I must tell you about the wonderful experience I had with Marian from the write invite. She offers…read morepersonalized service. From selecting the actual paper to the font and wording on my invitations she handheld me from beginning to end. I am a very detail oriented person, so ordering something online would be out of the question. If you spend a little time looking before you call her you will find that her prices and selection are exceptional. But the time and effort and care she puts into placing an order is unusual. But I can tell you is the invitation I ended up with reflects the party that we're having. That's what you want an invitation to accomplish. Thank you!

If you want exemplary customer service and impeccable attention to detail, The Write Invite is…read moreright for you! The owner, Marian, is friendly, gracious, professional - and really knows her stuff. She recently provided A+, one-stop shopping for my daughter's wedding: we got gorgeous cocktail napkins, bathroom hand towels, kipot, and table escort cards: all personalized, and all perfect in keeping with the colors of the wedding. Furthermore, the invitations Marian suggested were incredible! She guided us with the design, wording and font of the invitations and the finished invites received ooohs & aaahhhs from guests and the bride and groom alike! The invitations from The Write Invite set the stage for the wedding beautifully. I give Marian the highest rating & recommendation. Let her be the one to help make your special occasion extra-special!

I highly recommend Linda for any event…read more  We hired Linda to help with two corporate holiday parties for a total of 650+ expected guests (250 for the first and 400 for the second). Each party had their own planning committees with varying personalities and ideas....and she was able to navigate through them like a champ! More importantly, we received amazing feedback from all the guests that the event was amazing, far better than prior years, and that they look forward to coming to the event next year.  I could give a long laundry list of all the amazing things she did, but hope the below gives you an idea: (1) Provided recommendations on design concepts:  Holiday parties tend to be similar year after year, so we wanted to get some new ideas to excite our staff to come...and Linda was able to deliver! (2) Helped with a short list of vendor options and gave some great recommendations - This was HUGE for me. I am extremely picky with DJs and performers, and she was able to give me some fantastic recommendations that any selection would of been good. We ended up with an amazing DJ that had live music overlay. - She was able to find some great live performers (e.g stilters, dancers, contortionists, etc).  - Found some good lighting, furniture, photographer and a few other vendors for us - And stayed within budget! (3) Negotiated with the vendors to give us a better price & some additional service offerings (4) Mocked up a floor plan  (5) Dealt with a difficult venue to coordinate load in/load out, and preparations...despite constant delays by the venue (e.g. they wouldn't respond to emails, calls)  (6) Day of coordination was amazing and she was able to solve unexpected issues the day of event caused by the venue She did all of this for not just one, but for TWO parties for us that are within a week of each other. Putting all the time saving aside, the event would not have been a success with her! Thank you Linda! We really appreciate everything you did and I look forward to working with you in the future.

I've been putting off writing this review because it's so hard to do justice to how INCREDIBLE…read moreLinda is. Linda planned our wedding in Carmel Valley this October; it was truly the wedding of our dreams, despite the unique difficulties of planning it during a global pandemic, and Linda is the #1 reason why. I could write volumes, but bottom line: Linda is a true gem; she is passionate, talented, and unbelievably dedicated to her work; and I could not possibly recommend her more enthusiastically! We hired Linda to do both planning and design; I would highly recommend Linda for any of her services/packages, as she shone through every step of the process. (BTW: I literally can't imagine doing HALF of what Linda did for us over the past year. If you're like us and had no prior event planning experience...hiring Linda was by far the most worthwhile part of our entire wedding budget!) I'll try to sum up what made our experience with Linda so great with three main points: 1. PERSONALITY Planning a wedding is a long, draining process, and your planner is probably the person you'll communicate the most with throughout; Linda made us feel cared-for and connected from the very start. I felt that our wedding was as important to her as it was to us; she never made me feel like any question was too small, and was a tireless advocate for us and a true pleasure to work with throughout the year+ of planning. BTW, she has an (amazing!) French accent - but I never had any difficulty understanding her and her email communication was honestly the clearest of anyone we worked with. She also rolled with every punch that COVID threw our way through, frankly, sheer hard work and force of will. 2. DESIGN Linda's talent for design was immediately apparent from her portfolio - each of her events has a cohesive yet totally unique-feeling aesthetic. Whatever the concept, she elevates it. We definitely made her job hard by being very picky but also not having any specific vision (I didn't even have a Pinterest account!) going into the process. Linda listened to our very loose thoughts about how we wanted the wedding to "feel" and turned it all into a clear design vision for the wedding that was beyond anything we could have dreamed of. 3. ATTENTION TO DETAIL Linda is ridiculously detail-oriented (in the best possible way)! By the time the wedding came, every single detail of the day had been thought out; I felt involved in every decision, but Linda made it all a reality - the best of both worlds!! On the day of, Linda was a true superhero - to the last, tiniest detail, she made sure everything was perfect, so that my husband and I were just able to enjoy the day. I literally got comments from multiple wedding party members on how amazing her timelines/spreadsheets were!! As a testament to her attention to detail: we wanted taper candles but couldn't have them lit during dinner (fire restrictions); so - as if they didn't have enough to do with coordinating our million vendors! - she and her team pre-burned the candles so they would still have that melted-wax look. It looked AMAZING, isn't something I would EVER have thought of myself, and reflects how tirelessly Linda worked, up to the very last minute and then some, to ensure everything was as perfect as humanly possible for us. Hiring Linda was, without a single doubt, the best investment we made in the entire wedding planning process. She is the single individual most responsible for how wonderfully our wedding turned out, and we are so grateful for the opportunity to have worked with her.

