Our Preferred Vendors

We at the Castle Green have compiled a list of premier vendors that are comprised of companies that have worked at the Castle Green several times and have always met and/or exceeded their client’s wishes. These vendors have been vetted by the Castle and are great professionals to work with, who will take excellent care of you. This list is meant as a guideline, to help you with your planning process. The only vendor you must use from this list is one of the caterers.

Bar & Beverage Catering

Bottle Shop

We have one of the best selections of wines, spirits, and beers in the San Gabriel Valley. We stock QPR (Quality Price Ratio) products as well as hard to find, highly allocated products such as Screaming Eagle and Pappy Van Winkle.  We also stock cutting edge wines such as Desparada, Diatom, Harper Voit, Clementine Carter, Paul Lato, El Lugar, and Bedrock, wines that set us apart from all the others. We have what you want and more. We will work with you to build your bar and deliver to the Castle Green. We bill on consumption, so your bar bill can be as affordable as possible.

Cakes & Desserts

Delight Pastry

At Delight Pastry, involving the team of brilliant pastry chefs and talented management team, we are collectively focusing our effort on the further expansion of the cakes and pastries, as well as our brand. Baking has always been our passion and with over twenty years of experience we are still in search for new ideas. We offer tantalizing variety of European products to tempt you in our charming shop. Our goal is to be able to satisfy all needs from a small dessert or pastry to birthday, anniversary, and wedding cakes. The pleasure of Delight pastry creations is for all the senses. The photos never appeal to do them justice. We proudly invite you to come by and try our popular favorites.

Bon Appetite

Fantasy Frostings

Fantasy Frostings is a family owned and operated custom cake business. Established in 1971, we have served Southern California for over 45 years. Our fantastic team of talented cake masters and cake artists, led by owner Leslie Maynor-Anderson, are ready to help you create the unique centerpiece that best reflects the celebration of your special occasion. With an eye for cake design and a flavor for taste, each dessert is individually crafted to surpass your expectations in both presentation and palette.

Mr & Mrs Creamery

Custom artisan ice cream and desserts for your special event! James and Jean both graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary school. They met after graduation and fell head over heels for one another. Together, they researched and created unique desserts, ones that would make people smile.

Takes the Cake

Established in 1983, Takes the Cake is a creative bakery at the service of your imagination. Based in Pasadena, California, Takes the Cake offers brides more than 100 wedding cake designs, from the traditional, to the unusual. All to suit your individual style, taste and budget. With these artisans on your side, your special day will be truly exceptional and your wedding cake beautiful. Let our artists create something unique for your special day.

Catering

Little Lily’s Kitchen

Our elite catering company offers clients high-end hospitality service through custom made menus. We cater weddings, corporate events, and any other elegant event you have in mind. Our staff will make sure every detail of your event’s food experience is handled with impeccable professionalism and service. From breakfast to lunch and dinner packages, special themes, hors d’oeuvres, decadent desserts and specialty cocktails; we can create a menu that will please every palate. Our commitment to producing the perfect event is unsurpassed and our uniqueness, quality, and expertise makes us Los Angeles’ premier caterer.

Our success with some of the most influential companies and people in LA has allowed us to create original menus every time. We take pride in offering a unique menu every single time — our staff has never offered the same menu twice! Sit down with us for an in-depth consultation so we can create a menu that perfectly represents YOU.

Coordinators

3 Little Birds Event Planning

We believe here at 3 Little Birds Event Planning that the event of your dreams should be just like falling in love! Joyful and effortless! Our event planners not only have the experience and knowledge to make your day special, but we pay attention to every tiny detail to make your day perfect! We listen to your wishes and concerns, offering guidance and providing you with a peace of mind. 3 Little Birds Event Planning is a Southern California based company led by husband and wife team, Jessica and Dustin Rolph, here to help you plan and coordinate a worry-free event that will be memorable, exciting, unique, detailed, and romantic.

