Sleeping Bee Designs

e planned our wedding without her. I could sing her praises forever! At the beginning of the process, she was incredibly helpful with finding vendors who were within our budget and did excellent work. She has so many fantastic contacts in the industry; anytime we told a potential vendor that we were working with Sarah, they were genuinely thrilled to hear they’d be partnering with her. Sarah is the definition of proactive—she solved problems before they even popped up! For instance, when we had a miscommunication about what our caterer had agreed to provide, Sarah stepped in immediately. Before we even had to write the caterer back, she met with them to go over the menu line-by-line and got it completely sorted out before my husband and I ever needed to get involved. Throughout the process, her support was invaluable. During the typical planning lulls, she was a constant source of reassurance that we were right on track. As the wedding got closer, it was such a relief to know we had her in our corner to handle absolutely anything that came up. Her vendor coordination is unmatched, and everything felt completely seamless with her at the helm. Beyond her stellar coordination, Sarah is immensely talented on the design front. Her team created the most stunning table centerpieces with candles and bud vases for our reception—our guests were absolutely enamored with the presentation! If there were any hiccups on the day of the wedding, I still don’t know about them, because Sarah and her team had them covered before anyone else even noticed. Our guests absolutely loved her, too. I constantly admire her creativity, organization, and calm under pressure. She truly is the absolute best at what she does. Do yourself the biggest favor and hire SBD—you will be so incredibly happy that you did!

arah sent so many helpful documents to help us as we began planning the wedding and was always around to answer a quick question or lend her expertise. She had answers to every question and helped us quell any worries. As we got closer to the day, our minds were at ease knowing Sarah had all the logistics down. Her team really is incredible. My husband and I were able to enjoy every second of our wedding because we knew Sarah and her team had everything covered. The saddest part was needing to say goodbye to the Sleeping Bee team at the end of the wedding. We couldn’t recommend them more highly.

she helped us turn it all around. She held our hands through the hard part and then helped us stay on task and organized when our energy and excitement came back. She helped us navigate being out of the country for 3 of the six months prior to the wedding. She already had experience and relationships with most of our vendors, which helped those contracts go more smoothly and meant less management from us was required. She was 100% ready to get behind any project we could come up with — she supported our vision like it was her own. Whenever I asked her to find someone who could bring an idea to life, she always did so quickly and often with options to choose from. Her depth of connections meant that when I needed a new photographer with just six weeks to go, she was able to give me at least ten available and talented options in 24 hours. She is a wedding planner pro. Most importantly, she is just a lot of FUN and FUNNY. We enjoyed spending time with her on our monthly check in calls, at tastings, walk throughs, and finally the weekend of the wedding itself. She’s a joyful, quirky, nonjudgmental person who really loves weddings and helping couples have the day of their dreams. She is anLGBTQ affirming vendor which is obviously very important to us as a queer couple. She was extremely RESPONSIVE to all communication and I don’t think I ever waited more than 24 hours to hear back from her. Her planning expertise prior to the actual weekend was invaluable, but she really was our angel during the wedding weekend. She handled the details so that we could stay present and actually enjoy our party! Thank you Sarah for being such a great partner in bringing this wedding to life. We had the best time with you and miss you already.

ithout hesitation, we would recommend Sarah and her team to any couple getting married in the DMV area. Our wedding faced weather complications at the last minute, but because of Sarah’s planning, coordination, relationships with vendors, and upbeat attitude, the day turned out even better than we had dreamed! We met with Sarah for monthly planning sessions, and she was always willing to be flexible if we needed to reschedule or meet for longer than planned. We knew what general vibe we wanted for our wedding, but did not have a specific theme or vendors in mind. Based on her years of experience in the business, Sarah recommended 3-4 vendor options to us for each category that fit our vision and budget, and all of whom were used to working with one another and with Sarah, so they were able to pull off a flawless event! In the end, we made the final vendor decisions based on her recommendations, but her recommendations totally removed the guesswork for us. We never, ever felt as if we were being pushed in any one direction; rather, we always felt that Sarah had our best interests at heart. Sarah has a great memory and is very organized, so she helped keep us on track and made sure there were no loose ends. The master to-do list template she provided kept us on task and helped us break up larger tasks in a manageable way. She was also conscious of our budget throughout the process, foresaw logistical issues ahead of time to save us time and money, and helped suggest places where we could reasonably cut costs (as well as emphasizing to us which places required *not* cutting corners on cost to ensure a seamless event). One important value of hiring Sarah is her relationship with vendors in the area, and ability to communicate with them on the couple’s behalf. This made it so much easier to plan and saved us time. Sarah creates a detailed timeline for the wedding day and takes care of coordinating it with vendors and staff to ensure everyone is on task and on the same page about how the day will go. She was also excellent at communicating with our wedding party. Everything went so smoothly on the actual day! We also contracted with Sarah for our flowers/decor. We told Sarah we wanted to spend less money on this element and adhere to minimalist decoration, and Sarah identified a really fun and colorful approach using growlers, bunny tails, and candles. We loved the way it looked on the day! Finally, we were blown away by how Sarah handled the last minute challenges involved when the weather looked like it wouldn’t cooperate. We had planned to do our ceremony outdoors, but needed to make a rain call 48 hours in advance. Prior to the rain call, Sarah had already marshaled our vendors together to talk through contingencies, drafted an alternate schedule, and put together a decoration plan for our indoor ceremony location. We felt so taken care of and the extra effort helped make us feel comfortable with changing plans last minute. Our wedding party and family members even keep talking about how amazing she was to work with. Sarah is the best at what she does! Thank you, Sarah!