Find a Los Angeles wedding planner who fits your style, your budget, and how much help you actually want, from full-service planning to day-of coordination. Browse vetted LA planners and coordinators, see their work through photos of real Los Angeles weddings, and reach out to your favorites directly.
Tessa Lyn Events is a boutique wedding and event planning company based in Santa Monica with a portfolio of over 160 weddings. We will work alongside you to make your dream wedding a reality while respecting your personal taste and budget. We want our clients to enjoy their engagement and let us design, organize, and execute an unforgettable and…
Callista & Company offers full-service planning and design for exceptional weddings and events around the world. With meticulous and organized coordination, warm and attentive support, as well as custom and creative design guidance, we produce extraordinary events that showcase your unique vision. Callista & Co. provides the highest…
Nicole Taylor Events is a boutique wedding planner and designer dedicated to creating and designing unparalleled weddings in California and beyond. With a passion for people and a love for design, Nicole understands that your unique vision deserves a unique and personalized planning experience to match!
Love Like Crazy is here to offer professional wedding/event planning services. We are dedicated to making your dream wedding a reality. With our expertise and attention to detail, we will ensure that every aspect of your special day is perfect. We have some amazing people on our team to ensure every part of your special day is amazing as well.
Amy Rose Events is a full-service wedding planner and designer based in Santa Barbara, CA known for pairing sophistication with warmth, and setting a new standard for heartfelt, human-focused planning.
Golden Poppy Events is a boutique, full service luxury event planning agency devoted exclusively to creating unforgettable weddings and extraordinary parties for very special life occasions. We're based in Southern California (the Golden Poppy State!) but we happily travel to other locations around the world to help plan, design and realize…
At Theknotinitaly, we specialize in crafting unforgettable wedding experiences in the enchanting landscapes of Italy. From the rolling hills of Tuscany to the stunning coastal views of Amalfi, our team is dedicated to helping couples create their perfect day in one of the world’s most romantic settings. We understand that each love story is…
Los Angeles is one of the most demanding wedding markets in the country, and the right planner is what makes it feel effortless. The city spans beachfront in Malibu, estates in Pasadena and the Palos Verdes hills, rooftops downtown, and wine-country weekends up toward Santa Barbara and Ojai, each with its own venues, permitting quirks, and vendor benches. A Los Angeles wedding planner knows that landscape cold, takes the hundreds of moving parts off your plate, and lets you actually enjoy the day. This directory makes that person easy to find: browse vetted LA planners and coordinators chosen from real, beautifully documented weddings, then reach out to the ones whose work matches yours.
A wedding planner manages the strategy, vendors, budget, timeline, and logistics of your wedding so the details get handled correctly and on schedule. The exact scope flexes with the package, but the core job is the same: turn your vision into a concrete plan, then run it.
In practice that means building and tracking your budget, recommending and booking vendors, reviewing contracts, and keeping a master wedding-day timeline that every vendor works from. A full-service planner also shapes the design, sources rentals, manages payments and deadlines, runs the rehearsal, and acts as the single point of contact on the day so questions go to them instead of to you. The best LA planners arrive with a trusted local team already in place for florists, cake, and the rest of your vendors.
Most of the value is invisible. A great planner builds the rain plan, absorbs the vendor who runs late, fixes the seating chart that breaks at the last minute, and keeps the day on its rails without you ever seeing the work. That quiet problem-solving is the part couples underestimate until the day arrives.
Los Angeles planner pricing tracks with the level of service, the scale of your wedding, and the complexity of your venue and guest experience, not a single flat rate. The first question is not "how much," it is "how much planning do I actually need."
Service level is the largest driver. Day-of coordination is the leanest option, partial planning sits in the middle, and full-service planning, the engagement-to-cleanup partnership, is a meaningful line in any LA budget. Luxury, celebrity, and multi-day destination-style weddings sit at the top, since they bring a larger team and a longer runway. Two pricing models dominate: a flat fee tied to a defined scope, or a percentage of your total wedding budget. The most reliable way to plan is to weigh either against your overall wedding budget and request custom quotes from two or three planners whose work you love.
The terms get used loosely, but the distinction is about involvement and timeline. A wedding planner is involved from early in the engagement and owns the full process: budget, vendor selection, design, and logistics over many months. A coordinator focuses on logistics and is brought in later to take a plan you have already built and make sure it runs.
