About this vendor
Gardenia Weddings offers full-service wedding planning in Arizona and Texas. They are passionate about celebrating love in all its forms and dedicated to showcasing your personalities and unique style through a stunning wedding that is authentic to you. Their weddings revel in diversity and uniqueness, are abundant in décor and details, and challenge the "traditional."
With over a decade of experience, Gardenia Weddings will provide the insight, support, and transparency that allows you to enjoy your wedding planning experience. They revel in authentic, inclusive, and creative wedding experiences, challenging the traditional, and exploring unique opportunities that leave your guests in awe and you at ease. They focus on details others may say don’t matter. From the flatware color to the candle style to the napkin fold – Everything that elevates a wedding from pretty to stunning.
Their goal is to create a wedding experience that is unique to you. They will support (and suggest!) nontraditional ideas and alternatives that best represent who you are. They understand that every couple comes with different needs and stressors. Whether that be finding a photographer that can beautifully capture different skin tones, finding a venue that supports LGBTQIA+ couples, or considering sensory sensitivity for neurodivergent couples. They focus on creating a planning experience and overall environment where you feel comfortable and supported every step of the way.
On your wedding day, you will be fully supported by their team of coordinators, ensuring every detail is perfect. Every role is essential when it comes to executing one of the most important days of your lives! While some ladies are focused on design and set-up, another is corralling your wedding party for photos, meanwhile others are stationed to greet and direct your guests.
With their heads on a swivel, they keep a watchful eye out for any wedding faux-pas. Uncle Dave has had too much to drink? A guest showed up wearing a white gown? Someone decided to ignore the "no kids" rule? They'll handle it! After all your planning meetings, they will know exactly how you want each "what if" scenario handled and act accordingly to save you the frustration or awkwardness.
The Gardenia Weddings team brings their passion for love and eye for detail to create an unforgettable wedding experience for you and your guests to swoon over for years to come.
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Business Attributes
- Black-owned Business
- LGBTQ+-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Planning
- Budgeting
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- RSVP Tracking
- Wedding Design
- Wedding Website
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Rehearsal Dinner
- Welcome Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Reviews
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out of 5.08 reviews
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Gardenia was all around wonderful! They were all around so easy to work with and made our lives a lot easier too! They made sure to listen to all of the little details we wanted fo...
r our wedding and worked with our vendors as well to make planning fun and not stressful. We really cannot say enough about how great Gardenia is! We throughly enjoyed working with them!
The team at Gardenia Weddings exceeded expectations on our special day. They made sure every aspect of the wedding went flawlessly. They are hands down and by far one of the most p...
rofessional teams we have ever had the pleasure of working with. Our guests are still talking about our wedding a year and a half later. I can’t say enough great things about them. Kudos Krystal and team. We appreciate you!!
If you’re planning a wedding in Texas or Arizona, I have two words for you: Krystal Gardenia.
Tl;dr: Krystal and her team saved our wedding. They bent over backwards to find us v...
endors that fit our values, budget, and timeline, which was no small feat given that we hired them a mere 3 months before our wedding date!
My spouse and I were originally slated to get married in 2020. Over the course of three years of uncertainty and rescheduling, the pandemic sucked all the joy out of wedding planning. As our final date got closer and closer, we were miserable any time the topic of wedding planning came up and realized we needed help to get over the finish line.
Krystal helped us get our joy back. She took over our vendor search and handled logistics so thoroughly that we were able to stop stressing and start dreaming again. (We were also able to stay focused on our own jobs, which are demanding and require our full attention.) Working with Krystal and her design colleague Bri gave us confidence that we weren’t missing anything and helped us lean into the details that felt personal or important to us.
As a queer couple in Austin, TX, my partner and I told Krystal that we hoped to support businesses that were queer-owned or that otherwise aligned with our values, or that at minimum would make us feel safe on our wedding day. I’m still amazed at the wonderful options she and Bri found within our short timeline! I never thought I’d say that one of my favorite things about our wedding was our vendors, but it brought me so much joy to know how many of our vendors were queer-owned, POC-owned, woman-owned, locally-owned, or some combination of all of those. Even our flowers were locally and sustainably grown. I feel so good about the businesses we were able to support and the people who were there for us on our wedding day.
