We LOVE love love Lauren and Brittany. I did extensive research for 6 month planners and I feel so lucky that I found Lavender Grey.

We had a very challenging and ambitious wedding. My husband and I wanted to get married on a remote side of Catalina Island at a boy scout camp. Yet we wanted a plated meal with amazing food, great DJ, lighting and flower arrangements.

The Lavender Grey ladies took on the project enthusiastically. Nothing seemed to discourage them and they worked with us to bring our dream wedding to life. They were very communicative and let us know right away if something wasn't possible but also had a back-up solution ready at hand. They found us incredible vendors who wanted to take on the challenge, and organized boats for our guests, vendors and supplies to island. Not only that they worked closely with our venue who had never really hosted a wedding before to make sure they were prepared for the needs of a wedding without discouraging them. Brittany and Lauren were both extremely kind and courteous to everyone.

Not only are you getting their superior organization skills and knowledge of vendors when you sign up with Lavender Grey but also their personal creative touches. Another reason I went with this team! They had so many great ideas to make the wedding personal to us. From goodie bags filled with camp life essentials (personalized water bottles, coffee cups, bandanas, flash lights, even toilet paper!) to activity guides and maps to keep guests informed of activities and schedule. One night I called Lauren to talk some things out and found out she was also hand weaving key chains for all our guests cabin keys. I mean the level of dedication is insane!

Anyway I could not have been happier with how everything turned out and if you go with Lavender Grey I think you will feel the same as well!

We had the most wonderful experience with Lavender Gray! Lauren was absolutely fantastic and so was Brittany. Lauren made sure our day was everything we dreamed of by managing all our vendors, all our family, and all 300+ guests. We are so grateful for all their hard work, making our wedding day the best day we could have ever asked for!

My husband and I first met with Lauren only a few months before our wedding date after we got a bit overwhelmed with coordinating everything. From the first meeting, Lauren helped us create a specific plan and timeline that helped us achieve everything we wanted for our wedding and enjoy the process at the same time.

Lauren fully understood our vision [which I'm sure we didn't explain very well :)] and executed it beautifully. Being a same-sex wedding, we didn't feel bound to some of the traditional elements of a wedding, and Lauren helped us brainstorm to create a very personal celebration, incorporating our backgrounds and families into so many aspects of our wedding.

Lauren also introduced us to many other vendors that we would never have found if it weren't for her knowledge of the wedding industry in Southern California. In order to help us stretch our budget, Lauren coordinated with a few different furniture/decor rental companies to give us the wow-factor where it mattered without spending too much where it didn't. She also helped us negotiate prices and impressively created a lot of hand-made decorations that really tied together our wedding's aesthetic.

Throughout the entire process, Lauren was so easy to work with, like working with a close friend. Lauren was instrumental in creating the wedding of our dreams and throwing the best party that we and many of our guests have been to in years. Thank you Lauren!

Lauren with Lavender Grey blew my expectations out of the water. We showed up at the venue before the wedding and the venue looked more beautiful than we could have imagined. She took our vision and brought it to life. She is insanely organized and went above and beyond on my wedding day. Her ability to keep in touch with all the vendors the week of was the biggest help of all. She sent out the time line, names, numbers, emails, all the information anyone would need to keep things flowing smoothly on the wedding day. We didn't have to do anything! She is easy to communicate with and is easy to work with.

Lauren was a huge help to us when our shuttle, that was not only suppose to pick up the entire wedding party and family, but all of our guest at the hotels later on. After finding out our bus fell into a ditch and would no longer be able to make any pick ups, we needed to regroup. She immediately got on the phone and started working out getting a new bus and a new driver to pick up our guest at the hotels. The bus and driver needed time, so Lauren was now in continuous contact with the hotels to give guests updated shuttle times. Lauren amazed us with her confidence in handling this situation. We thought it was all going to be ruined but she moved everything back a half hour, opened the bar early for our guests to relax. She was able to make adjustments on the fly and seriously made this moment of panic seem like a walk in the park.

Lauren is amazing. She kept in touch with the DJ through the night, allowed me and my groom to make changes to our plans as the night rolled on, because we were dancing so much! Everyone loved working with her at the event and we especially loved working with her.Her assistants were always there and tending to our wants and needs.

Lauren was absolutely fantastic - we owe the great success of our wedding to her and could not have been happier with her services! Her high attention to detail, incredibly positive attitude, and passion for what she does made the whole process thoroughly enjoyable. We worked great as a team and
and she personalized the entire wedding to really fit who we were as a couple. We asked a lot of Lauren and she delivered 1000%. She remained supportive and encouraging the entire time - even when I had a dress crisis! We could always count on her and that is priceless. We would recommend Lauren in a heartbeat - you cannot go wrong!!!

