Armando was such a fantastic planner! From the very beginning he was organized, responsive and professional and that never changed. Together, we created a vision that came to life and was simply jaw dropping on the actual wedding day. His calm demeanor throughout the entirety of the planning process and on the wedding day was so greatly appreciated! I would recommend Armando to anybody getting married. Such a great experience!!!

Armando was absolutely amazing, patient, and supportive. Never having been to a wedding, I had no idea what I was doing or getting myself into. Armando was so helpful and guided me in all the right directions with such kindness. The ceremony and dinner for the wedding were at Hotel Californian, which Armando recommended. It was absolutely stunning, intimate, and beautiful. Armando picked up everything that would be used to decorate the day before the wedding and walked us through everything. Come the wedding day, Armando was so wonderful to my family. Everyone commented on how calm, friendly, and professional he was. It was clear that Armando has excellent relationships with the people he works with. My family all mentioned how nicely he treated the venue staff. The venue, hair and makeup, photographer, and florist were all so sweet and knew each other, which allowed the day to run even more smoothly. Armando truly made the entire experience so easy and special. Again, Armando, thank you for your patience, hard work, and expertise!

Armando helped us plan our wedding in Santa Barbara while we live in Chicago

We started with a budget and some basic ideas. From there, Armando called upon his design skills/experience as well as his peerless breadth/depth of relationships with local vendors to extrapolate our initial concept into a beautifully presented and executed wedding day.

His capability for aesthetics aside, he is extremely organized, detail-oriented and responsive
For all the legwork required to go from initial concept to the final day, Armando capably bore that burden and greatly simplified what was needed from us. Overall, the workload and stress we experienced in pulling off our wedding was way less than what we expected due to Armando’s ability to effectively communicate and capably execute/delegate towards the final goal.

Our wedding day was an expected realization of nerves but Armando was a steady and stoic presence –guiding us and keeping us to our scheduled timeline and events. It truly felt like nothing went wrong on our wedding day. Moreover, Armando helped us ensure a truly memorable celebration for us and our family/friends.

For anyone looking to plan a wedding in the Santa Barbara area, we cannot recommend Armando (and Alegria Design) enough!

Words can’t describe how beautiful our wedding day was and Armando played no small part. During planning Armando was responsive, organized, and a true expert. The wedding day itself went off without a hitch the design which Armando curates from your vision was exquisite. Our guests were absolutely blown away. My dad was so nervous and told me that Armando made him feel at ease. I could go on and on but I will remember this day for the rest of my life and I’ll be forever grateful we chose Algeria by Design to plan our wedding! It was out of this world beautiful!!!

Our wedding was over a month ago, and we are still in awe by Armando's work. He exceeded our wildest dreams. He handled everything on the day of the event, so we could focus on spending time with our guests. In the months leading up to the event, he was also very responsive to our emails and always provided great guidance. Third, he has great personal relationships with vendors in the industry, and he was able to steer us to the best ones given our price point. (This would've been very difficult to do on our own.) Lastly, he is a very friendly person and easy to work with. We cannot recommend him enough.

We wanted an intimate, elegant wedding that would be beautiful without feeling over the top. Armando delivered on every level — bringing our attention to the details that count while honoring our wishes to keep things stress-free and streamlined. Not only does he know how to get the job done with precision and efficiency, but he has a keen creative eye. He knows how to bring your vision to life… but better! Throughout the big event, Armando was a kind and calming presence. He is a true professional that knows how to work with hotels, vendors, etc and make everything run like clockwork. You can trust Alegria Design with your special day, and I am so glad we did!

We hired Algeria to plan our April 24th wedding. Armando was so wonderful to work with. He personally knows so many vendors in the area. This made it so much easier for us to plan our wedding, as we live across the country. Armando worked diligently to plan our wedding and did everything he could to make it happen. Our venue cancelled on us 40 days before our date and he replanned the whole thing in less than 24 hours! It turned out to be even better than our original plan and was truly a fairy tale wedding. He cares about his clients and creates nothing short of perfection.

Shauna was phenomenal! She helped us plan a beautiful elopement in Santa Barbara in less than two weeks! She helped us secure the lower lawn at the Ritz Carlton, Bacara with a dinner at Angel Oak restaurant to follow. She helped us find an amazing ceremony musician, Conner Cherland, and fabulous hair and makeup artist. She planned our timeline, walked the event space, and coordinated set up and timeline with all our vendors. She was there with us the day of to ensure everything went off without a hitch, which it definitely did. We can’t thank Shauna enough for all she did to make our wedding memorable and beautiful!

Armando made our wedding so so special at Sunstone Winery!! We loved him and he was soo professional and nice and handled each member of the bridal party as well as the staff and crew with such professionalism. He recommended all of our outside vendors and each one was spot on! We HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend Armando and his team!

We hired Shauna as our month/day of coordinator for our backyard wedding earlier this month. Shauna was FANTASTIC. We were doing a very DIY wedding and she was honest with me in our initial conversations regarding what she thought might be tricky with some of my initial ideas (ie, how a spotifiy playlist instead of a DJ might be challenging and how to navigate not hiring a full service catering team since we were trying to save money there) . I am so glad I listened and had her running the show on our wedding day because everything turned out absolutely PERFECT. My vision was executed to a T and if there were any hiccups I certainly didn't know it. On the day of, she was extremely helpful in getting all of the DIY projects I had done set out where they were supposed to go and coordinating with all of the vendors that were coming and going. ++ her vendor recommendations for our DJ and Bartender/Service Staff were also absolutely perfect. We can't thank Shauna and her assistant enough, and we would recommend her to any of our friends getting married in the Santa Barbara area!