We hired SPARK for a corporate event at Dos Pueblos Orchid Farms. It is a unique venue for a…read morecorporate event because the location does not have wifi, has bad cell service, and has minimal electrical outlets.  SPARK provided a very detailed quote and included things I forgot to even mention or didn't know we needed. They're very familiar with the venues in the area. They worked well based on the budget we had. Alex and his team also went to the venue for a site visit where we discovered a huge echo in the venue. They were creative and worked on ways to fix it. They also made sure our video wall wouldn't have a glare and we would have shading for when the sun hit directly on the greenhouse. Alex was also great as we had a bunch of performers who needed additional A/V support. He reached out to them and knew exactly what they needed. The team spent hours and hours setting up. It really was a huge production. On the day of, everything was great! The wifi went smoothly and the on-site techs were helpful. One thing to note is that our event was not completely waterproof so when it rained between day 1 and 2, SPARK had to make a few adjustments as some outlets weren't functioning and there was water on some things. They did so quickly before guests arrived. The before & after pictures don't even show all the work put into this! Alex and his team should have been hired for Fyre Fest because they are amazing with producing great events no matter what difficulties there are.

Mind blowing, quite simply mind blowing! What Lani + team do is over the top creative and just…read morereally changes the whole event to an incredibly elegant soirée! And super fun!! I own pure joy catering and I have seen him transform 100's of basic spaces into...well look what he did last night!

We had our wedding at Montecito Club and I live out of town and so having a local planner was…read moregreat! Dalina listened to what we wanted and helped to execute that day when we had so many things going on! I was able to relax with my bridesmaids and family and friends and she worked behind the scenes with all our vendors to make our day beautiful! We had the best time and so did our friends and family! She also has a very calming energy and she makes sure everything comes together!

Dalina assisted me as I was planning my daughter's Bat Mitzvah party. We explored different ways of…read moresaving money, as we were on a fairly tight budget, but also wanted to make the party feel special and elegant. The night of the party (which was outdoors), there was a light sprinkle in the air, and Dalina helped to make sure we had things set up properly and that the kids all had the best of times. Together, we worked through all the day-of-details, and we were able to have an affordable, beautiful and memorable celebration for my daughter's momentous occasion. I would highly recommend Dalina. She is a master of parties big or small, is a wealth of information and is super dependable. Having someone like her in your corner, who has many years of experience, a great rapport with so many vendors, and who can help with ideas and decisions, is priceless. Don't wait-- hire her now!

I worked on the catering team at a wedding yesterday that featured the most amazing florals I have…read moreever seen at a wedding,. Being a retired floral designer myself, I just couldn't stop admiring all the beautiful detail, variety, abundance and beauty that abounded throughout the ceremony and reception areas. The Toast team was great to work with too, they REALLY go above and beyond!

Kim and her team handled florals for our wedding ceremony and reception and delivered the dreamiest…read moresetting we could have imagined. My vision was limited to "We love white flowers and greenery!" I will never forget laying eyes on our ceremony space for the first time, the beauty brought me to tears. And then to see the dinner florals, my husband and I were simply stunned in the most terrific way. Kim, thank you so much!!

Bella Vista Designs transformed our family home backyard into the most magical wedding venue!…read moreCampbell was lovely to work with and brought our vision to life with string lights and uplighting that made the space feel truly special. The setup and teardown were stress-free, and everything looked absolutely perfect. I highly recommend Bella Vista Designs for anyone wanting to create an enchanting atmosphere for their event!

