Dreams On A Dime Events & Weddings

Worked with Cierra for our wedding — she completely understood our needs and was a perfect organizer. Very responsive to emails and phone calls. Cierra helped also with giving tips on the ceremony, arranging our tables and our general evening itinerary. Highly recommend — it made our day great knowing we could enjoy ourselves while Cierra handled all the details amazingly. Don’t doubt hiring a planner.

I worked with Jessica at a wedding that took place at the Cornerstone in Sonoma. She was amazing!!! Super friendly, Very organized and Professional. Highly recommend her services! DJ Aykut,

This review is for Jessica Franklin and her day-​of-​coordination services. Our wedding at Dogpatch Wineworks could not have gone more smoothly! Everyone kept telling me that something would go wrong on my wedding day, so I was prepared for the worst. Truly everything went perfectly, and I believe Jessica had a lot to do with that! Jessica was helpful and responsive every step of the way. Among many other things, she set up all of our table decorations, made sure the vendors knew and followed the timeline, and made sure everything was running smoothly during the event, cueing the DJ and caterers, etc. She even met us at 8am two days before the wedding so that we could drop off our décor and other wedding items at the office for her to bring to our venue the next day. This was a huge help given we had all-​day plans with visiting with family. I believe the value for the cost of the service was well worth the peace of mind I had on my wedding day. The only thing I could think of that would have made this process even better would be an online payment system, such as Honeybook. Of course– not a huge deal and may not work for everyone, but just something to consider.
Overall, I highly recommend Jessica Franklin’s services!

Having Jessica help plan and be there on the day of our wedding was simply God-​sent! She was SO easy to work with and had a vast knowledge of all the intricacies of planning and orchestrating a wedding. She was not only familiar with SF, which is where we had the ceremony and reception, but she’s just great with people which is what you need on the day of your wedding! We had a specific vision for our wedding which included the mixing of both of our cultures (Jewish and Chinese) and Jessica gave great suggestions and recommendations including the chuppah, musicians and the lion dancers.
Before signing up with her, we debated about adding her services as yet another expense of the wedding. But very quickly after her signing on, we knew with her help we’d actually save money, time, and avoid unforeseen headaches! She’s cool as a cucumber under pressure. We even had an incident were our nephew had to go to the ER — Jessica took care of things.
It’s been 5 years since Jessica helped us and we still think of her so fondly and know that because of her, we and our family and friends had an amazing day celebrating our union. We recommend her highly!

Jessica was the planner for the amazing wedding that I DJ’d this last weekend. She’s a great communicator, very calm and cool, and clearly organized a beautiful wedding. Hope to work with her again soon!

Alex Barranco is an awesome wedding coordinator! We hired Alex from Dreams on a Dime to be our day of wedding coordinator. He started collecting all of our vendor information and organizing a schedule about a month beforehand. We were initially a little nervous leading up to the day as he was a little bit late getting the schedule finalized, but the week of our wedding his entire focus shifted to us and everything came together perfectly.
On the day of our wedding Alex was amazing and made sure everything went perfectly. He was with us from 9am to 11pm and kept track of all our vendors, helped get everything set up, dealt with one of our bartenders being late, got extra ice when we ran low, distributed tips, and basically made sure everything was where it was suppose to be when it was suppose to be. We had a relaxed free-​flowing wedding and Alex did an amazing job subtly transitioning the chairs and guests from the outdoor space to the main building as the evening progressed. He also made sure to check in on us throughout the wedding to make sure we were getting enough food and water (and periodically brought us both). We had a great time and because he also slowly put things away as our guests were done using them we were able to leave early while he stayed to get the last few bits finished.
Alex has a warm personality and was very friendly with both our families and made everyone feel comfortable, which is impressive because of how diverse our family is. We couldn’t have been happier with him as our day of coordinator!

Cierra is your girl! Seriously, do not try to handle all the wedding details (particularly on the day of) all by yourself or ask your wedding party to do it. It’s stressful and honestly you just won’t have any time to do it. We met Cierra about a full year before our actual wedding, chose the partial package and she walked us through the entire process.
Because it is your wedding, you do need to provide as much details and all the décor directions to your coordinator, but you’ll be in good hands. Cierra is extremely professional, experienced, can answer ANY question, provide visual examples, do the physical walk through with all your vendors a month prior, lead the rehearsal, and day of you just roll with it and trust that everything will go smoothly because with Cierra, everything went perfectly.
She’s extremely attentive to your guests, helped the children in and out with their strollers, and two things I LOVE about Cierra is that 1 — she’s super resourceful, she helped one couple resell their arch to us and save us time and money so we didn’t have to make our own and gave us the best contacts for all our other vendors (music, catering, etc that fell within our budget– this alone saved us a huge amount of time and money); and 2 — she has a very soothing personality to keep you calm through all the madness. This may sound minor, but super critical to have someone with her personality by your side the entire time.
Overall, we couldn’t be happier to have had Cierra as our coordinator. This was the best decision we made, except for getting married of course.

