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    Christina F.

    Amanda Beazley is an angel on earth. We were married in August 2020 at See Canyon Fruit Ranch and then hosted an intimate post-ceremony celebration at a private residence. I knew I wanted her on our vendor team from our first meeting but little did I know how truly essential and amazing she would be throughout our COVID-complicated wedding process. I was fortunate to find Amanda long before COVID turned our world upside down. As we kicked off 2020, she advised me through selecting vendors, then carefully compiled contact information for all the vendors and meticulously formulated an itinerary for our "perfect day." Cue, coronavirus in March. Our perfect plans suddenly felt irrelevant. Nevertheless, Amanda's positivity and professionalism never wavered. She knew we could still have a beautiful wedding even if it meant scaling back the guest count from 140 to 40 and moving the reception to a more private location. Amanda offered up countless hours of her time to make our day a success. She was there for last-minute walk-throughs, brainstorming how to have a safe, sanitary & fun celebration, communicating diligently with all parties involved and keeping us calm and focused on the wonderful, momentous wedding day ahead of us. Even when our photographer bailed THE DAY BEFORE the wedding, Amanda handled it with ease and took care of communicating with the amazing, new photographer who stepped-in. Amanda's unshakeable poise and ability to take care of any issue kept me from losing my composure many times! Amanda offers a range of reasonably priced planning packages and even created a custom planning package to best suit our needs. She became a trusted friend and source of comfort as we navigated through the challenging months leading up to our wedding day. Planning a wedding is not for the faint of heart. Then throw on a global pandemic and widespread restrictions on events. Weddings are still possible during this time and we need to celebrate love more than ever! Amanda reminded me of that and we will always be grateful she was such a central part of our perfect day.

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    Samantha N.

    2020....what else besides the stress of Covid - RAIN and HAIL...good thing we had Amanda from A Perfect Day   Planning   Amanda and her team were so helpful during the planning of our wedding. I interviewed a couple different wedding coordinator / planners and Amanda immediately stuck out to me as someone who would be easy to work with and highly organized. Amanda offered recommendations for vendors and ideas for preparing for the big day.   Leading up to the wedding   Amanda's reminders on where we should be in the planning process were excellent guides on planning our wedding over a two year period. With Covid we had a lot of crazy challenges to overcome. Amanda was always cool and collected offering the best advice on what to do. Amanda checked in often and was always available for a quick chat or text.   Also we did a walk-through of the venue a couple months before our big day and on the way to the venue my check engine light came on. Amanda helped us secure a place to take my car and they did a great job!   Last minute items   About a month before our wedding our caterer bailed on us due to covid. I was freaking out however again Amanda helped calm our nerves and gave us recommendations on what to do next. She even offered to call around to see who was available. With Amanda's help we got it all back on track and a caterer lined up.   If the caterer bailing wasn't enough we had a lot of last minute cancellations and Amanda worked with us to redo our seating plans and other various items.   Lastly a couple days before the wedding the weather decided to shift and there was rain planned for our big day. Amanda again helped calm us and had great ideas on sourcing white umbrellas and helped us secure a tent.   Day of   The day of the wedding it rained most of the morning and even hailed. Amanda again was there with her team ready for anything that was thrown our way. Amanda and her team took care of everything and I didn't have to worry about any of the details (which is hard for me because I am a project manager) J Everyone commented on how lovely everything was and how friendly and nice Amanda and her team were. Lastly Amanda had an issue with her car before the wedding and guess what you would have never known that, she didn't speak one word about it and it didn't impact her ability to do her job during the wedding. She was all smiles and ensured we had a great time.   After the wedding   Amanda and her team took care of everything and ensured the venue was cleaned up and everything was ready to be picked up.   Amanda and Emily - thank you for making our day so memorable and easy going. We highly recommend Amanda for your wedding planning. She's cool, calm, collected and super professional.

    In true 2020 fashion, my husband and I had to plan and replan our wedding three times. We hired Amanda to assist us in planning and replanning our San Luis Obispo wedding while we were living in Newport Beach. She was so flexible and understanding with all the different location changes due to the pandemic. Amanda truly, like I said in the review title, goes above and beyond to ensure your wedding day exceeds expectations. Leading up to the event, she was more than willing to attend site visits... meet the rental company at the site while we were in Orange County...and even formulate a master event timeline document detailing our wedding vision and vendor needs. She has great relationships with the local vendors; which further proves her professionalism is recognized in the SLO County wedding community. Amanda is a pleasure to work with and I'm so thankful for her orchestrating and creating the most perfect COVID-19 friendly, micro-wedding.

