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Abbey DePauw
Abbey DePauw
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Blissful Events offers impressive wedding planning services in Bettendor, Iowa. This company’s mission is to design personalized celebrations that are true to each happy couple’s style and vision. The owner, Abbey DePauw, is honored to help to-be-newlyweds realize their dreams for their joyous occasion.

Services Offered

With her close attention to detail and passion for innovative event design, Abbey strives to create unforgettable memories for couples and their loved ones. This devoted professional is pleased to coordinate one-of-a-kind rehearsal dinners, ceremonies, and receptions. To-be-newlyweds can customize their package of planning services to best suit their particular needs and budget requirements. With month-of coordination, Abbey is happy to guide couples who may be planning their celebration themselves. Blissful Events can provide partial or full planning services which can include event design, timeline creation, vendor referrals, and much more.

FAQ

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$2,000

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$3,000

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$4,500

Do you offer an hourly rate?

No

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Day-of Coordination
Full Planning
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Destination
Non-Religious
Religious

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Blissful Events (Abbey) is highly praised for calm, organized, and detail-oriented planning that lets couples relax and enjoy their day. She handles setup, vendor coordination, design, and last-minute issues with grace. Clients say both day-of and full-service options are worth the cost and delivered beautiful, seamless weddings.

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Blissful Events (Abbey) is highly praised for calm, organized, and detail-oriented planning that lets couples relax and enjoy their day. She handles setup, vendor coordination, design, and last-minute issues with grace. Clients say both day-of and full-service options are worth the cost and delivered beautiful, seamless weddings.

Lauren
Lauren Sent on 11/28/2025
5 out of 5 rating

The best wedding planner!

Abbey at Blissful Events by Abbey is truly exceptional. When I first got engaged, I was convinced I didn’t need or want a wedding planner – I wanted to handle everything on my own. I am SO glad I listened to the advice to hire one, especially living out of town from where our wedding was held, because our day would not have been what it was without Abbey.


We booked Abbey for her full-service planning, and it was the BEST wedding decision I made. She truly became a friend throughout the process and made everything so seamless and as stress-free as possible. Abbey pours her heart into each of her weddings, making them all so unique and perfectly tailored to the couple. I was all over the board with my ideas and the vibe I wanted for our late October wedding, and she walked through every detail with me to make one cohesive, beautiful vision. She is incredibly knowledgeable, honest when I asked for her opinion, and attentive to EVERY detail. Truly, no detail is too small for Abbey. I trusted her completely, and she absolutely delivered!


Like any wedding, we ran into a couple hiccups with some vendors along the way, and Abbey was right there every time. She stepped in when necessary to ensure everything went smoothly. I was overwhelmed the day before about certain things, and even on the day of when the weather wasn’t cooperating. Abbey was the person I confided in, and she instantly put me at ease. She was not just a wedding planner, but also the person I turned to when things felt overwhelming at times. I fully trusted Abbey to make game-time decisions, including created the most stunning indoor reception set-up due to weather just hours before our reception was supposed to start.


If you want a wedding that feels effortless, a vision that comes to life in the most thoughtful and unique way, and a planner you can turn to for anything – ABBEY IS THE ONE! She is absolutely incredible at her job, and she is an even better person and friend. Hiring her is hands-down the best wedding decision you will make!!!
Carli
Carli Sent on 11/12/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Abbey is the best!

Working with Blissful Events was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding! Abbey is amazing, and she made us feel supported, understood our vision, and had us excited about our wedding from the very first meeting. She made it possible for us to enjoy all the fun parts of wedding planning without taking on any of the stress. She was with us during every step of the process, and she executed our wedding day plan with efficiency and grace which allowed us to truly enjoy our day!

You can select your own vendors, but she has great recommendations, and her relationships with these vendors made the entire process feel seamless and stress-free. Everyone we worked with spoke so highly of her, and it’s easy to see why! She’s organized, professional, and truly respected in the industry.

What I loved most is that she’s real. She's honest, practical, and always willing to give straightforward answers when we had questions or needed to make tough decisions. Plus, she’s just such a fun, positive person to be around - the kind of energy every couple needs during wedding planning!

We’re so grateful for Abbey and can’t recommend her enough. Our day was everything we dreamed of (and more), and we have Abbey to thank for that!
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Molly Sent on 10/22/2024
5 out of 5 rating

A family affair!

Abbey has been an essential part in my families events and weddings! She was available, hard working and made the organization of our event seamless!

Thank you Abbey!
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Lauren Sent on 06/24/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Saved the day!

