Events By The Bay

We hired Janette last minute for our florals and rented her chuppah. She wasn't available but she sent two of her assistants. They were great and executed our requests exactly as expected. She was also the most affordable florist we spoke to (granted, we were looking very close to the wedding date). The chuppah is very beautiful.

Janette was our wedding planner and florist for our wedding this summer, It was a complex event involving two locations (our backyard in a rural area and a restaurant 30 minutes away as well as 3 hotels that 120 guests had to be shuttled to and from). It was so complex that initially we were unsure if we could even pull it off. Hiring Janette was the best decision we ever made! She assured us that it could be done, and she was right. From the get-go, Janette was extremely organized and always a step or five ahead of us, while being cheerful, friendly, and flexible when we changed our mind on something or were slower than expected in our wedding planning homework tasks. Janette has a wealth of experience and a great event planning network: she connected us with trusted vendors she had worked with (such as our photographer, DJ, the furniture rental company, and the catering company for the post-wedding brunch). The manager at our event venue restaurant had also worked with Janette multiple times before and was happy to hear that Janette would be in charge. She clearly has an excellent reputation in the industry! Every vendor we hired upon her recommendation did excellent work. I would trust Janette's recommendations blindly. Another big plus for us was that Janette is also a florist and could do all the flowers for our wedding herself, from bridal and bridesmaids bouquets to flower arrangements for tables, vases, and outdoor signs. Janette also has a lot of rentals available for reasonable prices, which come in handy to put finishing touches on the design. In our case, she created a beautiful wedding arch by draping our oak tree in white fabric and adding flowers, hanging lanterns, pedestals with beautiful flower arrangements, etc., from her collection. Janette also created and provided beautiful graphics and images for our dinner menu, wedding ceremony, outdoor signage, signature cocktails, table signs and escort cards, etc. We went through months of planning and enjoyed the process. Janette is a true professional who kept us informed, in control as much or as little as we wanted to, on timeline, and on budget. Everything went off without a hitch, and we could truly enjoy our wedding day without worries or stress. It was more magical and wonderful than we could have dreamed of, and this is truly due to Janette's professionalism and experience! I would hire her again in a heartbeat. We had an amazing experience with Janette and her team and cannot recommend her highly enough! Thank you, Janette, for everything you have done to make our wedding such a beautiful, unforgettable experience! - Petra & Pieter

Janette was our wedding planner and florist for our wedding this summer, It was a complex event involving two locations (our backyard in a rural area and a restaurant 30 minutes away as well as 3 hotels that 120 guests had to be shuttled to and from). It was so complex that initially we were unsure if we could even pull it off. Hiring Janette was the best decision we ever made! She assured us that it could be done, and she was right. From the get-go, Janette was extremely organized and always a step or five ahead of us, while being cheerful, friendly, and flexible when we changed our mind on something or were slower than expected in our wedding planning homework tasks. Janette has a wealth of experience and a great event planning network: she connected us with trusted vendors she had worked with (such as our photographer, DJ, the furniture rental company, and the catering company for the post-wedding brunch). The manager at our event venue restaurant had also worked with Janette multiple times before and was happy to hear that Janette would be in charge. She clearly has an excellent reputation in the industry! Every vendor we hired upon her recommendation did excellent work. I would trust Janette's recommendations blindly. Another big plus for us was that Janette is also a florist and could do all the flowers for our wedding herself, from bridal and bridesmaids bouquets to flower arrangements for tables, vases, and outdoor signs. Janette also has a lot of rentals available for reasonable prices, which come in handy to put finishing touches on the design. In our case, she created a beautiful wedding arch by draping our oak tree in white fabric and adding flowers, hanging lanterns, pedestals with beautiful flower arrangements, etc., from her collection. Janette also created and provided beautiful graphics and images for our dinner menu, wedding ceremony, outdoor signage, signature cocktails, table signs and escort cards, etc. We went through months of planning and enjoyed the process. Janette is a true professional who kept us informed, in control as much or as little as we wanted to, on timeline, and on budget. Everything went off without a hitch, and we could truly enjoy our wedding day without worries or stress. It was more magical and wonderful than we could have dreamed of, and this is truly due to Janette's professionalism and experience! I would hire her again in a heartbeat. We had an amazing experience with Janette and her team and cannot recommend her highly enough! Thank you, Janette, for everything you have done to make our wedding such a beautiful, unforgettable experience!

We highly recommend Janette at Events by the Bay for wedding planning and florals. We hired Janette as our month-of planner and to do the florals and decor for the wedding, and she was amazing to work with. We were really impressed with her organization, attention to detail, and creativity. For the florals and decor, we first answered some questions around the vision we had for our wedding day, and Janette quickly put together a full proposal. We chose the California Academy of Sciences as our venue, and were using various spaces within it. We had a general idea of the look we wanted, but we hadn’t thought too much about details – Janette filled in all these gaps with several great ideas that we were able to choose from. Our florals were absolutely beautiful, from the chuppah (Janette had various chuppah options) to the bouquets to the dinner table. Our dinner was in an animal-focused hall, so Janette came up with the idea to use small animal magnets for holding up our name cards that guests could then take home as a small gift. She even hand-painted the animals herself. At least half of our guests commented on how much they loved these, and we definitely wouldn’t have thought of it ourselves. For the planning, Janette helped put together a timeline for us, get all vendors on the same page, and helped us organize a walk-through with everyone to make sure we were aligned for the big day. The week of the wedding, Janette made sure everything was in place and went with our family to the venue to walk through the ceremony. On the day of the wedding, everything ran perfectly smoothly. Janette and her team took care of all the coordination, and made sure we mainly kept to our planned timing for the day without it feeling invasive at all. We honestly didn’t have to worry about a single thing, and we were able to fully relax and enjoy the day. It was truly an amazing day, and we could not have imagined it being any better – a lot of that is thanks to Janette! Events by the Bay also had great pricing for both planning and florals. Janette was really responsive to our emails and texts, and helped keep us on track for tasks leading up to the wedding. She is also very experienced, and knew exactly what to do to make sure everything looked amazing and ran smoothly. Overall, Janette made the wedding planning process so much easier and more enjoyable!