Bella Vista Designs has gorgeous rentals that fit our vision perfectly. Their products, service,…read morecommunication, and professionalism were incredible. The structures, bars, and lighting we rented from Bella Vista were elegant and enhanced our venue as it was outside without any lighting or structures. Bella Vista Designs was a vendor I had always dreamed of having on our wedding team and I am so glad that they were able to help execute our vision. We only reached out to Bella Vista three weeks before our wedding. However, Jake and Christina expedited our quotes once they confirmed an open date. They did a wonderful job communicating with both us and our wedding planners right away to make sure we got the structures and lighting we wanted and they were willing to be flexible while we confirmed the look with our design team. They had many wonderful recommendations that enhanced the look of our events and our events were magical with the help of Bella Vista Designs and their rentals. Our guests would not stop talking about the structures, chandeliers, and string lights we had in our reception space! The install went smoothly and everything was beyond stunning and more than we could have imagined.

I have always been a little intimidated to try Indian cuisine and Sholeh made it so easy! From the…read moregrocery delivery to the preparation of the ingredients to the actual cooking, it was flawless! I shared this class with my family and we all prepared the meal together and then enjoyed it together. The food was delicious, I asked to increase the portions since I was feeding a family of 6 and we had so much food! Leftovers for the kids lunch throughout the week and an absolutely fantastic meal and time spent together. Thank you for offering this class, I will see you in April for the Argentinian Empanada class!

Sholeh was awesome to work with and our event was a blast! It was a work event and we had to be a…read morebit inventive to meet all requirements to host an event at work. Everyone had fun, ate great food and learned a ton!

Working with Ana was a delight! She promptly responded to my inquiry and was quick to answer all my…read morequestions as they came up over the next few weeks of planning. She delivered the balloon arch right on schedule and then came to take it down per our request a few days later. I had the pleasure of meeting her and she was lovely and warm to speak with. I would definitely use her again!

Ána was absolutely wonderful to work with! She responded to my quote request right away and sent…read moreseveral photo options to help me visualize everything. When we decided to scale down from a large arch to balloon bouquets, she was so accommodating--offering updated pricing and new design ideas without missing a beat. The bouquets turned out gorgeous and really made senior night at SBHS shine. Excellent communication from start to finish and personal delivery made the whole experience effortless. Highly recommend!

I love Joy!!!! :)…read more What a wonderful experience!! I hired her for my wedding and could not have been happier. I was trying to do a lot of it myself and realized 1 month before that I was missing about 4 vendors. Wedding planning is a lot of work and if you think you are going to do it without help... good luck. Your friends and family keep saying "just let us know what you need" so you ask them to do something mundane that you don't have time for and guess what? They don't have time either. Don't trust people you aren't paying to get things done! (You can't yell at them if you aren't paying! ;) I needed Joy. She gave me great vendor recommendations and I was able to get everyone booked very fast as well as looked over my existing contracts. She also did an amazing job the day of. For some reason someone had forgotten to bring the mixers, soda and water and Joy went to the store herself to pick these things up. I honestly believe she will do whatever is in her power to make your day smooth and fun!

Awesome!!!! Can't say enough good things about Joy and what a pleasure she is to work with…read more As a wedding photographer, having someone who knows how to take control and do so in a fun/friendly and non-stressful way is a true pleasure. I don't hesitate to recommend Joy to any of our couples.

Tonya orchestrated our daughter Lindsey 's wedding at our home, Casa Medio. It was exceptional. I…read moreheartily recommend her.

