Ribbon & Tie

Christine was absolutely amazing! My husband and I (ok…mostly just I) were trying to plan a San Francisco wedding from Las Vegas. We got to around the six month mark and I was just getting so sick of all the planning and details and rushing around on the few weekends I was getting to come back for planning. A friend of mine recommended Christine to us. I was hesitant at first, but as soon as I talked with her, she put my mind at ease. I basically handed everything we had done so far off to her and she took care of everything else from there. The weeks leading up to the wedding were so stressless that I was beginning to think there was something wrong. But the wedding day itself went off without a hitch. In fact, all of our guests are still commenting on how ours was one of the best, well planned weddings they have ever attended. No one was ever bored and everything was so well taken care of that I didn’t have to think about anything the day of.
I would recommend Christine to ANYONE getting married in the Bay Area. She is SO worth it!

Christine saved my wedding! I love her!!! I had a small 1 hour ceremony at city hall and then a small reception lunch at a nearby restaurant. I hired Christine as my day-​of coordinator just for the reception so that someone I could trust would be there to receive and set up the cake, dessert bar, flowers, favors, wish tree, etc. She EXCEEDED my every expectation! She made sure everything was received and set up exactly as i wanted but MORE IMPORTANTLY she put me at complete ease the day before the wedding when I met her to drop off supplies. That is priceless to a frazzled bride! My only regret is not hiring her for both the ceremony and reception, then my entire day would have been stress free! Christine has a very sweet, positive, and calming personality. After I gave her the needed information she immediately began coordinating between my vendors and the reception site to ensure a shared understanding and a flawless execution on the wedding day. She also managed to charm the difficult-​to-​work-​with restaurant manager to allow her to begin set up the day before, a day when the restaurant wasn’t even open– i was extremely impressed!
If I could do it all over again I would hire Christine for my day or coordinator for the ceremony and reception AND my wedding planner. She would have made the whole process a breeze!
On top of all of of this, Christine charged me a very minimal fee, whereas other day of coordinators were asking for 4x as much!
I would give Christine 10 stars if I could! Be smart and don’t try to do everything yourself, the week before your wedding you will be so grateful to have someone else doing all the legwork and phone calls so you can focus on being a happy bride!

A little back story– When we decided to get married, we knew we wanted the wedding to be in San Francisco. Both of our families are from out of state so we really didn’t have any help at all coordinating anything. Furthermore, neither of us really had any idea what even went in to a wedding. Most of the weddings I went to where when I was in middle school/​high school and I can guarantee I was not paying attention.
So, when we went to Christine we were about three months before the wedding date and all we had was a location for the ceremony and a relatively small budget. Christine brought a load of ideas to the table, and she was very accommodating with our needs, budget and time constraints.
We hit a bit of a crisis at one point when our restaurant choice for the reception fell through (the manager turned out to be a nutcase). Christine came up with an alternate venue very quickly and the experience turned out to be better than anything we could have thought of.
On the day of the wedding Christine brought an assistant and they did a great job of coordinating everything. We had a blast at the reception and they were both there the whole time making sure everything went well.
At the end of the night Christine ended up personally driving us to our hotel, which was something we didn’t ask her to do or even know was going to happen. Talk about full service!

I did most of the planning for my 6.18.11 wedding, but towards the end I started to feel extremely overwhelmed and new I needed to get help. We looked around for day of/​month of coordinators and we found good people, but just for ridiculous prices!
When we talked to Christine, she offered everything the other coordinators were offering at a fraction of the price! Plus she had an assistant that would be helping on the day of. She was very calming, something I really needed since I couldn’t stop thinking about all the things that could go wrong. She was so organize and even though I couldn’t stop thinking about all the details, she still picked up things I overlooked.
I don’t know what I would have done at the rehearsal if her and her assistant (Amanda, I think? Sorry! I’m bad with names) weren’t there. The church we got married in had a horrible rude coordinator that I could not stand to talk to, so I’m so happy Christine and her assistant were there to take care of it all. They were able to direct our MASSIVE wedding party and family into all the right places. If I had to do it, I would have gone nuts!
Oh and the day of… I swear it could not have gone any smoother!!! I think the only hiccup was that my wedding party didn’t know where to go when they were introduced, but I think that was kind of my bad. Everything was quickly taken care of though and it all got back on track.
Christine handled my vendors and made sure we were all on the same page. She kept me in the loop on everything, which was a MAJOR thing with me. I needed to know all the details even if I couldn’t handle them myself.
Even after the event she made sure all loose ends were taken care of with any vendors.
I highly recommend Christine. I don’t think my wedding day would have been as beautiful as it was without her. I would have been stressed out the whole time, but she made it so easy!

I was very disappointed with Christine and her assistant Geneva when we used her as the day of coordinator for my wedding. She seemed very well organized and did take care of a lot of little things like confirming our other vendors. However, she had a couple of missteps the day of and my big gripe about her is that she would not take responsibility for it.
First, she called my husband at 8:00 in the morning to see where he was. He was not supposed to be anywhere until 10:30. Around 11, her assistant let herself into his hotel room and promised to take our bags to my parents’ car. She never did it and left the bags at the hotel. When we figured out that the bags were missing at our reception (which was not something I wanted to worry about during my wedding reception) she blamed my husband and refused to take responsibility for messing up. She had my parents pay $ 50 for a car to take the bags to the reception site and did not offer to pay them back.
There were a lot of things she forgot — to tie ribbons on our cake knife and server, to get my petticoat out of the bride’s room and she almost forgot our computer at the reception site. She also did not set up plates and forks when we were cutting cake so we looked like idiots. When we asked her to get a plate she looked at my husband like he was crazy and started to look around for nothing. My husband ended up just getting plates off of the coffee bar. My bridal party felt bossed around by her and when my husband tried to call her during the day, she did not pick up her phone even though she assured us she would always pick up her phone. Our wedding coordinator at our reception was very annoyed by her and did not enjoy working with her.
Our problems continued with her even after the wedding day. She left a box at the reception site and when we called her she said that she would call the reception site. She called back and said she would call back when she got a response. We ended up waiting 3 days and just called the reception site directly who picked up their phone right away and mailed us the box because they did not trust her to get it to us. All in all, I felt she was not worth the money we paid her. She did not put me at ease at all, instead my night was spent putting out fires that she caused. My biggest complaint is that she failed to take responsibility for any of her mistakes. I would definitely not recommend her.

