Where should we begin? Since the very beginning, Amber has understood our vision and brought our ideas to life in a way that we knew we were incapable of doing. She created the perfect wedding day for us! Not only is Amber professional, talented, and organized, but she is also creative and able to think outside the box. Our entire experience with her has been nothing but positive and enjoyable! Thanks to Amber, we felt virtually no stress throughout the entire planning process. We had complete trust in her and we have no regrets. It is evident that she is passionate about her career. She becomes excited when discussing color schemes, design layouts, and focal points. We remember during some of our conversations, she would have a certain twinkle in her eye and display enthusiasm for specific ideas, and it was clear that she could envision the entire wedding in a way that we could never have imagined. Not only did she help us find vendors that met our stylistic needs, but everyone we spoke with agreed that she was the best of the best. She also introduced us to professionals whom we genuinely enjoyed getting to know. She handled any mishaps or detours with grace, persistence, and innovation. When our venue notified us late in the process that there would be a concert on the same day as our outdoor wedding, Amber advocated for us. She battled through countless emails to ensure that our ceremony would not be disrupted by the noise from the other establishment. On the day of the wedding, she ensured that everything came together seamlessly and truly orchestrated a wedding that surpassed our expectations. We are incredibly grateful for her and her talents in helping us create a memory that will last a lifetime.

We enjoyed our time with Amber so much that when it all came to an end, we found ourselves
missing her! We truly believe that we have made a lifelong friend in her, and I cannot recommend her services enough.

With heartfelt thanks,
Lizzy & Amanda

Hiring A. Renee Weddings & Events was the best decision we made during the wedding planning process. We did partial planning with Malea. Malea was easy to talk to, professional, and has a great eye for design. We knew our wedding was in good hands after our first meeting with her.

There are so many moving pieces with wedding planning and many things that we did not think of, but she made it easy for us to know what we needed to do. It was also very helpful that she communicated with vendors for us during our planning months. I can’t imagine how many emails she saved us from. She is also very responsive and answered any questions we had. She helped immensely with the design portion of our wedding. She curated a beautiful vision from florals, linens, signage and more!

On the wedding day, Malea made sure that everything ran smoothly, and we could just enjoy the day worry free. As my new husband said, “We couldn’t imagine the hours of therapy we would have needed without Malea.” Thank you, A. Renee Weddings & Events!

Amber is the epitome of a boss woman and ultimate wedding planner!
I had an ultra romantic and super lush floral wedding style in mind and Amber went above and beyond to make sure we got just that.
Not only is Amber a true professional, but she is also kind, personable, thoughtful, understanding, and has an incredible eye for detail to make sure that everything is perfect for you. Even if she has several weddings to plan at the same time, you will never feel it when you talk to her because she makes sure to make you feel that your needs are prioritized and cared for.
Whatever your budget is, she will make sure to respect it and give you the best recommendations.
Whenever we felt uneasy about an estimate or idea, Amber handled it swiftly to keep our minds at ease - which is so important when it comes to wedding planning because you really don’t know how much goes on behind the scenes to make a successful wedding happen but she does. She understands the timeline for wedding planning to make sure you have everything you need in time but can also pull out backup ideas/vendors like a magic trick.
So if that that wasn’t enough for you, witnessing how Amber interacted with each wedding vendor she recommended to us was proof of how much respect she has in the wedding industry and how much respect she has for them.
Everyone we worked with shared the same qualities as Amber and had obviously formed a great connection with her from prior work together as well.
The team we put together was truly a dream team. Amber made sure that everyone was always on the same page and our wedding felt like a blink of an eye because of how smoothly everything was handled.
In short, Amber is the best wedding planner. Her work ethic is incomparable and if you want the most beautiful memory of you wedding day, Amber is your gal.
We love you, Amber!

Working with Amber made planning our wedding from across the country a breeze! She is calm and collected, honest, efficient, organized, really a true pleasure to work with. My husband and I never felt pressured to make any sudden decisions. She is always transparent and provided variety of options that respected our budget. Most importantly, Amber would always create an inviting space for us to be ourselves during the entire planning process, and that is what we loved most about working with A. Renee Weddings & Events!

Amber was the best planner we ever could have asked for!

We utilized Amber for her full service planning option and she was hands down, amazing! Amber was there every step of the way, helping us choose amazing vendors and using her design skills to take what was in my head and make it a reality. Not to mention, she handled my indecisiveness with compassion and ease, which isn't an easy feat having a whole additional year to let my head wander.

After having to postpone our wedding a year due to COVID, Amber handled every detail of making the postponement as seamless as possible, while also handling double the amount of weddings as typical. She demonstrated absolute expertise and stayed on top of numerous details & custom elements that made our day truly unique to us.

