About this vendor
Plan to be Wowed is an event planning business based in Northern, California that services the entire Bay Area including the Tri-Valley, San Francisco, East Bay, South Bay, Peninsula, and the Napa/Sonoma area. Plan to be Wowed provides clients with mindful comprehensive planning to create exception "wow me" moments. With an extensive background in hotels, catering, and hospitality, the company is set apart from other businesses in the area and can plan for all of life’s milestone events.
Experience
Owner and operator, Chrissy Wolfman, has spent her entire professional career crafting her skills in event planning. Plan to be Wowed has experience in religious, civil, non-religious, cultural, military, same sex, eco-friendly, and destination weddings.
Services Offered
Plan to be Wowed provides full event design, planning, and coordination along with partial planning (6-8 weeks out) for both social and corporate events. Clients are guided through the planning process with precision and professionalism.
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Business Attributes
- Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Budgeting
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- RSVP Tracking
- Wedding Design
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Bridal Luncheon
- Bridal Shower
- Couples Shower
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Truly made our wedding experience probably the easiest it could ever be! So great to work with and communicate with. The Plan to be Wowed team really goes above and beyond to make your day so special and seamless. One of the best decisions we ever made!
10/10 recommend Chrissy and her team for your wedding planning needs! As a bride from Texas getting married in Napa, I needed all of the help I could get. Chrissy is prompt, organized, detailed, deliberate, an excellent communicator, and has an eye for design and detail to make your day truly special. She took everything I wanted into consideration, along with budget, and steered me in the perfect direction for our Wedding Weekend. You will absolutely not regret hiring a wedding planner!
We couldn't have done it without Chrissy! We decided to go with Chrissy based on a rave recommendation from an acquaintance, and have been telling everyone we know about her since. She is very practical and down to earth, with a vivacious, enthusiastic personality - she made wedding planning a delight! I didn't really know what I wanted my wedding to look like, and she helped me narrow down ideas and bring together an event that was ultimately a perfect celebration for myself, my husband, and our families. We danced the night away in a fairytale ballroom in San Francisco (The Hibernia), which Chrissy beautifully styled and decorated to enhance the old world elegance. And, she pulled off all our special requests - like making a special quiet room for the seven babies who came to the wedding, so our friends could enjoy the evening with us! She is fantastic at the little touches that take an event to the next level: which bus company to use to make transportation a breeze; how to create a menu that nodded to both our Italian and Irish heritage; how to choose the perfect live band; and more! Our guests are still talking about our wedding more than six months later, and many of them told us it was the best wedding they'd ever been to. Chrissy gets the lion's share of the credit for that! We got married; she hired the crack team of professionals that brought everyone together for an amazing event. We also appreciated that Chrissy helped us fit wedding planning into our lives instead of putting our lives on pause for the wedding. During our 10-month planning process, despite being a bride-to-be, I was able to interview for and land a new job that I love. The look on my face during our before-dinner preview captures how it felt the whole time working with her when she kept bringing amazing ideas to the table. Thanks, Chrissy!!
Chrissy and the team at Plan to Be Wowed could not be any better!!! They are incredible!
From start of day to the very last minute, they work hard to ensure a beautiful and perfect wedding day experience for the couple.
Working with them is nothing short of a dream. If you are on the fence at all about hiring a planning team, look no further YOU FOUND IT!!!!
Every little detail was perfect. The coordination of the day went so smooth and they were always on top of making sure it all went to plan.
I can’t put it any simpler than this, if you want to have a stunning wedding planned by the most on top of it team, this should be your planner!!! Drop everything and BOOK THEM!
Chrissy and the team were absolutely phenomenal.
Before the wedding Chrissy was engaged with my bride and I the entire time and made our lives so easy. She came up with a ton of different options for us, timelines, and made the planning portion of our wedding a breeze rather than a headache.
During the wedding, Chrissy and her team were rockstars! They were on top of everything and without them there is no way our wedding would have went as smoothly and perfect as it did.