Christine was recommended to us by our caterer, and she did a great job with our wedding. We hired her for day-​of services, but we met beforehand and she talked to all of our vendors and made sure everyone was completely on board and knew what was going on. She is incredibly thorough and detail-​oriented.
The real test happened when there was rain scheduled for the day of our wedding. She was instrumental in making sure that the tent was hired set up properly, and it turned out to be stunning. I can’t imagine what our day would have been like without her help, as I was in no condition to be dealing with all the vendors myself. I am so glad she was there!

We had a somewhat difficult time finding a day of planner. We wanted someone extremely organized yet flexible, as we had some traditional elements to our wedding but a lot of nontraditional ones as well. It was important to us that we felt our planner really understood us, which would enable us to have the wedding we dreamed of.
The moment we met Christine of Ribbon and Tie we knew we’d love her to be our planner. Unfortunately she was already booked, but she set us up with her assistant Samar to be our day of planner, and Christine would take care of all the details until that day.
Christine was extremely helpful in the weeks and months leading up to the wedding. She answered all my questions… some big, some small, some reasonable, many crazy… all with a calm and kind and ORGANIZED way about her. Basically, exactly what you’d want in a planner. Even though she wouldn’t be there that day, she came with us (and Samar) to the site visit about a month before. I was a little bit hesitant about dealing with one person before the wedding and another person that day, but Christine must be an excellent communicator because Samar did fantastic the day of.
Samar coordinated our wedding rehearsal the day before. She was really calm and handled it really well. Our wedding rehearsal took place outside at noon on a HOT day, and we had lots of little kids in the wedding, and they wanted to do anything but concentrate on how they were supposed to walk the next day. She managed to keep everyone focused and taught us all when and how to walk, and everyone left confident that they knew what to do the next day.
On the day of the wedding, I had brought with me about a zillion photos to display, coloring books for little kids, party favors to be at each place setting… you name it, we brought it. Samar (and her assistant Liz) set everything up beautifully and still had time to answer any questions we had. She coordinated the delivery and setup of the drinks from Bev Mo, the microphone and speaker, the photobooth, the ice cream cake. She kept the party running smoothly, would pull me away if I needed to be somewhere, and she did this all with a smile on her face. And I have a feeling she did ten thousand other things that I don’t even know about. She probably didn’t have to work out for a month, she was so busy running around.
The one thing I wish she had done was to make sure we signed our marriage license. Luckily we remembered the next day (and the officiant was my sister so she was still around), but I’d highly advise you to be sure that she’ll remind you that day to sign it.
Most importantly to me, if there were problems at the wedding, I didn’t know a thing about them. Samar took care of them without me finding out. This was really important to me to be able to enjoy my wedding and not stress out about the things that went wrong. If I knew all the other things that Samar did at the wedding this post would be even longer than it already is, so suffice to say I highly recommend either Samar or Christine from Ribbon and Tie.

Christine is absolutely the best! I knew she was the planner for me after the first time we talked on the phone. She was the only person I interviewed that seemed to care about what I wanted, and I could tell right away that she would work hard to make sure I got it.
Christine was there for me at each step of the planning process. She came with me to every single tasting and vendor interview. She is super organized and made sure everything was ordered and payed for on time. The kind of help she gave me was invaluable and I seriously doubt that I could have pulled it off without her.
My wedding day was perfect-​even better than I could have imagined it. I highly recommend Christine to anyone getting married.

I hired Christine as our day-​of-​coordinator for our January ’07 wedding. She was the only wedding planner I met with because as soon as I met her I knew that she would be the efiicient, calming influence I would need in the days leading up to the wedding. I live in SoCal, but it was very easy to get in touch with Christine during the course of planning. She responds very quickly to e-​mails and phone calls. A month before the wedding she developed a very deatiled timeline for the wedding party and all the vendors. In the week prior to the wedding she called all the vendors to confirm that they had the proper times and locations. She helped set up several of the personal items in our reception venue, which allowed all of our guests to just be a guest and enjoy themselves without having to help out. She didn’t overlook a single detail or any special request we made. Most importantly, she made sure that the reception venue carried out our wishes for the flow of the event and not their own.
We had over 200 guests at our wedding and many of them told us that it was the smoothest event they had ever attended. It really wouldn’t have been possible without Christine.

We haven’t had our actual wedding yet, so I’ll have to update this in three months. But we hired Christine as our Day Of Coordinator and have been really impressed so far. She answers email really quickly, is totally sweet, and as my fiancé said after meeting her, «She’s the only wedding planner I’ve ever encountered who doesn’t annoy the shit out of me.»
She gets total bonus points so far because, when we showed up at her house for our initial meeting, one of us had mixed up the days (I have no idea who) and she wasn’t expecting us. It was early on a Saturday morning, and she was still totally gracious and on the ball. It was actually pretty funny — her boyfriend/​husband (not sure which) answered the door in his bathrobe. I felt so bad for interrupting their morning. But he was so nice about it and made us tea and hung out with us for the few minutes it took Christine to get ready. She was really mellow and fun and definitely got what we were looking for.