A Fabulous Soiree

Our love and passion for all things weddings is simple – we love love! Since 2013 our goal has been to make wedding planning a pleasant and stress-free experience for each couple. Proudly serving the San Gabriel Valley and beyond, we strive to provide the best quality service and make our clients dream wedding come to life. Whether you need a professional for day-of coordination or full-service wedding planning, we are equipped with the tools and know-how to bring your wedding day to reality while saving you time and money. With our help you can relax knowing you’re in good hands when you trust your big day with A Fabulous Soirée. 

P.S. & Associates Event Planning

In a word, we are obsessed.  Obsessed with style, obsessed with fun, obsessed with people, obsessed with love.  We’re also obsessed with timelines and budgets but those are less glamorous to talk about.

P.S. & Associates Event Planning is a full-service planning, coordination, and styling company that curates special events and cultivates celebrations to bring to life the personal styles and dreams of our clients.  We recognize that each event is unique and embrace everything from the grand essentials to the tiniest details as a chance to be creative and showcase character.  It’s our team’s greatest pleasure to guide everyone from bride and groom to parents-to-be to corporate teams through the process of creating an absolutely unforgettable event.

Stephanie Chin Events

Stephanie is a full-time wedding and event planner. Her experience ranges from complex weddings to large scale celebrity events. Stephanie’s success comes from her ability to communicate with her clients coupled with her precision to detail. She understands the importance of a once in a life time event and aims to provide her clients with a seamless, stress free experience.

Sunny California Weddings

Sunny California Weddings is a full-service wedding and event company based in Southern California. Sunny California Weddings’ greatest joy is ensuring your dream wedding or event becomes a reality. From a small intimate event, to weddings requiring a grand production, we thrive on the challenge of making dreams come true. Our work is enriched through meeting new clients and the diverse challenges we face in making their dream weddings or events a reality. Our design process takes a holistic approach, listening to your stories, understanding your culture, and respecting and integrating your religious beliefs. Sunny California Weddings specializes in catering to Asian brides and grooms, though we are always honored to work with anyone requesting our services, as we have done weddings from all ethnicities. Our team is also fluent in Chinese Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Spanish. 

Let us remove your stress by managing every detail of the planning process. We work with the best vendors in the industry, and through our guidance, help deliver spectacular events, while importantly, staying within your budget. We will create a timeline for your wedding day that alleviates your stress and enables our skilled vendors to provide their best services, including delicious catering, beautiful photography, an incredible event space, and the greatest musicians to enrich the celebration. Sunny California Weddings understands that each wedding and event we have the honor to support comes from your trust in our experience and expertise. Through our passion, execution, and commitment, we promise we will make your dream wedding a reality and give you a lifetime of memories to cherish.

DJs

Coastline Music

You want your wedding to be fun! Fun for you and fun for all your wedding guests. Let us share with you how we can make your wedding fun. And how we can make the planning process easy and fun as well. We have a lot to offer, including DJ/MC services, uplighting, ceremony sound systems, dance floor lighting and cake spotlights. You deserve to work with experienced wedding professionals. We encourage you to contact us and discover why engaged couples have trusted Coastline Music to deliver outstanding wedding events for over 20 years. Elegant (and fun!) Weddings

Dance Syndicate

We’re here for YOU!  Our priority is, “what do you want and let’s make that happen.” Our team is here to make your event run as smoothly as possible.  Not only are we DJs and Masters of Ceremonies, we’re also Wedding Event Directors. We keep the celebration moving along in a timely manner where you enjoy yourself and aren’t burdened with details. Your photographer, videographer, banquet staff, etc. are contacted prior to the celebration to go over an itinerary of the events so we can work together as a team to make your day perfect. Your only job is to have an amazing time!

Energy, Enthusiasm & Class!  This means that we will make announcements and perform our duties as DJs and MCs in a professional manner tailored to your unique event. Whether you would like us to perform with minimal announcements, or be completely interactive with your guests, we will always represent you with enthusiasm and class.

