An Affaire is not event planning. It is the art of choosing a destination so aligned with your story that the setting becomes part of the memory.
The most significant moments of your life — the ones that mark before and after — deserve more than a venue and a vendor list. They deserve a destination that holds the weight of what is happening inside it. A place that already understands intimacy, beauty, and the meaning of a moment well-spent.
An Affaire is built on the same philosophy as everything at The Lifestyle Artist®: that the setting of your most important stories should be chosen with the same care and intention you bring to living them. We do not book venues. We find the places that are in alignment with who you are and what this moment means to you.
Every An Affaire begins with a conversation. Not about logistics — about you. Your story. What this occasion means. What you want to feel when you arrive and what you want to carry with you when you leave.
The ceremony and celebration you have always imagined — in a place you have always felt called to. Intimate hacienda ceremonies in Mexico. Clifftop exchanging of vows in Portofino. The wedding that becomes the story you tell for a lifetime.
The first pages of your life together, written in the most beautiful place we can find for who you are as a couple. Not the honeymoon everyone takes — the one that is entirely, unmistakably yours.
Before everything changes — one last journey as two, or the first journey as a family of three. Rest, beauty, and the quiet grace of a destination chosen for exactly this threshold. For the woman who wants to arrive at motherhood well-rested and fully present.
The decade birthdays. The anniversaries that deserve more than a dinner. The moments that mark the end of one chapter and the opening of another. Celebrated in a place that holds the significance they carry — privately, beautifully, completely.
The intimate retreat for your closest people. A birthday weekend at a private hacienda. A reunion of the women who have shaped your story. A celebration that does not need a guest list of one hundred to feel like the most important room you have ever been in.
The Lifestyle Artist® curation for An Affaire is built on twenty years of personal relationship with the destinations we recommend. These are not properties we reviewed. They are places we know — the light, the staff, the particular energy of the property at different times of year, the table in the courtyard that nobody asks for because nobody knows to ask.
But what truly separates An Affaire from anything else in this space is this: Lisa Leyva is a designer. Not a coordinator. Not a planner. A designer — the same eye and instinct that has shaped her own spaces to feel intimate yet transported, that turns a furnished room into a home rather than a house, that draws from decades of travel and cultural exposure to create environments that hold a specific feeling.
When you bring An Affaire into your most important moment, you are not hiring a booking service. You are engaging a designer whose palette includes the destination, the property, the table, the flowers, the light, the sound, and every sensory detail that makes a moment feel like it was always meant to be exactly this.
Lisa designs environments that feel intimate yet transported — spaces that carry the soul of a place while being entirely shaped around the people inside them. Your event is designed, not decorated.
Every destination in the An Affaire portfolio has been experienced personally. We know the rooms, the seasons, the properties, and the moments that make each one singular.
We match occasions to destinations whose energy is in alignment with the meaning of the moment — not to venues that are simply available and beautiful.
An Affaire works with a small number of clients each year. Not as a limitation — as a standard. Every engagement deserves the full depth of attention that a designer brings to any space she touches.
"We will find the place that already knows the story you are there to tell."
— The Lifestyle Artist® · An AffaireEvery An Affaire begins with a deep listening call. Not about dates and guest counts — about who you are and what this moment means.
We build one vision for your occasion — not a menu of options. The right destination, chosen for you specifically, presented with full confidence.
Every detail of An Affaire is held to the same standard as everything at The Lifestyle Artist®: it must be in complete alignment with who you are.
An Affaire accepts a small number of engagements each year. If you have a milestone approaching and want it curated with the full TLA attention to alignment and intimacy — this is where it begins.
inspire@lifestyleartist.co · (833) TLA-LISA · Limited engagements annually