I am surprised to see some low reviews of Joelle, because even though my wedding happened back in…read more2013, whenever I think about my wedding day (and its more than you'd think because my friends keep getting married), I can't imagine how much harder that day would have been without her. We hired Joelle for month of coordination, which was very important because though we live in Texas, we were getting married in Camarillo (where I grew up). Joelle handled everything from working with vendors to the venue and put my mind at ease while I was over 1,000 miles away getting ready to travel out for the wedding. Even when there could have been disaster--we found out the week of our wedding that a nearby field had put up a huge, unsightly water pump (we were married at McCormick Home Ranch)--Joelle came up with an immediate solution for us and even made sure the pump would not be running during the wedding. The day of, I didn't even notice it was there. Joelle went above and beyond to make sure our special day was as amazing as it could be and we can't imagine it without her. I consider her just as much of a key part of our wedding as I do my wedding party, because she really was by my side throughout the whole process.

Yes, the best investment ever, our wedding planner. Especially if you're having a destination…read morewedding- your wedding planning experience will be so much more beautiful and your day will be the most amazing day ever because all you have to worry about are the things that matter to you. For me it was design, guests' experience, and showing up! Joelle was priceless, to be honest. I trusted her entirely with days leading up and our actual DAY. So much I didn't even flinch when my sister's concealer dropped on my dress or when a vendor's delivery was partial complete or when I asked the day before to have hay brought in to cover 3/4 of the dance floor area because I knew, "Joelle will handle it." Our wedding was flooded with vendors (imagine an empty wooden structure and that's it. Not even electricity, a single piece of furniture, or even a kitchen) and everything went so smoothly. As the bride and groom, we remember every detail of our entire wedding. We had such a wonderful time and we got to share so much of it with our guests- not at all ever thinking or worrying about the production part. I would do it all over again and again. She understood my style, taste, and overall vision to help execute or find the right vendors to execute the first day of the best days of our lives. This is my recommendation for Joelle and for future brides to find a wedding planner if you have the opportunity. And this is coming from someone who is an experienced event planner herself. Our wedding location: Dos Pueblos Ranch in Goleta, CA (Santa Barbara)

Having worked with Xoxo Bride's Sonia Hopkins on numerous weddings, I can honestly say that she is…read moreone of the kindest, most professional wedding coordinators in the world! Every person at Xoxo is so devoted to their brides and will go above and beyond the call of duty for your wedding. Our most recent wedding was with Sarah Lee and she is such a pleasure to work along side. If you are in need of a professional wedding coordinator don't look any further than Xoxo.

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I can't say enough good things about Michel B Events. In the beginning of the planning process I…read morewas not convinced that I needed a coordinator but now, I realize that EVERY bride should have a planner no matter what size or budget you have so you can enjoy your Big Day. I hired Michel to be my day of coordinator and from the moment I spoke with her on the phone for the first time, we immediately clicked and I knew we would be a great team to put my wedding vision to life. Michel went well above and beyond what I hired her for and exceeded my expectations. I'm extremely organized and thought I had everything covered but she thought of things that I never would have due to her extensive experience in the events industry and meticulous attention to detail. We were in constant contact with phone calls and emails for months leading up to the event. She had everything so well planned that I did not need to worry about a thing leading up to the wedding and on the day of the wedding I was completely stress-free thanks to her and her assistant, which is truly priceless. Michel is one of the best professionals I've ever worked with and I am recommending her to all my closest friends and family! Not only is she a great event planner but also she is a fun and outgoing person to work with whom by the end of the process felt like a friend. I heard from many vendors and guests how much they enjoyed working with her.

There's a good chance Michel actually knows magic. I believe this to be true because it's…read moreunbelievable that just she took care of our wedding plans/design all by herself. I've never had to plan such an important event and I'm glad we gave that opportunity to Michel for these reasons: - GREAT communication. She always stayed on top of details and managed our vendors very well. There were no issues during our wedding (December 2013) - Her confident and practical attitude. Giving up freedom is really a challenge and we trusted her with many tasks we weren't around to review. She showed up to our first meeting and drew out ideas in her mind immediately as if she had already worked with the venue (she hadn't!). The wedding location was remote for both of us, but she still managed to scope out all the events like it was next door. - All her input was constructive. It never felt like we were compromising our vision of a perfect wedding for US and everything she suggested only embellished/refined our ideas. - She recognized it was OUR day. It's easy to get caught up in the mentality of every effort for the sake of entertaining guests. It's sad and frustrating, but Michel assured us that our wedding would a very special day for US and it was!