Jessica from Dreams on a Dime was our day of wedding coordinator, and she was amazing! She really started working with us about a month out and among other things, took care of the floor plan, timeline, and coordinating with all of our vendors. On the day of, she showed up to our venue, the General’s Residence, early to oversee the set up and ensure everything would be ready by the start of the ceremony. During the wedding, she made sure everything went off without a hitch. If there were any problems, my husband and I were unaware because she took care of them! Hiring Jessica and Dreams on a Dime was the right decision, and she helped make our wedding the best day.

We used Jessica Goldblatt for our day of wedding coordination. She was simply fantastic!
She was recommended by a couple others we knew who used her services. Jessica was also very familiar with our venue which is full of rules and regulations.
You can tell she’s worked with all types of people and personality types, and has loads of experience, which is what we were seeking.
We communicated a lot via email the month prior to the wedding, and she was extremely helpful and gave great suggestions.
She remembered minor little things we told her, and we appreciated her attention to detail.
We already had sought out most of our vendors ourselves, but she did help with suggesting a couple that we had not yet decided on. She also communicated and worked well with the venue staff and all our other vendors, which we felt was extremely important.
Jessica was super helpful during our venue walkthrough with all our vendors, and during our rehearsal with our families — she calmed all our nerves and kept everything under control. She was great in communicating with the little kids in our group, as well as engaging our older parents and family members. She can easily strike a conversation with anyone.
We had a surprise performer we were particularly nervous about with making sure that things were executed to plan — Jessica was able to handle all the important details and timing smoothly.
She created our intricate timeline, and made multiple revisions on our request, and she and her team executed it perfectly the night of our wedding.
Throughout the night, she kept it cool. She was on top of things. We couldn’t tell if there were any fires being put out behind the scenes, but in our eyes, everything went perfectly.

I just got married two weekends ago at Cornerstone Sonoma and going with Dreams on a Dime has been the BEST decision ever! My sister worked with Jessica Goldblatt at her wedding a couple of years ago and advised me that having a day of planner was the way to go. I emailed Jessica as soon as I started wedding planning. She has multiple packages for you to choose on what type of planner you want and how actively involved you want them to be. I chose to have her as my day of coordinator. I’m so picky when it comes to vendors and details, I knew I wanted to choose everything myself. I found my own caterer, venue, photographer, dj, and videographer. Jessica was always a phone call or email away if I needed help or had any questions.
About a month before the wedding Jessica asked me for my contracts and a representative for each vendor that she could contact. She read through all the contracts and made sure everyone was on the same page. She met with my fiancé and I at our walk through with the venue and caterer. SUPER HELPFUL! She was aware of so many details and had great questions I wouldn’t even think of to ask. Closer to the wedding she sent out a timeline to everyone and made sure all the vendors were within their time limits and carried out their contractual agreements. I also made some last minute decisions and she was very responsive! All the changes and requests were made without any judgement! =) much appreciated!
On rehearsal day I made even more changes. Talk about a bridezilla! I wanted the seating moved and the ceremony facing a different direction. LOL she told me no problem and she would contact the rental company and handle everything. I was so upset that there were so many mosquitos and it was an outdoor ceremony. The next day at the wedding she bought mosquito repellent and candles for us! (they looked and smelled good!) So thoughtful and considerate of her.
On the day of the wedding I didn’t worry about a thing! What bride wants to worry about where everyone is, what the place looks like and who needs to be where at what time. All my vendors were prompt and knew to see Jessica if they had any questions. I was so picky about what my tables, decorations, and wedding would look like. Jessica and her assistant Sophia did a beautiful job decorating and setting up. (BETTER than I had imagined! Whaaaat? Seriously that’s such a nice surprise for a bride!) Everything at my wedding ran on time… the ceremony, cocktail hour, even the salads were served exactly at 6:55pm like the timeline stated! I mean, come on!)
My family and wedding party enjoyed the day without one worry. At the end of the night, all my gifts, cards, decorations, shoes, vows, anything I left behind… were taken and safely stored at an agreed upon location. Drunk friends were safe and no one got sloppy. The groom was happy and didn’t realize what was going on anyway. and I WAS ONE HAPPY LADY! This is the best day of your life and you really want someone who knows what they’re doing. I highly recommend Jessica and Dreams on a Dime. I hope we can work together again in the future! …when my brother gets married! Sorry, I only plan on doing this once. ;)

Alex totally swooped in and rocked it in helping us to get our wedding organized and executed. And it was a fairly complicated one with an outdoor ceremony and an indoor reception across town. Can’t say enough about Alex and team!

