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gritty + graceful. calm + cool. unabashedly unique.

Your wedding colors are hot pink and tattoos. You are entering the venue on a horse. Your theme is Game of Thrones. Instead of dancing you are playing board games all night. Yeah, we get you.

Weddings don’t have to be lilies and roses. There is nothing wrong with lilies and roses, we quite like them, but you don’t have to have those. You can have paper flowers or no flowers at all. Your options don’t have to be chicken or beef. Eat lamb ragu or vegan chili. Let’s plan a wedding that looks like the two of you.

You know what makes a wedding awesome? Spending time with the people you love. A wedding doesn’t have to cost $40,000 if you don’t want it to. Spend money on the things that really matter to you. Let’s uproot the idea of what a wedding should look like. Let’s celebrate this commitment you have made to each other. Let’s throw a huge party where everyone has a great time!

Let’s plan this event so well that it doesn’t look planned at all.

SERVICES OFFERED

Grit City Weddings + Events offers several packages for weddings of all shapes and sizes. From elopement or elopement-like to massive 500-guest blow-outs, we have the connections, skill, and passion for weddings to make these awesome celebrations happen. We work with Tacoma-based small businesses to make these intimate weddings happen on a small budget but with huge style.

We want to work with couples who are on the same page as us, too. That means we agree on some basic tenets: Black lives matter, feminism is for everyone, no human is illegal, science is real, love is love, and religious freedom makes each of our lives rich with compassion.

Wedding Coordination
You and your friends and family actually get to host and enjoy your event instead of work it. You set up and reach out to all the vendors. We meet a handful of times prior to the big day. You hand over all the responsibilities to us and we provide the point-person to coordinate all things during the event. You can hire us for just the wedding day or for the whole weekend - like for the rehearsal dinner or the next-day brunch. Packages start at $1750.

Wedding Management
In addition to the most important job (day-of coordinator), we can help recommend vendors and negotiate pricing for you. We can work out a fixed number of hours or budget you want to spend on our services and we will be your thoughtful wedding consultant in addition to the day-of coordination. Packages start at $2750.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$1,200

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$2,000

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$5,000

Do you offer an hourly rate?

Yes

What is the hourly rate?

$100

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Day-of Coordination
Full Planning
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Civil
Destination
Elopement
Eco-Friendly
Non-Religious
Religious

How many planners are on your team?

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Grit City Weddings and Events, led by Ashley and her team including Tosha and Julie, is highly recommended by multiple reviewers for wedding coordination services. They are praised for their exceptional communication, organization, and attention to detail. The team is described

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Grit City Weddings and Events, led by Ashley and her team including Tosha and Julie, is highly recommended by multiple reviewers for wedding coordination services. They are praised for their exceptional communication, organization, and attention to detail. The team is described

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Sarah F. Sent on 03/23/2024
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July 2023 wedding

If you’re considering Grit City Weddings, we cannot recommend them enough. Ashley made the planning process so easy compared to what it could have been. She gave us timelines and documents to track contracts, amounts paid, and what was left to be done. She was so open to doing things differently than an average wedding, and gave us ideas and potential vendors. Ashley is insanely calm under pressure; I’m an air traffic controller and she made the chaos look easy (and did it with a smile). I felt like what we paid was a bargain for all that she did for us! She made our wedding run flawlessly and exactly how we imagined it!
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Tara W. Sent on 06/04/2023
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Amazing experience on our big day!

We had the pleasure of working with Ashley leading up to our event with the Coordination Package as well as Tosha and Julie joining us on the day of and we cannot recommend Grit City enough! From the first conversation, you could tell their broad experience left us in very capable hands. Ashley managed to be both incredibly friendly and easy to talk to while also being ridiculously efficient. The Grit City team provides a ton of planning resources to their couples and we met several times leading up to the event, all of which left us feeling relaxed and confident about our big day. On the wedding day, they arrived with smiling faces and kept things running smoothly and looking even better than we'd hoped. Their whole team was just delightful to work with and I am so glad they were there to help make our day perfect!
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Coco B. Sent on 05/23/2023
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Run, don't walk, to hire Grit City!

We loved working with Grit City for our wedding! They were recommended by our venue (Willows Lodge) and it was so nice to work with a team who knows the venue inside and out. Ashley was super responsive and helpful throughout the entire process leading up to the big day. And Ashley and Tosha were amazing on the day of. They were really patient and positive, and were just an overall joy to be around. The day was unusually hot, and they made sure I was hydrated and fed. They felt like old friends, which is incredibly important on such an emotional and significant day. My husband said Grit City was the "best money we spent on the wedding" — and I couldn't agree more. Thank you, Grit City!
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Team

Michele Jones
Michele Jones
Co-Owner

Originally from the East Coast and then having resided in the South for 20+ years, Michele feels like she’s finally found “home” in the Grit City and in the PNW. Michele has cut her teeth in a lot of areas of event planning, management, and production, with recent gigs being stadiums and arenas for various artists and conferences. Her true passion, though, is the intimate experience that makes whoever is participating (or celebrating!) feel like it was made just for them.

Along with a lot of business and nonprofit management experience, Michele brings her love for logistics and making things happen to the table at Grit City Weddings + Events. Michele counts it all awesome to be able to not only serve others well, but do it with friends and the best people...and have so much fun!

Ashley Griffith
Ashley Griffith
Co-Owner

Ashley Griffith, a native of Cincinnati, OH, followed a cute boy to Tacoma, WA and never looked back. Now, his hometown feels like her hometown. After years of coordinating, participating in, singing in, and attending countless weddings for friends and family (we think it’s over 75 now), Ashley took the plunge in 2019 and started Grit City Weddings + Events.

Ashley’s seemingly unending energy drives her passion for the logistics of an event. And she is thrilled when small businesses are connected with the couples or organizations who need their services. As Grit City Weddings + Events continues to grow and change, Ashley is excited to serve couples of all backgrounds, budgets, and wedding visions.

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