full-service event design & production house... Michael Lin is truly the cheat code for wedding planning. Looking back, Michael/Lily is the reason our whole wedding season felt high-touch & calm (even tho the schedule was unhinged). Im Chinese & my husband is American, so we needed someone who could execute western black-tie standards + Ch tradition w/o turning it into a compromise or a weird mashup. Michael just gets it, & he has the in-house team to execute it. We worked w/ Michael across 6 events: 1. ENGAGEMENT PARTY (APRIL 2024) 2. PRE-WEDDING STYLED SHOOTS (SPRING 2025) 3. COUPLES SHOWER (AUG 2025) 4. PRIVATE CH TEA CEREMONY / DOOR GAMES / SEND OFF + OPENING NIGHT GALA + REHEARSAL DINNER (10/16/25) 5. AMERICAN WEDDING (10/17/25 6. CHINESE WEDDING (10/21/25) We booked his top package, so 1 team owned basically everything: creative direction + decor + florals (faux + fresh), styling/wardrobe (gown/tux rentals w/tailoring), glam, photo/video, DJ/MC, day-of ops, full install/strike, send-offs, plus the production backbone (pro audio + mics, intelligent lighting, staging, wrapped statement dance floors, screens/video walls). ENGAGEMENT PARTY (APRIL 2024) Michael took a Huntington church auditorium & turned it into a Bridgerton vibe soiree for 100 guests off my Pinterest/TikTok inspo. His 10+ person crew flipped the room in 3 hours, disappeared during the event, then left it spotless after, while our family got hair/makeup + tailored rentals at Imperial Bridal (returned 48 hours later). He also set us up w/ a photographer who got every must-have shot & kept us circulating w/o getting stuck in 1 convo. PRE-WEDDING STYLED SHOOTS (SPRING 2025) Full Korea-style pre-wedding shoot day w/o leaving NYC: 12+ hours, 4 looks, 2 indoor sets + 2 outdoor locations, 1,000+ raw photos, 50 final retouched images. Lily refreshed hair/makeup/wardrobe for every look, Malin directed posing so it read editorial (not stiff), & we used the images for our website/invites/signage/socials. COUPLES SHOWER (AUGUST 2025) At Terrace on the Park, Michael produced a couples shower w/ wedding-tier polish. Every sign + display (welcome moment, cocktail menu, Wedding Times branding) was custom so it looked cohesive, & the space was built w/ immersive draping, an outdoor photo moment, floral installs, cigar lounge, lighting, the full vibe. He also sourced our DJ/emcee + content creator so energy, announcements & footage all matched. I was nervous bc Ch people dont usually do showers, but Michael made it feel natural for both sides. CH CEREMONY + REHEARSAL DINNER NIGHT (10/16/25) 10/16 was not a pre-wedding day, it was a full cinematic production w/ multiple segments + outfit eras, run like a touring show. The Ch ceremony + door games + tea ceremony + send-off were staged & timed clean, bridal suite was photo-ready when photo/video arrived bc Michael coordinated setup + timing. Biggest game-changer: we did bridal party + family portraits on 10/16, so 10/17 felt peaceful (more candid, less posing). Then it rolled straight into our rehearsal dinner opening night gala at Blu Ember, incl a dress rehearsal w/ Farrah (our 2nd Am planner) + our officiant. The pacing felt intentional from start to finish. AMERICAN BLACK-TIE WEDDING AT WESTIN FLUSHING (10/17/25) Black-tie at concert-production level. Theme was Met Gala x Ultra Music Festival & Michael delivered: 14+ ft floral ceremony build, cocktail hour w/ 25+ life-size photo gallery, grand ballroom transformation w/floral waterfall, signage system, gallery-style floral displays, photo installs & my no blank space demand. It wasnt just decorated, it was produced, & the ops stayed calm: 2 planners, glam on a real schedule, wardrobe changes + touchups, timed reveals, clean transitions from ceremony cocktail reception afterparty. CH WEDDING (10/21/25) Im Chinese but I didnt grow up w/ the customs, so I intentionally stepped back & let Michael lead bc I wanted tradition done correctly. Since this was the wedding my parents had pictured for basically their whole lives, we split the weddings: 10/17 stayed fully American & 10/21 stayed fully Chinese. Michael carried the cultural blueprint end-to-end: glam at noon, completely different outfits + decor, 5pm-10pm, traditional seafood banquet w/dozens of courses, plus all the classic elements that make a Ch wedding feel legit, while I actually got to be present w/ my family. There is so much more BTS, but this review is already a short novel. We are still getting texts from guests saying it was 1 of the most memorable, well-produced weddings they have ever been to & that does not happen by accident. Also, if youre wondering how glam stayed flawless through all of this: Lily was a huge part of that. I left a separate review for her on Lily's personal page bc she deserves her own spotlight. read more