I’ve been hesitating on writing this review because I don’t like writing bad ones but I feel that I have to share my experience on here. I’ve hesitated also because I didn’t want to come across as a bridezilla, but in reality certain plans weren’t followed and if you’re planning a wedding those plans are kind of important.
My coordinator was the owner, Jessica. I chose the «Partial Planning» contract. I wanted a «cocktail style» reception and Jessica said she was familiar with that. A cocktail style reception is one where you don’t have a formal sit-​down or assigned seating, but instead take your food and mingle. It’s like a big cocktail party that happens to be a wedding. It’s all about having that vibe.
I had a great venue, great food, great booze, and amazing live music. My only negative experience was with Jessica, who seemed to do the bare minimum and she simply didn’t follow our plans.
What Jessica did right:
1. We had two disabled people in attendance and Jessica was great with them, making sure they were well taken care of.
2. Our families felt that Jessica was very attentive to their needs.
3. All of our vendors loved working with her.
What Jessica didn’t do right:
1. Jessica was initially very responsive in answering emails but then weeks before our wedding she was «having issues with one of [her] employees which doubled [her] work load» and from that point on, it seemed like she phoned it in.
2. Jessica didn’t help not one bit with coordinating getting our families to the venue. During our First Look, my husband and I were on the phone with Über trying to get our parents to the venue for photos before our ceremony (didn’t happen). Really. Kind of ridiculous.
3. If you don’t ask Jessica a direct question, she won’t give you any unasked for advice, at least on the «Partial Planning» contract. Didn’t think about how to get your parents to the venue? On ending the night? Well, good luck because Jessica isn’t going to go through your plan and tell what you forgot or what’s missing. And, I’m a project manager, and I had my stuff together, but wedding planning was a first for me. This was NOT money well spent.
4. Our ceremony was on a brick patio bordered by a rock wall. After the ceremony, the 80 ceremony chairs were supposed to be removed and pillows were to be placed on the rock wall and low tables set in front of them to create a «lounge» atmosphere (common at this venue). This was laid out in detail in the floor plan. Instead, all the ceremony chairs were not removed but instead placed around the wall, making it very cluttered and not creating the «lounge» atmosphere in the brick patio.
5. We designed a «cocktail-​style» reception and had a plan to accommodate this. All of our food was designed to be eaten cocktail style. When the food was ready, Jessica called everyone down to the where the food was and asked everyone to find a seat, instead of encouraging people to take their food and mingle. The problem? We didn’t have assigned seats so people were confused and ended up taking the seats we had by the food stations, and didn’t venture to the other seating spread out in the other parts of the venue.
6. At the end of the night, it just ended. Jessica didn’t come find me or my husband and tell us that it was time for our guests to leave. Everyone just left! We never got to say goodbye! This is the main thing that upsets me. There was no excuse for this and it was incredibly disappointing as many of our guests flew cross country. In retrospect, we should have pre-​planned something, but she didn’t have that on her checklist and we didn’t know enough to plan for this in advance.
7. In the contract, there’s the option to, and I quote, «Collect/​secure gifts, wedding card box, guest book, etc. and deliver to agreed upon location.» I pre-​planned with Jessica to pick up my items the following weekday (I have emails about this). Instead, after everyone left, she flagged me and my husband down, two friends that lagged behind, and had the lot of us load our stuff onto the shuttle back to the hotel. It was a pain in the rear, as there was unexpected unloading at the hotel, all of us in fancy clothes, Doing It Ourselves. Yeah.
Did Jessica ruin our wedding? Of course not. She was great with our families and especially with our disabled relatives that needed help and the bigger picture is that our wedding was amazing, because the other vendors were just so very good, all our friends and family were there, and hey, it’s our freaking wedding day! But Jessica seemed to phone it in and didn’t seem to pay attention to the floor plan, fell back on a traditional dinner pattern, completely blew it when the guests left, and then had me and my friends pack up our stuff at the end.
If there’s one regret, it’s having Jessica coordinate our wedding. Don’t let it be yours.

