Stephanie Marie & Co. Reviews
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Aly C. Sent on 11/01/2023
Best Wedding Planner Ever!!!
Stephanie was absolutely incredible to work with and made all of my wedding dreams come true. She was incredibly organized, creative, thoughtful and positive. Our entire wedding weekend from our Friday Welcome party, to hiking, golf, our wedding, and our post wedding Brunch were perfect thanks to her and her amazing team. She was so detail oriented and thorough, I did not have to worry about anything. Now that the wedding is over, I honestly miss talking with her on a weekly basis :) I cannot recommend Stephanie enough!! -
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Mylene C. Sent on 11/01/2023Absolutely fantastic wedding planner!
Stephanie Marie & co was highly recommended by a friend and then exceeded even our highest expectations. From day 1, Stephanie proved to be organized, responsive, creative, professional, passionate and most importantly, just a joy to work with. Our family is still in awe how every event from the welcome dinner to the wedding day to the Sunday Brunch went perfectly, due to Stephanie's oversight. Now that the wedding is over, we all miss working with her. I cannot say enough good things about Stephanie and highly recommend her to make all your wedding dreams come true! -
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Kristin B. Sent on 10/06/202310/10 Wedding Experience!
Stephanie helped plan a pretty complicated wedding for my husband and I in about 2 months time. We had to shuttle guests from our reception parking area to our ceremony site (a private community with no parking), and back. She connected us with high-quality vendors who matched our personalities and vision for the wedding. She really listened to what we wanted, added her professional input, and made it happen! Stephanie is extremely professional, personable, and organized. I would recommend her to anyone. Many of our guests said that our wedding was the best wedding they've ever been to, and it would not have been the same without her hard work. -
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Morgan H. Sent on 10/18/2023
Wonderful Service!
Stephanie and her team exceeded our expectations. Stephanie and I worked together for about 2 years to make my dream wedding a reality. She was professional, responsive, and made the experience fun! The photographer she connected us with ended taking amazing photos as well. Choose Stephanie Marie & Co. for your wedding. You will not regret it! -
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Joan P. Sent on 10/31/2023Excellent wedding planner
Stephanie is an excellent wedding planner! We worked with her for over a year, and she was always responsive. She had to work with a problematic venue owner and gracefully handled him. She took all of the stress away from us. The weekend of the wedding, Stephanie was there running all the details without being in the way. The wedding would not have been the same without her management, suggestions, decor help, etc. She surprised us by working the brunch the next day and helping the caterer set up, manage the buffet, and clean up. I highly recommend her to any family planning a wedding in Lake Tahoe. -
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Kathryn J. Sent on 08/31/2023The best of the best!
Stephanie was truly incredible to work with! We had some friends recommend her after using her for their wedding and we are truly so grateful for that rec! She knocks the socks off of all other planners—was in a friend’s wedding shortly before with a different planner and Stephanie was MILES above!
We got to spend almost two full years working with her from when we first started planning, and she was such a value add immediately. We had started looking at venues before hiring a planner, and were about to sign for a different one, and on our first call she asked if she could give us some alternate options, and we ended up with the most incredible venue that exactly fit our vibe instead of our original choice which would have worked, but definitely limited us in achieving exactly what we wanted for our wedding. As a bonus—the venues she recommended for us were less traditional “all inclusive” venues which actually worked so much better for our fusion wedding.
Stephanie came through with some amazing vendor recommendations and was super helpful in comparing pricing and reviewing contracts, as well as being flexible with our budget and providing options at different levels so we felt comfortable with cost. It was so handy to have a planner who actually lives in the region as she had the best recommendations and truly knew the area well. Calls with Stephanie were literally a blast and I think we almost always went over our schedule time because she was so much fun to talk to :)
Stephanie absolutely killed it with the event and the weekend of itself—we did multiple days of events for our Indian fusion wedding, and she seriously made it all happen and took care of the last minute details so my husband and I were able to relax and enjoy the events and not worry about set up/clean up/dealing with vendors/or any last minutes snafus. She and her assistants blew it out of the water and were so flexible with our non-traditional ceremony + asks. The amount of stress she managed to keep away from us was nothing short of miraculous and it made for the most magical weekend -
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Sarah B. Sent on 06/29/2023Professional, Organized, Detail-Oriented, and Fun!
