Planning Elegance is a wedding coordination company that provides free wedding planning information through our wedding blog, a friendly staff to help you with your questions, and thorough wedding planning services by professional wedding coordinators. We have experience in a plethora of different cultural events and religious weddings that tie traditional customs into our modern American trends and styles. We take pride in the fact that we all write our own blog articles – learn more about our free wedding planning advice through our Blogger Personalities.

We serve all of California with our wedding planning services and specialize in (but are not limited to) Los Angeles, Orange & San Diego Counties and the entire San Francisco Bay Area. If we can’t help you in your area, we will point you in the direction of where you can find help. We strive to take the stress and confusion out of wedding planning for you. You should enjoy your special day without worrying. Let us Create Your Perfect Day!

Creativity

Planning Elegance has a strong and creative backbone. All of us have very different and inspired backgrounds that contribute to our wedding coordination expertise. We believe that any wedding and special event coordinator needs to be highly involved in all aspects of the event and play a large role in new wedding ideas and wedding scenarios; being innovative with colors, décor, and space; having back-up plans constantly rolling through our minds (just in case); and being able to turn the client’s vision into a reality. We stand by our brides to provide them with multiple vendor options, themes, color scenarios, and ideas so that they have options and get inspired by us as well. No two weddings are identical – we can vouch for that!

Team Work

At Planning Elegance, we all work together on weddings. Regardless of whose going to be there on your wedding day, our whole staff knows when and where your wedding is. We all know a little bit about the couple and can put together resources for any client. The reason for this is so that you will always have someone readily available to help you and answer your questions. We are well known for our strong team work on event days and day-of-coordination due to the amount of time we have spent team-building and sharing details from past event experiences. We work together to create your perfect day!

Personality

Ask anyone who has already been through their wedding, “How many hours did you spend talking to your coordinator?” Answers vary, but every bride will tell you that the countless hours over the phone, in person, and hundreds of e-mails back and forth created a strong and trusting relationship between them and their coordinator. This is why we believe it’s important for you to meet the right person to work with on your wedding day. We like to learn about you and your significant other; we take the time to get to know you because it’s a vital step in getting along and being able to place your wedding into trusted hands. Take your pick from our great staff and see you who think you would fit with. Personality is important and you should feel like your wedding is in a trusted and responsible friend’s hands.

Mili R. Shah
Co-Owner and Lead Wedding Coordinator
Blogger for the Groom

Mili is one of the founders of Planning Elegance, and wanted to create a company that can provide team work and hard work to any type of event.  She prides herself on her unique ideas and friendly personality. She loves how Planning Elegance caters to different cultures and religions, while very much enjoying the immersion into various cultures that she gets through this job.  Her favorite type of weddings are fusion weddings which include inter-racial, inter-cultural, and inter-religious weddings. Mili is great with kids, as her formal educational training and occupation are teaching. Mili takes the lead on the wedding day remaining calm throughout hectic situations and able to manage whatever comes her way. She loves Indian food, family, and Las Vegas!

Amy S. Patel
Co-Owner and Head of Business Development

Amy co-founded Planning Elegance with her younger sister, Mili, with the dream to create a memorable and fun day for not only the bride and groom, but their families and guests as well. She wanted to create a company that could provide thorough wedding planning services to people of all cultures and backgrounds so that they wouldn’t have to stress over details on their wedding day. Amy also enjoys learning about different cultures and providing resources for anyone wanting to learn about cultural weddings. Amy enjoys wedding receptions the most with the exciting entrances, touching speeches, beautiful decor, and dancing! She loves Italian and Mediterranean food (especially together), snowboarding, swimming, and dancing. She takes great pride in this company and loves to personally plan all types of weddings and events.

Taryn Paige Plejdrup
Senior Assistant Coordinator
Trendy Blogger

Taryn was inspired to become a wedding planner when she fell in love with planning parties for her friends and family. What she loves about Planning Elegance is that it’s a company that goes beyond your expectations to make your day perfect. Her favorite aspect of event coordination is being able to create a day that the bride and the groom will never forget, as well as learning about different cultures and types of weddings. Taryn loves learning and writing about celebrity weddings in her blog articles. She loves Italian food such as pasta as well as Mexican food. In her free time, she loves to hang out with her friends and plan any parties that come her way. Taryn has been planning and organizing events for family and friends since she was 13 years old and still loves doing it!

Neeta Joshi Basu
Assistant Coordinator
Been-There-Bride Blogger

Neeta is a Planning Elegance Past Bride. After working with Amy and Mili on her own wedding, she eagerly joined the team to help other couples have their dream wedding like she did. She likes that Planning Elegance gives clients the perfect combination of the guidance they need to execute an amazing event with the freedom to make it unique and personal. Neeta’s favorite aspect of event coordination is learning how every culture and family do things differently but have so much in common at the same time. Destination weddings are Neeta’s favorite type of weddings. She loves reading blogs about the various planning that goes into them and loves seeing the pictures of the beautiful, romantic locations. Neeta loves her mom’s homemade dosas, attending educational conferences, running and reality tv shows. Neeta’s father is in the US Air Force so she has moved around her whole life and has finally settled down in Orange County as a High School Math Teacher.

Sara Seto
Senior Wedding Intern

Sara has been interested in event planning since high school and has coordinated many events in different organizations which she has been a part of. She is currently finishing up her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology as a 4th year at the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA, she is involved in the Pediatric AIDS Coalition, Cub Tours and Delta Delta Delta Sorority. She was able to intern the summer of 2011 for Planning Elegance and realized how much of a passion she has for wedding planning and cannot wait to be able to assist at more weddings! Sara’s favorite part of weddings is when the bride and groom walk down the aisle together after the ceremony as husband and wife. She loves all types of ethnic foods, but her favorite is Japanese. In her free time Sara loves watching movies, baking, and scrap-booking.

Veronica Sperry
Senior Wedding Intern

Veronica wants to become an event planner because it combines her loves of fashion and party décor. She has fun working for Planning Elegance and it hardly feels like a job. Veronica’s favorite part of all weddings is seeing the bride and groom together for the first time as husband and wife, and seeing how happy and excited they are to start their new lives together. Her weekend activities include reading wedding, cupcake, & fashion blogs, dancing hip-hop, and practicing yoga. She loves all the little details that go into a wedding, but most of all what the day signifies for the bride and groom.

We would like to thank Ahmed Ahad of AAcreation Photography
for providing us with this our wonderful company portraits year after year.  With the company theory that customers always come first, AAcreation is one of the top wedding photographers in South Asian weddings.

We would also like to thank Randall Smith for providing us with our beautiful prop for our photoshoot.  His vintage car set the mood for our entire shoot, and made it very enjoyable for us all!  Now more than ever, couples are looking for unique wedding ideas to stand out from every other wedding, this vintage wedding car is perfect for just that.

We would also like to thank Downtown Fullerton for being an ideal location for our 2011/2012 Planning Elegance team photoshoot as well as for making our vintage team photo session come to life! This location is full of beautiful wedding venues with both indoor and outdoor options to compliment your perfect wedding vision.