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    Weddings By Sarah Angelique - Allyson Magda Photography

    Weddings By Sarah Angelique

    (10 reviews)

    In the strongest possible terms, we recommend looking elsewhere for your wedding planning and…read morecoordination needs in the Paso Robles area. We lost our deposit to Sarah, she delivered no work product, and ultimately ghosted us. Please continue reading for the details if you haven't already crossed her off your list. Our relationship started in early January 2022 and she was the first vendor we hired. Our venue required hiring a coordinator and provided a few recommendations. We thought that experience with the venue and relationships with local vendors would serve us well, so we hired her. First signs of trouble occurred in February. Upon us hiring her, we communicated a date that we'd travel to Paso Robles from our home in the Bay Area for late Feb, providing 6+ weeks lead time for her. It's an expensive trip for us plus we have full lives with work and family obligations, so we wanted to lock in the key vendors on this trip that required in person meetings. We reiterated the importance of this trip multiple times to Sarah. We held weekly conversations as well as emailed and texted with her, so we thought this was under control. About a week out prior to our travel weekend, we started asking about a schedule because there was none. These requests got more urgent as the week proceeded. The MORNING we were driving to Paso Robles, we asked her for details of our first vendor meeting and that's when we finally got a schedule. Needless to say the trip didn't go well. We wasted time with vendors that weren't priority and some were so misaligned with our needs which a quick conversation could have avoided those meetings. But we did walk away from the trip with a couple of leads to move to contract. In March, we started trying to follow up with Sarah on the vendors we liked as we wanted to secure them and avoid the risk of losing our date to other couples. Sarah claimed it was under control but we were never presented with contracts or asked for deposits. Our biggest follow up with was catering given the one Sarah presented to us was a complete mismatch. We undertook the search ourselves and ultimately found a caterer that fit our needs and budget. As we got into late March and then April, we started to hear less and less from Sarah. She would fire off weird updates to assure us she was hard at work but generally wouldn't return our texts or calls in the timely fashion as in the early part of the relationship. We still had no vendors secured and we started to get nervous and knew we needed to plan another trip. We decided to follow up with the handful of vendors we had contact info for just to see if there was a hold up somewhere. They all universally responded that they were either waiting on Sarah for a go ahead or that they didn't have our date secured. That's when we ended the relationship and took the planning upon ourselves. Even in the final 48 hours, she didn't reply to our urgent requests or even the fact we told her she was fired. To this day, we haven't heard from her. To say that she overpromised and under delivered is an understatement, steer far clear with your wedding planning needs.

    Sarah Angelique is the absolute best wedding planner! She gave me the wedding of my dreams and made…read moreall my dreams come true! She understood my vision and really made it come to life. I can't imagine what that day would have been like without her handling everything and making sure everything was going well. I didn't have to stress or worry at all on my special day because I knew Sarah was on top of everything! I can't recommend her enough. She's the absolute best there is!!! Not to mention she has also become a lifelong friend and is planning my sister's wedding right now!! We love Sarah Angelique!

    Kristiana's Coordinations - Everything Kristiana did to carry out my vision

    Kristiana's Coordinations

    (3 reviews)

    Kristiana was the BEST DECISION we made for our wedding! If we could rate her 10 out of 5 stars, we…read morewould! Not only was she our Day of Coordinator, she was the captain that kept the ENTIRE wedding ship afloat during an EMERGENCY POWER OUTAGE caused by a FIRE! She knew exactly how to ensure everyone's safety and comfort in a pitch black venue. From our first call, Kristiana's compassion and organization were evident. I knew when she talked about having a bathroom and emergency kit, having a toy prepared for any upset child, and having a full blown software to help design the wedding layouts - that she was the best. Her excitement and encouragement made planning stress-free, and she consistently reassured me that we would find solutions to any challenges AND bring any vision to life. On the wedding day, Kristiana excelled and was the best person to have by my side. She managed the vendors, kept the timeline on track, and was always there when I needed her. Whether it was safety pinning the entire inner layer of my wedding gown to prevent tripping, finishing petal toss cups last minute because the caterers forgot to do it, or comforting me before the ceremony because everyone else was too excited, she was a hero. AND THEN THERE WAS THE POWER OUTAGE! A nearby fire shut down all the power in the entire area - and the venue was completely dark. I was so afraid the wedding was over an hour early after all the money and time invested into the big day. Kristiana made sure everyone was safe, communicated effectively, and kept things moving. She even moved my card box to a safe location just because there were no more lights. She truly thought of every detail. Not only that, a week and a half after the wedding, she has been proactively seeking a partial refund from my venue for me because they did not have any back up lighting for an emergency situation that put all of the guests (especially elderly) at risk. And when I found out catering did not bring GF food for my GF guests, she took it upon herself to call them to get compensation for such a costly mistake. THINGS THAT SHE DID NOT HAVE TO DO AT ALL! All this to say, Kristiana is truly an ANGEL! She is the most caring and compassionate soul and without her, I truly don't know what would have happened during the wedding. The wedding was a fairytale and I truly believe the majority of that credit goes to her. Her proactive and caring nature left a lasting impression on everyone. I cannot recommend her enough. Thank you so much Kristiana for EVERYTHING!

