Do I have room for all the wonderful things I want to say about Jen and her team? Kind, warm, honest, open, huge smile. Of all the nerves I had for my wedding, Jen was absolutely not one of them. Friends have asked if anything didn't go as planned the day of and I can honestly say that if it did, I had no idea. Jen is just plain great at what she does. From the beginning of the planning process to the end Jen was here to ease my worries and make sure everything went flawlessly. She is an amazing listener and collaborator but will tell it to you if logistically something won't work or if, given her expertise, another option would work better. Jen helped me to take on a massive task of planning a wedding and helped me to laugh the entire way through. It was truly a joy to have her as part of our wedding day!

Jen, Aletha and Luisa of Burlap & Rose are fantastic, amazing and incredibly talented human beings who, I am certain, are wedding fairy godmothers in disguise.

The Burlap & Rose (B&R) team helped my now-husband and I who live in San Francisco plan a Los Angeles wedding weekend. As Type-A, organized and generally "on top of it" as we consider ourselves, there was so much about the planning process and about the wedding industry in general that we didn't know about. The B&R Team helped us source our vendors, set up tastings and appointments, even visited a venue to take photos when we couldn't visit and answered every single question we had (and there were plenty) via email, phone call and even text.

On the day of our ceremony rehearsal, there was a lot of confusion with the wedding coordinator for the venue (a Catholic church) and we were hugely concerned that we wouldn't be able to do a lot of what we wanted since we were getting married by an outside priest who was a family friend, and not the parish priest. Luisa of the B&R Team must have read the panic and frustration on my face when I felt like we were getting stymied, and she stayed for the entire hour-long rehearsal to help smooth things over. This was even though she had told us she had to make a long haul across town to get to an event that early afternoon where she was performing. (For LA folks, it was from Highland Park all the way to Claremont -- you know how far that is and how huge of a sacrifice it was for her to risk leaving any closer to rush hour!). It was a testament to how much the team supported us even when we didn't ask them to -- they truly went above and beyond.

Another anecdote of how amazing the team was -- our *very* thirsty guests drank us out of some of our hard alcohol options during our reception, which were necessary for our signature drinks. Aletha calmly let us know about the situation and assured us someone would go run out and get more, no sweat. She helped to make a problem essentially a non-issue by handling it and leaving us to party and enjoy our reception.

We can't emphasize enough how incredibly helpful a planning team is to make sure your big day goes off without a hitch, and the B&R Team are the right gals to make sure it's not only a smooth ride, but a really fun and fabulous one!

I'll admit I was skeptical to hiring a wedding planner/coordinator, but reached out to Burlap & Rose Weddings out of curiosity. Looking back now? I don't know how I thought I could have done the whole process without Jen.

She kept me organized and stress-free the entire time, was patient and quick to respond to any questions or concerns that I had. Every phone call and catch-up that we had felt more like I was planning my wedding with a close friend. She just immediately puts you at ease, and you know that you're working with a real professional. Even my parents raved about how easy she made the day-of process without knowing all of the hard work Jen had already done behind the scenes.

I've had multiple friends ask how I managed to put it all together while making the process look so simple. My answer is always that I trusted Jen to do her job. I gave her small pieces of inspiration, and her creativity bloomed to make a wonderful event that guests are still raving about. She understood my vision, my overall personality, and used every tool at her disposal to make sure my husband and I had a worry-free, great time on the most memorable day of our lives.

Jen is seriously just the best, and I would recommend her a thousand times over