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Vika is preparing to give birth to my son, and I am trying to give birth to a review worthy of your work and your role in our lives. This review is not so much about our wedding, but about Veronika as a professional organizer.

To put everyone who will read this review in context, I'll tell 3 years of history in 4 sentences:

- 2019 - in May I propose to Vika; in August, Veronika and I work together for the first time (I host, Veronika organizes).

⁃ 2020 - Vika and I choose the venue, organizer, concept, and the entire team for our wedding; we manage to work with Veronika at a wedding in Sweden, where I realize how strong an organizer and person Veronika is. The pandemic postpones our wedding with Vika by a year.

⁃ 2021 - I show Vika the film from the wedding in Sweden, we meet with Veronika and finally understand that only she can organize our wedding. We cancel everything that was "before" and start everything from scratch.

- September 2, 2021, we live the wedding we couldn't even dream of.

A little more than 4 sentences, I agree. But now you know the context and can perceive the words written below. For me, this is really important.

Veronika, you are a special person! And I am truly grateful to the universe for allowing us to meet, work together, and become friends! Over all the years of hosting events, I have seen dozens of agencies and organizers at work, but what you do is a completely different level. I noted this at events where we worked together, but I fully realized the scale when you organized the wedding for me and Vika.

And for a year and a half now, I have been trying to formulate the "phenomenon of Veronika Karol". Your superpowers, in my opinion:

⁃ Concept through empathy. It's as if you know what a couple's wedding should be like. To so accurately read the nuances of a relationship, build an overall picture, and select components - that's a divine gift, it's impossible to learn this! This is 200% you.

⁃ Attention to the details of the picture. This simply amazes me! It's impossible to keep everything in mind at every scale level - from the overall wedding concept to the tiniest moments like the exact tone of the font color on the table cards! Not just keep, but see how they should look specifically for us! Impossible, but you do it with such ease that it evokes sincere admiration!

⁃ Immersion. You learn the story of the couple and their family, you know all the subtleties. It's very pleasant to see that this adds even more significance to the event you are creating, as it did for us!

⁃ Ideation. Your unconventional view on seemingly standard things is very refreshing! You challenge the status quo, making bold decisions and masterfully implementing them! That's very cool!

⁃ Aesthetics. Everything you do is imbued with a special artistry and, in a good sense, simplicity. The vision of beauty in the world and the ability to create it at an event is another very important talent of yours!

⁃ Reliability and ease. During the entire preparation for our wedding, I never worried for a minute that something would go wrong. Never thought for a minute that we weren't ready for something, because you were our organizer. And I knew that under your control, everything would go like clockwork! And if not, you and your team would solve any difficulties! You saved me millions of nerve cells!

I am infinitely grateful to you! For agreeing to take responsibility for that day, which Vika and I and our entire family will remember for the rest of our lives! For how you did it! And for becoming a part of our family yourself!

"We need you to make the wedding happen," — these words began our acquaintance with Martin and Polina. They had already applied twice but never showed up on the appointed day. No one knew that we would manage to organize a wedding in another country in just one month and exactly two weeks before the start of a global pandemic.

We didn't have a strict plan for the day because a lot was changing and we were improvising. For example, poppies appeared on the table, which bloom for only one week a year, and this was that week!

We wanted to capture life itself in the frame — just as it is. The only important thing was to be in the small cozy church in the center of Stockholm on time and say "yes" to each other.

And then — a celebration in two languages, where not a drop of misunderstanding arose. People from different corners of the world became one family for one evening. When one is for all, and all are for one!

The moment we lived a day that was truly perfect. You created a celebration for us that has touched our hearts and the hearts of many people for years to come.

A day you want to relive again and again.

