New Creations Wedding Design and Coordination

We’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with New Creations on a variety of weddings, and we cannot say enough good things about Rebecca and her team. They are always prepared and organized, and no detail goes unnoticed. They take exceptional care with all the vendors on the team, and genuinely care that everyone is having the best possible experience. Absolutely a joy to work with.

Rebecca is THE planner to go to in the Northwest! She made every step so easy. What I appreciated most about her is her ability to connect with me and understand my wedding day. Because she has an innate ability to see the bride’s vision, Rebecca helped choose the right vendors that fit my style and budget. She has great flexibility in scheduling and always accommodates to my schedule. My wedding day was such a seamless experience, I felt like everything went so smooth and I got the time to enjoy my guests, my family, and the experience.

We had such a great experience meeting Rebecca. She was super organized and friendly. She provided us with great ideas and suggestions.

My FH and I hired Rebecca of New Creations for her Day-​Of Wedding services. Initially, I was concerned about making sure my husband and I had fun and enjoyed our wedding. I knew that we would want someone to make sure everything ran smoothly and if problems arose, I wanted someone other than me or my husband to handle them. I also had no idea how the venue would be set up and tore down without us doing it ourselves (or putting too much pressure on our families to do it). Rebecca came along and became our knight in shining armor! My husband and I felt immediate relief after we met her last November. We knew that we could trust her to take over and execute our wedding vision on the day of. We were pleasantly surprised at how professional and on-​top of everything she was! Also, we loved that Rebecca got involved as early as 3 months before the wedding, attending the venue walk-​through, and then again to create our timeline and to go over décor set-​up and to take a lot of those items off of our hands. Each one of those events made wedding planning easier, in ways we never could have anticipated.
If you are considering hiring New Creations, Do. Not. Hesitate! I met with two other planners before Rebecca and there is simply no comparison. Rebecca is prepared, she knows what she is doing, and she is so sweet and friendly! I immediately trusted her and felt relaxed. Rebecca also did not budget shame me (some planners wouldn’t even meet with me once they heard our budget). She took the time to get to know me and my husband, and effortlessly convinced us that we found our match.

Prior to hiring New Creations, we had a very clear idea of an aesthetic, colors, etc. that we wanted for our wedding, but needed help narrowing our ideas and executing a focused design. We needed someone to point us in the right direction of vendors, and to help us understand the timeline for when things needed to be booked and which milestones, big and small, we needed to hit in order to ensure that everything was aligned for our big day. We knew what we wanted, but not the best way to get it or whether or what all of our options were. Rebecca made it clear from our first meeting that had would be the perfect resource to make our ideas become reality.
Rebecca helped tremendously as a liaison between us and the vendors. In particular, linen and furniture rentals seemed overwhelming to me, but Rebecca took the reins from the start, and ensured me that the catering company and venue would provide everything as promised based on our mock-​up, which they definitely did. Arranging the mock-​up was a huge help and really put my mind at ease, as well. Rebecca also acted as the director for our wedding, making sure that any inevitable snafu was solved, never letting us in on anything that may add stress to the day. She kept the flow of the night moving, and let us be guests, opposed to hosts, at the party.
We chose to utilize Rebecca’s «day-​of» service, but she was really so much more. All of the pre-​wedding planning and behind the scenes help were so crucial to keeping our process organized and easy. Even if you plan to do absolutely every pre-​wedding detail yourself, just for the sake of your wedding day alone, having someone there to handle vendors and timelines is a must.
Hiring New Creations is money well-​spent and is essentially an insurance policy for your wedding day. Rebecca will make sure that all of the «what-​ifs» are handled, and put your mind at ease!

