We have used Fairy Godmother for all our important events- have lost count at this point. My…read morefavorite was my own wedding- the perfect day. Most recently, though, was my dad's surprise 70th birthday! From beginning to end, they knocked it out of the park- in such a way it feels like Colleen, Emily, and the rest of the team have a sixth sense as to what you are wanting! We wanted to do a Steve Martin themed party, and they managed to make it witty, absurd yet CLASSY, fun, yummy and personalized in every way. Impossibly, my dad was truly surprised! And he felt really loved because his favorite stuff was all in one place just for him! Steve Martin, great 70s music provided by a live band, his people, amazing food, a cigar lounge, photobooth with props to capture absurd moments, etc. They manage to KNOW their clients and work closely with them; always gracious and attentive. We love Colleen and the way she runs Fairy Godmother!

We have worked with Colleen and the Fairygodmother team for over 8 years and the level of…read moreprofessionalism and kindness is just incredible. As a wedding and event photographer, I can tell you that having Colleen there on your wedding day will be one of the best decisions you make. She is detailed, thoughtful, respectful, helpful, has zero ego, is so kind, and her goal is always to work together as a team with the wedding professional team before and leading up to the wedding and throughout the wedding day. Anything I need her to do to help keep the day running smoothly, she does without a second thought. Working together is a dream and we always love when our clients choose FGM. She is a problem-solver and carries herself in a way that she elevates everyone with her. She is classy and sweet, and is one of the best investments you will make; from designing and planning, to event production - she does it all, and is the best of the best.

Absolutely the most amazing person to work with!! I have never meat someone so organize and on…read morepoint with coordinating .i love working with Violet all the time I get a chance! As a wedding photographer I highly recommend her for your wedding needs! Thank you for your hard work my friend!

We love working with Violet with Exclusively Yours. Violet is very organized and punctual. We love…read morethat she makes everything happen so flawlessly. We asked for the bouquet during bride & groom portraits and without hesitation she brought it to us. She gave us our space and time with the couple to get all the portraits we needed and yet kept things running right on schedule. We truly look forward to working with Violet and Exclusively Yours more often in the future.

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!

Aileen and her team were amazing! Living out of state during the first few months of wedding…read moreplanning was tough; but Aileen's help and professionalism made it all so much less stressful. I was instantly pulled in by her personable (non robotic) emails and communication skills. She's so easy to get along with and was so helpful. I love that she understood my vision and her joy for weddings is refreshing. Even though I hired her for just the day of, she always communicated with me and remained updated with all the wedding details. I knew I could always trust her and knew she understood my vision. Aileen and her team handled everything seamlessly on the day of the wedding. They were all very nice and professional and a joy to work with. Aileen makes sure that her brides are always happy! Hiring Blu Events was definitely one of the best purchases we made!!

Words can not quantify the gratitude I will always have for Aileen and the expertise she provided…read morefor my special day. Aileen would spend many late nights answering my concerns or making exceptional recommendations to bring my visions of my wedding day to life. When I walked into the reception area for the first time at the Villa Verano Estate, I had tears in my eyes and I was literally speechless. From the flowers to the lighting to the table cloths and all the rentals, our wedding was everything we dreamed of and more. A special thanks to her team on the actual wedding day because they were absolutely amazing and it went off seamlessly. Her and her team were by my side the entire wedding day constantly assuring me that everything was on track and going as planned, which I didn't particularly see but appreciated so much because I wasn't bothered with one thing. Aileen and her team anticipated what I needed before I even knew that I needed anything. We owe so much of our beautiful wedding day to Aileen! We couldn't have asked for a better coordinator in all parts of the process. She went above and beyond all of the responsibilities in the contract, and you can tell she really loves what she does. Early on in the process, we had already planned some of the wedding ourselves but we didn't have a very cohesive idea for the design side of our wedding. Aileen took the photos we'd saved of things we liked and our thoughts on what atmosphere we were going for and she created a digital design board for us. Her design board included our color palette, layout ideas, and design ideas for every aspect of our wedding from start to finish. It brought all of our ideas together with new ones into one cohesive, beautiful vision. If I could do one thing different it would be that I had found her sooner in the planning process. Thank you again Aileen for taking my childhood fairy tale and making it a reality. -Ashley H.

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.

