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Colleen's Coordinating is a wedding planning business serving Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding areas. As your coordinator, my goal is to ensure you have the ability to enjoy your day without having to worry. Once all the details are handed off to me, the day of your wedding will be seamlessly orchestrated and stress-free.

Services Offered

A description of my services are listed below:

  • Pre-event meeting to discuss all event information, review timeline, and go over day of needs.
  • Once booked, as much communication as necessary via phone, text, or email leading up to the event.
  • 12 hours of coordination on the day of the event, with the option to add more hours. Arrival and departure at the time requested by the customer.
  • Working with vendors on the day of the event to make sure all aspects of the day run smoothly and according to the customer’s wishes.
  • Timing and release of wedding party procession.
  • Any troubleshooting required throughout the event.
  • Wedding party emergency kit provided.
  • Access to my editable planning document.
  • Travel within 45 miles (roughly 1 hour) included.
  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$2,500

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$3,500

Do you offer an hourly rate?

Yes

What is the hourly rate?

$175

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Day-of Coordination
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Cultural
Eco-Friendly
Non-Religious
Religious

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Colleen is highly praised by multiple reviewers as a day-of coordinator for weddings. She is noted for her organizational skills, professionalism, calming influence, and ability to handle crises with minimal involvement. Reviewers appreciate her affordability, communication, and thoughtful insights, making the wedding day stress-free and seamless. Colleen's services are recommended for ensuring smooth execution and allowing couples to fully enjoy their special day.

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Colleen is highly praised by multiple reviewers as a day-of coordinator for weddings. She is noted for her organizational skills, professionalism, calming influence, and ability to handle crises with minimal involvement. Reviewers appreciate her affordability, communication, and thoughtful insights, making the wedding day stress-free and seamless. Colleen's services are recommended for ensuring smooth execution and allowing couples to fully enjoy their special day.

Callie
Callie Sent on 07/29/2025
5 out of 5 rating

You MUST book Colleen!!

Even though had a small wedding on a Tuesday, I was incredibly daunted at the whole wedding planning process. The minute I spoke to Colleen, there was a whole weight lifted off my shoulders!! She came through with all the tools I needed to get organized, was incredibly communicative and experienced, and she executed every part of the wedding seamlessly!! She helped out so much with the rehearsal and ensuring my family knew what to do. My wedding ceremony and reception were at two separate locations, and she navigated both with ease. She gave me so much confidence before the event that I was having an such a fun time on the day-of!! She is amazing at what she does and I cannot recommend her enough! Thank you Colleen!

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Morgan
Morgan Sent on 07/27/2025
5 out of 5 rating

10/10 Recommend!

People kept saying how much of a "chill" bride I was, and I can only contribute that to Colleen, who gave me the confidence that everything and everyone would be taken care of. I am a highly anxious person, and Colleen helped me through the whole process to calm down and feel like everything was going to be okay, along with thinking through all the details so there were no last-minute decisions to be made. 10/10 recommend!!
Madolyn
Madolyn Sent on 09/28/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Hire Colleen

Cannot say enough good things about Collen Gibson! She was the coordinator I chose for my wedding day in Seattle. We hired her for day-of services, and she exceeded expectations in every way. She was organized, hands on, had great tips to keep us on track, and worked great with all my vendors. My family runs a floral business and we work with a lot of coordinators--- she's the best we've seen and I'm so thankful she was there for me on my big day! Would 100% recommend to all brides.
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Barbara Sent on 08/19/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Wedding planner

Colleen was just superb to work with! She's very professional, organized and a great calming influence for my fiancee and me (being very detailed oriented, picky and stressed!). Appreciated her flexibility and openess to our ideas and patient! I find all of the above very important qualities if you are lokking for a good wedding planner! Make your way to Colleen's website!
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Kripa Sent on 07/27/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Colleen is the best

Working with Colleen was one of the best parts of my wedding planning experience. She was so incredibly easy to talk to and always made herself available for a quick zoom call and a text. She was able to help me ensure I had everything ready for a seamless day and I would highly recommend her to anyone who needs coordination!!
April
April Sent on 07/15/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Colleen is AMAZING!!

