When I think of a local business I'm most thankful for, the list is rather lengthy. But one…read morebusiness that deserves all the gratitude in the world, especially with this last year being so difficult, is Simply Chic Events. It all started with a cold call requesting Santa for an event. Yes, folks - Irma has the power to summon the big jolly man himself. This Santa was 100% the real deal and even made an appearance with Mrs. Claus! To see adults enjoy the spirit of Christmas like that was an absolute treasure. I knew Irma was my 'event-planner for life' when I hired her to help with a company holiday party a few years ago. Between multiple reschedules and last minute changes she remained kind as ever. What she managed to pull off in such a short time was a magnificent wonderland of a party. The details were nothing short of magical. I'm so thankful for Irma and her crew of superheroes. Her passion for event planning and helping people is why I'll continue to support her business. And also because I can be confident my event will be perfect.

Irma and her amazing teammate, Evelyn were phenomenal!!! The attention to detail, access to…read morevendors, and overall ability to execute every task made my daughter's wedding a dream come true!

Tracey did an AMAZING job coordinating my wedding making it a day i will forever remember. It was…read morebeautiful and everything ran smoothly. Thank you Oh So Purdy Events for your great services!

From the owner: 13+ yrs of experience ● Event Coordinating ● Wedding…read morePlanning ● All-inclusive wedding options ● Venue owner consulting ● All couples welcome here ●

This venue is more than i ever expected. I used this venue for my babyshower. The set up is…read moregorgeous. There were tons of flowers that were in bloom. Very colorful. The area is open with lots of space to hold an event. We used the main floor for our tables, the elevated area for our photo props and the dirt/gravel area for our food caterer to set up. They provided tables and chairs which helped us alot. I would definitely recommend this venue to my friends and will use them for future events as well! The owner is amazing and always answered my questions in a timely manner. Love this place!

Bakersfield's best kept secret! I feel incredibly lucky to have found this hidden gem for our…read morewedding last weekend. The venue itself is absolutely gorgeous! We received dozens of compliments from our guests. Our photographer got hundreds of amazing photos thanks to the beautiful landscape and carefully laid out decor. We booked a year in advance and the process was so simple leading up to our wedding. The owners were fantastic to work with. Extremely kind, helpful and communicative to make planning a breeze. I was also stunned that the price was so affordable compared to every other wedding venue I looked at. I would highly recommend booking for an event here asap. I can almost guarantee that in a year from now, it will be impossible to get into! Thank you Younger Gardens for giving us the perfect place to hold the most important day in our lives that we'll never forget!

We hired Shannon for full service wedding planning and also used her for the florals for my…read moredaughters wedding. We worked with Shannon for almost a year planning the big day and finally this past weekend it was wedding day! Shannon and her team completely knocked it out of the park! The wedding was absolutely breathtaking. Every single detail was absolute perfection. The florals were stunning and we could not be happier with her service. I will most definitely use her for my other children's weddings and events. I read the other review on here about her being pricey, but I say you get what you pay for. If you are looking for perfection she is definitely going to provide you with just that.

I'm really having a hard time writing this post because I just don't like to be negative. I like to…read morelearn from experiences and move on with my life. My intentions for this post are to help other brides learn from my experience. Since this vendor does not allow reviews on her Facebook page and another bride told me her yelp review was somehow removed... I'm going to go ahead and write my review here with hesitation. Our (my fiancé and I) had an amazing first meeting with Shannon Lee-Hough (shannon Hough Events). We were very impressed with her ability to just pick up the phone and call vendors when she found out we needed a DJ for our wedding. We ended up hiring her and put a deposit of $2250. We were looking forward to having less stress with this planning process. Well, she gave us two quotes over the next couple days which were both $5k or more for deejay services. We thought that was quite high and even joked that possibly she was marking the prices up. Then I went to her about cake tastings and invitations. While she was pressuring me to use her for floral services by telling me that she had another bride interested. She set up a cake tasting for us. I thought she was setting up two, but she only set up one and had the baker dropped the cakes off at our house. (She blamed this on me.) I had told her I don't know what I need to do and I wanted to be treated as a 5 year old because I want my hand to be held, but she still thought it was necessary to ask if I just wanted the cakes dropped off. I said dropping off is fine. I was currently stressed about her doing florals for another wedding. My wedding was at 11 am. How could she possibly do floral for another wedding? The cakes were dropped off at a different time than she told us and we were at another appointment. (Invitations, again another vendor we found on our own and made our own appointment). She's texting us asking why we aren't there? Uhm, because they aren't supposed to be there for another two hours. When I asked about invitations she literally sent me contact info for two invitation vendors for me to contact on my own. That's frustrating, but okay. So I get in contact with them but I'm annoyed by the questionnaire. Can I just see some samples? We decide to just walk in to a local vendors to see what they had. They were the sweetest mother and daughter and were just extremely helpful! I saved the best for last!!! Floral... I set up a meeting with her and she did a beautiful mockup. Just gorgeous! We were excited to have our wedding planner and florist all in one. One less vendor to have to find! A couple of days after our appointment Shannon sent us a PayPal request for $5,500 for our floral deposit. That seemed quite high so we asked her for an estimate on our floral and she said she couldn't give us one because we didn't know all the details yet and she wanted to do another mockup for $300. Wait... what? So again, I request an estimate. The response was $18,000 + so I talk to a friend of mine and they were shocked too. She doesn't have a store front and all the overhead that comes with that and they told me I needed to ask for a breakdown. They were actually shocked that she didn't send one. Well, being that our big centerpieces were almost $800. Shannon sent another PayPal request for $4,000. (She was lowering her deposit amount) I got a gut feeling. Something I couldn't explain. we decided to tell shannon to go ahead and let the other bride know she's available to do their wedding. This was stressing me out. We finally went to shannon and expressed our concerns. I was feeling like my wedding planner was more concerned with getting hired for floral design than actually planning my wedding and relieving stress. To our surprise, she offered a refund. We sat down that weekend and thought: we don't have a wedding planner, we don't have florals, we haven't decided on inviatations. We are more stressed now then before we hired her. It's probably best for us to take that refund, move our date, and move forward from there. We expressed this to her over text (that's her preferred communication method) she tried to call me but my tonsil was swollen and it was difficult to talk. Monday morning she sent us a text letting us know she will not be refunding us. WHAT?! She proceeded to tell us why we should be happy with her. No matter what I said she argued with it. Finally, I told her that if she wasn't going to give us our money back then she needed to call our vendors that we had already called and set everything back up. I don't Think she was expecting that. I think she thought she was just going to walk away with $2250. Things got really ugly from there. I'm sure she can say plenty of bad things about us, but she's supposed to be a professional and she certainly DOES NOT behave that way. There are many other things I could say, but my energy is gone. I can't put any more into this person.

