I highly recommend Burst to do your wedding planning and event day. My daughter’s wedding was yesterday and we could never have imagined it without Alexis and her team. They were on top of everything. They made adjustments as things happened from weather or timing. I kept thinking I needed to do things and she was always there saying, she will handle it all. Sooo nice! And she did. The guests all were impressed and the wedding was perfect. Book her if you can.

Working in the wedding industry myself, I've had plenty of experience working with different planners over the years. So when it came time for my own wedding, I instantly knew we had to reach out to Burst Events. Leading up to the big day, Alexis really alleviated all of our stress with thoughtful To-Do checklist items, regular email updates, helping source vendors, and so much more. All of our vendors exceeded our expectations and the day couldn't have been more perfect. If you want an amazing wedding planner that your vendors will enjoy working with, your family will love, and you want a professional and organized team behind the wheel of your wedding, you should seriously book Burst Event Co. Thank you so much to Alexis and her team for making our wedding day magical.

I would highly recommend choosing Burst as your coordinator! We primarily worked with Alexis, who really was more of a three-month coordinator than a day-of coordinator. She handled almost everything for us starting at three months out, which really took a lot off our shoulders. She sent weekly updates on what we need to do (and what she was doing), so we always felt in-the-know. She provided a lot of extremely helpful planning spreadsheets that we used liberally throughout the process. Alexis was also extremely responsive and patient with our many (MANY) questions we had in the weeks before our wedding.

On the actual wedding day, she handled everything so beautifully, and we really had nothing to worry about. Many of our guests commented on how smooth the entire day went! She executed everything perfectly and was even able to deliver our numerous boxes of decorations to our hotel room after the wedding so we could spend the rest of the night celebrating!

Burst is incredible. Overall, I cannot recommend Burst enough. Anyone that wants a wedding planner should hire Burst. Anyone that doesn’t think they need a planner is wrong and should still hire Burst.

Our planner, Lizzie, is an incredible planner and a wonderful person. I emailed her multiple times panicking, and she was always quick to respond with a solution. She took so much stress away from the final stretch of the planning process that I was able to be calm and relaxed heading into wedding week. We had multiple other vendors comment on how well prepared we were, especially with our timeline, and that was completely thanks to Lizzie. Lizzie ran our rehearsal, and I had multiple people from my family and wedding party comment on how nice, professional, and organized she was. Day of, Lizzie helped with my DIY decor and did a better job than I ever could have asked for. She also made sure that the ceremony and reception ran perfectly smoothly and on schedule. She’s a literal gem of a person, and I’m so grateful to her.

We also had Cendra with us the morning of the wedding, and she was so helpful! She steamed all the bridesmaid dresses and my veil the morning of the wedding, helped us orchestrate the first look, and kept us on schedule with our different photo locations. It was such a relief to have Cendra keeping track of the time so I didn’t have to worry! We also had Lucy at the venue with Lizzie helping with everything day off, which was great!

Finally, Alexis, the owner of the company, is amazing. She runs her company responsibly and ethically. There was a moment towards the beginning of our wedding planning process where we had significant issues with our (original) venue. Alexis helped us through that situation, even though she was under no obligation to do so, and I will forever be grateful for the way she helped us.

Alexis and the team at Burst were lifesavers for our wedding! When we got involved in a really bad situation with an original venue, they helped us navigate our way out of it and provided so much comfort and reassurance. Then they made the final planning stages a breeze - we immediately knew we were in good hands! Everything ran so smoothly the day of our wedding, better than we could have imagined, and so much of that was due to the behind the scenes efforts from Burst. I'd absolutely recommend them to others looking for affordable wedding planners!

If you're looking for day of coordination in Chicago, then look no further! I seriously don't even know where to begin with how amazing this staff is! We had to overcome a major obstacle no couple should have to face just weeks before our wedding with our venue closing, but the BURST team helped us with the shift to new venue and caterer without a hitch! Liz's weekly updates keeping us on track were SO helpful and she was always available to jump on a quick call when needed. I will forever be appreciative for the BURST team and helping making our wedding day absolutely perfect!