I cannot say enough wonderful things about Rebecca and New Creations! I very much wanted to incorporate our Filipino heritage in our wedding but didn’t know where to start. My husband and I have never been involved in the planning of any wedding before, we’ve just been guests. So we had no clue.
I’m very much the event planner of my family. I’m the go-​to for these kinds of things. But I always knew that when it came time for me to get married, I wanted more support and help; I NEEDED more support and help.
I did a Google search for a Filipino Seattle wedding planner and New Creations was the top result. I clicked on the link to New Creations website and immediately felt comforted and invited. Then I learned more about Rebecca after reading her profile. Her personality shined right through her words all throughout her profile and her website, I knew I didn’t need to look any further.
At our consultation appointment, I was joined by my parents and my husband. The moment we met Rebecca in person and got to talking, it just sealed the deal for me. Everything I imagined Rebecca would be from her website, is exactly how Rebecca was and is in person. She’s got such a great vibe and aura about her. My parents loved her and my husband really liked her too. We were all hugging by the end of our meeting!
I cannot thank my lucky stars enough for Rebecca. She has truly become my lifelong friend and like a sister to me. Rebecca is very knowledgeable, very professional, and extremely organized! The days leading up to the wedding and even the day of, Rebecca took care of it all. She helped to calm my nerves, she made sure everything behind the scenes was taken care of and never once did I notice anything out of place. It was all laughs and smiles on the big day, which is how it always should be.
Erika joined the planning process on rehearsal day and the day of and also did a phenomenal job keeping everything on schedule and taking the lead whenever needed. Rebecca and Erika make a wonderful team.
Thank you so much, Rebecca and Erika, for making mine and Michael’s special day one we will cherish forever.

After months of attempting to plan our wedding on our own, we stumbled upon Rebecca’s website. Decided it wouldn’t hurt to contact her, so we filled out some information for her and send it in. Not to long after she had replied to us and we set up a meeting. When we finally got the chance to sit down and talk with her, we left feeling so warm and knew if we had her by our side we would be in good hands. Rebecca is magic. Her personality is just so genuine and personable.
While being engaged my husband and I decided it was time to buy a house and being first time homeowners and planning a wedding all at the same time made us very overwhelmed. Rebecca always made feel calm. During the planning process every meeting and every email I’d ever sent her, I was always left with a feeling that everything would be ok. We couldn’t be more thankful to have her knowledge guidance, and understanding.
My husband and I opted for the day of wedding design and coordination package. I now wish we had went with her for the full package, but never the less we still had an amazing wedding day. During the planning process I’d set up a Pinterest inspiration board, and showed it to Rebecca, I was stuck between two styles I was in love with. She helped us figure out which style was more us and one we’d be happy with. From there, we worked from the style inspiration and started to design our dream day. Since we decided to go with the design and day of coordination package, we used everything she gave us as a base and worked from there. She of course checked in time to time to make sure we were on track.
The weeks and days leading up to the wedding I was getting more stressed out. We even had a separate traditional Lao wedding the day before so at this point my mind was a complete mess. Thankfully earlier in the week we met with Rebecca to finalize details and handed over everything to her so we didn’t have much to worry about. Come our wedding day Rebecca and Erika were there to help with every detail and to make sure everything ran smoothly… As it did. It was pretty awesome seeing them in action on the big day. My husband and I were very well taken care. Looking back at it now makes my heart smile at how everything came together. We can’t thank Rebecca enough, and couldn’t imagine our day with out her. I will definitely be recommending her to any one who is in the market for a wedding planner whether it be for the full package, day of, or in between. You will not regret it! :]

I am the Director of Events at The Hollywood Tavern/​Woodinville Whiskey Co. I have had the pleasure of working with Rebecca for an on-​site wedding/​reception at our facility. I found Rebecca to be professional, organized and really easy to work with. I would love the opportunity to work with her again and refer her to my clients. She has wonderful design skills and really takes care of her clients! She makes a bride’s life so much easier and they are able to enjoy the engagement period with very little stress. Every bride should have Rebecca looking out for them!