Do you want to have an unforgettable wedding? If you do, DO NOT hire MC Leo unless you want an unforgettable wedding in a BAD WAY. He is very UNPROFESSIONAL and RUDE. Sure he knows how to talk when you meet with him, but can he fulfill what he say? The answer is NO. He will say he can do this and that for me, but at the end, it was a total DISASTER. Everyone at my wedding hated him. First, he was LATE to my wedding! HOW CAN A MC BE LATE?!?!? Wedding is a once in a lifetime thing and he wasn't even there on time for such a big event he was paid to do?? Banquet started at 6pm and he had the guts to show up over an hour late!? He showed up with his "assistant" and his assistant wore a skimpy top to my wedding! On top of that, he promised me that his DJ staffs all speak English. TOTAL LIE. They don't even speak a lick of English. I tried to talk to them and his DJ crew IGNORED me. I would NOT RECOMMEND MC LEO AT ALL. I hired him because he was the MC for New York Pageant for a few years and thought he was good. TOTAL MISTAKE! HIRE HIM AS YOUR MC AT YOUR OWN RISK! Good thing he went his own way and is NO LONGER part of Imperial Studio. If I knew Leo was like this, I wouldn't even have gone out of my way to hire him. I should have asked for Imperial Studio for their recommendation on MC. Biggest mistake and regret. :*( On the other hand, Imperial Studio was great. Their package price is reasonable. I've went around many different wedding studios in Flushing to inquire about their wedding packages and found this place to be the best. I'm so glad I went with Imperial. Lily Wong was my makeup artist and she was AWESOME. I read many great reviews about Lily both on Yelp and Google, so I decided to request her to do my makeup and hair. She is amazing at what she does! I only showed her this hairstyle I want for my engagement photo shoot and she made it happen! But you also gotta believe in her if you don't know what kind of hairstyle you want. This happened to me during my wedding day and I just let her decide and I was THRILLED with my hair. Everyone was complimenting my hairstyle! I also hired Lily to help me with my makeup and hair during my banquet and she was quick with changing my hairstyle. Can't be happier! Yen is also amazing. She helped me throughout the whole process from beginning to end of wedding planning. Very patient and sweet. Thumbs up to all the Imperial Studio staffs! Remember to ask Yen to recommend MC for you because I chose MC LEO on my own and it was a total disaster. As for photographer, look for Rex. He is very talented. My husband and I are very pleased with his work! read more

If you want to be the most beautiful bride and have a unforgettable fantastic wedding, you have to come here!!! There are many different variety of wedding dresses (In-door & Out-door), gowns, and the most importantly - the MAKE-UP & Hair-Style. I've been thru many wedding ceremonies and heard different feedback from the brides, none of the Asian Wedding Studio could do better than this studio. People are very patient and nice to help you try on and pick the dresses for your wedding ceremony. Their wedding planner called Leo, he really knows how you want your wedding ceremony goes and just make it happened. I have 8 pairs of bridesmaids and groomsmen, plus 4 parents; we got HUMMER Limo, DJ, MC-Johnny did a very great job on my wedding ceremony, photographers, etc. My make-up artist - Lily Wong made me the most beautiful bride! She knows what kinds of make up and hair style is suitable for you, of course, in the trendy way. Their cosmetics tools are very clean, all of our skins didn't break out after that. I heard some other store didn't sterilize the make-up tools and just use that on your face which really disgusted me. Yen is very good too, all of my bridesmaids are very satisfied with her make up and I like it too. The most important things is their attitude is really good. I'm a very picky girl especially in the service industry (you can check my other yelp reviews) and I DO recommend this place! If you don't want your wedding guests have a negative feedback on your wedding, go to this studio!! read more

