Angie Allen - Gulf Island Wedding Officiant

Angie is an incredibly calm, kind and organized professional, making our experience of planning and having a wedding significantly easier. She was always available to answer any questions we may have and offer her wealth of advice on all aspects of a wedding. She gave us the confidence and trust our day would run smoothly and the way we envisioned it. I would highly recommend Angie and her team for any important life event.

Angie planned and officiated our intimate fall wedding on Galiano Island. From our first meeting with Angie we knew she was the perfect person to run our special day. She has a great warmth that immediately puts you at ease and she's assembled a top class team around her. Our cake was delicious, my wife was thrilled with her flowers and the photographer made us so comfortable being in front of the camera. Leading up to the wedding we had a video call with Angie to run over particulars and then everything was managed by two main google documents, these proved a great resource and method of communication whenever we were unsure of something. We highly recommend other couples use AAWE for the best experience on their wedding day!

Aawe made our dreams come true. We wanted a small but special wedding and we couldn't have asked for better. Angie is extremely organized, responsive and ensures that all the details you might forget are taken care of. A genuine, kind person Angie is the friend, wedding planner, officiant you are looking for.We had our wedding at Bodega and things went so smoothly. Thank you Angie for helping us and knowing that we needed even when we didn't know what we were doing. All of your suggestions were perfect and made our wedding day that much more special.<3Gen & John

We could not be more grateful to have had Angie on our team for our wedding! After booking our ceremony at Bodega Ridge, we connected with Angie and felt so at ease and comfortable (even in the midst of pandemic planning!). She was so calm, flexible, organized, and accommodating, and thought of every detail to ensure our day was exactly what we imagined. Her advice and suggestions throughout the planning process were incredibly helpful and appreciated, and still she managed to make sure that we created a ceremony/event that represented “us”. When we learned that Angie also officiated weddings, we knew we needed to look no further. Angie helped us write a ceremony script that we loved, and her warm and kind nature made us and our guests feel comfortable and welcome from the moment we arrived. Choosing Angie to be a part of our wedding was one of the best decisions we made, and we are so grateful for the amazing experience and memories she helped us create. Thank you Angie!Sophie + Ben

We chose AWE for our month of and day of coordination. When COVID and other life's challenges changed our plans/date we asked Angie and her team to jump in and finish our planning and take over the correspondence with vendors, etc. Immediately after, I'd wished we had asked her to do the planning from the start, Angie is a calm and positive guiding light in a very exciting/stressful time and it was such a relief to communicate with one person with knowledge of the industry who wanted to act in your best interest and make your wedding dreams come true! AWE's fees are very reasonable and Angie saved us money with our other vendors.The month leading up to our wedding and on our wedding weekend/day, we were completely hands off. Angie and her team kept us informed with any important information/decisions and took care of everything behind the scenes. I couldn't imagine our wedding without Angie being a part of it, It was truly a pleasure to work with her and get to know her over the planning process. We highly recommend AWE for your wedding planning and coordination!Dori & Brody

Angie Allen is a wedding coordinator extraordinaire. We were first introduced to her when we were considering getting married at Bodega Ridge. She was so incredibly kind, patient, and thoughtful., and even took us on a virtual tour of the site when we couldn’t travel due to covid. When she told us that she also provides day-of/month-of coordination services, we knew she would be absolutely perfect for us.She took the time to always approach our meetings thoughtfully. She was always well prepared and knew to remind us of things that had completely flown over our head. And ladies, when you have bride-brain, she’s the gal you want by your side. She coordinated all of our cabin gifts (which were a HUGE hit with our guests), and always ALWAYS treated us to little thoughtful surprises that made us feel pampered and excited for the big day. On the weekend of, Angie effortlessly put out fire after fire and was always so quick to respond when in need. Her calm and cool demeanour is exactly what you need when you’re stressed, and with her by your side, you know things will go off without a hitch.Angie started as our wedding coordinator but quickly became so much more to us. In asking Angie to help coordinate our big day/weekend, we also gained a friend and family member for life. It’s pretty impossible to leave not absolutely loving her and the incredible energy she brings!Do yourself a favour and let Angie sprinkle a little bit of her magic on your perfect day. You won’t regret it!Thank you for all that you do, Angie! You’re truly spectacular!Love,Shazeen + Graeme

