Planning your dream wedding in Wichita can feel exciting, but also a little overwhelming. Between busy downtown venues, parking garages, limited outdoor space, and strict timelines, many couples find themselves searching for something more peaceful, more personal, and more them.

That’s why so many Wichita brides and grooms are looking beyond the city and discovering the charm of a countryside wedding, and they’re finding it just 25 minutes north of Wichita at The Barn at Grace Hill.

You’ve probably heard the old saying that it’s “bad luck” to see your fiancé before the ceremony. But where did that even come from?  The tradition dates back to the days of arranged marriages, when couples often weren’t allowed to meet (or even lay eyes on each other) until they stood at the altar. Parents worried that if the groom saw the bride beforehand and wasn’t impressed, he might change his mind. To lower the risk, a veil became a safeguard: the groom wouldn’t see her face until the very last moment, when it was far too late to back out. Romantic… right?

Thankfully, times have changed. Today, many couples embrace the idea of a “first look”, sharing an intimate, emotional moment together before the ceremony.

You’ve spent months dreaming, planning, and pinning, all to bring your perfect day to life. When your wedding weekend finally arrives, the last thing you want to do is work. That’s where our Day-Of Coordinators come in.

We say it all the time: your job is to soak up every moment, not to run the timeline, track down vendors, or yell over the sound of chatter at rehearsal to get people to line up.

And while some couples are tempted to hand off “coordinator” duties to a friend or family member, we’ve been around the aisle enough times to know that’s usually a recipe for chaos.

Let us explain.

We couldn’t be more thrilled to have one of our very own brides take over the blog today. Meet Allie Stephens. We wish you could really meet her, you’d love her instantly. I mean, just look at her, swinging around in that yellow chair! Allie, you are ADORABLE.

Allie and Garrett chose to have a Monday wedding! And we have found that so many of our couples (unless they happen to have been invited to a weekday wedding before) have no idea that couples are sometimes choosing weekdays for their wedding, for sooooo many different reasons. We have had so many fabulous weekday weddings that feel exactly like a weekend wedding does. When that day is here, no one even thinks about what day it is.

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! Grab a warm cup of cocoa, cuddle up with your favorite blanket and enjoy our collection of Christmas wedding ideas!  Christmas-themed weddings can take on several different looks.  Just like we decorate our houses for the holidays - some of us have pops of red and green all over, and some stay more neutral with gold, silver and greenery. Some of us decorate more traditionally and festive and some of us more elegantly and classy. The point is, there is some flexibility and you get to choose the vision that best fits the mood you’re aiming for.   If you keep the focus on making the event feel cozy and intimate, you can’t go wrong.

It was a literal winter wedding dream come true. The Wichita area hasn’t seen this amount of snow in 10+ years and Saturday, November, 25, Marissa and Mason were gifted with the most beautiful snow we have ever seen. This is what winter wedding dreams are made of.

One of our greatest desires we have for your wedding day is that you can be fully in the moment with the love of your life and all your people.  That you’d be able to focus on the faces in front of you, the emotions you’re feeling, and the meaning behind all of it.  And not have to worry one bit about the logistics of the event itself.  

So if we were going to spend our time telling you anything about how the last 5 years has gone, we want to spend it sharing everything we can to help you have a completely stress-free wedding day.  

Kansas in the summertime is something special. And that’s especially seen and felt when you drive out to the country and get married at a big white barn, surrounded by golden fields. And then it belongs in a Kansas magazine. Or at least in a blog post.

We are so excited for our first guest post! Alex, with Alexandra Burt Photography, not only chose The Barn at Grace Hill from a bride’s perspective, but also with the eye of a wedding photographer, and we just had to know how she came to her decision!

We are dying to share with you the cutest, “vintage picnic” themed wedding there ever was! As I write this, it’s gray and gloomy outside, and this wedding day is the best remedy. The details are incredible and yet the simplicity is at it’s finest.

How can a blizzard and the stomach flu be beautiful, you ask? They weren’t. There were tears and heartbreak. But the immense joy and love for each other, and for God, that was displayed on this day, outshines all the other details.

We still have a hard time believing that our first 30 weddings on the calendar were before we opened our doors. And most of those were tours given among boards and nails. We are humbled that complete strangers trusted us as they did.