About
a decade of weddings,held with care.
One planner. One wedding at a time. Brazilian-rooted, Northern California-based, and built around the couples I personally take on.
Hi, I'm Isadora
I grew up in a family that knows how to throw a wedding.
Brazilian-born, multilingual, raised in a household where the food, the music, and the way you welcome a guest mattered more than the centerpiece. I have been in weddings since I was small, and I have been planning them professionally for ten years.
I started my own studio after a decade inside a larger group, where the planners spent more energy competing with each other than caring for the couples. That was not the work I wanted to do. So I built a practice where the answer to which planner is on your day is always the same answer. Me.
I am picky on purpose. I will tell you when something does not fit. I will tell you when a vendor on your list is not someone I would put my name beside. I would rather be honest in March than apologetic in October.
The Promise
the face on the first callis the face at the venue at sunrise.
Same hands, every step. Whoever takes your inquiry is the person who will pin your boutonniere, talk to the florist before the truck pulls in, and walk your grandmother to her seat. There is no handoff because there is no one to hand you off to.
The Way I Work
Four words underneath every decision.
Pillar one
Considered
picky on purpose.
"Every vendor I recommend carries my name on it."
Only the trusted ones make the list. After ten years, I have a bench of florists, photographers, DJs and bartenders who answer the phone when I call.
Pillar two
Cultured
a room held in two languages.
"I read a room before anyone has spoken."
Brazilian-rooted, multilingual, multicultural. I have run weddings in Portuguese, Spanish and English in the same evening. I hold the room when six aunts have opinions and make everyone feel seen.
Pillar three
Calm
steady, especially at sunrise.
"7am, and the day is already in motion."
The kind of presence that lets the bride exhale at 7am and trust the day is already in motion. Steady on event day, especially when the day decides to be unsteady.
Pillar four
Personal
same hands, every step.
"The face on the first call is the face at sunrise."
One planner, one wedding at a time. No inbox handler. No assistant on the discovery call who hands you off later. Whoever takes your inquiry is the person pinning your boutonniere.
Three days I will not forget
When the worst thing that can happen, happens.
I do not tell these stories to impress you. I tell them so you know who is in the room when something goes sideways.
A Greek wedding · 150 guests · 5 days
The wedding planned in five days.
A 150-guest Greek wedding came to me with five days on the clock. Vendors, timeline, ceremony, reception, the whole shape of a wedding most planners need six months to build. We held it. The koumbaros placed the crowns. The first dance was on time. Nobody knew what the week before had looked like, which is exactly the point.
Outdoor ceremony · Rain at 2pm · A 4pm I do
The ceremony moved indoors in 30 minutes.
The rain came in faster than the forecast said it would. I had thirty minutes to move 100 chairs, the arch, the florals, and the aisle into a ballroom that had been a cocktail space an hour before. The couple said their vows on time. They never knew there was a backup plan because the backup plan was the only plan I had been running in my head all morning.
A morning officiant cancellation
The officiant bailed. I got ordained.
Eight in the morning, the officiant cancelled. By eleven I was ordained. By four I was at the front of the aisle, marrying a couple I had been planning a wedding for since January. Not a story I lead with. A story that is true.
I have already handled worse.
That is not bravado. That is ten years of weddings where the day was rarely the day on the timeline. I would rather you hire me than need me.
If we are a fit
let's set a call.