EXPERIENCE
Full-Service
Wedding Planning & Design
We offer full wedding planning and design exclusively. This comprehensive approach ensures complete creative continuity and the flawless execution that defines our work. Whether you're planning a refined celebration in Southern California or a destination wedding across multiple days in Lake Como, our process remains the same: thoughtful partnership, editorial-level design, and production expertise that ensures every element unfolds exactly as envisioned.
How We Work Together
A complete partnership where we guide every aspect of your wedding, from initial vision through the final moment of your celebration. You'll work directly with Valentina throughout the entire process, supported by our team of trusted creative partners and carefully curated vendors.
Our full planning experience includes comprehensive budget management, venue selection guidance, complete vendor coordination, and our distinctive design process. You'll see your wedding before it happens through mood boards, design presentations, digital visualizations, and physical prototypes, ensuring complete clarity and confidence before a single order is placed. We manage all contracts, timelines, and logistics, allowing you to focus on the joy of planning rather than the administration of it.
On your wedding day, we orchestrate every detail behind the scenes, from vendor arrivals and setup oversight to timing coordination and guest experience management. You'll arrive relaxed and confident, knowing everything has been meticulously prepared and will unfold exactly as envisioned.
We work closely with you to ensure your wedding goes perfectly to plan and brings your vision to life.
full service
Venue & Hospitality Expertise
Our team's background working within luxury venues and catering operations provides invaluable insight. We understand how venues truly function, ask the right questions before you book, and create timelines that work seamlessly for everyone involved. This insider perspective sets us apart as a San Diego wedding planner and designer with true operational expertise.
Design-Focused Process
We won't let you imagine your wedding; we will make sure you will know exactly how it will look before the wedding day happens. Through mood boards, design boards, digital visualizations, and physical prototypes, we ensure complete clarity and confidence before a single order is placed.
European Perspective, California Warmth
Born in Switzerland and raised on Lake Como, Valentina brings a distinctly European approach to design and hospitality, infused with the relaxed refinement that defines California luxury. We will create a warm, genuine partnership that honors both your vision and the integrity of the design.
Limited Availability
As a luxury San Diego wedding planner and designer specializing in Southern California and destination celebrations, we accept a carefully curated number of weddings each year, ensuring every couple receives our undivided attention and the highest caliber of service.
The VWE Difference
You appreciate the finer details and value discretion. You understand that true luxury lies not in excess, but in thoughtful curation, impeccable execution, and the confidence that your celebration is handled with the utmost care and professionalism.
You're drawn to understated elegance over trends, and you seek a partner who brings both creative vision and operational mastery to your celebration, someone who will steward your wedding with integrity and respect for your privacy.
Our clients invest in experiences that reflect their values and aesthetic sensibility. They expect discretion, expertise, and a seamless process. Most importantly, they understand that exceptional weddings require exceptional stewardship.
Who Value Artistry and Excellence
For Couples
"If you want a wedding planner who is not only extraordinary at what she does but also a truly wonderful person to have by your side, stop searching, Valentina is the one."
"My husband and I cannot imagine our wedding without her, and we’ll forever be grateful for her talent, her heart, and the joy she brought into our journey."
what our beloved clients are saying
Flawless Execution
Genuine Care
Thoughtful Guidance
Complete Transparency
Proactive, Clear Communication
A Deeply Personal Partnership
what you can expect
from the VWE team
White-Glove Service
You'll receive access to your planning portal, and we'll schedule our first official planning session. From there, we move through a structured process that balances creativity with organization.
Planning Begins
If we're aligned, we'll create a customized proposal outlining our services, investment, and timeline. Once you're ready to move forward, we formalize our partnership.
Proposal & Agreement
We begin with a conversation about your vision, priorities, and what matters most to you. This is where we determine if we're the right fit for each other.
Initial Consultation
our process
wondering how it all works?
"Valentina understood our vision on a deep level, blending my Romanian heritage with my husband's American background in a way that felt natural and meaningful. Her European touch made everything even more special, ensuring no detail was overlooked. My husband and I looked forward to every one of our planning meetings! Our menu tasting and wedding mockup remain some of our most cherished memories to this day, all because of her thoughtful and personal approach. One of the biggest ways Valentina went above and beyond was helping us choose our venue while we were still living in Philadelphia. Planning a wedding from across the country could have been overwhelming, but with her guidance, it felt seamless."
"She curated an incredible team of vendors that suited us perfectly, and her genuine passion for what she does turned what could have been a stressful process into something we truly enjoyed."
"She brings an incredible energy and enthusiasm to the whole planning process while being extremely organized, efficient, and supportive. She has everything under control and makes a very stressful process manageable and straightforward. She also is an amazing wedding designer! She took our high level ideas and created a beautiful wedding - we trusted her with every decision and are so happy with how everything came together. Everything went so smoothly - we never had to think about the details because we knew it was being handled. They are also a joy to be around and truly have your best interests at heart. We cannot recommend her enough!!"
"Valentina is the absolute best decision we made for our wedding."
"It meant a lot to me to have a wedding planner that is not only so passionate about design, but one that goes above and beyond to make sure she could deliver something for me that was as close to how I wanted it to be. V was also brilliant about keeping in touch and communicating. My husband and I live in Seattle and had our wedding in San Diego and we needed a planner that was communicative and reliable. V always kept us informed in each step of the planning process and was transparent about what to expect while being very open-minded and receptive to our unique ideas as well. She always made sure we felt heard and understood and made us feel like our wedding was her number one priority.
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"My husband and I say all the time that she was the best investment we ever made for our wedding."
