I have worked with Danielle Gibson Events for the last 3 years as the Global Events Manager for an…read moread tech company. We hire Danielle for the largest company event, it's around 400 attendees. We love working with her, she always knows what we want. With her creative eye and dedication she helps us fashion an experience for our clients that they rave about. Being that this is an industry where clients attend events all the time, Danielle designs events that make us stand out from the rest.   She looks at every element of an event, she brings everything together from top to bottom, from the moment you arrive to the end of the night.  She takes décor to a level of excellence. Danielle shines in the numerous themes of décor she selects and executes for activities/festivities; they are picturesque, beautiful and breathtaking throughout (i.e., dinners/meals, food, décor and music). She coordinates all the travel plans (flights and ground) for all attendees and employees (i.e., to/from the airport as well as several off-site events), which she handles with professional poise and accuracy. Danielle works within budget to reach her goals. She and her team hold to a high level of standards that is evident from the process to the end results. They work on-site and their dependability makes it a pleasure to correlate plans with them. We can and always will depend on Danielle Gibson Events to make us proud to have chosen them as our events planners.

Any time I get to work with Danielle, I'm thrilled! I've worked with her as a vendor (I'm an event…read morecontent creator) and her events are always smooth, beautiful, and just a delight to be a part of. Her communication, attention to detail, creativity, calm demeanor and problem solving all contribute to her successful events. Not to mention she's just a kind and lovely person to work with. If you're looking for an event planner in wine country/the bay area, I can't recommend her enough!

We chose Napa Valley Custom Events from a list of wedding planners provided to us by a resort. We…read morerealized that Sharon did not have the event planning experience we were seeking, but we were so far into the process, it was too late to select someone else. She does offer a list of vendors, but if you are seeking more customized event planning, you will have to do a little more research on your own. Her florist, Michelle is great and her baker, Ora-Beth is terrific, but her tuxedo recommendation was sub-par. We selected our own photographer, videographer, make-up professionals and hairstylists. If you are willing to do a little or a lot of homework, then Sharon may be your person. Otherwise, there may be better options for the money and headaches.

You and your partner are planning the most important day of your lives. It can quickly feel…read moreoverwhelming. Where do you start? Are your Google searches leading you to the best answers? Who can you rely on for help? We experienced all of these thoughts and feelings when we started to plan our own wedding. To add to our complexity, it was a destination wedding on the other side of the country. We knew we had to hire a wedding planner and there was no shortage of options in the Napa and Sonoma valley. We had a few calls with different planners, yet the minute we hung up the phone with Sharon Burns of Napa Valley Custom Events, we knew it was a done deal. We called her back within minutes and basically proposed to her to be our planner! It was a decision that felt so right; it proved to be the best decision of our entire wedding planning process. Sharon's experience, expertise and outstanding reviews all speak for themselves. She knows the business. She knows all the right people. She is well respected in the California wine region. She demands excellence from all those she works with. She has the ability to know when to fully support your wants and desires, while also adding in a dose of reality to your wedding dreams. As a gay couple, one may think we posses a level of expertise on design, flowers and fashion. Sharon quickly found out this was far from reality. She filled in all of the spots where we were "weak" and supported or molded all the thoughts and wants we had in areas that were our non-negotiables. She helped us build, manage and stick to our budget throughout the 13 months we worked together leading to our wedding day. She maintained our vendor contracts, worked hard in negotiating hotel wedding blocks and even managed most payments throughout the whole process. So many of the stresses and mundane tasks of wedding planning and execution weren't even on our radar as Sharon took care of them all. We were already floored by all of her work done leading up to our wedding; then THE DAY came. Sharon delivered even more then we could have imagined! She was at our venue for well over 13 hours preparing, organizing, leading and even calming us throughout the event. We worried about nothing and got to enjoy everything. She ensured our whole wedding party was in place when they needed to be, our families were calm and relaxed, and, of course, that we were both smiling and enjoying every aspect of our day. Sharon even made sure that we were eating and staying hydrated throughout the most memorable day of our lives. The day was simply perfect! So much of that joy has to do with Sharon Burns and Napa Valley Custom Events. We cannot speak highly enough about her; words do not do justice to the thanks she deserves. Thank you Sharon, you knocked it out of the park!

Katie is amazing! She's done 2 parties for our family- first one was a baby shower party back in…read moreJuly 2024 and then more than a year later, the baby's first birthday. She was fun to work with, always on time and delivered the best designs.

Party Babe Rentals helped with our after party decorations for our June 2023 wedding at Silverado…read moreResort in Napa. Katie was such a pleasure to work with, so we could not recommend her more! We rented her arched backdrops and she created a balloon arch over the backdrops. Since these decorations were for our wedding after party, we were obviously very busy at our actual wedding, and could not be there when she was setting up. However, she worked seamlessly with our wedding planner and the venue to coordinate the set up/breakdown of the decorations and she was super flexible with the timing. Walking into the after party room was such a wonderful delight - the decorations looked amazing and exactly matched the vision we hoped for! Thank you Party Babe Rentals for making our wedding day perfect!

