We absolutely loved working with Ashley! She made planning our Tahoe wedding easy and stress-free from start to finish. She’s incredibly organized, thoughtful, and handled tricky family dynamics and a challenging venue planner with total grace. Thanks to her, our wedding day was seamless and absolutely perfect. Couldn’t recommend her more!

We could not be happier with how everything went with Ashley as our day of coordinator for our Tahoe wedding. She was invaluable in helping us prep ahead of time, and her timeline was the key to our wedding being as smooth as it was. Even when little issues popped up, she was flexible and already had a solution in mind even before we knew something was up. I can't recommend her and First Pick Planning enough!

Aside from marrying my husband, choosing Ashley and The First Pick Planning team was the best decision I made for our wedding day. It took me a while to write this review because I (very weirdly) teared up every time thinking about how clutch Ashley was on our big day. She did everything I knew needed to be done (I was long ago sold on the idea of a month-to-day of coordinator) but I cannot overstate and oversell the feeling of ease and confidence she let me have on our wedding day, knowing that all the details were in super competent (and delightful) hands. Weddings are crazy and amazing and joyful and overwhelming – all the prep and planning for months coming to a condensed celebration. They are all those things even before you add a crazy set of logistics. I was able to hand all those logistics over to Ashley and then some! At its simplest, she executed so I could party and really let myself be in the joy of the day. For the practical minded out there – here are some highlights of her work – she organized our timeline with all of our vendors’ timelines and made sure everyone had the same timeline, she picked up the bouquets and boutonnieres day of, she brought our décor from our room to the venue and set it all up, she made our ceremony flawless with a quick yet thorough rehearsal, she liaised with the venue and us on what went back to our room (cake, décor, etc), she packed it out at the end of the night and brought it all back to our room. She thought of everything from speaker set up to who is driving whom to the pre-ceremony photos and even took a few things off out plate like the easel she keeps in her car for seating charts. Again, I truly can’t recommend Ashley and First Pick Planning enough!

From the very first interaction with Ashley, we knew we were in the best hands to bring our dream wedding to life! Planning a destination wedding poses additional hurdles and Ashley made the process feel fun, focused, and productive! Her natural ability to build relationships is so evident and she truly listens to you. She wasn't just our wedding planner, she became our friend and guided us to make decisions that felt like "us". We truly could not have had the wedding we did without her! We're so immensely grateful for her!

I truly can’t say enough positive things about Ashley. She made the entire wedding process easy, fun, and exciting from start to finish. She kept us on schedule without ever being pushy, supported our creative ideas while helping us work through the details, and made the actual wedding day feel effortless.

Our bridal party couldn’t stop talking about how incredible she was and how seamlessly the whole weekend flowed because of her. My entire family agrees—hiring Ashley was hands down the best decision we made during the wedding planning process.

If there’s one piece of advice I give to any friend planning a wedding, it’s this: hire Ashley!

Ashley was our wedding planner for a pretty complicated Indo-Western fusion wedding. She always made us feel seen, heard, and supported - adapted to changing weather situations with grace and ease - and ALWAYS had a smile on her face to cheer us on and make our wedding day feel that much more special and wonderful. If you want a wedding executed by someone who truly LISTENS to what you want and adapts the plan accordingly, Ashley is your person. Thank you Ashley!

Ashley was fantastic! We hired her 2 1/2 months before our wedding. Even with so little time, she was still able to keep us on track with planning, making decisions, and finalizing every detail. Everything came together beautifully on our wedding day thanks to Ashley!

Ashley was the best decision we made during our entire wedding planning process. I promise you won’t find anyone more capable, friendly, organized, and efficient than her.

When it came to planning, Ashley took a big weight off our shoulders. We were able to rely on her recommendations and expertise given her experience with Lake Tahoe weddings, which saved us hours of research and probably thousands of dollars. She listened to our needs and dreams and recommended multiple vendors that suited our style and budget. We wouldn’t have been able to select such a strong team of vendors without her input.

In the months leading up to the wedding weekend, Ashley kept us on track with helpful nudges, check-ins, and milestones. She guided us on priorities, which made us feel less overwhelmed by the whole process.

Then during the wedding weekend, we didn’t worry at all because we knew Ashley had it handled. As a Type A person, this is unusual for me, but it speaks to the trust that Ashley built up over the months of planning. She was so organized and smooth that even though I had a pile of miscellaneous goodies (like restroom amenity kits which we had never talked about) to take to the venue on the wedding morning with no directions on where they’d go or what they were all for, she figured it all out and put them in the right places. And when a table centerpiece bouquet went missing, I learned the next day that Ashley had craftily made a new impromptu bouquet by reusing flowers from our ceremony arch. I’m sure there were more incidents that we never heard about that she fixed for us so we could fully enjoy the moment.

We were lucky to be able to work with Ashley. She was a dream and such a positive influence on our wedding planning. 11/10 we would recommend her!

We found Ashley Brantner from First Pick Planning as she was listed as a recommended vendor for our venue (Palisades). Let me just say hiring her was the best decision we made!! We interviewed 3 planners total, and Ashley stood out the most as she was very friendly, professional, and she had done a ton of weddings at Palisades, so we knew we were in good hands. We also just vibed with her the most and she felt like a friend during the whole process. We never felt stressed, and she kept us on track from the time we hired her up until to the end of our wedding night.
We started working with her about 9 months before our wedding and hired her for partial planning (24 hours) which was perfect for what we needed. She helped us curate the most perfect vendor team which was what we wanted the most help with. During the process of picking out our vendors, she would give us 3-5 options with details and examples of their work and then coordinated calls with each of them. She then did all the behind the scenes coordinating with the vendors, so we didn't have to stress with constantly responding to vendors and could focus on other aspects of planning the big day.
We unfortunately ended up having to switch our venue to the plan b location due to weather conditions and Ashley really stepped up and made sure we didn’t have to lift a finger the day of the wedding. She was even there as a shoulder to cry on as I was a bit emotional with the change of events, but she constantly reassured us how perfect the day was going to be, and she did not disappoint. From the moment we arrived, she had drinks handed to us to calm our nerves and made the day go by so seamlessly. We had the BEST time working with her and we can’t recommend her enough. If you are on the fence of hiring a planner – DO IT! You will ultimately hire vendors and spend money on your wedding, but if you want your mind at ease and your wedding day to be perfect, you need to hire Ashley! 10000% worth it!

Ashley Brantner was our wedding planner for our June 2024 Lake Tahoe wedding. She is amazing and we would recommend her to all of our family and friends. So many of our guests commented that they love our planner. Throughout the entire planning process, she was kind, patient, fun, funny, joyful, offered great ideas and solutions, and just went above and beyond every step of the way. We really felt that all the vendors we chose were perfect and Ashley really stood out among them, which says a lot. Notably, Ashley got along great with all of our vendors, and it seemed like they considered each other friends - her strong relationships helped things go smoothly. She kept her eye on the prize throughout the entire process, knowing that the day goes by so quickly. There were countless little details she took care of on the big day. I really don't know how she had time to do it all. She did lots of little things for us - like show us the dining area before all the guests arrived so we could see what it looked like. We just love Ashley and would be happy to recommend her to anyone. And the whole team at First Pick (including Jen) were great to deal with. It's a great team.