It's a really good place to get married and do all events . It has a beautiful outdoor space and a…read morelot of indoor space. It's beautiful, the service is very good and the prices are reasonable

I was only a guest for a wedding, so i can only speak from the outside..but here is my opinion…read more Beautiful!!! Everything was very nice. The grounds were perfectly manicured, and the staff seemed to be very helpful. I recently was married, so seeing our friends get married a couple months later made us naturally more in-tune to much of what was going on. The outdoor setting was perfect with a nice little stream, fountains, and a place for the bridal party to be set apart. inside was very rustic. Our friends had a more formal wedding, but it still worked very well. I dont think a wedding over the size of about 80-90 will work here, but for that size its great. Only down side is you have to drive on a very rocky dirt road for 1.7 miles to get here...but if you know that ahead of time and dont bring the sports car its no big deal.

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!

JANICE is completely amazing! We got married 1/28/2017 and everything went smoothly and with out a…read morehitch (that we knew of lol) thanks to her! I couldn't have imagined it any other way. She was there every step of the way from, vendor appointments to helping with ideas that I had and turning them into a reality. She is extremely passionate about what she does and you feel it while working with her, she honestly makes you feel like you are the only Bride. I would recommend her to any and everyone!

Janice planned an event at our studio recently and we were blown away with not only her design, but…read morehow much she truly cares for her couples. Janice truly goes the extra mile to ensure her couples have exactly what they envisioned on their big day!

Jessie is an absolute gem of a person and is worth her weight in gold for your special day!…read more Everyone told me I was so calm the week of my wedding and I know it's in part that I trusted Jessie to execute and coordinate with our amazing vendor team. Not only did she seamlessly keep everyone in check and on schedule, but she rolled with the punches and found solutions on the fly. It was an absolute pleasure to meet her and work with her. Thank you so much Jessie!!

Jessie is the best of the best, inside and out! Our story with Jessie is unique-- we met her in the…read moremiddle of our wedding planning process, when she stepped in last minute to help us amidst tragic circumstances. We cannot thank her enough for adopting us and taking us "over the finish line" to make our wedding a reality. From the instant we had our first call, we immediately felt at ease that Jessie knew what she was doing. She had this infectious optimism, lightheartedness, and go-getter mentality that made us feel so confident and excited about wedding planning (two words I don't normally associate with planning a wedding, LOL). She is super well-connected in the Central Coast area and knew basically all our vendors personally. She was super communicative and always available over text to handle any little fires. She interfaced with all our vendors, including our after-party venue, and negotiated with them to save us $$! I kept wondering if I needed to be calling a vendor or following up with anything, but Jessie took care of everything! Whenever anyone asks how the wedding went, I can truly say it was a perfect day and nothing went awry. The truth is, I'm sure something didn't go the way it was supposed to, but that just means Jessie and her team handled it before I even knew it happened. Jessie, you are truly a godsend and I am so, so thankful for your presence in our lives during this season!! We love you!! -Sarah and Bryan

We had the privilege of having not only Rich, but his entire team at our daughter's wedding last…read morenight and he not only delivered exactly what he promised but he COMPLETELY outdid himself! Everyone at the wedding was raving about how much they loved him. The smoke machine and fireworks were so cool and the 360 camera was a hit! I honestly believe that the DJ runs the whole event and if they don't know how to read a room it can be such a bummer so I was definitely willing to spend what I needed to to get quality entertainment and I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that Rich and his staff were worth every bit of what they charge! Thank you Rich and all who helped, you made what could have been a very stressful evening so easy because of your professionalism and knowledge!

DJ Richie never fails to provide awesome music...whether it's at a Condor hockey game or regular…read moregigs like Chuy's. So when we were planning our wedding, it was a no-brainer that Rich was going to be our DJ and Event Coordinator. From the planning stage, Richie impressed us with how interested he was in our story and us as a couple in order to deliver A+++ entertainment on our big day! He was thorough, professional, punctual, attentive to the details and was amazing every step of the way in helping us to build a wedding itinerary that suited us. He helped make our day so special and helped us every step of the way. I especially loved that no matter when it was, if I texted, he responded in a timely manner with solutions to anything that came up. I was at ease when he was in charge. Thanks Richie! Everyone loved the entertainment and I know you'll be a part of our family events from here on out---everyone wanted your business cards!