“Shannon is an amazing planner and an amazing human. She kept us afloat throughout the final months before our wedding, and we do not think we would have made it to the wedding day without her. Shannon’s attention to detail and level of organization are unmatched. Our entire wedding party also commented that Shannon was incredible to work with her. We are forever grateful to her for the support she provided. If you are looking for a planner, hire Shannon. You will not regret it.”

“Shannon was truly a dream come true. I’m an OCD type A planner so the overall planning process was easy for me but I didn’t want to stress about the day of. If you’re on the fence about hiring a day of coordinator DO NOT hesitate to hire Shannon. I tell everyone to think of it as an insurance policy on a day you’re spending so much on already. Without her my decor dreams wouldn’t have been possible as my venue wouldn’t setup my flowers since they were rentals and they said flowers had to be set up by a florist or a family member. She checked in frequently. Made sure everyone was comfortable and dealt with all my vendors. She ensured my wedding day ran smoothly and on time. I never felt rushed going to the next task and she coordinated with my photographer and DJ to ensure I got everything I wanted. I had an issue with the venue not setting up enough chairs for my ceremony and she handled it promptly. I hear couples who say they didn’t eat on their wedding day and she ensured that we had as much time as we wanted to eat and ensured we ate everything at our wedding!! I can’t imagine what issues she handled behind the scenes as I know of stories of how she saved the day for other couples regarding day of trolley breakdowns and such. Shannon was personable and is extremely knowledgable in her field. Her pricing is the BEST out of all the ones I reached out to which is crazy because she is SO experienced and great at what she does. I would recommend her over and over again.”

“Shannon is incredible! She truly went above and beyond to make sure we had our dream wedding. She was so wonderful and intentional about including our parents in the process and making sure our families and bridal party were welcome taken care of during our wedding weekend. We live in NYC, so having Shannon’s RI expertise was invaluable! We were so lucky to have someone so kind, organized, and thoughtful support us through the wedding planning process!”

“If you want the GOAT, go with Shannon. Easily the best money we spent for the whole event. Shannon worked with us from March 2020 through October 2022 and was kind, supportive, reliable, creative, solution-oriented, easily accessible, the list goes on. She laughed (a lot ) with us, she cried with us, and everything between. Don’t even think about it – just hire Shannon. Knowing how much effort she put into our event now, she was easily worth double or triple!!”

“We truly have no words to express our full gratitude to Shannon for her assistance with our wedding planning. I’ll start with a bit of context because I found it helpful when reading other reviews and selecting vendors for our wedding - I am a (somewhat neurotic), hyper-type-A personality with high expectations and attention to detail. We brought Shannon on as a month-of planner when we began running into issues with our venue as it was a new venue and they were still in the process of figuring many things out. Shannon was nothing short of a miracle. Relatively quickly after meeting Shannon, we upgraded our package to rely more on Shannon’s expertise with a more hands-on planning package and, boy, are we glad we did! Shannon is meticulous, super responsive, kind, and honest. She advocated for us and was our biggest supporter in the planning process. She coordinated all of our vendors, worked with us to create an amazing timeline and STUCK TO IT! Bonus, she somehow manifested 70 degree sunshine in mid-November in New England. Shannon truly was the best thing to happen to us during our wedding. Do not think twice about hiring her!!”

“I had the pleasure of working with the owner of SES events, Shannon for my very large October 2022 destination wedding. Having Shannon by my side for the wedding planning process was incredible and truly invaluable. From the moment I submitted an inquiry to SES Events page, Shannon was prompt, professional and personable. By the time I was able to connect with Shannon, I had already found & booked my venue, so she built a “partial planning package” with ala carte add on service options. Shannon was a dream to work with because I truly feel like she got to know me as a person & gal pal. She took the time to learn my vision and even little quirks I have (I hate the color pink and I’m very particular about the type of font we should use) She brought fresh new ideas to the table and cohesively incorporated my ideas to make sure the vibe of the wedding made sense.

During my wedding planning process, I was promoted to a more demanding position at work, COVID was still trying to make a comeback and my fiancé moved to another country & back to the US only to pick up and have both of us move to a new city the week before my wedding; Shannon knew when I was stressed out and trying to manage too much and really took things off plate. (i.e., stepping in to solve the problem when other vendors were about to have me lose my mind!). Shannon remembered things or detail ideas that I would mention in passing while on the phone at the start of our relationship and would bring them up to me to make sure they werent forgotten and a decision had been made on those items/comments/idea. She was so patient with me when life would get in the way of planning and my responses were slower than usual, she knew when to push and when to give. When Shannon is given a task list, she bangs it out quickly & precisely, she keeps you in the loop on any pending items AND fights for you to make sure you’re having the best outcome. We laughed, I cried, she supported, solved, and delivered.

Speaking bride to bride, when you’re making the budget and trying to see whats important and whats not… listen to me when I say, no one actually cares about the upgraded champagne flute, get the cheap one and spend your money on Shannon’s expertise you’ll thank whoever your God may be for Shannon pretty early on in the process. Shannon is worth a million bucks.”

