First City Events is a Savannah, Georgia based event planning firm and DJ company, who also welcome travel! We have provided professional event production and planning since 2003, focusing on the entire experience of your wedding or event. While we have produced countless events, we treat yours as unique and priceless as you do.
With packages ranging from day-of to full service, our team of event planners are there to help you, as we create fun, seamless, stress free events. Our team of DJs are real DJs. Specializing in receptions, dance parties, private events, clubs, fashion shows, gallery exhibits, block parties, etc. With an exclusive in-house team of DJs, our skills, creativity and style vary according to each client's needs.
With packages ranging from day-of to full service, our team of event planners are there to help you, as we create fun, seamless, stress free events. Our team of DJs are real DJs. Specializing in receptions, dance parties, private events, clubs, fashion shows, gallery exhibits, block parties, etc. With an exclusive in-house team of DJs, our skills, creativity and style vary according to each client's needs.
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At First City Events, we are committed to providing you with a fun, stress-free, and seamless planning experience. Established in 2003, our planners are experienced at producing weddings, corporate events, video release parties, mitzvahs, Quinceaneras, and more.
First City Events has been featured in many of the industries top magazines and blogs including The South Magazine, The Knot, Savannah Weddings Magazine, Style Me Pretty, The Biz, and in a feature with David Tutera.We are also winners of several awards including Wedding Wire's Bride's Choice Award 2009-2013 and the Best of the Knot.
First City Events has been featured in many of the industries top magazines and blogs including The South Magazine, The Knot, Savannah Weddings Magazine, Style Me Pretty, The Biz, and in a feature with David Tutera.We are also winners of several awards including Wedding Wire's Bride's Choice Award 2009-2013 and the Best of the Knot.
Our team of DJ's are real DJs. Specializing in private events, wedding receptions, dance parties, clubs, fashion shows, gallery exhibits, block parties, etc. With an in-house team of FCE exclusive DJs, our skills, creativity and style vary, allowing a perfect fit for each client.
We will collaborate with you to create a custom track list, which we practice in advance, ready to drop, all the while adept at reading the crowds energy and flow, ready to mix and blend in any change or request.We only use professional high end audio and video equipment, microphones and LED lighting.
We will collaborate with you to create a custom track list, which we practice in advance, ready to drop, all the while adept at reading the crowds energy and flow, ready to mix and blend in any change or request.We only use professional high end audio and video equipment, microphones and LED lighting.
Reviews (17)
Tasteful Tea Band
Nov 14, 2021
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Positive: Professionalism
Bonnie is very nice and easy to work with! We performed at a wedding last week and saw her team in action. First city events is super organized and made the night a breeze. If you are looking for a wedding planning organizing, don’t look any further! I highly recommend her. I’m hoping to work with Bonnie and her team again!
Bonnie is very nice and easy to work with! We performed at a wedding last week and saw her team in action. First city events is super organized and made the night a breeze. If you are looking for a wedding planning organizing, don’t look any further! I highly recommend her. I’m hoping to work with Bonnie and her team again!
Frank A.
Sep 25, 2021
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We can't recommend Bonnie highly enough for wedding planning services! She helped us with our daughter's wedding that was held last weekend on the third date after COVID postponements. Throughout all of the stress and turmoil, Bonnie was an absolute delight keeping us sane and calm. We can't imagine their being any other planner with such attention to detail, organizational skill, or passion for her work.
Wolf Boltansky
Sep 13, 2021
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Bonnie and her team did a tremendous job coordinating our wedding! She is resourceful, communicative, provides very helpful suggestions, and is a pleasure to work with. Bonnie adapted to our ever changing plan and was a phenomenal guide and sounding board throughout the process. Bonnie played an integral part of making our wedding as successful as it was – we HIGHLY recommend her!
