Candy+Co. Events, LLC Reviews
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Clarke B. Sent on 10/14/2023Highly Recommend Candy Co Events
We enthusiastically recommend Candy Co Events (Candy Co) for their wedding planning services!
Candy Co went above and beyond in their wedding planning services for our wedding in 2023. The Candy Co team assisted us in the site selection and then the full planning services.
During the course of the planning process, Candy Co was a highly professional team that managed every detail of the wedding and interfaced with the vendors to streamline the decisions of the couple and prioritize achieving key milestones.
For the wedding day, Candy Co was onsite to deliver a seamless experience and showed great attention to detail. Candy Co connected well with the vendors and achieved all the desired outcomes.
In summary, Candy Co will help you achieve the wedding of your dreams across a variety of needs or client budgets with a friendly and professional staff.
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Grace T. Sent on 11/16/2021Anastasia is amazing!
I recommend Candy & Co, and in particular Anastasia, who handled planning for the last ~8 weeks before our wedding + the day of. Anastasia is incredibly detail oriented, professional, efficient, organized, and hard working. We had total confidence that she had everything under control, which gave us such peace of mind. She stayed calm under pressure and was just so pleasant to work with. And a bonus- she is the most expert wedding dress-bustler; she took care of my 3-layer gown in under two minutes flat! -
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Kristina R. Sent on 11/12/2021Hiring Candy is the best wedding decision you can make.
The short version: There's no doubt in my mind that my wedding would have been incomplete without Candy. It simply would not have been as amazing of a day if we had worked with anyone else.
Candy's value cannot be overstated; she is a quarterback and cheerleader rolled up into a single person. Her communication skills are incredible and she consistently made us feel valued and heard. Whenever we got off the phone with her we felt a huge sense of comfort because we were confident that she understood our vision and would give us the information and tools we needed to keep ourselves in budget.
Candy's attention to us was genuine and personal. She really made us feel like we were the most important client she had; we never felt as though we were just another couple in some large organization’s catalogue. At the beginning of each month she sent us a detailed report on our progress along with any to-do items that we needed to prioritize over the next 30 days. Her organizational and time management skills helped support us even when life outside of wedding planning got hectic and busy.
We are so glad we could access Candy’s impressive DC network - I didn't feel like I had to search for anyone because I could count on her recommendations. She connected us to high quality caterers, florists, venues, and bands that matched our style - and let us know which ones were great but not for what we wanted. There's no kickbacks and you know that she's recommending people that can deliver under whatever conditions your wedding is dealing with.
Candy's team is also great - Tori, Candy’s “Specifics Specialist”, somehow has deep connections to virtually every major and boutique hotel in the entire city and saved us when our wedding night arrangements encountered issues with less than 24 hours notice. Asa also helped the day-of, and was incredibly kind and helpful.
Candy is the first person to arrive at the venue and the last person to leave. We're eternally thankful that she was there to manage the logistics so we could really take everything in. Regardless of what support you need (she offers various packages), selecting Candy & Co. will without a doubt be among the best decisions you can make. -
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Kim M. Sent on 12/28/2021
Best planner and coordinator!
We weren't sure if we needed a coordinator for our small, backyard wedding but we are so, so glad that we hired Alana. She took our (half-baked) vision and made it into the wedding of our dreams. She coordinated with all of the vendors, made sure we had a to-the-minute timeline, and even transformed our backyard from the ceremony to a magical dinner/reception during cocktail hour. And she was the best to work with the entire way through. Would hire a million more times! -
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Kimberly L. Sent on 10/30/2021Love at first meet!
