On the morning of the wedding, Chris and his friends went out clay pigeon shooting. I on the other hand went for a leisurely run around Norwood Park. Several of our friends along with the hair stylist and make-up artist commented that they’d never seen anyone so completely calm before getting married.

As much as we’d love to claim we have nerves of steel, we in fact have Val and Anna to thank for everything! Val provided us with her full wedding planning service which meant she helped us every step of the way from choosing a location, finding fantastic suppliers to liaising with the local Register offices and then pulling all the details together on the big day. We were so calm because we knew the team had everything under control and that things would just run smoothly.

Planning a wedding can be hard enough at times but when you’re doing it from hundreds of miles away I’d imagine it adds a whole other level of stress.

Thankfully we have no clue what that other level of stress feels like because we had Val. She kept us on track, offered support when needed and gave us ideas we never would have come up with on our own. The day itself could not have gone any better. Our guests still talk about the wedding and how much fun they had.

It was an absolute pleasure working with Val so if you’re thinking about hiring Benessamy...do it!

We got married in 2017 and can't thank Val and her team enough for the wonderful job they did co-ordinating our special day. Benessamy were absolutely amazing, they took all the stress and pressure off so we were able to just relax and enjoy our day. We'd highly recommend Val and her team.

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Having Val on board for our wedding was easily one of the best and easiest decisions we made! A truly unique lady who we couldn't have done without. Our wedding was quite simply our best day ever and having Val as our wedding planner ensured that the whole day ran smoothly.

Professional, supportive and offering guidance when needed, Val is a must have at your wedding. She gave us things to think about that we hadn't even considered and gave answers to our many questions. Val gave us peace of mind at the time we needed it most and we would not hesitate in recommending Val.

We were advised late in the planning to get someone to help with the lead-up and on the day assistance. Val was recommended to us by Julia of Frances Day Bridal.
It was one of the best pieces of advice. Val was incredible, extremely organised, efficient and phenomenally calm! She helped sort out one of the suppliers who was being difficult, co-ordinate the others and stood ‘no nonsense’ from anyone! On top of that she was so easy to have around and has a great sense of humour, she always seemed to be smiling. Her team on the day were also fabulous, hard working and discreet.
Val's presence definitely helped calm everyone’s nerves, and helped the day run very smoothly. We could not recommend her more highly for your wedding plans.

There's so much we can, will and should say about Val, but the short answer is that she's an absolute freakin' SUPERSTAR!

We didn't initially even consider needing any kind of event planner for our wedding, but it soon became clear that the logistics of the venue we'd picked demanded some assistance.

There really aren't any words for how much Val aided us, from taking names and contact details for literally every supplier we had, coordinating their arrival times and itineraries, being the point of contact on the day should any issues arrive all the way down to helping me cack-handedly assemble a pair of easels the day before, and inflating helium balloons the morning of, Val did it all, and made our wedding run smoother than it had any right to do given the scale and lack of foresight of our wedding.

On the day she was tireless, keeping all the music playing, keeping everyone in the right place at the right time, and I'm sure 1000 other things we didn't even notice her doing to ensure our day was utterly perfect, we came downstairs the morning after the wedding expecting to find a bombsite, only to find that Val had already been around at the end of the wedding tidying up and making our life so much simpler.

Val - you would have been an absolute bargain at 3 times the price, and you were the best money we spent in the entire wedding. Thank you so much for everything you did.

We had the pleasure of working with Benessamy Events last October when we got married. From the moment we met Val, we knew that we would get along. Val took the time to understand exactly what we wanted and didn't want. Val was extremely professional, especially when liaising with our suppliers, it was reassuring just having Val with us on supplier meetings to ensure we remembered to ask all the questions we needed answering.Val was on hand whenever we needed her, even responding to a late pre-wedding night call for help when mother of the bride forgot her toothbrush and tights! On the day Val was invaluable, we knew we could trust Val to sort any problems that might arise, and she did.
We would definitely recommend Benessamy Events to anyone - even if you think you are pretty organised like I do, it really takes the pressure off you and allows you to enjoy your day as you should.

We used Val's 'on the day service' and it was really fantastic. We met with Val before the wedding and gave her all our suppliers details and ran through what we wanted from our special day. Val was great and drew up a timetable for the day and made sure everything went to plan. We had such a lovely day and were able to enjoy every second without worrying because Val took care of our guests and liaised with staff at the venue. We were so confident that our guests were being well looked after that we went for a detour in our wedding car to have some time to ourselves safe in the knowledge that Val would make sure everything was fine. We would definitely recommend Val, and our guests commented on how lovely she was too.