About Here Comes The Guide
Since 1990, Here Comes The Guide has truly been the California bride’s best friend, providing an easy and intelligent way to find top-notch wedding locations and professionals. At the time, we couldn’t find a local wedding resource as targeted and informative as we were, and years later…we still can’t! The fact that our website is easy on the eyes is just icing on the great big wedding cake.
Meredith Monday Schwartz, Managing Director
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Meredith Monday Schwartz is good at “getting things done.” As the company’s Managing Director, her official job is to keep the incredibly rowdy Here Comes The Guide staff in line. Unofficially, though, she’s the rowdiest of the bunch and is often the last one off the mechanical bull when it’s time to go home. Read more about Meredith.
Jan Brenner, Editor-in-Chief
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Contact Jan regarding editorial issues.
Jan Brenner has co-authored all of Hopscotch Press’ books. Although she received a BA in English from UC Berkeley, she backed into writing only after spending ten years in social work and four in publishing. Along the way she got a couple of other degrees which have never been put to official use. A lifelong dilettante, she’s quasi-conversant in 3.1 languages, dabbles in domestic pursuits, pumps iron and travels whenever she gets the chance. Read more about Jan.
Jennifer Ahearn, Online Media Director
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Contact Jennifer regarding website issues.
Jennifer and her husband believe that although they planned their wedding quickly and far from impeccably, their timing couldn’t have been better: on their honeymoon they wound up getting pregnant with twins. In addition to domesticating her two wild garbanzos, Jennifer spends her time keeping a grip on our website—and occasionally we even let her out of the office for road trips to write some location profiles. Read more about Jennifer.
Jolene Rae Harrington, Director of Creative Content
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Contact Jolene regarding bridal salons and jewelry stores; questions about our Articles + Ideas section; press inquiries.
Jolene wasn’t sure if she could commit. Then she found Here Comes The Guide, planned her dream beach wedding with her honey, and scored a job writing location profiles for us. Fourteen years later, she’s still our creative secret weapon, doing everything from developing web content to hunting out the freshest sources for bridal fashion. We like to constantly remind her that without us, she’d probably still be planning her wedding. Read more about Jolene.
Lisa Edd, Managing Editor
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Contact Lisa regarding Here Comes The Guide’s blog; and questions about Here Comes The Guide book illustrations.
Lisa has been with Here Comes The Guide since the summer of 2003. She’s at least somewhat involved in all things HCTG, offering her fresh, youthful perspective to anyone and everyone—whether they like it or not. Read more about Lisa.
Sharon Carl, Production Director
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Contact Sharon regarding technical production issues.
Sharon is the go-to person for all things production. She has worked in pre-press for over 15 years, for both printers and marketing firms, so she understands all that computer graphics technobabble. Read more about Sharon.
Allison Bliss, Location Scout/Account Manager
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What do you do after you’ve studied with film greats like Francis Ford Coppola and directed the Emmys? Work for Here Comes The Guide, of course! In addition to owning her own marketing consulting company, Allison spends her “spare” time sniffing out the latest and greatest technologies for us and communicating to the world at large what makes Here Comes The Guide the smartest wedding tool around. Read more about Allison.
Denise Auerbach, Services Coordinator
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Contact Denise regarding: featuring your wedding service on HereComesTheGuide.com; bridal fairs; shipping & distribution.
Having coordinated weddings and special events for four years, Denise knows how to juggle a lot of different jobs. While she’s effortlessly handling our distribution, bridal fairs and the event professionals section of our website, she still manages to keep us all posted on the latest Hollywood dirt. At the end of the day, she freshens her lipstick, smoothes her hair, and transforms into the West Coast Carrie Bradshaw. Read more about Denise.
Julia Snippen, Client Services
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Contact Julia regarding questions about your Virtual Tour.
Julia Snippen is what we at Here Comes The Guide like to call a quadruple threat: she’s smart, witty, adorable, and she’s a gifted dancer – we’d totally hate her if we weren’t so busy trying to be just like her. While the rest of us are watching her every move and making covert notes about her daily habits, she’s hard at work helping us meet our press deadlines and giving her invaluable input on everything we do. And because she’s so humble, we get to take most of the credit. Read more about Julia.
Kathy Howard, Account Manager
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Kathy Howard is the best kind of matchmaker. As a former foster care coordinator, adoption consultant, and wedding coordinator, she has experience uniting families for special occasions and for life. She built her own “creative California family” long before she was married—her husband’s ex-wife even paid for their honeymoon! When she’s not busy inspiring all of us, Kathy helps us find California’s top event services. Read more about Kathy.
Cooper Schwartz, Staff Support/Customer Relations
Cooper’s our unofficial mascot and inspiration at Here Comes The Guide’s Berkeley office. A consummate perfectionist, he prefers to focus on one task until he feels he’s succeeded; whether it’s playing fetch, chewing the nose off of his favorite stuffed toy “woobie,” or going for a nice long walk or run. Cooper loves being the only male member of Here Comes The Guide, and often greets his coworkers in the morning by dropping a stuffed toy at their feet, as his way of saying, “hi.” Read more about Cooper.
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