Date: Saturday, October 10^th, 2015
Event: Wedding
Coordinator: Jessica Franklin
It was a lovely Saturday, October day. Clear and crisp with sunshine. My bridesmaids and mothers were getting our hair and makeup done at the Omni Hotel, in San Francisco. During the time of getting ready I had Jessica come by our room to catch up and make sure we were all ready for the big day.
She had been helping us coordinate our wedding for a while. She was always positive and supportive. She was very attentive when we had questions about planning our wedding. We had met at the Omni to do a walk through. She recommended some lighting for the room and how the place cards and favors should be set at each place setting.
She also put together an amazing timeline. We were spot on for everything that we had plan. Jessica assisted us making sure the day was smooth sailing. She helped make sure our guest were having a great time as well.
By the end of it all she was very professional and personable. She did help me get out of my dress at the end of the night, since I didn’t want my husband to rip it off of me. She also made sure that everything was packed up and nothing was left behind.
At the end of the day we realized that we couldn’t have done it without you Jessica. You made our day so grand and wonderful. We hope everyone has a day of coordinator just like Jessica.

I have to admit, I was worried about Dreams on a Dime initially– I had originally contacted someone else from Dreams on a Dime who was recommended to me, but they were booked the day of our wedding. Then I was referred to Alex who we actually met with in person and loved, but apparently later that same day a different couple he had met with weeks before had finally gotten all of their paperwork so now he was booked up for our event (not his fault at all but still disappointing for us). So finally, I was able to meet with Jessica Franklin who assured me she would definitely be available for our wedding.
We hired Jessica for day-​of-​coordination and she really went above and beyond. This was far more than typical day-​of-​coordination. She helped us work out some details with the Brazilian Room months in advance (which is an amazing and beautiful venue, but IMPOSSIBLE to work with sometimes. Each staff person has completely different information, some people are nice, some people are rude. I finally emailed Jessica and sort of exasperatedly whined «They’re not giving me any answers!»… She took over and got everything sorted and she definitely did not have to.). She also answered all of my emails full of questions even though Type-​A Me was trying to plan things out a year in advance and from a different state.
The day of the wedding was amazing. We didn’t have to think of anything. She made sure everything was on schedule, was so unbelievably organized, and was SO sweet/​warm to everyone. My family wanted to adopt her. She also had someone named Tom shadowing her and he was very friendly and professional as well. Right before my now-​husband was going to walk down the aisle, he realized he had his phone in his pocket and quickly handed it over to Tom for safekeeping. At the end of the night, Tom returned his phone and we realized he had been taking photos with it all evening and it was so fun to go through all of the photos after we left the venue.
Everything was perfect. I want to have another wedding just so I can hang out with Jessica some more.

Alex was absolutely A-​M-​A-​Z-​I-​N-​G! We are so glad that Alex was our partial wedding planner. He is experienced and knows what he is talking about — So listen to him!
We dove into the whole wedding planning «thing» uncertain about what we wanted. We had some ideas but was very open to suggestions. On top of that, our venue was quite customizable and needed a lot of ideas to make it work. Alex had many great ideas and also helped us stay within a certain budget. He went a consultation for décor with us and told us the truth when it came to whether things were necessary or not. His attention to details with wedding planning is superb and made our actual day very stress-​free. We didn’t think that our day was going to that perfect but with Alex’s help, it truly was. We definitely made a great choice when we chose to go with Dreams On A Dime.
Thank you, Alex!

Cierra was hired as a partial wedding planner (and a pre-​wedding gift from my now-​husband) so that I wouldn’t have to deal with too many of the logistics and headaches that come with having to plan a wedding. She was also our day-​of coordinator. She was definitely worth every penny! For a partial wedding planner, she let us contact her as many times as we wanted with any questions that came to mind. I’ve heard of many wedding planners giving you x amount of hours and charging you for every additional hour that they help you with.
Cierra is a very professional person with a lot of experience dealing with multiple vendors to ensure everything runs smoothly on our wedding day. She was on the same page as us throughout the entire process, and we didn’t need to catch her up to speed on anything. She let us store many of our wedding things at Dreams on a Dime like menus, favors, table numbers, guestbooks, signage, etc. and she made sure all the small details were in place.
In terms of ceremony and reception, she had a lot of good input on details such as layouts and colors of chairs for the ceremony that we wouldn’t have thought of. For example, most people have white lawn chairs for ceremonies, but Cierra pointed out a natural wood tone might look better and less artificial outdoors. We followed her recommendations and it turned out beautifully! Also, she helped us minimize costs of rentals because she knew where we could find more affordable rentals than the options we had in mind. She was also very familiar with our venue and had worked with a lot of our vendors, so that made things go smoothly too!
She also came up with our initial rough draft of our timeline, and then help us tweak it with what we wanted to do. Many of my other bride friends had to come up with their own timeline from scratch, so this was a great load off my back. She also contacted and coordinated with all the vendors the week of our wedding to let people know what our timeline was. When I had questions for other vendors, they said Cierra has it taken care of already and was one step ahead of me.
One good example of how Cierra handles thing professionally is that our caterer ran out of a certain color linens we had chosen for all the tables. Instead of calling us in panic mode, she contacted the caterer and florist, and discussed what would be the best alternate color that would go well with everything before even notifying us. Because she had a plan in place, we were not in panic mode, and just let the vendors decide what to do.
Many of our guests commented on how seamlessly the transitions at our wedding were. One guest commented how Cierra was super friendly, but also firm when she needed to be. On the day-​of, I couldn’t keep track of time, but Cierra made sure we were where we needed to be and we didn’t have to stress out about a whole lot and got to enjoy our day. All in all, totally worth your investment! :)

