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duetDESIGN’s tagline is, "Parties. Weddings. Peace of mind."
and our experience with RB and her assistant encompasses the entirety of that tagline.
My now-spouse and I are practical, no-fuss, no-muss people, and we wanted a wedding that was as thrifty as it was fun. The idea of hiring a wedding coordinator seemed antithetical to all the values we held dear - we're project managers; shouldn't we be able to manage this ourselves? Isn't hiring a wedding coordinator a concession to the wedding-industrial complex? And do we really need someone guilting us into renting say, organza tablecloths in jade... or running around on the day of the wedding with a clipboard barking orders or, worse yet, looking more frazzled than we did?
Given that, we weren't going to hire anyone to help, determined that we could do it all with more skill and alacrity than most... until we found out about duetDESIGN. We knew them socially, and liked them plenty as people - and when we had a basic 'let's sit down and talk about this' meeting, they were listening to us - as in, they GOT us. We felt heard; we felt seen - and we realized that they would simply work to make everything better within whatever parameters we agreed on.
In the leadup to the wedding, it was a huge comfort to know someone had our backs with regard to the details. It was no longer on us to think of the edge cases - they asked great questions, and it was their timeline around which we based the entire day. Moreover, as I said, they GOT us - every suggestion felt like an organic extension of what we already had; it just all made sense.
Most everyone we knew said their wedding day felt like a blur, and it was really important to us that we felt present for ours. Knowing that they were completely on top of their game made all the difference in the world - we could let our administrative brains relax and truly be present.
And it was an amazing experience! They were everywhere you needed them to be before you even realized you needed them. They have a divine sense of timing, knowing when to give you space and when to gently guide things along; it was nothing like weddings that felt forced on a schedule... and yet we stayed on schedule.
We had a party for 200 people a few days later, and RB and (the team) sailed through that as well - this one was much more free-form; it was a potluck for all our friends, and we knew to expect the unexpected. That said, when the keyboard blew out, RB miraculously procured a new one (in fact, I'm still not quite sure how they pulled that one off).
And throughout everything, they carried themselves with such warmth, elegance, grace and control that they were continually confused for guests. We received as many compliments on them as we did on our flowers and catering, and my mother was ready to welcome them into the family as well.
Peace of mind is an incredible gift, and duetDESIGN delivers the goods.
- Anna Bullard-Heath
Hiring duetDesign was one of the best decisions we made in planning our wedding! When we realized that we were moving cross-country 6 weeks before our wedding, thereby turning our local wedding into a long-distance logistical nightmare, we realized that we needed some local help executing the event. Rinabeth and her team were such lifesavers. They made the whole day super easy -- in fact we probably don't even know all the little problems that inevitably came up because they just took care of everything. They have great intuition about what problems to just solve on their own, and which ones to bring to our attention.
They took charge of our boisterous group of family and friends and ran the ceremony rehearsal flawlessly. They were willing to get their hands dirty decorating and wrangled the groomsmen into getting all the decor put up (and cleaned up the next day!). We never felt like they were fitting us into a pre-defined box of services, rather, they adapted their services to match the wedding we had already planned. For example, we had an out-of-town, minor-celebrity guest who offered at the last minute to play music in our ceremony and d2 took care of all of the logistics of finding a rental piano, getting it delivered to our rural wedding site, set up, patched into our sound system, sound-checked and ready to go in time for our friend to just arrive and start playing!
They were *always* pleasant and easy to work with, returned calls or emails promptly, were organized, on-time, calm and confident. They coordinated with our other vendors with ease. Most importantly, they never made us feel like our wedding was just another business transaction!
– Jennifer Gadda Wilhelm