...no I am not talking about my husband, I am talking about Candy at Candy + Co!!! Hands down, without a doubt, the best decision we made in our entire wedding planning journey. To give a little background we hired Candy for our wedding back in March 2019. Our plan was to have our wedding at Dock5 in Union Market, which is a completely raw space/warehouse which my husband and I knew would be a feat as we would have to bring in every single thing in to make the space what we wanted ( a lot of vendors to juggle!). Right off the bat, we knew this would be possible with Candy's help. She has a wealth of knowledge/experience, has amazing energy, and will do just about anything to make your wedding and the days leading up to it special and as stress free as possible. We just about planned out our entire wedding in time for when the pandemic hit. I won’t go into detail, as my hope is that planning a wedding during a pandemic will not have to be on any future couple’s radar. But if you're reading this...know this: Candy was there every step of the way. When many others in the industry could not or even would not continue to support their couples, Candy did. It’s easy to list off all her amazing qualities...organized, professional, creative, fun etc... but what really makes Candy shine is how she genuinely gets to know you, and deeply cares about what's important to you as a couple, and ensures that it isn’t lost in all the wedding planning/day chaos. She’s a great communicator,and helps guide you with all the little details you don’t even think about no matter how much you consider yourself to be “type A” or organized yourself. It is evident that she's respected by others in the industry by the way they are all more than happy to collaborate with her. She's all the things you want and need - whether you know it or not. She became a part of our family and recommended you do yourself the favor and get her in your corner.
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Jennifer R. Sent on 11/25/2020Candy is the BEST!
We initially started working with Candy to plan a 200-person ballroom bash for 2021. It was love-at-first meeting for us + Candy. Candy was tremendously knowledgeable, insightful, full of creative ideas, and most of all she was a person we really clicked with on a human level. Candy was always thinking of us, even though our wedding was more than a year away when we first started collaborating. Then COVID hit. Candy pivoted in the most incredible way to helping us plan a tiny, 12-person/immediate-family only backyard gathering. Oh, and all of this with about 3-4 weeks of notice. Candy was in incredible action mode -- I have honestly never met anyone who is so on top of things. Me and my husband were overwhelmed and Candy walked us through every step of the way. Most importantly during this time, she prioritized safety above all and ensured our event was not only magical, beautiful, wondrous -- but also safe for us, our families and our vendors. The day-of could not have felt more smooth and perfect, but that's only because Candy took care of literally everything behind the scenes. I can't highly enough recommend working with Candy, she is the BEST! -
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Katherine C. Sent on 02/18/2021Maid of Honor - worked closely with Candy on my best friend's wedding
Candy created a totally organized and special wedding experience even during COVID when so many adjustments and special arrangements were needed. I have never seen a planner be so organized, and she solved problems and accommodated last-minute changes with a smile. Her energy and professionalism were incredible! -
Julia H. Sent on 11/03/2021
Above and beyond exceptional!
Everything about Candy & Co. was just wonderful. Candy and Alana, our planner, were extremely upfront about helping us navigate COVID-19 protocols and provided exceptional support for my (now) husband and I throughout the planning process. Alana is so cool and we wish we were her friends IRL. -
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Caroline Sent on 04/18/2021
Best Wedding Decision!!
It is hard to put into words how amazing Candy and the whole Candy+Co team are. The website and instagram made clear that this was not just any planning company, but one with style and inclusivity at its heart. Hiring Candy was easily the best (and first) decision we made. When planning during the normal times, Candy made everything organized and as stress-free as planning could possibly be. When COVID struck and we then planned a wedding at 4 different venues, she made it possible for us to navigate vendors, draft emails for making changes, and helped us understand what policies were in place and what things would likely look like down the road. She truly is worth her weight in gold for any kind of event planning.
Our first meeting with her made it clear, this was our planner - she is vivacious, creative, easy to talk to, and clearly a born problem-solver. She even talked us down from our thought for a full planner into month of - she saved us money on purpose! Additionally, given that you will be making approximately 1000 decisions during wedding planning, it made it so much more simple when she could recommend 2 or 3 vendors she thought would fit our goals/style/personalities. And every time, she nailed it.
She also has been in the business for a long time and worked with many venues and vendors in all kinds of scenarios so understands where something may be allowed but is not actually comfortable, or where certain places may be flexible (or not).
Hiring Candy+Co will be your best decision to make wedding planning as easy as possible. Our wedding day itself was smooth and so enjoyable. We love her so much, we are signing on with Candy+Co again as we plan the wedding reception for all our loved ones next year that was made impossible under COVID restrictions. -
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Angela B. Sent on 10/29/2020Would not have made it through the day without
I LOVED Tori. She was responsive, supportive, attentive...ALL of the things a wedding coordinator should be. I did not worry a thing on our wedding day. She was experienced, organized— I loved how every month she would send us a “to do” list because that really kept us on track. I would recommend her and Candy+Co in a heartbeat!
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