Mountainside Events -

Jordan Secher

We had the amazing opportunity to work with Taylor and Sarah at Mountainside Events! Taylor worked with our team at NOCO Style magazine for months leading up to the Best of NOCO Celebration where we hosted around 350 people! She helped to keep us organized and on track with our tasks as well as communicating with all of the participating vendors. With her dedicated time and talent, we felt confident going into the event smoothly and were excited to see all of our guests having a great time. We had the best celebration to date with their help. Taylor is great with working with multiple moving parts, staying organized, budget awareness and has a great attitude!

Mackenzie Malpass

Mountainside Events is so much more than an event planning company, they are incredible human beings and dedicated to the art of running an event! 10/10 hands down.

We are actually from DFW Texas and wanted a very small destination wedding in Colorado! We got engaged in December 2023 and began planning in January 2024 for a December 2024 wedding at The Boulders at Black Canyon Inn in Estes Park-- we reached out because of great reviews and because the business was women and LGBT owned! We got a prompt response from Taylor and soon after we began hashing things out, we were introduced to Sarah. When I say I literally COULD NOT recommend a better and more kind, equipped, and nimble coordinator!!! Sarah is so fantastic, incredibly organized, and her positive "don't sweat it" energy makes the entire planning process feel like a breeze. The wedding was super easy to plan with her help, which was worth its weight in gold when both my spouse and I work full-time! We were able to make 'fun' decisions more often than logistical ones 🙂

We did opt for their largest planning package, but I would spend that over and over again for the level of effort and care that went into our wedding. Every vendor she recommended to us and helped us hire was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! I have no doubt that their month of coordination and elopement packages and all other offerings have the same level of care dedicated to your event, and their relationships with other local event services really helped us get the best and brightest vendor team.

On a more personal level, two days before our wedding there was a huge and heartbreaking falling out with our families, to the point where we were worried the day might be ruined and irreparable. Sarah picked up the phone immediately, patiently sat on the phone with me as I cried, told me to not worry about logistics, that was the easy part, but to call her if I needed to talk or if either my spouse or I needed anything at all. She also personally drove my in-laws to our rehearsal dinner in her car when they got iced out of their AirBNB the next day, and worked her magic with the venue staff to organize a shuttle to pick them up after as well for an incredible price. She made edits to the timeline on the fly so seamlessly, it's like they were written into the plan from the start.

The day of was FLAWLESS. If there was any sort of issue, we did not hear about it! I was a little nervous getting ready on my own that morning but as soon as Sarah and Taylor showed up literally all of that melted away. Everything came together beautifully and was set up exactly as we envisioned. Sarah even helped pack up our belongings, food and cake, and grabbed our room key to go put it in our suite fridge so we didn't have to. I am certain she did so much more behind the scenes that we didn't even know about since we were so busy having fun dancing. Both of them were so, so sweet. I honestly had no expectations one way or another, but it truly was the best day of my life, and my spouse Elliott agrees. 🙂

I, the wife lol, am incredibly Type-A and have a hard time relinquishing control in my daily life. The way Sarah did everything the way I would have, or BETTER, made this feel like such a dream. We were truly guests of honor at our own wedding and basically all we had to do at the end of the night was sober up and grab our junk from the getting ready rooms, haha.

I know this is so long winded already, but if you're on the fence about it, PICK MOUNTAINSIDE EVENTS!!!!! You will not be disappointed, it's some of the best money we've ever spent. Sarah, we mean this from the bottom of our hearts, we'll never forget this and you mean so much to us. We hope you and Taylor stay in touch!!!

