Napa Event Planning

Rehearsal Dinners & Welcome Parties

There are so many different events you can plan surrounding your wedding – everything from traditional rehearsal dinners to fun boozy brunches, welcome dinners surrounded by vines, bike trips to various wineries, and custom wine blending experiences.  When it comes to Napa event planning, we have planned everything from a food truck roundup to an 8 course seated meal prepared by a Michelin starred chef, which shows that the possibilities are endless and there is no right or wrong way to plan the events surrounding your wedding day.  Some of our clients allow their guests to make all their own plans for the days surrounding the wedding and only have very close friends and family at the additional events; however, there are a lot more clients who want everybody who has traveled from near and far to spend time celebrating with them the entire weekend.

The one thing to always think about is how much time you may want to spend alone – if you’re going on a long honeymoon after the wedding, you may want to plan many different types of activities and we can help find the right mix of fun, education, and delicious food and wine that will fit your crowd perfectly.

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Sonoma Winery Event Planner

When it comes to creating incredible guest experiences, it’s important to work with an experienced Sonoma winery event planner who can showcase your brand in the perfect light.  We have done all types of winery events including wine club membership appreciation events, sales luncheons, fundraising events, release parties, holiday parties, art installation grand reveals, and auction events.  What we love about working at wineries in Sonoma is that we are able to carve out very specific looks depending on the brand.

Recently we were commissioned to create an incredible event for The Donum Estate in the Carneros AVA – this was a once-in-a-lifetime event and a grand reveal of new site-specific artwork by world-famous artist Doug Aitken.  He had designed and built an incredible windchime in a grove of eucalyptus trees located in a small valley on the winery grounds. The work was top-secret and the reveal was being covered by many news outlets, over 100 art world aficionados, and collectors and it was going to be “activated” by 20 percussionists lead by Hisham Bharoocha.

This is most likely the most unique event we have ever been able to produce and at one of the most incredible properties in Northern California. If your winery is in need of additional assistance to make your guest experiences better, we would love to talk to you and find out how we can work together to grow your brand through experiential event design.

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Top Wedding Planner

As Napa’s top wedding planner, we love creating colorful weddings for our clients.  Even with the light & airy colors of blush, rose gold, cream, and greens being popular in recent years, our clients have asked for more color, more texture, and more saturation in order to make their events stand out from those of their friends and family and to create trends in the industry.  Sometimes that color is in saturated velvet linen or in brighter blooms on the table or amazing lighting during dancing. No matter how you choose to incorporate color and texture when you hire a top wedding designer and you trust them to help you develop your wedding design ideas you’re more likely to have a one-of-a-kind wedding and experience for your guests.

Believe it or not, we don’t have any favorite color combinations because we get our color clues directly from our clients.  From an extensive design questionnaire and visual clues provided through Pinterest and tear sheets, we develop the colorful palettes by asking all the right questions.  Working with us and your event design team on your wedding ideas also ensures that you have a common thread throughout your event – whether that be color, design style, or a theme – we’re working with you directly and not making decisions for you because our relationship is one of collaboration and not of simply taking over your wedding without your opinion on the overall look, feel, and flow.

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Bay Area Bat Mitzvah Designer

Bar and Bat Mitzvahs are one of the greatest joys of planning events.  The celebration is a wonderful coming of age and being a bay area bat mitzvah designer provides a lot of opportunities for creativity. For Sophie’s Bat Mitzvah, we celebrated her at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park with 200 friends and family.  Her event was a perfect mix of modern patterns and rustic touches.

The family of the child who is becoming a bat mitzvah works for years to get them to the bimah to perform their Torah reading and ceremony.  It’s a labor of love and faith that are steeped in tradition.  When hiring a Bay Area Bat Mitzvah designer, you will want to find somebody who has a handle on the tasks and on the traditions. Whether you’re going to make a motzi or you’re going to have a havdalah, our experience matters!  For Sophie’s Bat Mitzvah we wanted a very fresh and young palette which could be enjoyed by both adults and kids!

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Wedding and Event Podcast coming soon from Celebrity Event Designer Sasha Souza. When Sasha added a mentoring side to her business in 2011, she began a journey with The Consultancy for Creatives (formerly Team IDo) that has helped thousands of people be more effective and focused on being a better business person while exercising their creative muscle. Sasha tells stories about business, provides practical advice, hosts guests, and gives the tools you need to achieve greatness in the event industry.

Soon, you’ll be able to subscribe though Apple & Google Play, but for now, it can be found at https://anchor.fm/sashasouza

What we would love to know is what YOU want to hear about. You can submit your topic suggestions, apply to be a surprise host or be interviewed, or just give us a big thumbs up (positive vibes are always appreciated).

