Seize the Day Event Planners

I wish I had a better review for Seize the Day. When I first started working with them about 9 months before my wedding I had nothing but good things to say. Honey is awesome and she really helped with a lot of pre– wedding logistics but the experience with our day of coordinators was severely lacking. About 2 months before our wedding our coordinator was changed. My (then) fiancé and I were unsure of Ashleigh from the get go as she got lost and was late to our walk through. But we liked Honey and trusted her judgement.
The coordination of our wedding day was sloppy and the 3 coordinators acted very unprofessionally. Due to a miscommunication on our end the decorations arrived an hour late. Instead of helping us come up with a contingency plan, they got stressed and paced around frantically. They didn’t come across as professionals and because they were stressed about the late decorations they forgot about an important part of our ceremony (a towel to go with our hand washing ceremony).
There was also a huge kerfuffle with coordinating our string trio. Ashleigh flat out lied saying our DJ wasn’t at the ceremony to prompt the musicians, when Karla, another coordinator had told our DJ (who was there) she would cue them. When I informed Karla that the musicians were off she told me it was because they weren’t at our rehearsal. No one at Seize the Day had ever mentioned inviting the string trio to the rehearsal and I figured our DJ would be the one prompting them.
To summarize a long review, I wanted to like working with Seize the Day. Honey is kind, professional, and attentive. Ashleigh on the other hand was rude, unorganized, and clearly did not care much about our wedding. I understand that 58 minutes makes a huge difference in the wedding coordinating game but for folks in the business of event planning it’s essential to communicate effectively and efficiently with all parties involved, keep calm, and come up with a backup plan

This has got to be the worst event planning company ever. I am an out of town bride, planning a wedding in Boulder. The only logical thing was to have a planner to help assist. We met Honey (the owner) at our venue, the St Julien, months in advance. With my parents, and fiancé in tow, Honey appeared lovely with her English accent, strong family history in event planning (her father is a planner in England), kindness, and overall flexibility. She assured us that no matter what, she would be there to assist us, even with «the two hour time change.» We really were excited and thought it was a good fit.
After a few days of non-​stop emails from her, I became somewhat hesitant, a gut feeling, perhaps, but signed a contract with her none-​the-​less because I didn’t have many options or much time. We signed the biggest contract with her, the 101% there for you one – yea, not so much.
We initially hit it off, how bad could this be? We facetimed for a few hours, got a lot of thoughts and planning ironed out.
As time neared the wedding, Honey became rude, unprofessional, and unwilling to work with me. How you ask? Well by deliberately ignoring MY emails, yet replying to my fiancés (whom had zero to do with planning), ignoring my calls and texts and refusing to talk to me. Note: it is 4 days from my wedding, the woman STILL will not talk to me. She has arranged things for my wedding that I FLAT out did not want. No stamps on my return envelopes. Many guests did not even receive envelopes. Never on top of anything – I would always remind her of something, and her answer, «that was next on my agenda.
She has ruined every surprise I had for my fiancé, i.e. a cigar bar w hand rolled cigars because she forwarded HIM the email. She ruined his grooms gift surprises as well. She is absolutely the worst, how she still owns a business beats me.
I have to say the things that are the best parts of my wedding were done 100% without her! Bakery, florists, dress, photographer, band. All found and arranged without Honey and her not so much help.
While Honey is a horrible leader, I can’t speak more highly about Payton & Maren, two girls on her team. Absolutely wonderful, both breaths of fresh air. What a joy to work with, I just feel bad they have to work for Honey.
Oh! And day after the wedding! More lies. After she agreed to pick up groomsmens tuxedos, return them, etc., I got a nasty text from her «senior» coordinator Karla, «your wedding is over, our job is done.»
They returned my items to me broken, unorganized, and stuff missing. So glad my wedding is over to never deal with them again. please Do NOT hire this company, you will regret it!!!

My fiancé and I hired wedding consultants to help in the process since I was also having to tackle a move and the start of a new job. Honey and her staff were professional and great when we first met with them, however as it got closer to the day and the day of, they fell apart, leaving me and my friends/​family to pull it together. They refused to have much contact with either my husband or myself the day of, nearly started the wedding without a bridesmaid, and could not coordinate the end of the night at all. To add to it, then they wouldn’t even return our phone calls afterwards to discuss the event. While they may be cheaper… you definitely get what you pay for.

Honey at Seize the Day Event Planning is a predator. Don’t let her fool you. About a month before our wedding, I decided to fire Honey because her planning for the last 3 weeks was the WORST! She lied to us about vendors, she made about 15 mistakes in emails to us and other vendors. She even sent us a couple emails that were addressed to other clients with sensitive information about them. I secured all of our vendors (MYSELF). So, we thought, okay we can let her go. After I told her she said I still owed her the last half of her payment even though it was 4 weeks before the wedding. We sent her a certified letter just like her contract stated.
She sneakily got my credit card information from an email I sent to a vendor. She actually charged my CC $ 550 without my approval, my signature, or even my knowing. I will be pressing charges and organizing other brides who have had the same experience with her. When I asked about her from 4 independent vendors, they all said she has the worst reputation, and often doesn’t show for the actual wedding or rehearsal. How could this woman STILL be doing business in Boulder after all this?
Watch out!

Honestly, Honey was the worst mistake we made in our wedding planning. Honey didn’t show up the day of the wedding, and didn’t even call. She had her assistants come, who were supposed to be there anyway, and that was it. She was flaky, lied about the services she could provide, and was pushy with my other vendors and with my friends! Hilarious considering she didn’t even show up for the wedding. THE WORST. Her assistants did work, but even though I had given them lots of details on what needed to be done, briefed several friends on the exact way things needed to be set up, and directed Honey’s assistants to ask the day of for details from those people (Seize the day was a «day of» coordinator for us), they had no idea what they were doing. Even things that I had set up as simple tasks that we rehearsed, they screwed up. For instance, I had the ceremony processional mixed in i tunes so that all they had to do is push play, and then let one song transition into the next. What happened? Instead, we had a loud, awkward, and VERY noticable complete stop of music in the middle of the processional. Not a great start, considering at that point their express job was to do NOTHING, and yet they messed it up. Other vendors came to me and told me that not only was Honey abrasive, but her staff was not knowledgeable, did not take charge, and didn’t seem to care. DOOOO NOT HIRE THEM!