In all of our vendor meetings, she helped guide the conversation and was clearly an expert when it came to what questions to ask and helped handle necessities vs wants.

On the day of, she was incomparable, executing everything perfectly. She truly made the wedding of our dreams a reality. It freed us up to have a blast on the best night of our lives. Hiring Amber was the best decision we made for our wedding, and beyond that she is an AWESOME person! I would highly recommend using Amber for any of your wedding needs!

I highly recommend working with Amber Sooter as your wedding planner! She was my wedding planner and my wedding was so magical and the best day of my life! I actually eloped 6 months previously to my wedding because we had to postpone the wedding due to COVID. Though my elopement was nice and served it’s purpose, my actually wedding was worlds away and felt so meaningful, special because of the planning and lack of stress on my part due to Amber’s help.

Amber was recommended to me by the Four Seasons events coordinator. I was very stressed about my wedding with the uncertainty of COVID and that I lived in NYC and my wedding was in Seattle. I felt so much more relaxed after speaking with Amber so I decided to work with her, best decision I made all wedding!

Amber guided us through the process of selecting our vendors by presenting a few options that were best for us. This was so helpful because I had no idea who to hire. For my elopement I had to scour wedding planners IGs to find multiple vendors. This was sooo much easier.

For the wedding, I had a concept of pink florals and Amber helped me bring my concept to life and made many suggestions like having gold cutlery and the tablecloth and napkins material that made my ideas come to life beautifully. Everyone told me they had never seen such a beautiful wedding and I felt the same!

Amber arranged the meetings with all the vendors and sent my their proposals, which made everything easy. She also kept an overall budget so I could see how much it all cost.

She also helped so much with stress and ups and downs from COVID. She always told us when the regulations changed and what it meant for us.

Amber is so organized and going up to the wedding she had a detailed day of schedule for me and my husband and my family. This made the day of even more seamless because everyone knew when to arrive and I knew when to have breakfast and lunch so I didn’t have to think at all during the day of the wedding and could just enjoy. She also told us what to order ahead like menus, cocktail napkins, guest book etc. so they were ordered ahead of time and she gave her discount too for suites like Minted! She had a list of items to bring to the wedding, like the items I listed above, so packing for the day of was stress free.

On the day of the event because we had planned so well I didn’t worry at all. Amber and her assistant was there to take care of everything including, getting my veil from the room, setting everything up, and packing up and delivering our things to our room at the end of the night so we didn’t have to worry. I could relax because I knew that she would handle anything that would come up and answer anyone’s questions. She handled all the things that stresses me out like putting my veil on and helping my husband with the boutonnière!

Most importantly to me Amber has a calming presence, is kind, funny and sweet. She’s also organized and professional.

Hiring Amber was the best decision I made during my wedding. Do yourself a favor and hire her!

Working with Amber was hands down THE BEST decision we made for our wedding. We were one of the many pandemic couples who ended up having to postpone our wedding date twice between 2020 and 2021. Amber was there every step of the way, handled everything seamlessly, and went above and beyond to ensure we ended up having the best wedding. When we were first interviewing wedding planners after we had gotten engaged (2018), Amber came extremely prepared with examples of her work and sample files of how she plans/executes weddings. She was head and shoulders above anyone else we interviewed and we immediately knew she was the one.

During the planning process, Amber was always there to answer my endless amount of questions and help me with my extreme indecisiveness. She is very organized and kept us on track for all things for our wedding (both financially and timeline-wise). She is very honest and all her recommendations for vendors were the absolute best/you couldn't go wrong with any of them. We were able to put our full trust in her very early on.

When it came to design, Amber is very creative and has a great eye for everything. We had a very unconventional vision to capture the surreal vibe inspired by a horror movie called Annihilation (very colorful florals that don't exist in real-life and kind of have a weird/creepy vibe about them) and Amber was completely on board. We also added the extra complication of having so many different hanging installations for the florals and the lighting (a big disco ball installation with chandeliers) . She recommended the vendors that she thought would go best with our vision and we really ended up with the ultimate dream team. When finalizing design, I had a couple reservations about some of her color choices, but we ended up going with it and it couldn't have been more perfect. She is truly an expert!

With the pandemic, she seamlessly handled coordinating with our vendors and was completely there for us even though she had the busiest wedding season of all time this past summer (2 wedding seasons in 1). We are truly grateful for all the work she had put in when her bandwidth was spread as thin as it was. In our final coordination meetings with all our vendors leading up to our wedding day, she really showcased her expertise by asking all the right questions to ensure everyone was prepared to have things running smoothly the day of. Without this, we honestly would have missed so many things and not have been able to enjoy our wedding day ourselves.

