Rachel J. Events -

Rachel Skradski

I could literally write a book about how INCREDIBLE this company is. I'm SOOO happy I hired Rachel to be my wedding planner. Rachel made the wedding planning process fun and enjoyable. She was totally on top of everything from start to finish and I really appreciated her prompt communication throughout the entire process. Because I planned my wedding during the Covid Pandemic, we had to change the plans several times. Rachel never missed a beat and was always flexible with changes and happy to help execute them.

On top of being amazing to work with, Rachel made my vision for my wedding day come to life. My wedding decor was absolutely STUNNING (see pictures in comments). She exceeded my expectations in every way, shape and form. Do yourself a huge favor and hire this lady, you won't be disappointed!

Thank you so much Rachel❤️

Rachel Kallman

We hired Rachel J. Events for full design of our wedding reception venue and we are SO thankful we did. Our wedding decor was absolutely stunning. Rachel was incredibly easy to work with and was extremely thorough. I wish you could see the amount of inventory she has!! She brought life to my Pinterest dreams at a very reasonable price. She is a MUST HAVE for your wedding day.

Nic Hermsen

What positive things can I not say about Rachel J. Events? As a vendor, I've worked with several wedding coordinators and planners in and around Omaha. Rachel's team is by far one of the most creative, professional, and positive groups of people I've had the pleasure to work with. Anytime I'm lucky enough to be contacted to provide music for a Rachel J. wedding, I'm always blown away at their attention to detail and planning. Hire them!

Carly Conrad

Rachel and her team are the Omaha Wedding Vendors MVP!!

After getting engaged, my fiancé and I had no idea where to start with the wedding planning process, so we hired Rachel and her team for full service and design. I’m not being dramatic when I say she was the best thing that happened to us! I had never been the girl to have a dream wedding made in mind already. I gave Rachel a few things that I liked, such as A LOT of flowers ;), and she created my dream wedding that I never even knew I had envisioned. She made our planning process so smooth and fun. My fiancé and I were truly able to enjoy our full engagement and be present with each other throughout the wedding planning process, and I know that is because of Rachel and her team.

My one piece of advice for any newly engaged Omaha couples is hire RJE (or even simply use her rentals RJR) you will absolutely not regret it. Rachel is truly a dream to work with, and trust me you will want her and/or her team to be a part of your vendor line up on your wedding day!

Tyler Egr

Booking Rachel J. Events had been the most incredible decision we could have ever made for our wedding planning journey!! The entire process was smooth and stress free thanks to Rachel & her team! She brought our vision to life and allowed for us to be present on our big day! Cannot recommend them enough!!!

daniel muller

Rachel and her crew are amazing to work with! As a wedding photographer, I always get excited when a couple mentions they are working with Rachel J. Events. Professional, organized, kind and always adding positive energy on a wedding day.

Jj Baratta

My wife and I hired Rachel J Events to plan our 2022 summer wedding. We are so happy to be married; many things about our wedding were beautiful, but our experience with Rachel left much to be desired. We spoke to a few local wedding planners and selected Rachel because of the promise of experience and organizational skill. We set and communicated a wedding budget and followed the next steps as a new client. We were so excited when Rachel and her team presented the first design layout – gorgeous plans well aligned with our overall vision. Imagine our shock when we learned the proposed design exceeded our wedding budget by 3 times!
After we declined the design budget, our interactions with Rachel took on a different tone. Rachel took zero accountability for overselling and over-promising the design elements. She told my fiancée and her mother that THEY needed to go over the design elements one by one: seating vignettes, table décor, signage, florals, lighting, and hundreds of other details, to figure out where they could cut costs. This was very frustrating! The reason we decided to hire a wedding planner was to reduce the work and stress. We were blamed for our vision being over budget; when Rachel should have taken accountability for over-promising. After nickel-and-diming our way through the proposed design concept, we were exhausted fighting for the things we wanted. Ultimately, Rachel got everything her way – but this wasn’t her wedding, it was ours!
We felt pressured to pick the vendors Rachel chose, ignoring our preferences. We were sent countless emails with different stylists, bakers, and florists, none from OUR list that we had provided to Rachel before our initial meeting. We were told this was because Rachel didn’t have connections with the vendors we selected. Rachel claimed to have the perfect florist for our vision, but her proposal required 3 florists! She also made more “budget cuts” without consultation, resulting in choices we would not have made. The more we said no, the more pushback we received, but if anything went wrong, we were blamed. Rachel took no accountability. We gave up on the wedding planning process being a fun, light, exciting time – because any communication with Rachel made us feel unheard or taken advantage of. We were just hoping the wedding day would make up for all we went through to get there.
This is my first wedding, so I didn’t know 100% what to expect, but after paying for a full-service wedding planner, we at the very least expected her to ensure the wedding day ran smoothly, to act as the point of contact for anyone needing assistance, to corral the wedding party, to help with minor makeup touch-ups, to ensure that all wedding personnel had their flowers, and that the venue was set up perfectly and on time. Unfortunately, that is not how our wedding day went. In fact, multiple people (family, wedding party, vendors, and guests) asked *us* where Rachel was during the day.
We are grateful to our photographer for filling the role of day-of coordinator. He was with us the whole day, correcting timeline issues or ceremonial details and making sure that our day ran smoothly. We are very happy to be married but, our experience with Rachel was extremely disappointing. We felt that she consistently pushed her own agenda and prioritized benefitting herself and her business far above creating a perfect wedding day for us. We hope this review helps other couples in their choices and Rachel to improve.

Karlyn Jurgensen Daniel

Rachel has more energy than anyone I know in the wedding industry. She is one of my favorite vendors to work with because she brings that energy to absolutely everything she does. Her business is growing so fast, and I'm not at all surprised about that. She is so incredibly creative. I'm always honored when she invites me to provide music for her clients because I know she carefully curates every single detail she presents to them. Omaha is so lucky to have Rachel and her team!