Weddings By lulu

ompletely overwhelmed—we were getting nowhere with even picking a venue and dates were disappearing quickly because October is so popular for weddings in New Orleans. The manager at one of the places we called suggested we give Weddings By LuLu a call and what a great idea that turned out to be! LuLu is a former lawyer herself and she right away understood the kind of pressure we were under. She got a feel for the kind of venue we were looking for and within a few days sent us a list of places with available dates and details and more importantly, her notes and inside knowledge. She got holds on our top 3 picks and and then set up a time for us to visit on a rare afternoon off a couple weeks later. I can’t tell you the feeling of relief of just having a plan for how to get started and for someone to narrow things down for us to a bearable volume. After visiting the three venues we could see how insightful LuLu was. They were all great matches and with her guidance it was easy picking ‘the one’. From there, it was smooth sailing the whole way. LuLu provided us with a planning timeline, vendor recommendations, budget guidance, handled vendor questions, hotel blocks, welcome bags and even planned our complicated extended rehearsal dinner and welcome cocktail party. Her team handled the flowers, decor, all our rentals—it was like magic the way it all came together! We had several divorced/remarried parents and she handled everyone tactfully and gracefully. Our wedding day went off without a hitch and was better than we even could have imagined. We would recommend Weddings By LuLu without hesitation and LuLu has our heartfelt thanks for a day we’ll cherish always.

r very first meeting. We loved every one of the vendors she recommended and if there any behind-the-scene issues on the day of we really never knew. Everything was beautiful and seamless. The Timeline she delivered to all our vendors and our wedding party covered every possible detail! Our guests raved this was the best wedding they’d ever been to and we feel we owe that to the amazing team at Weddings by Lulu! Thank you so much!

and it was clear how personally invested she was in all the decisions and execution. We trusted her completely an she didn't let us down. Her vendor recommendations were rock solid and in general her advice was on point. Thank you so much LuLu, we love you!

ready familiar with and my parents were really impressed even though they didn’t see the need for a planner at first. Lulu and her team had everything covered and anticipated our needs before we even did! Wish we could do it all over again! Highly recommend!

rom out of town. I wanted to make sure that they all had an amazing time and they did! My guests are still talking about how amazing my wedding was thanks to Lulu! I can’t tell you have many times my guests have told me it was the best wedding they’ve ever been too. Every bride wants to hear that! Lulu took care of pretty much everything for me. All of my vendors were recommended by her and she took care of all the decor. I’m eternally grateful for Lulu, honestly she’s the best.

ubmitted my initial inquiry into her services, she responded in less than 24hrs. She was 1 of 3 coordinators I reached out to and she immediately responded. I appreciated our very first call and questionnaire as I had no idea where to start. She's extremely organized, honest and creative. She will not lead you down the wrong path and will ensure what you're asking for is realistic and within budget. Her team is amazing and our wedding day was magical!! My husband and I have been married a little over 2 months now and to this day our friends and family call to ask when we're getting married again as our wedding was the best wedding they've ever attended. Lulu and her team exceeded our expectations and I would recommend her any day to any bride. She will ensure your vision comes to life and your wedding is the most memorable experience!! I truly am thankful to Lulu and her team for making our wedding as special as it was and we will never forget our special day. Thank you Lulu!!!

hat to do and how to keep everything on track. I was definitely a major worrier when it came to the wedding so it was so helpful to have Lulu in my corner. My husband and I lived and got married in New Orleans, but most of our guests were from out of town and since Lulu has done so many destination weddings, she knew exactly what we needed to make our out of town guests feel comfortable. 100% recommend!!

helping us navigate the planning of the big day. All of the vendor recommendations were perfect! Lulu met us and we toured various venues and found the perfect place. The photographer, the cake, the hair and makeup and the officiant were all perfect. All of the guests said that if was the best wedding to which they had ever been. The second line was great! Lulu made sure that everything was well coordinated and during the craziness of the big day we didn't have to worry about the details. Everything went perfectly. The decor and the flower arrangements were beautiful. Thanks lulu!

had the best group of vendors for our wedding and still getting compliments on what a great day it was.