    Kristiana was truly the best to work with through our wedding. She stepped right in on the day of…read moreand made the entire day run like it was all meant to be. Kristiana was our glue holding the entire night together. She understood my vision and executed it with care, as though it were her own. Her caring and thorough approach took the stress off everything for us, we just knew it was handled. She is truly the best! I can't recommend her enough!

    CJN Event Planning - Photos masonandmegan  Venue higueraranch  Planning-cjneventplanning

    CJN Event Planning

    (27 reviews)

    I hired Jamie as my day-of planner a month ago for my wedding at Santa Margarita Ranch and she was…read moreabsolutely incredible! She was so organized and on top of everything that I didn't have to worry about a single thing that entire weekend... and trust me, I'm a total control freak so that's easier said than done! Another thing that I really appreciated about Jamie was that even though I only hired her for the day-of, she was totally accessible for the entire year leading up to the event. We're not from the area so we really relied on her for vendor recommendations and such. I would HIGHLY recommend Jamie and her team to anyone!

    If I could give more stars to Jamie and Chris, I definitely would!!…read more I cannot say enough good things about their services. We hired CJN for the entire planning and up to day-of festivities and they rocked! From helping us pick out and hire several individual vendors, to taking care of our champagne at the reception (storing it, chilling it, and serving it (!)), they never let us stress! Things went so smoothly that I am completely convinced that there is no way we could have done it without them! At the end, we almost felt like we had UNDER-paid them, since they went above and beyond what we had expected. We live in the Bay Area and had our wedding on the Central Coast, so you can imagine the stress we would have had without CJN. EVERY minor detail, from each timeline detail, to the type of food we wanted for our rehearsal dinner, was handled by CJN. They never took over to the point that we didn't have a say, they just made sure that every single thing was handpicked by us, and they ran with it. The rehearsal, the planning, the ceremony, and the reception was so seamless that we were utterly elated at the end. And, this may sound silly, but Jamie was so quick to reply, and so detailed in her questions and tasks, that we will miss not working with her any longer and being in constant contact. Maybe we will have a big anniversary party in a few years, just so we can hire her again!

    Buonasera Events - Florals by Monica

    Buonasera Events

    (23 reviews)

    Monica was absolutely amazing! Can't speak highly enough on all the value she provided! Went above…read moreand beyond expectations and truly made our wedding day more special and smooth! She kept calm and provided experience throughout the whole process and was extremely kind and easy to work with!

    Monica was a phenomenal wedding coordinator! I had initially planned to do everything myself and…read morejust have someone execute my vision on the wedding day. However, a few weeks into planning, I realized having an individual with knowledge of all the vendors, and ensuring no other details were missed was critical. I was living on the east coast and planning a wedding celebration on the west coast, so I needed someone else expertise and personal experiences. I chose Monica because: (1) she was very responsive to emails, (2) was so warm, friendly and personable and (3) was willing to work with my budget. She had worked with every vendor I had chosen (except the ice cream truck). She reviewed every contract before I signed. She save us a lot of money on decor and flowers by using her personal inventory and skills. She caught errors in my list and counts for my rentals. She revised my venue layout multiple times and shared in my OCD nature of documentation in google docs. She met with me several times before the wedding day and met up with me in person a month before the wedding when we went to see the venue. The week before the wedding, she contacted all the vendors and I was able to spend time with family. The day of the rehearsal dinner she showed up 4.5 hours early to ensure all the setup was completed for the night and for part of the next day. It went without a hitch and she took care of the decor, and communications with catering. The day of the wedding, she arrived earlier than us to set up! She did my flowers, and did an amazing job. My bouquet was lovely and huge! While my family and I got our hair and makeup done, she set up/decorated the welcome tables, beverage stations, reception tables, escort tables and cocktail tables. She was an organized and calm presence, coordinating with photography, ensuring we were on schedule and guiding us for the ceremony. At the reception, she helped DJ mark with seamless transitions in the itinerary and some small modifications. At the end of the night, she waited for the last person to leave the venue and went above and beyond to help us ensure everyone's safety. Overall, Monica is the best coordinator I couldn't have had the perfect day without her. She made the entire planning process fun and smooth. I felt relaxed and confident through the 4 month planning process! I highly recommend her!

