Christina and Lauren did a FANTASTIC job on my wedding. They are both very talented and knowledgeable in anything event/wedding related - from venues to types of wine to pair with food. First of all, Christina worked very hard to go to all the various venues with me and helped me pick out the best one. She has great taste but also is very good at listening and understanding your taste. She is a great communicator and was always available when I needed her. Even though I had a partial plan she was responsive to my emails at all times of day and in the weekend - to calm me down about something or to give me tips on how to choose the right florist. She has GREAT advice! Similarly, Lauren is a gem. She is super professional but with a big smile. She is fun/easy to work with and has a phenomenal attention to details - which when dealing with rental agencies and many different vendors for an event is EXTREMELY important. Our wedding day went PERFECT. This is no exaggeration. Glow Event Design's team did an incredible job having the whole day go super smooth, with everything going on time, every event flowing into the next and every detail in place. They dealt with a few roadblocks without drama, and with all smiles! They NEVER showed stress and were super warm towards all the guests and my family. All our guests said it was the most well run, fun, magical wedding - no one was stressed and there was just love and positive energy in the air. Mostly thanks to all the hard work behind the scenes from Glow Event Design! read more

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I cannot speak highly enough about Christina, Lauren and their team at Glow Event Design. We found Christina about four months before our wedding date, and fell in love with her right away. I was completely unorganized, as far as brides go, and my fiance and I had a pretty vague, scattered vision for our wine country wedding. Somehow, Christina and her team transformed that piecemeal vision into the most beautiful wedding that was everything we imagined, and more. Aside from being incredibly talented and having impeccable taste, Christina herself is lovely, as is Lauren. They are smart, detail-oriented, sweet (but authoritative when necessary) and easy to work with. As fate would have it, it rained in Napa for the first time in 60 days on our wedding day, and we had to completely audible our plans for an outdoor ceremony at a winery. Somehow, with only a few hours to essentially re-plan our ceremony, Christina created a makeshift ceremony that was probably more amazing than what our original plan was. Not only did she tend to every single detail that had to change with this new location, but did so with the utmost professionalism and grace -- smiling the entire time. Without a doubt, she is one of the most talented wedding coordinators in the business. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Thank you, Christina and team!!! I don't even want to know what our wedding would've looked like without you!! read more

My wife and I hired Christina as our wedding planner. She was excellent through the entire time we worked together, from initial meetings through the day of, and I would strongly recommend her. She'll make it so you can let go and enjoy your wedding day! We hired Christina on a partial plan--really just a few hourlong consultations in the months prior to the wedding, then pow-wow the week before, day-before rehearsal, and day-of coordination. That worked really well for us--Christina acted as our project manager, keeping us on track with all the logistics and details, gently nudging us to do things in a timely manner. She also consulted with us on general aesthetics, and she was never more than an email away to give advice as we needed on everything from vendors to finding a particular style of groomsmen wear to where to get last minute items. Best of all, Christina was really responsive and was diligent on every point--I left each meeting or email exchange with a real sense of trust that we had someone who would be up to all tasks. The actual wedding day went off without a hitch. Christina and her crew did an excellent job keeping things moving, resolving hiccups without drama (like getting an outdoor party next door to keep their music off during the course of our ceremony!), and acting as an effective firewall so that my wife and I could really be present and engaged and enjoy the day fully. They also picked up last minute things and made sure we had our vows printed out, which was clutch. They also had a really great attitude during the event--never an ounce of stress or worry in their communication. So many of our friends and family told us it was the best wedding they'd ever been to. Even the band and the photographer told us they had a ton of fun at the reception. Something magic was in the air--probably a wedding couple that was so supremely prepared and confident in their planner that they could be totally present and enjoy themselves fully! read more

We hired Glow to produce our wedding and it was an amazing experience. Heather Rice held our hand from the first meeting and led us through a truly flawless wedding. We mostly hired Glow for the attention to design and the ability to find venues that could go late and offer liquor in Napa but the benefits were ten fold. I can't say enough about how positive the experience was of working with Glow. They do events beyond just weddings but I can vouch for them. I am a fundraiser myself and have done tons of events. You can 100% trust them with your big day! read more