ho had a lot of weddings under her belt, someone who could guide us through the things that we couldn't possibly know yet about planning a wedding, someone local and who knew New Orleans really well, someone with good relationships with hotels and vendors, who was familiar with all the places at which someone could get married, who could help guide us through making a choice, and who had actually planned a few weddings at whichever place we finally chose. We also wanted someone who would make something that looked spectacular and memorable. LuLu knocked the ball out of the park on all fronts! Since we are both practicing attorneys at big firms in New York City, it was also important to find someone who was sensitive to the difficulty of planning an amazing day from afar and with EXTREMELY busy schedules. I cannot stress enough how incredibly helpful and accommodating Lulu was in this regard. I have to think that a big part of that was due to her own experience working at big firms in NYC. She was a great listener, asked good questions, provided incredibly detailed information, helped us to set realistic deadlines, and was available at times that were convenient for us. I would like to say that working with her was the next best thing to being there in person, but, honestly, it was better. Her knowledge helped us to make much better decisions than we could have possibly made on our own. It was just an added bonus that she was also our eyes and ears in New Orleans. Lulu understood our vision from the beginning, our wedding was beautiful and went off without a hitch. My bride and I had the best day of our lives!! Thanks Lulu!

s a consummate professional and handled the entire transaction with our venue, who originally wanted to charge us a hefty penalty for changing. That’s the value of having a professional planner who is known and respected by the vendors we worked with. From that point on, she had our complete trust & confidence! All of her vendor recommendations were solid and a great match for us. On our wedding day we knew we could relax and enjoy ourselves because we had someone so reliable and capable handling everything for us. Even with that high expectation we were blown away to see that she had a team of 4 people working to make everything flawless. Weddings By lulu’s planning package was a little higher than some of the other planners we spoke to but Lulu and her team are worth every single penny and the pitfalls she was able to guide us through were literally worth more than the overall fee we paid. Highly recommend! Shawna & David

AMAZING!! She switched gears easily and planned a destination wedding weekend for us and our 42 guests at a gorgeous resort in Jamaica. We did everything through email and photos and Lulu never steered us wrong! It was a dream weekend, we will never forget.

eas, she knows exactly what you are looking for just by talking to you. Working with Lulu has been the best decision we have made.

he wedding, she was responsive and organized. If you're trying to plan a wedding in New Orleans, just go with Lulu. Our guests have not stopped raving about how fun and awesome the wedding went.

until a few months after hiring her. She just has a real knack for knowing what you like and what you want. Lulu was able to work through all my confusion, concerns and ideas and help me have a wedding day that was truly planned to perfection. She helped with the menu selection, picking out the best vendors, went to our cake tasting with us and came up with the most beautiful plan for flowers and décor. Lulu and her team are truly amazing and we can’t thank them enough.

of her vendor recommendations. Hair, makeup, photography, photography everything! She has great connections and was able to fulfill so many of our special requests, and great instincts—when the brass band our venue recommended (before we hired Lulu) gave her a bad vibe the week before our wedding, she arranged for a back-up plan. Lo and behold, on our wedding day, our original band did not show up but we didn’t even know at the time. All we knew was our dream wedding ended on a perfect high note with the most amazing 2nd line ever! Our guests are still raving about what a good time they had. We only found out the next day the original band didn’t show up. She handled everything like a real pro. Lulu’s recommendation was reliable and played their hearts out. Thank you so much Lulu xoxox

so overwhelming. She was so reassuring and knowledgable over the phone and made suggestions for places to remove from our schedule and also add to it. Her recommendations were spot on and we ended up booking the place she thought would be perfect for us just from our phone call! She is a wedding wizard and the next 10 months of planning were pretty much the same. Our wedding was absolutely beautiful and stress-free because of Lulu and her team and I highly recommend them to anyone planning a destination wedding in New Orleans.