    Michele Carroll Events - Coordination: Planimation Events // Venue: La Cuesta Ranch // Photographer: Hannah Kate Photography

    Michele Carroll Events

    (25 reviews)

    Michele was amazing. We used Planimation Events for Month of Coordination. I went to Michele with…read moreany question/concern/problem I had and she was incredibly helpful with everything! She always showed up with a smile on her face and a positive attitude (even when I was getting to be bridezilla). She accommodated every request and offered suggestions to make the wedding run as smoothly and beautifully as possible. We had some issues with our venue (that's another story) and weren't able to set everything up the night before the wedding. There was so much left undone, and I had a plan for it all. I gave Michele a super quick run through of about 20 things I needed to be done the day of the wedding. I didn't know how she was going to get it all done or remember it all, but she did. I didn't do a thing the day of the wedding, Michele and her girls took care of it all -- and it looked amazing! She got every detail right, paid attention to every request I gave her. She respected my ideas and my vision and honored that to give me my perfect day. She was kind and professional and truly was happy for both of us on the day of our wedding. You can tell Michele does this because she loves it. She is genuine and generally a lovely person to be around. Honestly, my wedding would not have been what it was without Michele. I am so happy we used Planimation Events to plan our wedding. I highly recommend Michele and her team. Thank you Michele!!

    From the Bride: When we booked our venue, the event manager advised us that we didn't really need…read moreto hire an outside coordinator; apparently very few couples getting married at the Madonna Inn enlist additional help. Because we live out of the area and wanted to enjoy our wedding day as thoroughly as possible, we decided to go ahead and find some extra help who would make sure everything ran smoothly. I interviewed half a dozen highly-qualified planners/coordinators in the SLO area before finding Planimation Events to help us with month-of and day-of services. My initial impressions of Michele were that she was kind, competent, and well-organized; but it turns out her qualifications don't end there! Before the wedding Michele worked with each of our vendors to make sure everyone was well-coordinated and everything was as we planned it. From making sure flags in the reception room were removed before dinner (long story) to perfectly placing each last bit of decor, Michele and her team knew exactly what it took to make sure everything ran smoothly. On the day of the wedding we didn't see Michele much because she and her assistant were actively running the "show behind the show"; everything ran on time and according to plan - if there were any snafus, we had no idea because Michele took care of it. With Planimation's help we were able to relax (well, as much as one can on their wedding day!) and enjoy all our friends and family knowing that Michele had taken care of everything we threw at her along the way. Now here's the part where I get sappy and maybe even a little teary-eyed. Michele and her team provided exactly what we hired Planimation to do flawlessly; make sure all details were taken care of so we could be as present as possible on our wedding day. But the services Michele provided that weren't written in any contract or advertised on her website lie in the deep care and concern she showed for us (the bride and groom) as nervous humans trying to manage our emotions, our relatives, our wedding party, on the day of the biggest party we'll probably ever throw. She and her assistant kept us calm and laughing throughout the day; and not in a superficial way. I truly believe that Michele cares deeply about the people she works with and for; something rare in an industry dedicated to creating "picture perfect" days. With Michele's help our day not only LOOKED picture perfect but FELT picture perfect. Thank you, Planimation, for providing us peace of mind, kindness, and friendship. You have our deepest gratitude for your soulful support and buoyantly positive attitude. We love you! From the Groom: I was very reluctant to spend money on a wedding coordinator when both my wife and I are capable and well-organized. Michele turned out to be a wise investment, leaving wedding-ruining chores and stress to her and her staff, allowing us to enjoy our wedding. Michele was exactly what we needed. Planimation was easy to work with and professional, with what I'm told are good rates. This staff has my deep appreciation.

    A Perfect Day - wedding_planning - Updated May 2026

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