Abbey is absolutely amazing! Her calming presence made the day flow so smoothly. Everything that came her way she handled with such grace. I almost forgot my veil before I walked down the aisle and she ran out to the car to get it and helped me put it on right before it was time to go! I would recommend Blissful Events to anyone as it is truly a great investment to ensure a stress free day.
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Breanna Sent on 01/09/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Peace of Mind for our wedding!

One of the best decisions we made for our wedding was hiring Abbi as our wedding planner! We booked her for her full planning services, we are quite indecisive and with all the big ideas we had she helped us to narrow our focus. She was with us every step of the way, was very responsive via email and text, helping to answer any and all questions we had. We met with her multiple times, as well as a few last minute meetings when we had questions or ideas we wanted to discuss in person. She did an amazing job at giving us multiple options as well as price points to keep us on budget. Everything was laid out in amazing detail for us to get a vision of our space and allow you to see where your money is going, which makes it easier to determine if anything needs to be cut for your budget. She is organized and detailed and extremely creative in her ideas, anything we thought up, she made work or had an idea that was even better. Our wedding involved multiple locations, multiple happy hours and some out of the box ideas and she helped everything to flow seamlessly. The day went perfectly, any potential hiccup we never knew about and she did an amazing job at keeping everyone on task and on time. The communication with our vendors alone, was a huge help in the days and months leading up to our wedding. All communication with vendors went through Abbi, and we trusted her completely with that task which took so much stress away from us. Our parents and wedding party as well as vendors who had not worked with her before, were also very impressed and thankful for her help. We absolutely loved our room reveal, one of two times the groom teared up, and were blown away at seeing all of our months of planning come to life. Having a wedding week that was spent celebrating vs stressing over decorations, set up and logistics is something we are so thankful for. It gave us extra time with friends and family who were in town for the wedding. With each wedding budgets can be one of the biggest stressors, however, the cost of her services was well worth the peace of mind for the wedding as well as every day leading up to the big day! She gave us the most perfect day, and brought all of our wedding dreams to life!
Taelor
Taelor Sent on 12/26/2023
5 out of 5 rating

The BEST thing we could've done for our wedding.

Abbey was an absolute dream to work with. Easily the BEST thing we could have done for our wedding was to hire Blissful Events. Abbey has a checklist for every month before the wedding…that was a LIFESAVER for someone with zero wedding planning experience (me) who was stressed I would forget or not think of something important. She is incredibly talented, always available for questions, and creates a 100% unique design for each couple. I gave her a couple inspiration pictures and she totally ran with it. Our wedding was BEAUTIFUL. Even more, Abbey is the sweetest person and truly cares about not only your wedding, but you two as a couple. She knows the best vendors to work with and is clearly a pro. We didn’t have to lift a finger on our wedding day, which I didn’t realize the difference that would make until the big day. If something went wrong, we never knew about it. We had the most perfect day you could imagine. If I could do it all over again I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to work with Abbey and I could not recommend Blissful Events more. I had her biggest package and it was worth every single penny. Thank you so much Abbey for giving us our dream wedding!!
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Desiree Sent on 12/10/2023
5 out of 5 rating

The absolute best at what she does!!

From our first meeting with Abbey until the big day, she made us feel so comfortable and taken care of! She truly is the best at what she does and has the best team!! Our wedding planning felt like a breeze with all of Abbey's assistance, not to mention the week of - I had nothing to worry about because Abbey was on top of it! We were absolutely in love with the final design and how everything turned out. I cannot say enough wonderful things about Abbey and cannot thank her enough for our perfect day!!
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Margaret Sent on 12/01/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Absolute perfection

Abbey was a dream to work with. I was not stressed out ONCE. It was so easy and our wedding turned out absolutely perfect. Even better than I could have even imagined. I would recommend Abbey to everybody. She is the best. 💕
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Lexie Sent on 10/16/2023
5 out of 5 rating

An amazing, stress free experience

Abbey was beyond amazing. I can’t thank her enough for her contribution to the wedding and making it so stress free for me, my husband, and bridal party. Abbey made the day so much more fun! Thank you again so much
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Amber Sent on 10/16/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Blissful Events

I cannot say enough good things about Abbey! She lives up to her name, as our wedding was such a blissful day and it was all thanks to her. We did a month of package and she took care of everything that final month, which was such a huge weight off our shoulders. We even had two last minute cancellations by vendors and she quickly found us a new one with no problem. She did everything day of too, so my husband and I didn’t have to worry about anything but enjoying our special day. Forever grateful we had her and I would recommend her in a heartbeat to any bride!
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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2024 Winner
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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2021 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
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