“Shannon is simply the best in the business. She was professional, organized, detail-oriented, creative, and timely. Our wedding came with some hiccups and none of our guests ever had any idea thanks to Shannon and her staff. She went above and beyond our wildest dreams. Guests and family after our wedding spoke very highly of her. We would definitely hire her again in the future. She treats you like family. She even drove 20 minutes out of her way on my wedding day to check in on me and ensure everything went smoothly. She offered sound advice when needed and offered solutions to obstacles to ensure the best day ever. We have absolutely no regrets about SES Events and will be recommending her to all family and friends in the future. There were no surprises in our final bill. Thank you for the best day!”

“I wish I could shout from the rooftops just how incredible Shannon St. Ours of SES Events is and how she truly made the wedding of our dreams possible, but posting online will have to do. I had worked with Shannon previously to plan my sister’s baby shower and she contacted me shortly after we got engaged to see if we’d be interested in working together for our wedding. This was still in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, so not only were we not sure if a wedding would be possible any time soon, we weren’t sure if we’d be able to work with Shannon as we’d already decided to get married in New Hampshire where we live to help limit our travel. The two-state distance was not a hurdle as far as Shannon was concerned, and after she presented us with an incredibly detailed proposal and very reasonable quote, we decided to hire her as our wedding planner. My husband and I easily agree that hiring SES Events was the best thing we did in planning our June 2021 wedding. We both work full-time and my mom has passed away, and when you throw a global pandemic into that already less-than-ideal scenario, planning a wedding seemed impossible. Shannon made herself totally accessible from Day One and set right to work familiarizing herself with the area where we were getting married (Concord, NH, about two hours from her home base in Warwick, RI), finding the best vendors in our area and reaching out to them on our behalf, and taking our half-baked ideas and inspirations and making them into a beautiful, cohesive, attainable wedding plan. Most of all, she was able to stay within our budget, coming up with creative fixes along the way to cut costs without sacrificing our vision. I had my heart set on having an open bar for our guests, even though this can be a costly variable, and I’ll be damned if the final bar tab wasn’t almost exactly on the nose of what Shannon projected and it fit into our budget just right. She is a magician and a genius. I don’t know how she does it all, but she makes it look easy! She even talked me down off the ledge in a few bride crises along the way. ;) The end result of working with Shannon was a beautiful wedding, a rockin’ good party people are still talking about two weeks later, memories we and our loved ones will cherish forever, and a treasured friendship we now have with Shannon. We would recommend her to absolutely anyone planning an event in the New England area. Big or small, regardless of your budget, SES Events will help you create an event unlike any other. All the best, ”

“Hiring SES Events for our month of coordination needs was one of the very best decisions I made during wedding planning!! Shannon is incredibly responsive, helpful, supportive, organized and always has the best interest of her couples in mind. As a couple who (like many others) planned their wedding through the pandemic, when many things were uncertain and venues and other elements of the event had to be shifted at a moments notice, we couldn’t imagine not having Shannon’s help throughout the latter part of our planning process. Our day of was a dream and I know that is largely due to having SES doing all the important work behind the scenes so we didn’t have to worry about a thing. If you’re looking for a planner who is going to work their butt off for you, be there for you and make sure your day goes off without a hitch, you need SES in your life yesterday!”

“Shannon was seriously the best thing that happened during our wedding planning. From the moment I reached out, I felt like we connected and she really understood what I was looking for in a wedding planner. I made this decision back in May that I wanted extra help with month of coordination and day of coordination because I knew the small details were important to me. When I reached out to multiple planners, Shannon was simply the best. From immediately booking me for a phone consult, sending me back a detailed run down of all that we discussed and truly making me feel heard. After hiring Shannon, I truly felt like I got the best one on one service ever. We set up appointments went over details. She provided so much insight and helped me really see some of the details that I could have missed from the room decor to the fact I forgot all about decorating the sweetheart table. She was the a godsend with month of coordination, she put together the most detailed timeline for our vendors to keep everyone on track and in the loop. AND she put together a bridal party timeline to such detail that we actually ran PERFECTLY on time. So many of our guests mentioned to me, how smoothly our wedding ran and I 100 percent attribute that to having Shannon and SES events on my team. If you need a wedding planner, pick Shannon because she truly made my wedding everything I wanted it to be!”

“Shannon was amazing and so incredibly thoughtful. From our first phone meeting she made it her goal to capture our vision. As a bride that had to change her wedding plans several times, I was about to give up. Shannon took so much of the stressors away from us. She worked with all the vendors and made sure to get us the best deals. I received so many amazing compliments from other vendors saying they enjoyed working alongside Shannon. As someone who has a hard time making decisions, Shannon stepped right in. She is FABULOUS and worth every penny. I love that she offers an array of services. We decided to book her for the entire process and we were not disappointed.”