In my career as a Catering Manager for a few venues in Downtown Seattle, I have worked with several vendors in every aspect of the wedding industry and truly enjoy how wonderful our industry is to work in.
One of the first wedding planners I worked with was Rebecca Grant of New Creations Weddings. Since this wedding, I have worked with her on several of my couples weddings and hold her in the highest regard as one of the best wedding planners in the Greater Seattle area. Her responsiveness, organization and attention to detail comes across through every aspect of the wedding. With Rebecca and New Creations on-​site, I am able to put my full trust in them and focus on my venue team.
It is through her work ethic and dedication to her couples that has driven me to become better in all aspects of my position. Whenever I receive a compliment on my timeliness of responses, attention to the little details, and calm demeanor at weddings, I owe that to Rebecca. I will always recommend a wedding planner to my couples, and New Creations Weddings is at the top of that list.

My husband and I got married at the end of last year. We agree our best investments were in Rebecca and our caterer. We were definitely on a budget.
My husbad and I both had changed jobs about 6 months before our wedding and neither of us had the time to do any real planning. We were very apprehensive about the whole process of researching, selecting vendors and understanding value in the wedding industry. We went to a couple wedding shows were simply overwhelmed with options and unimpressed by those we met.
Rebecca was the fourth planner we interviewed. What separated her from the rest was not just her personality but the fact that she came prepared to listen to what we were looking for and understand us. She got to know our story, personality, style and dislikes.
Our initial consultation wasn’t a presentation of here’s my service offerings and different packages, pick one I’m the expert (which is how I felt with a few of them).
Rebecca’s initial consult was more like a joint interview and getting to know each other session.
When our friends and family asked about wedding planning after we hired Rebecca, our response was always «it’s really fun. I don’t understand why people get so stressed out». If it weren’t for Rebecca, we would have been extremely under prepared. I doubt our wedding would have been enjoyable. She kept us on track, on budget and realistic with our choices.
My wedding party and family found her to be very professional, fun and direct when she needed to be. Everyone in our wedding party have strong personalities so that is truly an accomplishment. She was able to ensure everyone was confident in what they needed to do leading up to and during the wedding. Rebecca thought of every little detail. Her tips and tricks, even to the smallest detail, were very profound and had a strong positive impact on our wedding day and our experience planning it.
All of our guests had a blast, no one was stressed out even with little hiccups here and there. I didn’t even know of any of the issues that came up until a few days later. That’s the best way to enjoy a wedding day, just be in the moment without a single care. I’m a project manager and I like to control everything and I trusted her completely from start to finish.

My husband and I were married on 8÷16÷14 and we continue to count our lucky stars that we found Rebecca from New Creations! From day one she was professional, organized, and followed through on absolutely everything. On a personal note, she was so easy to work with and helped ease any wedding planning stresses along the way. I was an event planner myself at my last job, so we were looking for someone we could trust and a wedding expert to take the stress off our families and us. We didn’t want to worry about logistics on our wedding day — we wanted to enjoy every minute of our wedding day because we only get this one! She did all the set-​up, logistics, and took vendor communication off our plate so we could focus on one thing– getting married!
With plenty of time to plan our wedding and my background in events, we went with the «Day-​of Coordination Package with Design Services.» In the end, we even needed her expertise and extra attendance on a few vendor meetings, and she was a lifesaver in several situations! (On these one off meetings, we were charged by the hour, which was a perfect situation for us because we didn’t need the full planning package. This was clearly stated in our contract so there were no surprises). Rebecca was so organized in our initial meeting, set clear expectations, and was such a joy to work with through the whole planning process! Rebecca always emailed/​called us back in less than 24 hours unless she was coordinating another wedding. (Which she always communicated in her out of office email messages and/​or phone message). When it came to working with our vendors, she made things so easy! In fact, most of them already knew her because of her great reputation.
To the poor review I see below, I am not sure how expectations could be misconstrued? I’m writing this section because Rebecca was fabulous, exceeded all our expectations, and it would be a shame for another couple to miss out because a couple was confused by their package. Rebecca clearly went over every detail in our initial meeting on the packages, contracts, her role & responsibilities for each option, and the payments (deposit, extra hours, etc). If you had the «Day-​Of Wedding Coordination with Design Service» then we had the same package! You said, «Her communication with vendors was muddled, which created more confusion than clarity… it would have been faster and easier if we had just spoken with the vendors directly.» With your package (like ours), you were expected to communicate with vendors directly in the months leading up to the wedding. This is one of the most time consuming parts of wedding planning. If you were looking for New Creations or someone to coordinate contracts and handle all the vendor communication, then you should have chosen the «Complete Wedding Design & Coordination.» It makes sense why you felt you needed to communicate with vendors directly — she was not hired to do this 100% of the time with your package. Rebecca clearly shares her role for each package and it’s even online:

We would refer Rebecca to any of our closest friends getting married! She fulfilled on all the details in our package and so much more. There are so many expenses when planning a wedding, yet hiring Rebecca was one of the best decisions we made! My parents especially appreciated the help because they were never taken away from the wedding to help with logistics. Our parents still talk about how this was one of the best days of their lives and how they were so stress free. Thank you for giving us the wedding day of our dreams, Rebecca!

We were initially very impressed with Rebecca. She is definitely charismatic and warm, which is of course extremely important for a wedding planner. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there. We found quickly that she did not get back to us in the time frame she promised. We had to be the ones to reach out to her and ask for things, instead of her leading. When she did send us something, it was not specific to our situation, but rather a generic document. For example, our wedding was only a couple of months away, but the «to-​do» list she sent us was just a generic document that started with things to do 12 – 18 months before the wedding (that we essentially could have downloaded for free from many sites). When we asked her to customize it for her our timeline her response (a direct quote from the e-​mail) was «Oh, yikes, that’s a lot to rewrite». She then went on to explain why she felt that the generic document that she sent was sufficient. I will point out that we had paid $ 5,000 for the «Complete Wedding Design & Coordination» package. I was amazed at her response, and ready to fire her at that point, but my fiancée is more understanding and forgiving than I am, so we instead changed the contract to the «Day-​Of Wedding Coordination with Design Service». Our expectations were lower with this service, of course, yet she still continued to disappoint us despite this. Her communication with vendors was muddled, which created more confusion than clarity. We eventually realized that in many cases it would have been faster and easier if we had just spoken with the vendors directly. Also, her «design» work was as minimal as her «to-​do» list. It amounted to a few uninspired photos thrown together on a Pinterest board. We really wanted to avoid doing everything on our own, but we eventually realized that her involvement was actually making things more difficult, not easier. We politely requested a cancellation of the contract. She resisted strongly, but when we insisted, she informed us that she would not be refunding any of the 50% deposit she had already collected. It is true that this was her contractual right, but we believe what would have been more fair was to charge us a reasonable amount of money for the time she had put in to date. We only worked with her for a couple of weeks, and our wedding was in January — so it was not a busy time of year, and she had not passed on any other work because she was working with us. We made clear that we felt this was unfair, but she was apparently more interested in our money than in what we felt would have been a fair resolution. Overall, this experience with Rebecca was highly unenjoyable. I write this review partially out of frustration with her services, but hopefully to help others avoid what we went through. Our wedding ended up being amazing and wonderful, but her involvement was a major bump along the way that we wish had never happened.

Rebecca and her New Creations team were amazing to work with and having them be a part of our wedding was the best decision that we made! She took care of details that I didn’t even know existed! Every person in our wedding party commented on our wedding being the most organized they had ever been a part of, and that was all thanks to Rebecca. Our wedding was a stress-​free event for everyone involved and I can’t thank her enough for that! Hiring New Creations is guaranteed to make your wedding a success!

I was in one of the weddings planned by Rebecca and it was a life changing experience for me. Everything was made very easy for all that participated only further highlighting the love between the bride and groom.