We cannot say enough about how wonderful it was to work with Sophie, Xochilt, and the Amazing Day…read moreEvents team for our May 2024 Ojai wedding! We were referred to Sophie from a family friend in the Ventura wedding business community and we are so glad we decided to work with her and her team. From initial meetings to the big day, the ADE team showed up in all the ways we needed them through both the fun and stressful moments of wedding planning. Our wedding day was more wonderful than we ever could have imagined and it would not have been possible without Sophie and the ADE team! A few things that stood out. Sophie coached us through some challenges with a venue we had contracted with before we started working with ADE that fell through. It was perhaps the most stressful part of all our planning and we were so appreciative of all the guidance and suggestions. Sophie recommended some wonderful vendors to us - many of which we ended up hiring and being so pleased with! We got married at Taft Gardens which is an incredibly beautiful venue but doesn't have parking, bathrooms, a kitchen, lighting, tables, chairs, ... anything really :) . Sophie and team embraced the challenge of working at a remote/new venue! How Sophie, Xochilt and team showed up on our wedding weekend was the best part of all. From our rehearsal on Friday, Sophie so clearly established that any questions, issues, concerns would be handled by her and encouraged everyone to let my husband and I just enjoy ourselves and soak it all in. The ADE team made the wedding day feel so effortless and so stress-free for me and my husband, even though there were little things that came up that they had to pivot to accommodate. Our family and friends all loved Sophie and the ADE team and how they showed up for us on our biggest weekend. 10/10 recommend working with Sophie and ADE! Some pics by @wearemattandjess

This review is long overdue! We got married back in October at the Santa Barbara Club (a great and…read moreunderrated venue) and chose Amazing Days Events to plan our wedding and we're so glad we did. Sophie and her team were on top of every detail, which made the process so much less stressful than I expected, and when the day came, we were able to fully enjoy it, which you can't really put a price on! The whole thing was beautiful and went seamlessly, even my family and wedding party agreed! Everything was so organized, and I appreciated their responsiveness and diligence throughout the process. I loved working with them so much, I recommended Sophie to my cousin who is getting married this year and am so exited to attend her wedding because I know it will also be Amazing! Thank you Sophie, Xochilt, and Megan!!! We are eternally grateful :-) -Natalie & Peter

Of all the many people who made our wedding come together, Ariel Yve was by far the most…read moreindispensable. Hiring her was our very best decision, and without her help I'm not sure we could have pulled off the wedding at all. Matt B. and I first met Ariel almost a year ago, when we were looking to hire a wedding planner. She was one of three I contacted. I rejected one because of cost and fee structure, another because she couldn't be bothered to answer emails in a timely fashion. Ariel was very nice and professional on phone and via email. We arranged to meet at the Santa Barbara Biltmore (she lives in Ojai but travels between L.A. and Santa Barbara frequently, for obvious reasons), and when we got to the hotel she was waiting outside, dressed to the nines with a clipboard in hand. We had a very informative, productive meeting, and we hired her on the spot. We contracted for a certain number of meetings and hours of communication, but I'm not sure that she kept to those at all. We basically had unlimited access to her time and energy for the better part of a year. She was always available through text or email unless she was, you know, helping other clients (of which she can't possibly have that many at any given time). I'm sure I abused that access - I definitely texted her on a Sunday to ask what color bow tie to buy for Matt. She put us in contact with almost all of our vendors, then coordinated contracts, payment, the whole deal. Matt and I had a very busy 2013, and we were horrible about responding to emails. She took care of almost everything and prodded us gently when we had to do homework only we could do. Over the last year she met with us on four or five occasions, and each session was immensely productive. Since I was busy and distracted much of the year, Ariel took care of most of the details, but in a way that matched our desired aesthetic basically to a tee. We discussed the look and style of the wedding up front and set up a share Pinterest board. She kind of took it from there, emailing us every step of the way to make sure of our approval. She had such a great sense of our taste that it seemed almost intuitive. I ended up signing off on almost everything she suggested. The day of the wedding, she and her team handled everything in a way that made it look almost easy. She was everywhere at once. The wedding was beautiful (if I may say so myself), and she and her team deserve the largest share of the credit. If you want a wedding planner who will work hard to make your day perfect, look no further than Ariel Yve. I'm pretty sure God himself sent her to give His blessing to our wedding.

