A Sparkling Event

Mandi was fantastic! She was very professional, and has a friendly demeanor that makes the process painless (while also charming all of our wedding guests!). She was a life-​saver and there’s no way we could’ve pulled off the day without her. We enlisted the help of A Sparkling Event after realizing that we were way over our heads. We had selected venues (ceremony at The Mission and lunch reception at Carmel Valley Ranch), but only had 3 months to pull it together. Since I reside in SF (with a fiancé abroad at the time, and arriving only a couple of months prior to the wedding), it was a challenge to plan and coordinate meetings in an efficient manner. Selecting local vendors that could work within our budget was also a daunting task, since we had to rely solely on information we could find on the internet. I found A Sparkling Event on a list of preferred vendors for Carmel Valley Ranch and Mandi took over from there. She helped coordinate and plan prior to the wedding day and was on site with an assistant the day of.
A few gems to note:
— From my first consultation call, Mandi was friendly, informative and extremely reasonable in regards to fee.
— Other than selecting the ceremony and reception venue (we secured them prior to contacting Mandi), Mandi found all the other vendors through her large network of local connections (folks I would’ve never found on my own!)
— Mandi had extensive experience working with our venues.
— Mandi understood my desired aesthetic and worked tirelessly to achieve them, all while being very sensitive to our budget restrictions. There were a few times that a very particular item that I wanted was not available due to vendor unavailability or budget restrictions. In other times, I had a concept, but no suggestion as to how to make it come to fruition. In all cases, Mandi always had design suggestions that worked with the budget.
I recommend Mandi wholeheartedly!

My mom found Mandi for our late September wedding at the Monterey Plaza after realizing that we were going to be over our heads with planning our whole wedding on our own. And I am extremely happy that she did. I honestly don’t know what we would have done without Mandi. And I truly mean that. She went above and beyond our expectations helping us to find many of our vendors and setting up and attending multiple meetings. She was there every step of the way for ANY questions that I had. My mom found most of our décor for the wedding and Mandi stored almost all of it for us at her office so that we wouldn’t be overwhelmed bringing it all down at once for the wedding.
Mandi really worked her butt off for us the days leading up to the wedding and on the wedding day. She had schedules printed to give out to our wedding party and families at the rehearsal and set up taxis/​ubers from the Plaza to the rehearsal dinner site. She even drove some people herself! I didn’t have to worry about a thing. Multiple people commented on how great she was. And the day of the wedding I trusted her to do everything necessary to get vendors there on time, the ceremony and rehearsal venues set up, and literally everything else that needed to be done. Allowing me to really relax and enjoy getting ready with my bridesmaids. I truly wasn’t worried about something not getting done. If anything happened during the time we were getting ready I was none the wiser, which is exactly how it should be. The whole weekend was incredible. And to just top off the night, when my husband and I got back from the after party our hotel room was decorated with petals, candles, and some décor from the wedding. There were also two slices of our wedding cake, dessert from our dessert bar at the reception, chocolate covered strawberries, and champagne with a note from Mandi congratulating us. We were in awe. We will honestly miss our planning meetings with Mandi. Highly highly recommend her services!

Mandi is just wonderful to work with! She is very responsive, can juggle multiple tasks at hand, very professional, great attention to detail, and is just an amazing person. I would totally recommend A Sparkling Event to coordinate your next wedding or event!

Mandi was a pleasure to work with from start to finish. She was helpful in providing insight to decorations, set up of venue, purchasing flowers and any little hiccup that came around. It put our minds at ease to know she was there to help us find solutions to problems that occurred during the wedding process. On the day of the wedding she executed the set up all of our decorations perfectly. It was so beautiful and we got lots of compliments on the décor and setup. She went above and beyond our expectations. She did an amazing job of bringing our dream wedding and vision come true. She even helped with the clean up of the Venue when some of the wedding party flaked. Mandi Nack is the lady to hire if you want the help of an amazing coordinator to help bring your perfect day together.
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Mr. Mrs. Coffee

I have had the privilege of working with Mandi at a wedding in Carmel where I was the hired photographer (
). She is amazing at her job and if I wasn’t already married, she would definitely be the person I would hire to plan my wedding. She is a true professional in every sense of the word and she takes great pride in her work. If you want a beautiful worry free day, call Mandi, you won’t regret it.

