Master Plans Events & Designs

We worked with Malinda as our day of coordinator for our ceremony and reception at the La Canada Flintridge Country Club and I cannot say enough amazing things! The venue set us up with her about two weeks before the ceremony and she was a perfect match! She was a bundle of energy and kept everyone laughing, on track, and organized. The day of, she calmed me down and made sure everything ran as it was supposed to! I thought I was highly organized-​Malinda blew me away. She was on her email at 6:45AM responding to documents I had sent her; no detail was overlooked and she had my vision down with only the diagrams she had me fill out. She was perfect! I would HIGHLY recommend using Master Plans for EVERYTHING. Had I known they did more full service-​I would’ve recruited Malinda to help me with more! It would’ve made dealing with wedding stress even less stressful! Thank you for making our day run so effortlessly smooth!

I worked with Yingka and Jen on flower arrangements for my wedding (not any of their other events services, so I can’t speak to that). Master Plans Evens came highly recommended from a friend, and from the beginning she was very responsive and I thought the pricing was very fair for the florals. Yingka answered my millions of questions and changes over the course of the several months we worked together. She worked within my budget, offering substitutions with less expensive flowers to keep the costs down. Then on my wedding day, the flowers turned out to be SO beautiful and exactly what I had in mind! Everything turned out perfectly and I couldn’t have been happier with how everything looked. I highly recommend Master Plans for your wedding florals!

Hiring Yingka from Master Plans Events was the best decision my husband and I made for our wedding. I cannot say enough good things about this company and I can not thank Yingka enough for helping me so much throughout the whole wedding planning process. I really couldn’t imaging to plan a wedding without Yingka!
Not only I was a recent bride who just got married last year. I am also a bridal makeup artist. Being a wedding vendor myself for many years, I tend to be super picky with whom I work with. I have worked with manny planners/​coordinators and Yingka is definitely one of the top/​best planner/​coordinator I highly enjoyed working with. I already knew I’d hire Yingka to be my planner when I was still single and did not even sure If I’d ever got married so when i got engaged. I hired her right away!
As we all know brides can be very emotional and demanding when it comes to planning a wedding. Yingka, our wedding planner is incredible. She is detailed oriented, friendly, professional, caring and on top of things. As a bride, I feel very safe and secured to have her as my planner as I know she’d take great care of me. There are not enough words to describe how good Yingka is. As a vendor who work with Yingka for many years. As an recent bride who recently used her service. I highly recommend Yingka and her team to you! If you’re looking for a great planner/​coordinator. Contact Yingka! She is definitely worth your $!

Hiring Master-​Plans events for our flowers was the BEST decision we made in the wedding planning process. Our cake was great, our DJ was awesome, and the reception venue was perfect, but the ONE thing that guests are still talking about a month later is our gorgeous flowers. I really can’t explain how exceptionally beautiful they turned out.
I had been referred to Yingka by a mutual friend, but I hesitated to reach out for months because I worried that she and her team might not have the level of experience I was looking for (totally wrong). Finally, with only a month to go before my Valentine’s Day wedding, I called up Yingka in desperation and was shocked that she was not only free, but was willing to work within my budget. I had spoken with other florists and received quotes for twice the cost that Master-​Plans charged me. Flowers on Valentine’s Day are not cheap, and I still have no idea how Yingka managed to produce such stunning bouquets and centerpieces while staying within budget. Truly amazing.
When Yingka arrived at the hotel that morning (punctual as ever!) with the bouquets, I was thrilled. They were stunning. And when I saw how fantastic my groom’s boutonnière looked up on the altar, I was over-​the-​moon. But it wasn’t until I arrived at the reception venue and saw what a phenomenal job she’d done with the centerpieces that she earned her place in my book as the best vendor of all time. Each table had three different types of vases, filled with beautiful assortments of peach, pink, and white roses. The filler flowers were gorgeous, too. She really went above and beyond all my expectations.
If you’re still not sure if you should hire Yingka and her incredible team, here’s one final tidbit: My mom has never been a big fan of flowers (something about reminding her of funerals, haha), but one month after our wedding she is STILL talking about how gorgeous the flowers were.
I really can’t recommend Yingka and Master Plans enough!

This review is overdue. Yingka and her team planned and coordinated our wedding (180 guests) over two years ago, and she also did all the floral arrangements. She was a great match for us and helped keep us focused and calm when things seemed to get a little overwhelming. She was able to recommend good vendors and many times went beyond the call of duty (ordering our cake from JJ Bakery, addressing our invites, etc.). On the day of the wedding Yingka and her team transformed the ballrooms at the La Cañada-​Flintridge Country Club and gave us a wedding we will always remember. The floral arrangements were especially spectacular.
I used to think wedding coordinators were a luxury and the subject of cheesy movies, but after our experience with planning and executing our wedding, I think a good planner is essential. We recommend Yingka to everyone planning a wedding. One of my wife’s close friends used Master Plans for their wedding recently, and we know that Yingka’s standards and performance are as high as ever. As others have commented here, do yourself a huge favor and use Yingka to plan your wedding.

