San Francisco & Berkeley | Wedding Planners

Samantha Toomey Ballard has been planning and coordinating weddings and events for the past ten years. Her career began as a corporate event planner, where she planned and executed high-profile events around the world.

In 1999, she shifted her focus from corporate events to creating unique, one-of-a-kind wedding celebrations and quickly became a sought after wedding specialist. In 2000, she was flown to Newport Rhode Island where she helped plan and execute a $1.3 million wedding event for 100 guests. In 2001, she created and planned an entire wedding weekend for a Hollywood celebrity couple and was interviewed by "In Style Weddings" for her ideas on trends in the wedding market and celebrity weddings that she has helped plan. In 2002, Samantha wanted to focus on Bay Area weddings and joined the Hornblower Cruises & Events team as a Wedding Specialist. Samantha prides herself on being detail oriented and strives to ensure that clients will be completely satisfied with their Hornblower experience.

In her spare time, Samantha enjoys spending time with her baby Clay and husband Barth and taking weekend trips to the wine country and Tahoe.

Contact Samantha:

415.788.8866 x2219
sballard@hornblower.com