Oh my gosh it's so bad. What an instagram scam (yup!! I fell for it!!)... please don't make the…read moresame mistake. Here's what you get for $450pp: :: 90min+ of standing around happy houring, aka getting you drunk so you don't know how bad the experience is. I didn't drink so i was keenly aware, as were others who left mid-dinner (shout out to the awesome local kombucha peeps!!) :: Only during the last 20 minutes of that were small bites brought out, and they went so fast I got 1. :: Then stand around listening to the life story of the 20-something who just joined this month and is managing the events. Then walk over to the table and listen to the story of another 20-something who manages front of house. Thank goodness the location was beautiful while they were delaying our 200m walk over to the table :: finally sit down to cold rolls sitting atop the table and wait 20 minutes for a half cup of beet salad (the first "course") :: wait another 30 minutes for an excessive amount of mediocre, cold fish without any side dishes while the temperature is lowering to 50-degrees on the windy coast. :: wait another 30min for an equally wasteful amount of duck, also with no side dishes. :: and to finish the experience off, a gourmet popsicle! What a joke.

Attended the OITF in Palo Alto in June at the Hidden Villa. This was our first and last time. The…read morecocktail hour and a half in the olive grove was nice with a signature cocktail or wine. The passed appetizers were mediocre at best, cellophane crab roll (very fishy tasting), bland deviled egg and some cold and hard cornbread cup with avocado filling. The tour of the farm was standing in the field listening to someone discuss sustainable farming. Groups then formed two lines to enter the dining space, the access to the plates you bring vs the ones they provide created a bottleneck. Quite a challenge for a party of four to find a way to sit together. The first course was on the table as we sat down. It appeared that the family style portion was to serve eight people per table. Vegetables with a spinach dip and sesame bread/cracker was fine. We then waited as other tables to the right and left of ours got served grilled stone fruit with burrata cheese. As we did not get a plate the folks on either side tried to pass us any left of theirs but hardly any was left. At this point we had also not been served any wine despite the wine maker/rep was at our table talking up the wine. About 15 mins after it was clear we weren't getting a plate we began to inform folks that there must have been some mix up. Apparently servers were assigned tables but ours was missed? One very long row of tables, 8 to a table but they just couldn't figure it out. At this point I should mention the the sun is still very strong and they had tried to position umbrellas every so often but as the sun set the umbrellas had to be tilted down and that would cause them to bump into the folks sitting nearby. So either you had the sun shining directly on you or you were ducking way from an umbrella corner. The second course was average. At this point they realize they have been forgetting our table and we receive some wine and the entree which was beef that was cold and tough. There was plenty of this but much was not eaten. Finally, we move onto dessert which was a berry tart and again was okay. At this point they have taken our plates to be washed and we retrieve them on the way out to the parking lot. As we arrive at our car one of us decides to walk to the executive port a potties before the hour long drive home only to find they had already been removed. I understand from friends who attended OITF on the beach that they had a wonderful time. I had hoped this was just a bad night/chef/venue for them. I sent them a request to provide feedback but was ignored. At this price point our experience was very poor. We have been fortunate to travel globally and have had some amazing experiences but also some very poor experiences. Unfortunately, this one was sub par on the food, the service and the venue. I just got a response from the business owner that they never got an email from me. That is true as I reached out via their website and asked for someone to call me and provided my contact info. They asked that I email them but honestly my review says it all.

Tamara was really great! Her balloons were a huge hit at our school event. The columns and the…read morearches were beautifully done. She was on time, prompt and realistic. She will let you know what would work and what won't. We really appreciate her and have used her for the second time. Will continue to work with her for the future too! It was torrential pouring rain and so windy and her arches and columns lasted through out the entire 8 hour day. It was amazing! Highly recommend Balloons to go.

Balloons To Go was so easy to communicate with and set up. Great customer service ! My daughter…read moreloved the balloons... even after the party my daughter is still enjoying those balloons in her playroom!

Wow, where to begin? Desiree was our wedding MVP! She handled florals, signage, and decor, making…read moreher our one-stop-shop. Her expertise made everything seamless, stress-free, and stunning. Trusting her with this huge part of our wedding was the best decision we made! Thanks to Desiree's expertise, we landed on a relaxed, tropical vibe within our specific budget, and she nailed it for our beach wedding. From her mood board creations in the planning phases to the execution on our wedding day, she blew us away and made our wedding day even more perfect than we ever imagined. Desiree and her team were a joy to work with--brides, hire her and thank me later!

