Planners
This Santa Cruz and Bay Area micro wedding planner package is built for intimate ceremonies and receptions of forty guests or fewer, the kind of wedding where every guest is someone you know by name, the venue is often a private home or boutique space, and the day should feel like the most carefully designed dinner party of your life rather than a scaled-down version of a three-hundred-person reception.
What's Included
- Complimentary discovery and fit call
- Planning shaped to a guest list of forty or fewer
- Curated venue and rental short-list for small-guest-count properties
- Vendor introductions and contract review (catering, florals, photography, music)
- Two design consultations to land the palette and reception flow
- Ceremony layout and processional planning
- A reception timeline tuned for an intimate, dinner-party pace
- Rehearsal coordination if required by the venue or officiant
- Day-of event management with the lead planner and on-site team
Who This Package Is For
This package fits couples planning a micro wedding, an elopement followed by a small reception, a backyard wedding at a family home, a destination wedding where only the closest forty travel, a vow-renewal, or a post-courthouse celebration. It is also a strong fit for second weddings, blended-family celebrations, and couples who want to spend on a great meal and a beautiful venue rather than scaling up a guest list. A wedding planner here is doing more than coordinating, the planner is helping you decide what to keep and what to leave out, so an intimate guest count still gets a fully designed day.
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 micro weddings (under 40 guests) 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.