When I say Krystal and Bri went above and beyond for us, I TRULY mean it. No joke - on top of all the work we hired them for, they also saved us from a horrible venue experience by tracking down an incredible alternative, doing the legwork to make the change fit our budget, surprising us with the new option (so we didn’t have to stress along the way, which was so kind), and making the venue change absolutely seamless and easy from our perspective. I mean…truly. I can’t tell you how grateful we are for the work that they put into that endeavor, not to mention every other detail of the event. (And if we had hired Krystal earlier, I’m pretty sure we never would have been in that position in the first place because of how carefully she vetted every vendor she presented to us.)
While hiring a wedding planner wasn’t an investment we originally planned to make, I want anyone who’s on the fence to know that working with Gardenia Weddings was worth every single penny and then some. In fact, we had less financial stress about wedding decisions because Krystal helped us stay within our budget without getting bogged down in the details. Every dollar we spent had a bigger impact because of the careful decisions Krystal helped us make. If I could go back in time, I'd budget for a full-service wedding planner before determining our budget for anything else and book immediately.
Thanks to Gardenia Weddings, we had a beautiful wedding that reflected us and our values, and we were entirely free to focus on the love surrounding us on our wedding day rather than stressing about logistics. I only wish we had hired them sooner!!
My Wife and I are at a loss for words at how amazing Gardenia Weddings was to us! Every single staff member was so caring, warm, and eager to help. Our journey with them started a ...
few weeks into our engagement, when Krystal paid for us to come to the AZ Wedding expo! We met with her and the team and immediately knew they were the ones for us. They were extremely organized, professional, and exceeded every expectation we had. Their organization with Aisle Planner made our planning process incredibly easy and stress free. We always felt that we could trust all the staff members with their advice and expertise. They were very easy to work with and we loved having them there every step of the way. We absolutely could not have asked for a better team than Krystal, Rachel, Karina, Hanna, and Elsa! Every one of those ladies is a powerhouse and you'd be so lucky to have them plan your wedding. I not only gained a Spouse that day, but I felt like I gained amazing friends with memories to last a lifetime!
Krystal and her team are AMAZING. Our wedding was even better than what we dreamed of - visuals, the flow, ALL OF IT. Krystal and her team listen, are very on top of things, easy t...
o work with, and are down to earth. We thoroughly enjoyed each and every part of the wedding planning process. We have nothing but great things to say about Gardenia Weddings!!!!!!!
If you hire Gardenia Weddings, it will be the best money that you will spend for your wedding. We kept asking ourselves, "How would someone do a wedding without Krystal?". Gardenia...
Weddings and Krystal were indispensable to our event. Krystal coordinated our vendors, triple-checked the vendor contracts, asked great questions about things we didn't even know about (vendor insurance requirements anyone?), handled all vendor communication the week before the event, tracked the materials (centerpieces, alcohol deliveries, linens?). As the bride, I was very organized and (thought) I had my vendors, schedule, decoration inspiration, and Knot checklist on track, and still Gardenia Wedding's services were 1000% worth the money. We had a seamless wedding- the guests commented on how organized, smooth, and FUN the wedding was. My partner and I were able to just ENJOY the day while Krystal handled all of the hassle and coordination of deliveries, set-up, hired staff, rogue ushers, caterer, photographer, and rentals. She also walked us through a fabulous rehearsal the day before the event. Every meeting leading up the wedding had a clear agenda and worked with me and my partner's busy schedules. Krystal and her assistants are a delight to work with. I would hire her to run my life, but she is in high demand for weddings and events! We hired her to coordinate the event, but she was so effective that I would recommend that you hire her for her more extensive planning services. Gardenia Weddings had a great custom website "wedding portal" for my partner and I as well as outstanding communication via email, phone and texting. Gardenia Weddings knows events.
We hired Krystal for our wedding in November 2020.
She is amazing & I can’t say enough good things about her. Krystal is super detailed oriented & went above & beyond with every si...
ngle task. You can tell she definitely cares about her brides & was there every time I needed her. She was just phenomenal!
Thank you Krystal!!!
Krystal is a God send when it comes to your wedding. She's meticulously organized, pays attention to all the little things you may have forgotten, and constantly communicates with ...
the vendors in that last month to make sure that they're doing what they're supposed to be doing and know where they're supposed to be and when. I had a couple of vendors that were difficult to deal with and she handled the situations with grace and allowed us to relax and just enjoy our big day! She's amazing. End of Story. Hire her.
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Phoenix, AZ and Austin, TX
Gardenia Weddings