Emily and Brie helped with the day of coordination for my wedding and they were so great!! They…read morewere sweet and so professional and I knew they were up to any crazy thing that might happen the day of. My husband and I actually got to enjoy the wedding without worrying. Such a joy to work with and I definitely recommend them for any upcoming event!

From the owner: Full service event and design team specializing in all types of events. Weddings, showers,…read morebirthdays, anniversaries, corporate, etc. We are here to make your event fabulously planned and remembered always.

I hired Manny to be the DJ for my birthday party not knowing if the music was going to be good or…read morebad. I was really surprised and impressed by his set and his music selection. At first people weren't dancing simply because they were still enjoying the food. The music was still good while it played in the background and made you want to take those shots at the bar early in the day. As soon as he started to play some bangers that's when people quickly jumped out of their seat and hit the dance floor with no hesitation, and just like that we had a party. The party had all types of music such as Reggaeton, Top 40's, Rock en Español, Cumbias, Salsa, 80's and Hip-Hop. What I really liked was that the dance floor was never empty which means the music was good and people were having fun. I would definitely recommend Manny for all your upcoming events. I would also book him again for my next event. I give Manny 5 starts because they were well earned. He showed up way earlier than expected, set up quickly and even started playing before scheduled. Not to mention his set up was great and definitely gave the party a different vibe with the light show he provided. Thanks again Manny!!

DJ Manny did such an incredible job for my daughter's quince. He had the dance floor filled the…read morewhole night. He definitely knew how to read the room and played constant hits. We also got the fathead "Turn Up" show which was a huge hit with the teenagers and adults. Lastly, his lighting and monograms were the perfect touch that brought the space to life. Would definitely recommend DJ Manny to all my friends and family and look forward to working with him again.

I love love love Tina and her work. My wedding was in October and Tina did a awesome job on all our…read moreflowers n center pieces!!!!! Thanks a bunch Tina:)

From the owner: I would like to introduce myself and offer my services. My name is Tina Price, I am the owner of…read moreReady 2 Hitch Ranch Chapel and flowers. I am a wedding officiant, a full service florist. We also have a wedding ceremony venue here at our ranch that will not only fit in your budget, but offers many amenities, kind of a one stop shop. We can supply everything for the ceremony accept the Photographer. Please feel free to contact me to address any questions you may have, I would be honored to show you the Ranch and assist you in making your day special memorable. You can also take a look at us on Facebook to see our 'Arch Room & Gazebo weddings at www.facebook.com/ready2hitch

I hired her to cater a brunch, even payed for extra servers to make sure the brunch runs smoothly…read more She showed up LATE, and had none of the food prepped, not even the cake.. my guests left without eating, and she refused to refund me the money, I then asked her if I can keep the groceries since I won't be getting my money back and she said NO. She said she would be donating it to a homeless shelter. Worst experience I've ever had with a catering company. I urge you not to make the same mistake I did.

I'm gonna say this straight, if you want the most unprofessional, unaccountable caterer around here…read moreis the one for you Suppose to show at 830 am for a 12pm event, which was pushed back from original time of 10 am. Did not show till 1030 to start prep. We had a party of 50 people and ordered lamb pops, pastry balls, fruit cups, and another items for apps all which should've been served at the start of event. Didn't get served till 1230 which wasn't too bad, first set of lamb pops were completely raw, Linda says "oh they were thick I'll make more" first red flag Lunch was suppose to be served at 130, she gave us a time to 145. Lunch items were Spinach Quiche, bacon quiche, tea smoked cod, shashuka, and a chicken dish. 2Pm comes and food is nowhere near ready. We appease our guests by providing our own snacks we had in our home. 3pm shows and only the quiche is ready, and our brunch was set to end at 330pm. At this point Linda tells us she needs 30-45 more minutes. We called it quits, ordered pizza and told her to stop cooking as we can't keep our guests hungry which we did. She was also suppose to make a cake which was not even started at that point. Only about 30% of our food was actually served and we told her since that happened we want back 20% of the 50% deposit. She states we made her stop cooking because she could've made all the food, by which all of our gusts would've been gone. She made excuse after excuse instead of taking proper accountability, completely ruined our farewell brunch for our friends and family who came from out of the country to come to our wedding. She refused to give us back any money for only serving us 30% of the food, would not recommend and I will personally ensure she does not ruin anyone else's event

From the beginning to the end, everything ran smoothly. The owner was very attentive and helpful. I…read morehad no problem with any of the services offered. I would definitely have another event here. Vey spacious venue.

The venue inside is absolutely beautiful. The woman's bathroom is trash. It's sad when someone…read moreputs so much money into redoing the insides but they leave stuff like that with no improvements.