bout 11 months. In the beginning, I would just send Lulu emails asking certain questions and she would usually respond within 1-2 weeks. If there is a question that you need an immediate answer, she is available by text, but in the early stages, 1-2 weeks was fine for me. (I later learned that once it gets closer to your actual wedding date, she responds way quicker. I like this because I think she prioritizes her time with her brides who have a fast approaching date! In the last month of planning, we were contacting each other almost daily!) About 6 months out from the wedding, she created a pinterest board and I pinned ideas that I liked and she used that to help me design my rehearsal dinner and wedding reception (we hired her to plan both for us). We also got married at a chapel that didn't have its own wedding coordinator to run the ceremony so Lulu and her team did the actual ceremony for us as well. We had a couple phone consultations to discuss prices, budget, the pins I had pinned on pinterest and she then made me a big document with her vision of the events from what we disccussed. She had great ideas that I hadn't thought of, but yet she still worked in everything that I wanted. Everything went off perfectly! The last month would have been way more stressful if I didn't have her. I was an out of town bride so 100% of our communication was long distance and the wedding still went off just as I hoped! She arranged everything with the vendors that I booked, and made a huge minute by minute timeline for all the events that weekend. Everyone involved got a timeline copy so they knew where to be and when. That made it so much less stressful on me! The day of the wedding, I had one of Lulu's bridal attendants with me the entire day. She made sure I ate, organized with the photographer for pictures and let me know what to expect next. Alex was who I had and she was amazing! Thank you to Lulu and her amazing team for helping me plan the wedding of my dreams! :) You wont regret hiring her!

“The Knot” and started looking for wedding planners and came across Lulu. She went above and beyond; she really helped our dreams come to reality. We had a beautiful courtyard wedding, and we did a second line to the restaurant. I loved working with her and her team. Thank you Lulu! You really are the best =)

was very organized and gathered all the information we needed to make decisions for venue, catering, music, flowers, photographer, etc. People say that planning a wedding is stressful, but with LuLu the whole process was fun! She takes the stressful parts out of planning and makes it easier for you to enjoy it for the wonderful time that it is! When the weekend and day finally arrived her team made our dreams a reality and it was absolutely the best day ever. Their "day of" timeline kept our wedding party in check and everything running smoothly. Our guests still talk to us about how much fun they had- and none of it would have been possible without Weddings By Lulu.

a blast. She handled everything from the floral arrangements to vendor coordination. I would highly recommend Weddings by lulu to anyone planning a destination wedding in New Orleans.

I could tell she was a good fit for our wedding. Boy was I right! I was not the bride who had it all figured out ahead of time. I knew the look and feel that we wanted in general, but I had no clue where to begin, especially since I no longer lived in NOLA and had to plan this from afar. She thinks of everything for you. We set up a trip to NOLA and she coordinated a full day of venue visits to fit our needs for both the rehearsal dinner and reception. She also set up a hair and makeup trial for me, a tasting with two bakeries, and a meeting with a suggested photographer! Phew! She was a breeze to work with throughout the entire process, very responsive to all of my questions and ideas. Most importantly, our wedding day was the most perfect day I could ever have imagined! Honestly, if something went wrong I didn’t know about it – and THAT is the sign of a great planner! My family was so impressed with how smoothly things ran, and all of our guests had a blast! You cannot go wrong working with Lulu, Alex, and the team at Weddings by Lulu. They will make sure your day is perfect and you feel like the stars you are!

glad she did! From the first moment I contacted her she made me feel at ease and that we were in the right hands being so far away and never even seeing our venues. Lulu has a wonderful eye for detail, she was always there for me to talk to or email and she is extremely patient, knowledgable and creative! I don't believe in coincidences I believe Lulu was a blessing and I am so grateful to her for helping me have the wedding of my dreams! I miss her already :)

verything was totally taken care of!!!

dding date got closer, she was available and in touch 24/7. A few weeks before the wedding, I was in Nola and wanted to meet with her, and only gave her a last minute notice. She came straight from the airport to see me, while her family was in the car after her vacation, just to accommodate my needs. She is very sweet and extremely nice, while being very professional. Her entire team is also professional, and I was very pleased and trusted them with all my decisions. She pulled it all together, and anticipated and helped avoid many issues before they happened. She also solved problems as they popped up. As an example, I had one too many drinks before our "2nd Line Parade" and it went straight to my head. Needless to say, after the 2nd Line she changed the plans a little bit, and made sure I got some food to help me sober up a little. She truly cared that our wedding was successful from start to finish. I am so glad I have chose WBL - she helped make my beautiful dream wedding become a reality. We love you Lulu!!!

