Claudia Cole Events

Claudia and her team are an absolute pleasure to work with. They anticipated all our needs and was very flexible with all our Covid changes. We were able to enjoy our wedding and reception thanks to Claudia and her team.

Please do yourself a favour and book Claudia Cole as your wedding coordinator! There are a lot of things you pay for before, during, and after the wedding process, and hiring Claudia was the best value of them all. Claudia was our day-of wedding coordinator, and provided additional management services 8 weeks prior to the wedding date (her package titles have changed slightly since we booked). Our wedding was Aug 2021, and with the constant changes in covid regulations and event supply/vendor issues, Claudia and her team were absolutely essential in making this wedding happen, and more than that, helping us get the wedding of our dreams. Most of our vendors seemed to know Claudia and any time an issue came up, they kept telling us things along the lines of “oh don’t worry, you’ve got Claudia, it’s all good.” Claudia was also able to give us crucial recommendations on vendors and decor and receive quotes for us, many with only weeks/days to go before the wedding. Notably, Claudia also has a number of rentals available (basics like table numbers, stationary, frames etc etc), and provides these at competitive prices. This made it easy to add last minute decor we hadn’t thought of or hadn’t the time to arrange. Also, AislePlanner, the site you get access to through Claudia to help plan, is fantastic and very detailed. For the actual wedding day, we got to enjoy every second of it knowing that it was in Claudia’s hands. We didn’t have any stress and got to cherish every moment. As far as we could tell, everything ran smoothly and effortlessly -- and our family and guests said the same. Claudia will make your wedding day that much easier to enjoy, we can’t recommend her enough!

Claudia was our “month-of” wedding planner for our wedding in early April 2022 and honestly, having her on our team was one of the best decisions we made in the planning process. I truly could not recommend her and her team more highly – they are consummate professionals, super friendly and kind, and just amazing at what they do. Claudia was so patient and gracious through our two date changes (thanks COVID!) over the last 2.5 years and was always there to help us navigate wedding planning in a pandemic and giving us advice in general – whether it was on date changes, seating arrangements, vendors (she recommended a DJ and officiant to us and we loved both) – any question we had, she was always there and always helpful. We also asked her and A Lavish Affair (ALA) to help with our florals and décor and completely deferred to her and ALA on the design – we just told her we wanted something modern, clean, and elegant and what they delivered on the day of just blew us (and our guests) away. It was somehow everything we wanted but didn’t know how to articulate – they truly thought of everything. They also surprised us with thoughtful quotes on the stands and dessert table and Nataly from ALA designed a hilarious half-chicken/half-cow icon for our place cards - which are just very small examples of how they went above and beyond for us on the day. They were also so considerate of our budget and actually gave us some money-saving ideas like using the bridesmaid bouquets for table décor, lining the ceremony aisle with bouquets that could later be used as centerpieces, and giving us honest advice on what’s a “nice to have” vs “need to have”. Claudia was also an absolute HERO on wedding day logistics – we had ~10 guests drop out last minute from a ~80 person wedding (including 2 in the wedding party) and somehow, within the span of a few hours, she had re-jigged the entire floor plan and corresponding décor and coordinated the changes with the other vendors and venue - you wouldn’t have been able to tell that there was an entire table missing in the room. I’m sure more than a dozen things went wrong on the day, but we couldn’t tell at all – her and her team were just ninjas and we were able to actually enjoy our day. Claudia is everything you’d ever want in a wedding planner and to top it off, she’s just an absolutely lovely person. Thanks Claudia (and team) for helping pull together our perfect day under some extraordinary circumstances. We can’t wait to see pictures of your own wedding !!

Hiring Claudio Cole Events for our wedding was the greatest choice I made while planning. Vicky was an absolute joy to work with and was organized, professional, friendly, and a pleasure to have with us on our wedding day. People kept asking me how I stayed so calm and I told them all “because Vicky is in charge!” Her advice and guidance eased our minds and we were able to fully enjoy our wedding without worrying about a thing. Her assistant Nicole was also wonderful and we cannot thank them enough. 10/10 would recommend!