Sara Gibase
Aug 13, 2021
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I would recommend First City Events for Wedding Planning to any bride, especially in the Savannah area. I was living in Chicago while my wedding was in Savannah and Bonnie at FCE was great to work with remotely and was flexible to meet up with my family members in Savannah if they were able to attend something (like tastings) in my place. We also worked with FCE through the pandemic - moving our wedding twice so they practically planned our wedding 3x total and Bonnie was always so calm and flexible through all the date changes. Bonnie helped us select vendors and managed all the communication
Naudy S.
Jan 27, 2021
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Yes, you need a planner!!
Bonnie and her team were absolutely perfect! We live out of state and Bonnie was our eyes and ears in Savannah talking with our vendors and setting up meetings for when we visited Savannah leading up to the wedding. She worked with us for almost two years and we never felt overwhelmed or like we didn't know what was going on. Having a wedding in 2020 was no easy feat and we know there was no way we would've been able to pull it off without an awesome planner. Bonnie went above and beyond to make sure our day was perfect. We had to change our wedding date
Bonnie and her team were absolutely perfect! We live out of state and Bonnie was our eyes and ears in Savannah talking with our vendors and setting up meetings for when we visited Savannah leading up to the wedding. She worked with us for almost two years and we never felt overwhelmed or like we didn't know what was going on. Having a wedding in 2020 was no easy feat and we know there was no way we would've been able to pull it off without an awesome planner. Bonnie went above and beyond to make sure our day was perfect. We had to change our wedding date
Program Director Fetc
Jan 14, 2021
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Bonnie is fantastic to work with! We use First City Events for our annual Hearts for Healing Gala and could not ask for a better event planner. Bonnie has great contacts with all the local vendors and carries a reassuring presence that removes a lot of the potential stress that is often involved in pulling these large events off. She thinks of everything, is very organized and responds quickly when you contact her. We highly recommend First City Events.
Meghan Ashton
Dec 01, 2020
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Bonnie is absolutely amazing. She saved me.. literally..last minute with the pandemic going on and our previous day of coordinator canceling on us. She was so organized. Her and her team couldn’t have done a better job the day of my wedding and the days leading up to it. She was so incredibly kind and I suggest her to anyone getting married..pandemic or not. Bonnie is so hard working and is extremely detail organized. She asked questions I didn’t even think of. Thanks Bonnie and her team for being so amazing and making our wedding happen!
- Meghan & Jeremy
- Meghan & Jeremy
Kelli Tuggle
Nov 06, 2020
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First City Events made our wedding day the most smooth, relaxing, & fun day that we had always dreamed of. Bonnie was an absolute joy to work with; balancing her expertise with having a GREAT personality. She handled our wedding party, who can be rather rambunctious, without a hitch. Our parents absolutely loved her & are still doting on her (& her team) to this day.
We also used First City Event's DJ services and were overly pleased with the entire ceremony & reception music! If I could, I would attach videos of how packed the dance floor was the whole evening.
Let's run it back once more, FCE
We also used First City Event's DJ services and were overly pleased with the entire ceremony & reception music! If I could, I would attach videos of how packed the dance floor was the whole evening.
Let's run it back once more, FCE
Crystal Collazo
Jul 03, 2020
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My wedding was a destination wedding so I had to do everything over email or phone calls. Bonnie was awesome with replying back and texting. The vendors I chose had worked with her before and they raved about her! She did a great job creating the timeline and contacting the vendors to make sure everything will go well
Jackie Neilssen
Jun 30, 2020
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The week we became engaged we knew we wanted to have a destination wedding in Savannah, and to do that we knew we needed the best wedding planner we could find. We needed a planner who knew Savannah inside and out, who could be our partner on the ground, that we could trust to pursue our vision, since we lived in NYC. We spent three - four weeks interviewing planners, who were pretty much all the same, very energetic and enthusiastic, but none of them had a package that fit our needs, and when we asked them to develop a more personalized package, we got nowhere.
Bonnie was the perfect planner
Bonnie was the perfect planner
Zachary R.