Fill out the form on the Consultancy for Creatives to give some feedback on what you’d like to hear on the Wedding & Event Podcast for Creatives!

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Sophie’s Bat Mitzvah

It’s always an honor to be a part of a family’s life celebrations and being in San Francisco Event Design, we see a lot of different ways to celebrate milestone birthdays.  Bar & Bat Mitzvahs are just one of the special ways we are able to celebrate with our families. 

Sophie’s Bat Mitzvah in Palo Alto was an incredibly fun event to produce.  As bar and bat mitzvah’s go, color, details, entertainment and food are always paramount.  Every detail is considered important when celebrating this kind of milestone.  

What we loved about designing Sophie’s bat mitzvah was the use of color and pattern and mixed materials.  It felt like a well curated art collection when it was all put together and ready for the guest arrival.  Tables all were similar, but different – for the adult dining, the charger plate mimicked the pattern on the linen.  For the kids, they were in the ballroom playing games, dancing, and eating.  The fun started for them right away!

San Francisco event design can be tricky!  Our families and couples sometimes attend 20 or more events in a single year, especially the children who are becoming bar & bat mitzvah, so keeping things fresh for them is imperative!  With nitro-ice cream and fresh, hot doughnuts paired with dance motivators and an MC plus airbrush tattoo & hats and shirts plus a graffiti wall and photo booth, the guests had so many fun things to choose from!

The design directive for the service was to keep the focus on Sophie and to create a clean-lined, yet natural, look for her torah reading.  With a service of about an hour and a half, we wanted the bimah to be a place to create the perfect frame. 

It was truly a magical event.

Is your son or daughter becoming a bar or bat mitzvah?  We would love to be your choice to provide San Francisco Event design!  Please fill out our form for more information! 

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Wedding of Brie & Michael

As wedding season came to a close this year, I was reminded what a joy it is to work with so many couples as their destination wedding designer.  

When Brie and Michael decided to choose the Northern California Wine Country, this couple who lives in Chicago, was looking for the quintessential wine country experience for their guests.  We chose the beautiful Kunde winery for their wedding.  With views of the Sonoma valley and all the way to the San Francisco Bay, it’s hard to find a location that feels so immersed in the wine country experience.  

It was their desire that their destination wedding designer create not only a memorable wedding, but one that reflected their individual styles and some interactive elements.  We brought in a truck that served frosé, sangria and other specialty wine-based beverages which added a fun element…and oyster shuckers who walked through the cocktail party shucking oysters to order along with all the sauces so guests didn’t need to line up at a station & buffet, it was brought straight to them.

When guests headed to dinner, they were seated at long farmhouse tables dressed in luxurious velvet linens with flowers in tones of purple, pink & white.  But fun was the most important element and that was served up to the guests the entire time.

We would love to help you with your wine country wedding also!  If you’re looking for a destination wedding designer, please use this form and we will help you create an amazing experience, also.

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Wine Country Winery Event Design

Wine Country winery event design is something that is at the top of my list of events that we love the most. When we work with a winery brand on their events, whether it be a release party, harvest party, media or trade showcase, FAM or incentive trip or an employee appreciation event, we work hard to ensure that the brand is highlighted in very special ways.

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Bay Area Corporate Event Planner

As a premier Bay Area corporate event planner, we are always working with our clients for the most unique destination event experience.  With only 3 weeks to create 4 events for media guests from across the US, we worked closely with the brand managers from Chandon so that guests were able to get a 365 degree of how and where their world-class sparkling wine is created.

We were lucky to be able to find a beautiful flat area nestled in the rolling hills and meadows of the Chandon Carneros vineyard, with a little mowing we were left with a natural area protected from wind where guests could dine al fresco on a delicious ambient temperature menu, like a high end seated picnic, while taking in the gorgeous surroundings and experiencing Chandon wines from vine to bottle.  We love working with companies on their destination management events in Napa and Sonoma where we can create beautiful incentive events and event design in the most beautiful place on earth.

As a Napa destination management company, we understand how to take care of the guests from the planning of their travel, hotel booking, welcome gifts and incentive events.  We would love to help you with your Napa corporate event, fill out the form and we will give you a call to find the best way to work together.

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Napa Winery Event Design

We are so lucky to work with outstanding clients like Chandon winery for their 45th Anniversary of Blanc de Noirs – when it comes to Napa winery event design, we really set the bar high when we created four events over three days and finishing with this amazing event at Meadowood Napa Valley.

Bubbles 20′ tall were rising from the croquet lawn in what was a whimsical “ode to the bubble”.  When planning events for Napa Valley wineries, we always want to include a design that is true to the winery’s unique brand style and Chandon gave us a lot to work with!  We were able to create all of these events to their brand specs and give the media guests an epic wine country experience.

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