I attended a destination bachelorette party that Samantha planned and executed. Wow! She is incredibly thoughtful and creative. Even the smallest details were thought out and personalized to fit the bride's style. (The watercolor signs she created were definitely my favorite!) The weekend was action packed but perfectly timed. We did a lot – from sightseeing to paddleboarding to dancing downtown – but it never felt like too much. Everyone had an absolute blast. Most importantly, the bride was able to kick back and truly enjoy every moment because she knew Samantha had it all covered.

Seriously, I have no idea how this girl does all that she does.

For context, my husband and I had a wedding with 100 attendees, a $30k budget, and about 1.5 years to plan. We wanted our wedding to have a backyard wedding feel, with emphasis on delicious food and drinks, plus some typical modern wedding things like a photo booth, lawn games, and a DJ/dance floor.

I had no prior experience putting on an event of this size, but as far as weddings go, this seemed pretty small. When I started planning, I naively believed that I could probably handle most of the details myself on top of a fairly demanding full-time job. My husband and I don't live in San Diego though, so we knew we wanted a wedding coordinator who could be more involved in the planning process (as opposed to hiring someone as a day-of coordinator). We chose Samantha's full-service planning package because of that.

We went with Samantha because it was immediately clear from our first few conversations that she is incredibly organized and has an awesome attention to detail, and she proved that time and time again throughout the planning process. She helped us ideate about what we wanted our wedding to be, and offered options or things she'd seen previously when we asked. She kept us on track with regular emails and phone calls, and sent us really helpful personalized checklists. She kept our timeline up to date (I think we ended up having about 17 iterations). She came with me to my vendor appointments when I came to town. Most importantly, she has the experience to ask the questions that we hadn't even considered. How long do each of the vendors need to set up their space? Do we have access to the venue for that time? If you use the same chairs for the ceremony and reception, how will the chairs get from one place to the other? How do you communicate seating arrangements? Keeping track of all these details is hard because there's just so many of them, but Samantha took so much of that off of our minds. I really felt that I could trust her to help me not let something slip through the cracks, and that gave me so much relief on the day of, and space to enjoy everything.

Hiring Samantha was our #1 best decision. Looking back on it, I don't think we could have pulled this wedding off without her. Thank you so much Samantha!

It is rare that you find someone who is both a master creative and a logistics goddess. Samantha at Current Event Design and Planning truly blew my mind from beginning to end. I gave her a general idea of what I wanted for my bachelorette party and she designed the weekend to a tee. She put together a tropically themed bachelorette weekend that accounted for many flight schedules and overnight logistics, a custom-made confetti filled balloon arch and hand-painted watercolor drink menus and decor, a professional photo shoot with my ladies, a red Mustang convertible to soak up the sun in, preset menus at restaurants for ease, a party bus night on the town, 6 giant blow-up floaties during the beach day, a group paddleboarding experience, a scavenger hunt, and so much more. Truly, this was the best weekend of my life, and I am so thrilled that I've selected her for my upcoming wedding as well. Hands down the best decision I made. Book her. You will be so thankful you did.