Tonya is the consummate professional and the wedding planner you want for your big day. From the…read moreinitial consult to after the wedding, I found Tonya and her team at Soigne Productions to be top notch, high-quality, reliable, warm, and supportive. I found her on Yelp after doing extensive searching, and after interviewing a few wedding planners. From the get-go, Tonya was flexible, extremely organized, dependable, proactive, and very familiar with the wedding venues and vendors available in Santa Barbara County. She allowed me to be as hands-on as I wanted, while providing solid advice and providing support whenever I asked. Besides supporting me with logistics, she has a great eye for style, and I took her recommendations several times for items such as floral arrangements, cake design, etc. I was aiming for a wedding that was minimalistic, romantic, with some handmade items, and uniquely us, and Tonya helped us deliver that. She listened carefully to our vision and helped us execute it seamlessly. If there were any gaps in my vision, Tonya filled them in even better than I could have. When my mom wanted to meet my wedding planner, Tonya was gracious enough to set up a meeting with her to make sure my mom felt confident about the wedding planning. It was great having her create a detailing timeline for the bridal party and the vendors, and running through the wedding rehearsal the day before - it saved me from having so much work! On the day of, we hit a few snafus, from late-arriving wedding guests, to almost going over the time we had set for the trolley, but Tonya handled everything calmly and supportively, and knew exactly what to do. She let us enjoy our big day while she took care of all the little details and logistics (all the small things, like paying the restaurant tab at the end of the night, add up but we didn't notice because she was by our side). It was great having someone we trusted look after us and our guests the day of. Because of Tonya and her team, our guests loved our wedding and we were able to enjoy all the little moments of our big day! I'd highly recommend her for your wedding as well. Some of my favorite guest quotes (that were made possible because we had Tonya): "The wedding was so much fun." "Your wedding is the one I wished I had. I'm jealous." "The wedding was perfect; I don't think anything even went wrong!" "This wedding is so you guys. It's so you!" "It's the best wedding I've attended this year. My favorite!"

My wife and I hired Lindsey and her team to provide full-service event design and planning for our…read moreLong Island, New York wedding. From our initial phone consultation a year and a half prior to our wedding, Lindsey put us at complete ease with her professionalism, attention to detail, motivation, excitement and genuine desire to truly understand our wedding vision and bring it to life. Lindsey and her team were everything we could have asked for and everything we didn't know we would need. To say Lindsey was "on top of things" is a gross understatement. Lindsey is a visionary, a designer, an organizer, a planner, an advocate, a friend. She is beyond talented, skilled, professional, direct, responsive, creative, tolerant, and extremely patient. She is the person you want and need to have in your corner. She is the person who will transform your vision into a reality beyond what you could ever imagine. She is the person who WILL find a way to execute every detail perfectly despite any obstacles that arise. Lindsey has a perfect balance of professionalism and a down to earth supportive nature that makes you feel like your best friend is by your side the entire way through but is also willing to pounce the second something needs to be addressed or confronted. We were NOT always the easiest brides to work with, as we had a difficult time articulating our vision and went back and forth often with our concept ideas. But despite our indecisiveness, Lindsey was able to reign us in and really found a way to help us identify exactly what we wanted. As someone who always needs to be in control and micromanage every detail, it was challenging for me to accept the idea of handing over the reigns and trusting that someone else could execute accordingly .... but I could not be happier that I trusted Lindsey and handed those reins over. It not only made my life SO much easier, but also resulted in an absolute PERFECT event that I would have NEVER been able to pull off half as well on my own! The planning, coordination and design aspects of the process were absolutely effortless on our end. Once our vision was cemented, Lindsey and her team were able to magically bring everything to life beyond our expectations by handling all the tedious backend details that we honestly had no time or patience for! In the very beginning of the planning phase I found myself "checking in" frequently to ensure certain things were going to be handled; however, I quickly realized that my need to "check in" was completely unnecessary as Lindsey was always 10 steps ahead. People warned us about how stressful the actual wedding day can be, so we had mentally prepared ourselves to feel emotionally drained, anxious, overwhelmed, etc. Let me tell you, this could not be farther from the reality of our experience on our day; it could NOT have gone any smoother. The entire day was effortless on our ends, our only responsibility was to show up. My wife and I felt completely and utterly at ease and relaxed. As a direct result of Lindsey and her team's attentiveness, we never had to ask for a thing; they knew exactly what we needed before we even realized we needed it! We also entrusted Lindsey with the responsibility of selecting our photography and videography teams, which both ended up being INCREDIBLE and huge contributors to the success of our event! Having these teams collaborate on our event together felt more like having life-long friends surrounding us as opposed to having a group of strangers in our space who were being compensated to get a job done. In the days following, many people reached out to enthusiastically tell us how "perfect" the event was; many insisted this was the best wedding they had ever attended; many commented on the impeccable timing and spacing from one activity to the next. We even had more than one of our friend's husbands say, "this is how a wedding should be done". My wife and I made an additional vow on our wedding night to NEVER again hold an event WITHOUT the involvement of Lindsey and her team!

