The Gilded Aisle Weddings - Lake Forest, Illinois

Carrie W.

Lynne is truly amazing. She is always personable, professional, detail-oriented, and understanding through the wedding planning and execution of our entire wedding weekend. Being so kind and communicative are Lynne’s strengths. Lynne was the perfect person to help us plan our Chicago wedding.
Although we are originally from Chicago and had our wedding in Chicago, we do not live there anymore and we were not up to date with the best vendors. Lynne helped guide us and found us the absolute best vendors for all of our wedding needs. She made constructive suggestions to help execute our vision and was our advocate whenever needed with any vendors. We loved everything- from the welcome details for our out of town guests, leading a wonderful rehearsal, to all of the details at our welcome dinner, making the perfect day of timeline, overseeing all of the details with great ease, and our amazing farewell brunch the next day. We could not have been more grateful or impressed with Lynne. She expertly wrangled our families for photos and got everyone where they needed to be at all times.
Lynne, we adore you and are so happy to have met you through this process.

Kelsey G.

If you are currently looking for a wedding planner, your search can and should end now. Chelsea and the Gilded Aisle were the best vendor we had at our wedding 2.5 weeks ago (and we'd highly recommend most of them!).
Coming from a type-A, work event planning background, I thought I had most things covered for our wedding, but I wanted to feel like a bride, not a coordinator on my wedding day. Chelsea far exceeded every expectation we had well before our wedding day with her impeccable communication, the planning tools she provided us, contact with our vendors, advice, and numerous items we were able to borrow from her for our day, saving us countless hours, stress, and money in rentals.
She is professional, kind, and incredibly knowledgeable. Every detail is organized and taken care of - those you thought of and twice as many that won't cross your mind. Our day had a few unavoidable hiccups we knew of (and likely more we didn't), as everyone's will, and Chelsea was phenomenal at managing them all so we never felt stressed. We were able to enjoy every moment of our wedding day truly thanks to Chelsea and her team.
She was there from the moment hair and makeup began through well beyond the last dance, taking care to keep our most precious items and deliver them to our home. There is no one we trusted more than Chelsea, and no one we could recommend more than her for your wedding day. Do yourself the biggest favor and include The Gilded Aisle on your vendor team - it's the best decision we made!

Derrick T.

As a planner getting married. The idea of planning my own wedding was paralyzing. A year ago while working on our many collaborative weddings together Lynne flat out told me she was going to plan my wedding and it was the easiest decision about my wedding I made next to picking my husband. I cannot express how easy she made the process. As you can see from the photos. We had 15 times the amount of details a normal wedding had. Lynne and Chelsea handled it like it was nothing. We had 32 people stand up with us and half of those people were in the event industry. All of which commented how “on it” Lynne was and how amazed they were that I let go of the control to anyone.

Let me just say this.

Our wedding was perfect. Not one detail was overlooked.

And all this while Chelsea and Lynne were dressed to kill looking fabulous.

I trust them with anything….

I don’t ever want to do a wedding without this amazing duo by my side.

From the guest list to emotional coaching she was already a friend but now she is family.

If you’ve made it this far through this review and still haven’t emailed Lynne confirming your wedding date then you’re making the biggest mistake in the world. I hope you hire Lynne and Chelsea like we did so you can feel as special as we did on our wedding day.

I wish we could give a 1000 star review

Derrick Ellsworth-Taylor
president
TAYLOR&CO Event Design.

jasmine G.

Would recommend to any bride if they are in need of a wedding day coordinator!!

The details that Analisa helped me figure out were on point! She’s such a sweet person, easy to talk to, and detail oriented.
She taught me so much and made me feel so safe with my day in her hands!
Everyone in my wedding party had nothing but great words to say about her!

She even placed my items together for the end of the day for keepsake! Really appreciated that since I was extremely busy!

She handled everything with grace! Loved her so much!

Julia F.

Chelsea Kiely from The Gilded Aisle was an absolute DREAM to work with, and she made every step of our final months of planning a thousand times easier and less stressful, let alone how much she handled for us the day of our wedding (and even after!). I truly cannot say enough good things about our experiences with Chelsea and The Gilded Aisle.

We reached out to the Gilded Aisle based on a recommendation from Milian, my wedding hairstylist from Blush & Braids Beauty Bar; she had just worked with them on another wedding and had only positive things to say about how effective and professional they were, and she was right.