“As we were planning our wedding, everyone told us that even if something goes wrong the only people that will know are the bride and the bride’s mother. While this saying was meant to assure us that despite “inevitable” issues the weekend of the wedding it would be all right. However, in our mind if we planned enough we could ensure there was no need for contingency plans. As the wedding approached though we realized there was just too much for a single couple to be able to juggle leading up to, and on the day of our wedding… at least while ensuring that we were able to enjoy our special day as stress free as possible. Shannon was the answer to all of that. We brought Shannon into our vendor team late in the process, at this point we already had most of our vendors selected and hired. However, we wanted help with coordinating our vendors, ensuring all of the logistics were solidified, planning and executing on the decor aesthetic we were looking for, and finally creating the timeline for the day of the wedding. In what will become a common theme Shannon exceeded our expectations. We knew in order to give up control over these critical components of the wedding we would need somebody reliable, accountable, and available; again an area that Shannon went above and beyond in. Shannon truly runs events she is involved in as if they were her own. She reaches out to vendors and members of the family / wedding party independently to coordinate logistics, ensures no key element to the success of the event goes overlooked, reaches out regularly and proactively with updates, and potentially most importantly, follows up with couples on action items that they owned to ensure nothing slips through the cracks. These traits and her approach to event planning ensured not just a great event, but a genuinely enjoyable and less stressful planning process. Furthermore, Shannon went above and beyond our expectations of an event planner by helping us consolidate our vendors’ contract payment terms into a single document to ensure timely and full payment, recommending reliable and trustworthy vendors she has worked with in the past to round out our vendor team (such as dessert and transportation), helping us procure specific design elements for decoration to fully bring our vision together, and critically brought her experience and expertise to help advise on things that would have otherwise been overlooked or not considered. On the day of, Shannon brought in an assistant to help coordinate logistics across multiple sites so the wedding party could get ready off site while ensuring that all of the vendors were able to get access to and set up at the site of the ceremony and reception. I’m sure there were more roles that she played the day of such as coordinating the movement of decorations between ceremony and reception space, however, these were done so expertly that we as a couple were minimally involved and truly were able to be present at and enjoy our ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception with our friends, families and guests. Shannon was easily the MVP of our vendor team, ensuring that if there was an issue that occurred that weekend even we as the couple didn’t know. Without her our wedding would not have been the success of an event that it was. Our advice to all of our newly engaged friends has been to leave it to the professionals, get a wedding planner, and if possible get Shannon!”

““Shannon was amazing!!! We hired her for day of help and she went above and beyond our expectations. We started working together a few months before the wedding and she helped ensure no details were missed, helped us review our contracts and was always available to answer any question we had. We wanted our wedding to have a strict order of events to move the day as quickly as possible to allow for as much time to dance and Shannon worked with each of our vendors to make sure this came to life and our day went without any issues. I would 100% recommend Shannon, for full planning or just help the day off, your stress level will go down significantly with her help!””

“Do it! Book with Shannon!!
I was months into wedding planning with nothing to show for it except knowing we needed to have it in Rhode Island and we wanted it to be small and intimate as we were paying for the wedding ourselves and wanted to stay in budget.
I am originally from Providence but have been living in Tampa for the past few years. Finding a venue that would be in budget but still looked classy, romantic and most importantly not cheap was more then I bargained for! I was not prepared for how much work planning a wedding would be!
I found Shannon on The Knot and after reading reviews knew I needed to book with her! I booked full planning and wedding design and I am so happy I did! I had no idea of what I wanted except I wanted my wedding to look pretty and I wanted everyone to have a good time! Shannon asked all the right questions to hone in on what I truly wanted.
Shannon had numerous recommendations (all within budget of course) Shannon kept me and all the vendors on track, I would not have been able to pull off the wedding we had without her! The knowledge and expertise she brought to the table was priceless! The only thing I would change about working with her would be booking her sooner to save myself the headache and stress I had trying to plan a wedding without her!

I could really write a book on how great Shannon was, her communication was A1! She was available 24/7 the week of my wedding to answer any and all questions I had! She helped calm our screaming toddler when he refused to walk down the isle and took him off to calm down when he had a full blown meltdown while we said our vows and did our handfasting ceremony, she eased my worries when there was an impromptu Bolivian festival on the State House steps where I planned to take wedding photos. We got our shots and the dancers even joined in for a couple, my day was magical thanks to Shannon! She even joined us in some dancing at the end of the night, happy to say Shannon was a friend during one of the most important times of my life!”

“To say hiring Shannon for my wedding is the best wedding decision I made would an understatement. From the moment we had our initial consultation to the moment we left for our honeymoon she was kind, professional, organized and made sure we had everything we needed. We had a few hiccups with other vendors, and she rose to the challenge and was able to help me every step of the way. She helped keep us organized and on a timeline leading up to the big day as well as coming up with unique ideas that we had not thought of. Her day of coordination went way beyond what I even thought was possible. I could go on and on about how wonderful and professional Shannon is. If you are looking for a planner, she is the one to pick!”