Mandi was an absolute godsend. I reached out to her about six months prior to my wedding. My first impressions of Mandi were that she was a fantastic listener, very knowledgeable (rattled of prices of chair costs, etc), organized, and action oriented. When my husband and I met Mandi in person, she was incredibly organized (had a binder full of our wedding details) and we knew we were in good hands!
She did a terrific job taking the stress /​logistics out of my hands and managed the vendors during crunch time. My photographer even commented how wonderful Mandi was without me even asking. When you get unsolicited compliments like that, you know that she must have made a great impression. Mandi did a great job making recommendations on our timeline. We seriously had no clue what the appropriate flow for the wedding should be and I was so exhausted of making decisions so it was awesome to have someone guiding us through the process.
I’m kind of a control freak but Mandi made me so comfortable and every time I asked her any type of question she was on top of it. The day of, I was incredibly relaxed and was so happy to enjoy the day and really focus on my husband and having fun with my friends and family. I didn’t have to pick up a phone or manage any of the logistical aspects of my wedding. Mandi went above and beyond and stayed at my wedding until the very end. Herding 30 drunk people into a shuttle is not an easy job, but Mandi was always smiling and had an awesome attitude throughout the entire day.
Mandi went above and beyond my expectations. Instead of having my florist stay and clean up and charging me another arm and a leg, Mandi offered to help out and clean up the flowers. She also left my husband and I a treat in our room, which was incredibly thoughtful. I would highly recommend Mandi for your wedding day. She is an awesome wedding planner :)

We hired Mandi as our day of wedding coordinator and we’re so glad we did! Mandi was great to work with before the big day and exceeded our expectations on the day of. Our venue wasn’t typical and we had a lot of décor to set up in a short amount of time but Mandi handled everything perfectly. Not the smallest detail was missed. As the bride I was able to fully relax and enjoy the celebration.
It wasn’t until after the wedding that I could fully appreciate Mandi’s attentiveness and professionalism behind the scenes. My mother and other guests told me stories of how much she helped out. Like how Mandi ran after some guests when they forgot their favors and how she protected some artwork from a few tipsy guests without anyone being the wiser. I had no idea any of these things were going on, truly the work of a great day of coordinator.

Choosing Mandi Nack at A Sparkling Event to assist in the planning of my bridal shower & wedding was the best decision I made! I originally hired her to just do the day of decorating & keep everyone in line, but I ended up planning & bouncing ideas off of her for over a year. My husband was definitely a hands-​off groom & my maid of honor was my younger sister who was still in school, so it was great to have someone to just brainstorm with & try out ideas with. She attended multiple meetings, made all our flower arrangements, helped set up a bridal workshop day to get favors & other décor made & was there on the rehearsal & big day to keep everyone in line. No matter how small or big your event may be, I would definitely recommend A Sparkling Event for your next event. I know we plan to use Mandi for ALL future events & are actually in the middle of planning a small birthday party for my grandma

This is a groom’s perspective.
It may be unusual for a groom to review a wedding planner but Mandi was just that good. As my wife mentioned in her review, we experienced a bad «Carmel» wedding planner and came across Mandi only weeks before my wedding. My wife and I were doing much of the wedding planning ourselves and initially thought we’d use Mandi as a «standby». Ultimately, Mandi became an absolute integral part of our wedding process.
I met Mandi the day before my wedding (I live in San Diego but had a Carmel wedding). During this meeting, with a million things running through my head, I mumbled to myself about still needing to call the musician. Mandi heard this and said to me «I already called him». It was at that moment I realized Mandi was capable of taking a tremendous load off my wife and I that had been suffocating us for the last two months.
Mandi did exactly that, everything, from the moment we met her all the way until the end of the reception. She was our saving grace and she was the one person that truly allowed my wife and I to fully enjoy our day.
Mandi kept surprising us. The way she decorated the courtyard was amazingly beautiful and incorporated a unique piece of my wife and I, the way she set up the wedding reception (at Christopher’s on Lincoln) and our must-​have ice cream bar along with the special labeled bottles of beer my father-​in-​law made in his Cleveland basement, and I have no idea how she pulled this off, but she decorated the honeymoon suite for the arrival of my new bride and I.
In addition, Mandi worked well with my mother and girlfriends of my wife who all pitched in to help.
Mandi’s professionalism and knowledge allowed me to focus on the one thing that was most important to me, my beautiful wife. I can’t thank Mandi enough for that. She really made a special day truly great!

I found Mandi at the last minute after having a bad experience with another planner, and I could not be happier. My husband and I live in San Diego and planned a Carmel wedding. We were finding much of what we needed to do was very difficult from a distance and that there were many things we simply didn’t know and for which we needed guidance. Mandi and I spoke on the phone several times during the week and met for the first time at the reception venue just before the rehearsal. By that time my husband and I had done most everything ourselves, but still needed to wrap up a lot of little details and had many, many, many questions about how to do so. Mandi is a superb listener. She understood everything I asked of her. I never had to repeat a detail or name. She helped me understand what I needed to do to accomplish those last details. She executed everything perfectly and even went beyond what we asked for to make it better! She was very calm and nearly invisible, yet ever present like an invisible hand. I had become very stressed leading up to the wedding, but was able to relax as soon as I met Mandi. She made my wedding day a pleasure as I was able to delegate everything that remained to be done to her and actually enjoy being a bride. My husband felt the same. At one point near the end of our reception, I asked him if we should let her go home and he said he was afraid he’d panic if she wasn’t there anymore! I would absolutely recommend her to anyone!