We cannot say enough wonderful things about the property and our coordinator, Tina (Oh so swank!). The moment we stepped onto the property, we were overwhelmed with it's natural beauty and the gorgeous barn. We knew we wanted to get married there and we are so glad we did! Tina is wonderful! She helped our day run smoothly and she was extremely helpful. Because it had been raining the day before our wedding, it was hard to do preset of our decor and tables. I trusted Tina to complete my vision the next morning and I was not disappointed. It was perfect! She coordinated our day beautifully and she even bustled my dress for me! Talk about above and beyond! We are so thankful to Tina and RiverFork Ranch for the incredible memories! Love, The Stricklands read more

The lady below is absolutely insane. Oh So Swank is the single most amazing part of my wedding. They are a completely full service, wonderfu,l awesome, event planning company that will change your life. Tina, the owner, is Martha Stewart meets David Tutera, and the best part is she is right in Fresno. The concern with most planners is the cost, and Oh So Swank is a bit pricey... but worth every penny. She and her team work hard, and every event is absolutely amazing. Best of all, she even helped me with my school's Prom invites... which are gorgeous! I wouldn't go anywhere else, and neither should you! read more

Tina did an amazing job coordinating my wedding. She is very professional and knowledgable. I'm so happy that I hired Tina and her husband for my wedding I don't know what I'd do without her. I was so happy that my mom and I didn't have to run around the day of my wedding. Tina took care of everything. The timeline that she made was amazing. She always made sure all my vendors especially my Dj were right on schedule! Money well spent!! read more

Oh So Swank - Wedding Planning Near Me - Fresno, California

Do NOT go to this place unless you want to pay 3-4 times what you would pay for the exact same items. I have had several vendors in Fresno tell me that they don't like to work with her because she takes what they charge and doubles it to make herself more money. She will design a wedding for you and make you pay full price for things that she will keep, so you are paying for her overhead. She owns nothing. If you don't take her rental insurance, then you have to be there to receive rentals and pack everything up at the end of the night....even if you get the full coordination package. EVERY SINGLE PRICE is outrageous, and top dollar, even if you are a client, and she will show you nothing until you sign the contract, and pay in almost full. There are no refunds. Contracts are iron clad. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID! Especially if you're on a budget! read more

The question asks - what advice would you give a couple looking to get married here? ... DON'T. The wedding venue is BEAUTIFUL but this wedding venue/event coordinating service is a brick wall when it comes to flexibility. The value originally seems good until you start realizing you're getting nickel and dimed to death and all the things you wouldn't have to pay for elsewhere. We would've been able to get a beautiful all-inclusive place for the same price or less without the headache of dealing with this particular wedding venue. - You are not allowed to be on the property without arranging a meeting with the coordinator. Which will cost you each time you need to go out there besides your initial tour, the one hour your allotted for rehearsal, and from 2pm-10pm the day of the wedding. You may not even meet there for your month-of-meeting. You then pay extra for the time needed and they schedule showings during your rehersal/day of the wedding -They do the Bait & Switch. They will tell you things like you don't need a bartender and then make it an issue at the end getting your deposit back when you don't despite the fact that yu have email from her saying you DO NOT. -Rules at River fork ranch such as no drinking past certain points and no smoking will make them keep your deposit despite the fact that there are ZERO signs on site -You also will pay a $150.00 extra fee to have alcohol on site - in the words of tina this is for "You receive a security guard with the package, however if you are serving alcohol, there is a $150 alcohol fee that covers the additional security guards needed for serving alcohol." We paid the fee, received only 1 security guard for 200 person wedding that can't keep up.When we had a guest start pushing a female guest on site and when I went to find our ONE security guard he told me he was "busy right now." By the time of myself re-entering the barn and the security guard our guests had done the job of the security guard which was to subdue the guest into a hold. The guest was then asked to leave but was not escorted off the property as should have been by the security guard. We were then shut down an hour early at 9pm. Their contract does say any violation to their outrageous rules may result in guest being asked to leave as well as potentially the wedding being shut down, which they did and then turned around saying they were going to keep our DAMAGE deposit that clearly states in the contract is refundable unless their is damage to the property. your guests CANNOT leave any vehicles onsite overnight. So we arranged a hotel shuttle and forked out an extra $1,000+ to arrange transportation through a limo company. There is a lot more to say but Yelp won't let me post my 3 pages of complaints! Basically, if you want to trust your wedding venue and coordinator with your money and your special day DO NOT GO HERE! In addition to the nightmare of dealing with this venue, all their stipulations that seem impossible to work around, and the way they manipulate their clients - save yourself a headache and have your wedding somewhere else. There are tons of beautiful places around the area where you can take your $3500 and be done with it - without having to spend an additional $1500-3000 on bathrooms, where they have enough chairs for the advertised amount of 200 guests (not just 150 - we rented 200 chairs for $450 and then paid Oh So Swank an additional $250 to move the chairs from ceremony to reception site), a place that has refrigerators or ice so you don't have to spend an additional $600 for an ice truck, a place where you don't have to pay $200 just to use their arbor (what a joke), a place that gives you the full day of rental of the property not $100/hr additional needed prior to 2 (I never even seen a place when looking before but I guess that's just another way to nickel & dime you) BUT MOST IMPORTANLTY a place you trust to make the most important day of your life, all the time, stress, tears, and money you put into this day ABSOLUTELY perfect. You should be able to trust your venue and your coordinator. I'm sure some of you are wondering why we would even agree to this contract and the only reason was when we initially got engaged we booked another venue that was scheduled to be completely built by January, come April when no groundwork had been laid we found out they did not have their building permits even pulled yet! We then were in a pinch; we had already put down thousands of dollars in deposits on our vendors for September 10th so we had a find a new wedding venue for September 10th being our only option. When we met Tina she made everything sound absolutely perfect and easy and we paid the deposit right then and there because she said she could not hold the venue for any amount of time without a check, despite the fact that she had no contracts on her. Don't be us - Don't get the "Bait & Switch" treatment from your wedding venue read more

Shame on this money hungry company. For badgering and forcing couples to put a hefty down payment before any type of written contract is given out. Then completely scrambling what was gone over verbally about the contract. You would think a company built around making these events to be one of the happiest days of someone's, would be more professional. read more

Do not hire this lady. It seemed pricy, but I had no idea how to plan a wedding and trusted that she'd take care of it all as promised. Everything seemed like it was going great with the whole planning process, but on my wedding day, it slowly came crashing down. I guess the photographer she hired was her friend, or something, cuz they were flirting with each other the whole time. At one point, I had to actually GO LOOKING FOR THEM, because they were nowhere to be found. So, here I am, in my wedding dress, looking for these people that I hired. I finally found them in the lounge, drinking & laughing. The photographer missed taking photos of all the dance moments (father-daughter, mother-son, OUR FIRST DANCE). I'm still upset and sad to this day, because those are moments that I could never get back. I later contacted some vendors to see how much everything REALLY cost and found out that many vendors don't like working with her because they said she charges her clients way too much for services and they feel like she's trying to take advantage of people on their special day. If I would have gone with someone else, like I should have, it would have cost me HALF of what I paid for - I'm talking THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS! I wish I would have known that sooner. Don't make the same mistake I did! read more