We can't even imagine what our wedding would have been like without Lauren Colley and her team. They were the reason that our wedding was EXACTLY the way we envisioned it -- decorated flawlessly, timeline exceptionally smooth, and even a rainbow appeared after our first dance which we will give Lauren credit for because she talked us down the night before when we thought that some rain might ruin our special day.

From our first meeting with Lauren we immediately clicked. And truthfully we were a little skiddish in interviewing coordinators because we are a same-sex couple and wanted to make sure that the coordinator really got us and really cared about us being two brides. But Lauren's warm personality, genuine excitement for our love, and willingness to do whatever it took to make our day memorable made us realize we immediately made the right choice. Over the course of five months she answered every email promptly, took the time to help us find some great vendors, and was willing to make site walk-throughs with us to calm our nerves about what was going where and how the flow of our guests would run. She even had one of her team members paint an adorable SWEET SHOPPE sign on our cake room window. These kind of extras make you feel like your coordinator will go the extra mile. And when we approached THE DAY -- there was this new side to Lauren that we hadn't yet experienced. She ran an amazingly tight ship, making sure everything was exactly how we had intended it to be. Even when we had a tiny snafoo with power at our location, Lauren was on it. She was calm, figured out a solution, informed us, and it was taken care of immediately. And after putting in a 13 hour day, she was still on her feet, wrapping out the location, making sure everything we had hand-made, was wrapped carefully and returned to us. An incredibly organized coordinator and also a really wonderful person, Lauren is a must hire.

Lauren and her team were absolutely amazing. I cannot say enough great things.

I had her as a day-of coordinator, not full event planner, but she went above and beyond. She was insightful in helping me plan and notice gaps in any contracts and helped me coordinate vendors and created a timeline for everyone. She communicated with everyone in advance of the event so they knew exactly who to call the day-of. She was flexible around my challenging schedule and patient with my inexperience with wedding planning. She had great ideas and was really helpful for all of those little questions that come up during planning.

She was great during the rehearsal with my family and friends and my father and a bridesmaid both made a point to tell me how great she was. On the day of the wedding she handled everything that came up unexpectedly with ease. Two quick examples - One of my vendors brought candles rather than the battery operated votives we requested (no open flames allowed) and she sent me a quick text and took care of it. Then, one of my bridesmaid's dresses ripped right after the ceremony and someone on her staff was able to tack it back together on the spot. This in addition to coordinating all of the arrivals of multiple vendors (we had to bring in everything from lights to ice and I had done some DIY things).

Absolutely worth it. Lauren is amazing and made our wedding day stress-free and allowed me (and just as important - my family and friends!) to enjoy our wedding weekend from start to finish.

Lauren Colley is a complete star in the world of wedding coordination. She was our coordinator for my husband's and my wedding that just took place this past May at the Ace Hotel Palm Springs and completely rocked it. We began the process of working together far before typical day-of coordination duties might begin and I truly believe that she went above and beyond. Lauren was always available for any random crisis thrown her way any time of day (or night) and was extremely knowledgable on any questions that my husband and I had not even dreamed would be thrown our way - I believe our standard response to situations like those simply became "Let's just ask Lauren." Because our wedding demanded a great deal of intricate DIY planning and design that Lauren and her equally amazing team was to play a major part in executing the day of the wedding, she spent endless amounts of time poring over sketches, details and scheduling planning and design meetings to discuss creative so that we could ensure everything was flawless (which it was!). She was a pro at logistics, including keeping all of our bridal party, venue and vendors in tight communication and on schedule before, during and after the celebration and making sure that all the loose ends were tied up perfectly. Above all else, Lauren is just a wonderful person to be around with a great sense of humor and someone who we now consider a friend.

Lavender Grey was one of the best wedding decisions we made--and we made a lot of good ones! Early on when we felt overwhelmed, we brought Lauren on board, and were immediately grateful we did. From beginning to end, she provided great ideas, referrals, advice, and sanity. She called and emailed as promised; in fact her responsiveness was off the charts. She was easy to work with and helped us put all our nontraditional ideas into action. She always went above and beyond, including on the wedding day when she handled an incredible amount of details so expertly. Our wedding was amazing and we know Lauren played an important role in that.

I don't know what we would have done without Lauren of Lavender Grey. She made our wedding run so smoothly and I didn't have to worry about a thing that day! She went above and beyond to make sure we had the perfect wedding. If you are looking for a beautiful, stress free wedding, Lavender Grey can make it happen!!