Sassy Girl Weddings & Events

Uyen is in a league of her own when it comes to wedding planning and coordination. Uyen recently coordinated my wedding at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club and I have to say she went above and beyond my expectations. I work in the wedding industry and have worked with Uyen on a couple of events that she executed flawlessly so it was a no-brainer to have her work with me on the most important day of my life.

I truly love this girl and highly reccomend her to every couple that wants to have the wedding of their dreams. She genuinly cares and understands the importance of your wedding day. Her fun loving personality, great organizational skills, and attention to detail set her apart fron the rest. I can go on and on about her but once you meet her you will understand where I'm coming from.

I worked with Uyen recently at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach. She did a fantastic job, working very unobtrusively with all of the vendors to pull off a great wedding. The reception room looked perfect (lighting, linens, floral, etc.), she was always calm, she took care of everyone, her assistant was equally as unobtrusive and helpful. Looking forward to seeing you again sometime soon!

Uyen was wonderful and calming as our Day of Coordinator for our July 2007 wedding. She was so sweet but very firm and always came up with the questions to ask that I would have never thought of! She handled everything with professionalism (esp. considering we had a ton of little mishaps that weren't her fault and couldn't have been prevented). My only wish was that we had used some of our wasted floral budget to use to hire her for a full on wedding coordinator. I'm sure she would've done an amazing job had we been able to have more time planning with her! I highly recommend Uyen and Make It An Event!

I hired Uyen as a "week of" coordinator for my wedding, but she definitely went above and beyond throughout the whole planning process. Her wealth of experience and expertise was a huge resource and comfort from the start. In addition, she was always easily accessible and open to answering questions, offering several great vendor suggestions, reviewing vendor contracts, giving tips on negotiating, meeting with the reception catering staff and ceremony site staff several times before the week of the wedding, and keeping track of our payment schedule. She's extremely organized, meticulous, hard-working, and most importantly, a very warm, giving person.

We planned a southern California wedding from the East Coast, with a lot of different elements/events to it, and I really don't think it would've been such a success without her help and enthusiasm. She ensured our ideas were carried out well and along the way helped us improve and add to them also. On the day of the wedding, all we had to do was enjoy the day. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her services to anyone planning an event!

We hired Uyen to be our wedding coordinator 6 months prior to our wedding. we were a bit hestitant to hire a wedding coordinator but i am glad we did. Our wedding was in at the Ebell of Los Angeles in LA. There was no way we would have planned our wedding successfully from the Bay Area with out Uyen's help. Uyen is very thorough, very responsive and very calm. thanks to Uyen and all of our vendors, our ceremony room, lounge room and recption room turned out stunning.
Uyen worked with us to make our design into reality. My husband and i are very particular and not the easiest people to work with - Uyen was very patient with us and i appreciate her for that..

Uyen was a fantastic day-of coordinator. She took care of all of the big and little issues of the day, and her team made sure that all of my plans were carried out. I was hesitant to even hire her at all because I wasn't sure of the expense of having a coordinator, but I am so glad I did because she really took over and made it so I didn't have to worry about a thing. I would highly highly recommend her!

After my first meeting with Uyen, I knew I had found my wedding coordinator.
Indian weddings are multiple days of mass confusion and ceremonies on top of ceremonies. I did a lot of research and interviews to meet a coordinator that I could click with—and I am so thankful that I met Uyen. She is an amazing coordinator handling everything perfectly and truly a master mind in putting our wedding together so beautifully.

All of our relatives from across the globe raved about her. There is no way that we could have planned such a flawless and beautiful event without Uyen by our side.

She was super organized and always prepared. She was very creative and always made the best suggestions. She asked potential questions and issues that I had not even considered. She responds to my all my endless emails quickly. She negotiated well and was very trust worthy. I cannot rave enough about her. I can make a HUGE list of all the ways that Uyen is amazing, but honestly, there are not enough words to describe her. She is not just a coordinator, she is a friend: someone who has your back, who helps you put everything together, someone who will be your partner in coordinating everything.

To be truthful, at the start, my fiancé refused to hire a coordinator because he thought it was a “waste of money”. I really had to twist his arm to cave in, but the first words he said to me as we left the wedding was: “Good call on hiring Uyen, best decision.” Ha ha. At least he learns quickly, “the wifey is always right!!”