h sensitivity and respect and made sure to only put us in touch with other vendors who would do the same. We can’t thank Lulu enough for a wedding day we will never forget!

ff right away. She seemed to hone in right away on what we were looking for--a fantastic but unique wedding weekend getaway focused on food, friends and love. She has a great talent for personalizing decor ideas that we bring to her and making them our own. She also has a great talent for keeping me balanced and calm when I get crazed over tiny details I cant control, lol--thank you, Lulu!

fe for us. She helped us find the perfect venue and really great vendors to create a really impressive 7-course meal that highlighted the awesome local cuisine and really wowed our guests. The whole evening was elegant and refined and topped off by a stunning secondline parade leading our guests to the perfect private after-party on Bourbon. Lilu was lovely to work with, very intuitive and and professional. We highly recommend Wedding by Lulu!

e and organization, as good as it gets. One of the absolute best! Highly attentive to bride and grooms needs and puts together the most beautiful events.

en the last day planned to interview a couple planners. I had already had a great telephone call with LuLu, where she advised that one of the big values of having a planner was for them to help you narrow down your visits to places that were a good fit, but to be thorough, I wanted to meet a few in person first and thought I had the venue research down pat. Well after 2 very long, tiring days at various venues that just seemed so different in person than they did online I wondered if I had made a mistake. As soon as we met LuLu she could tell we were unhappy. She asked a few questions about what we were looking for and the places we didn’t like and on the spot, set up 3 appointments (on a Sunday!) at venues she thought would be a good fit. We didn’t bother meeting with anyone else and the very first venue she took us to was a winner! And that’s pretty much how the rest of the relationship went: LuLu asking thoughtful intelligent questions and intuitively understanding what we wanted. We got the full planning package and she literally took care of EVERY wedding detail. On our wedding day I literally had tears in my eyes at how beautiful everything was. LuLu and her team flawlessly executed the plans we made, the design we dreamed of, they made sure our every need was taken care of, ran interference with parents and the one thing that was most important to me: kept everything on schedule! I highly recommend hiring a wedding planner. I wholeheartedly recommend hiring Weddings BY LuLu!

ce.   I didn’t have a worry in the world on the day of the wedding because I knew Lulu and her team were working behind the scenes to make sure it went smoothly.   Weddings By Lulu was an absolute godsend!

nce. She was so professional and was able to pull together everything we wanted and even some things we never thought of! Lot’s of her suggestions helped to make our wedding even more special. Do yourself a favor and hire Weddings By lulu for a wedding even more spectacular than you imagined.

ave every vendor we needed on speed dial. She worked tirelessly to make my dream wedding a reality. We used Pinterest to share photos and ideas and from that she came up with flowers and décor beyond what I even originally imagined! She understood my love for candles and created the most romantic setting for our ceremony. On a personal level she's also incredibly reassuring - she understands the stress a bride is under in planning a destination wedding - she was able to calm my nerves many times throughout the process and especially in the days leading up to the wedding when everything is happening so fast and questions are coming at you from a million directions! Our wedding was beautiful, organized and the most fun ever. Lulu said she hoped we would feel like honored guests at our own wedding and that’s exactly what it was like for us. If anything went wrong behind the scenes we were blissfully unaware. Our guests are still raving ours was the best wedding they’d ever been to and I agree!

from a distance. We had total faith in her and she really came through for us. She treated our complicated blended family situation like a pro and nothing ever seemed to ruffle her feathers. Thank you LulLu for making our wedding the best day ever!

. Hiring Lulu was, I have to say, the single best decision that I made throughout the entire wedding planning process. Planning a wedding is stressful enough but deciding to plan one from across the country at times felt like insanity. Lulu helped me at every step of the way during the wedding process. She was always there to answer all (no matter how silly) of my questions and to talk me down the ledge a few times. She took care of all of the hotel blocks for guests, which was no easy task because there was a huge realtor convention in town that weekend. She found us enough rooms and different price points to please all of our guests. She has such an amazing list of and relationship with many reputable and reliable vendors for all price ranges.It made planning a wedding from out of town a piece of cake. I literally did not stray from her suggested list (band, flowers, hair/make up, venue, photographer, cake) and I was so impressed at the level of talent and professionalism from everyone. Having her there the day of the wedding was wonderful too. She made sure to take care of all of the behind the scenes details so that my husband and I could enjoy spending time with our friends and our family. My husband and I truly feel like our wedding was everything that we wanted it to be for ourselves and our guests and a huge reason is because we had Lulu's help. Ladies, I am telling you: hire a wedding planner and make it Lulu! Hiring a wedding planning is an investment that is SO worth it and Lulu is so good at what she does.

