Mindy S. Sent on 10/10/2023

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Highly recommend

Every event needs Oc events. I will highly recommend to all of my brides. Professionalism all the way through.

Katelyn Sent on 03/28/2018

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Orlynda Carter is and amazing wedding planner! She is so sweet and professional! Orlynda has definitely taken a lot of stress off my shoulders by taking things into her own hands and planning our special day! We love Events by OC! Thank you Orlynda, for everything!

Events by OC's reply:

Thank you Katelyn for the sweet words! You and Garrin are fantastic! Thank you for allowing me to have the most beautiful day of your lives in my hands!!

Kati R. Sent on 02/15/2019

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Great Service!

I got married on 2013 and Orlynda did a wonderful job at coordinating. She attended our rehearsal so we could get a rundown on ceremony/reception timelines and everything was planned perfectly. She had our entire ceremony and reception down to a tee! She even showed up early to help decorate/set up and stayed late to clean up. She helped us cut/serve the cake as well as coordinate where people needed to be for any sort of task. She was very professional and I have to say, she took a lot of stress off of me. I highly recommend Orlynda and don't have a single complaint!

Aaron Sent on 10/23/2018

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Look Elsewhere

Quality of Service: (2/5) Overall, the quality of service was not very good. The pre wedding coordination and meetings placed my wife and I In a good spot. We believed that the event would be handled efficiently and in an organized manner. All vendors and venues were booked by my wife, so we needed a coordinator to facilitate the wedding flow of events, and assist with setting the wedding up. After the pre-wedding meet-ups, my wife, myself, and Orlynda were all on the same page. We discussed that we needed someone with the ability to delegate, and direct people on where to be, and when to be there. However, on the day of the wedding, none of that happened. In addition to being 5-10 minutes late, there were multiple times throughout the day when Orlynda looked lost, behind the timeline, and unable to delegate tasks to the 7 friends we had helping set everything up.
Whenever an issue would arise, instead of just handling it, she would present the issue to either myself or my wife, rarely with a solution. Throughout the entirety of the day, there were multiple times when our caterer had to save the day with small issues that popped up. During set up, we had hoped that she would keep us to our very detailed timeline (that we drafted). However, luckily I looked down at my watch, and realized that we had very little time remaining before the wedding to get dressed and ready to go (we set up in work clothes, with the plan to get dressed long before the wedding). During our photo period, Orlynda hung back inside the venue building, while all wedding guests proceeded to the photo area. At one point, one of our good friends realized that she was not doing much, and had to direct friends to complete tasks. Long story short, we needed a bulldog to help us get through this day.
During all of our pre-wedding meet-ups, she assured us she would be that bull dog. However, when the day finally came, she communicated about as well as a church mouse. Throughout the rest of the day, our family continuously asked what she did, and we had a very hard time answering them.

Responsiveness: (2/5) Orlynda was very responsive to calls and text messages from what I understand. The reason why she was rated a 2/5 is because she was not all that responsive during the actual wedding day. Perhaps she was having an off day, but her communication skills were zero star performance.

Professionalism: (3/5) Orlynda was mostly professional. The only issues we had with professionalism was her being 5-10 minutes late, as well as not solving issues as they came up. Even when she did bring an issue up to us, she did not offer solutions, making things very difficult.

Value: (1/5) I would absolutely never pay for this service again. We paid 250$ for day of coordination. I believe we would have been better off hiring just keeping that money, and doing the whole day of coordination ourselves, or asking a friend to help us out (which unfortunately one of our friends eventually had to).

Flexibility: (1/5) Orlynda was flexible in that she offered to provide a speaker, as well as some decor the day of the wedding. However, like most weddings, timelines tend to shift rapidly. When that happens you need someone who is able to cope with these shifts, as well as adjust and delegate to get back on schedule.

Recommendation:

If you are looking for wedding coordination in the OKC area, I would highly recommend you search elsewhere.

Events by OC's reply:

Aaron, again, I am very sorry you felt this way.
As I told Rachel and you many times we were on schedule. You had a very small intimate wedding. There wasn’t much to do.
I was helping with the set up until you frantically 5 minutes before actual time to rehearse said we needed to move. I assured you we were fine but you insisted on that we go ahead and do it.
You and Rachel had ample time. Rehearsal only took 5 minutes, like I had said it would bc you and Rachel said that you weren’t doing any unity or own vows. It was very short and sweet.
I also, asked your officiant to make announcements about the Photography and about brunch being served. That is usually what the officiant does, and he agreed too.
Delegating like my job says to do for you. When you said to me “ He didn’t mention brunch being served and everyone needed to move” I think I stepped up and went to the front and made the announcements.
I also walked outside afterwards and told everyone where pictures were being done, and then started the clean up.
I needed not to go where pictures were being done, your photographer was to delegate that proportion bc that’s their job.
When you and Rachel got back, I told you to go change, I had it handled and not to ruin your good clothes.
Im sorry you felt dis shoveled on your day, but I was also watching my watch and making sure we were on schedule. When I heard you say to your mom that they had to leave early I turned and said would you be okay with moving up the family photos so your mom isn’t feeling rushed with pictures and you said “Oh that would be great.”