We walked towards it hand in hand for 2 years. I usually rarely consult with others, but in our case, I could truly rely on your opinion and understood that you could see what would be best. Maximum professionalism from start to finish, from the moment we needed to choose glasses for the morning, to when we came tired to our room after the celebration, and there all the gifts and flowers were gathered, with nothing else to worry about. Throughout the entire 2 years of preparation, I had this feeling that even if I didn't coordinate anything with anyone, the wedding would still turn out perfect, so confident was I in the team's professionalism.

Our wedding day literally turned my whole life upside down in terms of career and personal growth, opened new horizons, literally a new world. Now, working together, I always look forward to your projects, your brides; it's no wonder you are surrounded by incredible people. We want to say an ENORMOUS thank you for the new life, for you, for the friendship, and for our magical celebration.

I would like to start a series of posts with the most sincere thanks by telling a little story about @now_family_ and its incomparable founder @nikol_karol, who were involved in every single detail of our celebration❤️

Our organizer and helper in everything, our wedding fairy, and now our friend. A true professional and a huge fan of her work, a person of amazing depth and sensitivity.

I could write kilometers of text about how, after meeting @now_family_, we didn't want to talk to anyone else because we felt it was "the one," about how comfortable we were during the preparation process because we were heard, supported, and helped, about how much soul, effort, and time you put into us and our celebration.

Thank you for making our day exactly the way it was - we still can't believe it happened to us!

Thank you for making the 9-month-long preparation not burdensome or overwhelming for us at any point. Thank you for us trusting you 100%, and now we thank the universe for trusting you and your team ❤️

Thank you for the real and sincere support on the most exciting day of our lives.

If you also want to celebrate your love, don't hesitate, entrust it personally to Veronika - it will be your best day, I promise.

The first month has flown by, and during this time we moved, settled into a new apartment, and decided we would get a doggy to join our family)

Over the past three weeks, we have been discussing every day that we wanted to write to you and trying to gather all our thoughts together.

We lived through and reveled in every moment of the wedding; nothing passed us by. You helped us assemble an amazing team that inspired us. And you skillfully conducted the entire process; all we had to do was be ourselves, not missing a single moment of that day.

So, why you need a wedding planner:

1. A planner will assemble the coolest team, even when it seems impossible.
2. A planner is a sensitive psychologist who reminds the bride she deserves the dress of her dreams.
3. And tactfully talks the groom out of a blue suit.
4. Won't let the celebration falter and will give a timely nudge when you fall behind schedule (and we always do :)
5. When options run out, a planner always has an ace up their sleeve.
6. A planner knows everything about us and can solve any problem. This wasn't a wedding of the two of us, but of the THREE of us!)
7. With you, we understood why people have several weddings, because you want to repeat it)

It was important for us that the wedding reflected us and our values. We worried that the planner would take over, leaving nothing of our own contribution. But we trusted and didn't miscalculate. You were in the process not instead of us, but together with us, and made our dream come true.

So, the wedding has passed, the honeymoon is over, the emotions have subsided.

Now I want to thank our organizer. The first meetings immersed us in a completely new world of wedding troubles, which made our heads spin. Already at this discovery, we realized that we had not turned to you in vain.

Firstly, it was all very interesting and fun!
Secondly, even with your help, we groaned from the huge amount of information that fell upon us. I can't imagine what it would have been like without you.
Thirdly, you got to know us well, became both a friend and a psychoanalyst for us, and helped us cope with our panic and anxiety. Well, okay, with mine.
When we first started talking about the wedding, there were only a few not very specific words about the celebration in our heads: "cozy, family, beautiful."
On the wedding day, I truly understood the meaning of all these words, it turned out so great: a cozy dinner with family and friends, and an amazing culmination - a series of congratulations by candlelight.
The next few days were in a kind of fog. The emotions and memories from the wedding day did not cool down, and were additionally warmed by pleasant reminders in the form of photos and videos.

Now every day I say "Hello, wife," hear "Hello, husband" in response, and rejoice.

Thank you very much, Veronica! We only regret that there is nothing left to organize, except for the anniversary in 2070.