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Embark Event Design is a wedding planning and design service based out of San Luis Obispo, California. The owner and lead planner, Sarah, knew that the beautiful Central Coast was the best place to start her business as a wedding planner and designer. Sarah has a lot of wedding experience and is very confident in her ability to help couples enjoy the planning process.

Services Offered
Embark Event Design offers full planning and partial planning packages for couples who are looking for professional planning assistance for their wedding ceremony, reception, and rehearsal dinner. Sarah is excited to be with you every step of the way as she helps you create a beautiful day. Wedding planning services offered include the following:

  • Budget analysis
  • Event design
  • Guest list management
  • Timelines
  • To-do lists
  • Vendor referrals
  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

Do you offer an hourly rate?

No

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?

Cultural
Destination
Elopement
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Reviews of Embark Event Design

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Embark Event Design, led by Sarah and her team, received glowing reviews for their exceptional wedding planning services. Described as detailed, organized, and professional, Sarah went above and beyond to bring couples' visions to life, ensuring stress-free wedding planning and flawless execution. Clients appreciated the team's design expertise, vendor recommendations, and attentiveness to every detail. Even amidst Covid-19 challenges and postponements, Embark Event Design delivered dream weddings, earning praise for their invaluable support, calm demeanor, and exceptional service. Couples highly recommended Sarah and her team for a seamless and unforgettable wedding experience.

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This AI-generated summary gives you a snapshot of the overall ratings and feedback from the reviews this vendor has received.

Embark Event Design, led by Sarah and her team, received glowing reviews for their exceptional wedding planning services. Described as detailed, organized, and professional, Sarah went above and beyond to bring couples' visions to life, ensuring stress-free wedding planning and flawless execution. Clients appreciated the team's design expertise, vendor recommendations, and attentiveness to every detail. Even amidst Covid-19 challenges and postponements, Embark Event Design delivered dream weddings, earning praise for their invaluable support, calm demeanor, and exceptional service. Couples highly recommended Sarah and her team for a seamless and unforgettable wedding experience.

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Caroline W. Sent on 02/08/2024
5 out of 5 rating

the best wedding planner ever!

After two minutes of our introductory phone call, there was no doubt that Sarah was the real deal and we needed to work with her. Sarah is the total package - she is beyond thoughtful, organized, a great friend, professional, fun, detail oriented, creative, the list goes on. I feel SO blessed to have gotten to work with her.

For over a year, she remained in contact with me and made sure I was at ease. She made it a point to take ALL of my stress away. The wedding process was beyond fun, all because of her. I always looked forward to our meetings and catch ups and was always impressed at what she remembered or what she came up with. She was never afraid to throw an idea my way (which I always loved) and constantly was updating our ‘folder’ of goodies.

Our wedding weekend was UNREAL. It was a weekend of events, all executed perfectly by Sarah + her team. She was so comfortable and we knew we had no reason to stress or worry. She brought our vision to life. We are still getting compliments about details of our weekend, 5 months later! We are beyond thankful!

Is a one year vow renewal too soon??? I need an excuse to have Sarah plan for us again. We miss you Sarah!!!! Thank you x a million. You are meant for this career!!!
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Liz Sent on 01/08/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Excellent experience as an MOB

My daughter and her fiancé are the ultimate control-freaks (in a good way) and so I can say I worked with Embark as a lead client, but I have to say every time I was involved, the experience was excellent. I met Sarah at the furniture rental shop in San Francisco where she had flown in to help us big rentals for the wedding. She was calm, had done her homework, and really helped us look at multiple options. She had 4 people to handle - the bride, groom, MOB and MOG. I, of course, tried to be flexible and helpful...;) but that's a lot of opinions to handle. I also worked with Sarah on the phone when the bride wanted my input or wanted me involved in various decisions. Again, I felt she was always calm, collected and flexible - willing to do whatever the bride and groom desired. She is very knowledgeable about vendors, set up, take down, alternatives and the like. Finally - the wedding weekend. Of course, there were plenty of snafus that were totally out of Embark's control, but they handled them very, very well and everything went off without a hitch for the most part. When a mistake was made, it was handled with aplomb. No one wants a jumpy, annoying wedding planner crew during their weekend of events...I found Embark to be the complete opposite. I would highly recommend them.
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Katie H. Sent on 12/16/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Book Sarah ASAP!

Working with Sarah was the most enjoyable part of wedding planning hands down. Everyone says how important it is to book a wedding planner and we feel like we won the lottery being able to work with Sarah and her incredible team. From the moment we started working with her (a little over a year before our wedding), we knew we were in great hands. We were looking for a modern, timeless and fun vibe and while decision making is not a great skill of mine, she knew exactly what we were looking for and executed flawlessly.

From mood boards to nailing the smallest details, she was never stressed (or at least never showed it) and was so calm and confident throughout the whole process. I looked forward to every planning call we had together and she could not have been more patient with me when I would have endless questions on literally everything. I have never met someone more professional and detail-oriented, which is everything you could ask for in a wedding planner.

During the actual wedding weekend, Sarah and her team were so incredibly prepared. There was not a single detail that Sarah missed and every guest of ours commented on how seamless the whole weekend felt and that not a single thing went wrong. That is 100% thanks to Sarah and her team - I can't imagine what we would've done without them! Thank you thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!!

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