Genesis Master of Events

Very glad to have worked with Victoria and Kevin. They’re professionalism, friendliness, and attention to details made my daughter’s wedding a wonderful event full of good memories. I would highly recommend Genesis MofE for any event.

Victoria and Kevin made this Mother of the Bride stress free! My daughter’s wedding on March 1^st was simply beautiful. Since, I live out of town, I knew it was going to be hard to put together a wedding like my daughter wanted. With Victoria and her staff, my daughter was able to have the wedding of her dreams.
She had fun enjoying the perks of the wedding package we got. Victoria knows how to listen to what you want and then guide you to get what you want, but stay in your budget. We did not have any of the problems the other reviewers experienced. In fact, quite the opposite. All the details were taken care of.
A special thanks to Scott and Sarah of DC Photography — amazing!

It was recently brought to my attention that GMofE wrote a response to my review on the Wedding Wire website. We did have an exit meeting with Victoria and Kevin where my mother went over all the details that they missed and described how unhappy we were. I normally would feel confident handling the issues myself, but I was too upset, I felt duped. Victoria thought that everything with the wedding went well, but apologized that we did not feel the same.
Yes, my husband and I hugged Victoria and Kevin at the end of the night. Victoria is a «hugger» and hugged us at the conclusion of every meeting. When I first arrived to the church I even told her how thankful I was for her and that I could not have pulled off my wedding without her. But that’s when I was under the impression that everything we discussed was going to be taken care of.
During the exit meeting, Victoria asked me why I did not tell them on my wedding day about my unhappiness. I told her that I did not want to discuss all the issues during my reception as I was not going to allow all of the things that they missed or that were wrong, ruin my day. GMofE knew we weren’t happy because my mom continued to ask Victoria’s staff why she wasn’t at the reception. When Victoria arrived my mom did discuss immediate concerns with her.
I don’t understand why they would have video of my husband and me hugging them as I did not have a videographer at my wedding or reception. Seems odd to me that they felt it necessary to need video of us hugging them.
There were so many details missed and because the Wedding Wire site limits the number of words in the reviews, I only included those that I felt were more significant. I didn’t have space to write about the wild goose chase we went on for an alternate venue because Victoria thought that our 1^st choice venue was already booked. She didn’t tell us this and we followed her to several potential venues. When Victoria finally disclosed that our 1^st choice venue was already booked, I didn’t understand how this was possible since I had a signed contract and had already given a deposit. I can only assume that she wasn’t aware that WE were the ones that booked the venue on my date because she never got back to me about my questions regarding the venue’s contract. I didn’t get to include that all several of the corsages and boutonnieres were never given to the people that they were intended for. At the end of the wedding ceremony, they were still lying on the banister at the entrance of the church. In our pictures G’Ma has a corsage, G’Pa has nothing. My aunts who we wanted recognized as being special to our wedding were supposed to have big beautiful orchids … they received nothing … must have been left on the banister. My brothers were my honor attendants and I wanted to make sure they ha nice orchid boutonnière’s. They received the ones with the small, ordinary looking chrysanthemums … one of my least favorite flower.
I told Victoria that I do not like centerpieces with all the greenery filler, that I like all flowers. My centerpieces were lots of green filler leaves and chrysanthemums. I did tell Victoria that I was starting to like the unique look of spider mums. These were not spider mums.
I didn’t get to include that we specifically gave Victoria my «guest book» plate so she could make sure it arrived at the ceremony. She didn’t bring it to the church, only the reception.
The candles down the aisle were not lit after specifically discussing with her the look/​feel we wanted for our ceremony and if the church would allow the candles to be lit. I’m sure they don’t light the candles so they can charge someone else to rent the same candles.
The point is that my mom and I thought of all of the details, but just needed someone to execute them. We had several meetings where were assured by Victoria that the details would be taken care of. Victoria told us over and over «I can see it all in my head.» I agree with Betsy J.‘s review (in the filtered Unilocal reviews) that at the beginning, they promise you everything. They make you feel all warm and fuzzy. You feel good and confident so you give them yours or your family’s hard earned money … $ 2,000 cash and sign their contract that says that they can fire you, but if you want to fire them you lose your $ 2,000. You’re still feeling warm and fuzzy and think, «They’re great! I’m not going to want to fire them.» And then after some time passes you begin to notice that things aren’t going as you were told that they would. You are afraid that by expressing that you aren’t happy with their services they will execute the clause in the contract where they can fire you, and you’re going to be out $ 2,000. If you chose to hire Gofer for your event, I hope that you have a better experience than I did.

If I can give them a zero, I would! Genesis is money hungry and they only think of themselves! I lost $ 2,000 on them and ended up not using them because of their lack in professionalism! Do not make the same mistakes I did and fall for their cheap gift basket trick!

Scott and I LOVE working with Victoria & Kevin. and all of their staff!
Genesis helps keep everything on track and in order the day of the wedding, it is a delight to work with them.