Orchard Avenue Events - Sonoma, California

Jane Sagui

We worked with Brooke to plan our wedding in northern CA. We cannot recommend her enough! She was incredibly organized and gave us the space to make our own decisions while still calmly guiding us through the process. Her network of vendors was top-notch, helping us make quick, confident decisions. Everyone she recommended was fantastic, and our wedding day went off without a hitch. Our guests had a great time too! Highly recommend her and Orchard Avenue Events!

Nicole Teagarden

I cannot imagine a more competent, experienced, professional, and kind wedding planner than Brooke Gustafson of Orchard Avenue Events. She truly pulled out all the stops to create the most magical, heavenly day of my life! My husband and I were in awe and so impressed by her, especially since we are pretty detail oriented ourselves. Brooke is even more so, and genuinely cared that our wedding day was perfectly executed from start to finish. She is prompt when responding to emails and texts and is always on time. In addition, her extensive industry experience is obvious and came in handy time and time again as we navigated the complicated wedding planning process. It is important to note that she is also very kind, understanding, and hard working, so I never once felt uncomfortable asking her questions or for tasks to be done. Brooke knew how much I cared about the look and feel of our wedding being just right, and she completely blew me out of the water - so much so that I cried for the first time before walking down the aisle when she gave me a sneak peak of the reception hall. And on my wedding night, Brooke provided all of my bridesmaids flip flops and even went back to our hotel to grab the flats I left behind so that we could dance the night away! She is so special and a true artist. Without a doubt - there is no one else you should hire for your wedding planner - Brooke is the one! (Nicole and Nicholas Errico - Sonoma Golf Club - 6/3/23)

Lydia Pacheco

Wow! I can't recommend Orchard Avenue Events and Brooke enough. My wife and I first reached out to Brooke at the height of the lockdown during the pandemic. We needed someone to help us plan our California wedding, and Brooke seemed like a good fit. Choosing to work with her was the best decision we could have ever made.

Brooke is professional, helpful, caring and amazing to work with. At every step of the process, she guided us and supported us. Brooke has knowledge of all the vendors and suggested a fantastic team for us to work with. She helped us secure our venue even when we were in New York at the time. As the wedding day approached, she took on so many tasks, including making our website, designing and printing our menus, and handling ALL the logistics. Brooke was always the first to ask us, "How can I help you?" and was incredibly eager to take on any task. She offered us advice when we needed it, helped with our budget, and got to know our friends and family. Even as Covid impacted wedding planning, Brooke was able to keep us calm and on task.

Our wedding day went PERFECTLY thanks to Brooke. She worked amazingly with all the vendors and was so helpful at every turn. For example, my wife had left her veil in the hotel room, and Brooke had her business partner run back to grab it. When I didn't love my initial bouquet, Brooke made sure it was perfect. We had the best day because of Brooke.

We loved Brooke so much that we also hired her to plan a post-wedding pool party for 120 people at my parents' house the next day. Just as with the wedding, Brooke made sure the event was perfect.

I could go on and on about how much I love Brooke and Orchard Avenue Events. Even from a financial standpoint, it was money VERY well spent, and she was able to help guide our wedding spending so we saved money in other places and didn't waste money on bad vendors. If you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to work with Brooke and Orchard Avenue Events, GO FOR IT!

Emily Millman

We LOVED working with Brooke!! Hiring her was the best thing we did for our wedding. Hands down!! We had the most beautiful wedding of our dreams and we were both so sad when it was over. We worked with Brooke for an entire "wedding weekend" package in which she helped us with multiple events the entire weekend. She was helpful, professional, organized, and knowledgable. She made the generally overwhelming process of planning a destination wedding enjoyable and much easier on us. We got married in July 2021 and she helped to navigate having to postpone and move dates because of the pandemic. She is very familiar with all venues and vendors in the wine country area and has extensive knowledge on all of the details which was really helpful as we were planning from afar. Brooke is someone who will always go above and beyond for you, even after the wedding, to make sure you have a smooth and wonderful experience. She is a total pro and a delight to work with. We honestly can't say enough great things about our experience working with her.

Urvashi Reddy

Brooke went above and beyond to ensure that our wedding day turned out exactly the way we wanted it to. Originally we were only looking for a day-of coordinator but after speaking with Brooke over the phone, I was so impressed with her answers to our questions that we decided to sign a contract to have her as our planner. When Brooke joined our planning process, my fiancee and I felt instantly relieved. Not only was she detail oriented and organized but she also had a ton of experience planning weddings in Sonoma. With Brooke's help we were able to get exactly the type of vendors we wanted. Since Brooke had done our wedding venue before she was able to quickly answer vendor questions and think about details way ahead of everyone else.

My husband and I know that our wedding day would not have gone as smoothly without her help. She did everything possible to make sure the two of us could have a good time and not worry about the details. We're forever grateful for all the hard work she put into making our wedding day perfect.

Kevin Ventullo

Having Brooke as our wedding planner was the best decision we could have made!

For context, we started working with her in February 2020 and our wedding occurred in June 2021; so planning a wedding for about 75 guests during a global pandemic! As you can imagine, the many months leading up to the day were filled with uncertainty about vendors, venue, and even what the State of California was going to allow. But throughout the process, Brooke was 1000% on the ball: she kept us updated on things out of our control, provided checklists of what we still needed to do, and just generally calmed our nerves as the day approached.

Brooke is a fantastic communicator. We were out of state until about 6 months prior, so much of our planning was done remotely. However, we had plenty of zoom calls and probably hundreds of emails through the process. Brooke was always very responsive when we had questions, and would politely nudge us in a timely manner when we would forget to respond ?.

At the end of it all, the wedding went off without a hitch! All of our friends and family who attended seemed very impressed, and told us repeatedly how lovely the event was. As I told them all, it would not have been possible without Brooke.

10/10. If you’re reading this you should hire Brooke. ❤️

Sarah Greer

I had the pleasure of working with Brooke, Sara and Noelle for a large event held at our venue recently. The three of them were professional, organized and exhibited great attention to detail. I would be thrilled to work alongside them again and highly recommend Orchard Avenue Events to anyone looking for help planning an event.

Bob Altman

Hands down the finest operation in Wine Country. No one has more experience, charm and surprises than Brooke and her team.