They just moved their business 2 blocks down the street on North Avenue to 2605 West North Avenue. They moved from the 3rd floor to the 1st floor (street level) into a larger space that they now rent out for events. The new location can accommodate up to 80 people and they can furnish anything and everything from chairs and tables to flower walls and decorations. Food, desserts, beverages and music. They did a wedding with a couple of fabulous chinese dragons. Their main business so far has been weddings, but they are ready to dive into the event business also. The event space had an Italian village theme with delicious italian food, limoncello, italian ice, cofee and an awesome sweets table along with a photobooth with one of their beautiful flower walls. If you are planning a wedding or event, give them a call and see what they can do for you. read more

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Before starting I would like to make it clear that in no way am I trying to bash Lil Epic Design Studio team. Instead, I hope for this to come out as constructive criticism. I would give four stars to the studio. The value of this is like no other, especially with the amenities that are included, like the flower wall, greenery/hedge wall, string lights dangling beautifully from the ceiling, couches, and Apple TV to name a few. My guests (and myself!) thoroughly enjoyed the flower wall as photobooth backdrop. Our photographer was amazed at the lighting in the studio. The greenery/hedge wall was perfect for my son's sweets table backdrop. I had used the Apple TV to stream a slideshow of my son on loop. The kitchen island is perfect for a buffet style hospitality. Although, our guest attendance was lower than expected, the studio can easily fit about 80 guests. Lil Epic Design Studio is gorgeous, welcoming, and clean. Like I said, we had used their planning and styling services. This I would give a 2-2.5 stars. Prior to meeting with them, I had a theme picked out, and other little details I wanted to incorporate. I had it all drawn and listed out in a notebook. The first meeting I had with the team, I explained to them exactly what I wanted, and hear out what they think. We agreed that everything we discussed were possibly. The team assured me that everything was doable and by the time we get to the studio on the day of the party, everything would be ready. The next few meetings, I felt like I had to remind them what exactly we discussed previously. It was almost as if we were meeting for the first time over and over again. Then the week of the party, we were able to drop off plates, cups, drinks, and other items which was really convenient. The day of the party, we got to the studio about an hour before the party starts. When arriving to the studio, there were key details that were missing. We agreed to customize the flower wall with a few blue flowers, but that was not done. It was kept white. Our centerpieces were supposed to be mason jars and handmade tissue paper carnations, but instead, the centerpieces were red roses in a flimsy painted container. I had brought in a children's book at our second to the last meeting that was meant to be the guest book in which our guests were to write little notes throughout it, but the book was nowhere to be found. I let the in-studio assistant know, so maybe she could find it before guests could arrive, but she couldn't find it. This was the one thing I was most upset about. I wanted my son to have this book full of messages from his guests to look back on, but because it was misplaced, he was not able to have this memorabilia. I also have yet to get the book back. Along with the guestbook, I had recommended a sign made so guests knew what and where to write in the book. This was not made. As I said earlier, they assured me that everything would be ready and that all I had to do was place the food that I brought in in the warmer. This was nowhere near the case, especially when it came to the cake/sweets table. My family and I had to arrange all the food, and arrange the plasticware. I had my photographer get there 30 minutes before the party, so we could take pictures before the guests arrived, but we were not able to do that because I was still setting everything up. By the time of the party and when guests started to arrive, I was just getting finished setting up. Lastly, the back where the bathroom is located was not cleaned. There were boxes stacked on the bench and on the floor. After all this, I do have a few suggestions. When having a new client, schedule all the meetings needed, so it's already planned out. I had to reach out to them to schedule a meeting. At times, I was stressing out because I wanted to schedule a meeting, but wouldn't receive a reply for days. Also, I wanted to meet, so we could be on the same page and start spreading out my expenses instead of buying everything all in one week. Another suggestion is to have a worksheet of things you should discuss each meeting, so each meeting is productive and organized. Like I said earlier, I felt like each meeting we had was like the first meeting all over again because we were having to discuss things that were finalized meetings ago. I understand that they're a growing team, but seems that time management is a weakness. Emails would go unresponded for days. I've had to double, triple, almost quadruple email them to get their attention. Each time there would be a different excuse given. Lastly, I felt like my event was not prioritized compared to others. I follow them on Instagram, and Facebook, and I have seen them take quality time on other projects, especially when it involved well known brands like LinkedIn and SocialWorks, or high end weddings. All in all, I would use their space again for any occasion, but using their planning and styling services, I don't want empty promises. read more

