It was an absolute pleasure working with Garnet and Sapphire for our big day on 3/19/2022! The wedding planning process can be overwhelming and from the second we met with Cindy, a weight was lifted from our shoulders. Cindy is so incredibly organized, prepared, professional, and passionate when it comes to wedding planning and we are so lucky to have had the chance to work with her and Vicky for day-of coordination at our wedding! Vicky ran the show on our wedding day and everything ran perfectly according to schedule thanks to their collective expertise, impeccable attention to detail, and flawless execution. Cindy and Vicky truly made the wedding planning process fun and stress-free. We were so impressed with the way they went above and beyond to make sure our special day ran smoothly and was everything we envisioned. We cannot recommend their services enough if you are looking for help with the wedding planning process. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to the Garnet and Sapphire team for being a part of our happiest day!

During COVID my fiancé and I decided to have a small wedding amongst family prior to a larger celebration at a future date. We approached Cynthia and asked if we could have this done in 2 months time and she replied with an unwavering yes. Cynthia was great with organizing the big day and offering options that helped keep the budget in check. I would recommend her to any future bride in Southern California.

If you’re looking for a charismatic, dedicated, experienced, professional, and caring wedding planner to help you plan your special day, then you have come to the right place! I met Cynthia, the owner of Garnet and Sapphire, several years ago through a mutual friend. At that time, I had no idea she was a wedding planner. I found this out later once my friend informed me Cynthia was helping her plan her wedding. As a guest at my friend’s wedding, I can honestly say that the wedding was flawless-or at least it appeared that way. If there was anything that didn’t go according to planned, no one would have known because of how well and beautifully the event flowed.

With this in mind and knowing what an amazing person Cynthia is, my husband and I decided to hire her for our wedding. This was one of the best decisions we ever made. I cannot underscore the importance and significance of a good planner as it truly enhances your event. You may think you don’t need assistance planning your wedding, but it’s one of the best investments you can make for your day. There are so many details and things you may not think need to be planned or scheduled, but in reality, they do. This is where your wedding planner comes in.

Cynthia is someone you can trust to make your day exactly what you want. She genuinely cares about your vision and wants her clients’ weddings to be magical. Her organization and attention to detail are unparalleled and she will go above and beyond to ensure your day runs seamlessly. Given her time in the industry, Cynthia is well integrated with other Southern California wedding vendors. In the early planning stages, she assisted us by helping us find reputable vendors to ensure we had people we could rely on and trust. We ended up booking several of her vendor recommendations. None of them disappointed and all were excellent to work with! This was especially important to us because our wedding was rescheduled multiple times due to COVID and there was a lot of uncertainty. All of our vendors, including Cynthia, stood by us at one of the most stressful times in our lives. Despite dealing with her own challenges, Cynthia always maintained a positive attitude and made herself available to talk as we waited out COVID. She maintained awareness on all of the restrictions impacting San Diego and Riverside Counties (our venue was in Temecula, but we had a lot of San Diego-based vendors), so we were fully aware of how things were looking and what could potentially impact our day. Having Cynthia there helped guide our decisions when it came to rescheduling along with any other changes that had to be made. We could not have navigated that without her and I cannot express how much it meant/means to us. Even more impressive, Cynthia remembered every detail related to all of the choices we made as it relates to our vendors. This was after two years of the planning process when I couldn’t even remember some of the decisions we made given the significant amount of time that had passed. She stayed on top of it!

Additionally, Cynthia went out of her way to be at all of our important vendor meetings, so she could help us pick out our food, décor, and design items. With our venue being newer, she came to all of our meetings with our Venue Coordinator to see how the décor and scenery at the venue developed over time, especially with the COVID delays. We chose our venue in January 2019, but didn’t end up getting married until August 2021. A lot had changed at the venue from the time we initially saw it. Being mindful of our budget, Cynthia also lent us a lot of décor items she has in her own collection so that we didn’t have to spend additional money on things just to get the details we wanted. She is extremely conscientious about making sure you’re comfortable with what you’re spending and happy with what you’re spending it on. She also knows how to take all of the little details in your head and incorporate them into the big picture. Having a wedding planner that excels in design is an added bonus!

Communication was/is something that was very important to my husband and I. This is something you will never have to worry about with Cynthia. She is very responsive to phone calls, text messages, and emails, usually responding within a couple of minutes, but at most a few hours. If she didn’t have time to talk to us at that moment, she would always schedule a time to chat with us within a few days so that we could discuss everything in detail and she could dedicate the appropriate amount of time. When there were emergencies (and there will be emergencies), she always came to the rescue immediately. There was never a time where I had to deal with an emergency alone and she would drop everything to resolve it. This is the person you want by your side on your special day and all of the days leading up to it.

Hire Garnet and Sapphire for your wedding planning. You won’t be disappointed!

I hired Cindy and the G&S team because the planning was becoming too much for me. My vendors were overwhelmed and non-responsive and there were a lot of stressful family and friend dynamics at play. Cindy helped to get everything organized in the final days and manage those dynamics.

Cindy attended my final meeting with my venue and helped to remind them of my choices when their notes post meeting had a lot of details wrong. She also facilitated gathering all of the agreements that my venue needed signed from outside vendors. She is very organized and helped everyone to stay on track. After I hired her, I felt like I could really stop and let a lot go because I knew she had it handled.

She also provided great solutions for day of problems which are inevitable. My bustle wouldn't hold and shoe broke in half during the reception. She had a huge "fix it" kit and helped patch me up and get me back out to the wedding.

I wish I had hired her earlier because the wedding planning process, especially post covid, is really stressful. I would have appreciated being able to just delegate matters to her and sit back and enjoy the ride.

I can’t believe how long I have waited to write this. Cindy is the absolute best!! She made our wedding day a dream come true. She helped us book incredible vendors, and give us sound advice on just about anything. She was able to calm me down when I was frantic about the smallest things and worked through them with me with such patience. I came to her with a few ideas and she turned them into more than I could have ever imagined. It was literally like she got inside my head and was able to see what I was envisioning, which is pretty much all you can ask from your wedding planner. I forgot to get baby's breath flowers for my bridesmaids hair, and she had them personally delivered to my hotel room. I have never in my life been to a wedding that has run so on time and had no chaos. Cindy kept everyone in the loop where they were supposed to be and when. She is so funny and personable it was so easy to trust her. Seriously… book with her!!

We loved working with Cindy for our October 2019 wedding! Cindy was recommended by a friend and she was so, so , so helpful. In addition to coordinating our wedding day, she created a planning timeline and had planning calls periodically with us. She helped us select vendors and told us what was reasonable to pay for certain things, which was extremely valuable. She called all of our vendors the week before our wedding to verify everything. She also helped us navigate the wild world of wedding rental items--where prices are not listed anywhere for things like plates, glasses, cutlery, and chairs. She recommended cutting unneeded rental items and shaved dollars off our catering bill for us. She had so many good ideas, I can't even begin to list them all. She was also calming to me! And so pleasant to work with. I'm sure she did a ton of things behind the scenes I did not even see. She also traveled up from San Diego for our San Francisco wedding. Our wedding was beautiful and everything was perfect.

Cindy is truly the best wedding coordinator ever! Not only is she attentive to detail, she genuinely cares about her clients. Not once did I have to worry about anything on my wedding day. Even my family and friends loved her! I would recommend Cindy without any hesitation.