Lulu Events

Angela was such a treat to work with. She was well organized, tons of ideas, beyond helpful with making sure we had everything we need, and a life saver for the day of the wedding. We picked LuLu Events to help with the day of wedding planning. Angela (the owner) was amazing from the start of all the booking (everything: location, vendors, decoration ideas, food, table seating, and more) to the actual rehearsal practice. On the day of our wedding everything went perfectly. I didn’t even notice Angela there, except for her coming up asking if we needed anything to drink and check in to make sure we were having fun (I mean how sweet is that). She was such a hit! Our wedding was perfect and having her there gave us time to relax and have fun on our wedding day (what a bride and groom should be doing). Thank you Angela for making our day so wonderful!

There are many high quality wedding planners for Napa Valley, however, if you are looking for one that conducts business with integrity, I would not recommend Angela N. of Lulu Events and here is why…
We signed Angela as our planner in May 2010 to help us with our Napa Valley destination wedding in October 2010. As we were planning our wedding from Asia and had less than 5 months til the big day, we needed a planner who was available and flexible to meet our demanding schedules. She claimed to be the «BEST PLANNER IN NAPA», provided us with «great» references, and assured us that she was very experienced in working with overseas clientele, so we paid our 50% of the fee to go ahead with Angela. (Note, she also emailed us that another party wanted to sign with her for an October 2010 event and given she has a quota of events she can do, we felt some time pressure… though, it was still our fault we didn’t spend enough time to look around more thoroughly).
Unfortunately, shortly after signing the contract we realized Angela was not right for us. We found out early on that her schedule was not very flexible to our needs and she was at times even unaware of the drastic time zone differences. Apart from canceling & re-​scheduling several of our conference calls, she was unable to meet us for two separate in person appointments that we had flown in for from Asia. The first time was a brief business visit to the Bay Area, but given the short notice of our travel itinerary and not being her clients yet, we gave her the benefit of the doubt. But she was unavailable again when we planned to do another week long visit to the Bay Area/​Napa to do our wedding site check and by that time, she was our planner.
Maybe she was stretched too thin, or we were too far away, or we were not considered a big budget wedding, or that she often flies back and forth between Napa and southern California… but nonetheless something was wrong.
Within the first week of signing on, Angela was out of pocket for the first few days, then she emailed to reschedule our conference calls that week and by the end of the week, we were told she would not be able to accommodate us when we were in town for our site check. With the distance and impending time crunch until the wedding, it was at that moment that we realized this was not going to work out and that Angela would not be able to provide the service we needed.
We explained this to her over the phone and reiterated our concerns over email before asking if we could receive our money back or be billed for the work she had already done so that we could mutually cancel the contract. We thought this was a reasonable request given that only a few hours of work had been done so far and that our schedules just could not match hers. However, she was surprised at our request and refused to not only not provide the requested refund, but also stopped returning our calls and emails to work out an amicable solution.
In the end, we were able to find a different wedding planner and had an incredible wedding. However, we are deeply disappointed that Angela seemed more focused on her bottom line than caring about the wedding couples who have been saving and working so hard for their special day…

Angela did a phenomal job with our wedding last September. The event was fun and her eye for style is fabulous. We wanted a casually elegant type of feel in Sonoma and she tailored her creativity to fit our needs and wants. She had so many wonderful and unique ideas that we loved. I was able to dance and just have fun throughout the night and not worry about anything. It was more than worth it to hire Angela, she saved my sanity! I couldn’t have asked for a better person to help with our wedding. With previous event planning experience myself I have very high expectations and Angela went above and beyond them all. Did I mention she also seamlessly coordinated our (way too big) bridal party of 9 bridesmaids and 9 groomsmen? Not only do you get Angela to help you, you also get to work with the people she recommends! Our DJ, photographer and guitarist were recommended by Angela and they were fantastic! If you want the best, hire Angela!