Lil Epic Design - Our cake/sweets table - Party & Event Planning Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Where do we even start?? Lil Epic Design, thank you! We will forever be grateful to your whole team, special mention to Chyrel, Camille, Megan! :) To share our whole experience having them in my life, We got married in July 2019 but they started helping us March of 2018. We initially found them because we were looking for a boxwood type with white flowers drop flowing as a backdrop for the reception venue, then found out that they do wedding coordination. So we had them as my day of wedding coordinator and for the flower wall. As we continue to plan our wedding, we had such a hard time looking for a florist that understands our vision. We wanted it to be us, personal, cozy, comfortable, romantic and welcoming. Me and my husband come from different cultures and needed someone to understand that our concepts of celebration is different. We shared our concerns with Chyrel and she told me they do flowers and event design! She is an angel! We took time to think about it and continued to look for a florist, but among 8 florists, she was the one who saw my vision and was open to try what we wanted. So we had them design our reception venue and took care of the bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres. After that, they have made my year of wedding plan so easy! Coming close to the wedding, we did mock up table settings that gave us and Chyrel an opportunity to collaborate and share ideas on how to make it better. One of the many things I love about Chyrel is, she allows us to voice our opinion, she hears us, she gives her input, then we come up something together that is so much better! With the wedding coordination, Chyrel and Camille helped us build the timeline, reached out to all our vendors- church coordinator, dj, photographer, videographer, venue coordinator, everyone that is involved in our wedding and made sure everyone is on the same page for wedding day. On the wedding day, Camille was there bright and early in our hotel rooms, running back and forth, checking on me and my husband, making sure we are fine, and on schedule. My dad didn't eat much for breakfast and was getting light headed in church. Camille in the rescue and had some granola bars ready and definitely made my dad feel better. (Also, I didn't know this was happening at that time until my dad told me a few days after the wedding). She also did a McDonalds run for my wedding entourage for snacks in the bus after the ceremony. :) When we got to the reception venue, everything was perfect! Everything was what we envisioned it to be, even more! It was so beautiful. We truly gasped when we saw everything! The timeline for the reception when smoothly because of them! They coordinated well with the DJ and came up with plans when we needed to modify things. They also helped my maid of honor plan her powerpoint surprise while making her speech. There are still so many things we can talk about how much they helped us throughout the wedding process. We only have high praises for them! we'll attached pictures soon when we get the official ones. Thank you Lil Epic! All the best, Jan and Lukasz read more

Lil Epic Design - Party & Event Planning Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

I hate writing negative reviews, but as I look back on my wedding day I feel very angry with them. The flower wall was beautiful, but that is all that I can compliment about their service. They made tons of promises that they never kept. They didn't remember things we told them from one time to the next. I practically had to beg them to set up a contract and payment - which then meant that I couldn't make incremental payments like they promised me I could. The flowers for our wedding were overbloomed and look dirty and gross in pictures. Their coordination services were a joke - if my best friend wasn't there to corral everything, the wedding would never have taken place. The wedding cake almost didn't show up and they were no help at all. Big fat no, but again, the flower wall WAS gorgeous as a photo backdrop. Maybe it was because ours was a smaller event with a smaller budget? read more

We used Chyrel from Lil Epic for full planning and day of coordination for my 230 person wedding. I would have DIED without Chyrel. Not only was she more affordable than most, she was always responsive, helpful, positive, and took so many things off my plate. We talked almost every day via text and phone as the day approached, and she remembered the 10000 details I asked her to remember. She was always confident that my vision could come to life, and never told me no. She also set up a late night bonfire for us day of, complete with apothecary jars filled with hot chocolate! She set up all my DIY things for me, and did this exactly to my direction. A few nights before the wedding, she came to my parents house and loaded an entire van full of wedding things so that my family didn't have to schlep it 90 minutes to the venue. She brought a team of four, day-of, and they did not rest for a minute. My venue was The Pavilion at Orchard Ridge Farms. There were sprawling hills and acres of land between the bridal suite, the ceremony, and the reception. Chyrel and her Lil Epic team ran back and forth all day, sweating, winded, and happily busy making sure everything was decorated exactly to my discretion, and making sure I had every single thing I needed. They even golf carted myself, the 33 person bridal party, and the groom's grandmother everywhere we needed to be. I was the happiest bride day-of because I literally had nothing to do but get ready and party with my bridesmaids. I told Chyrel "I love you" 36 times during the wedding day because every time I saw her I was reminded of how easy my life was because of her. Thank you, Chyrel! Our guests told us that our wedding was "a fairy tale" and the "mother of all weddings" and it would have never happened without you!!!!!!!! read more

