Pollyanna Events Review

The Pollyanna Events is a brides dream! Sarah had a plan for everything that I couldn t possibly have thought of, and was so happy she was by my side in my big day. Having a planner kept me organized and on task throughout the planning process. And for the day of, I felt totally prepared and taken care of the entire time! If there is one thing I would recommend is that every bride needs to have a team taking care of all the details (even the ones you can t think of) for their wedding!

As a wedding florist, we know all too well how many moving parts there are when it comes to planning a wedding, not to mention how many moving parts there are on the actual day of! We were so incredibly lucky that our client had hired Pollyanna Events for their wedding. Pollyanna was so incredibly helpful & thorough. The clients were definitely in good hands; those ladies were on top of everything and had it all handled! I would highly recommend Pollyanna Events to any couple that is looking to remove the stress from their wedding planning. You can be confident that your big day will go off without a hitch!

From start to finish, The Pollyanna Team went above and beyond to help us execute the wedding of our dreams!!!





Hire this company for your event. Seriously. You won't be sorry!

Sarah is an AMAZING event planner! John & I said, I do , almost a year ago!!!!! Our day could not have been more PERFECT, thanks to Pollyanna events! We were married at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, GA. She literally had 3 months to plan our wedding ...talk about skills!!! These amazing and talented individuals killed it! Our day was perfect and we recommend them 100x s over to anyone looking for an event planner! Thank you & we hope you all are well!

Love,
The Evans Family

We ve had the pleasure of working with Kristina at Pollyanna recently and couldn t of been happier! Kristina from initial point of contact through the event date was super professional, punctual, and made herself available whenever she could. I sincerely value that in the company that takes their time in investing their efforts and a client s event and do not get treated just as another invoice number. I d give 10 stars to this company if I could. Highly recommend!

I don t even know where to start.. my person and I married each other on September 5th of this year,( 2020), and it has taken until now to find words that actually come close to encompassing what a wonderful human and coordinator and just so many things that Sarah is, and just how much she made it possible for us to be able to be fully present with each other on our day so we could soak up all of the precious moments of it..the OG plan for getting married was planned over a year in advance and was supposed to be in Portland OR,(my hometown). And then like for everyone else, celebrating literally any important life event, it wasn t possible anymore in the way we had originally planned and imagined it,( that process, again, like for most of us out there is a whole other story in and of itself!). My husband and I realized that for us, being able to officially get married and to celebrate being each other s family was something we couldn t not still do. We knew that it was vital to find the safest possible way to do this. We realized and adjusted to so many things.. this meant that we couldn t celebrate in Portland, that we needed to be outside and not indoors, that we would be celebrating near where we live in Brooklyn, that our parents and relatives and most of our loved ones who were out of town, had compromised immune systems, or were elderly,( any, and/or all), couldn t be with us in person, my dad couldn t walk me down the aisle in person..and more. We grieved that and then we got to do something so special, and something that Sarah was integral in helping make happen-we had to get creative with how to celebrate our love. I immediately started scouring the internet to try and find someone who could help us leading up to and on our day, I was looking and looking and then I found Pollyanna Events, and I exhaled, because what I saw was inclusive love being celebrated in ways unique to each couple and who they were, their whole website was about diversity, equality and inclusion- which Kevin and I feel is vital, it is about two humans coming together in their love for one another full stop. I reached out to Sarah and heard back pretty much right away and we hopped on a video call with her. From our first communication and all the way through our day, Sarah was calm and genuinely caring, responsive and helpful.. she helped us figure out the hugely important piece of being able to zoom in family and the bridal party.. planned for and executed our day in the safest way possible, was wonderful with our guests and other venders..collected,( from our apt the morning of), and artfully arranged all of our sourced items together with the fantastic Sam of Florescent for our flowers..she was with us every step of the way, ensured that my dad was able to virtually walk me down the aisle, that our parents could virtually toast us, seamlessly transitioned us into the reception .. just so many things..she came to me at one point near the end of the reception and was such a presence of calm and let me know we were running a little behind and as soon as I let her know I was okay to adjust and how I wanted to do that, she was completely on top of communicating with everyone to help make it happen.. and then when my husband and I left with our photographer to take sunset pics at Prospect Park, she made sure everything was packed up for us and that we could go back the next day to pick it up and not have to worry about it that night. We love Sarah and are seriously more thankful than we can articulate to her and the Pollyanna team.. wonderful humans.. cannot recommend them highly enough. (Also, for Sarah- this is Rachel posting, our wedding email is connected to Kevin s name only apparently.. oh 2020..)