Lauren is amazing! Glow Event Design should be your go-to event planner for any and all events in San Francisco. As a highly professional corporate event planner in the San Francsico Bay Area, you will absolutely be in good hands with Lauren. As a photographer, I've worked with a lot of event planners. Many of them are disorganized and frazzled when production day comes, but when everything is organized and meticulously planned the way Lauren and her team does it, you'll absolutely be pleased. Highly recommend Glow Event Design. Call them today for your next event! read more

Total disappointment. I can say with confidence she did not prepare for or even gave a thought about my sister's wedding at all. Maybe she was having a bad day or something based on raving reviews here but at least the wedding she did not meet our expectations at all. Did not perform the service she promised. Failed to follow our instructions (very specific and detail directions). Ignored bride and groom's requests for time for thank you speech. Things were not going smoothly w/ drinks/food, I had to constantly worry whether things were going well or not - this was the worst part. Friends did not believe we had to pay for this service. (and believe me, it costs an arm and a leg). My disappointment is probably due to our high expectation - she inspired confidence, expertise, and professionalism, but failed to deliver. So, save your money and go with someone recommended by someone you trust go to a veteran in the industry (If you can't afford them, ask them for a recommendation - they keep a great network of solid contacts). read more

I have performed for hundreds of weddings over the past twenty years. Seldom have I met planners as competent, communicative, and thoughtful as Bari and Cynthia. Many planners would be wise to take a page out from their book. read more

Really want to thank the Glow team for helping us realize our dream wedding! Christina, Melanie and team were very helpful, professional, and friendly from the get-go, and were also extremely helpful in helping us streamline things on the actual wedding day. Christina and Melanie were also very diligent in sending comprehensive notes of each meeting, including follow-up items, and I could really feel their experience shine through as we got to crunch time with the planning process. Would highly recommend Glow for any wedding / event!! read more

Save your money and go elsewhere. The initial chats went really well. We liked Christina. But then she was unreliable, messy, and seemed uninterested. Several months later I came to leave a review and noticed someone had given her a negative one and now it is gone... Now more than ever I am confident that this is a sham - she just pays for good reviews. Stay Away! (And if this gets deleted, I will make sure I re-post and share on twitter my disappointment). Im not going away - people should be able to make an informed decision and not be deceived. read more

Wow - where do I start? The team at Glow Event Design is just absolutely phenomenal!!! We worked with Glow (Bari and Christina) as our month-of coordinators for our wedding and they absolutely killed it!! This team was so amazing that I find myself looking for excuses to throw other events just so I can use them again! When we started out the search, we were looking for a day-of coordinator, but Glow talked to us about how important it was to have a "month-of" coordinator because coordinating a wedding is much more involved than just day-of activities.....we are SO glad we listened! Glow took over all vendor communication 6 weeks before our wedding and that turned out to be a lifesaver and significantly reduced our stress! We got married at the Flood Mansion which is a venue that has a lot of rules and provides nothing but the venue - meaning there is A LOT of coordination necessary to ensure all of the vendors (and the event itself) are set up for success. This team did more than just set everyone up for success - they saw it through with flawless execution. Our wedding day was literally 100% perfect!!!! Everything ran smoothly and according to the timeline we had defined together - we didn't have to worry about a single thing on our wedding day and we really felt taken care of. Glow went above and beyond to ensure that we actually ate that day and were literally no more than a stone's throw away if there was ANYTHING we needed. Needless to say, they exceeded our expectations - not to mention Bari and Christina have awesome personalities and are fun to be around :) Bari and Christina were completely professional throughout the entire process and even in situations where we were stressed, they remained completely calm and handled everything. We didn't have a wedding planner, but honestly, had we known Glow was going to execute the way they did, we would have used them to plan the entire wedding, not just for month-of coordination. I highly recommend this team and you should use them if you want your wedding day to be perfect. read more