Lindsey and the Magnolia Event Design team truly gave me the wedding of my dreams. Before I met…read moreLindsey I was working with another planner and was getting very frustrated with her lack of communication and decided to give Magnolia Event Design a call. From our first talk I knew Lindsey really knew what she was doing and knew I needed to ditch the other wedding planner to work with her. Best decision I made! From the very start Lindsey jumped right in and went to work on making my dream a reality. She was friendly, easy to communicate, and most importantly she got stuff done! 2 months in to working together we had almost all my vendors booked and a big weight was lifted off my shoulders knowing that everything was at last coming together. Magnolia Event Design also uses the Aisle Planner Software which is a brides dream come true! I loved being able to login and see/ manage every wedding detail from being able to pull in images of design I liked to seeing where I was at on our budget. The day of our wedding I was able to relax because I knew Lindsey was going to put it all together perfectly and I can happily say not only did nothing go wrong but our wedding exceeded all of my expectations thanks to MEG. From start to finish Lindsey and her team took care of us and made the planning process easy and fun. I can't say enough how grateful I am that we got work with her and would highly recommend her services to any bride looking for an amazing wedding planner

Alison and Bryan are the dream team! And they help put together an even bigger dream team! My…read morehusband and I started planning over a year out from our wedding date. We nailed down a venue, and then found Alison and Bryan. They made the process so easy and the timeline was clear! They definitely kept us on track despite the fact that we were out of towners! (Skype/Facetime - technology really has changed wedding planning!) VLD helped us track down the best florist, photographer, bakery, and linens. Who knew how many linen options there are?! And chairs? Invitations? The list goes on. We saved so much time being able to reap the benefits of their experience and expertise. Seeing photos of what they'd done in the past, I knew we were in the right hands. They've been featured in all the wedding magazines I've read, and I know one day I'll be able to say "you guys...those are the awesome people who also did OUR wedding!!!" Not only were they amazing planners, but they are just wonderful people. We enjoyed our meetings beyond the wedding planning, and we were sad when the process came to and end. Luckily, we can follow their lives and successes over social media, and we are excited to see what they do in the future. We highly recommend Alison and Brian for your wedding needs, and hope you are just as happy on your special day when you walk in and see how it all comes together as we were!

My husband Ryan and I cannot say enough about Alison and Bryan. Not only did they flawlessly…read moreexecute our vision and create our dream wedding, but they also are truly the most wonderful people and we are lucky to call them friends for life :) We were so fortunate that A+B moved to Santa Barbara right before we got engaged. A friend introduced us and we knew immediately that they were the right fit. They are so easygoing, creative and fun, yet also the most detail oriented and organized people you will ever meet. We live in San Francisco and could only visit our venue (Belmond El Encanto) a few times but A+B made it so easy and kept us on track from afar with video chats, shared schedules and budgets. With the design, I had likes and dislikes but Alison really helped me hone in on my vision and bring it to life in a way that we never could have imagined. She helped us create a cohesive and personal "brand" that carried from the invitations, florals and menus to the cocktail napkins, photo booth backdrop and welcome boxes. They liaised with our other vendors leading up to the big day and everything was seamless. A+B created the dreamiest coastal garden dinner party for us and designed a dramatic canopy of twinkling lights that illuminated our two long dinner tables around the lily pond - truly magical! We would trust Alison and Bryan with any event and want to plan a vow renewal just so we can work with them again. The worst part about our wedding being over was not getting to chat with A+B everyday!