Sleeping Bee Designs
Service levels: Partial planning
Team size: 1 – 3
About Sleeping Bee Designs
Sleeping Bee Designs
Aside from my love for all-things-events-and-weddings, I am a cat mom, dog mom (to the best dog ever, truly), goofy type-A (yes, we exist). I love everything coffee, purple, and vintage; I almost never go somewhere without red lipstick. And you’ll probably see me somewhere in downtown Frederick at least twice a week. The SBD team has a team of Leads and Assistants of all backgrounds but we all share a love for logistics and supporting couples on their special day!
We really focus on the couples' concerns and want to make sure that we work within the planning method that makes you the most comfortable. The work we do with you for coordination starts 3 months out because in order for us to be experts on your epic day, we need to talk to you and your vendors about it while also helping you close out the last things on your list of to-dos. Based in Frederick, we specialize in Frederick-based weddings and vendor selection.
In three words: Collaborative, Efficient, Positive
Services by planning level
| Partial planning | Day-of coordination / wedding management | Elopement / microwedding | Event design | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Includes coordination. This package has become super popular with clients needing just a little bit of guidance on things they've been struggling with or aren't sure of what they want to do. Couples will receive a planning checklist and guidance on the next steps! We can meet every month, or every other month and go over your SBD-provided checklist. What you're working on, what you should be working on, and how we can help! | Coordination and event management is perfect for the couple that has vendors selected. They just want to be able to have an organized day and be able to enjoy the celebration. SBD will start working with them and their vendors in the months leading up to the day, learning the important details and logistics necessary for fun and success. This includes providing a document checklist to finalize planning, timeline creation, and layouts! | Yes, we do micro weddings and elopements! Just like coordination and partial planning, we can help you work out all of the details for your intimate celebration. | Includes coordination. Not sure how you want things to look? Our design team will collaborate with you to create a beautiful presentation. This presentation will highlight all the small details and big plans for the VIBE and aesthetics for your wedding day. We'll also show you where you can get the proposed items, make changes as your ideas evolve, and hunt down that extra-special cool touch you want to add. |
| Planning begins | 9 Months out | 3 Months out | 12 Months out | |
| Vendor Management | ||||
| Accommodation Coordination | ||||
| Transportation Coordination | ||||
| Venue Visits | ||||
| Final Venue Walkthrough | ||||
| Timeline Creation & Management | ||||
| Onsite Event Management | ||||
| Event Styling & Design | ||||
| Budget Planning | ||||
| Venue Recommendations | ||||
| Contract Review | ||||
| Rentals & Linens | ||||
| Vendor Selection | ||||
| RSVP Tracking | ||||
| Wedding Website | ||||
| Wedding Favors & Accessories | ||||
| Pricing | Starts at $3,500 | Starts at $2,000 | Starts at $1,900 | Starts at $2,750 |
Reviews
Write a review5.0 out of 5
35 reviews
Oh what a night!
Sleeping Bee Designs was an outstanding wedding planning partner. From our first interaction with Sarah, she was incredibly responsive, detail-oriented, and organized, which allowed us to stress less throughout the entire planning process. On the day of our wedding, everything went seamlessly thanks to her team's incredible hard work and her organization. She had a great relationship with our venue and did a great job coordinating all of the vendors. We were able to fully enjoy our special day without having to worry about a single detail. Sleeping Bee Designs truly kept us on track in planning and ensured our wedding was a joyful, unforgettable experience. We cannot recommend them highly enough.
Best Wedding Coordinator ever
Working with Sleeping Bee Designs was an absolute pleasure. Sarah and her team were incredibly responsive, clear, and easy to communicate with throughout the entire wedding planning process. Their work was exceptional - they provided tailored, professional service that made working with our venue and other vendors seamless. Sarah herself is such a joyful, fun, and easy person to work with, and she helped make the whole planning process so enjoyable. Sleeping Bee Designs is extremely skilled at their jobs, and their whole team was professional, kind, and talented. We couldn't have asked for a better wedding planning experience.
The best decision you’ll make!
This lady is a god damned delight. Early in the planning process, my mother died and it totally sapped me of any appetite for planning. I felt overwhelmed, but when we hired Sarah she helped us turn it all around. She held our hands through the hard part and then helped us stay on task and organized when our energy and excitement came back. She helped us navigate being out of the country for 3 of the six months prior to the wedding. She already had experience and relationships with most of our vendors, which helped those contracts go more smoothly and meant less management from us was required. She was 100% ready to get behind any project we could come up with — she supported our vision like it was her own. Whenever I asked her to find someone who could bring an idea to life, she always did so quickly and often with options to choose from. Her depth of connections meant that when I needed a new photographer with just six weeks to go, she was able to give me at least ten available and talented options in 24 hours. She is a wedding planner pro. Most importantly, she is just a lot of FUN and FUNNY. We enjoyed spending time with her on our monthly check in calls, at tastings, walk throughs, and finally the weekend of the wedding itself. She’s a joyful, quirky, nonjudgmental person who really loves weddings and helping couples have the day of their dreams. She is an LGBTQ affirming vendor which is obviously very important to us as a queer couple. She was extremely RESPONSIVE to all communication and I don’t think I ever waited more than 24 hours to hear back from her. Her planning expertise prior to the actual weekend was invaluable, but she really was our angel during the wedding weekend. She handled the details so that we could stay present and actually enjoy our party! Thank you Sarah for being such a great partner in bringing this wedding to life. We had the best time with you and miss you already.
Sarah from Sleeping Bee was awesome!
Sarah was so helpful in our planning process the last few weeks leading up to our wedding and on our wedding day. She was super responsive and available to answer questions throughout the process and give recommendations. Her recommendation on wedding dress alterations saved me 600 compared to the first place I went to! There is a lot that happens in the last 4-6 weeks before the wedding; all of your vendors are reaching out about final details and decisions, which Sarah helped us handle. She took the initiative to email all of our vendors which took the stress off of us and allowed us to only work with her in the final weeks as she communicated everything out to the rest of our vendor team. I believe our wedding was the first time she and her team had been to our venue – Riverside on the Potomac in Leesburg, Virginia – but you never would have known it. In particular, she nailed our timeline, which was such a big help for us not to have to think about much. On the wedding day, she was on top of everything and from my husband's and my perspective, everything went to plan and there were no hiccups! She does everything through Google Docs and Sheets which makes things super easy for you to work on as you have time and it’s nice that it’s all done in one place, not back and forth through lots of emails!
Response from vendor•Jun 30, 2025I am SO HONORED I got to work with you both and thank you so, so much for the review. It was a beautiful wedding and you both were absolute pros at the wedding planning.
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