Christina and Lauren did a fabulous job on our wedding at Thomas Fogarty Winery. From the get-go, it was clear that they were very familiar with the venue, which enabled them to come up with suggestions to complement our ideas. They helped us find vendors and kept on top of us to make sure we were taking care of all the details that needed attention. And, of course, in the final week they were able to coordinate with, and sometimes corral, various vendors and other parties into making our event turn out perfectly, all while being practically invisible at the event itself. Given the amount of coordination that this involved, I'm still amazed nearly two months later. Furthermore, they did it with smiles the entire time. Highly recommended. Thanks guys! read more

Christina at Glow Event Design recently worked with us on our 7/20/12 wedding at Thomas Fogarty Winery in Woodside, CA. We wanted to choose our wedding coordinator very carefully considering we had a good idea of what we wanted for our day, we just needed someone to make sure it all came together seamlessly. After meeting with Christina, we immediately knew she was the right person for the job. Her personality clicked perfectly with us and she came to the initial consultation prepared with samples and "mood boards" from other weddings she'd done. Through the entire planning process, Christina was very involved and provided excellent guidance. She provided us with visuals of our ideas, insight into hiring other wedding vendors, and joined us for things like the food tastings and venue walkthroughs. When it was finally time for our big day, we felt confident that everything would go smoothly. The day of our wedding was in fact perfect. Everything went exactly as planned and we had the best day of our lives. I would highly recommend Christina for her services. She provides a very hands on approach to wedding coordination, excellent communication, and delivering on what is promised. Thanks again for all your hard work Christina! Chris & Yvette read more

I can not thank Christina and her crew enough. Our wedding went off without a hitch and it is all thanks to her, she is so detail oriented and organized. We not only wanted to work with someone who would be professional but also a person who was invested in how our wedding turned out. After meeting with Christina for the first time I didn't bother looking anywhere else. Getting married at a museum has several "hoops" that need to be dealt with and thankfully Christina took care of everything. Her creative ideas and money saving tips were so helpful and her long list of resources was time saving. If you need someone to plan every detail or just need someone to be there on your wedding day she is your lady! read more

If you want to leave it to the professionals and just enjoy your day without any stress, these are the ladies to do it! They bring tons of expertise and have fantastic taste in all aspects of the event planning process. We relied on them heavily to find venues, caterers, floral, musicians/DJs, and so many other details that they did such a good job of managing that I'm probably not even aware of half the things they took care of to make our day seamless and enjoyable. We had a great time, our guests raved about how much fun they had, and we would highly recommend Glow to anyone needing help planning their event. read more

Christina was so helpful and gave me excellent ideas. I was throwing a smallish party for my husband's 40th birthday. It was too small for a large scale party planner, but Christina offered to meet with me on an hourly basis to give me suggestions, ideas and tips. She also shared vendors that she works with and recommends. The party was a huge hit, and I was super grateful and pleased with all of her help. read more

Christina and her Glow Event Design team are incredible! From start to finish she had all of our details covered. Christina helped us to enjoy our son's Bar Mitzvah party as if we were invited guests. She is creative, friendly, professional and most importantly dedicated to making your event special. Our son wanted a basketball theme, and Christina helped us design centerpieces with basketball items (shoes, balls, jerseys) which we donated to a local charity. She communicated with our vendors and arranged for meetings with the catering manager and DJ as needed. Whenever we were overwhelmed during the planning stages, Christina would swoop in and organize a conference call or a meeting to go over details and assure us that we were on track. She listened and followed up and kept us calm... In the end, it was such a special night which celebrated our son's hard work! We hope to hire Christina again for our daughter's bat mitzvah in a few years...in the meantime we are recommending Christina to all of our friends! Thank you...from the bottom of our hearts ;o) read more