Anna Marie helped me and my husband plan our wedding in May 2023 and she more than delivered in…read moreproviding excellent service. Our first call with her was a breath of fresh air as we were both lost in how to plan our special day joining two families on the opposite coasts! Every step of the way she guided us in what to do and was always available for any questions or concerns we had. She and her team were consistently professional and most importantly she is a great listener! She helped us make our wedding not only perfect for our guests but also for us! Her team took care of all the details so that we could enjoy our day to the fullest. I would always recommend her and her team to anyone seeking help in wedding planning. She treated us like family and we will always be grateful for the incredible wedding day she helped create. Thank you!!!

We are forever grateful for AnnaMarie of AR Weddings N Events. She is both our hero and our angel…read more Our daughter and her now husband (both developmentally delayed) had a special dream--they wanted a Disney Frozen fairytale wedding. I called AR Weddings N Events one evening around 8:30 PM and AnnaMarie answered - first try! From this first call, I knew in my heart that I found the most amazing wedding coordinator. AnnaMarie is responsive, punctual, resourceful, flexible, kind, and compassionate. And of great importance, she is calm and creates calmness around her. I was clueless in terms of what is needed for a seamless and successful wedding, and AnnaMarie proceeded to explain all of the moving pieces in a wedding puzzle. Her vendors are amazing too -- DJ, flowers, photography, videography, and "Date Of"coordinators--all extremely professional, kind, and caring. AnnaMarie helped with every imaginable detail: color coordination, decor, rentals, dinner service, balloons, photo backdrop, and more. She helped us with a wedding timeline that made sense and kept the guests happy and entertained. She also helped with cleanup and made sure we got our full venue deposit back. On the day of the wedding, any time I thought of something and instinctively started to do it (I'm a mother!!), one of her coordinators would swiftly intercept me and say, "I've got this," and send me back to enjoy our guests. She and her team took care of EVERYTHING--all with smiles, compassion, and warmth. The wedding was magical and beautiful--so many guests said they were in AWE and that our wedding was one of the best (if not THE BEST) wedding they've ever attended. Thank you AnnaMarie and the entire AR Weddings N Events family for making our very special daughter's Disney Frozen dream wedding come true--down to the last snowflake! We love you!

My cousins bought me flowers for my birthday and they were absolutely beautiful! My cousins chose…read moreeach flower they wanted and the florist put the bouquet together. It was so pretty.

Quick and simple small bouquet for a birthday. Just walk up to flower truck and pick out a few…read moreflower stems to be arranged on the spot. Feels personalized.

We chose Chauncey Markham to be our officiant for our wedding and we couldn't have been happier…read morewith our choice. When we first met, I liked her immediately. From the beginning, she was very personable and professional. She was organized and came to the table with a plan to help us get started. Through out the entire process she kept in touch with us, she was always prompt and prepared. She has a certain aura about herself that exudes genuine care about your needs and wishes for your wedding day, and she will work with you to help you figure out details you may not be too sure about. And the best part is, Harmony Ceremonies is totally affordable. I would definitely recommend Harmony Ceremonies to anyone!

