I am not a creative or crafty person, so when I became engaged, I was excited to be able to have a wedding, but I wasn't excited about planning it or making decisions regarding it. I have zero interest in center pieces, decorations, timelines, flowers. I just wanted it to "look pretty" and for people to have a nice time. Thank goodness for Monica, the owner of Confetti and Glitter Events! I originally found Monica on Thumbtack, and liked how prompt she was in responding to my inquiry. She is also very affordable and reasonable in the pricing of her services. I initially hired her as my venue decorator, but then asked her to also be my Day of Coordinator. (these are 2 different things, so don't hire someone asking them to decorate, but then expecting them to handle your entire day and your entire ceremony and reception). She was flexible with her schedule when it came to meeting, and was prompt in her replies to emails and texts. Monica was very good about writing down the things I liked and didn't like, and was great about expanding on those things to find something that worked for me. She made all of my venue signs, set up and decorated the dessert table and guest table, all centerpieces and my sweetheart table. I didn't have to worry about a thing the entire day and night of my wedding, because I new Monica had everything covered. I was able to have a great time and focus on my guests, and she would guide me along if I needed to do something. I would recommend Monica for any party or event that you need planned. My husband and I were both very happy with her services, and will hire her again if we have anything that needs planning. She is very easy to talk to, and a sweet and professional woman. My photographer hasn't sent me my wedding photos yet, but when he does, I will post the work that she did :) read more

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We hired Monica to coordinate our wedding, and honestly we are pretty disappointed with how she did day of. She was responsive before the wedding and we were looking forward to everything thinking it'd all work out great. But on the actual day, SO much fell through the cracks. First, we had given her two large crystals to do a crystal blessing ceremony - but when the officiant announced the passing of the crystals, they were nowhere to be found. So there was just awkward silence and everyone looking around in the middle of our ceremony, and then we just had to skip that whole part. That was a meaningful part of the ceremony to us and we are so sad it didn't happen. To make things worse, she decided to pass them around during the reception but then never collected them at the end so we don't even have the crystals at all. Also, we bought a bunch of ribbon wands to do a grand exit and gave her the box to put them on the tables, but she never did. I don't even know where those ended up but they weren't on the table. And then she never announced the grand exit and it didn't happen. So we all just trickled out at the end with no announcement and no grand exit. We were really looking forward to this as well. Next, she never gave us our gifts. I honestly can't believe this happened. My mother and grandmother asked her several times if they should gather the gifts and cards and she said no that she would handle everything at the end of the night. But then she never did. My wife and I honestly thought nobody left us gifts and were kind of bummed, but then the next time we saw my mom two months later she mentioned all the bags and cards that were on the gift table and asked us if Monica ever gave them to us. We texted Monica and she had all these contradictory excuses then had the audacity to turn it on us like "why are you asking now two months later?" We are asking now because we trusted you to do your job and collect everything like you promised and didn't realize you dropped the ball on that too. So now, so long after the fact, its far too late to track everything down from the venue. Lastly, she drank a lot all day. Several people noticed and commented that she constantly had a mai tai in her hand. Maybe thats why so many huge things fell through the cracks? I had an amazing wedding day regardless and harbor no resentments, but I wanted to leave a review so that other people don't end up spending so much money to end up so disappointed in their coordinator like we were. Please keep looking and book somebody who will be more responsible. read more

I am currently working with Monica for my daughters 4th birthday party. I highly recommend her services. She has been very responsive and helpful through the whole planning. She's great with email, txt, or on the phone. Looking forward to seeing her work - Lots of fun and creative ideas she has to offer! I will post pictures once the party passes and update my review. read more

Found Monica through thumbtack. I usually would provide my own candy buffet for my daughters birthday but her price offer was the reason why I agreed to go with her. I met her at the location of where my daughter's first birthday would be located. I was definitely comfortable with her. She is great with communication and her ideas have been great. Can't wait to see the final product! read more

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Monica was amazing! She definitely took a load off my shoulders. You can tell she's been doing this for a long time because she knew exactly what we needed, kept us on schedule and made sure everything ran smoothly. She coordinated all the vendors, she was very pleasant to work with and very helpful. I highly recommend using her for your wedding or any event. read more

Monica was absolutely AMAZING as my day of coordinator this past week! She truly goes above and beyond to make sure that her bride is calm, stress free, and happy. My wedding wouldn't have been close to as beautifully put together as it was if it wasn't for her! Thank you so much Monica for helping me put together the wedding I've always dreamt of! read more

