Planners
This Santa Cruz and Bay Area full service event planner package is the end-to-end offering: the team takes you from the first phone call through the last send-off, owns the budget, owns the design, owns the vendor relationships, and runs the day. It is the package most often recommended when you are starting from a blank calendar, planning out of town, or simply do not have the bandwidth to manage a long-arc creative project alongside work and life.
What's Included
- Budget management, monthly review, and payment-reminder cadence
- Vendor outreach, selection guidance, and ongoing main-contact role across every contractor
- Regular check-in meetings throughout the planning timeline
- A comprehensive design process: mood, palette, paper, florals, rentals, lighting, layout
- Attendance at vendor meetings across the planning calendar
- Venue tour, floor plan, and master production timeline
- Rehearsal coordination the day or evening before the event
- Day-of event management with the lead planner and on-site team
- Final-week vendor confirmations and on-site point-of-contact for every contractor
Who This Package Is For
The full service package fits couples and hosts who want a senior planner involved from the first decisions onward: setting the budget, building the design language, sourcing every vendor, attending every meeting, and carrying the calendar. It is the right pick for destination events where you cannot easily visit the venue yourself, for couples planning across two time zones, for hosts running a milestone celebration of one hundred or more guests, and for anyone who would rather make decisions and approve a plan than chase quotes and timelines. The starting price for full wedding package's flat price is published in the pricing section above.
About Us
This is owner-run event planning, which means the same senior planner you meet at the first call is the one writing your timeline, sitting in your vendor meetings, walking your venue, and pacing the rehearsal the night before. There is no account hand-off, no junior coordinator taking over after the deposit, and no template plan you wedge your event into. Every package is shaped to the actual event, the actual venue, and the actual guest list, with a small, in-house team that knows the file end to end. Whether the engagement is a wedding planner role for a couple in the Bay Area or an event planner role for a corporate or milestone host, the structure is the same: senior planner ownership, transparent wedding planner cost up front, and a written plan you can hold the team to.
Approach
The process starts with a complimentary discovery call to confirm fit and walk through the package most suited to the scope of your event. Once you book, you get a structured plan with milestone checkpoints, a shared timeline, a vendor short-list tailored to your budget and aesthetic, and direct access to the senior planner for questions between meetings. As the date approaches, the team builds the master production timeline, runs the rehearsal, and steps in as the on-the-ground point of contact so you, your family, and your wedding party do not have to manage a single vendor question on the day itself.
Credentials and Trust
The planning practice is consistently five-star rated across every public review channel, with more than one hundred verified guest reviews and three years of industry award wins recognizing client experience. Couples and event hosts describe the team in the same words across multiple years of feedback: organized, attentive to every detail, calm under pressure, and able to take a vision that lives in your head and turn it into a real day that runs on time. The team operates from the central California coast and travels for destination events.
Travel and Logistics
Local coverage spans Santa Cruz County, the greater Bay Area, the Monterey Peninsula, and the wine country corridor north and east of San Francisco. The team also runs a Mississippi side of the practice serving Jackson, the surrounding counties, and the East Coast, which is useful if you have family on both sides of the country or are bringing a destination event to a venue away from home. Destination events outside these regions are taken case by case; travel and per-diem are quoted transparently in the proposal.
Booking and Add-Ons
This full service package is priced at a flat rate published in the pricing section above, and is most often booked anywhere from three months to fifteen months ahead of the event date, depending on the package. A signed planning agreement and a deposit reserve your date on the calendar; the balance is split into transparent milestone payments through the planning timeline. Custom add-ons such as additional design consultations, extra rehearsal time, or additional staff for very large guest counts are quoted in writing before any work is added. Pricing is consistent regardless of channel: the same package priced anywhere is priced the same here.
