Engaging Events by Ali

Engaging Events by Ali is a Chicago-based wedding planning and design firm led by Ali Phillips, offering full-service planning for local, destination, and South Asian weddings. The firm handles multi-day, multicultural, and South Asian weddings with 18 years of experience in that specialty, alongside destination weddings worldwide and intimate elopements; Ali Phillips is also an ordained officiant. Ali Phillips has over 22 years of experience and has planned over 500 weddings and events; the firm has been honored as one of Chicago's top wedding planners by Brides Magazine and Chicago Magazine, and named one of the top destination wedding planners in the world by Destination Weddings and Honeymoons. Based in Chicago, the firm plans weddings across the Chicagoland area and destination weddings worldwide, with past events in Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Ireland, and an Old World castle in the English countryside. Couples and collaborating vendors highlight Ali's cultural knowledge of Indian, Chinese, and Bengali traditions, her organized and calm approach to multi-day events, her vendor recommendations, and the seamless logistics her team delivers across complex weddings.