Despite the hours planning and planning, there are always things that will come up on your day. Thankfully, with a competent coordinator like Uyen, you will never know about the behind-the-scenes drama and problems, and be able to focus on what is important—enjoying the day and cherishing the moment.

With this in mind, for any bride searching for a coordinator, my husband and I (and our families) highly recommend Uyen.

THANK YOU Uyen for everything!!

I can't say it enough!!! Uyen and her team are on it!!! I am a very anal person and she helped me through the whole year with my crazy family and seven worthless bridesmaids. LOL I'm the girl that takes care of the planning with my friends and family. So when I met Uyen I knew right away that we had a lot in common and I could trust her. The year flew by and thousands of e-mails later. I had no worries that the wedding was going to turn out perfect and I was relying on someone that had the same standards as me. Thank you so much Uyen. You will always hold a place in my heart. I couldn't have done it without you. HUGS

Uyen is an exceptional wedding planner with an eye for sophisticated and modern wedding details that will undoubtedly exceed your expectations. Our wedding was in July of 2009. Our event is still the talk of town amongst our friends and family. The day of the wedding Uyen's recommended vendors were timely, and most importantly, showed up with quality beyond our expectations.

Uyen and her team executed our wedding day flawlessly to the specification we dreamed up together. Our specific theme was French Chic. From the amazingly beautiful flowers to the sharp and sexy linens, no one left our event without saying "WOW".

Uyen has a customer focus that enables her to get the best out of each couples taste and budget. We would highly recommend Uyen as a full or partial wedding planner as her quality exceeds her price and the working relationship is extremely pleasant as well.

Kristen and Landon, Los Angeles, CA
Wedding Date: July 3, 2009

We hired Uyen and the sassygirlwedding team to be our full-service coordinator and event planner because I was a full-time graduate student. Uyen's greatest strength is that she is positive, fun and upbeat...but also has an amazing calming affect on others. I was super frazzled by family obligations but every time I spoke with her I felt reassured and calm. Vendors were absolutely bending backwards to make her happy because she is the rare planner that treats people with absolute respect. Another great trait is her absolute reliability and professionalism. She absolutely returns calls and emails immediately or within a few hours which is very reassuring for a frazzled bride. Finally, her flexibility and creativity.

My wedding was in the beautiful Dove Canyon Country club and we had a peacock theme. It was a Persian Aghd Ceremony and an American reception. She had never done a Persian wedding before and I don't even want to begin talking about how difficult to do a tasteful peacock wedding. But somehow the Sassy team pulled it off so well, that even my super picky Persian mother was happy. Not an easy feat by any means!

The guests that attended my wedding said that it was the most creative, beautiful, and fun wedding that they have ever been too. I have to say that is the best affirmation. But truly, the best part of the day was that I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING BUT ENJOYING MYSELF. Can you ask for more?

I would highly recommend Uyen and Sassygirlweddings for wedding planning, coordinating, and event design.

Uyen was fabulous day of coordinator. Hiring her as our coordinator was probably one of the best decisions we made in wedding planning. Uyen is extremely detail oriented, organized, and hard working. She was also very prompt in her responses in answering the many questions we had leading up to the day. She took care of all the big and little things that came up on the wedding day which left us stress free and able to enjoy our wedding day to the max!

Uyen is such an AMAZING and WONDERFUL planner/person!!! We hired Uyen approximately 1 year before our wedding. That was totally the BEST decision. We had so much fun planning our wedding with Uyen. Uyen helped us with our wedding from start to finish. We decided to have a fusion wedding that would celebrate both of our families cultures/traditions (Vietnamese and Creole-New Orleans traditions). Uyen helped us to incorporate our different customs which helped to make our wedding very magical and extremely beautiful. I can't say enough about Uyen; her organization and style helped to make our wedding everything we wanted. I have gotten so may compliments from friends and family telling us how wonderful and beautiful our wedding was and how our planner did such a fabulous job. Uyen Thank you for all your hard work; we could not have done this without you. WE LOVE YOU Uyen!!!

First, please let me begin by giving my zealous, unequivocal recommendation of Sassy Girl Weddings and Events! Hiring Sassy Girl Weddings and Events was the absolute best money we spent on our wedding!