Great Music!  It’s our goal to get you and your guests dancing, so we play the songs people know and love. We pride ourselves on carrying a large variety of music in our ever-expanding library. We supply “clean” radio edits for all genres of music so every one of your guests can celebrate and enjoy.

We make it easy

We know it’s not easy planning a wedding. That’s why we partner with our clients to understand their vision and help make it real. 

We make it personal 

We get to know our couples and plan the experience that’s right for them; we also respond to what the party needs, helping to set the perfect tone for the perfect moment.

We create unique experiences 

From DJs to Photo Booth, Event Lighting and Live Music, we can help bring your wedding to the next level. We get to know our couples and plan the experience that’s right for them; we also respond to what the party needs, helping to set the perfect tone for the perfect moment.

We Promise To Make Your Event The best event ever, not even lying! VOX DJs offers DJs to fit every musical taste, MC style, or general “vibe” that you are looking for at your upcoming big day. Our Photo Booths capture the fun and excitement of the party! Make your wedding “Lit” with the perfect Lighting and Production to set whatever tone you are looking for! We also offer an array of talented live musicians to make your special day perfect. Over the last 20 years, VOX DJs has consistently been searching, scouting, recruiting and attracting the most talented, outgoing, friendliest and fun-loving PEOPLE to be a part of your Event. This has allowed us to build a strong family of Event Staff that are bonded by a love of music, committed to professionalism, share a passion for dancing and performing, and all have one common goal – putting smiles on people’s faces! We could not be more proud of our team at VOX DJs, and we can’t wait to have them bring their energy and enthusiasm to your next celebration!

Florists

Flowers by Sharen

Sharen has been providing beautiful florals for weddings for over 20 years. She appreciates each wedding is special and creates unique arrangements for each and every one. 

Ixora Florist Studio

Ixora Floral Studio has been dreaming up and creating gorgeous floral design and memorable events for almost 20 years in the greater Los Angeles area. Lisa Cardella, owner and lead designer, has had the privilege of meeting with hundreds of clients to dream up and craft beautiful weddings filled with unique and unforgettable floral designs. We start the planning process with a consultation in our studio showroom in beautiful Sierra Madre, which provides the perfect setting for us to meet and brainstorm together. After taking a look at your inspiration images and discussing the venue and other personalized details, we’ll review our extensive portfolio and offer suggestions on how to enhance or reinterpret these inspirations into a look that is truly distinctive for your special day.

At Leonora Moss, we love collaborating with you to create your dream wedding flowers. From the intial consultation to your wedding day, we work with you every step of the way to design custom, one-of-a-kind flowers, from bouquets, to boutonnieres, to centerpieces. Feel free to look through our wedding portfolio, and reach out to us to schedule a consultation. Leonora Moss is a family-owned and operated custom floral design studio and boutique in the quaint village of Sierra Madre, California. Our design team of Judith Brandley, Lorie Westmoreland, and Jill Forder have over 60 years combined floral experience. We make every effort to create one of a kind arrangements customized to each clients needs, always paying special attention to detail and putting our personal touch into each floral design.

Hotels / Lodging in Pasadena

Hilton

With a stay at Hilton Pasadena, you’ll be centrally located in Pasadena, walking distance from Pasadena Convention Center and close to Pasadena Playhouse. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Pasadena Museum of California Art and Pasadena City Hall. Make yourself at home in one of the 296 air-conditioned rooms featuring MP3 docking stations and flat-screen televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Enjoy recreational amenities such as an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Enjoy a meal at a restaurant or in a coffee shop/café. Or stay in with the hotel’s room service. Quench your at our bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available for a fee.