DO yourself a favor and DO NOT HIRE MC LEO unless you want him to f*** up your wedding. Leo talks the talk but does not walk the walk. It was so upsetting that I have to let everyone know about him. Late to my wedding and went missing before my wedding party was even over. He then shows up in front of me when guests were leaving. Biggest mistake in my life for hiring him! He teaches me what to do on my wedding day and then he say something stupid in front of everyone. He is ridiculous. I paid a few grand for a crappy MC. Even my friends said he sucks at what he does. How sad! He can't even get his job done nor professionally nor correctly!!! I am so MAD at HIM AND HIS WHOLE CREW! Not to mention but his DJ doesn't even speak a lick of English. It was totally my mistake for not asking Imperial Studio for recommendations on MC. Who knew he was this bad? Everything went smoothly with Imperial Studio. I LOVE THEM. Lily is fantastic, friendly, and talented. Took her time with my hair and makeup. All my bridesmaids were complimenting me for how I looked. Lily took her time to listen what I wanted and made it all happen. Yen took care of me since the day I walked into Imperial Studio. She is very helpful and I'm so glad I have someone there for me during my stressful wedding planning. Everyone is just very nice and sweet there. Thought I made a good choice for finding my own MC instead of asking Imperial and I was definitely wrong. Word of advice, listen to Imperial's recommendations. read more

Lily does AMAZING WORK! I brought in photos of half up half down for my wedding day hairstyle as well as makeup look that I wanted. She got it even better than I thought! She truly took the time to listen to me, and even though I said natural, she realized I meant natural skin and more dramatic eye makeup since that's what I'm used to. She asked for feedback and how I felt about everything every step of the way. I felt so pretty and would totally book her again for other events! I can tell she has honed her craft, and the expertise is much appreciated! She's super nice and warm, and I really enjoyed talking to her. My appt was at 12pm, but she finished like 45 mins even though I thought she'd take the full 2 hours. My sister who came with me was surprised that I was done before she came back with coffee and food. I highly highly recommend Lily. I see that she has other services such as videogeapht and photography at the studio, and I'm sure the attention to detail shows in those as well if Lily is doing it. Hands down, I loved my hair and makeup. I received so many compliments during my photoshoot after the ceremony, and I felt so confident the whole day. The makeup and hair stayed as well, and I was so sad to wash it off and take it out. Some photos for reference! I bet shes able to do all sorts of looks and hairstyles from her past work that I've seen. Thank you SO much for making me look beautiful for my special day, Lily read more

I never ever wrote a review, but DO NOT HIRE MC LEO unless you want him to f*** up your wedding. It was so upsetting that I have to let everyone know about him. Late to my wedding and went missing before my wedding party was even over. He then shows up in front of me when guests were leaving. Biggest mistake in my life for hiring him! He teaches me what to do on my wedding day and then he say something stupid in front of everyone. He is ridiculous. I paid a few grand for a crappy MC. Even my friends said he sucks at what he does. How sad! He can't even get his job done nor professionally nor correctly!!! I am so MAD at HIM AND HIS WHOLE CREW! It was totally my mistake for not asking Imperial Studio for recommendations on MC. Who knew he was this bad? Everything went smoothly with Imperial Studio. I LOVE THEM. Lily is fantastic, friendly, and talented. Took her time with my hair and makeup. All my bridesmaids were complimenting me for how I looked. Lily took her time to listen what I wanted and made it all happen. Yen took care of me since the day I walked into Imperial Studio. She is very helpful and I'm so glad I have someone there for me during my stressful wedding planning. Everyone is just very nice and sweet there. Thought I made a good choice for finding my own MC instead of asking Imperial and I was definitely wrong. Word of advice, listen to Imperial's recommendations. read more