We hired Sassy Girl Weddings and Events for full service wedding planning, design, and coordination in July of 2009. We spent a few weeks negotiating the terms of service with Uyen Nguyen (owner and designer of Sassy Girl Weddings and Events). Uyen was an amazing listener, always incorporating the items important to us. We felt secure in Uyen’s capable hands. In the months leading up to our wedding on May 24, 2009, Uyen was truly a blessing in our lives. As my husband and I were planning a multi-cultural, So. Cal wedding from No. Cal, Uyen was our eyes and ears – making excellent vendor recommendations, doing preliminary screening and vendor visits, and ensuring that all contracts were in good form (with appropriate price negotiation) before even presenting the contract to my husband and myself.

Uyen ensured that all of our wedding desires (both specific wishes and ‘conceptual’ wishes) were incorporated flawlessly into our wedding. She was able to execute all of these details perfectly as a result of (a) her ability to listen and ask necessary questions, (b) her amazingly prompt response time to inquiries (including late night e-mail musings about the ‘splash of red’ to be incorporated into the black and white theme and the Armenian text to be added to the wedding invitations and stationary), (c) her utter professionalism and great relationships (and mutual respect) with her suggested vendors, (d) her unending patience (but also no B.S. attitude), (e) her willingness to go that extra mile for her clients, (f) her easy-going, humorous, positive, and upbeat personality, (g) her keen eye for detail and amazing organizational capabilities, (h) her natural leader instincts, (i) her amazing capabilities and aptitude as a designer, and (j) her savvy business skills and intelligence. I will openly admit that I can be a difficult person to work with at times and never once did Uyen respond to me in a negative manner.

Uyen was truly grace under fire for the rehearsal and day-of coordination. Many people came to me after the wedding and spoke to me about how wonderful she was in ensuring the proper flow of everything. Also, family and friends commented on her cool composure and ability to deal with a few ‘sticky’ situations in a professional, appropriate manner. Interestingly, neither myself (as the bride) nor my husband knew any of these behind-the-scenes “issues” were occurring until after the fact, as Uyen took great care to not burden or stress us (or allow anyone else – friend, family, or vendor to do so)!

Sassy Girl Weddings and Events made all aspects of our wedding truly unique, memorable, and flawless – from the rehearsal dinner to the post-wedding clean-up….everything went off even better and more amazingly than my husband and I had ever dreamed possible. Thanks to Sassy Girl Weddings and Events we truly had an amazing, unique, memorable, fairytale wedding! In fact, one recently engaged woman at our wedding said that nobody who had attended our wedding would be allowed to come to her wedding as nobody’s wedding could never possibly live up to what Uyen had put together!

Thanks Uyen!!!

We are both organized but we knew that we needed someone to help with the wedding. After speaking to three different vendors we realized there was way more detail then we thought and we needed more help. Due to our tight budget we hired Uyen for only a week of service. However, she went beyond that by helping us along the way, reviewing our contracts, recommending vendors and making sure we were on schedule. The day of our wedding was smooth and easy. Everyone commented on what a calm bride I was, but in reality, it was because we had Uyen on our side and we didn’t have to worry about anything. There wasn’t any point in the day we had to ask about anything, we just went with it. Our friends were so impressed by her work and her utility belt; they started referring to her as the Wedding Woman.

now - Sassy Girl Weddings! Uyen is designing my wedding with me now, and I never expected this to be so much fun. The designs that she came up with are going to be so beautiful, unique, and striking! Plus, she has made suggestions for mini 'events' throughout the night to keep everyone entertained. Really creative and so helpful. I don't know what I'd do without her!

Uyen was amazing! She's so great to work with and really catered to our needs. She worked very hard to keep things within our budget, but the day of the wedding, everything looked like we had no budget!! Everyone raved about how beautiful everything looked (especially our flowers), and all of that was due to Uyen's vendor suggestions. I can easily say that the money we spent on Uyen's services was money very well spent. She helped make our wedding day even better than either one of us imagined. Uyen is very detail-oriented and organized, which made the wedding planning process as stress-free as it could be. With her in charge, we never once stressed about how the wedding would turn out. We knew we were in good hands! Uyen attended to even the tiniest of details to make everything perfect. After talking to her almost every day for 9 months, I will definitely miss working with her.

