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Once Upon A Time Events is an exceptional husband-and-wife Event Stylist, Event planning and coordination company based out of Frederick, Maryland. Owners and lead event planners, Saprena and Greg Brown, offer their professional event planning services to couples in order to help transform their wedding day dreams into a reality. This team offers you a number of planning packages, ranging from extensive full-event planning to their day-of coordination option with partial planning in between. Depending on your preferred level of professional assistance. Saprena and Greg will assist you with all of the crucial aspects of your wedding day including venue selection and catering options, to the smaller, stylistic, decor-related details that will help you place your own personal creative thumbprint on your event.

Services Offered
Once Upon A Time Events is determined to help couples achieve the fairytale wedding they’ve always dreamed of having, catering to their specific needs throughout the planning process. This duo offers couples a number of special services to make their wedding planning experience as smooth as possible, from their rehearsal dinner to their reception party. Some of their services include:

  • Budget analysis
  • Event Styling
  • Floral Escapes
  • Timelines
  • Scouting
  • To-do lists
  • Vendor referrals
  • Rehearsal dinner planning
  • Ceremony planning
  • Reception planning
  • Black-owned
  • Hispanic or Latinx-owned
  • Native American-owned
  • Veteran-owned
  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$1,100

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$3,800

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$6,000

Do you offer an hourly rate?

Yes

What is the hourly rate?

$225

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Day-of Coordination
Full Planning
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Cultural
Destination
Elopement
Eco-Friendly
Military
Non-Religious
Religious

How many planners are on your team?

2

Reviews of Once Upon A Time Events, LLC

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Tanya
Tanya P. Sent on 10/11/2020
5 out of 5 rating

Wedding vision brought to LIFE!!!

Saprena & Greg are wonderful. We selected them for their décor services and made our wedding day absolutely gorgeous. They were both such a pleasure to work with and made decorating our space so easy. I made so many changes and very frequently but they were not hazed and happy to help my husband and I create our vision. I loved the amount of variety they had in their stock. If they did not have what I pictured, Greg could make it, which is so cool! Saprena was always on top of showing me pictures and communicating anything she needed, making the decoration one of the easiest parts of our wedding. Thank you Greg and Saprena.
Amber
Amber D. Sent on 09/19/2024
1 out of 5 rating

Very unprofessional and lazy wedding planners.

I think I dodged a bullet. Saprena will promise you the moon and not deliver. I booked saprena and Greg and immediately had a amazing connection. They made many promises that weren't rendered. They said we would talk on the phone or face time at least once month and closer to the wedding once a week. I would send them messages and they would tell me I would have to email them and it would take a week for simple responses. Saprena made a deal with me said she would do all my florals in exchange for 2 of my very exspensive flower arrangement stands and that we could trade any other stands I buy or any other decor i buy for other services that she does. I was so excited for her to do my florals well months go by with very little communication me finding all my own vendors. I message her about the florals she tells me she is only goin to do flowers on those 2 stands I'm thinking if that was what you ment in the beginning when we made the deal why didn't you send me a proposal for the rest of my florals? I sent her screen shots of our conversation when we talked about the deal months prior. She then says we'll I don't even need your stands anymore I bought so many this summer. So I told her then find me a florist. I emailed her asking for a list of my vendors and the budget sheet she tells me she isn't goin to keep going through her stuff to find my wedding information. Then I send her a few more messages days later asking for the same information that I yet to get from her and she sends me a email saying she is terminating our contract and isn't giving me any money back. I have sent her about 6 emails asking for that same information and she has yet to give it to me. I now believe she never made a budget sheet or payment schedule or even made a list of vendors. They are very unprofessional and total let down. I feel like I have been failed. But at the same time I dodged a bullet by finding out 9 months ahead of the wedding instead of getting all the way to the week of the wedding to find out she was only going to complete 2 tables.

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