Lifestyle Maven Events Planner | Reviews

This September my daughter and her fiancé were married in New York City at the Central Park Zoo. It was a wonderful, magical day! The wedding of their dreams became a reality largely due to the expertise and talent of Alison.

From the bridal party preparations, to the ceremony, to the marvelous reception at the Zoo, everything was perfection! Alison orchestrated every movement and detail from beginning to end inspiring confidence in all of us, and yet she did it with such finesse that everything felt seamless.

So many of our guests remarked on how happy they were to have been invited to such a unique, beautiful and well-coordinated wedding. One noted that not a detail was missed!

I can't say enough about Alison's talent. She brought my daughter and son-in-law's dream to marvelous fruition! Thank you Alison!

Hiring Alison as our month-of coordinator was one of the best decisions while planning our wedding.  The execution of our wedding was flawless due to her organization, ability to keep clam under pressure and attention to detail.  We can’t thank her enough for helping orchestrate our special day.  From the Starbucks in the morning to carrying all of our personal items from the Foundry to our hotel room in the late hours of the night, I can say not a detail was missed on our wedding day. Thank you again for everything Alison, you are a ROCKSTAR!

We hired Alison for our vow renewal this past August in Brooklyn, NY. She is super professional and highly organized. Her honesty on vendors & decor ideas kept us on track with budget , which was super important for us. Our guests  were impressed on how elegant and organized everything turned out and that is all due to Alison and her team's dedication to our vision. Hire her , you won't regret it!

I found Alison 2 months before my wedding and all the stars aligned and I was able to use her for my wedding day. Without her and her team my wedding wouldn't have been as fantastic as it was. Alison jumped right in and communicated with all of my vendors in the month before the wedding and made sure everything was perfect on the day. Alison and team went above and beyond, making sure the venue was setup perfectly, transporting bags for our bridal party to the venue, keeping me and my husband adequately hydrated :), and even bustling my dress!
Alison made sure to meet with me in person, have phone calls leading up to our wedding day, come to the rehearsal and knew more about the wedding than I did!I will miss working with her but hope I can work with her again in the future! She is seriously the most amazing planner/boss/human and I'm so happy she was a part of one of the best days of my life!!

It’s been almost two weeks since our wedding and we are still glowing on how wonderfully splendid the day was! Alison and her assistant Marjorie were INSTRUMENTAL in making this happen. We hired Alison on a custom package and she was a master in researching venues, recommending vendors, conducting site visits, and somehow incorporating our ideas to create an event that far surpassed our expectations (on top of navigating pandemic restrictions to boot).

I had to lobby my now husband to hire a planner since in Germany, where he’s from, planners are the purview of the ultra wealthy. But even he was impressed at how well everything turned out. Our guests raved about the thoughtful touches like Lebkuchen cookies that functioned as wedding favors/escorts, and of course the music and the food. Most importantly, Alison served as the point person for all issues on our wedding, which allowed my husband and I to simply focus on getting married and starting our lives together. Thanks again!

We bought Alison's full-service planning package and were quite pleased. For each major decision (venue, photography, floral, catering, rentals, etc.), she offered a menu of options at different price points. In each category where we cared, we found an option we really loved. And where we didn't care, Alison had a strong enough read on our taste to guide us to a sensible choice. On a few occasions, we were tempted to cut corners, and when Alison pushed back (e.g. encouraging us to get an arch for the ceremony) we wound up extremely pleased with the results.

On the day of, Alison made sure things went really, really smoothly. The whole "feel like a guest at your own wedding" thing is a bit of a cliche, but it really was true for us.

I'd like to call out in particular that Alison absolutely nailed it with the venue. We had really idiosyncratic preferences, and she found a place that checked off all our boxes and was available at a discount because it was still under construction. It turned out far nicer than the architect's renderings when we'd figured it'd be the opposite, and drew praise from a lot of guests. It was just incredibly photogenic.

The catering, recommended by Alison, was likewise universally praised -- the bao bun station during cocktail hour served bao as good as any you'll find in Chinatown. The caterer's desserts were also so varied and delicious that guests thought we'd intentionally skipped having a wedding cake. (We actually just forgot, and Alison to her credit correctly interpreted the absurdly decadent desserts we picked from the caterer as an adequate substitute for a cake.)

My husband and I worked with Lifestyle Maven Events for our May 2022 wedding, and Alison and her team did a stellar job from start to finish. We had a pretty tall order: a three day, 300 guest event, held in the thick of wedding season. We wanted our wedding to be unique and memorable, and Alison helped us find additional vendors to make it happen, from our florists who set up disco balls everywhere, to the cake bakery that crafted our delicious geometric wedding cake. Alison and her team also provided tons of emotional support when the stress of the wedding day was getting to me. We're so glad we worked with Alison and her team, and couldn't be more grateful!