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Lil Epic Design? More like Big Epic Fail. My fiance didn't have a great feeling about them, so we set up a meeting before agreeing to sign with all of the tasks we expected to be completed divvied up across the months we were signing up for clearly spelled out. We asked if they thought this was doable in the time allotted and they said yes. Chyrel said she would send the contract in 2 days. It didn't come until 4. Not a big deal, but as a wedding planner, it's a red flag when you don't follow through on what you say you're going to do. When we finally got it, our wedding date was wrong. She said she'd get the updated contract over "in a few." Which to her meant 3 days. And the date was STILL wrong. Red flag #2: poor attention to detail. Over the next couple of weeks, we waited for updates on caterers and photographers. When they finally sent only two, they provided very limited information. When we emailed back asking a couple of questions, they didn't respond. And I had to keep pushing them to send us photographers because we wanted to meet with them during the upcoming trip. When she finally sent ONE option, I asked her some questions. When she eventually responded to my email, she didn't answer any of them - yet again. At one point, she said she'd email us a photographer when she got in the office. She never did - another promise made, another promise broken. If you can't meet a deadline, stop giving yourself one. It'd been weeks since we'd hired them with nothing on the calendar for the fast approaching out of town trip. We sent them an email, this time BULLETING out the unanswered questions and told them we're uncomfortable with the lack of progress and communication. We said if they didn't have time to plan our wedding, then to let us know now so we can decide if we need to go in another direction without them and stop wasting our dwindling time. Sensing we were about to fire them, Chyrel scheduled a call with us that afternoon to give us a status update. Then she spent the entire morning scrambling to call caterers to prove they'd done SOME work and blamed their lack of progress on the vendors not responding. However, she forwarded us an email from a caterer that said, "Thanks for reaching out to us this morning..." so they clearly had JUST called them and got an IMMEDIATE response. And she didn't even ask for the right quotes. We wanted family-style dining. She requested buffet and plated dinners. More time wasted. I asked her if these quotes included cocktail hour appetizers. She said yes, but then her explanation related to dinner, not the appetizers. So I asked her 2 more times until finally she said, "Oh. Cocktail hour appetizers...? No I'll have to get more details for that..." Um, what? When we pushed her to get a quote for family-style from a caterer, she said he had said it would be difficult, but he could do it and she didn't want to press further. I had to finally firmly tell her WE'RE NOT DOING BUFFET, get the quote for family-style! When we finally spoke to the caterer ourselves, he said family-style was not a problem at all. So Chyrel just wanted to sell us on buffet-style so she didn't have to do anymore work. Chyrel mentioned one other caterer. We said we'd like to set something up with them while we're out there. Instead of being proactive and efficient, Chyrel said, "Well...let's explore these two caterers. If they don't work, we'll look into this one." How does that make sense? This is an out of town venue. Why would you not try to meet with as many people as possible? Lazy. Poor time management. And to top it off, because they were so slow to contact our caterers for our visit, leaving us to handle it on or own, we weren't able to give the vendors the 2 weeks notice they require in order to prepare a tasting for us. Yet, another way they screwed us. That night, after her team reviewed their "progress", they stepped down "from being your planners because we feel that we cannot provide you with the attention you deserve for this." So basically, after we hired them to plan our wedding, they said, "Oh wait. You wanted us to PLAN your wedding? Oh no. We don't do that." So after making minimal calls and not responding to our questions, the work was just too overbearing so they quit. I'm sure they'll argue that we're not their only clients, yadda yadda, but all we wanted was for them to make a true effort in reaching out to vendors, send us the information they promised from DAYS earlier and answer our questions from a full week ago. If that's too demanding, then they're in the wrong business. If we hadn't called them out for doing next to nothing, who knows how long they would've yanked us along and screwed us even more. Hiring a wedding planner is suppose to relieve you of stress. They just made the whole thing 10x worse. Bottom line. This is a business transaction. They offered a service and they didn't deliver. read more