I hired Andrea for my 4 year old's birthday party. Andrea is amazing. She was so easy to work with…read morebecause she is very responsive, answers all hours of the day. She is very hard working and attentive to all the details. You can tell she genuinely loves doing this by all the extra little things she does. She is very organized and sends gentle reminders for things you need to do to keep things on time. Party was fantastic and super smooth with her coordination, which was wonderful since I got to enjoy the party instead of running around myself. Would definitely hire again.

This past weekend, we collaborated on a birthday party in Redwood City. From the first phone call…read moreto the final goodbye, Andrea has been one of the kindest people we have ever worked with. She makes you feel like you have known her for years. Clear and concise with what she wants, prompt responses, and a whole lot of fun. But after seeing her the event come to life, it was like we were transported into another universe. She has vision and drive. Hopefully this will not be the last time we work together!

Although we are right in the middle of the planning phases of our wedding, Angela has been a…read moretremendous asset and has definitely taken much of the burden off of us, Lord knows we need it! She has a ton of contacts throughout the Bay Area and has fantastic ideas for how to make your day unique and perfect! I will definitely update this review as the day approaches, but I expect our experience will only be stellar with Angela running things!

There are many high quality wedding planners for Napa Valley, however, if you are looking for one…read morethat conducts business with integrity, I would not recommend Angela N. of Lulu Events and here is why... We signed Angela as our planner in May 2010 to help us with our Napa Valley destination wedding in October 2010. As we were planning our wedding from Asia and had less than 5 months til the big day, we needed a planner who was available and flexible to meet our demanding schedules. She claimed to be the "BEST PLANNER IN NAPA", provided us with "great" references, and assured us that she was very experienced in working with overseas clientele, so we paid our 50% of the fee to go ahead with Angela. (Note, she also emailed us that another party wanted to sign with her for an October 2010 event and given she has a quota of events she can do, we felt some time pressure... though, it was still our fault we didn't spend enough time to look around more thoroughly). Unfortunately, shortly after signing the contract we realized Angela was not right for us. We found out early on that her schedule was not very flexible to our needs and she was at times even unaware of the drastic time zone differences. Apart from canceling & re-scheduling several of our conference calls, she was unable to meet us for two separate in person appointments that we had flown in for from Asia. The first time was a brief business visit to the Bay Area, but given the short notice of our travel itinerary and not being her clients yet, we gave her the benefit of the doubt. But she was unavailable again when we planned to do another week long visit to the Bay Area/Napa to do our wedding site check and by that time, she was our planner. Maybe she was stretched too thin, or we were too far away, or we were not considered a big budget wedding, or that she often flies back and forth between Napa and southern California...but nonetheless something was wrong. Within the first week of signing on, Angela was out of pocket for the first few days, then she emailed to reschedule our conference calls that week and by the end of the week, we were told she would not be able to accommodate us when we were in town for our site check. With the distance and impending time crunch until the wedding, it was at that moment that we realized this was not going to work out and that Angela would not be able to provide the service we needed. We explained this to her over the phone and reiterated our concerns over email before asking if we could receive our money back or be billed for the work she had already done so that we could mutually cancel the contract. We thought this was a reasonable request given that only a few hours of work had been done so far and that our schedules just could not match hers. However, she was surprised at our request and refused to not only not provide the requested refund, but also stopped returning our calls and emails to work out an amicable solution. In the end, we were able to find a different wedding planner and had an incredible wedding. However, we are deeply disappointed that Angela seemed more focused on her bottom line than caring about the wedding couples who have been saving and working so hard for their special day...

I worked with Janice at Rue 29 to plan my husband's 40th birthday dinner, and I cannot recommend…read moreher highly enough. From start to finish, she was incredibly detail-oriented and thoughtful, always coming to the table with smart suggestions that elevated the evening and made the guest experience so much more special. Communication with Janice was a dream--she is responsive, organized, and on top of every detail. All the vendors worked together seamlessly, which speaks volumes about both her planning skills and her professionalism. Janice is also extremely well-connected and has relationships with the most talented vendors--musicians, cake designers, calligraphers, florists, and more. She curated a team that worked beautifully together and truly brought the event to life. Above all, Janice is incredibly thoughtful--she thinks of everything and goes out of her way to help in any way possible. One of the things I also appreciated most was how budget-conscious Janice was--she focused on getting true value and never suggested spending money where it didn't make sense. That gave me a lot of confidence in every decision we made together. Thanks to her, we had an unforgettable celebration that felt effortless for us as hosts. If you are looking for someone who will treat your event as if it were her own, and who has the talent, connections, and dedication to deliver an extraordinary experience, Janice is the one. Rue 29 is simply exceptional! Thank you Janice and Rue 29 for an event to remember!