I hired Make It An Event to do all of the work for my wedding, and it was the best gift I could have given myself. From the first day that I met Uyen, we clicked and I knew that everything would be perfect. She was always there to help at a moment's notice and was there to defend and look out for us every step of the way. We were on a pretty strict budget, so Uyen made tons of suggestions on where and how to save yet not compromise the look and feel of the event. She negotiated with every vendor and because of her knowledge and attention to details (esp. with contracts), she saved us so much money, time, and headaches. The final product was amazing! Check out the photos on her site. I placed full trust in Uyen and the Make It An Event team from the get-go, and they fully deserved it. I couldn't have done it without them!

I decided to call her and check her out. She was so helpful and fun to talk to - long story short - I booked her for my Dec. wedding! She jumped right in and immediately started brainstorming and sending things to me to check out. I'm loving it already. :D

After meeting Uyen for the first time last December, my fiance and I knew we had found our wedding coordinator. We were looking for someone who was organized, prepared, and responsive. Uyen has all those wonderful qualities and more. Even though we only hired Uyen to help us the week of the wedding, she helped us through the entire planning process from start to finish. We probably sent Uyen hundreds of emails and text messages over a 10-month period, and she always responded to each and every one of them within a few hours (sometimes within minutes). You can always count on Uyen to be there when you need help or advice.

We had a very small wedding (50 guests) a few weeks ago at Mastro's Steakhouse in Costa Mesa. Uyen took care of everything that day. I was surprisingly calm and relaxed all day. We wanted to have an intimate wedding with our closest family and friends, and with Uyen's help we were able to accomplish that. She was simply amazing!

Thank you, Uyen!

Uyen is the most amazing wedding coordinator EVER. I’ve heard from many other brides what a drag it was to plan their wedding and how glad they are it’s all over. Well that definitely DOES NOT apply to us. We had a blast planning our wedding with Uyen. We were actually sad it was over. Not only was Uyen fun, she was SUPER organized, very very creative, great negotiating skills (the best I ever seen), prompt, great scheduling skills, great improvising, trust worthy, I can keep going on with how great she is. Our wedding was beyond perfect and we know that without you this would have never happened. You are our perfect wedding planner and we would recommend you in a heart beat. Oh and just to let everyone know, I let Uyen design my cake and it was unbelievably gorgeous. We all LOVE Uyen so very much for everything she did for us. You can’t go wrong with Make It An Event. Trust me!!!!!!!!

I can't imagine my wedding without Uyen! We had just 2 months and tons of IF's and BUT's to consider before our July 28, 2007 wedding. We hired her on hourly basis first but just after the first meeting I bugged my fiance (now hubby) to hire her full time and oh boy we are glad we did. Considering the elaborate Indian traditions, she came up with unique solutions and introduced us to other amazing vendors (read beautiful photographs, modern floral decoration and yummy cake) which made the wedding so memorable. All I can say is if she made it possible for us in just under 2 months, from finding a venue to handling all the mishaps on that day, she can do wonders to any wedding! She totally helped us have a modern and simple yet traditonal Indian wedding. Love her work, her efforts and her : )

...you and your team rock Uyen! Seriously, you did an amazing job and you were truly grace under fire. Can't wait to work with you all again.

Dear Uyen,
I wanted to thank you for asking me to play a part in the wedding celebration for Ursula and Mark. It was my honor to allow their design to unfold in a very beautiful way. You did an excellent job planning and bringing all of the many parts together for their very special day. Your warm and calm manner was so important for all of us. Thank you for thinking of me. You are truly a 'PRO'.

Warm regards,
Rev. Annette

"I feel so fortunate to have had Uyen as my wedding coordinator and now as a friend. Without her, I could not have pulled off such a fantastic event in such a short amount of time. She is supportive, diligent and always available. Uyen truly made my wedding an unforgettable event!"
Photo by Capturing Moments & Jaimee Hubert Photography

Thanks so much for the amazing party!!!! It was seriously one of the best if not the best wedding I have attended - everyone had so much fun!Photo by Elizabeth Etienne Photography www.eephoto.com

u rock! you are truly amazing!

Thank you for the superb job you did in coordinating the many facets of our September 2007 wedding and for doing it on such short notice.

Your enthusiasm, positive attitude, and patience helped us through the (standard, I’m sure) stressful moments of getting ready for the big day. Your artistic eye and attention to detail transformed an already beautiful backyard into a spectacular one. The result? A memorable backdrop for a perfectly choreographed wedding ceremony and reception!

Thank you again for helping us with our special day.

uyen is super creative w/fun planning ideas!