Hiring Ariel Yve Design was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding. She has excellent…read moretaste, will save you money where money can be saved and will let you know where it makes sense to splurge. Ariel has a great deal of integrity and class. She is a calm, solid presence throughout the planning process and she is indespensible on the day. Both my husband and I agree Ariel was amazing and we are SO HAPPY and grateful we hired her.

I contacted several event rental companies to provide chairs, tables and linens for a baby shower…read moreto be held in a park just down the street from us in Ventura. Cheers Event Rentals was very responsive to my inquiry and their prices were very competitive. The shower was only going to have about 35 people so it was a pretty small party and yet Cheers was very accommodating to our needs. Talking to Jessica on the phone was reassuring that all of the items were going to be delivered without any problems. Cheers came up with a great idea of delivering everything to the park in their trailer on Saturday morning so we could unload and then leaving the trailer so that we could load the chairs, tables and linens back into the trailer for them to pick up later. Since our event was small, all the other vendors were going to delivery the items to my house on Friday and pick up on Monday. This really saved us the trouble and time to move everything to and from our house on the day of the shower. We met Jessica at the park in the morning and everything worked out great with the convenience of having their trailer right there when we were done. Working with Jessica and Cheers Events was a very good experience and I would suggest contacting them if you are in need to rent items for your event. Our experience with Cheers was great and I'm sure yours will be too!!

Very responsive, easy to work with. Showed up when they said they would. They were also had…read morehelpful recommendations. We will use them again for our next event.

Writing this review the day after our wedding, on our way to our honeymoon, because I was SO…read moreimpressed by the way Three Sisters planned and ran our wedding day! They are truly a one-stop shop for any wedding needs, which is perfect for a busy bride. From the beginning, they were so helpful - Heather was so responsive in answering any and all of my questions (no matter how small), and later on helped make all our signage, coordinated rentals, and truly designed our entire wedding based on my Pinterest board. I'm unfortunately very indecisive and had trouble deciding what I wanted at times, but she has so much expertise in this area that she somehow read my mind and designed a wedding more beautiful than I could ever imagine! Then on the day of, our lead coordinators Christina and Kendra took the reins and handled any issues that came up expertly. We had three separate ceremonies to honor our cultures and somehow even this was stress-free. We used their in-house florist, who was so easy to communicate with and made really beautiful flower arrangements. I felt like I was really able to enjoy my wedding, hang out with my guests, and soak it all in because I felt confident that they were handling everything behind the scenes. I do not know what I would have done without them! I cannot recommend the Three Sisters team enough!!

