and details but I was so relaxed and confident that Marie had it covered and everything looked so much better than I could have imagined. I was in total awe of how amazing everything looked. I would not have changed a single thing about it and am so glad I lucked out choosing Marie!"
"We absolutely loved working with Marie. She is amazing at problem solving on the spot. Anytime something came up, she didn’t stress out, she just calmly came up with a solution. She is incredibly sweet and feels like a friend but at the same time is able to be firm when she needs to be. She was right there when we needed something, but otherwise let us totally enjoy our day. She is incredibly detailed and meticulous in her planning. Along the way, she would send me updated to do lists so I knew exactly what needed to get done and when it needed to be done by. She broke down the overwhelming wedding planning process into bite sized pieces that we could manage. She helped me build and manage our budget, and she even helped us organize our décor before the wedding day. She asked me so many questions to make sure that we got the exact wedding that we wanted. We could really feel how much she cared about her job, and how much she wanted us to have an incredible experience. She helped us pull off our dream wedding day, and I recommend her to everyone I meet!"
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MELINA & MATT
“Next to marrying each other, having Heart and Soul weddings coordinate the events was the best decision we made on our wedding day; it was perfect, and we owe this entirely to Marie. Marie brings together the diligence of a project manager with in-depth industry expertise. She is poised, professional, detail-oriented, and –as the name suggests—contributes much heart and soul. She guided us from the beginning: She asked detailed questions, provided suggestions based on experience, brought our attention to things we hadn’t considered, always communicated clearly, and flexibly incorporated last-minute changes. She developed detailed timelines and took over communication with vendors a few weeks before the wedding, an immense relief!
Moreover, from planning to the actual wedding day, she advocated for us at every step (even when we asked her to extend the evening by 30 minutes so we could continue celebrating). She and her delightful team did everything as the wedding day unfolded: they lovingly set up decorations, they directed guests, bridal party, and photographers, and they ensured our needs were met. We could truly savor the day as a result. We both noted that we didn’t have to worry about a single thing and could just experience the euphoria of being with everyone we loved most.
At first, my husband was convinced that a day of coordinator was superfluous, but now he claims it was the most important investment we made in our wedding. If you are looking for a wedding coordinator, look no further. Heart and Soul Weddings will give you the wedding of your dreams!”
JESSICA & TIMOTHY
"Marie was the best investment we made into our special day. From the beginning, she put us at ease and we had complete confidence in her. Marie has fantastic attention to detail and a keen ability to manage all the aspects of the wedding planning process, including the planning timeline and our workflow as the bride and groom.
Not only was Marie easy to work with, a great communicator, and the most reliable vendor we worked with, she also is kind, caring, and empathetic - someone you certainly want by your side on the most important day of your life."
EMILY & WILLIAM
"I cannot begin to express how impressed we were with Marie and her team. Our wedding could not have been as amazing as it was without them. Right off the bat, Marie was extremely helpful in the planning process. She answered all the questions we had, ensured we had everything covered, was always there when we needed her, and was extremely detail oriented. She made sure that she understood our vision for our big day and went above and beyond in making our dream a reality. Marie and her team were so kind and hardworking and we could not thank them enough for all that they did for us leading up to the wedding and on the day of. If I could give her 100 out of 5 stars I would in a heartbeat. You can tell that Marie truly cares about those she works with and puts her heart into what she does. If you have a chance to work with her, please jump at the opportunity. You will not be disappointed!"
MEGAN & DONNY
"We cannot say enough good things about Marie. I will be honest, when I thought about wedding planning a wedding planner was a nice idea but a nonessential, but Marie shifted my perspective on that ENTIRELY. She’s the type of planner you want to make SURE you have. Marie went above and beyond anything I imagined. She got every single detail of the day down beforehand including what we wanted to eat from our buffet and what flavor cupcakes and what drinks, so we didn’t have to lift a finger. I attended a wedding recently and it made me ALL the more thankful for Marie (which I didn’t even think was possible because we’re already so thankful for her) because I realized just how much she took care of! My husband and I said over and over that we felt like we were just crowd-surfed through the day! We didn’t have a single care in the world because Marie took care of it and all we felt was LOVE. I didn’t even remember my timeline day of and everything flowed without a hitch. Our families also adored her because of how prepared, professional and on top of everything she was and have been recommending her like crazy ever since our wedding day."
"I started my search for a Day of Coordinator over a year prior to my September 2019 wedding. Since I am often labeled a planner, I assumed I really only needed someone to show up the day of the wedding to hold a clipboard and run through my day that I had spent almost two years planning. On my first call with Marie I was amazed by her professionalism and her knowledge of weddings with only a few under her belt. Her price was extremely reasonable and I felt a level of trust you don’t always get with wedding vendors.
Throughout the next year Marie reached out every month to check in on things and gather details so that I wasn’t bombarded right before my wedding with a million questions. In the five months leading up to the wedding we met with Marie in-person twice and every time I liked her more and was reassured on our choice to have her as our coordinator. I also soon realized the amount of work that planning a wedding and coordinating with so many vendors is – Without Marie I probably would’ve been a mess. She came by our venue a few months out to get a lay of the land and really educated my husband and I on things we overlooked – even down to helping when we made a bad decision on rehearsal dinner location.
Tyler & Nick
The day of our wedding, all of my vendors knew where and when to be there because Marie had called everyone prior to the wedding and gave each vendor a detailed timeline of the day. She dealt with a vendor who caused some issues by not complying with the plan. She kept her composure, handled the situation, and kept me calm (which isn’t always easy to do). She spent hours the day leading up to my wedding helping me decorate and went over and above on clean up that night.
Overall, I can’t thank Marie enough for the amount of effort she put into my wedding. She was critical to the day going so smoothly even with the bumps we experienced. She allowed my husband and I to have such a wonderful day without any stress and let us be at ease knowing we had so much confidence in her.
It’s rare for a wedding vendor to go beyond what’s in the strict outline of a contract, but please know that Marie is going to do everything within her power to make sure your wedding day is perfect, regardless if it’s written out. She takes her job seriously and she is extremely passionate about what she does. You will not regret hiring Marie to help with your wedding!"