We had such a wonderful experience working with Desiree for all of our party rental needs for our…read morewedding! From the clear communication, to the awesome customized rental preview on their website, the entire process was seamless! Our wedding guests were very impressed with everything, especially the beautiful cocktail glasses and elegant cutlery! 10/10 would recommend!

Would recommend Shari for ALL events!!! She made our wedding week and day go beyond smoothly!! She…read moreensured our large wedding party (24 people) was where they needed to be and that they all had fun! She ensured all our request happened from my voice over before walking down the aisle to getting all of our gifts and special items to our trailer at the end of the night. She is personable, professional and fun!!!

Would highly recommend Shari for all things planning related. She was our day-of coordinator for a…read more~100 person wedding in the Santa Cruz mountains. - Organized & communicative: She handled all details flawlessly including timeline, vendors, etc. She communicated with us and other parties very intentionally to make sure all details were thought of. - Detailed & thoughtful: I had a couple of guests tell me afterwards that Shari helped provide them with emergency items during the wedding - Professional & determined - Our wedding included a vendor that was more difficult to work with, and Shari handled a lot of communication with professionalism and endurance to ensure that we had a great day. Overall, working with Shari was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding day - I would highly recommend her!

They were so easy to work with. We went in 2 months before our event to look over products and make…read moresome decisions, they quickly added us to the schedule and we were on our way. We were able to make changes to the order up to 7 days before the event and I had a really tight window on when I needed the items delivered and picked up and they came through! The products were perfect for what we needed 2 patio umbrellas & stands (rented separately 12 folding chairs for the patio floral plates, silverware and pretty wine glasses Their prices were reasonable and delivery wasn't too bad at all!

Overall happy with our experience with Alexis Party Rentals. We used them through our wedding…read morecoordinator, and they provided the various rentals needed for our wedding day. The rentals provided were excellent, and looked wonderful on the day. My only complaint was that, the week of the wedding, the linens we had picked out months before were suddenly not available. I'm not entirely clear on how this happened, but definitely was not ideal to deal with the week of the wedding. Overall happy with our experience!

My wife and I worked with Paige A. from Paige Events, and she was absolutely FANTASTIC. She made…read morethe entire planning process feel seamless and was incredibly diligent in helping us create the best wedding day we could have imagined. Paige was also an excellent communicator, always super responsive, organized, and on top of every detail. We always felt like we knew exactly what was happening and that nothing was going to slip through the cracks. On the wedding day, she was a total pro (on top of being great vibes). She and her assistant had everything handled, kept us perfectly on schedule, and seemed to have an answer or solution for absolutely everything. We were able to actually enjoy the day because we knew Paige had everything under control. We also had multiple family and guests comment on how great Paige was. We truly could not have asked for a better planner and would recommend Paige Events without hesitation to anyone planning their wedding. 100/10 experience!!!!!

If you're looking for a wedding planner - your search is over. Hiring Paige was one of the best…read moredecisions of our entire wedding, and I promise you'll be impressed by her work too. We hired Paige about a year and a half before our wedding date, and we had absolutely no idea where to start. Throughout the entire process, Paige was patient with our questions, enthusiastic to help us achieve our goals and our outlandish ideas (whilst also helping us keep realistic on what was possible) and always went the extra mile to ensure the process was as smooth as possible for us. Paige managed all of the vendor communications for us, which was a massive help whilst we juggled our full-time jobs and other commitments. Reflecting on the experience now, there is no way we could have found our vendors (who were absolutely phenomenal and largely sourced and recommended by Paige's expertise) and managed the communication with them half as well as she did for us. She kept the entire wedding planning progressing, helped us work through difficult challenges as they arose, and became our number one confidant and trusted friend throughout the process. On the wedding day itself, Paige was incredible. She was like a blur being everywhere at once, making sure guests, vendors and ourselves were properly cared for throughout the day (she brought us food and drinks, learned how to weave our table decorations (literally because I saw it on Pinterest), fluffed my train... she literally did it all!!). There was absolutely nothing we had to worry about or "sort" on the day as her team had everything completely in hand. She was incredibly professional and continued to go above and beyond for us, and we never once saw her without a beaming smile. It's clear that Paige loves her job, and she invests every ounce of passion into ensuring her clients weddings are world class. Paige is the most down-to-earth, bubbly and supportive wedding planners we could have ever have hoped for. I am SO grateful for all of the wisdom, time and passion and patience she shared with us. I'm sure there's hundreds of more testimonies just like ours, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to anyone. If we ever planned our wedding again, she would be a non-negotiable part of our day