Disappointing experience with full-service wedding planning:…read more We hired Heather at Three Sisters Events for the "Whole Shebang" full-service wedding planning package and terminated our agreement after over seven months. It was nowhere near what we expected or what was advertised. I was the bride and Heather's primary point of contact, so most communication went through me. My husband was involved behind the scenes. I kept him updated, we discussed concerns together, and both agreed to move on. To be fair, Heather was responsive when we reached out, especially by text. But that was also the problem. We were almost always initiating conversations, asking for updates, and following up. At one point, I intentionally stopped initiating contact for over a month to see if she would take the lead. Nothing changed. Our package advertised monthly meetings, design assistance, budgeting, vendor coordination, guest accommodations, and stationery support. In seven months, we had only TWO planning meetings. Other services never happened or required repeated prompting. We raised our concerns multiple times. Heather would say things like "trust the professional," "enjoy the process," or explain that she adapted her approach to each couple. We wanted to trust her and enjoy being engaged, but kept wondering what was being handled. Things might improve briefly, but we'd end up right back where we started. The budgeting was especially frustrating. Instead of helping us understand what was realistic for our guest count, rentals, and vision, Heather put together numbers that seemed to fit on paper. Once actual vendor quotes came in, we realized how far off they were. Our new planner finally gave us a realistic picture of the costs. We weren't expecting someone to magically make everything cheaper. We needed experienced guidance to make informed decisions. Design was another huge disappointment. The mockups were basic, and our new planner discovered that the table sizes and quantities in Heather's reception layout didn't actually fit the venue space. That's the kind of thing I expected a professional wedding planner to know. We researched rentals and layouts without the guidance we paid for. Looking back, those seven months were incredibly stressful. We hired a full-service planner to help manage things we didn't know how to handle ourselves. We wanted to be involved in planning our wedding, not responsible for managing the person we'd hired to plan it. That wasn't what we expected from the highest-tier package. Eventually, we hired another planner just months before our wedding. Yes, it meant losing our deposit and paying someone else, but the difference was night and day. Our new planner took ownership, used structured planning tools to keep us organized and involved, communicated proactively, helped us make realistic decisions, and brought our design vision together. For the first time, we actually felt like we could enjoy the process. After switching, we requested a partial refund of $900 from the $1,836 deposit we paid, considering the services we felt we hadn't received. Heather never responded. I hesitated to write this and waited until after our wedding so I could reflect rather than react out of frustration. There's more I could share, but Google reviews have limits! I wish we'd understood what to expect before hiring Three Sisters Events. Heather may be a better fit for coordinating a wedding you've mostly planned yourself. But if you need true full-service planning, I'd strongly encourage you to ask exactly what that support includes. We genuinely wish we'd switched sooner. Our wedding was everything we dreamed of, but that success came after the difficult and costly decision to replace a planner who wasn't delivering the support we needed. We found someone who actually delivered on the promises of full-service planning. Based on our experience, we would not recommend Heather or Three Sisters Events for full-service wedding planning.

Jess is truly the best of the best, top tier wedding planner. I didn't realize what full-service…read moreplanning meant until Jess literally made everything exceptionally easy, fun and memorable. Jess goes the extra mile with literally every detail for the wedding, I don't know how she does it!! I was so bad at the correspondence and easily got overwhelmed by all the tasks at hand, but Jess was right there the whole time, and if I was behind on a task, she would text/call me and then take care of the corresponding with the vendor. This was massive for me, because as a bride planning a wedding all while working full time and planning a move across the country, I relied on Jess for so much and she always had my back and made all the planning x10000 easier than I expected! Jess is one of those magical people who you just want on your team because she get sh*t done, has fun, and thinks of details you would've never thought of. We got married at my husband's house and had to install literally everything from a outdoor kitchen, bathrooms, electric, sound, and transform a tennis court into a tented venue. This was a massive undertaking, and one that most could not be trusted with...but Jess stayed with us the entire week leading up to the wedding to make sure every layer to the event set up was perfectly crafted. The house was so beautiful and the transformation was unlike anything I've ever seen. The way Jess is able to so effortlessly collaborate with and manage the dozens of vendors working at the house was CEO vibes. She is so calm, but energetic, direct, but empathetic, creative, but strategic. Jess brings it all to the table, and the table is freaking beautiful!! I know everyone involved in the wedding would say the same :) Which also, Jess has the most insanely talented, vetted, fun list of vendors to work with- everyone she recommended was 10/10. I had mentioned in the passing that it would be fun to incorporate our friend's favorite shots at the wedding, but it seemed challenging because it was a shot of tequila, with clementines and a splash of cinnamon. I had forgotten about it till at the wedding, Jess came on the dance floor serving a platter full of tequila shots, and clementines dusted in cinnamon and was passing them out to all our friends. This was such a highlight because all our friends just flocked to Jess on the dance floor, and it perfectly encapsulated her attention to detail, hard work, and crazy fun loving spirit. Jess we love you so much!! Working with you has been such a joy, and no one could've made this day more fun and perfect, THANK YOU for going above and beyond with everything!!!! Luv Lexi + Jensen