Fast forward to our wedding day, her day of coordination was impeccable. I was relaxed the entire day and knew I could trust her with everything. We fully enjoyed our entire wedding day/night and were able to eat and party without any concerns. With the amount of coordination that was required from the many different vendors and the countless amount of installations that had be installed that day (lighting, SO many floral installations, etc.), it truly was executed perfectly. She was also just the best energy to have around and I cannot think of a single issue that happened.

I highly recommend Amber as a planner, designer, and/or day-of coordinator for any of your event needs. She is very knowledgeable, organized (a perfectionist!), creative, responsive, and just an overall wonderful person. She goes above and beyond for all her clients and has a great eye for any type of design. Having her be in our lives for the past 3 years has been the best and we are so grateful to have met her and worked with her on our wedding. Our guests have all commented that our wedding is the best they've ever attended and we'll remember every single detail for the rest of our lives.

Amber was wonderful to work with. She went above and beyond for our wedding and the whole process was stress-free and enjoyable. We are so thankful for Amber, our wedding day was more amazing than we could have ever imagined, and she worked so hard to make it that way.

One of the reasons Amber stood out above other wedding planners we considered was her eye for design. She listened and asked questions that helped us figure out what we wanted for our big day and elevated that to another level, but all while making sure the day would still feel like us.

We only had our venue at JM Cellars picked out and we had no idea who we wanted to use for rentals, florist, photographer, catering, DJ, paper goods, hair and makeup, cake, and all other wedding related things. Amber listened to our preferences and budget for our wedding and made great recommendations. Every vendor we worked with was someone she recommended and wow, we felt like we won the wedding jackpot. We loved every vendor and they all contributed so much to create an unforgettable event for our guests and us.

We had a pretty short time frame for planning our wedding of about 6 months during COVID. Amber was so knowledgeable and her experience in the industry really shined during the whole wedding planning process. She always kept us up to date on new restrictions for weddings. When the outlook was looking better for June 2021 weddings we were happy we were able to include more family and friends and we went from 40 to 65 guests. Amber seamlessly changed the design and footprint of the wedding for us, and spoke to all of our vendors, and made the necessary changes for our larger guest list. We also ended up getting married during one of the hottest days of the year (100-degree day) and she was quick to respond and make any changes we needed the day of.

JM was transformed in two hours from a winery to a beautiful wedding ceremony and reception, and I still can’t believe how it was all accomplished that quickly. It was the best decision to work with Amber and it allowed my husband and I to take the whole day in and enjoy every moment with our friends and family.

Hiring Amber is just the best decision you can make for your wedding!

Amber helped us in so many ways as we planned our August 2020 wedding, rescheduled our August 2020 wedding (due to COVID), and then finally got married in July 2021. Here is what we learned as we planned our wedding what seems like three times. There are two different kinds of vendors: 1. Those who make you feel like you are 1 of the 1000 weddings that they will be a part of and 2. Those who make you feel like YOUR most important day is also THEIR most important day. Amber is 1000% percent the second!

Amber truly cared about our unique vision and ideas for our day. Then, she made everything come together even better than we could have imagined. But what I appreciated the most was that she did it all while making us feel like her top priority, remaining calm during stressful and uncertain times, and acting as our friend and advocate throughout the whole process. Of course, she also exceled at the things you want from a wedding planner. She recommended and connected us with some of the best vendors in the industry, she simplified the chaos of the planning process, and she allowed us be present on our big day because we knew she had everything under control and would execute everything flawlessly and professionally. But really, it was her warm, joyful, and empathetic spirit that made her a great partner to work with throughout a process that would have been stressful even without a global pandemic.

Our wedding day was a complete fairytale, and we can't thank Amber enough for making it happen. Just hire her!

Amber planned our 25-person intimate wedding ceremony at my family’s home on Camano Island, and also a 90-person reception the next day in Seattle at Dockside at Duke’s. She worked with us for over a year and half, through COVID and ever-changing restrictions (up to the week of!) and was sole reason our wedding weekend was so effortlessly stress free for me and my new husband. She was so communicative and detailed; I loved her lists and timelines – they were a lifesaver! It’s clear she takes pride in what she does, and it all came together so beautifully! She provided vendor recommendations and they were all perfect and successful! I felt totally comfortable having Amber pick our dream team – they are the experts! I had to give very little instruction and guidance and the end results were everything I could dream of. It was such a joy to work with Amber and I really don’t know how we could have done it without her, especially in these crazy times! In the midst of stressful venue and state restriction changes, she kept us updated in an informative, but calming way! I never had any doubts that Amber would make it all work out in the end. Amber and her team definitely know what they are doing – I would entrust her with any wedding or event planning! Highly, highly recommend – if you want to trust that someone is taking care of everything for you with nothing to worry about – Amber is your woman! Thank you A.Renee Weddings & Events! – Kelley & Caleb