Stephanie and her team were incredible! From the start, Stephanie was professional, organized, detail-oriented, and fun! She helped us work through tough questions and kept a light-hearted vibe even at times of high stress. Our wedding was magical and all of our guests commented on how perfect everything flowed and were impressed by the well put together details of the evening. Thank you Stephanie! -
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Steve F. Sent on 11/23/2022A wonderful experience on a special day.
I didn’t reach out to Stephanie until a couple of weeks before my daughters wedding. She quickly took control and took all our worries away. She made my daughters wedding a success.
She found things in the planning we had overlooked and made sure everything was perfect.
Stephanie is very pleasant to work with and was always available to answer our questions.
I can’t say more to say other that it was a delight to work with her and her company and she made my daughter and son in laws special day and memorable event. -
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Kristi B. Sent on 10/16/2022Stephanie is the best investment we made!
I was on the fence about hiring a full service planner… until we met Stephanie. From day one, she was excited about making our somewhat unconventional destination-wedding-meets-elopement-on-steroids come to life. She’s kind, straightforward and easy-going, and didn’t have a template or her own agenda. For the entire year and a half we worked with her it was clear she had our vision and budget goals in mind with every suggestion she made. Her expertise and relationships with amazing vendors and venues 1000% helped make our weekend so unique and even better than we possibly imagined and kept us under budget. All of our guests are still raving about what a fun wedding it was and it couldn’t have happened without Stephanie! -
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Liam H. Sent on 12/22/2022Amazing Tahoe wedding experience!
I was in a wedding that Stephanie and her team at Stephanie Marie & Co. helped produce and can only say amazing things. She was extremely friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable about all things wedding related and not. In addition, she was phenomenal at dealing with last-minute surprises as well as creating a calming and peaceful environment before, during, and after the festivities. I would highly recommend her services! -
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Maddie G. Sent on 08/11/2022Stephanie is organized, calm, smart, savvy, experienced and highly-knowledgeable!
Can't recommend Stephanie enough!!!
Stephanie made our wedding planning a stress-free, fun and engaging process and we couldn't have been more grateful for her time and hard work.
Not only was she CRITICAL weekend-of, making many Reno-Tahoe trips on our behalf collecting and returning rental items, running errands, tracking every little item that was wedding related, keeping us fed, calmly managing anything that came up without adding any stress to our day, and SO much more... but she also became a friend over the process- one whose opinion we trusted and one we knew we could always count on who always had our best interest in mind.
Stephanie emphasizes along the process that it's our day and provided us with all the information we could need along the way, while encouraging us to make the informed decisions so that we could look around on our wedding day and feel like the day still reflected OUR vision- and it was exactly that and more.
Though I could go on about how communicative and on-top of it Stephanie is (and this is coming from someone who is fairly type-A myself), I think I was most impressed with all of the comments we got from other vendors, frequently exclaiming how Stephanie is the best in the business, how much more organized and ahead of schedule she is than other planners, and how easy she made the process for them. When these other vendors, who you know are working with dozens and dozens of couples/ planners a year are overly impressed with your planner, you know you picked a good one. Not to mention, every friend/ family member coming up to us over the weekend complimenting how calm, collected and organized she was weekend-of and how lucky we are to have found such a great planner... we couldn't agree more!
We couldn't have done it without Stephanie and are SO grateful. Our wedding was more than we could have ever ever dreamt, and truly none of it would have been possible without Stephanie's calming presence, her knowledge of the wedding industry (and the deep specificities of Tahoe/ NorCal industry) and her hard-work ethic. -
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Judy B. Sent on 06/28/2023In praise of Stephanie Marie & Company
Stephanie was a true delight to work with, very thorough, professional and responsive at all times. She listened carefully and offered her wide experience as a planner. As mother of the bride, I felt supported all along the way. She handled a few day-of obstacles (weather related) calmly and professionally so that the event went smoothly. I know she and her team worked very hard to orchestrate our daughter’s wedding. She was calm, organized, creative, knowledgeable and fun. I highly recommend Stephanie Marie & Company! -
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Kayla C. Sent on 07/04/2022Stephanie = smart, intelligent, detail-oriented and FUN. Our wedding day savior!