I literally cannot even say enough good things about Alexis.

Our venue (that shall remain nameless because their atrocities shouldn't be aligned with Burst), contracted Burst to work with many of their couples, and that was the one and only thing they did right. Now that our venue has canceled our wedding and refused to refund any deposits, we do not have a contract with Burst. In spite of that, Alexis has been non-stop communicating with us, giving us suggestions for new venues, advising us how to proceed with insurance to get our money back, and more.

We hadn't originally been planning to have a wedding coordinator, but I recommend Burst based on their guest list planning spreadsheet alone! Not even to mention Alexis and the emotional support she has provided.

This review is written pre-wedding, but once we have our (probably flawless thanks to Burst) wedding, I will write a follow up.

We just had our wedding in late May and BURST (and specifically Liz) was the single biggest component that made it happen.

Working with Liz felt like working with a close friend who was personally invested in giving us our best wedding possible.

Without too many details, we had some issues getting responsiveness from our vendors. Liz stepped in and took charge. Ultimately everything that we were envisioning came to fruition and BURST stepped in to fill any logistical gap that we encountered. BURST is incredibly organized and will proactively schedule checkpoints throughout your entire planning process. They will provide you with resources, materials, perspective, and support for any questions that you may encounter during your planning. For example, they provided us with an exhaustive checklist with timelines that covered everything from our engagement all the way to the end of our wedding day. No detail was ever too small and our wedding was better because of their involvement.

Liz was also available at the drop of a hat for any urgent questions that we had. For example, our makeup artist cancelled 3 weeks prior to our wedding. Our first call was to Liz. She worked extra hours to ensure that we knew our contractual options and reached out to her vast network of other vendors to ensure that we had a new artist within 24 hours of our notice.

Aside from all pre-event planning, Liz and her team also made our day-of experience flawless. We had a few last minute changes due to weather and vendor surprises, but we were never stressed because Liz took them in stride and handled them on our behalf.

Ultimately our wedding was a huge benefactor of Liz's and BURST's involvement and I would recommend them to anyone on the fence about wedding coordination.

I would highly recommend working with BURST for your event planning needs for many reasons, but here are my top 3:

1. They met our budget & planning needs:
When we first inquired with planners we quickly believed that a planner was out of the question. With our mid-range budget of $40,000.00 most planners we're going to take up 20% of our budget. When we finally found BURST I was elated to find a planning team that offered options to help guide us while we were organizing our wedding, keep us accountable to a timeline and help fill in the blanks and that wouldn't crush our budget.

2. The culture: Alexis and BURST's focus on inclusion within the team and for their clients and vendors was something that was very important for us. I appreciate her drive to be honest about the world of wedding planning when it comes to costs and to fight for fairness from vendors. These days knowing you are working with a company that has principles and believes you have value as a human even after you are a client is super important.

3. They did the work: Christina was our planner and she was so incredibly helpful. Her monthly calls to help review was extremely important. Not only did this help keep us accountable but also she was able to help us fill in the blanks when we had questions. Going into the month of planning she did a great job coordinating all of our vendors together. We also had a weather change that really forced us to change our entire day of timeline and they did an amazing job to help us coordinate vendors and rearrange the day. Christina was also a fantastic therapist while we worked out way through figuring out rearranging the entire days timeline. The day of the team was there for us and helped us with everything we needed. It was just amazing to be able to tell people to ask the team when they had questions and to not have to organize or problem solve on our wedding day.

My husband and I had our venue cancel on us a month before our wedding. We obviously panicked. Luckily we had Burst, specifically Alexis on our side! She advocated for us, supported us, and turned things around so quickly. The next day she already had a list of 15 venues that had our date available and she began setting up tours with the ones we liked. She then took us to however many we wanted. We literally don’t know what we would’ve done without the Burst team. Not to mention they are also just a wonderful and fun team. Alexis was extremely communicative and insanely organized throughout the whole process. What should’ve been a stressful time Burst still made fun! Would recommend them to absolutely everyone!!