Lauren is the best. From the very beginning, her organized preferred vendor list with links and explanations helped me to pick out and get all my first choice vendors. She is so knowledgeable with all her experience and had so many useful and great recommendations. When we reached the 2 month out mark, she jumped in and it was such a huge relief. There were lots of little things on my invoices that were incorrect or missing that I didn’t see. She communicates to the vendors and you don’t have to worry about anything.

One of the best things is her down to the minute organized, constantly updated timeline and set up list. She even makes separate ones for the emcees and wedding party and communicates with them. We had lots of last minute guest drop outs/additions and she was so great at helping us keep an organized guest list by name and by table. (I am horrible with excel and making those things). She was always so on top of it with everything. She always made us feel at ease by checking in, keeping us on track, and quickly answering tons of emails and helping with all of our questions and concerns along the way.

The entire wedding day was an amazing whirlwind. But it went so smoothly and we didn’t have to worry about anything except enjoying every minute. Definitely the best day of our lives and without Lauren and her amazing team it wouldn’t have been the same. Then she has her “name changing packet” for after which has been the biggest lifesaver.

Also what makes Lauren so great is that she treats you like family and really cares about each couple (not just doing a job with clients). She’s worth every penny to make your wedding day flawless, stress free and bring your visions beautifully to life!

Lauren at L-4-Love was recommended to us by 2 coworkers and one of my now-husband's best friends, who all gave rave reviews. When we first contacted her, she immediately impressed us with her initiative by coordinating a couple of great quotes with a top-notch photographer and videographer. She continued to impress us by helping us save lots of money with her ideas on how to negotiate certain things with the hotel and getting us good deals with other vendors. We were planning a destination wedding on Lana'i, which is an island so small that almost all vendors need to be flown in, making logistics more challenging, however, she helped us navigate all the intricacies along the way. She was very flexible and helpful when we had to reschedule our wedding to a year later due to COVID. Throughout, we communicated a lot and she made sure we had all the little and big details were in place. I appreciate that she was always so helpful to me even when I might have been freaking out and getting type-A. I also appreciated that she would give her honest opinion (even if it might have been bad news or contrary to what I thought I wanted) and it would end up working out; in addition, it was great that she did a site visit on her own with the hotel (flew to the neighbor island), which she didn't have to do. Our guests had an AMAZING time and thought the wedding was beautiful, and we had a WONDERFUL time on the wedding day, full with great memories and everything went smoothly; the vendors she had recommended all executed perfectly too. The day-of coordination with her and her assistant was very smooth as well; one detail that was very nice was that they coordinated moving all our things from the reception back our rooms; we didn't have to worry about that. Plus, Lauren and Mona had really calming and positive energies on the wedding day that helped make it a nice experience. I definitely recommend using L-4-Love and am glad that we worked with Lauren!!

We were one of the poor souls who had a 2020 wedding that had to be postponed 3 times. That means poor Lauren had to shift gears and basically plan 3 different weddings for us, with A LOT of uncertainty along the way. But we are SO glad we had Lauren on our team the entire way. To know what kind of planner you are looking for, you need to know what kind of bride you are first. For me, I tell myself I'm low-key and chill, have low expectations, but I'm a closet control freak and type A project planner. So I always thought that I had things under control. But no no friends, Lauren will show you the way to wedding planning. Let me break it down:

COMMUNICATION: Best of the best. She is very timely and sometimes ridiculously fast at responding to e-mails. Most importantly, one of the only people who actually answers ALL of my questions within an e-mail, like, line by line. I love that! Our scheduled calls are very efficient and productive. She sends you homework to work on between the meetings so you know what to prepare for. I also really appreciated her taking over communication and coordination with the various vendors as we got closer to the date. It gets to be very frustrating and hard to keep track of various vendors/contracts/dates etc as you get closer to wedding date, and when various things are needed. But she will help to communicate with vendors for you (especially since she has a good relationship with a lot of vendors on island to start with) and can help to negotiate any snags that happen along the way. Win!

ORGANIZATION: Again, extremely organized. She uses Excel sheets (which I also love) and has things sent to you in chunks according to her timeline of planning (I think this may also depend on what package you select with her. I got the 2-months out planner package). She really is "all about the details" of planning. She will go through any "what if" scenarios with you as you get closer to the date, and try to help you brainstorm alternatives or ideas if you need to. She also has her own collection of rentals to borrow from if you need for those small items like frames, votives, candles, etc, so you don't have to worry about those small things from a rental company.

PROFESSIONALISM: All-star. Lauren and her team are very kind and warm people, but never slacked on the professionalism from day 1.

WOW FACTOR: Planning a wedding is inevitably a stressful and very anxiety-ridden process, leading up to this one huge day where everything is supposed to come to life and unfold before your eyes. As a bride, it is hard not to think about and wonder if things will be okay on wedding day, and notice if things maybe aren't exactly what they are supposed to be. But I'll say that on my wedding day, I was completely stress free. I handed everything off to Lauren and her team the days prior to our wedding, and I felt completely at ease knowing she was in charge. Our wedding day was absolutely flawless (even though a few hiccups did happen on wedding day, but Lauren hid them from me SO WELL)! I can't say enough about her. She is AMAZING at what she does, and does it all with the kindest and most humble heart.

If only I could hire her to coordinate my life....