If you are wondering if you need Stephanie Marie and Co. a part of your wedding team, read this. My fiancé and I paid for our wedding, so we were very intentional about where and how much money we allocated to each vendor. I am very detail-oriented, and I plan large gatherings and events for work. I was questioning if I even needed a planner or day-of coordinator for our wedding. Hiring Stephanie Marie & Co. was the best decision we made in choosing our vendors. This review would be too long for anyone to read if I listed all of the ways she saved our wedding day and served us well during our planning process. Stephanie is incredibly smart, professional, organized, and resourceful. I can not give enough praise to the level of skill she brings to wedding coordinating and planning. Stephanie seamlessly bridged the gaps between all of my wedding vendors, made our wedding vision come to life in a way I didn’t think was possible, and was truly my wedding day savior. Our wedding reception cocktail hour and part of our reception seating was outdoor. The day before the wedding, the weather forecast changed to forecast rain. I didn’t have any tentage reserved, which starts at $4,000+ to reserve through a vendor. Stephanie went and bought tents to cover the outdoor space and outdoor reception seating. It rained on our wedding day. Stephanie identified, resourced, and solved a problem that would have cost me over double the cost of her planning package, and I didn’t even know it was a problem until Stephanie has already fixed it. Stephanie was an absolutely pleasure to plan with, helped me think of details that would have been big issues on the wedding day had we not had a plan. She was the glue that kept everything together, and, coming from a person who is a type A planner, she was essential for keeping my wedding day smooth,
From the day I met her to weeks after the wedding, Stephanie was my right-hand lady, and I truly don’t know what I would have done without her. If you are wondering who you should hire, this is your sign to hire Stephanie. I promise that the money you pay to her in planning services, you will save 10x fold in her discounts, recommendations, and last-minute emergencies that without her would have been expensive; she will have already solved the problem before it become an expensive one.
Have I mentioned she is just a delight to have around?! You know this if you have already talked to her, but I looked forward to all our planning calls and meetings, and, from the moment we met to our wedding day reception in the women’s restroom together while she sewed my dress strapped that broke during photos, she truly became a friend that I trust completely and I believe she deeply cares for John and I. She did everything possible to make our wedding day absolutely perfect, and she succeeded.
If you are still reading and on the fence about hiring Stephanie, I would love to share my experience with her and tell more examples of how she saved our wedding day. She was the best decision we made for our wedding team, and I’d love to chat with you about why. Stephanie has my cell number, and please ask her to pass it along to you.
A note for any Tahoe City / Tahoe brides: Stephanie is your gal. She is incredibly well-respected in the community and can make magic happen at a moment’s notice.
Wedding Date: May 28th, 2022 140 guest brewery lake side wedding in Tahoe City, CA
Planner: Stephanie Marie & Co.
Venue: Tahoe National Brewing Company
Photographer: Cynthia Smalley
Catering: The Star Hotel
Cake: Tahoe House Bakery
Florals: Evergreen Floral Shop
Hair/Make-Up: Sage & Sagebrush
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Felicia H. Sent on 07/13/2020Such a good decision!
To all of you planning a wedding, and especially now amidst a pandemic, I highly recommend booking Stephanie Marie & Co. to help make your wedding journey a success, and one that you will love and cherish forever! I listened to several wedding planning podcasts, and each one heeded the sage advice to just book yourselves a planner! Our friends were working with Stephanie to plan their own wedding and personally recommended her with high praises. We shopped around a bit, and Stephanie was definitely the most responsive, affordable, and she impressed us from the start! We decided to book her for the full planning package because we knew we would need lots of support, and thank goodness we did! Our personal wedding ideas were all over the place from a tiny Lake Tahoe Elopement to a huge wine country wedding, and then eventually back to a small elopement at my family's lavender farm. Stephanie helped us throughout the entire process with tools and questions to narrow down our vision and get to the root of what our actual priorities and dreams were. She helped us create a realistic budget, and of course, kept everything on time, and strategic when working with vendors. She absolutely had our backs by reviewing all vendor contracts with a keen eye for clauses and details that were not in our favor and helped us successfully navigate cancellations with full refunds once we had to change everything due to COVID. She happily made trips down from Tahoe to the Bay Area to help us with site visits, shop rentals, and do wine and food tastings. My family got to meet Stephanie in person during a site visit and they were immediately comfortable working with her and relieved to have her by our side. She was always on time and prepared for each and every phone/in-person meeting, with excellent questions for our prospective vendors, follow up emails, and the next steps for completion. Over about a year's time, we worked closely with Stephanie and had an awesome wedding planned in Sonoma Wine Country with 150 people. Then, COVID happened and she helped us make the tough but smart and responsible decision to completely pivot our plans to a small 24 person elopement wedding on our family's private property. Steph helped us compose a very thoughtful and clear message to our guests about the change and start over from square one, planning a new, socially distanced wedding in only 3 months! When vendors were closed or unresponsive due to COVID, she worked with her trusted network in Lake Tahoe and the SF Bay Area and totally pulled off everything! Plus, on the day of our wedding, she showed up beautiful, composed, calm, organized, and ready to work independently and without asking me a single question on the wedding day. I got to sit back and relax all morning knowing that her team was transforming the property into our dream venue. She made all our visions come to life, and we are so thankful to have worked with her. We strongly recommend that you book Stephanie Marie & Co for your wedding! You will not regret it!
