TESTIMONIES

"My son was recently married at Newcastle Wedding Gardens and Jordan Brushia was our wedding coordinator. Jordan provided the most wonderful wedding day experience ever! Jordan's role was to coordinate everything involved on the day of the wedding. She managed every component, including the loading-in and loading-out of items, tweaking last minute details, wedding timeline, reception floorplan, rehearsal management, wedding day vendor management and so much more. Jordan is extremely organized and detail-oriented. The care she provided the guests and both the bride and groom throughout the day was thoughtful and surprising. She is the ultimate reason why our guests and we look back on that day and say "That was the best and most AMAZING day ever!" Thank you, Jordan. You are amazing!"

-Johanna G

"Jordan recently coordinated my wedding on Sept 9th at Saluti Cellars, and she was a huge help and made the reception run smoothly. I contacted her for day of coordination and mostly to set up, execute and take down decorations at my reception, since I didn't have a traditional venue that catering that supplied food, setup, service and take down. She met me a month before the wedding to look at the reception and plan out decor, placements for tables, and timeline. She also came to the rehearsal wedding to review all decorations, determine missing items, and made a list to bring those items for the day of wedding. Prior to the wedding she reviewed my vendor contracts and noticed that my BBQ vendor may need help with service such as busing tables and turning tables from appetizers to dessert. Based on that, Jordon arranged to have two additional people to help her out at the reception. She also identify other gaps that I wasn't thinking about for the my ala-carte/DIY wedding at a reception site that had no kitchen. For example needing ice to chill beer, needing classes for the water and lemonade dispensers, and napkins and plates for the appetizers. I really appreciated Jordon's attention to detail. She was the glue between my Saluti Cellars owner, the BBQ vendor and all of the other vendors. She was so easy to get along with, and I felt like she was a friend. She is also super responsive to email. She is a great find, and I highly recommend her. Oh and the owner of Saluti cellars really appreciated Jordon as well."

-Heather S.

"So, it all at began about 10 months out from our wedding date during the "meet and eat" with our wedding caterer, Diane Wilkinson. Diane insisted that we retain the "Day-Of" Coordination services of Jordan Brushia from J Marie Events. My (then) fiance and I weren't interested in using a wedding planner since event planning is my job, but a "Day-of" Coordinator sounded like a great idea. Also, Diane basically told us that we WILL get Jordan because she's the BEST, and we MUST have her, it's not an option. You don't say no to Diane Wilkinson....So that night I called J Marie Events and left a message for Jordan, (I hadn't put two and two together yet that the "J" in "J Marie" was for "Jordan") and she called me back the following day and we decided to meet at The Rind to talk about our plans. (She chose The Rind and it's one of our favorite places so we knew then that this was probably to be good...)

Our meeting was sort of an "audition" for us - chemistry is really important to Jordan because she wanted to be really sure that she was going to be right for us and vice versa - So, long story short, it was a match made in Heaven. We signed the contract, paid the very modest deposit, and went on our merry way counting down the months and checking off every box we needed to check from then until our wedding.

Jordan was available throughout this time to help us as things came up. Our event did require some coordination between the caterer, rentals, the band, the venue etc so she did that, and we had questions here and there about things like etiquette, seating, reception scheduling, scripting for the band/emcee etc. We emailed and texted and had a few dinner meetings and a brunch or two to get all of our bases covered. Then before we knew it, it was the week of our wedding and guess what we were doing? We were relaxing! My fiance and I weren't fighting or flipping out about anything, we weren't stressed about logistics, we weren't scrambling to get any last minute stuff done, and we really weren't worrying about anything on OUR end. It was awesome! We worked our butts off to make our wedding amazing but there is no way we could have done it without Jordan's help along the way. And that wasn't even her primary duty - she was our Day-Of-Coordinator. She went so far above and beyond for us and we are so grateful.

As for the Day-Of, well, I'm not sure there's much to say about it because it was literally PERFECT. As a party planner for a politician I've never really had the ability to relax and enjoy a party, nor did I ever want to, really. I throw parties and I run them and that's how I like it. On my wedding day I was worried I'd slip into my party planner mind frame and try to run things or worry about logistics etc. That absolutely never happened - I enjoyed every single second of my wedding. WE (My husband and I) enjoyed every second of the day and it was because of Jordan. I can't even tell you what she did that day because I was too busy enjoying myself and being the Bride and having the BEST DAY EVER. Seriously, Jordan was our angel and she made our day actually BE the best day ever - to us, that's not just a quote used on wedding decor and bridesmaid gifts anymore. Best Day Ever is 100% a real thing and it can be for anyone! But, you have to get Jordan first!

We LOVE you Jordan. YOU and your services ARE PRICELESS. Logan and I won't be getting married again, but we do love to throw a good party so I'm sure we'll find some excuse to work with you again.

People, get Jordan. Have the best day ever, for real :-) "

-Meredith F