Nov 27, 2018
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So, as the Groom I wasn't necessarily keen to ask for responsibilities when it came to planning the wedding, but I did ask to handle the entertainment/DJ. We of course were on the fence for live music vs. DJ. Savannah is such an interesting city because of the venues. We had a larger wedding party of about 110 guests and we wanted an open space that wasn't a hotel. This limits available space and I wanted a DJ because of a variety in the playlist. So, why First City Events?!
We talked with a few different DJ vendors (PLEASE TALK WITH MORE THAN JUST ONE). If you're on this
We talked with a few different DJ vendors (PLEASE TALK WITH MORE THAN JUST ONE). If you're on this
Niall O.
Aug 18, 2016
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This anecdote will say it all -- the DJ at our wedding was so good and the dance floor was so fun that we came in under our bar minimum, and that's with a quarter of the guests coming from Ireland, so that's saying something!
Jeff and Bonnie are awesome! We had called around to a few DJs about our wedding in June and we realized right away we wanted to go with First City Events because they actually took a genuine interest in our wedding instead of sounding like what must be the truth -- "oh boy, another wedding!" Before the wedding we sent in some songs that we wanted to
Jeff and Bonnie are awesome! We had called around to a few DJs about our wedding in June and we realized right away we wanted to go with First City Events because they actually took a genuine interest in our wedding instead of sounding like what must be the truth -- "oh boy, another wedding!" Before the wedding we sent in some songs that we wanted to
Brian O.
Jun 05, 2016
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Hannah B.
Oct 22, 2015
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Bonnie and her team were a dream come true!! I had this image in my head of what my wedding would look like and they made it even better!
I have heard that something almost always goes wrong at your wedding, but with them around everything went perfectly smooth!! On top of that, they catered to mine and my husband's needs all night so that we could literally not have a care in the world! Even my guests were commenting on how amazing my planner was!
I honestly don't think anyone could find a better, more capable, fun planner than First City Events!
I have heard that something almost always goes wrong at your wedding, but with them around everything went perfectly smooth!! On top of that, they catered to mine and my husband's needs all night so that we could literally not have a care in the world! Even my guests were commenting on how amazing my planner was!
I honestly don't think anyone could find a better, more capable, fun planner than First City Events!
Laura R.
May 27, 2012
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We hired First City Events (Specifically Jeff) to DJ our wedding reception. Jeff was professional and played mostly what was asked but we're not super thrilled with a few things.
- We did not want a entrance song. We felt that it didn't fit us as a couple and we didn't want it to be cheesy so we asked for just a background beat and an MC intro. What we got was probably the song that I would answer if you asked what my least favorite entrance song would be. He played "Tonight's gonna be a good night" by Black Eyed Peas which I hate!
- He barely said a word! He did
- We did not want a entrance song. We felt that it didn't fit us as a couple and we didn't want it to be cheesy so we asked for just a background beat and an MC intro. What we got was probably the song that I would answer if you asked what my least favorite entrance song would be. He played "Tonight's gonna be a good night" by Black Eyed Peas which I hate!
- He barely said a word! He did
Ananda B.
Apr 30, 2012
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We completely lucked out by finding DJ Jeff and Bonnie from First City Events! We planned our Savannah, GA wedding from California and only had online reviews to rely on. DJ Jeff totally MADE our wedding! We aren't big dancers so told Jeff we wanted more of a "cocktail atmosphere". We provided him with a short list of artists we liked and told him to take it from there. Not once did we hear a song we didn't like AND he got all the guests on the dance floor - including US!!! He made our wedding into a real party and we all had a spectacular time because of him. Book DJ Jeff
Lauren K.
Dec 27, 2011
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Bonnie and Jeff at First City Events were absolutely key to the flow of our wedding day. We hired DJ Jeff as our DJ for the reception and hired Bonnie "Peaceful Day Package" as our coordinator. I can not rave enough about how wonderful they were. Bonnie was there for us every moment of the day and went above and BEYOND our expectations. DJ Jeff was an AMAZING DJ. He had our guests on the dance floor the whole night and completely kept the energy alive through out our reception. My husband and I have been married 7 months and we still are talking about how wonderful our wedding was!