A day-of coordinator (really a month-of coordinator, since the work starts weeks ahead) handles only the final stretch: confirming vendors, building the run-of-show, managing deliveries and setup, and directing the day itself. It is the budget-conscious choice when you have the time to plan the wedding yourself but want a professional in charge once it begins. Note that an in-house venue coordinator is not the same role: they work for the venue and manage the space, its staff, and catering tied to that property, while a planner works for you across every vendor. Many LA couples hire both. If you are weighing which level fits, our guide to hiring a wedding planner walks through the decision.
Planning packages tier by how early the planner joins and how much they own, and matching the package to your needs is the single biggest lever on cost. Full-service planning runs start to finish and suits busy couples, large or multi-day weddings, and anyone who would rather delegate the entire process. Partial planning is the middle path for couples who enjoy the early creative work but want expert support before things get complicated.
Day-of, or month-of, coordination is the leanest package: you plan the wedding, and the coordinator takes over the final weeks and the day itself. Many LA planners also offer design-only and à la carte services. The planners featured in this directory span all of these levels, from boutique studios to full-service luxury firms.
Los Angeles is the country's deepest market for luxury and celebrity wedding planning, and that bench runs deep here. Luxury and full-service planners take on the most complex weddings (multi-day celebrations, large guest counts, fully custom design) and bring a team rather than a single coordinator. The design-forward details you see in their galleries are where a luxury planner's vendor network shows its value.
LA is also a major hub for destination and multicultural celebrations. Many local planners specialize in destination weekends up the coast or abroad, and a large share are experienced in Indian, South Asian, and other multicultural and multi-day weddings that carry their own traditions, vendors, and timelines. Filter for a planner who owns the style and cultural fluency your wedding needs.
Start with style and service level, then shortlist two or three planners and look closely at full weddings they have produced, not just highlight images. You are hiring judgment and taste as much as logistics, so look for range, polish, and weddings that feel like the one you are picturing. Read recent reviews for patterns around communication, responsiveness, and how the planner handled the unexpected.
Then interview your shortlist. Ask exactly what the package includes and excludes, how they bill, how many weddings they take per weekend, who runs your day if they fall ill, whether they carry liability insurance, and how often you will communicate. Ask whether they have worked your venue and which vendors they recommend. Most of all, gauge the rapport, because you will spend a year or more in close contact with this person.
Hire a full-service planner as early as you can, ideally right after you set a budget and before you book a venue. The best LA planners book out twelve to eighteen months ahead, especially for peak fall and late-spring dates, and the earlier yours is involved, the more they steer the big decisions instead of cleaning up around them. Carats & Cake's editorial team consistently sees the same pattern: the couples happiest with their planners hired before the first vendor contract, not after the plan started to wobble.
Day-of coordinators run on a different clock, usually booked three to six months out so they have time to learn your plan and contact your vendors. If you are still choosing where to marry, our roundup of California's best wedding venues and the full wedding venues directory pair naturally with this one, and many planners will tell you which venues they love to work. Searching beyond LA? Browse wedding planners nationwide to compare other markets.
Ready to find yours? Browse the LA planners above, filter by the level of service you need, and reach out to your favorites directly to check availability for your date.
Cost tracks with the service level, the scale of your wedding, and how complex your venue and guest experience are. Day-of coordination is the leanest option and full-service the most involved, with luxury, celebrity, and destination-style weddings at the top because they bring a larger team and a longer runway. Planners bill either a flat fee or a percentage of your total budget, so the most reliable approach is to request custom quotes from a short list whose work you love.
The best LA planner is the one whose style, service level, and cultural fluency match your wedding, not a single name. Look closely at full weddings each planner has produced, read recent reviews for communication and reliability, and shortlist two or three whose portfolios feel like the day you are picturing. The planners in this directory are drawn from real, documented Los Angeles weddings so you can judge the work directly.
A wedding planner is involved from early in the engagement and owns the entire process: budget, vendors, design, and logistics over many months. A coordinator focuses on logistics and joins later to execute a plan you have already built. A day-of coordinator handles only the final weeks and the wedding day itself.
Hire a full-service planner as early as possible, ideally after you set a budget and before you book a venue, since the best LA planners book twelve to eighteen months out. Day-of coordinators are usually booked three to six months ahead so they have time to learn your plan and contact your vendors.
Yes. Los Angeles has one of the deepest benches of planners experienced in destination weekends and in Indian, South Asian, and other multicultural and multi-day celebrations. Filter for a planner who specializes in your traditions or your destination, since the vendor relationships and timeline expertise are specific to that work.
The right planner fits your budget, matches your taste, and makes the months ahead feel lighter instead of heavier. Use the directory above to compare LA planners and coordinators by service level, study the real weddings in their portfolios, and reach out to the two or three you connect with most.