I reached out to New Creations a couple months ahead of my wedding after realizing I would be physically incapable I splitting myself in 3 to see to the logistics of our wedding day. Upon inquiry, I received a prompt reply to set up a consultation and got to meet Rebecca Grant, the owner, and Hayley Ramerman. I was very impressed by Hayley’s confidence, as well as her professional and agreeable demeanor, and was convinced that Hayley would be a great help in last minute consultations and relieving me of any worry about the day going off well.
New creations was very flexible working with us about different options based on our desired service level (we had done much of the planning already, and it was a small wedding) and working within our budget. Most importantly, starting with the rehearsal and on the day-​of, I was able to relax knowing that Hayley and her assistant had everything well in hand. It was clear she had a lot of experience already, and I gratefully left her in charge with some a rundown of major events for the day. She adapted throughout as we inevitably went off schedule for this or that, and did a great job keeping everyone organized. Bear in mind, we had a family member as Emcee and music, and another as officiant, so she was also keeping folks organized who didn’t fully know what they were doing to begin with. I don’t know if there were any issues-​if they came up they were resolved before they got to me, which was perfect.
Going with Hayley for Day-​of Coordination was probably the best decision I made in my admittedly tight budget. Being able to truly enjoy the day, knowing I could trust Hayley, was priceless. I just wish I’d gotten wise sooner and had time to have her do more of the planning.

When my husband and I started the wedding planning process, I sought to find a wedding planner who I can rely on… someone who is genuine and would look out for our best interest. Due to living in different states, I would be planning our wedding with out the my fiancé by my side. I interviewed three wedding planners in the Seattle area. All were capable and interesting, but one stood out. Her name is Rebecca Grant — of New Creations Wedding Design & Coordination.
Rebecca greeted me with open arms and the warmest smile (she smiles with her eyes too). Our conversation was different than the others. She asked about my fiancé. What he was like… and what his expectations were for the wedding. The other planners didn’t go there. They asked how we met, but I felt like that’s a standard question. Rebecca, truly wanted to know more about the man I was going to marry.
I hired Rebecca for full-​service wedding panning. She proved her worth from beginning to end. As we got to know each other better, I realized that she’s not only great at what she does — Rebecca is an upstanding and respectful person. She’s adored and people who know her well, can attest to her authenticity and heart.
Rebecca Grant of New Creations Weddings is a professional. No doubt.
I would recommend Rebecca’s consultative service to anyone. And, would be happy to provide more information around my experience in working with her.

Rebecca was great to work with! We hired her for a short consultation regarding the Chinese tea ceremony we were holding as part of our wedding, and she provided exactly what we needed and more. My husband is Chinese and I am not, so I had no experience with wedding tea ceremonies and he only had very little. We had lots of questions. She helped us get the tea ceremony plans solidified, answered all our questions, and gave me GREAT referrals to a few florists and hair stylist/​makeup artists, two of which we ended up hiring and were very pleased with.

The short version:
Rebecca is incredible and she made our special day perfect!
The long version:
We filled out an inquiry form at Rebecca’s web site on 2÷8÷2012 at 5:51pm. She sent us a detailed reply at 6:12pm. And that’s how she always is – incredibly responsive. She’s always on top of things, and that’s exactly what you want in a wedding planner.
The vendors she helped us interview were top-​notch. She went the extra mile and assembled our wedding favors, amongst many other things. When the day came, everything happened as planned.
We couldn’t have been happier with Rebecca Grant and New Creations!
Erin+Nate S.
6÷9÷2012
Snohomish, WA

Rebecca Grant, owner of New Creations Wedding Design & Coordiination is one of the most capable and caring wedding coordinators in the Greater Seattle area. She is warm, friendly, experienced and just an all-​around pleasure to know. I work with her brides and grooms for their wedding invitations, and have referred her many times when someone has not yet hired a wedding consultant because she has a great eye for design, and patience galore when it comes to dealing with challenging situations. She also knows how to hire other talented staff with the same concern and care for details and design. If you want to hire a wedding consulting company who are caring and professional I highly recommend you schedule an appointment with New Creations Wedding Design & Coordination and see if they’re the ones for you.

Even three months after our wedding, Rebecca is still in touch with us. She obviously cares deeply about her clients, and makes an effort to maintain a relationship with them even after the big day. This is so refreshing! She was such a huge part of our lives for all of the months we spent planning our wedding, and we love that she has continued to show the same care and enthusiasm for us as a couple that she did when she was working with us. Cannot recommend her enough; she is wonderful!