Barbara Wallace

Barbara Wallace- Wedding Planner

An award winning wedding planner located in coastal Southern California and a Master Bridal Consultant ™ Barbara Wallace is a two-time winner of the coveted Gala Award for Best Wedding and has been a winner or nominee of four other Galas. (Gala Awards are the Oscars of the Special Event industry.) Her work has been featured in numerous publications and on the TV shows “Platinum Weddings” and “Extreme Weddings” and she was the real wedding planner on the TV show “The Real Housewives of Orange County” in Season 3.

As a sought after speaker all over the US and in Japan, Barbara has been called the "Yoda of Weddings" by her peers for her willingness to share her vast knowledge of the wedding business. Barbara has been "in the trenches" of planning weddings for nearly 15 years and has worked with all manner of wedding budgets ranging all the way up to $2 million so she has pretty much "seen it all."

Teaming up with two other wedding pros -Annie Withers, an accomplished stylist and Lars Wanberg, an internationally acclaimed photographer - Barbara co-authored "Beautiful Bride from Every Angle: Look Great in Every Photo ...and in Life" a beautiful full color, hard bound book that is the ultimate guide for brides (and grooms) to create a wedding that is a true reflection of themselves. It contains endless tips and tricks from each author that inspire couples to find their true style that will take their wedding from great to sensational whether or not they have a wedding planner.

Barbara is also the author of the “Wedding Vendor Handbook: Get to the Top and Stay There.” In that book - written to wedding vendors - she shares valuable info on successfully running a wedding business including a host of Ironclad Rules that she believes have no variables- ever. Twenty-seven wedding vendor disciplines are covered in a separate section that details how to be part of a winning vendor team.