Wedding Date: June 21st, 2020
24 person thoughtfully curated and socially distanced Lavender Farm Elopement at a private residence in La Honda, CA.
Cake: FlourGirl Wedding Cakes - http://www.flourgirlweddingcakes.com/
Photographer: Jen Schmidt Photography - https://jenschmidtphotography.com/
Cake Topper: Glittery Winks https://perlaos.com/ -
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Haley D. Sent on 09/12/2021Hiring Stephanie was the Best Decision!
I'll start just by saying that Stephanie truly helped us create and have the most special wedding day and our best day ever. We met Stephanie in January of 2020 while planning our Tahoe City wedding, looking to book a day-of wedding coordinator for our August 2020 celebration. I'm definitely a type-A, organized, planning type, and thought I could manage on my own. Fast forward to the pandemic and spring 2020, and I started to feel a little out of my wheelhouse as we started to navigate the "what-ifs" and potential postponement discussion. We made the easy decision to upgrade our package with Stephanie and never looked back! Stephanie helped us not only to navigate a year-long postponement, but also the smoke/air quality conditions that made us have to pivot the day before the ceremony. Even with the changes, we couldn't have asked for a more relaxed, fun wedding day, and that had so much to do with Stephanie's hard work for us. With the postponement and her local knowledge of vendors in the area, we likely ended up saving quite a bit of money with her negotiation skills, which really just increased the value of the service she provided. I'd recommend Stephanie to anyone looking to get married in the area and want to also recognize just how great of a person she is. We really enjoyed getting to know her and how at ease we felt working with her, which ended up being a really long time! -
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Andrew M. Sent on 09/30/2021Many benefits to having a planner like Stephanie
Stephanie navigated the most complicated wedding season imaginable (pandemic + wildfires) with absolute poise. We had a mostly-DIY wedding so having Stephanie’s full service was essential. Where you really see Stephanie shine is in her extensive relationships with vendors. Especially with a DIY wedding, your options of vendors are endless. Stephanie knows all the vendors in the greater Tahoe area (and within all of Northern CA it seems) and knows exactly which ones suit your needs. Not only does she know them, but she has a personal relationship with nearly all of them. With Stephanie you have access to things that the general public can’t get. Vendors want to work with Stephanie, which makes finding and planning with vendors so much easier.
Stephanie also manages to balance the fine line between sharing her opinion, but not forcing us to go in any one direction. She truly listened to our needs and priorities, and helped us navigate the various options to find what would work best for us. She also shares a wealth of creative ideas from past weddings that she’s worked on, and has insights into what works well and what potential pitfalls to avoid (or plan around).
On the weekend of the wedding, Stephanie was magnificent. She was always a calming presence that allowed us to enjoy the weekend to its fullest, and she worked tirelessly behind the scenes the days leading up to and the day-of the event to make our wedding come to life and help it feel like us. We are forever grateful for what Stephanie did to make our wedding so amazing. -
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Kristen S. Sent on 06/23/2021Amazing, stress free destination wedding experience
Stephanie was an absolute joy to work with over the months leading up to our amazing Lake Tahoe wedding. As Floridians who had never visited the area, we were "flying blind" when we chose our destination venue. Stephanie set up calls with several vendors and provided us invaluable guidance and recommendations, leading us to have a dream team of vendors with great personality fits and an overall epic wedding!! She's also great at smoothing disagreements between bride and MOB and talking me off the ledge when I'd get a little cray...hehe. I recommend her full service package, especially if you're traveling from afar like I did. Stephanie listened to every crazy idea we had helped make it happen, lifting so many burdens off of us and putting us 100% at ease to fully enjoy our multiple events. Truly thankful for Stephanie's incredible services. So sad our wedding is over, but my gut tells me I may have made new friend for life! -
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Kendyl C. Sent on 10/15/2021Hire Stephanie to Save Time, Money, and Stress!!
