Reviews of A Savvy Event (Event Planner)

Helen Yanta

My husband and I are so glad that we chose A Savvy Event (ASE) as our planning team, but more specifically, Kimberly Rosen, as our wedding planner! We initially spoke with several other planners, but after our first call with Kimberly, we knew we wanted her to be the one helping us plan our event this past October in Sonoma. We insisted that Kimberly was our go-to with ASE. ASE has several levels of planning packages depending on what you are looking for. My Husband and I decided to go with the partial planning package and it was the perfect balance for us. We are from the Chicagoland area so having a planner in California where we were getting married was essential. Kimberly is also well-connected in wine country/the wedding industry and has relationships with many of the vendors who ASE has worked with over the years. This is a major perk, since she was able to point us in the direction of some of the best vendors out there! We always felt like we were in the right hands and were provided high quality recommendations by Kimberly. Throughout the past year of planning with Kimberly she was always kind and had such a positive attitude. Aside from being our wedding planner, Kimberly felt like a friend. Not only did we hear from several of our vendors how much they loved working with Kimberly and how organized she was, even several of our friends asked who she was because they noticed how on top of everything she was at the wedding. Everyone tells you how stressful wedding planning can be, especially since our entire planning process was virtual and during covid, but ours was carefree and fun! You also hear “something is going to go wrong the day of” but my husband and I can say that our day was flawless. If something did go wrong, it was nothing made known or visible to either us or any of our guests. When my Husband and I returned to our hotel room at the end of that night, Kimberly and her assistant had already returned all our signs and personal belongings to our room. They laid out my veil on the bed with our welcome sign so beautifully (see pic). Although this was a small gesture, we felt it was so thoughtful to walk back to at the end of what was already the perfect day! One final touch if you will! I have said to my husband on numerous occasions recently that I wish our wedding planning wasn’t over and how I want to experience our day all over again and he agrees! Thank you, Kimberly for helping make our wedding one we’ll always treasure and never forget! It was more magical than we could have ever envisioned!

Doug Rhoads

I do not recommend this vendor if you are looking for a personalized planning experience. With planning a wedding, you hire a planner to ease the stress and to create a personalized wedding. This company treated it much more like a business than wanting to help us personally. My husband and I planned a wedding for 9/2020, which of course was postponed due to COVID. We therefore didn’t require any planning assistance for a whole year of postponement. To give examples of the unpersonalized experience, our planner knew we were heartbroken about postponing, but still wanted to get married on our original date with our families. We received not a single thought of “hey, we know you are supposed to be getting married in Napa today, but enjoy this day and we look forward to next year.” Fast forward, due to the continued lockdown due to the pandemic and a music festival being planning in Napa on our backup wedding weekend, we ultimately had to cancel our contract with A Savvy Event and replan our wedding in our hometown. We did not request a refund on the thousands of dollars we paid the company. So they kept our thousands of dollars and never met us in person and only spent a few hours on phone chats and in emails over a course of 2 years of planning. My husband and I spent hours filling out the planning paperwork, timelines, etc. We asked to have access to these documents so we didn’t have to reinvent the wheel as we are on attempt #4 at having this wedding. We were told that A Savvy Events owns the rights to the documents and we could not have access to any of them. So thousands of dollars invested in this company with no return on investment. To not even have the understanding of the rollercoaster of being a COVID wedding couple and allowing us access to these documents as we have to replan yet again is beyond disheartening. At the end of the day, we were treated like dollar signs as opposed to a unique, couple worthy of their efforts. Be mindful of what you would like from a planner before committing to this company if you are hoping for personalized, caring planning experience.