I had DJ Joey dj my wedding and could not have been more disappointed…read more For starters I should have known to verify things after he tried to tell us there was no "clean" version of our grand entrance song and we may want to change it. I was pretty set on this song so I researched for myself and was able to find the clean version on 3 different platforms in about 60 seconds. Another thing is that I have never heard of a DJ who doesn't take requests... I guess we are supposed to know every song our guests are going to want to listen to beforehand. He was unable to take a request for a song that a lot of our guests wanted to hear. The biggest problem of the night was that he played the wrong song for my father daughter dance. We put the very title of the song and what version on the document we shared with him and even had a meeting to go over all of it. If there were ever any doubts he should have reached out to confirm he had the right song and clarify. I really hope this isn't a thing that has happened to a lot of couples he's DJ'd for because it absolutely ruined the moment. That was one of the moments I was looking forward to most because the song had a lot of meaning being that it was my stepfather I was dancing with. He seemed to be more worried about other things like asking us and all of our vendors if we would have an umbrella for him at ceremony even after we already told him we would take care of it. He also kept saying how he would be like "our second wedding planner" and tried to interject himself into things that did not pertain to him. He should probably focus more on making sure he does the DJ part right. Overall I was very disappointed with the experience and would not recommend him. He didn't even have the curtesy to apologize to me after my husband let him know he played the wrong song.

Joey did an absolutely incredible job at our wedding last weekend. He really set the mood perfectly…read morefor the night and the song choices that were needed for a more upbeat vibe were on point. I would highly recommend using him for your wedding or next big event. Thanks Joey!! -Meg and Ted

We had the pleasure of working with Dawn for my daughter's 2nd birthday party. We got the Petting…read morezoo package which included petting her gorgeous animals (see pictures), the lollipop carnival game, instant photo with your favorite animal and arts+ craft for the photo and twisty balloons. The petting zoo was the highlight of our event. Everyone had a great time petting the beautiful bunnies, fluffy chickens, ducks and goat. The animals are extremely cute and well cared for. Kids had fun with the twisty balloons and the arts and craft for the instant photo. Dawn arrived before time to set up everything and cleaned up before she left. Thanks Dawn for the lovely memories!

Absolutely a dream come true! Dawn was very friendly, had good communication and was professional…read more Oreo, the unicorn was gentle and kind. Great twisty balloons AND a present on top of it! Thank you Dawn for bringing some "normalcy" to my daughter's birthday during this pandemic! This day will be in our hearts forever.

It's long overdue, but I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to Rebecca and her team for…read morebringing my wedding vision to life one year ago 3.21.24. On the day of my wedding, the reception setup was exactly as I had imagined--floating candles and my favorite flowers, baby's breath, creating a magical forest-inspired atmosphere. There was a small hiccup when my wedding cake arrived--it looked beautiful, but the color palette wasn't quite what I had envisioned unfortunately. However, Rebecca worked her magic with her own dried flowers, and I ended up with a completely new cake that was a much better match for the theme. It feels like it was just yesterday, even though it's been a year. Thank you again for making my dream wedding a reality!

All I have to say is I wouldn't have survived wedding planning or or wedding day without Rebecca…read moreand her team. Rebecca was absolutely amazing helping me plan everything, thinking of things that I never would have thought of, helping me to deal with last-minute stressors, and managing our day perfectly. So many people came up to me to tell me how awesome our wedding planner was, and how well-run everything was at our wedding. We are SO appreciative. She knows all the other vendors in the area, and had fantastic suggestions for who we used. She also knew our venue really well, so helped us iron out all the little details that needed to be figured out. I don't think I realized how much goes into planning a wedding before I planned my own wedding, and there's no way we could have done it without Rebecca! I was really stressed before our wedding with all of the last minute prep, and Rebecca knew exactly what needed to happen and helped me feel so taken care of. The day of the wedding I literally didn't worry about anything because her team was so on top of it, we had a perfect magical day!

We had the pleasure of working with Twisted Balloon for Ellie's Bat Mitzvah, and they were…read moreabsolutely amazing from start to finish! The entire process was smooth, professional, creative, and stress-free. Their team brought such positive energy and a true "we'll make it happen" attitude that made working with them such a pleasure. The balloon décor turned out beautiful and added so much fun, color, and personality to the event. Everything was executed perfectly, on time, and with great attention to detail. Beyond the décor itself, the team was kind, easy to communicate with, flexible, and genuinely cared about making the event special. We received so many compliments from our guests throughout the night. Highly recommend them for any event -- we would absolutely work with them again!

Dolly was amazing with the kids at our event! All the parents were so happy to have a babysitter…read moreat the wedding and they could enjoy while the kids were thoroughly entertained. Dolly was fun, happy, animated and fun for all ! Would totally recommend!