Josh Levin

The Mountainside Events team was so helpful in planning our July 2024 wedding. We first connected with Taylor in October 2023, and she actually had the idea for our venue, The Mishawaka. We absolutely fell in love with the idea of our wedding there, and Taylor took time to get to know us and our vision for the wedding really well, in order to bring that vision to life. About 2 months prior to the wedding, we connected with Sarah, our wedding coordinator. She has amazing energy and was so excited to help us every step of the way. From doing a final walk-through at the venue, to providing inventory from MSE for items we could rent for the wedding, to just trouble shooting any issues we came across along the way, Sarah was consistently very positive, accessible and responsive, and really pulled everything together. We absolutely loved everything about our wedding day, and couldn’t have done it without her, our assigned coordinator Randi and the rest of the MSE team!

Grace Arehart

Can not say enough positive things! We chose to do day of coordination and was so happy with Taylor Strope. She communicated with me leading up to my wedding day, was always available, and thought of every last detail so I didn't have to. I had zero stress on my wedding day because she has taken care of EVERYTHING. So happy we found her and had her for our wedding day. Extremely professional, experienced, and great to work with.

cindi harding

Absolutely a great experience to work with Taylor and her team. Made our wedding planning easy and we had such a great event!
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Callie Weldon

We had the most INCREDIBLE experience with Taylor and Sarah. From day 1, Mountainside was kind, patient and genuinely interested in the vision my husband and I had for our special day. We worked with them for almost 2 years and they kept in close contact in the months leading up to the event. Once Sarah was assigned as our day-of coordinator, she really hit the ground running to dig into all the details of how we envisioned our special day. I'll admit, we had a big vision for decor and vibes of the day. We requested so many details and definitely had opinions on all the small stuff. and Sarah not only truly saw that vision but acted as an extension of my brain to execute on it perfectly and with excitement. She was a planner, mediator, negotiator, therapist, and support system all in one. She even went to bat for us, without us asking, when a vendor stepped out of line a few days before the event. The day of the wedding was SO smooth. It's incredible how much went on behind the scenes with Mountainside to make the day run so seamlessly. All of our guests gushed about how perfect the day was and we 100% attribute that to the Mountainside team. BOOK THEM NOW YOU WILL BE SO HAPPY <3

Justin Gaczorek

It was a phenomenal journey working with Taylor the last 1.5 years! My now husband and I started working with Taylor back in December 2022 and we recently tied the knot on July 20, 2024! We found Mountainside Events because we they are a LGBTQ+ and woman owned business, and as a gay couple, it was imperative to work with inclusive vendors. Additionally, we are still relatively new to Colorado (originally from Chicago), so we knew we needed help planning what would be a destination wedding for majority of our guests.

From the start, Taylor provided us with the resources needed in order for us to understand timelines, research vendors, and craft the vision for our wedding. Our wedding became our dream wedding and we owe a big part to Taylor and her team! We also had the pleasure of working with Sarah! Their recommendations and guidance were invaluable because we connected with the best vendors who were able to bring our vision to life!

The number of details that go into planning a wedding are overwhelming, but Taylor made it manageable. She also joined us on numerous vendor calls in order to ensure that we asked the right questions and that each vendor was a good fit. Not only, did each vendor exceed our expectations, but we learned so much from them.

Whether you are newly engaged or ready to embark on the wedding planning journey, look no further than Mountainside Events! Taylor and Sarah will make sure to be by your side and transform your vision into reality! We cannot say thank you enough!

Much love: Justin, Danilo, and Maui

Veronica Mills (V-RON)

I first met Taylor while I was working for her other company, NOCO Staffing, in 2022. I saw how she and her team worked behind the scenes and was immediately impressed. I knew I wanted to hire them for our wedding the following year. She had excellent communication during the planning process, continually checked in with us, and went above and beyond to make sure our wedding day went off without a hitch. Even during the unexpected rain, Taylor and Maddie made everything feel seamless for us. They pulled out umbrellas for our guests during the ceremony, moved our reception indoors, and made sure we were all having a wonderful time. My husband and I were beyond happy with how everything turned out and would relive that day all over again if we could. Thank you SO much for making our day so special. We appreciate you all and will forever sing your praises!