On September 10, 2011 I don't know where to start, I have so much to say but don't want to take up to much time and make this too long and drawn out, but I want to address my experience that I had working with Christina M and Lynsey as my wedding planners with Glow Event Design. Before I decided to get a wedding planner I just knew that my daughter (which was at the time 3 months pregnant) and I could pull this wedding off by ourselves...I mean how hard could it be? Not!! Think again!! My daughter and I were attending almost every wedding fair we could squeeze in every weekend. I had gathered so much information, books, flyers and papers it was ridiculous. I didn't even know where to begin or what questions to ask to help me begin. So I started sifting through the wedding planner information I had collected. I called Glow Event Design and made an appointment with Christina M (my daughter, granddaughter, and I) met her at Starbucks to sit down and make some sense out of this catastrophe I had going on in my brain....I know that I was driving my soon-to-be-husband crazy...lol!! The good thing is he never said a word!! Christina M and I talked, she was so helpful and polite, she catered to my every need that day and I had not even hired her yet! She answered all my questions and she even took time out to chat with my granddaughter. Christina M had already put a packet together from just a bit of information that she had collected from me earlier. As I sat there listening to her give me ideas and trying to keep as close to my given budget as she possibly could. In my mind I already knew that I was going to hire her...She is so knowledgeable and full of energy...I just loved her ideas and energy flow! After that meeting that day I was so relieved....She was so full of information about every idea I mentioned to her.she had pictures of ideas so that I could get an idea of what she was talking about. So over the next few months she kept me on schedule by phone, email you name it.whatever it took! She made the reception, florist, Pastor, cake, all vendors and the caterer (caterer calls were not pretty) but she handled everything very professionally and kept everything on budget and plan as she said she would. The day of the wedding Lynsey stood in for Christina M (because she had a prior engagement). Everything was fabulous, the wedding started on-time. The Reception was out of this world...I didn't have to worry about anything not ONCE. My day was perfect! The next day I spoke to my daughter Lynsey had instructed the staff to pack up all requested item and have them ready to be picked up. She even saved two pieces of cake for our 1st wedding anniversary. I'm sorry I was trying not to make this long but I just couldn't explain how delightful EVENT GLOW DESIGN was in helping plan my perfect day!! And because of Event Glow Design it was indeed a perfect day!! read more

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Christina has assisted with several projects at the Variety Children's Charity. She is very focused and has a keen attention to detail. I highly recomend her for your next event! read more

If you need help with a corporate event, especially one that shouldn't feel too "corporate," hire Glow Events. Christina and Lauren helped me throw a series of highly styled cocktail events for my company Sōsh, an SF based startup in the local events space. Given the nature of our business it's super important that all events we sponsor are high quality and executed exceptionally well and they did just that. They handled all the logistics (and then some) with grace, style, and professionalism. I could not have asked for a better partner than these two -- I was able to turn over the reigns completely to them (not easy when you're used to planning the events yourself!) and feel confident that they would produce a high quality event. read more

I hired Christina to be my wedding planner, and worked with her from April through December 2011. She exceeded my expectations in every way. Not only did she help me narrow down and select a venue that was perfect for us, she listened to my concerns the way a close friend does. Throughout the process, Christina was prompt in responding to my phone calls and emails, and performed every task she was asked to do with excellence. Her upbeat personality was soothing to work with, as she helped keep me focused when the details felt overwhelming. Very well organized and always professional when working with vendors, Christina offered event design as well. She helped us go from a few ideas to structured plans, for which I will always be grateful. I was able to relax and enjoy my wedding day because she did all the trouble shooting from before I got there until well after I left. She is a very talented and energetic person, and I feel blessed to have worked with her. She also provided a time line/bridal check list which helped tremendously. I can't recommend her highly enough! read more

