As a Santa Barbara wedding and event planner, we work with all the major rental companies through our required Full Service Caterers.  One of the most important elements of working with a rental company is that of service and choice.  The full service event professionals at Ventura Party Rentals not only keep on top of [...]

So pleased to have guest blogger YTS Videography lending their expertise for planning your Santa Barbara wedding, talking about the importance of hiring a professional videographer.  We cannot stress enough the value of numbers 2 and 5 below – and another question to ask your videographer:

After over 600 weddings in Santa Barbara and its surrounding areas, we are continually asked for our wedding planning tips and secrets of what to look for when hiring an event supply partner for a Santa Barbara wedding.  Professionals in the Santa Barbara area come and go, but the top notch ones stay.  Because many [...]

As a native Santa Barbaran, I’ve seen businesses come and go.  And especially in the events industry.  Today I had the privilege of making an in-person visit to La Tavola Linen in their darling boutique right in the heart of

There are so many fantastic love stories out there.  When KRAZ 105.9 FM decided to partner with me again on a wedding giveaway in the middle of a nation-wide economic crisis to benefit a deserving engaged couple and give them a wedding they could not otherwise afford, I knew it was perfect timing.  I also [...]

Santa Barbara Wine Country.  An incredible wedding location set in the midst of  lush green vineyards.  Good ol’ southern hospitality and charm gracing every turn of this wedding.  But wait, did I mention the full moon?  There are few moments in life that could ever be scripted and timed as beautifully as this was.  They [...]

Almost all of my wine country brides choose to stay at the comfortably chic wine country Hotel Corque.  Fresh, inspired and centrally located to all of wine country’s event venues and sites, this hotel boasts all the amenities of a world-class resort with the intimate charm and warm personality of service staff who make you [...]

Santa Barbara has so many wedding locations and choices.  And I love them all.   But one of the things I love most about producing weddings in Santa Barbara is working at the Bacara Resort and Spa.  Located on a bluff overlooking the ocean and Santa Barbara Channel Islands, this resort boasts top notch internationally-acclaimed service [...]

I admit it.  I am a vintage girl at heart who should have been born in another era wearing gardenias in her hair, visiting supper clubs by night and dancing until the wee hours of the morning with the love of my life in a pinstripe suit under a full moon to a live swing [...]

One of the questions I am frequently asked when I am interviewed for publications is how I decribe this incredible region we call Santa Barbara’s wine country, the Santa Ynez Valley.  I am proud to say my response description has been quoted and is now associated with this area:  “rustic elegance” and “rustic sophistication”.   A [...]