Top Chicago Wedding Planner

BURST Event Co is an award-winning boutique Chicago Wedding Planning firm with experience planning and executing over 300 weddings over the course of the last 9 years. Burst Event Co has been featured in national publications like People Magazine, Newsweek, The Associated Press, and NBC News.

Because we know that wedding planning overwhelm is stealing joy from engaged couples, there are certain key characteristics we know we need to have to accomplish our mission of getting all engaged couples back to being excited about getting married.

We are relational. What we do is 90% relationships and 10% wedding planning so we work hard to consistently strengthen our relationships with our customers, our vendor partners and each other.
We are inclusive. Our mission is to get ALL engaged couples back to being excited about getting married. That means we lovingly & equally serve queer couples, BIPOC, interracial couples, any couples of any religion.
We are creative problem-solvers. Planning a wedding requires creativity in everything from how we design a table to how we allocate a budget to how we manage a dropped cake on the wedding day to how we facilitate the resolution of family conflict.
We advocate. We view ourselves as the bridge between client and vendor, so we are always working to advocate for both parties. Sometimes that looks like calling vendors in to fix gendered language in their marketing or unethical commission practices and sometimes that looks like holding clients accountable to boundaries and deadlines. In order to make these partnerships work well and the planning process to feel as stress-free as possible, we work diligently to advocate for whoever needs a voice.
We have fun. It's wild to us that planning a celebration of love, commitment, and community has developed a reputation of being a drag. Vendors and couples alike are burnt out and we work to bring the fun back to wedding planning through our own work/life balance boundaries and time off policies for our team, planning breaks for our couples, and developing playful relationships with both our vendor partners and clients.

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Meet Alexis

Owner + Lead Planner

Alexis opened BURST after spending 5 years in the hospitality industry and nearly 10 years dreaming of owning her own business. While on maternity leave with her oldest daughter, Lillian, Alexis realized that if she was going to teach her newborn daughter that she can live her dreams and have a family, that she had to do it herself first. So with a 3-month-old baby, between naps and nursing, Alexis launched BURST Event Co. 9 years, another baby, and 200+ weddings later, Alexis finds herself most excited about working on creative and logistically challenging events..

Fun Facts about Alexis:

Her favorite app is the calendar app.
Her favorite tacos are Al Pastor, unless we're talking carne asada from La Pasadita in Wicker or L'Patron in Logan.
She loves drinking Savi B and a Hazy IPA, but will take pot over beer and wine any day.
She loves to weight lift and do yoga.
She has a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
She is a SP4 with a 3 wing on the Enneagram.
She lives in the suburbs, but was born to be a city girl.