I never write reviews, but I feel that I have to! Monica deserves a shout out! She made a Mexican candy buffet station with a chamoy fountain for my wedding on Saturday, 3/5/16 and it was a huge it! There was a ton of candy, chips, and fruit, and we had 160 people. Everyone loved it, especially the chamoy fountain! I'll post pictures when I get them back from the photographer :) She kept me in the loop every step of the way and found all the obscure candies I asked for and more! Very reasonably priced! Thank you Monica! read more

Monica is a nice person and probably means well, but she's very new to event planning and doesn't really seem to know the nuances that a planner with experience would have. I hired her for Day of Coordination help for my brothers wedding and reception. The day of the wedding went well (Friday) and she was able to help with one vendor that was at the hotel and overall no major problems. She was also supposed to hand out Welcome Bags to our guests as they checked in, but chose an awkward area to set up so that the guests didn't really know if she was helping with our wedding or not - again not something on purpose, but she doesn't have the prior experience you would expect from a planner. We thought that Monica would go to the rooms (she had the names/room number) and hand them out personally, but instead she left them in my room and left for the night. My Dad ended up going to all of the guests rooms and handed them out personally the next morning. The day of the reception was when the major problems with Monica occurred. She was to be at our hotel at 4:30pm to help get the banquet hall ready, help with the caterers, event entertainment, DJ, bar, etc. At around 11:30am we asked her if she could print a guest seating chart. We sent her an excel sheet and she was supposed to print the names and corresponding table numbers. (We already decided where everyone should seat, I don't want anyone to think we left that big of a job to her!) Admittedly, it wasn't on her list of things to do, but we asked to see if it was possible. She said it wouldn't be a problem, but she may be an hour late. No problem, she'll be there at 5:30pm instead of 4:30pm. We were OK with that and went on with the rest of our day and started to get ready for the evening reception. After numerous texts from Monica, long story short, she still wasn't done with the seating chart until 9 pm. The guests were to enter the banquet hall at 7 pm. :( She sent plenty of excuses of her husband working and how her kid was crying and how she had an earlier event in the day that caused delays (again, her inexperience showing). We ended up with some last minute fixes by the hotel staff for the seating chart (it was NOT pretty!) and ended up getting our 400+ guests into the banquet hall by 8pm (an hour late). The worst part: Monica has been emailing us to get final payment! We've explained to her a few times via email that she didn't do anything for our Saturday event. Why would she expect payment for something she did not do? On top of that, in her emails to us, she is threatening legal actions to collect the final payment. She used to work in the legal field, so I guess we'll have to deal with that when we get there! Hopefully the judge understands!!! I personally thought she would offer us a refund since she knows how hard it is to coordinate 400+ guests without an event coordinator. In conclusion, do not waste your time with Confetti and Glitter Events and Monica Mancilla unless you want to be disappointed with your vendor, have to pay for work that is not done and/or possibly deal with legal actions. read more

Monica was our day of coordinator for our wedding in April and the day went off flawlessly. I'm sure hiccups happened but I didn't even know about them! She was very great communicating through text and email leading up to the event and helped up find other vendors in our budget. She was helpful with decoration ideas and helped with ideas of how the set up should look. I can't recommend her enough! read more

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A few months out from my wedding I decided I really did need a day of coordinator and was fortunate enough to find Monica! She was really helpful in the planning process and made the day-of stress free. I literally did not think about logistics at all... I could relax and have fun because I knew that she was there to make sure everything was on schedule and went off without a hitch. One of my guests was even so impressed with her that they hired her for a work event that they were planning! In sum, Monica is professional, easy to work with, and very reasonably priced. I highly recommend her to any brides looking for a day of coordinator and even those brides that haven't decided whether they need one yet (YES, you do)! read more

Monica Was my Day of Coordinator for my daughter's wedding and she was worth her weight in gold! Her connections for vendors really helped as well as her willingness to roll her sleeves up and get cracking. There was a lot of set-up work prior to the wedding and she never once shied away. Everyone in attendance felt it went along flawlessly but we definitely had some snags that were not anyone's fault but Monica helped to make it all flow smoothly. The wedding was a destination wedding for everyone except 4 people out of 87 and Monica constantly responded via email or text. This was a major consideration for me in selecting vendors because I had to have responsive folks and Monica was always on point. Though she was a Day Of Coordinator I constantly bounced things off her as we worked out our vision, design and timelines for the whole year prior to the wedding Sept 14, 2017 and she never hesitated to give criticism or suggestions when asked. We had a very successful wedding and I truly have to credit CCYC (the venue), Steve Eicher (UniqueMobileSounds) our MC, and Monica of Confetti And Glitter who pulled us all together. I highly recommend Monica for any events you are planning and can not give her enough kudos for all her efforts! read more