Every venue here is one I've actually worked — and nowhere near all of them. Twenty-five years in, I've lost count. These are the rooms I keep getting asked back to, and the ones I know well enough to tell you something useful about.
If yours isn't listed, it's only because I've been lucky enough to work in more beautiful spaces than I can remember.
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You arrive into rustic and think you've got the place figured out. Then you find the fountain around back and the view your ceremony sits against. Nothing around here is styled quite like it, and it changes the shape of the whole evening.
A hand-built absolutely surreal chapel and a hand-built reception hall, far enough out that the drive is part of the experience. They add new ceremony sites all the time, so it's never quite the same venue twice. This is one to go and see before you decide anything.
The staircase is the reason. It gives you an entrance that actually lands, and it hands your photographer a first-dance frame most rooms simply can't offer. The outdoor ceremony space means the whole day happens in one place — no shuttling anyone between venues.
Beautifully finished, and deeper than it first appears. There are enough distinct spaces here that your day can move through the building rather than sit in one room — and whatever you want to throw at it, it takes.
A beautiful space run by people who genuinely care. There are more ways to configure this space than most couples expect, and the staff will work through every one of them with you until the day makes sense on paper.
One of the best-laid-out rooms I work — everything flows the way a wedding actually moves, and the fireplace anchors the space rather than sitting off to one side. Twenty-seven feet of vaulted ceiling over the Great Hall, a room that rewards knowing what you're doing with it. The outdoor space is the real find though: it makes spring and autumn dates work when plenty of venues can't.
Rooms built for a celebration, where a grand entrance actually lands and three hundred people still find the dance floor.
Scott Conference Center · Bella Terre · The Fountains Ballroom · DC Centre · Vintage Ballroom · Steppe Center · A Venue on the Ridge · Beardmore Event Center
Some of the best dance floors I've played are under exposed beams. Barns reward a DJ who knows how sound behaves in a tall wooden room.
The Acres · Wishing Hills Barn · Schafer Century Barn · Bluebird Hill · The Barn at the Ackerhurst Dairy Farm
Brick, big windows and city light. These rooms do half the work on their own — the job is making the energy match the setting.
Old Mattress Factory · A View on State · Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel
Spaces that hosted celebrations long before yours. Beautiful, and each one has its own acoustic personality to work around.
Durham Museum · Livestock Exchange Ballrooms
Where the ceremony is a long way from the nearest outlet. My ceremony system runs entirely on battery, so distance from power isn't your problem.
Willow Creek Glass Chapel · Lilac Hill
Not every great wedding needs a grand venue. Some of the warmest nights I've been part of happened in a hall down the road.
Cass County Community Center · Walnut Community Center · Countryside Venue
Every religious ceremony gets the care it deserves. I coordinate with your church and your family so nothing feels rushed or out of place.
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Homecoming, winter formal and prom — run cleanly, and easy on the staff and chaperones working the night with me.
Millard South High School · Underwood Community Schools
If you run a venue or work weddings in the Omaha area and we haven't met, I'd like to change that. I show up early, I coordinate rather than freelance, and I leave your room the way I found it.
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