Hyatt Place Pasadena

Allyson Fukui and Victoria Romero
(626) 788-9108
www.hyattplacepasadena.com

Make the most of your stay at Hyatt Place Pasadena. With 189 modern guest rooms, free Wi-Fi, 24/7 dining options, and easy access to attractions near our hotel, you can relax and explore on your own time. Visit Old Pasadena, Rose Bowl Stadium, and more during your stay.

Langham Hotel

Just a 15-minute drive away from Central Los Angeles, The Langham Huntington, Pasadena is surrounded by 23 acres of lush gardens. Guests can be pampered at the on-site spa or relax in the heated outdoor saline pool at this luxury resort. Several dining options are available. The resort also features a state-of-the-art fitness center and 3 lighted tennis courts. Guest rooms at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena boast comfortable linens and luxurious bath products with an Italian marble bathroom. Guests will also enjoy flat-screen TVs and the well-stocked mini-bar. Guests can chose several dining options at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena.

Pasadena Hotel & Pool

Built in 1926, our historic 161-room hotel on the Tournament of Roses Parade route opened during the heady rush of the Roaring Twenties. Today, its newly restored lobby buzzes with the same excitement as the neighborhood gathers to catch up over coffee and cocktails (and fast, free Wi-Fi!).

Venture out to the lush, Mediterranean-style courtyard or head up to the rooftop where a spectacular pool deck awaits your arrival with loungers and umbrellas.

Want to make a splash for an upcoming event? Our Presidential Suite boasts a 1,000-square-foot terrace with breathtaking views of Colorado Boulevard and the annual Tournament of Roses parade. Or choose from 11 unforgettable indoor and outdoor spaces suitable for everything from business meetings to poolside soirées!

Just steps from the shopping and dining along trendy South Lake Avenue, our hotel is near the Rose Bowl, Pasadena Playhouse and The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens.

Location:
Pasadena Hotel & Pool
928 East Colorado Boulevard (at Lake Avenue)
Pasadena, CA 91106

Phone: +1 (626) 884-4150

Check-in and Checkout:
Check-in: 3 PM
Checkout: 11 AM

Hotel Features

  • Outdoor rooftop pool

  • Lobby bar that goes from coffee to cocktails

  • Breakfast and dinner available in lobby

  • Rooftop terrace

  • Mediterranean-style courtyard

  • 161 guestrooms and suites

  • 11 event spaces, both indoor and outdoor

  • Fast, free Wi-Fi

  • 24-hour fitness center

  • Self parking for a fee

Westin Pasadena Hotel

Find us in the heart of one of California’s most exciting cities, with easy access to cultural sites such as the Historic Old Town, museums, restaurants, and the Rose Bowl Stadium. We’re also only a short distance from the Pasadena Conference Center. Fit calm and comfort into your agenda with our 29,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space, stylish restaurant, and inviting lobby bar. Refresh in our WestinWORKOUT® Fitness Studio or our heated outdoor pool, with superb views of the city. We offer 350 newly renovated guest rooms and 18 unique suites, all boasting our signature white Heavenly® Bed with a pillow-top mattress. Many rooms offer great courtyard or mountain views, and all are furnished with the uplifting Heavenly® Bath.

Insurance – Event / Wedding Liability

We do require all events to have event insurance with a minimum of $1 million General Liability + Liquor Liability (if you are serving alcohol) and Castle Green listed as Additionally Insured. Event Helper has created a link for all our clients to make the process as easy as possible.

https://theeventhelper.com#bNEgUU

*Booked clients, please do not complete this until 1 month out from your wedding date* 

Magician

Jonathan Levit

Levit is highly respected in all areas of magic, including sleight of hand, mentalism, and magic history, where his work alongside Neil Patrick Harris and his recreation on stage as Howard Thurston has gained him respect amongst his peers. In addition to performing throughout the world and on every continent (including Antartica), Jonathan regularly offers lectures to magicians discussing method, performance and psychology and he has acted as host and emcee for “MagicLive!” — the premiere magic convention in the world — in front of thousands of magicians gathering in Las Vegas.