We hired Chelsea as our "month-of coordinator," which really began around 60 days ahead of the wedding. After an initial interview to get an idea of our budget, goals, aesthetics, etc. when we hired The Gilded Aisle in August 2021, Chelsea got us set up with the Gilded Aisle's "planning portal." Chelsea then reached out again closer to the 60-day mark to begin getting all the vendors' contact information, copies of the contracts, party members' contact information, etc.--any detail you can think of (and plenty I never would've thought of). We filled out a very thorough questionnaire that allowed Chelsea to get a handle on all the wedding details, and from then on Chelsea was like my second, more organized, more knowledgeable wedding brain. I'm very much a Type A person and generally enjoyed planning our wedding, but having Chelsea to organize, clarify, trouble-shoot, and "nitpick" (aka notice holes in the plans that I would have missed until it was the wedding day and no one remembered to pick up the cake) was a LIFESAVER.

Chelsea was ALWAYS on top of communication and was happy to do so in whichever form worked best for me (in my case, it was email). The entire process of wedding planning went so, so much smoother with Chelsea than it possibly could've gone without her. We were able to send our minimal decor (evergreen garlands for our tables and rented wireless uplights for our dancefloor) to her, so we never had to worry about getting them to the venue; she came to pick up our other decor the night before the wedding; she set up our decor exactly as I'd dreamed of it for both the ceremony AND the reception, INCLUDING assembling a paper moon photobooth I'd built with my grandpa and the softbox lights a friend donated to the photobooth cause. We were able to use decor that The Gilded Aisle already owned as well, meaning I didn't have to purchase easels for my DIY mirror signage, buy a 6' tall acrylic board for our escort board, or sink our life savings into enough tea lights and pillar candles for the space.

Chelsea delivered our COVID rapid tests to guests day-of, got meals to a groomsman & his fiancee at their hotel when they tested positive day-of and could no longer attend--she even picked up my bouquet and our boutonnieres from the florist for us! She smoothed out problems before I even knew they existed, handled ALL of our decor, cards, guestbook, etc. for us at the end of the night, and even came TO US to drop off decor the Wednesday after our wedding. I truly do not know how we would've pulled off our wedding without Chelsea, who I think might secretly be superhuman.

If you're on the fence about hiring help for the wedding day, I can't urge you strongly enough to go for it. More specifically, hire The Gilded Aisle!! They will meet and exceed your expectations and make your wedding day even better than you thought it could be.

Kaylah P.

Chelsea was so easy and fun to work with as our day-of wedding coordinator. As our day-of coordinator, Chelsea became involved in our wedding planning process a little more than 2 months prior to our wedding day, and from that moment on a weight was lifted off my shoulders! Chelsea stepped right in and began handling vendor communication, timeline creations, and kept my husband and I on track for a smooth wedding week. Chelsea was very responsive, professional, organized, patient with my many questions, and extremely kind.

At both rehearsal and on the day-of the wedding, Chelsea remained the point person for all questions from our families and bridal party, and we so appreciated her taking on that responsibility. Our entire family and bridal party commented on well-prepared Chelsea was for the wedding day, however after working with Chelsea the prior 2 months, we were not surprised 🙂 Chelsea stayed at our venue until after 2am to ensure that all vendors wrapped up without issue. Additionally, Chelsea went above and beyond by offering to transport my rehearsal dinner dress back to the stylist's office the day after our wedding. This is a testament to both Chelsea's work ethic and kindness.

Because of Chelsea, our wedding day felt calm and organized, and we will be forever grateful for her allowing us to enjoy every moment of our wedding day without stress. Thank you Chelsea for everything that you did to ensure we had the best day!!

Kristina

We couldn’t be more grateful for Chelsea and team. They were so organized, detail-oriented, and thoughtful, going above and beyond to make our day stress-free (bringing us water bottles while we were taking photos outside, helping pack up all of our things at the end of the night). Thanks to Chelsea's expertise, calm demeanor, and unwavering responsiveness, our wedding journey was perfect from start to finish and we would not trust anyone else but her! We highly recommend her to anyone looking for a seamless and stress-free wedding experience.

Diane Z.

Chelsea from Gilded Aisle did an amazing job for my daughter’s wedding on 10/7/23. If she is free for your wedding day, snatch her up! Her calm demeanor, attention to detail, organizational skills, communication, professionalism, and willingness to help in any way needed was invaluable. Chelsea arrived early in the morning with the hair stylists and makeup artists. She attended to a multitude of details throughout the day and stayed until the last guest was loaded on the bus back to the hotel and all of our personal items were accounted for. Talk about full service! Chelsea was a pleasure to work with and is well supported by her company, Gilded Aisle. Chelsea’s involvement made my daughter’s wedding day go so smoothly and freed us up to enjoy the day! Chelsea – so grateful for all your help!