We couldn't be more thankful for Jess & her team. From start to finish, she made the entire…read moreplanning process so smooth, fun, and personal. Her planning software kept us organized and on track and she took the time to really get to know us, making sure every detail of the day reflected our personalities. From the thoughtful little touches to the overall creative vision, she truly knows how to deliver an amazing guest (and couple) experience. On the day of our wedding, she was on top of everything so we didn't have to think or worry about a thing. Beyond her organization and talent, what stood out most was how deeply she cared about us, our families and our day. We're endlessly grateful for her and couldn't recommend her more!

Our review is long overdue, and now that things have settled down, we wanted to share our AMAZING…read moreexperience with Tiana and her team! We found Tiana through an IG ad, where she promoted Exotic Green Garden along with an all-inclusive wedding package at Lake Lindero Golf Course. The Exotic Green Garden IG page looked beautiful, and the package was within our budget, so we decided to reach out to learn more. Upon meeting Tiana, she was super friendly and honest about the costs, what can be personalized, and was patient in answering our many questions. We left the meeting feeling like we made a new friend, but still wanted to explore other options as she was the very first vendor we met in our wedding planning journey. After a week or so of reaching out to other florists, we decided that nobody could beat what Tiana offered, and her lovely personality was a huge plus. It was an easy decision to book Tiana as our florist, coordinator, and the wedding package for our wedding on October 4th, 2025 at Lake Lindero Golf Course. Leading up to our wedding, Tiana was very communicative with us every step of the way. It was so easy to reach her and hear back in a timely manner, whether it was through email, text, or a phone call. She was always ready to address our questions and concerns, and put our mind at ease. She even gave us suggestions on how to save money with our florals, which we truly appreciated. In addition to Tiana, we also worked with Adena (her sister) and Lance (her father and our officiant). We met Lance via FaceTime a few months before so he could learn about us, and he was so kind and funny that we knew he'd do a wonderful job making our ceremony go smoothly. He even had an additional call with us and sent reminder texts to make sure we were aware of what's needed for the day. We met Adena at our wedding rehearsal, where we learned she would be our day of coordinator instead. We were a little surprised since we thought Tiana would do this. But Adena re-assured us that she was familiar with the schedule and during the rehearsal, we were relieved to see how personable she was, and her professionalism matched that of Tiana and Lance, and we knew we were in good hands. On our wedding day, we received so many compliments from our guests on how much they loved the florals. We didn't see Tiana on our wedding day, but definitely felt how much love and care she put into them as they turned out beautiful, like exact replicas of our Pinterest photos. Several of our guests even snuck some away, which we didn't know till the end of the night lol! Our guests also praised Lance on how he conducted our ceremony and made it feel personable to us. Throughout the wedding, Adena constantly checked in on us to make sure we were hydrated, feeling ok, and keeping us informed about the schedule. She even jumped in to help cut a roast pig, which we did not expect her to do as we were expecting a specific guest to do it (who ended up not attending). We loved that Adena was so on top of everything the whole evening, while having a smile the whole time. We still reminisce about our wedding day, and how wonderful it was thanks to Tiana, Adena, and Lance. Even though it's been a few months, our guests still mention how lovely our wedding was, which makes us so happy to know that we chose a fantastic team. We highly recommend Tiana and her family/team for your wedding or special event. Thank you Tiana, Adena, and Lance for making our day feel extra special!!!

The entire experience with Tiana and her amazing team was stress-free and flawless. Attention to…read moredetail was professional and communication was always clear and personable. I would like to give a shout out to Tiana's assistant coordinator, Adena. Her personality and hands-on approach made the wedding day very memorable and the guests feel comfortable. Also, her recommendation for Lance , the Officiant, was perfect. His wit, humor and style helped keep us relaxed and calm and alleviate our nervousness. The whole process from beginning to end will continue to bring smiles to our faces for a lifetime.