Thank you so much for being such a fantastic wedding co-ordinator!
We really are so pleased we found you, our day was perfect and everything we could have dreamed of. You were so helpful in the year running up to our big day, always there when endless questions were asked through either email or skype, such a lovely person and so easy to talk with! You understood what we wanted from our day, how we imagined it was exactly what we got because of you!
When we got to Cyprus you were helpful in wedding and out, we loved our evening out with you at your restaurant, so lovely to chat and reminisce about or special day! You made planning an abroad wedding much less daunting and stress free, and the day went without fault, it was simply amazing!
I would recommend everyone to 1. Marry is Cyprus, and 2. To choose Stella Virdi at Exclusive weddings (&/or Zaffron weddings) to help plan your big day 110%!
So what can we say about Stella Virdi, that no one has already said.
Simple answer – nothing.
But we can confirm that Stella is not a wedding planner she is a person with an amazing way of understanding what people want and delivering exactly what the wedding couple want. Ours was a simple wedding but we felt Stella placed no less importance on ours than on a huge event with more complex requirements.
We believe many would say that any wedding planner would do that, but Stella brings something extra beyond efficiency, understanding and great planning and that is our feeling that she is a friend who wants as much from the day as us. She is truly a person we would be proud to call a friend and we would expect to meet up with her again whenever we return to Cyprus. Thank you Stella for making our day exactly what we wanted and thanks also to the photographer you chose for us, Andy. Like Stella he has an amazing talent, not just as a photographer, but also in making you feel so special and has a great approach to achieving amazing results by insuring you feel totally relaxed with him. The results have totally stunned us, our family and friends.
Thank you again Stella you can rest assured that we will never forget our day or our time spent with you.
We first heard about Stella from Exclusive weddings Cyprus from a colleague who had been out in Cyprus at one of her weddings, and getting in touch with her was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. From our initial e-mail making contact she was able to establish exactly the kind of wedding we were envisioning, and was able to recommend a beautiful venue. We literally exchanged hundreds of e-mails as well as phone calls and Skype, and no problem or query was too small and she went above and beyond to help bring our perfect day together.
We went out on a trip to Cyprus prior to the wedding, where she spent time showing us around the venue and suppliers. When our wedding finally came around, she made everything a breeze – all the legal bits, town hall etc. were handled professionally and swiftly, and on the day itself she was on hand to make sure everything went perfectly to plan (and even the tiny things that didn’t go to plan we didn’t need to worry about, as Stella was on it!). Stella took brilliant photos of our day and had them ready on discs for us and our parents, which was a lovely touch and allowed us to look back on everything before the official ones arrived.
In addition, Stella’s contacts are amazing and all the suppliers and professionals she put us in touch with were brilliant and truly helped us have the wedding we had dreamed of. In particular we have to mention:
Maria and her team who did amazing hair and make-up – I had been slightly worried as I didn’t have a trial but I showed her photos and the end result was a million times better than the pictures!
Andrew our priest and Helen at the Anglican Church of Paphos took the time to get to know us beforehand and looked after us and our guests during the ceremony and Andrew did a lovely, very personal service which meant a lot to both of us and our families.
Blue Jar, our musicians, did a fantastic job of playing during our ceremony and they also performed our first dance, which was so good that one of our guests thought it was a pre-recorded version until they realised it was Lesley singing. Spine tingling!
Paris of Enchanted Flowers did the most beautiful bouquets and decorations, which everyone commented on, and which made the venue look absolutely amazing. Which also matched my dress and style of our wedding perfectly. It was such a privilege to be able to work with her.
Jo and Jackie at Love Island Cakes, who made us the most gorgeous and delicious wedding cake and biscuit place names, as well as cupcakes for the bridal party to have whilst getting ready.
Thanks you as well to Sherie and Jasmine, who helped us with all our additional decorations.
I cannot recommend Stella Virdi highly enough for anyone planning a wedding in Cyprus and would like to thank her again for all her help and hard work.
We are so pleased to have come across Stella Virdi as our Wedding Planner, she is so organised and for this reason the day itself and the leading up to the day all fell nicely into place. Stella took charge of all the preperations as we would expect her to do and looked after all of us on the wedding day. Stella has great relationships with her Suppliers, makeup, hair, flowers etc. We got on really well with Stella and felt so relaxed with her, I would have no hesitation in recommending Stella to future brides.
For the decorator Sherie
We had an idea in mind for decorations on our wedding day and Sherie was great she understood our desired effect however she also asked if it would be OK to add her own ideas, I advised I would be more than happy to leave her to it, shes the expert! The effect we had was a contract of Shabby Chic / Vintage during the ceremony such as flowers, hearts and lanterns with a contemporary / modern twist during the reception meal of glass and lots of candles, we were so pleased with how the decorations came out, thank you so much Sherie!
For the Hair-Dresser Maria
I was really pleased with the way Maria completed all our hair styles and so quickly! Seven of us had our hair worked on, my self, three bridesmaids and three guests and within under two hours they were all complete! Maria was friendly, professional and she did exactly what I had showed her in the pictures, stunning! Thank you again Maria.
For the Make-up Artist – Danielle
I was aiming for flawless, radiant and natural makeup and thats exactly what I got! I was very dubious initially about having my makeup done for me, I have always been used to doing my own, I therefore was intending to make myself up on the wedding day however decided against it and am so glad I did, I would suggest a bride has her makeup done for her on her special day. You advise Danielle exactly what you would like to achieve and Danielle understands, having makeup also done for you shows amazingly well for the photos, I am so pleased with the way it turned out, I felt so pretty on my wedding day! Thank you again.
I hope that I haven’t missed anyone out;, thank you all once again, you were great Stella!
Hopefully be able to meet up with you when we come back in 2016!
Hi Stella Virdi, Wedding Planner Extraordinaire! Just a few lines to try and express our thanks, love and gratitude for all you did for us, not only on our wedding day, but the whole two years from meeting you and booking it, to actually having the most wonderfully magical day of our lives!
I knew you would be good, I didn’t know that I’d found the best 🙂 It was indeed a lucky day when I watched a little programme called Nice Day For A Greek Wedding and there you were, organising a blessing for a lovely couple in Paphos, just the place where my new husband Steve and I wanted to get married. I tracked you down on the internet and contacted you, little did I know that that was going to lead to not only the best day of my life, but to a lovely beautiful woman who I now call my friend.
You patiently dealt with my numerous emails and changing ideas with grace and kindness over the two years, from initially meeting you and booking the big day. You organised a Greek Wedding Reception, including Greek Dancers, in ten minutes!! As well as the most delicious Greek Buffet 🙂 You ferried us around doing the legal bits as well as kindly taking us to the ‘better’ supermarket for a ‘big’ shop, your poor little car must have been exhausted with all that shopping ;o) Jim (Dimitri Katchis, the award winning photographer) only works with the ‘better wedding planners’, so it says on his website, you are more than better, you are THE BEST!!
Our wedding day 26th July 2013, was so relaxed, full of laughter and happiness and I put all that down to the confidence we had in you, we knew it was going to be good, we didn’t know it was going to be a day that we would want to relive over and over again 🙂 Luckily we can, with all the photos supplied by you and Jim, and I never get tired of looking at them and remembering all the precious moments of that day.
Anyone who’s reading this, wondering if they should get married in Cyprus (Paphos area), I say do it, but do it with Stella, she really will make all your dreams and wishes come true!
We love you Stella Virdi and thank you from the bottom of our hearts