Music & Entertainment: Pianist

Pianist On Call

Whether in a garden setting, using my own digital piano and Hammond organ…… or in the grandest of churches, playing the pipe organ. I’ll perform the wedding service that you desire. Drawing from the best in popular, classical and liturgical selections.  Enhance your cocktail hour with live music. I will be playing “The Music of Your Memories” – a hit parade covering decades of great songs from the best bands, orchestras and vocalists of our time.

Music & Entertainment: Strings, Ensembles

Ladies Choice String Quartet has performed at over 1200 weddings and other special occasions in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California, including Oprah’s 50th birthday luncheon. Repertoire includes classical, church and Jewish music, pops, standards, show tunes, movie themes, jazz favorites. From 4 members originally, Ladies Choice has grown to a circle of more than 25 women string players, all highly trained professionals and members of the international musicians union. Also available: trios, duos, soloists

Organic String Quartet

Formed in 2006, the Organic String Quartet is a professional ensemble that has been providing high quality music for live events in the Southern California area, including Los Angeles, Orange County, Palm Springs, San Diego, and Santa Barbara for over 10 years. OSQ is known for the diversity of the music they perform and each of the players is well grounded in multiple styles of music. Members of the quartet have worked with many high-profile artists. In addition, the Organic String Quartet is a green business that seeks low-impact and eco-friendly alternatives in every business choice and donates a portion of its yearly proceeds to American Forests to help plant new trees around the world.  We love what we do and we love healing the planet while we do it! 🙂

Officiants

Great Officiants

Great Officiants provides just that a Great Officiant to perform your wedding ceremony. You choose from 37 different types of officiants. Ministers, Priests, Rabbis, Non-denominational, Bilingual, Themed and so much more. Your ceremony will be a Fun and Romantic adventure filled with your love story and your guests will love it.  We Issue the Marriage License too so you never have to stand in the long lines at the county clerks office. Go to our website and fill out the availability request form today.

I officiate non-denominational, interfaith and cross-cultural wedding ceremonies. I don’t have pre-printed scripts as I work with a couple to create a ceremony that reflects them. I know that five years from the time of your wedding no one will remember what I said, but they will remember the feeling of the ceremony. My hope is that your ceremony provides a wonderful memory for your life together. In 2019 I was honored that California Wedding Day magazine named me Best Officiant for Los Angeles County. In addition to officiating, I offer pre-marital communication coaching so as to help you manage planning stress!

Parking & Transportation

Gold Line Metro Parking Garage

Garage Parking
1-800-COMMUTE
($12/car full day)

Meter Rental

City of Pasadena – Department of Transportation – Parking Division
(626) 744-7665

You can rent the parking meters on Raymond and Dayton through the City of Pasadena. There are 7 meters on Raymond and 5 on Dayton.

Please contact the Events Office for more information and to receive a Meter Application. 

School House Parking Garage

Garage Parking
(626) 577-8963
$1 for the first 2 hours
$2 per hour for every hour thereafter
$12/car daily maximum

Photo Booth

Lucky Photobooth

Los Angeles based Lucky Photo Booth rents photo booths that are unique. Custom designed by a portrait photographer, the booths use professional lighting and high end photographic equipment to produce crisp, high resolution images in black and white or color in just sixty seconds. Rich wood, fine leather seating, custom sewn velvet curtains, and period details all come together in an Art Deco style photo booth that will enhance any event.

We are a fun-loving photo booth rental company that brings vintage flair and modern features to every event.  Our variety of custom built vintage photo booths look like they were made specially for Castle Green!  Personal attention and creativity are our specialties.  We pride ourselves in working closely with our clients to bring their vision to life with our handmade photo booths, custom backdrops, and custom print designs and sizes. Housed within our vintage photo booths is the latest technology and beautiful photography.  We offer GIF animation, social media sharing, professional prints, and photo filters. We look forward to working with you!