In the beginning, I didn't plan to have my wedding planned there. I already had two other wedding studios in my mind. One studio's service was horrible, and the other one didn't do any of the things I asked to. So I found out about this other wedding studio called Imperial Studio. This studio looked amazing, and they were so friendly. They gave me a lot of great deals about weddings. This is just a like a wedding planner, whenever I asked for something they managed to make it happen for me.They helped me so much. For the packages, I talked to Bobo. She is amazing and so friendly! She would explain every little detail and teach me how to look for the right plan (considering it was my first wedding and I had no clue what to do). The makeup people and the photographer helped a lot, and they were truly amazing. The makeup artist Lily, is amazing. I loved her makeup, I went to many places for makeup, but Lily was the best out of all. Crystal helped me pick out the best dresses. They were so pretty. Whatever dress I wanted, Crystal helped me find it. She also helped me make my album. I'm writing this 2 weeks after my wedding. It was truly perfect. The design, photos, dresses, everything was perfect. It was the wedding I wanted. If you ever need to plan a wedding, go here, and look for Lily, Crystal, and Bobo! Good luck. :) read more

I had wonderful experience in Imperial Studio. Before choice Imperial Studio, I went to couple companies in Flushing, comparing service and price, finally I decided to choose Imperial Studio. Staff Yen was very patient and answered all my questions and explained whole process of wedding photograph program. My husband is a Jewish, he has never used Chinese store. In the beginning, my husband doesn't trust Chinese store, after he talked with Yen, he is very comfortable to let Imperial Studio to do our wedding photograph. I chose Lily to do my makeup because I reviewed Imperial Studio homepage and consumers' review and pictures. She has very strong skills of makeup, all the brides are so beautiful from her hands. Lily did great job for my outside wedding picture makeup and the wedding day makeup. All my friends and relationships said I am so beautiful and my hairstyle was fantastic. From choice dresses, makeup, taking photo, to pick pictures, all the staffs of Imperial Studio were patient and passion. My husband and I had great experience with Imperial Studio. I am glad that I chose Imperial Studio to be part of my special event. IMG_7786.JPG read more

Our experience with Imperial Bridal was absolutely amazing! The entire team was incredibly helpful, attentive, and professional throughout the whole process. A huge thank-you to Lily, my makeup artist, for making me look and feel beautiful--my makeup and hairstyles were absolutely on point! I also want to thank Michael for the stunning wedding decorations and for bringing my vision to life. The MC Christine was eloquent, engaging, and perfectly balanced both Mandarin and English, just as I had requested. The MC and DJ worked seamlessly together, keeping the energy high all night. Peter was hilarious and so entertaining--my guests and I loved him! He and the videographer coordinated perfectly to capture every fun and heartfelt moment. Overall, it was a truly memorable night, and I'm so grateful to the entire Imperial Bridal team for making it all possible. Highly recommend! read more

I has been photo taking at Imperial weeding studio for 4 times and everything is come out very good. All the photos are looks very natural and make me looks like one of the magazine model. The service is good, the price is very reasonable on what I had or choose. Special the makeup artist Lily has very nice personality and exceptional makeup techniques. The photographers is great, their are very patient and friendly. Because I am not from NY so I was always later of my schedule and the workers have to stay and overtime for doing my makeup or photo taking. But they still very nice to me. Awwwww... My 1st photo taking was for my wedding pictures. 2nd was the wedding day pictures of out door photo and the Chinese wedding party. 3rd were the pregnancy photos. 4th were my personal artistic photos and it is great. It make me feel like I am one of the famous star. read more

Thanks you Imperial studio for your AMAZING JOB on my wedding . We used Imperial studio for our whole package wedding, We had come to imperial from a friend's recommendation and would definitely recommend imperial studio to all of our friends.. We will be forever grateful to yen , she is very experienced and most importantly a great listener. She will listen to what your vision is of your wedding and will make it come true, She took care of our every need and request, made all easy. Whenever we had a question she always got back to us right away. We also received the pictures and video really quickly and also turned out great! Love love love the make up and hair ,It's very fresh and natural look every time. Artist Lily Wong was very easy to communicate. I highly recommend this place for any of your wedding, party, events. read more