There are not enough words to say how much we love Chyrel, Megan, and their team at Lil Epic Design. I first contacted them because I saw their beautiful paper flower wall and knew I had to have it. Little did I know they were a full service team! My husband was a little iffy in getting help at first but after meeting them and chatting for a few minutes he was sold. We wanted to throw an awesome party but neither of us had ever been to a wedding that was structured the way we wanted ours to be. Chyrel and Megan were complete lifesavers in the wedding planning process from start to finish. They really put our minds at ease when we were overwhelmed at the number of vendors we had and all of the options that were available. They took our vision and ran with it. Their awesome ideas turned a blank venue space into a cool supper club for our 250 guest reception. They worked with us to personalize every single detail from the layout to décor to program order to drink names. They even incorporated our bulldog into our sweets table since he couldn't be at the wedding! They did our day-of coordination, designed and printed our invitations and programs, kept in close contact with all of our vendors during the entire planning process, kept an eye on the kids at the reception and even did an extra liquor run when we were running low. They made sure our gifts were safe and gathered all of our belongings at the end of the night. I actually can't think of one thing that they didn't do for us! Chyrel, Megan, and team are highly organized and their service is top notch. They are so fun to be around and we really enjoyed working closely with them. We still keep in touch and can't wait to work with them in some capacity in the future. I highly recommend Lil Epic Design!!!! In fact, my friend used them for her wedding and had the same high quality experience and my cousin is working with them now and I know her wedding is going to be spectacular. read more

So happy I found Lil Epic Design! I live in nyc and I thought planning a party in Chicago would be impossible. But I found lil epic and they made her whole process seamless and so easy. I gave them an idea of what I wanted and they took the idea and made it so beautiful! I was so impressed that they took the initiative to go to the party site (I was unable) to take pictures and to make sure their design concept was possible. Also, Communication was seamless and easy. All emails were promptly answered and the contract was straight forward and easy to understand. Thank you lil epic design! I hope I can use you again and I will be recommending to all my Chicago peeps! read more

After starting to plan a wedding for 350+ people, myself and my husband realized we were in over our heads! I had seen a picture from a co-worker of a custom floral wall and knew that very moment it would be perfect for our wedding. They created a massive floral wall behind the head table and incorporated our colors. I will never forget seeing the beautiful wall for the first time! I soon found out that Chyrel and her team could help us with everything, and they completed our vision beyond words could describe! Each and every team member worked together to help create what we didn't think was possible. From the programs, centerpieces, florals, ceremony decor, linens, and even the floor plan, each detail was well thought out and creatively done. As a bride, many new ideas crossed my mind and we would run them past the team.They ALWAYS had a plan or other option to make it work. Closer to the wedding we realized we had not booked transportation, worried, we made the call to Chyrel and the team. She had 2 limo buses booked in no time and our stress was gone! Chyrel is absolutely amazing to work with, listens to what you envision, accepts changes, and always has a positive outlook and plan in place. She was accommodating on setting meetings halfway between us both, regularly updated timelines and budgets, and allowed us to actually relax and enjoy the planning. The teams work ethic to get things accomplished for us was outstanding. We couldn't have had a more perfect wedding without them all! We will always keep in touch with them and plan to use them for upcoming parties and big occasions. Thanks you so much for making our dream wedding everything it could be!!! read more

My company and I hired them to build a flower back drop wall for attendees to take photos in front of for a children's event we were having. During set up, they did not seem like they knew what they were doing and we were pretty concerned it was not being built well, even though they told us they had built these walls a lot before. Needless to say, the wall FELL on children while they were taking a picture. No one hurt, but it was a disaster. On top of that, super unfriendly and not nice to work with. Would not recommend lil epic. read more

Chyrel and team thank you so much for your dedication and invaluable work ethic. I put all my trust into Chyrel and she did not let me down. My family had an awesome time and we will have awesome memories to remember. Chyrel has an outstanding sense for attention to detail. Thank you so much!!! read more

Truly amazing! Lil Epic Design helped bring my vision to life. They put my stress to rest. They are visionaries! I had a specific theme in mind and they executed it with perfection, elegance, and ethereal beauty. It is not easy to pull together a Studio Ghibli themed wedding and make it elegant and classy! But they sure did! I was in over my head with all the planning and they saved the day. Easy to communicate with and always on top of their game. They coordinated with all my vendors and made sure the wedding went smoothly and on time. I was able to enjoy my wedding day without stress or worry. I'm so incredibly happy with how it turned out and my guests were RAVING about how awesome and unique my wedding was. They also designed a beautiful flower arch and candle altar for me. I felt like a queen. If you are looking for help with your wedding planning or coordination, look no further! They will not only help with planning but they will help you elevate your ideas into a memorable experience. Thank you Megan and Chyrel. I'm so grateful for your help. read more