I can not control what the Conservatory does with their AC.
They told me when I went to ask about the shades that the AC turns off and on by itself and the shades could not be pulled bc they were on an automatic timer. I told you and the photographer this and you just said okay. I can’t make someone just magically turn it on and keep it on at all times.

I also asked you and Rachel to send me photos of your inspiration board of how you wanted it set up and I never got those, I asked Rachel on the day to send me those so she could go get ready and she told me No.
I tried my hardest to do my best, but I can’t set up how someone wants something when I don’t have photos of how you designed it yourself, to recreate it for you.

You were nervous on Sunday, I had assured you everything was taken care of and nothing else needed to be done.

Once again I am sorry you feel this way, but I think you intimate wedding went just great.

Rachel Sent on 10/23/2018

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Not what was promised throughout the meetings

Pros- Orlynda was extremely nice and made it on time to both of our pre-wedding meetings. She responded promptly to my emails and text messages. She even allowed us to use her speaker and some decor for the wedding. She had food ready for us after we took our pictures, and got us drinks throughout the reception. I didn’t get her the layout of the venue like I’d said I would, but she made it work without. We didn’t give her the music we wanted and she took care of it herself and everyone thought the music was good.

Cons- She lost her notebook from our first meeting and we had to start from scratch on the second meeting. She was 10 minutes late on the wedding day and didn’t dress nice. From the get-go she was behind. On the day that she promised to be a “bull-dog” and take care of everything, she was quiet, didn’t give any direction, and I felt extremely stressed out and let down. There was a lack of communication and it felt completely disorganized. At one point while my friends and I were trying to frantically set everything up, I saw her staring blankly into space as if she completely shut down. When there were issues (catering couldn’t find working electrical outlets), she panicked and I had to go ask the venue employee for help. When the AC shut off and it was getting hot during the reception, I had to go ask the venue employee for help. When things needed to be told to the guests, she didn’t step up. When I was getting ready and there were issues happening outside with boutonnières, I had to run around to find the fix. She came in to where I was getting ready and said she’s come back with 5 minutes to showtime, but when it was 3 minutes before the ceremony, my father had to come tell me it was time. When people were getting antsy and we could tell we needed to speed up the timeline because it was hot, and they ate quicker than expected, we had to facilitate a speedier timeline rather than her stepping up and handling it. When we didn’t have a knife for the cake, she seemed lost but luckily the caterer was on point and was already getting one before we could think. We all felt as if she was a hinderence more than a help on the day of the wedding. My guests thought she was another guest rather than the coordinator, and surprisingly they all thought the caterer was the coordinator. Not something you want to hear about the person who you paid to handle everything.

Overall, the meetings we had with her made us believe we had chosen the perfect person, but come the day of the wedding, it was a completely different story. She either just had a really bad day, or is really good at convincing people that she possesses skills she hasn’t quite mastered yet. We did fail to get her the picture of the layout we wanted, we forgot to give her music, and I’m sure there’s other things that we didn’t do. However, my friends, fiancé and I were there to provide help with set up and take down— something she said she could do on her own, but ended up desperately needing. Without that help, nothing would’ve been accomplished on time. We would’ve been better off keeping the money, and handling it all on our own. She needs more practice handling high stress situations, but I hope one day she can be the bulldog she promised she would be. So if you are thinking of hiring her, please proceed with caution. I’d hate to have what happened to us happen to you on your big day.

Events by OC's reply:

Rachel, I am very sorry that you feel this way. However, I was not made aware of the boutonniere situation. No one came to ask for help, I also went to the staff management about the shading inside the conservatory and the air conditioner. I told Aaron and the photographer that the shades could not be pulled bc they were on an automatic timer. And the AC turns on and off by itself. This is venue’s issue, not mine. I can’t just magically turn it on.
As for coming to get you five minutes before, I was on my way and y’all were coming out the door already.
Your timeline was moved up bc Aaron’s parents were leaving early.

As for the cake knife situation, I had explained to you that I didn’t find your knife and you said you forgot it. I am pretty sure I said that it’s okay, we have one from the caterer and then Amy stepped up and said well wait, I think they have one in their main kitchen.

As for set up and tear down, Your friend helped with setting up bc you were frantic about time and afraid when we were running out of time when I assured you time and time again that we were on schedule! We did the run through 5 minutes earlier than we discussed and I am pretty sure I had most of the tear down done before you even got done with pictures. All we needed to do was tear down the tables and chairs and I told you and Aaron to go change, I had it.
I was even trying to fold your linens back the way you had them and you told me to just throw them on the table bc you needed to wash them.

I was only 3 minutes late to be exact and I was told that I wouldn’t be able to get the venue open for you, that was something you and Aaron had to do bc y’all booked it. Im very sorry you thought I was purposely late. I was in the parking lot at 8am gathering the things I offered to lend you!

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