One of my projects that I was excited about couldn't come to fruition because she didn't seem to want to listen to me when setting it up. At some points she would disappear for a few days and I would have to email her a few times. The day of she had a bunch of girls I didn't know standing in for her and a lot of my stuff got left at the hotel or damaged. On the plus side she did have good tips and all my vendors showed up, and on time.

al seemed disorganized, emails were not returned promptly, and I wanted to feel more confident that everything was taken care of through process and day of as that is what I valued most as an out of town bride.

rbly. Nearly every single guest at our wedding came up to us and said it was one of the best, if not the best, wedding they had ever been to - and I agree. I felt like a guest at my own wedding (of course, the most VIP guest!) - it was that much fun and stress-free! I hired Lulu about 6 months before our wedding. For the entire time we worked together, she was always available to me, and answered any questions I had promptly. She gave me THE BEST vendor suggestions - literally every single vendor I used that she suggested was outstanding. I really trusted her experience and that trust payed off, as it spared me a lot of headache and unnecessary stress. My mother said that I was the most stress-free and relaxed bride she had ever seen, but that is because Lulu took all of that stress away. She planned and executed every detail of my vision exactly the way I wanted it. Lulu learned, very early on, what was most important to me about our wedding, and made sure that she focused on those aspects. When I look back on the day I could not imagine having done it with out Lulu. If I could do it all over again I'd hire Lulu again, in a heartbeat.

ew the New Orleans wedding scene and Lulu was absolutely perfect! From our first conversation I was very impressed with her calm demeanor, knowledge and helpful suggestions. She put me totally at ease and made everything very easy. About two weeks before the wedding she took over all my vendor communication and allowed for me to really relax and enjoy. She also helped to arrange our second line which when planning from a far can be a huge pain! She attended our rehearsal and was a breath of fresh air. On the day of she helps orchestrate everything down to the last detail. She is direct and has a very high standard of service. She is the lady you want on your side because she knows how to get things done and how to make sure everything turns out exactly how you wanted it. She is very easy to communicate with and always replies super fast. Even weeks after our wedding she is still helping us with marriage license questions :). Lulu was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding, I don't know what I would have done without her!

ay but I was pleasantly surprised to see that the chairs were there first thing that morning. I have to agree that her response time made me a bit nervous but I really appreciated her team delivering those chairs so early because it relieved a lot of stress on my end. So still 5 starts from me. :-)

useful information to help us select our vendors. She also has a florist that she works with that we ended up using, who did a wonderful job, a warehouse of decor that you can rent, and an eye for decoration that really helped take the pressure off of me, since I am a person who looks at something on Pinterest and has no idea how to recreate it and make it look good. I would say that Lulu's strength is definitely the week before the wedding and the day of, as well as decor. She decorated the venue, handled the day-of payment of vendors, and provided a team of assistants who really helped run things smoothly. I wouldn't have been able to do the day of without her for sure, and I relied on her for a lot of advice and logistics the week of the wedding. She also has a mailbox where we sent some of our things in preparation for the weekend, which was super convenient, as we are from out of town. All that said, I still did a lot of work. Choosing and agreeing with vendors, contracts, payments, selections for various elements, like equipment rental from the caterer (Lulu took over since she was managing decorations), and all the other nitty gritty stuff that needed our decision-making. Lulu started working with us a year before the wedding and really ramped up the week of and definitely on the day. I would say her pricing is fair for the amount of work she put in over an entire year. The only reason that I've taken a star from the service, quality, and overall ratings is that I honestly did worry about responsiveness at times. There were moments when I'd ask some questions and get radio silence for up to two weeks (this was early in the planning process, though so I know she had other weddings to attend to), and there was an issue with two out of three hotel blocks that Lulu had set up. I had to redo them. She was late to our initial meeting when we were seeing venues, and deliverables ("I'll send you a decor proposal by Friday") often arrived after her self-imposed deadline. There were definitely times, especially early on, when I felt like I had to check in and check up on what she was doing for us, as it seemed unfocused. It seems like reviews of Lulu's services are either 5-stars all the way or a very disappointed "Wow, what are all these other people smoking?" I think we veered a few times into "Did we make the right decision?" territory, especially trying to plan a wedding from out of town and not feeling like we had anyone on the other end to answer emails, but Lulu really pulled through as we got down to the wire. Sometimes, I must admit, I couldn't really handle this kind of suspense, but we had a wonderful day, truly the best one in our lives so far, our friends and family loved it, and the venue looked amazing, and we were very happy with it. That's all that matters. Overall, despite a few bumps early in the relationship, I'm very grateful for how the weekend turned out and we definitely couldn't have done it without her!