Our wedding venue required a month-of coordinator and they highly recommended Janice and Rue 29. We…read moregot Rue 29's "Wedding Day Management Coordination Package" which included day-of coordination and up to 30 hours of work before the wedding day, but we got so much more value than that! Unlike other month-of coordinators who won't talk to you until a month before, Rue 29 made sure to set us up for success from the beginning. As soon as we signed our contract Janice shared her list of preferred vendors and introduced us to everyone we needed to know. She seems to know everyone in Napa! She was then so helpful with any questions we had while we were booking vendors and coordinating with them over the intervening months. By the time we got to a month out from the wedding everything was pretty much already set! Janice was so incredibly helpful, super responsive, detail oriented, and extremely professional. When the wedding day came our day went off without a hitch! We were completely relaxed all day because of the trust that Janice had already built-we knew she would move whatever mountain needed to be moved to make the day perfect. During the day she was the perfect amount of attentive to verify a few last details with us but mostly left us to just enjoy the day while she took care of everything else. She was also so attentive to our families during the day, always making sure they had food and drink and everything they needed, which was such a sweet level of service and care. If you want a coordinator who truly supports you through the wedding planning process and will make you feel completely at ease on your wedding day then hire Rue 29!

I have many things to say about Jigsaw Events, but won't say all in the interest in being…read moreprofessional. I hired them for full-service wedding coordination. What I got essentially was day-of coordination. The wedding day went generally great, and I'm sure they played some part in making that happen (hence the two stars). Kelly also led us to a few great vendors, whom I might not have know of otherwise. However, everything before that was another story. Communication is definitely not one of their strong points, which was immeasureably frustrating with planning the wedding from so far away. On occassion, weeks would pass before we'd hear back from her; when we did hear back, she'd be quite defensive. Her poor communication also spilled over to our vendors. They'd call/email me with questions because they couldn't get a hold of Kelly (wasn't that her job??!). My husband and I were so fed up with this unprofessionalism that I consulted with the (defense) attorneys I worked for - they heard all elements of the story, reviewed our contract as well as communications with her and advised us to "take the appropriate measures" with them. We didn't, just more stress. Jigsaw's pricing for full-service planning is much cheaper than the rest of the wedding planners' in the Napa Valley. I think that's for a reason - you get what you pay for... The real kicker is that Kelly could be a real pleasant and jovial person and had good ideas; she also spent time with us looking at venues and meeting with vendors. I had such a good feeling about her, at least in the beginning. There's potential there, but it just fell short, very short. Save yourself the headache and unnecessary stress and go elsewhere.

The posters who have criticized Jigsaw had similar experiences to ours. The owner Kelly is a very…read morepoor communicator and very defensive when we expressed our concerns with her lack of communication. Kelly sent her husband to our rehearsal and assured us he knew what was going on. He didn't, and my wife basically ran the rehearsal. The only vendor we had a problem with was one she recommended. Our location required us to use a planner, so we went with Jigsaw. We would have been better off without a planner.

Christine was so much fun to work with - and she helped put us at ease during our entire 1.5 year…read moreplanning process. Christine was super responsive and perfect to work with the entire time. She kept us on a timeline, but also gave us the space to think through what we wanted to do and chimed in when we needed help with the difficult decisions. Christine connected us to vendors and led those relationships. She recommended design options that I hadn't even thought of - and tolerated my indecisiveness and steered us in the right direction, creating the beautiful wedding ceremony and reception of my dreams. So thankful for Christine's help and guidance during our entire wedding planning process and wedding day! Highly recommend.

Had my wedding in 2019 but finally life has settled and I can write my review for the AMAZING…read moreChristine!!!! She was SO HELPFUL! I would 1000000% recommend her. My planning and wedding was absolutely perfect! She took all the stress away and I was left with calmness and joy throughout the entire process. Cannot recommend her enough!! People still talk about my wedding and how it flowed sooooooo well. They were all super impressed and everyone had a blast from start to finish. There was ZERO awk moments of where's the music...... we can't hear speeches... aren't we supposed to do the cake now?...... NONE of that!!! It was perfect

We were looking for a month of coordinator for our wedding reception, as it was required for the UC…read moreBerkeley Botanical Garden. Brenda did a fantastic job helping with layout planning, timeline creation, decor/floral ideas, coordinating with other vendors and making sure everything ran smoothly the day of. Even prior to the month of, she was already touring the venue with us and gave suggestions when I had any questions or concerns. She made sure to meet with / communicate through e-mail / text/ zoom in a timely manner to address any issues and coordinated smoothly with other vendors. Overall our special day went exceptionally well, exceeding my expectations. We were very grateful we had Brenda to help make sure everything went smoothly and did not worry about anything the day of. If you're looking for an affordable and professional wedding planning in the East Bay, we would strongly recommend Brenda.

Cierra did an excellent job as my month of coordinator for my Millbrae backyard wedding in August…read more She met me several months ahead of my wedding at my family's property to guide me where things should be placed. We had several meetings to ensure I was on the right path and checking off all the to do's. And the day of coordinator was perfect. She knew exactly what to do, never bothered me asking for anything. She kept us on schedule, she did all of the day of set up, coordinated with all my vendors and handled the tips. I was also so pleasantly surprised and thrilled when I came back on Sunday that she and her assistant had put everything away, all decor and staked the tables and chairs and put away linens. Not enough ice arrived and the bar was lacking some items and her assistant went to the store to grab everything. I am SO glad to have hired Cierra because I was fully present during my wedding day and can't imagine how differently and stressful the day would have been without her help. Best money spent!