Look at our picture, it looks beautiful but it doesn't reflect our experience. I'm posting this…read morereview to make sure that no other bride goes through the same experience. When we hired Alicia (more than a year before our wedding) we thought we were getting someone experienced. What we failed to realize is that we would end up with someone burnt out (my MIL noticed right away and only met her once) who just wanted to create a cookie cutter wedding. She has her go-to venue in Napa and also claims she has done lots of weddings in the city. But she is not a top planner, at least not in San Francisco. Look at her reviews. If you notice, most of them worked with Jessica. (I didn't get to work with her until the day of and she was confused because she wasn't engaged from the beginning!) Alicia has been doing this for 10 years and only has a handful of good reviews. She gives you a spreadsheet that she makes you fill out as a couple as a "getting to know you." The ironic part is, she hardly reviews it or even cares to go through it with the couple. She skips almost all the meetings to try to book future appointments and leaves you with her assistants, even though you've paid for full planning. She lets her "team" take care of everything but they don't communicate, so you find yourself having to explain things over and over again. She also doesn't take responsibility when things go wrong. Instead, she just pushes the blame to the vendors. She'll also steer you away from your design if she doesn't have the rental items in her back room. She'll tell you that things are unavailable in the Bay Area, until you do a google search yourself and tell her to help you source what you find. I could go on and on, but if you are a bride that wants to enjoy your wedding planning process and day, do yourself a favor and get a real planner who wants to make your wedding dream a reality. When I realized that Alicia K Designs was a huge disaster, I had to re-engage the wedding planner I worked with before moving to California from the East Coast to help me with my ideas and designs. After the wedding I tried to work things out with Alicia but she just ignored me because she had already been paid.

I was married June 2012 at Kunde Estate in Sonoma, CA and we used Alicia K Designs for wedding…read morecoordination as she was the preferred coordinator for the venue. Alicia definitely knew the venue well and had a good relationship with both Kunde and our caterer (Park Avenue). This expertise definitely came in handy in working with the venue and vendors. Specifically, Alicia's team handled the lighting for the event well, even despite a completely new setup at Kunde after they renovated/landscaped their hilltop. The entire setup was perfect and the flow was great. Our guests (plus us) had such a great time and it was a wonderful event. My initial consultations with Alicia were great but there were some issues with some of the later follow-ups. She delivered the initial proposal over a month later than was promised and because of this our timing was quite condensed. I responded to everything she sent to me within 24 hours but she was continually delayed in getting back to me. I only mention this because I felt pressed towards the end to approve the proposal even with some minor errors because we had run out of time. Also, she passed off our wedding to her coordinator (Jessica) as we got closer to the event. Although in our contract it stated that Alicia herself would be our key contact leading up to and including the wedding day it was actually Jessica that became our main contact. Jessica was wonderful and very attentive but there were slight issues with timing for the day-of. Not a big deal, but I was frustrated because I was promised Alicia would be on-site including a guarantee the morning of the wedding. The wedding itself was absolutely fantastic - again Jessica did a great job and will continue to develop into an excellent coordinator. I think their team is definitely a solid team to use, I just had some minor issues with feeling passed along but nothing that wouldn't stop me from recommending this team to future brides.

I met Adjowah a few years ago at her stall and a street fair and fell in love with her custom…read morekeychains and later ornaments that she originally (and continues) to make with paper maps! I gave everyone a special keychain one year of their favorite location or their birth place. It's so nice to see the Weekend Store as a store front. Adjowah has expanded her gift items to include map pillows and other fun items with maps and also other gift items (non-maps) that are made by local artisans. Come see her cute store when you are in the Oakland Temescal area! She also has an Etsy shop for her maps jewelry!

We ran across The Weekend Store at the Treasure Island Flea Market. What a cute idea!! After…read moresearching for the exact keychain, we didn't find it, but we were directed to the website. Later that night we placed an order for a custom keychain and didn't think much more about it. The next day we received a personal email thanking us for our order! And two days later, the order arrived, beautifully gift wrapped (nothing I requested or expected) and packaged in a charming box and inner sleeve. It's service from a person who prides themself in their craft! And the keychain is exactly as requested, and very affordable. I couldn't be more pleased! Thank you!

Working with Isaac and Ahra was one of the best decisions we made throughout the wedding planning…read moreprocess. Apart from their stunning photographs (which speak for themselves), they were responsive, punctual, calm, and kind. They spent the entire day with us, from getting ready to the end of the reception and made us feel comfortable, even though neither of us are used to being photographed. The process of selecting our final photos for retouching was wonderful; we were able to sort through all of the digital negatives from the day to truly identify our favorites. This was the hardest review to write because it was difficult to capture all of our appreciation for Penguin Ballet in words. I only wish I had more occasions that require photography so that I could work with them again! As it stands, we will eagerly recommend them to anyone getting married in the San Francisco Bay Area.