We were thrilled with Stephanie’s work as our wedding planner. She went above and beyond our expectations -- working long hours to deal with last minute venue changes, coordinating all of our vendors, and saving us thousands of dollars through her negotiating expertise -- we recommend Stephanie to anyone who is looking to de-stress their wedding planning process. She is a pro at what she does, and she is also super fun to work with.
Stephanie made the process of selecting and booking vendors fun and easy -- she has a gift for identifying a vision and implementing it. Through her prior work with countless vendors, Stephanie offered great insight into what to look for. Whether through vision calls, questionnaires or Pinterest “homework”, Stephanie gave us tools to develop our vision for each vendor and for the wedding day itself. Furthermore, her negotiating skills during the vendor and venue booking process saved us more than her planning fee cost.
Our wedding had major changes due to COVID, and Stephanie was always one step ahead in terms of planning and management. Our original venue canceled on us just a few months before our date, which was locked in stone due to work pressures. But Stephanie laid out a plan for finding a new location and spent extra time touring our new options in person. She managed all our vendors and arranged for them to relocate to our new venue (three and a half hours away from our original). This was a lot of unexpected work for Stephanie, which she handled incredibly. When unexpected events inevitably come up during the wedding planning process, Stephanie will do what it takes to make sure that everything works.
In addition to her talent for logistics, Stephanie provided invaluable advice on interpersonal dynamics. If there are touchy subjects that come up during the planning process, Stephanie is the perfect resource.
On a personal note, Stephanie is warmhearted, thoughtful, and a joy to be around. We enjoyed all the time we got to spend with her during the planning process. By the day of our wedding, Stephanie became our friend and confidant.
We recommend Stephanie to anyone looking to plan a wedding. You can’t go wrong with her!
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Jennifer S. Sent on 10/21/2020The best decision we made for our wedding
This woman is a godsend — detail-oriented, a hard worker, and fun, we cannot recommend her highly enough. From the moment we booked Stephanie, she lifted every wedding burden, no matter how great or small, off our very stressed shoulders. We had been planning a 120-person wedding since last year, and when COVID-19 struck, it became apparent we would have to pivot in a major way. Still hoping for the best, we only started re-planning in earnest two months before the date (shame on us) and nearly everything changed--guest list, venue, caterer, rentals....and with every bump in the road, Stephanie was there, working nights and weekends, emailing us into the wee hours and texting with us on what should have been her days off, because she cares so much. And on days where we felt overwhelmed, she was all too happy to take the reins for a bit and continue working behind the scenes while we rested. (The surprising thing about small weddings is that they are just as much work to plan as a large wedding, even if they come in a smaller package. COVID complicates this many times over, too.)
Her work ethic is second to none, and her people skills are incredible. When vendors didn’t communicate quickly enough, Stephanie made sure to follow up, oh-so-politely. When we had trouble booking one caterer, she had three different options for us in her back pocket. Stephanie gently guided us when we needed things like a makeup artist, or signs, or market lighting diagrams, and she was always there to offer her help and expertise when we had questions. When things went wrong (because no matter how hard you work to get it right, there are so many moving pieces that it's inevitable), she handled them, and let us know after the fact when it wouldn’t be as stressful. She is so proactive and organized that we didn’t even know there had been last-minute rolling blackouts on the day of the wedding, until after they were over. It was a dream walking into our venue that day—Steph and I had put so much work into finding the perfect linens, table settings, and decor, and her team absolutely nailed it. She also did a great job helping us brainstorm and execute some creative social distancing and hygiene measures to keep everyone safe--a necessity when you have a 94-year-old grandmother. Not only is she an amazing planner and coordinator, but we have made a friend for life, as Stephanie is vivacious and positive, shares our love of Tahoe and the outdoors, and is so much fun to be around.
Thank you, Stephanie, for helping us plan an incredible wedding in two months. We know you put in countless hours and probably lost some sleep, but it was so much sweeter than the pre-pandemic wedding we had thought we would have. Because of you, we had our dream wedding, and we are forever grateful! -
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Julia H. Sent on 03/25/2020The Absolute Best!
I truly cannot imagine planning my wedding without Stephanie!! Hiring Stephanie is by far the best choice we have made to date. We ran into so many unexpected issues in the planning process and Stephanie was always there to help calm my nerves and come up with thoughtful and effective solutions. She was critical in negotiating with vendors and was excellent at communicating our ideas or concerns in a professional manner. Stephanie always thinks 5 steps ahead and asks all the right questions (that I would never even think of) to make sure your day is exactly what you envision. She is also an absolutely lovely and supportive person that you definitely want on your team! Could not recommend her more!
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