Christina at Glow Event Design did an amazing job planning our wedding, even though we asked her to plan it on relatively short notice. From the very beginning, Christina put as at ease with the process, and quickly got us on track for what turned out to be an amazing Fall wedding in the wine country at the Carneros Inn. We initially thought we would just plan the wedding ourselves, but after a few venue visits and contacting some vendors, we decided it would make sense - and help us keep our sanity - if we hired a wedding planner. I contacted several planners, and interviewed a few of them. Some of them seemed like good candidates. But all of that changed when we met Christina. She was without a doubt the top candidate. In fact, we hired her on the spot, even though we had a few more candidates to meet. She was that perfect combination of personable and professional. In fact, by the end of the wedding, she seemed more like family than a hired planner. And we could not have been happier with the outcome. We were concerned about the additional cost of hiring a planner, but I must say, it was well worth the investment and I have no doubt it saved us at least an equal amount in other wedding costs. Through a combination of in-person meetings, calls, emails, and checklists (she was available whenever we needed her), Christina helped get and keep the planning process on track, but without putting much burden or stress on us. Her experience really came through as she handled all of the details and coordinated the vendors. We just had to make the big picture decisions, and she took care of the rest. Perhaps one of the most helpful things we received from Christina during the planning stage was her checklist reminders of things to do, and the dates by when to do them. These were not the 200-plus item lists you get from wedding websites; these were the points that really mattered. Had we stuck with our initial plan to do the wedding ourselves, I am sure many of the important little details would have fallen through the cracks. But they didn't with Christina organizing things. When the wedding rehearsal and wedding arrived, Christina and her assistant, Megan, could not have made things any easier for us. They had everything organized and ready to go, and also did an amazing job anticipating what else we might want or need, and had this uncanny ability to instantly materialize the moment we thought of something else we might want or need. One of the very few things they could not control was the weather--which looked like it was not going to cooperated for an outdoor ceremony--but they had several backup plans in place, just in case. (In fact, it turned out we were able to have an outdoor ceremony with no rain. And to this day, I'm not sure that Christina and Megan didn't have a hand in that!) To wrap this up, I guess I would just say this: whether for a wedding or any other event that you are planning, you would be crazy not to hire Christina. read more

Glow exceeded expectations throughout the entire wedding planning process. Both Lauren and Christina worked extremely hard to understand what my now wife and I wanted prior to any and all major decisions. From the start, my wife and I made it clear we wanted to remain relatively hands off in the planning process, Lauren embraced the challenge and advised us brilliantly with each and every vendor. As our wedding grew closer, Lauren was able to ease the stress of the big day, and delivered magnificently. Our wedding was amazing, much in part to efforts of Glow event, highly recommended! read more

Christina and Lauren are the best event planners in SF. They planned my firm's holiday party this year and did a great job. We got feedback from our employees that they had never had more fun at a corporate holiday party. They took care of every detail including scheduling site tours, menu planning, scheduling of activities, picking decorations as well as set up / clean up. They were very sensitive to our tight budget and would send us frequent updates on the expenses for the event. At first I was hesitant to use an event planner because of the added expense, but Christina and Lauren saved me so much time and money that the expense was 100% worth it. Highly recommended! read more

I can not speak highly enough of the team at Glow Event Design. From our first meeting to the day of the wedding they were an absolute pleasure to work with. Incredibly organized and on top of all deadlines and vendors, in the most calm and professional manner. My wedding day was a dream and I fully give Christina, Melanie and the other team members ALL the credit. If there is one thing you can do right for your wedding - it's use Glow!!! read more

We have used Glow Event Design to help plan and oversee both of our children's B'nai Mitzvah parties (one this year and another three years ago). Christina and Bari did a fantastic job. Their professionalism and organization were beyond any vendor that we have worked with. We could rave about every aspect of their services, from their knowledge of other vendors to their organizational skills. But their attention to detail on the actual day of the event surpassed anything we thought possible. The parties were huge successes. We can't thank the Glow Event Design team enough for being so calm, confident, and easy to work with. read more

I have organized quite a number of events in Europe and the US and find Christina and her team absolutely fabulous. She is a control freak, smart, dedicated and responsive. I faced a huge challenge for me as i had to set up something without being present until the day before the event and she guided me through all issues and hurdles in a way that made me feel very comfortable. It was in the end a success and i attribute a lot of it to her smart and proactive attitude. Highly recommend her. She can be trusted read more