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Karen Waldron
Woman-owned
We speak English
2 team members
Ampersand Entertainment is a wedding planning company based in Westlake Village, California, servicing weddings throughout the Santa Barbara and Los Angeles areas.
Ampersand Weddings and Events represent a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration! Under the parent company of Ampersand Entertainment, our wedding team offers full-service weddings and partial planning services. We are based in Westlake Village, California, servicing weddings in all of Southern California, with a focus on Santa Barbara, Malibu, the central coast, and Los Angeles. We also travel and do destination events! Our goal is to make your once-in-a-lifetime event the most meaningful, with great attention to detail and seamless event management that is always expertly executed.
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Award-winning producer Karen WaldroAwardn owns Ampersand. Karen brings a creative eye and years of professional experience in the event and entertainment industry. She discovered her passion for wedding planning while working in film and television. Ampersand was recently selected for The Knot's Best of Weddings Award for 2025, 2024, & 2023 and honored to be a Wedding Wire Couples Choice Award winner for 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025! We were also voted Malibu's favorite wedding planner for three years, from 2017 to 2019, with the Malibu Choice Awards. Nikki Visser has recently joined this family team as a lead planner and brings a great eye for style & 10 years of event experience! We staff your wedding based on guest count, design, and location and work consistently with the same planning team members so you can be assured that our events are detailed and well-orchestrated.
Services Offered
Ampersand offers a wide range of wedding planning services for your rehearsal dinner, wedding ceremony, and reception. The company offers services for cultural weddings, religious and non-religious weddings, as well as destination weddings. Partial and full-planning packages are available and include:
- Budget analysis
- Curated event design
- Entertainment
- Ceremony planning
- Custom Invitations & Papersuite
- Hiring all vendors and overseeing contracts
- Hidden gem locations
- Strong industry vendor relationships for anything you need, I.e., Catering, floral, signage, rentals, music, photography, glam squads, staging, set design, and lighting companies that are the best in the industry.
We manage all of your details so you can be stress-free and truly enjoy your engagement and the planning process!
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Karen and Nikki from Ampersand Weddings & Events receive glowing reviews from multiple clients for their exceptional wedding planning services. Reviewers praise the duo for their attention to detail, spot-on vendor recommendations, seamless event coordination, and professionalism. Clients commend Karen and Nikki for their warmth, incredible vendor relationships, and ability to make wedding dreams come true. The team's dedication, communication, and creativity are highlighted as instrumental in creating beautiful, stress-free, and unforgettable weddings, earning them high recommendations from satisfied customers.
Karen and Nikki are so easy to work with!
Dream Wedding Come True: Exceptional Planning by Karen and Nikki!
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