I was recommend by a friend to Imperial Studio. I had my doubt in the beginning. After a few appointments later, I enjoy their service. They have spend many hours to talk about the wedding plans, and dress selections. We are a month away from the big date, we already have all our pictures taken and it came out amazing. Our wedding invitation receive many praises. We have went to many studios to shop around, and we decided to go with Imperial. It was a right choice for us. Remember to look for Crystal, Bobo & Lily. Crystal has great customer service, and very detail. Bobo is great to deal with, She is very knowledgeable, organize and will never led you to spent more. look for her to talk about the package. ( she gave out the best deal) Lily is awesome with her make-up skill, got to see it in person. read more

I had a really good experience working with the Imperial Studio Team for my wedding. I went to almost all the wedding studios in Flushing before my wedding but I think the wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses from Imperial Wedding Studio are definitely the most stylish, high quality with a very reasonable price. Yan was our contact and she was extremely responsive and helpful throughout the pre-wedding process. She asked all the right questions and was very detailed in achieving what we wanted. Come the wedding, four make-up and hair artists worked on the 4 of us. The team was fantastic. I really want to give a special thanks to Lily. I don't think I will ever look as beautiful as I did on the day of my wedding. Lily is so talented and knows exactly how to highlight a persons best features. read more

I would say thanks a lot to the whole imperial studio. My wedding day was last month. I booked the package with lily as my makeup artist for the engagement shoot and wedding day, she was a great makeup artis, leo as my great MC and Lydia really helped me as my second makeup artis on wedding day. Yen and lydia was helped me a lot for all advices since first time i came to them till my wedding day, and the photographers who did a great job. They have a good prices too for a variance package of bridal with a good quality, i can say this because i already compared with the others. Imperial studio is higly recomended! read more

I was the maid of honor for my friend so we got to work with this great team of professionals. Highly recommend them. We had to switch vendors at the very last minute because the original place turned out to be dishonest and just terrible people. Imperial was a breath of fresh air - this business is honest, straightforward, a breeze to deal with. Huge shoutout to Lily who's a rock star. She made everyone look so beautiful - she saved the day! Convenient location, great selection of dresses. They were delightful to work with - everyone is friendly and sweet!! read more

I had a fantastic experience working with Imperial Studio. The photos they took turned out beautiful. The makeup and hairstyling were professionally done and really enhanced my natural features without feeling overdone. I truly appreciated how comfortable and confident they made me feel throughout the shoot. They were warm, patient, and paid attention to every detail. The final photos were stunning, and I received many compliments from friends and family. Highly recommended for anyone looking for high-quality, professional photos with a personal touch! read more

I absolutely loved the services provided by Imperial Bridals! They took a simple vision and transformed it into something truly magical--my wedding felt like a fairytale come to life. From the stunning décor to the incredible emcee, Leo, the talented makeup artist, Lily, and the entire team who worked behind the scenes to bring everything together--every detail was executed flawlessly. I wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone dreaming of a perfect wedding day! Most importantly, they helped me meet my budget read more

I specifically booked Lily for my makeup for my engagement photos cause of the reviews from previous clients. I was very happy with her work. She is careful and patient. She asked what look I was going for and provided exactly what I wanted. I was nervous, but she made me comfortable with her care, friendliness, and personality. I recommend going to her for your makeup needs anytime! The Imperial Studio in Flushing is still active through Lily. Her dedication to her work and clients is wonderful. read more

I had the pleasure of working with Lily Wang for my annual gala, and I couldn't be happier with the results! She listened to my vision and created a stunning look that was both elegant and long-lasting. Her attention to detail, professionalism, and ability to enhance my natural features truly made me feel my best. I received so many compliments throughout the evening! I highly recommend Lily to anyone looking for a talented and dedicated makeup artist. Thank you for making my night extra special! read more