Plan to be Wowed -

Nikki Baker

When I worked with Chrissy this past fall at the MacArthur Place, as a wedding photographer, I instantly knew I would be leaving this review. Her & her team were a dream to work with, communication was clear and everything went so timely, the day of was stunning. Everything our client envisioned and more. The transformation of the ceremony to reception space alone was jaw dropping. Highly recommend Plan to be Wowed for your wedding day.

Angela Martin

Hiring Plan to be Wowed for our wedding was one of our best decisions. From the first consultation, Chrissy impressed us with her professionalism, attention to detail, and genuine passion for creating beautiful weddings.
Chrissy was incredibly organized and kept us on track with timelines and checklists. She handled all vendor communications efficiently, saving us a lot of stress. The design ideas provided by Chrissy were beyond our expectations as she has a fantastic eye for detail.
The team was a calming presence on the wedding day, ensuring everything ran smoothly. So many small details and unexpected issues arose, and the team handled them all without our involvement so that we could enjoy every moment of our special day.
Throughout the entire process, Chrissy was always accessible and responsive. We couldn't have asked for a better wedding planner and had so many guests tell us that our wedding was the most beautiful wedding they had attended. We highly recommend Plan to be Wowed to any couple looking for a seamless and unforgettable wedding experience!!

Kristine Herman

I have worked with many planners and Chrissy and her team are the entire package. From design to flow of the day, Chrissy helps her couples really experience their day and not have to worry about anything. As a photographer, it’s important to be on the same page as the planner and Chrissy helps make our job easier as well. Her communication and scheduling with everyone makes it so we can focus on our jobs and create the best work for our clients.

Nick Phan

Chrissy and her team helped plan our wedding this past August and words cannot describe how thoughtful, courteous, kind, insightful and caring the Plan to be Wowed team is! They really made our dream wedding come true.

Chrissy is extremely knowledgeable and worked within our budget to ensure that we had all of the elements we wanted in our wedding. She is extremely organized and has great taste and recommendations. She always provides different options for each type of vendor and inquiry, open to any questions and is very responsive via email, text, and call.

1000% would recommend Chrissy and her team to anyone who is seeking an expert in wedding planning! We went with the full service wedding planning and design! It was definitely worth it!

Beth McLaughlin

We couldn't have done it without Chrissy & team! We decided to go with Chrissy based on a rave recommendation from an acquaintance, and have been telling everyone we know about her since. She is very practical and down to earth, with a vivacious, enthusiastic personality - she made wedding planning a delight! I didn't really know what I wanted my wedding to look like, and she helped me narrow down ideas and bring together an event that was ultimately a perfect celebration for myself, my husband, and our families. We danced the night away in a fairytale ballroom in San Francisco (The Hibernia), which Chrissy and her team beautifully styled and decorated to enhance the old world elegance. And, she pulled off all our special requests - like making a special quiet room for the seven babies who came to the wedding, so our friends could enjoy the evening with us! She is fantastic at the little touches that take an event to the next level: which bus company to use to make transportation a breeze; how to create a menu that nodded to both our Italian and Irish heritage; how to choose the perfect live band; and more! Our guests are still talking about our wedding more than six months later, and many of them told us it was the best wedding they'd ever been to. Chrissy gets the lion's share of the credit for that! We got married; she hired the crack team of professionals that brought everyone together for an amazing event. We also appreciated that Chrissy helped us fit wedding planning into our lives instead of putting our lives on pause for the wedding. During our 10-month planning process, despite being a bride-to-be, I was able to interview for and land a new job that I love. The look on my face during our before-dinner preview captures how it felt the whole time working with her when she kept bringing amazing ideas to the table. Thanks, Chrissy & team!!

Alyssa Barranti

Chrissy is great! She was wonderful to work with while planning our wedding. She’s extremely detail oriented, and made us feel included in every single decision. She made the planning process fun and kept us on track through the whole process. We weren’t worried about a thing on our big day and truly got to enjoy ourselves and be in the moment, which wouldn’t have been possible without Chrissy’s help. Would highly recommend using her as your wedding planner!

Stephanie Henner

Our experience with Chrissy as our wedding planner/coordinator was absolutely incredible. She is organized beyond belief, she's hardworking, she's extremely helpful and she's so so so sweet. The whole planning process was easy and seamless thanks to Chrissy. She really cares about her couples and was always very responsive! Chrissy is professionalism at its finest. I've said it once and I'll say it again she is the best in the industry. I wasn't worried about a single thing on our wedding day because I knew Chrissy would have it all handled and I just trusted her with everything. She made us feel so confident in our decision in hiring her and we are so grateful that we did. Our wedding was the most special day in our entire lives and it wouldn't have been possible without Chrissy's help. We love her so much and would highly recommend using her for your upcoming wedding!!!

Bri Buzick

Where to begin - I am so thankful to Chrissy and her wonderful team for the magic they created for our wedding week this past June. Very early on in the planning process, I realized a destination wedding in California from Iowa without a planner would be just about impossible. I had zoom chats with a bunch of potential planners and Chrissy stood out immediately. She is soooo kind, personable, fun and easy to talk to; I instantly felt like I had made a new friend and knew she was our pick!!!

Throughout the process, she was incredibly professional, timely in her responses, and knowledgable about our options and the bases we needed to cover, all while also making it as fun and as stress free as possible. We had four days of events for our 40 guests and she kept everything so organized and was on top of it all. I was far from an easy client as I'm indecisive and busy with work, and she handled it seamlessly always keeping me on track (despite my best efforts to delay decisions sometimes 😉 ) We had multiple meet ups throughout the year of planning and we always left them feeling more and more at ease that everything would be handled by Chrissy and her team to perfection.

I have heard the horror stories about the stress that ensues the week of and especially on your wedding day, and my husband and I were immune to it all thanks to Chrissy and her team. She handled everything so that we could enjoy our day and not worry about a thing. She brought my vision for the day to life and then some and we will forever be thankful to her for everything she did for us. I feel like we will be friends for life. ♥️ Thank you, thank you, thank you PTBW team!!!!