Brian Borgia, Owner and Lead Wedding Planner
Monterey Wedding Planning and Consulting
All of our wedding and renewal packages include wedding planning as it pertains to the package. For example, our Elegance package includes our time spent finding a location, coordinating the officiant and photographer, selecting and ordering the flowers, selecting the music, and ensuring that everything is set up and runs smoothly for your ceremony (including the altar area and chairs). Although most wedding companies charge a wedding planning fee (either a flat fee or 15-20% of the package total), our fees are quite small.
Currently, our planning expertise is available for planning your wedding reception (small fee - NOT AVAILABLE CURRENTLY) and for assistance with hotel accommodations.
What if you are just researching to see if Monterey County is the right fit for your wedding celebration?
Our Monterey Wedding Planning Explorers package ($250) provides the information you need to know from a local's perspective. In this one-hour consultation (can be by phone, Zoom, or in person), we will discuss:
- Utilize our experience of 16 years of planning smaller wedding events, getting to know almost all of the vendors, and over 32 years of living in Monterey County.
- Possible wedding venues (we have a complete list of over 150 outdoor locations and over 45 indoor locations. Based on your answers to our questions, we identify which ones may be the best match)
- Hotels (what hotels might be available to match your price range and preferences)
- Dates (are you looking at a date that is historically busy due to a special event? If it is a beach wedding, how many other people could be on the beach at the same time?)
- Reception Venues (names of possible venues and brief discussion/opinions about them)
- Opinions on vendors you are considering for your wedding
- Rehearsal Dinner venues (names of possible venues and brief discussion/opinions about them)
- An idea of the cost (rough average) for: site/venue fee, photography, officiant, flowers, DJ, cake, reception, etc...
With this package, we are not providing our proprietary vendor list or menus or researching availability (this can be added, though). We are saving you time and frustration in figuring out if the Monterey Peninsula is a viable option for your wedding or renewal based on all of the factors (budget, availability, services, weather, etc.) In the event you book a wedding or renewal package (over $2,395) with Weddings In Monterey, $150 of the consulting fee will be credited to your account. If you would prefer to meet to discuss just one of our ceremony packages, we offer a free consultation (we just don't discuss anything outside the ceremony itself). Thank you!
All of our wedding and renewal packages include wedding planning as it pertains to the package. For example, our Elegance package includes our time spent finding a location, coordinating the officiant and photographer, selecting and ordering the flowers, selecting the music, and ensuring that everything is set up and runs smoothly for your ceremony (including the altar area and chairs). Although most wedding companies charge a wedding planning fee (either a flat fee or 15-20% of the package total), our fees are quite small.
Currently, our planning expertise is available for planning your wedding reception (small fee - NOT AVAILABLE CURRENTLY) and for assistance with hotel accommodations.
What if you are just researching to see if Monterey County is the right fit for your wedding celebration?
Our Monterey Wedding Planning Explorers package ($250) provides the information you need to know from a local's perspective. In this one-hour consultation (can be by phone, Zoom, or in person), we will discuss:
- Utilize our experience of 16 years of planning smaller wedding events, getting to know almost all of the vendors, and over 32 years of living in Monterey County.
- Possible wedding venues (we have a complete list of over 150 outdoor locations and over 45 indoor locations. Based on your answers to our questions, we identify which ones may be the best match)
- Hotels (what hotels might be available to match your price range and preferences)
- Dates (are you looking at a date that is historically busy due to a special event? If it is a beach wedding, how many other people could be on the beach at the same time?)
- Reception Venues (names of possible venues and brief discussion/opinions about them)
- Opinions on vendors you are considering for your wedding
- Rehearsal Dinner venues (names of possible venues and brief discussion/opinions about them)
- An idea of the cost (rough average) for: site/venue fee, photography, officiant, flowers, DJ, cake, reception, etc...
With this package, we are not providing our proprietary vendor list or menus or researching availability (this can be added, though). We are saving you time and frustration in figuring out if the Monterey Peninsula is a viable option for your wedding or renewal based on all of the factors (budget, availability, services, weather, etc.) In the event you book a wedding or renewal package (over $2,395) with Weddings In Monterey, $150 of the consulting fee will be credited to your account. If you would prefer to meet to discuss just one of our ceremony packages, we offer a free consultation (we just don't discuss anything outside the ceremony itself). Thank you!
