Elizabeth Kramer, Wedding Coordinator and Consultant
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Category: Planner
Location: Portland, OR
Style: simple, elegant, joyful
Starting Price: $4,000 for coordination; $250 for consulting
ABOUT VENDOR
Meet Elizabeth Kramer
My mission is to help change the wedding industry because I believe we deserve better. I fight the wedding industrial complex through: a gallery of free resources; articles to help clients plan; my monthly newsletter; my book; renting my Virgo wedding planner brain by the hour; hiring me to coordinate a wedding; a space I co-founded for vendors who change the wedding industry.
How does Elizabeth approach weddings?
I think life is hard enough already so I try to offer realistic advice that centers the needs of my clients and the vendor team.
What are some traits of your ideal clients?
Intentional
Joyful
In love
What are three of your favorite things?
Crossword puzzles
Watching "Taskmaster"
Going on walks with my family
TESTIMONIAL
“There really are just no words to describe how helpful, joyous, reassuring, and wonderful it was planning our wedding with the help of Beth!
We kept expecting the wedding planning process to feel overwhelming or stressful, but she somehow managed to keep it manageable, comfortable, and fun the entire time! Her monthly check-ins and quick responses helped keep us on track with finding vendors and decision making, and it meant everything to know that she was available for any questions or anything we were unsure of along the way. Having Beth's insight and experience lifted a huge weight off of us, knowing we could defer to and trust her suggestions 100%. It's such a treat to look back at our wedding now and know we would plan everything the exact same if we did it all over again!
Our queer wedding and my experience as a nonbinary bride both felt so completely safe in Beth's hands, and it was really special to have this part of wedding planning feel so well taken care of the whole time. We really admired and appreciated her commitment to deconstructing the "wedding industrial complex," challenging some of the more traditional wedding elements and language that didn't feel right to us, and always offering us alternatives. Her kindness and professionalism quickly made the idea of wedding planning way less daunting, and reminded us to focus on enjoying our own wedding!
Beth was always happy to help communicate with vendors, provide timeline reminders for payments and contracts, help us narrow down our options when it felt impossible to decide, and reassure us that we were on the right track. Having her there with us on our wedding day brought such wonderful calm and confidence to the hectic day, and made it so we could actually focus on just soaking it all in together.
Working with Beth was a complete and total dream - our friends and family have not stopped gushing over her since our wedding! She was absolutely essential to the entire process, and we seriously had a blast with her every step of the way.
Thank you thank you thank you, Beth, for literally everything! We did it!!!”