Colleen is everything we wanted and more from a day-of coordinator. We planned our own wedding, but knew we needed someone who could manage the day and make sure everything ran as smoothly as possible. I love that her services are designed exactly for that purpose. Her services are also very affordable and helped us have a reasonably priced wedding - but honestly, I think she is worth every penny and more!

I truly cannot recommend her enough. She was so organized, communicative, and calm through the whole process. Part of her services includes a meeting about a month before the big day to go over all of the details - I immediately felt so calm and reassured after this meeting. I knew right away that I could trust her to handle anything and everything, and felt really good about relinquishing control to her, which is not always easy for me to do! She also didn't make me feel bad or weird about doing things a certain way, or about not doing certain traditions, but also made some very important and helpful suggestions that I didn't think to include or factor in.

On the day of, we had a pretty big problem - the food truck did not show up in time, but Colleen managed the whole crisis with minimal involvement from me. It ended up all working out in the end and I would not have been able to handle it without her!

Colleen is the perfect mix of calm but totally on top of it all - exactly what you need at a wedding. I wish everyone I knew was getting married just so I could recommend her to them!
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Sandra Sent on 09/04/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Absolutely the best!!

I was originally not planning on having a wedding coordinator but after talking to a few friends whose daughters were recently married, I am really happy that I did. Colleen was amazing to work with. Very easy to talk to, pro-active in communicating with the vendors and myself. She always responded quickly to questions that I had and provided thoughtful insight to wedding day decisions that needed to be made. She arrived early on the wedding day and had everything set up in time and the ceremony and reception went on without any issues at all. Thanks to Colleen I had a stress free wedding day and I highly recommend her for your wedding day!!!
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Amanda Sent on 08/03/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Highly recommend Colleen

I was a guest at a wedding Colleen coordinated and was impressed by her professionalism, thoughtful touches, and organization. Her coordination skills allowed the bridal party and all who attended to relax because she had thought of everything! I highly recommend working with her!
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Katie Sent on 08/02/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Professional & Personable. Detailed & Direct.

My husband and I had Colleen as our day-of wedding coordinator in July of 2021, down in Oregon City, when there was a pocket of Covid freedom and we were permitted to have as many guests as we desired. Having a destination wedding, at a newer venue that required we oversee all set-up and take down, was a detail that I totally missed as the Bride. Thankfully, Colleen "wrangled" necessary family members and delegated out tasks with ease. Both set-up and take-down were seamless and the feedback I received from my fam/friends who helped were that Colleen was direct, kind, and everyone understood she was in charge! As the Bride, it was a relief to walk in and see that my vision had come to life, without me even being there. It allowed me more freedom to just enjoy the day, stress-free. My husband and I appreciated Colleen's professionalism and execution of our "wants" but the real bonus is that she's also lovely to work with. At the end of your wedding, you're going to have a friend who treated your event with actual care and investment, not just as a "job." I've already had 1 friend hire Colleen via a referral (and who she met at our wedding!) and will continue to recommend her to anyone looking for a FAB day-of coordinator!
Hillary
Hillary Sent on 08/02/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Everyone needs a Colleen!

We hired Colleen as our day-of coordinator for our 150 person wedding in July 2021 and it was the best decision!

She did everything from the timing of the wedding ceremony, leading my aunts with the table decor and even helping groomsmen pin on their boutonnières (pictured).

If I would have had to manage all of the day-of little changes that Colleen did (such as the weather starting to sprinkle even though it was 90 degrees and the caterer being 30 minutes late) I wouldn’t have been able to be fully present. With her help, I was!

Everyone needs a Colleen on their wedding day! Her professionalism, sense of urgency and hard working yet joyful personality were what we liked best. We genuinely had no complaints and refer her to all of our friends and family!
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