Working with Angie was the best decision we made after pick Bodega Ridge as our wedding location and venue. Angie’s easy-going nature and energy made the entire experience out of this world. We were a COVID wedding that planned and had to re-plan our wedding in 2021, Angie was by our side answering all the tough questions and provided great insight along the way. Leading up to the wedding we had a few meetings, she ensured our Emcee’s were ready to go and answered all our questions. Her response to emails was timely and detailed which we appreciated given we were coming from Alberta and couldn’t pop over to the venue whenever. Since we were a COVID wedding we eloped on our original wedding date and had a friend be our ‘unofficial officiant’ at Bodega, Angie would have been an amazing officiant if we were not already legally married. She was everywhere and now where to be seen at the same time which was amazing. She ensured that our vision for the weekend happened. She helped with setting up and taking down our ceremony site and reception. We did not have to do anything other than be guests at our own wedding. When we showed up to the venue, Angie met us and we went through all of the items we had brought (Cabin gifts, favors, stationary, table décor, etc) and then we handed it all over to her, we didn’t see any of the set up or items throughout the weekend until we were departing and everything was nicely packed away and ready for us to travel back to Alberta. Angie truly made the weekend go off without a hitch, she was the point of contact for all our vendors and guest questions. Angie truly went above and beyond throughout the weekend. I truly don’t know what the weekend would have been like without her help and support. I feel beyond fortunate to say that we had an amazing stress-free wedding because of Angie. I would highly recommend her for anyone getting married at Bodega Ridge or any other venues on the west coast.

After getting engaged and deciding that we wanted to host our wedding on Vancouver Island, we came across ‘Bodega Ridge’ and set up a tour of the venue. From the time we arrived on Galiano Island, there was a sense that we had found a very special place that would carry with it a number of memories and return visits! This was further confirmed by our experience on the property, where a vision of our wedding day was painted through Angie’s beautiful descriptions!Angie became instrumental to our planning process, and wedding day. Having a destination wedding became a low-stress endeavor with Angie working on our behalf. She has great attention to detail, listens intently, and makes you aware of any details requiring consideration. She took our ideas and connected us to an incredible array of vendors, each of whom we would have chosen a hundred times over as they matched our personality and vision so precisely.As the day approached, Angie worked to ensure everything moved forward seamlessly - from organizing last minute food, to driving us to where we were required, to corralling the group to ensure we kept on schedule, Angie took the thought work of our day, which really allowed us to enjoy every moment.Her calm tone and confident demeanor allowed us to effortlessly entrust Angie with every detail throughout our wedding experience. Once we met Angie, we knew that we had found the perfect planner, and with that, the perfect venue, officiant, and team member. We would highly recommend Angie and her team, and can’t thank her enough for her role in creating beautiful memories of the most wonderful day!

It is hard to put into words how thankful we were to have Angie as the mastermind behind our wedding day, and we cannot thank her enough. When we decided to get married on Galiano, we knew the first thing we needed was to find someone to help support the process, and we are so happy we found Angie. As a local to Galiano, Angie’s connection to the community was key in planning an island wedding, as we knew there were going to be many little details that would need to be considered. With Angie, no detail was forgotten, and the day went off perfectly.From the moment Angie started working with us, she made her self readily available at any time to talk us through the process. Angie took the time to get to know us as a couple, but also as individuals. She listened to our vision, helped us determine our priorities and never let us lose site of this along the way. We were continuously amazed at her willingness to go above and beyond to do whatever it took to bring our vision to life. She never for a second made us feel as if anything was impossible or out of reach- she always found a way to make things work. If there was a will, Angie would find the way.Angie is a teammate in the truest sense, a professional and is an absolute pleasure to work with. Her incredibly calming personality made for a very stress free, well organized and fun planning process. Her calm energy is infectious and is something we realized was so instrumental in us enjoying our day. We easily entrusted her with every aspect of our wedding and are so happy we did. Perhaps the most special thing about Angie is the way she makes you feel as if your wedding is her biggest priority. Each time we met with her, knowing what a busy and in-demand person she is, she always made us feel that the only wedding she was focused on was ours, and that is an incredibly special feeling.Getting to know Angie while planning our wedding was such a joy for us. She has our utmost respect for pulling off all the magic she did to make our wedding day what it was. It was the best day, and we couldn’t imagine Angie not being apart of it. We cannot recommend Angie enough, and know that you will be so grateful you have her on your team!

We chose Angie to help plan our wedding, because she came highly recommended by multiple people she had worked with at Bodega Ridge, as well as several couples who had hired her to plan their weddings. We had high expectations for her, based on these recommendations, and she managed to surpass all of them throughout the wedding planning process. She had excellent advice and recommendations for how to make our wedding personal and extra special. She was quick to respond to all of our questions and requests and she kept us on track with our planning timeline. By the time the wedding came along, we had complete trust that Angie would do an excellent job at executing our wedding. She was invaluable during our wedding weekend by serving as a point of contact for all of our vendors, coaching our MC and officiant, facilitating our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, maintaining our timeline, providing onsite direction and providing behind the scenes orchestration of the schedule. Most importantly, she is one of the LOVELIEST, most thoughtful individuals and this shines through in all of her interactions. She went above and beyond in making everyone at our wedding feel special and well taken care of throughout the weekend. We are so grateful for everything Angie did to help us create and pull-off the best weekend of our lives! Thank you Angie – we love you!!Cory and Sara Matheson