"We've used Pollyanna Events for multiple corporate events as well as private holiday parties and each time - from start to finish - their work has been exceptional. The owner, Sarah, is a pleasure to work with! She is a true professional, with amazing vendor relationships, and a knack for executing a vision flawlessly. Highly recommend!"

I recently photographed a wedding in Arlington, VA with Pollyanna events as the planner and it was an incredible experience as a fellow vendor. I was mostly in contact with Kristina leading up to the event and her communication was impeccable. She answered all my questions and worked very well with me and the couple to create a perfect timeline for the day of. On the day of the wedding I worked mostly with Danielle, who was amazing. The day ran super smoothly, I was kept very much in the loop of everything and Danielle was incredibly helpful and supportive.
I will definitely be recommending Pollyanna Events to future couples and I hope to work with them again!

We found Pollyanna Events on the Thumbtack website and based on good reviews, we scheduled a meeting. After meeting them, we didn t continue researching wedding planners.
We met with Sarah and Kristina in DC. They immediately put us at ease and I appreciated that they had a younger more relaxed vibe. While their work is meticulous, don t let their relaxed vibe fool you, I didn t want to work with a society maven type. We are an older couple, mid-40s, and wanted a lovely, intimate wedding but wanted to be smart with our budget and not let things get out of control. I m sure Pollyanna Events works with all budgets and visions beautifully, but we appreciated that they didn t pressure us into a certain aesthetic. I would say that I was not an Instagram bride. We met with them in April and wanted to be married by Thanksgiving, and they wasted no time getting us in gear.
We contracted with Pollyanna Events to help us with a venue search/contract and vendor search/contract, as well as the day-of coordination. They were happy to mix and match their services. The contract process was easy and they were responsive to our questions. We were very comfortable with the cost. If you don t hire a wedding planner, specifically Pollyanna Events, for at least your day-of coordination, you re crazy!
They gave us spreadsheets for potential venues and vendors (DJ, dessert, caterers, florist, hair and make-up, and photographer) based on availability and our estimated budget. They gathered so much information that would ve taken us so long to compile. They kept us on track without hounding us. They were responsive to all of our questions and concerns and really helped us have relatively stress-free wedding planning. We had a few conference calls during the process and then a walk-through at the venue right before the wedding. As a pretty detail-oriented and anxious person, it was wonderful to know that a competent and creative team was working on our wedding, especially as it got closer to the day. They worked with us to create a somewhat non traditional room set up. They had great ideas and I trusted that it would all work out.
Our day-of coordinator was Danielle. She was such a calming presence. She was with me all day. I didn t pull out paperwork or check the schedule or worry, she just handled everything and kept me calm. I ended up getting dressed by myself and she helped me with fastening my shoes and pinning my bra! She really went above and beyond. She helped manage the floral delivery and the photographer and the bridal party, and she organized the first look.
When we got to the ceremony/reception site, I got teary seeing how lovely they made the venue (Top of the Town) look. They made our relatively simple decor look so elegant! The evening went beautifully, Danielle was a subtle but powerful force, she kept things perfectly on schedule.
Hiring Pollyanna Events was the best wedding planning decision we made, and the best money we spent. We highly recommend the wonderful team at Pollyanna Events.

Working with the Pollyanna team was a wonderful experience and I would highly recommend them for your future event! I unfortunately was one of the bride's that was trying to plan during the outbreak of the Coronavirus and their team worked with me on changing and updating my plans, as well as provided thoughtful mood boards to help me visualize our day. Great team all around and highly creative :) Grateful to have found them!