We hired Yingka to do our florals and day-​of coordination for our early October wedding in Palos Verdes. She was absolutely fantastic from start to finish.
We immediately trusted Yingka over the other florists we met with. She quickly understood what we wanted, and her suggestions were perfectly in line with our own ideas. She was easy to communicate with and executed our discussion/​agreement beautifully. My bouquet was out of this world beautiful, the altar arrangements (we had tall florals in big urns, rather than an arch) were amazing, and the reception was STUNNING. I was a little worried that it would be difficult to dress up our reception room — just a big banquet room — but was absolutely blown away when I walked into the room on our wedding day. It was so much prettier than I ever imagined it could be, all thanks to Yingka!
I also can’t imagine my wedding day without Yingka and her whole team as my coordinators. They were complete lifesavers! She was so helpful with all the little details I wouldn’t even know to think about — preparing a massive, multi-​page timeline for all of our vendors/​venue; helping our officiant (a family member, not his regular gig!) with the rehearsal and actual ceremony; and, of course, taking care of everything day-​of. My wedding day was a complete breeze thanks to Yingka. She also has a no-​nonsense attitude and exudes calm — I completely trusted her to talk care of anything that came up.
We cannot recommend her enough! Please contact me if you have any questions about her services. I will sing her praises to anyone who will listen, and am happy to provide more specific information.

I met Yingka when I first moved to LA a few years ago. She is a wonderful event planner and when it came time for our wedding, we opted to plan the wedding ourselves and utilize the day of coordinator at the venue. But I would highly recommend Yingka for any wedding planning or day of coordination services as she understands every detail and will take a lot of stress off your shoulders! She is very professional, friendly and communicative!
We hired Yingka for our wedding florals and she was able to work with our budget and produce gorgeous flowers! We had two meetings prior to our wedding — one to discuss what we wanted and the look and the second was sat the venue, where she showed showed us a sample of the centerpiece and let us take it home as a gift!
We received many compliments, especially on the bridal bouquets and centerpieces. The florals were a wonderful accent to our wedding and I will be recommending her to all my other soon to be married friends!

Yingka Chou & Master-​Plans Events are the best! Always so calm, cool, organized and focused, they will put the bride at ease and the zen in any wedding. We do not do a ceremony at La Canada Flintridge Country Club without Yingka and her team.
They helped keep our venue in the «Best Of» category on The Knot for the second year in a row. Many of my brides go the extra mile and hire her to do flowers and décor as well.

What ever Yingka charges you, take that amount and multiply it by 3. Even then you feel that she should be charging you more. We had a wedding of 400 at a venue where you have to bring in everything from the toothpicks to the lighting on your own. We thought we would be able to plan this, how hard can it be right? Nope! Yingka and her team made us aware of stuff we would never even think about. She had to wrangle 20 vendors and 20 timelines from each vendor and make it all line up. This wedding would not have happened without Yingka and her team.

We had a very intimate wedding of about 60 guests, so i told myself that i could handle the planning. Abut 4 months before the wedding, I became very overwhelmed with all the details.
My friend recommended I reach out to Yingka, who planned her wedding, which I had attended 2 years prior.
Yingka got back to me right away, and we met over coffee a few days later.
Afterwards, I was kicking myself saying «WHY DIDN’T I HIRE HER SOONER!!»
We hired Yingka for the day-​of coordination as well as the wedding and reception décor. Yingka is very professional, and has a very calm and soothing vibe.
Although «day-​of» sounds like it’s just one day of service, it’s actually much much more. She conducted our wedding rehearsal, went over all the details with our venue, followed up with all of our vendors, even gave us tips on our vows. She also has a plethora of experience, and knowledge about décor, colors, etc. Trust me, she knows what she’s doing.
On the day of our wedding, I got to take a sneak peak at the reception décor before the ceremony and was blown away by how beautiful the flowers were. It was so much more than what I was expecting.
My husband and I are so happy with Yingka’s services, we wholeheartedly recommend her! My only regret is that I didn’t contact her sooner!

Highly Recommended! I had the opportunity to work with «Yingka Chou» Coordinator & Designer from MASTER PLANS EVENTS & DESIGNS. I was very impressed from start to finish with how smooth and efficient Yingka coordinated the wedding reception. She made sure that the event started on time and that the all of the vendors had a Time-​Line that was accurate and easy to follow. The bride & groom mentioned that they were very pleased with Master Plans Events and Designs. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND «YINGKA CHOU» of Master Plans Events and Designs.

I have to start by saying that Yingka is the sweetest person. All-​in-​all, I think our wedding turned as pefect as can be, much of it had to do with Yingka and her team. She took care of our flowers, centerpieces, table linens, sweetheart table, etc. Initially Yingka came over our house for a consultation and then we met her at the venue to go over colors and centerpiece designs. She completely worked with our ideas and pretty much took care of everything else. Of course we didn’t get to see the final result until the big day and man… did it blow us away! The flowers were tastefully decorated around the alter, the reception room/​tables were amazing and the sweetheart table was gorgeous. For everything that was done, we could have easily have paid twice the amount the we were charged. I’d totally recommend Yingka and co to anyone getting married.

How is it possible that Yingka does not have any reviews yet??? This woman is amazing! I am the most stressed out, overworked, unnecessarily detailed bride-​to-​be that is reluctantly planning a wedding with approximately 140 guests while working full time. And YINGKA is a GOD-​SENT!!!
Is there a word limit on Unilocal reviews? She is the most amazing wedding coordinator, and trust me, I met with a few before I met her. She is professional, well-​connected, organized, and actually enjoys paying attention to every little beautiful detail. From a fellow beauty-​lover, I loved that after meeting with her for hours and late into the night planning of décor and flowers, she simply stated, «I just like making things pretty.»
My wedding is in less that 2 weeks and if it weren’t for Yingka, I’d be a giant ball of stress and anxiety. She has a calming way about her, which is just invaluable to a bride.
I have and will recommend her to anyone that is planning any type of event in their lives! She is absolutely worth more than her weight in gold!