Angela helped my husband and me have the wedding of our dreams a few weeks ago! The day was as perfect as it could possibly be!
Angela has a great sense of style, so she was able to help us put together a beautiful event in Napa. She listened carefully to what I wanted, understood my vision, and was able to elegantly execute that vision on my big day.
Also, I’m so glad that she was there to handle all of the million details that go on in planning, organizing, and running the wedding. She coordinated with all the vendors, orchestrated the timeline and seating chart, took care of assembling the favors and other random accessories, put together our beautiful sweets display, and was even there for random requests like bringing me my flip flops when my feet got tired!
Angela does have a list of preferred vendors, but she doesn’t push you to the ones on that list (like how some other planners do). She is open to working with other vendors and will give you her honest opinion in selecting them.

Although we are right in the middle of the planning phases of our wedding, Angela has been a tremendous asset and has definitely taken much of the burden off of us, Lord knows we need it!
She has a ton of contacts throughout the Bay Area and has fantastic ideas for how to make your day unique and perfect! I will definitely update this review as the day approaches, but I expect our experience will only be stellar with Angela running things!

We had a lot of our wedding ideas already in mind, and Angela was able to bring everthing together seamlessly. She was able to take our theme and add some great ideas of her own. She had good vendor contacts that made for choosing a simple task. The result was that the event was fantastic, coordinated, and seamingly effortless.
Bravo and thank-​you Angela!
J and B

Lulu Events is absolutely amazing! Angela Nelson is truly a wonderful, creative, caring, organized, and honest person. We can not say enough wonderful things about Angela and Lulu events. I am a bride of one of Angela’s amazing weddings. I came to Angela with less than 4 months to plan a 350+ person wedding that was going to take place over 4 days in 5 different locations (from San Francisco to Calistoga). I had recently lost my mother, so I knew that my father, my now-​husband, and I would need a lot of extra help planning our wedding festivities. We interviewed 7 wedding coordinators, and within the first 30 minutes of our meeting, we were confident that Angela was the right person for us. Her attention to detail, her organizational skills, her ability to find amazing deals, her vision and creativity, and most importantly her ability to be sensitive to all of our needs while at the same time keeping us on track, were all key elements in making our wedding weekend a dream come true. Actually, that is not completely true, for our wedding weekend superceded any expectations we may have had. Even though we loved our entire wedding weekend, I have to say that Saturday’s event was the most amazing. Our venue was quite complex and our guest list was quite diverse. Angela made sure that everything was perfect, and that all of our needs and our guests’ needs were met. Just to mention a few elements of our Saturday black tie event (of 350+ people) that Angela orchestrated beautifully… decorating/​designing a 112,000 square feet venue that opened in April, working with over 25 different vendors (managing over 100 people to create this perfect party), a Persian/​Catholic/​Mormon ceremony, guests ranging from the age of 2 months to 90 years old (we had a nanny room and children’s entertainer, and our elder guests were taken care of with very personal attention), an extensive array of 5 food stations and 4 full bars, several live musicians plus a DJ, Hookah Lounge with Chocolate/​Port Bar, continuously playing slideshow, Lighting, AVT, and a classical Persian dance troupe. There was no request that I made that Angela did not take care of. In addition, there were many surprises that Angela added that made the wedding weekend perfect! The one constant comment that everyone made to us was that we looked so happy and so relaxed. None of that would have been possible, if we did not have Angela running around orchestrating everything. There are not many brides and grooms that can truly say that they were guests at our own party! We can! Thank you Angela!

Lulu Events is a top notch firm in the city. Angela the owner worked for the Ritz and Accenture before starting her own business. She is creative, professional and her clients come first. You are in excellent hands with her.

Angela is the kind of wedding planner celebrities will fly out to Bora Bora just so she can plan their event. She thinks quick, has talent, unsurmountable creativity and is the hardest most dedicated worker I know. She will take your vision, and not only make it happen, but exceed all expectations…
If you are lucky enough to score this gal for an upcoming event, your guests will be impressed and your event will be most memorable.
I cant wait for my wedding she is planning in the South of France!