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When it comes to wedding design Lindsey is your girl!! She has a style that emanates luxury with a timeless quality like I haven't ever seen from any other designer that we have worked with. As a photography and videography team she thoughtfully takes care of timelines every time! There is always time for us to capture the details that she has thoughtfully put together from the custom napkins to the table design as well as making sure we have enough time to capture guest interaction, as well as the couple. Honestly, if you need the nudge to go with Lindsey this is it! She treats everyone that she meets with so much kindness and has the most genuine heart you will ever come across. You will feel valued and loved right from the start.

Ali Kaufman

My wife and I hired Lindsey and her team to provide full-service event design and planning for our Long Island, New York wedding. From our initial phone consultation a year and a half prior to our wedding, Lindsey put us at complete ease with her professionalism, attention to detail, motivation, excitement and genuine desire to truly understand our wedding vision and bring it to life.

Lindsey and her team were everything we could have asked for and everything we didn’t know we would need. To say Lindsey was “on top of things” is a gross understatement. Lindsey is a visionary, a designer, an organizer, a planner, an advocate, a friend. She is beyond talented, skilled, professional, direct, responsive, creative, tolerant, and extremely patient. She is the person you want and need to have in your corner. She is the person who will transform your vision into a reality beyond what you could ever imagine. She is the person who WILL find a way to execute every detail perfectly despite any obstacles that arise. Lindsey has a perfect balance of professionalism and a down to earth supportive nature that makes you feel like your best friend is by your side the entire way through but is also willing to pounce the second something needs to be addressed or confronted.

We were NOT always the easiest brides to work with, as we had a difficult time articulating our vision and went back and forth often with our concept ideas. But despite our indecisiveness, Lindsey was able to reign us in and really found a way to help us identify exactly what we wanted. As someone who always needs to be in control and micromanage every detail, it was challenging for me to accept the idea of handing over the reigns and trusting that someone else could execute accordingly .... but I could not be happier that I trusted Lindsey and handed those reins over. It not only made my life SO much easier, but also resulted in an absolute PERFECT event that I would have NEVER been able to pull off half as well on my own!

The planning, coordination and design aspects of the process were absolutely effortless on our end. Once our vision was cemented, Lindsey and her team were able to magically bring everything to life beyond our expectations by handling all the tedious backend details that we honestly had no time or patience for! In the very beginning of the planning phase I found myself “checking in” frequently to ensure certain things were going to be handled; however, I quickly realized that my need to “check in” was completely unnecessary as Lindsey was always 10 steps ahead.

People warned us about how stressful the actual wedding day can be, so we had mentally prepared ourselves to feel emotionally drained, anxious, overwhelmed, etc. Let me tell you, this could not be farther from the reality of our experience on our day; it could NOT have gone any smoother. The entire day was effortless on our ends, our only responsibility was to show up. My wife and I felt completely and utterly at ease and relaxed. As a direct result of Lindsey and her team’s attentiveness, we never had to ask for a thing; they knew exactly what we needed before we even realized we needed it!

We also entrusted Lindsey with the responsibility of selecting our photography and videography teams, which both ended up being INCREDIBLE and huge contributors to the success of our event! Having these teams collaborate on our event together felt more like having life-long friends surrounding us as opposed to having a group of strangers in our space who were being compensated to get a job done.

In the days following, many people reached out to enthusiastically tell us how “perfect” the event was; many insisted this was the best wedding they had ever attended; many commented on the impeccable timing and spacing from one activity to the next. We even had more than one of our friend’s husbands say, “this is how a wedding should be done”.

My wife and I made an additional vow on our wedding night to NEVER again hold an event WITHOUT the involvement of Lindsey and her team!

amy buchan

“That was the best wedding we’ve ever been to.” “ I will never attend another wedding like that in my life.” “I have never seen a bride and groom so relaxed” These were just a few of the rave reviews that show the impact and emotions a Magnolia Event Design party can evoke.

I can’t even begin to tell you how happy we were having Alia and Lindsey as part of our team. Hiring them was hands down the best decision we made when it came to planning our wedding, minus choosing each other of course.

A little background – we live out of the country with a 15 hour time difference, chose Santa Barbara as neutral territory as we’re from the US but none of us are from the area and we are a very detail oriented couple who have a background in events therefore we have very high expectations. Lindsey and Alia didn’t disappoint in living up to those expectations.

We knew what we wanted and shared our ideas and then trusted them to execute and boy did they do so. Between facetime (at 6 am their time!), email and phone calls we vetted vendors, coordinated specialized personal touches for our guest, trolleys for transportations, you name it they conquered it. Never throughout the whole process was I worried about anything. Neither of us have ever been so relaxed on the day of a big event.

We had a big hurdle thrown at us when our venue completely screwed (by no fault of Magnolia) up and we had to find a new venue with eight months notice. The team handled it with grace and class and we ended up with a venue that was even better than we could’ve expected.

The girls transformed the Sea Center into the wedding of our dreams. We never saw the venue until we walked through for the reception. We can’t put into words the feeling of walking into this space and how it was exactly what we wanted – sophisticated, personalized and romantic. There were even facets that we didn’t even know we wanted - Lindsey listened and knew what was us. She handled random parent requests with ease, bridesmaid special requests, numerous personalized touches for our guests and dietary restrictions. So much of this happened behind the scenes and was beautifully executed.

We could write a 10 page review about our experience but I will sum it up by saying your biggest mistake would not be hiring Magnolia Event Design to coordinate your event (and maybe your entire life). Not only are they truly gifted but they are great communicators, organized and creative and we wish we lived next door to them as they are the people you’d be friends with for a lifetime.

Megan Guetzko

We had the most incredible wedding this fall at Bacara, and Lindsey and the Magnolia Event Design Team were the reason everything was so wonderful and perfect. The entire weekend was was exactly what we hoped it would be. I was not the most detail-oriented of brides, and the Magnolia team allowed me to be as laid back as I wanted, knowing everything was going to be perfect, and far beyond what I could have come up with on my own. The attention to perfect, fabulous little details was so, so appreciated and our guests LOVED everything! I can't thank them enough for making our wedding weekend a dream! I've been passing along the Magnolia details to anyone I can think of that might use their services!