Photo Booth So Cal

We are a team of photographers who grew tired of seeing bad pictures coming out of photo booths. We are determined to do it right by combining the image quality of DSLR camera, quality lighting, and the convenience of touch screen display controls, and lab-quality prints in a clean and compact package. We also have an attendant operating the booth and assisting your guests throughout your LA or OC event. Pick from one of our luxury backdrops and a huge selection of fun props, altogether we bring you a collaborative fun environment that allows all your guests to really enjoy and take home plenty of awesome pictures.

Contact us today to reserve your spot and let us bring the fun to your next party you throw!

Photographer

Gina & Ryan Photography

We’re Gina & Ryan, a husband and wife wedding photography team from Los Angeles. Home to us is a feeling we find only in each other. It’s comfort, vulnerability, and inspiration, and there’s no place like it. It’s an incredible privilege to be invited to tell the inspiring stories of couples who’ve found home in each other. We get to peek inside the lives of lovers at the beginning of their greatest adventure, and together, we get to create something beautiful, powerful, honest and authentic. We’re all about how love actually feels. The real stuff, the in-betweens. Whatever it is that makes you two, you.

Herman Au Photography

Photography is my life-long hobby and passion that changed my life. It is the joy, the happiness, and the memories that stayed with me after the Honeymoon back in 2006 that drawn me into the world of photography. I then started my endless journey to become a better photographer and a better story teller. Nothing satisfies me more than being able to do what I do now – preserving precious memories and capturing life stories as they unfold. In 2020, we have grown into having multiple photographers and cinematographers, and a shooting studio in Walnut where we can do studio family sessions and portraits.

Richard Anthony Photography

Combining a photo journalistic and vibrant fashion-forward style, Richard is adept at capturing the candid moments of weddings.  With an approachable style, great sense of humor and a seamless ability to work in any environment, Richard embodies the perfect balance when shooting weddings. 

Teri B Photography

I want your wedding photos to be a collection of moments and memories that you will treasure for a lifetime. I would the love opportunity to create something you will cherish.

Rehearsal Dinner Recommendations

Henry Parsons Project

Henry Parsons Project is our food: comforting, eclectic, and inspired by our experiences and the community that surrounds us. It’s a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. We are continually thinking about, tasting, and honing new ideas and concepts. Expect seasonal changes, experimentation with ingredients, and menu changes based on our whims and moods.

We are super excited to share our food with you!

– Kari and Kevin

La Grande Orange Café & The Luggage Room

Videographer

Adam Michael Wedding Films

Wedding photography is all about telling your story and that’s exactly the same approach I take with wedding videography. Your wedding day is so much more than a series of chronological events and it is such a thrill creating a unique piece of art for you to keep and share.

Cotton Love Studios

Cotton Love Studios is the home to a team of creatives who work with both cinematography and photography and they thrive from the inspiration that they get from working with both mediums. We love working with people, and for us, there’s nothing more awesome than telling stories through the unique emotions and personalities that our clients have. Documenting real and genuine stories with our cameras is what we do best.

FilmLife Weddings

We are Trenton and Bethany, an award-winning husband and wife filmmaking duo who love to craft powerful legacies for our couples.  Over the last ten years, we’ve learned that it’s not enough to simply show up on your wedding day, capture what happens, and hope that a beautiful story magically emerges in the process.  You deserve a work of art that bursts with fun and flavor – a memory that perfectly captures everything that makes your love uniquely, joyously yours.  Our goal is to create a film that elevates everything meaningful about your journey together – the highs and lows, the laughs and tears – and lets you never forget the greatest adventure of your life.

Do you love sharing a late-night burger at In-N-Out?  Are you huge Star Wars nerds who spend your weekends hanging at Disneyland?  Is your family the cornerstone of your life?  These are the things that your film should bring to the fore.

Does this sound like you?  Then we need to talk!

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