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About

Anything But Gray Events is a Los Angeles-based wedding planner that strives to guide couples through the creative planning process. Their philosophy revolves around relationships based on mutual respect, positive energy and a generous sense of humor. With Anything But Gray, expect good vibes and professional services wrapped up in a shiny, colorful package.

Experience
Holly Gray is the owner and operator of the company. She launched Anything But Gray in 2010. Holly works with at least one assistant at each wedding.

Services Offered
To help achieve your unique wedding vision, the company’s planning services will connect you to everything you need. These offerings will help you save time, money and your sanity. Services include:

  • Budget analysis
  • Event design
  • Full planning
  • Partial planning
  • Guest list
  • Timelines
  • Referrals
  • To-do lists
  • Travel
  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$9,995

Do you offer an hourly rate?

No

What is the hourly rate?

$300

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Full Planning
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Civil
Cultural
Destination
Double Weddings
Elopement
Eco-Friendly
Military
Non-Religious
Religious

How many planners are on your team?

2
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96% Recommended by couples
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Sent on 02/13/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Holly works magic

Holly is enthusiastic, visionary, and can-do. She assembled a top-flight team of vendors for our LGBTQ wedding, all women- or LGBTQ-owned. She went to bat for everything we wanted and then some. Her generosity and good cheer knows no bounds. And she created an elegant, unique look for our wedding and had everything planned to the minute, while remaining calm and flexible. A joy to work with.
Stephanie
Stephanie D. Sent on 12/28/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Wedding and event planning is an absolute art!

In an age of self-checkout and self-service, Holly Gray offers a complete and comprehensive event planning service. Holly makes a concerted effort to immerse herself in every aspect of an event, ensuring that it is a wholly complete and thoroughly thought-out and amazing affair. My partner and I were lucky enough to hire Holly to handle the event planning aspects of our wedding. We believe that wedding and event planning is an absolute art. While sometimes the finished product and the artist can be worlds apart; in the case of Holly Gray, both she and her events are incredibly similar. If you haven’t yet had the chance to meet Holly in person, she is elegant, stylish, refined, adaptable and collaborative, yet she is be fun, funny, witty, and always professional and incredibly original. My partner and I would suggest that our experience in working with Holly for our incredible wedding weekend was and is a reflection of her as a person and as an artist! She gave us her all to make our wedding weekend a resounding success that we will recall and look back on fondly for the rest of our lives. In the weeks and now month since our wedding, guests still contact us and tell us that we had the most amazing wedding that they’ve ever attended. It is such a joy to hear such kind compliments. However, a lot of the credit should go to Holly and her team. In fairness to Holly, my partner and I are not the easiest of clients. We both have a history of event planning and hosting events for clients as well as hiring and working with vendors. Therefore, we were likely more opinionated and fastidious about certain details than other clients. To Holly’s credit, she embraced this and made quick work to collaborate and work with each of our vendors. In addition, we believe that this is a testament to Holly’s talent and her superb organizational skills, as well as ability to be flexible and to do what it takes to get the job done. Although many aspects were pre-selected by us, there were many things that only someone like Holly with her industry and vendor connections could handle and execute. Moreover, Holly was able to sift through the hours of discussion and a sea of options to help my partner and I decide on a theme(s) for our events. Holly paid close attention to details with the specific issues of our wedding venue and the nature of the area helped ensure that our wedding looked beyond great. As anyone who has has hosted a special event will attest after the countless hours of work, preparation and attention to every detail, there comes a point that one must hand over the reins to fate and to the people you’ve entrusted to assure that everything will run smoothly. When you are fortunate enough to work with Holly Gray, you can rest assured that you are in the most capable of hands, that details will be and/or are being handled with the utmost care and consideration. Indeed, we would work with Holly again! We highly recommend her to couples and organizations looking to plan an event that requires finesse and originality, elegance and refinement, but that is thoroughly fun and unforgettable!
Brianna
Brianna K. Sent on 12/30/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Hire Holly for your colorful/creative/quirky wedding!

Hiring Holly was the second-best decision we made when it came to our wedding – second only to our decision to marry each other! Not only is she a wedding planner, but she’s also a wedding designer, and WOW did she design a gorgeous wedding for us.

We are a couple of nerdy people whose interests lie in tabletop and video games, fantasy, and sci-fi… but our tastes are also upscale and trendy. We weren’t sure how to combine those to make our wedding feel like us, which we expressed to Holly several times over the course of our initial design phase. Holly assured us she would design something that felt perfect for us, so that when guests entered the space, it would feel like it couldn’t possibly be anyone else’s wedding. We literally got that feedback from our guests, word-for-word! You get a truly unique wedding when you work with Holly, uniquely you!

As a same-sex couple, it was important to us that our vendors were queer-affirming. It’s also important to us to spend our money with small businesses, and the fact that Anything But Gray Events is a small, woman-owned business meant we were aligning our spending with our values. She also works exclusively with queer-affirming vendors, so having a list of vendors to choose from that are prescreened to not only be within the budget range we expressed, but also would align with our values, was a huge weight off our shoulders. Planning a wedding in LA makes the vendor options seem endless (in a completely overwhelming way), so having Holly to guide us through the process made things so much easier and saved us a massive amount of time and stress.

The whole time we were planning this wedding with Holly, we kept reiterating how grateful we were to have her. We got to make the fun and creative decisions, still have a ton of input, but not have to spend time and effort on the discussions about things like the distance between the DJ setup and the nearest outlet at the venue. Plus a million other little things that we never had to know or worry about. She also helped us navigate through mishaps we would have had no idea how to fix; she was always quick to find a solution to anything that came up.

One of us worked as a production manager on commercial shoots for many years, and the other one planned large scale events at a university. We could see the similarities between those experiences and planning a wedding, so it’s understandable that for some people, there may be a temptation to plan your wedding on your own because the skills are transferable. We’re here to tell you that they’re really not! Every decision seems so important and personal, you’ll feel much more supported when you have an actual wedding professional to guide you. No amount of internet wedding checklists and tools can replace the experience, talent and support of a professional like Holly.

So many of our guests said ours was the best wedding they’d ever been to, including their own! No detail was out of place, and the experience was seamless and perfectly encapsulated us as a couple. If you want a wedding planner who’s a kick-ass problem solver, an inspired creative, and a wonderful person who lives her values, you need to hire Holly!
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Awards

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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2022 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2018 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2017 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2016 Winner

Professional Network & Endorsements

10 Endorsements
Rila Stone Rila Stone Wedding Photographers

What a great company to work with. We highly recommend them for your wedding!

Solace Weddings Solace Weddings Wedding Videographers

A great company to work with. We highly recommend. Thank you Solace Weddings LLC

Hey Mister DJ Hey Mister DJ Wedding DJs

I've had the pleasure of working with Holly (and her awesome Mom!) on several events recently. She's on top of things and has a fun personality that keeps everyone happy and alleviates any stress. Highly recommend!

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