immediately put me at ease about the fact that we were trying to plan a destination wedding for 150 people from 3 different countries without being able to visit before-hand! We hired her right away. She gave such great descriptions of our possible venues and even took pictures for us so we could pick the perfect place for our wedding. And every other decision was just as informed and easy to make. All her vendor recommendations were excellent. When we arrived in town for the wedding 10 months later everything was laid out perfectly for us. Each vendor knew what to do and when to do it, our flowers and décor were gorgeous and our wedding day was just perfection. All our guests gushed about this being the best wedding they had ever been to and that was in large part because of Lulu’s amazing attention to detail, and the loving care she seemed to treat each aspect of our wedding with.

e, officiant for the service, horse drawn carriage, jazz band, beautiful flowers for the site, bouquet and boutonnieres, hair and makeup, photography, dinner, cake). Lulu is an intelligent, thoughtful, savvy and gracious wedding planner. Her knowledge and attention to detail is exceptional. She provided excellent recommendations for vendors and had practical suggestions for all aspects of our wedding. Planning from afar is always difficult, and Lulu's understanding of the city and the arrangements needed meant everything came together in true New Orleans style - relaxed, personal, great food, great music, historic setting, and great people to work with throughout the day! I could not have asked for more - I think she even organized perfect weather somehow! Lulu and I communicated via email and finally met the day before the wedding - she had it all organized and offered insightful recommendations about timing and the flow of the day. She arrived early on our day and made sure all details were in place - and that the vendors were all apprised of the plans. Lulu had negotiated many aspects of the day on our behalf exceedingly well and I felt as if I had a guardian angel with me at every step - right down to making sure the train of my gown missed any inadvertent puddles. I cannot recommend her services highly enough - she is truly a lovely lady inside and out, with a keen understanding of the industry and the beautiful city she calls home. I feel fortunate to have found her amongst the many wedding planners available. I sincerely believe she is the best there is!

on Lulu when we knew that we had a great conversation and that she understood exactly what we wanted and who we were as a couple. There were only a few must haves on our list--- open bar and a second line. She was helpful in finding a ceremony place and reception place even though we seemed to already have in mind what we want but ended up loving her ideas better. We needed to make sure our guests had the best time and that's exactly what they had. We're still hearing from our guests a month later on how amazing the reception room looked, how perfect the ceremony was and how much fun the "parade" was. Lulu made all of this happen and we couldn't have asked for a better planner to help us put together our dream day.

bts. But I convinced myself that it was ok because her reviews were so good and I thought things were going to turn around. Unfortunately, they never did. The biggest problem I had was that she was an hour late to a meeting we had scheduled with another vendor the week of my wedding (it was a destination wedding). So we had to have the meeting without her. The morning of the wedding no one could contact her for a few hours. While she was at the wedding she was rude to a few guests. It was totally unprofessional. In addition, she was unresponsive - weeks would go by and I often had to follow-up multiple times before she'd respond to my emails. She was not attentive - I would email her with important details and she would ask about them later as if I never told her. She was not detailed - the floor plan that was part of the contract was completely unusable (it had seating for 30 more people than we had). After the wedding, she was supposed to collect some of the things that I brought and a bunch of votives never made it back. From start to finish, working with Lulu was frustrating and a disaster.