Highest recommendation for Elegante. Their process was pluperfect, engaging and brought a wonderful sense of ease to planning! Paige wove the wedding day together like a pro, making sure all went off without a hitch, calmly managing blips, and even somehow capturing her own beautiful clips. We really appreciated her pre event advice and day of expertise. Claire was a wonderfully fierce bridal attendant, ensuring every detail was handled with care and adding value at every turn. Elegante proved to be the confident rudder we needed on what can feel like a stormy day — and was 100% the best money we spent !

When we decided to have a destination wedding in Umbria, we didn’t know where to begin. We are SO thankful that we found Lisa, without whom our wedding wouldn’t have been possible!

Lisa is such a powerhouse and devotes a tremendous amount of time and energy to each and every one of her clients, which immediately put us at ease and made us feel so comfortable and confident every step of the way. She has a strong and trusting relationship with so many of the vendors she works with in Italy, which goes a long way toward ensuring you only work with the very best people and don’t have to worry about surprises. Her recommendations for everything – the venue, the music, the florist, the transportation companies – were so spot on.

Lisa is incredible communicative, organized, and patient in the face of the innumerable questions and challenges that inevitably come up while planning a destination wedding. Even more surprising, Lisa made herself equally available to our guests and went above and beyond to provide advice on where/how to travel, ideas for follow-on trips after the wedding, and more. All of our guests universally gave us feedback that Lisa was incredibly helpful and did her best to make their entire experience unique and wonderful.

We have already referred Lisa to a number of our friends who are getting married in the near future and are so thankful that she was able to bring our dream wedding to life!

After we got engaged, it was clear we were going to need some help planning our multi-day multi-cultural fusion wedding. We reached out to a few planners and after speaking with Lisa, we knew she could get the job done. We worked with her for over a year to plan the perfect weekend. She was communicative, kept us on track, and helped us bring our vision to life. Lisa helped us sort through tons of vendors and pick the ones that were best for us, making sure to have follow up conversations as necessary.

Our wedding was absolutely incredible and our guests were very pleased with everything throughout the weekend. Lisa's day of team was great as well, her attendant staff was easy to work with and helped the days go smoothly.

As a bonus, she also planned my sister's wedding in 2022, so we knew Lisa's amazing work already!

I thought we could plan a wedding ourselves. Our venue provided us with a list of preferred vendors; it seemed straightforward, but we decided to find a planner to help us. After interviewing several planners, Lisa clearly understood the Chicago wedding industry and its unique vendors. When asked how she would approach having a drag queen at our wedding, Lisa lit up with ideas and strategies.

We were so lucky that we decided to work with Lisa. Planning a wedding is complex; no one but your planner has your interests at heart. Lisa was a shrewd negotiator who was able to remove extraneous charges from our quotes with vendors that we did not need. She kept my fiancé and me on plan for the tasks only we could do. My wedding party referred to her as a general on our wedding day. We had protesters blocking Michigan Ave, lost parents, and ripped suits. We did not even learn of these issues until after the wedding. Lisa handled each issue without flinching.

Our day was perfect, so much of it is because of Lisa.

Also, nearly everyone who attended said it was the best wedding they had ever been to, and many were including their weddings in the list!

Lisa was quite literally our SAVIOR through the entire wedding planning process and we could not recommend her highly enough. She was with us from before we were even engaged and kept us and our families calm and organized through a very chaotic planning process! She listened to our vision and budget and presented us with venues and vendors that fit within those. She didn’t blink when, after looking at multiple venues in Chicago, we decided to move the entire 3 day wedding down to Birmingham, AL, a city she had not planned a wedding in before. She immediately found multiple venues and local vendors for us (a feat for an Indian wedding in AL!) and flew down to Birmingham twice to visit venues and do a walkthrough. She has a network everywhere, it seems! Lisa is unbelievably organized, thinks outside the box, and is responsive at all hours of the day. She was with us for our 3 day wedding and kept everything running smoothly, making sure anything that went wrong was unnoticed by us and by our guests. She even planned a party in Chicago for us the weekend afterwards, at no extra cost. From making our wedding website, to mailing and tracking our RSVPs, to steaming every outfit possible, she does it all.

The best part of Lisa, though, is that she is calm in a storm, and incredibly empathetic. She effortlessly navigated family dynamics that come from planning 2 multi-cultural weddings, was a listening ear when things got stressful, and always always had a plan. She was in constant contact with our parents to help take stress off of us, even when we didn’t know it. She didn’t hesitate to have real talk conversations with us to make sure we were prioritizing the right things and not expending energy that wasn’t worthwhile, truly saving me from myself. She made me feel at ease leading up to and on the day of the wedding that us and our families would be taken care of and she allowed us to actually enjoy our weekend - no small feat.

If you want a planner that will be with you day in and day out, will handle tough conversations with you, your family, and vendors, will remain calm and organized throughout, will come up with a gorgeous design vision, and will become your trusted friend, go with Lisa and Elegante! I can and have recommended her to everyone we know getting married - she’s truly the best in the biz.