The Wandering Bride | Yosemite Wedding Planner

About The Wandering Bride | Yosemite Wedding Planner

With a love for fun & adventure, The Wandering Bride strives to make wedding planning fun, not stressful! We specialize in month of coordination with wedding design & styling to make your day a breeze for you. All in beautiful outdoor settings in Yosemite National Park, the Sierra Nevada’s, & beyond!

Not only are we mountain area locals that will be your Yosemite area tour guides, but we are day of coordination experts with a love of the great outdoors! The Wandering Bride strives to relieve wedding & travel stressors however possible and believes that fun should always be had along the planning ride.

With a bachelor's degree in Business Management and a minor in Fashion Merchandising, Founder & Head Wedding Planner, Jessica (or Jess!), always knew she wanted to work in a field where she could be creative. Her experience in food & beverage as well as with managing people, lead her to her career in event services. Jess honed her planning expertise at The Pines Resort, on Bass Lake, CA, for over 9 years and gained ample wedding & event planning and coordinating experience. She has a true love for weddings, especially with a beautiful outdoor backdrop! Through her career with The Pines Resort, she helped the company grow their wedding & event department; they went from 20 weddings a year to 60+ annually. Jess was able to receive 4 Couple’s Choice Awards for quality of service as well as had 3 weddings published in several reputable real wedding publications like Green Wedding Shoes, Junebug, & Western Wedding magazine.

Jess now brings this expertise to her own company, The Wandering Bride, and works hard to make wedding planning a fun and enjoyable process for all! Her company has quickly become the must work with Yosemite Wedding Planning company for her beautiful & creative wedding setups, she is always in the know on the constantly changing national park regulations and her high level vendor connections in the area are next to none. The Wandering Bride was recently featured as the go-to Pro for Yosemite Wedding Planning in a real wedding published on Wedding Chicks in April of 2025.