White Veil Occasions Stand Above the Rest!
First, I want to say that I have experienced two beautiful weddings for both of my daughters. To help you understand how terrific White Veil Occasions is, I will also share a bit about my oldest daughter’s experience with another planner a couple of years ago. We used White Veil Occasions for the most recent wedding for our younger daughter, and it was such a stress-free experience like weddings are supposed to be! The other wedding for my older daughter a couple of years ago was with another, well-known and widely respected, twice as expensive wedding planner in Kansas City.
The only major regret I had for either wedding was that we did not use White Veil Occasions for both weddings.
Weddings are joyful and memorable occasions, but unfortunately, they can also be stressful. I mean, what does a regular person really know about this industry? I know that with our first wedding with the other wedding planner, many of our choices were steered towards vendors (catering, signage, hotel, hair, flowers) that I later found out gave the wedding planner a commission. She would go weeks before returning our calls, and we didn’t get a schedule of the wedding until 72 hours before the wedding. That included the vendors!! Yes, it all turned out beautiful. But there was a lot of unnecessary stress and expense involved with that, and even our vendors were stressed from the poor communication. I share that to tell you that it matters who you pick, and White Veil Occasions made the second wedding a seamless and easy event to enjoy.
Emma and Megan both have years of experience in the wedding industry. They coordinated my daughter’s wedding at The Venue at Stockton Lake in June of 2025. We purchased the full planning package, and we are glad we did. They met with us several times in the months leading up to the wedding to outline any “to do” items we didn’t want to forget, and these meetings were well-planned and were promptly followed up with an email within 24 hours of all that was discussed and easy reminders of what we needed to do to keep things rolling along smoothly. Whenever we had questions or concerns, they answered promptly. If we ran into challenges, they had solutions with several ideas to turn that challenge into another checked off item quickly. Vendors also received communication leading up to the wedding.
For the groom’s dinner and the day of the wedding, their demeanor with vendors, family, and friends was wonderful. They put people at ease and gave easy and clear directions for all to follow the day of the ceremony. The day of the wedding, I had to laugh at myself as the nervous mother of the bride. I felt like every time I had a question, they had already anticipated that I might be wondering about this or that and had the answer: in short, I was able to enjoy the day and be a part of it and not worry if things were being handled. I absolutely knew they were being handled well. I did not feel like that at all with the older daughter’s wedding a few years ago.
They worked HARD the day of the wedding. They had pleasant smiles and stayed in the background, but they were hustling. I watched as they made sure guests were where they needed to be, they reminded guests to sign in and take pictures for the guest book, I saw them give the DJ a whisper to move along to the next item, they tactfully made the new father-in-law laugh and give them a pat on the back as they guided him outside with his fat cigar, they wrapped the flower girl’s finger with a band-aid they had on hand, checked on the bartender to see if she needed anything, and were staying on top of keeping the event clean and moving along the entire night. Oh: and one of the groomsmen (poor guy) dropped a table’s worth of plates the day before the wedding. The wedding planners had new ones brought to the venue the next day: done!
The point of that last paragraph is that the guests didn’t notice any of this: we all just relaxed and enjoyed the wedding. The bride and groom had a wonderful time, and so did their friends and family. I received so many compliments on how smoothly it all went. Running a wedding really is a job if you want it to go well. I highly recommend hiring someone, and I highly recommend hiring the RIGHT someone. Emma and Megan are smart, experienced, down-to-earth people who can make your elegant wedding as beautiful and as stress-free as you are hoping it will be. I cannot recommend White Veil Occasions enough!