We started planning our wedding in the summer of 2019, originally for a September 2020 wedding. Along with the rest of the world, we had absolutely no idea of what was coming our way in March 2020. And when the pandemic hit- we had even less of an idea how to pivot and keep our initial vision for our wedding day intact. Claudia kept in close contact with us and let us know she would be ready and happy to help once we were ready to make some decisions. We decided our best option was postpone to Sept 2021 and hope for the best in terms of vaccinations and restrictions. Claudia, calm and collected - took care of everything we needed to do to postpone the wedding. From contacting the venue and our vendors to get new dates, to requesting new contracts and sending invoices and countersigned copies (as well as keeping her own record, again – so organized!). I can wholeheartedly say Claudia made the postponement a breeze, and though I’d never want to do it again, if I had, to I know she would make just as easy. Pandemic related issues aside, she never failed to exceed every expectation we had for wedding planning. She helped source vendors for my bridal shower and found an amazing wedding videographer at the 11th hour when I decided last minute, we needed to have one. She helped us find wonderful chocolate truffles for our favors that everyone loved and devoured. She fixed my shoe when the gem broke off during our first dance. She connected us with a venue for the rehearsal dinner when we were having a hard time finding availability. She flawlessly co-originated a day-of prank I was planning for our first look with my husband. She worked with our vendors seamlessly did so many other things I’ll never be able to thank her for because she is that amazing of a planner and person. And outside of everything she did for us, her most admirable quality is her genuine character and overall moral fiber as a person. She is always happy to go the extra mile for her clients and aims to make everything perfect. It is important for her to not only share her expertise and help her clients, but she also makes a sincere effort to uplift her colleagues in the industry, which is always important, but now more so than ever. Every vendor Claudia recommended was 10/10, every guest at our wedding had amazing things to say about her and the fabulous work she did for us. Her assistant on the day of Steph B, was an absolute angel and I was blown away by her professionalism and attentiveness as well. Outside of getting married, gaining a new friend in Claudia was one of the best parts of wedding planning, though it won’t be another wedding ?, I hope I get the chance to request her services again in the future. Tl;dr : Claudia is patient, kind, understanding, talented and has a wonderful eye for detail and knack for organization. Above all she is an absolute professional with a huge heart and genuine compassion for her clients. She is THE best wedding planner in Ontario and most likely all of Canada. You’re doing yourself, your partner, and your family a disservice if you don’t hire her for your wedding or event.

We hired Claudia for help with planning our wedding ceremony September of 2021 followed by our delayed reception in April 2022. Claudia was fantastic in every way. She was organized, very easy to communicate with, and was always open to incorporating your ideas and vision into the day! She was so pleasant to work with throughout. I absolutely would recommend them to anyone wedding planning!

Before hiring Claudia Cole to help us with our December 2021 wedding, stress levels were high. We had a specific date that, for family reasons, could not be changed and we were down to just under a month to put together a wedding, amid a pandemic, that would serve as a memory we could all cherish. Another wedding planner we talked to said it couldn’t be done in the short time frame, but the minute we talked to Claudia, she reassured us that it most definitely could be done, and it would be everything we hoped for, and it was and so much more!! Claudia is unbelievably well organized and detail-oriented and she managed everything for us from sourcing venues, hotel rooms for guests, officiants, flowers, DJs, photographers and much more. She acted as an intermediary with all our vendors which made life much simpler for us and she kept us on track with submitting menu choices, paying vendors, submitting song choices and a million other things that could have quickly overwhelmed us without her guiding us through. Claudia had her colleague, Vicky, assisting with some things including being there on the actual wedding day and she too was awesome. All the way through, Claudia showed an incredible work ethic and was exceptionally responsive to all our emails, phone calls, texts and requests for virtual meetings. She was able to supply us with names of vendors she had personally worked with who she would recommend when we asked, but she left these decisions totally in our hands without trying to influence us one way or the other. We felt we had total freedom to go with other vendors of our choosing if we wanted to. We decided to go with vendors on her lists and they were all top quality and we were extremely pleased with every one of them. Claudia, from start to finish, displayed extensive knowledge and expertise in every part of the wedding planning process and was always professional, warm, easy to work with, hard-working, patient and trustworthy in every sense of the word. She went over and above anything we could have expected. Thanks to all her efforts, we had a beautiful wedding that exceeded all our expectations. Our friends and family still talk about it, many saying it was the best wedding they had ever attended and the most fun!! The day was perfect down to the last detail and all we had to do was sit back and enjoy it. Thank you, Claudia, for giving us a perfect wedding and very special memories that we will all cherish. I could go on and on about the exceptional job you did, however, I will just end by saying we would definitely HIGHLY recommend you to anyone planning a wedding.

We found Claudia through our decor company A Lavish Affair back in July 2019. From our initial communication, she was extremely responsive which established a strong sense of trust for us. We hired Claudia for month of coordination however it felt like she was with us every step of the way. Our wedding was originally planned for August 2020 and was postponed to August 2021. Throughout this time, Claudia kept us very well organized with an app - she reviewed/uploaded all our vendor contracts, gave us checklists of to dos to keep us on track, kept track of our budget & more. During all the uncertainty, Claudia was very calm and was very reassuring even though pandemic planning was a first time for all of us. She is very personable and approachable, so I never hesitated to reach out whenever I had any questions. I would honestly now consider her a lifelong friend. It felt like I had known her for much longer! Claudia is diligent, has a strong work ethic and you can be assured that she will take care of you. When our wedding day finally came, we actually got to enjoy it. If there was a problem, we honestly had no clue as Claudia took care of everything. She is amazing at what she does and we would highly recommend her! Our wedding day was truly the best day ever and we cannot thank Claudia enough!