We had our wedding on June 27, 2015 and Cierra Lockwood made our day just perfect!!! Cierra goes beyond the call of duty to make sure her couples are relaxed and all needs and wants are met the day of the wedding and even in the planning. From the beginning she made sure to go over every detail and even relax me (the bride) when I was having a moment. She even met with us when we had our design meeting with the florist and made sure to make notes for us. Cierra always answered my emails and was willing to get on a call when I needed to review something especially as we got closer to the wedding. She also had the best advise on how to work with our vendors. We received so many compliments on how organized our wedding was and we can only thank one person CIERRA!!! She is the best wedding planner ever and we totally heart her. Thank you Cierra so making our day perfect.
Aldo & Jessica

We just had the most amazing wedding on July 5^th, 2015 and hiring Alex from Dreams on a Dime was the best choice we made! First and foremost, Alex is a kind, patient and generous person who loves what he does! He was the calm and strong leader that we needed at our venue walk through, rehearsal and wedding. Alex talked through our wedding with us several times and he asked us all the right questions and provided us with documents and tips to help us stay organized. Alex made sure that he understood every little detail for the wedding day and he executed each piece perfectly.
One if the best things about Alex is that when he speaks to you he never rushes the conversation. He listens to each question and concern that you might have and gives you the peace of mind that your wedding day will be a success. You can truly trust Alex with all the tiny details about your wedding day and he will make sure that everything is arranged and executed how you want it to be.
The «timing» of our event was very important to us. We wanted the event to flow smoothly and transition easily from the speeches, to the cake cutting, to the dancing. Alex made sure that all the events on our wedding timeline were accomplished at just the right time.
If you want someone you can trust and someone who is kind, patient and honest… hire Alex from Dreams on a Dime!

Simply the best decision we made for our wedding was hiring Dreams on a Dime and Cierra Lockwood. We initially retained services for just research, and she found us a perfect venue and photographer immediately. I then called her in a panic when our wedding was a couple of months out, catatonic about all the items I had left to do. Cierra spent 1.5 hours on the phone with me, providing guidance on everything from invitation etiquette, ways to be budget-​careful, and how to prioritize the to-​do list. After that phone call, I bumped Cierra up to full coordination, and I watched all my wedding stress melt away.
The day of the wedding, Cierra was onsite and took care of everything. My family and I were really able to enjoy the day because she just stepped in to make sure everything ran smoothly. She even added all these little touches like printed menu cards that we did not request but made such a difference. Our wedding was magical, and I’m confident Cierra had a lot to do with it.
Cierra is thorough, thoughtful, calm and relaxed. She knows her stuff. As Carrie Bradshaw said to Miranda, «throw some money at the problem.» Hire Cierra and go have the wedding of your dreams.

We worked with Cierra Lockwood from Dreams on a Dime for our Pi Day (3.14.15) wedding in the East Bay. She was our day-​of coordinator but started communicating with us (mostly via email, which was my preference) and advising us about a month before our big day. One of the most important things to my husband and me was peace of mind that our wedding and reception would go smoothly. Thanks to Cierra, I was able to detach myself from my phone throughout the day (yep, I decided to keep it off) and relax and have fun at my own wedding!
From my very first interaction with Cierra, she was friendly and responsive. Comments that I heard from my guests about Cierra include «Wedding planners are very useful» and «Your wedding planner was so thoughtful — she handed us parasols that matched our outfits.»
Great job and thank you, Cierra!