All I can say is.... BOOK HER. You will not be disappointed
We booked Chrissy and team for our wedding which took place in February 2021, in the midst of the Covid scare. My wife found her after reading some good reviews and thankfully she had a 1 month package that we were interested in. To be honest, as we discovered later, 1 month can be pretty nerve-wracking, especially with the uncertainties surrounding Covid protocols. Chrissy made this process easy for us. We're working professionals and are occupied with 9-to-5 (and even beyond at times) jobs during the week, which leaves us room to plan only on weekends. Chrissy held weekend meetings for us to make sure we were up to speed with the planning. She was also always available any other day of the week, any time too for any help we needed. Can't describe how much of a relief it was for us to know that we had someone keeping tab on the checklists for us.
From finding potential vendors, to speaking to them, to keeping all of them on the same page- Chrissy completed all these tasks with great elan.
It was supposed to rain on our wedding day (thankfully it rained only after ceremony & lunch), but Chrissy had personally bought rain tarp beforehand, to protect all our rental furniture etc. This was very thoughtful of her & showed good pre-planning.
As groom and bride, we could not see what all arrangements Chrissy did behind the scenes, but we did hear from guests and other vendors about the kind of hardwork Chrissy put in to make our day memorable for us. I would like to point out that our venue was not a regular one; owing to Covid we booked an Airbnb, which was unconventional and it takes some more effort to make it look like a wedding venue. Chrissy's inputs, suggestions & eye for detail made it look like a wedding venue in the end.
I can't end this without mentioning Chrissy's partner Chris who was present with her throughout the day for all arrangements.
We're glad we chose Chrissy for our big day. We had small, simple wedding due to the times we were in - but it came out better than we expected because of 'Plan to be Wowed' 's efforts.
Chrissy was amazing! She made everything so clear and was so well organized it felt easy. With so much happening that day, to have someone take all the "thinking" out of it for us was great. A true professional who clearly knows what she is doing. I couldn't recommend Plan to be Wowed more.
Chrissy was absolutely wonderful to work with! As an event planner myself, it’s really hard for me to let go of an event to someone else, so choosing the right wedding planner was a big decision. Chrissy was 1000% the right choice. She was incredibly organized throughout the process and was able to suggest solutions and review our contracts for anything we might have missed. Chrissy is extremely professional and organized and her timelines and checklists were extremely helpful to keep us on track. Chrissy kept me calm throughout the process and was always there to listen and provide solutions like when our linens were not available at the last minute or plans needed to be adapted for weather. She was always available to answer random questions at all hours of the day. I trust her with my life, and I would do it all again in a heartbeat. Her patience and smile always put me at ease, and I have to be honest I miss her now that the wedding is over. Our wedding day was absolutely perfect in every way thanks to Chrissy! I felt like I was in a fairytale, and she made it all come together. I will absolutely recommend her to anyone I know that gets engaged!
Chrissy is absolutely amazing.
With a few months away, my (now husband!) and I finally decided to cave in and get a planner for our October 5th wedding. I was in complete denial that I needed help- we didn't want to have a big extravagant wedding so we made the assumption that planning would be easy and laid back. I was totally wrong. The amount of coordination in the last couple months was way more than I expected, and Chrissy was a LIFESAVER. Both Travis and I have hectic work schedules, so we were already limited on time that we could dedicate to wedding planning. Honestly, even if I had all the free time in the world, I would have still made the decision to work with Chrissy.
Chrissy immediately put us at ease, understood our vision, and helped support us in every step of the way, including big tasks and tiny details. She was patient, super quick to respond, and genuinely cared about everything. It didn't feel like we were just another client, I honestly felt like she was totally focused on us, even though I knew she was getting so busy with wedding season. Even small details, like responding to my random texts at strange hours (like asking her if she thought I should get a spray tan, or just was excited to text her pictures of our wedding favors)...she was always available and our champions.
I thought I would be relieved to be done with it all... but honestly having Chrissy's support made the wedding SO FUN and stress free, and I wish I could do it over and over again.
Chrissy, thank you for everything. We miss you already!
-Allison
Wow. Chrissy was an absolute lifesaver. With two months to go before the wedding, we thought that we could maybe do it without planner but as we started to get more stressed we realized that we needed someone to come in and save us. Chrissy listened our vision and then made our wedding weekend absolutely perfect. We had the best time and she really made all of our dreams come to life. Honestly, she made the entire process so pleasant that if I could get married again next weekend, I would. Thank you so much Chrissy! We loved that you were a part of our special weekend!
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San Francisco Bay Area, Napa/Sonoma, Tri-Valley, South Bay
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