4.9 out of 5 stars and 76 reviews Best of Weddings (4x).
4.9
(76)Serving Lawrence, Kansas City, Topeka and surrounding areas.
About this vendor
A Beautiful Wedding is a full-service wedding consulting company in specializing in unique and memorable celebrations of love. I will take care of the details while you and your families take home the memories of a lifetime. With my help, your vision will become reality.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Planning
- Day-Of Coordination
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- Honeymoon Planning
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Honeymoon
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Bachelor Party
- Bachelorette Party
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4.9
out of 5.076 reviews
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I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Carmen Hocking for stepping up last minute to officiate my friends wedding a couple weeks ago! She was so kind and inviting, creating the...
perfect atmosphere for our last minute backyard wedding! She wrote individualized vows for the bride and groom and just overall provided a lovely service! Plus her rate was so reasonable! I would highly recommend her for any of your officiant needs!
Mrs. Carla was aboslutely amazing with us in every step of the way, even suprising my wife and I with our ceremony by getting in contact with our family members and without us know...
ing, organizing a beautiful ceremony thatvwe will suerly won't forget and also taking photographs for us. And as newly weds, she also took the time to explain to us all the process of getting married. Thank you so much Carla! Most sincerely from Brittany and Ivan.
Carmen performed our ceremony. It was an absolute joy working with her. Everything was clearly explained making the experience so easy.
First, she was easy to work with. Secon...
d, and probably my favorite part, is that she wrote the vows specifically for us - capturing all the nuances we needed/wanted.
In addition, she was prompt and kept us in the loop for everything.
Carmen was wonderful to work with! We hired her just for officiant services but she was willing to answer any other questions we had and gave us some tips. Her communication was g...
reat. With her help, were able to come up with a short and sweet ceremony that perfectly represented my husband and me.
Carmen was a pleasure to work with. As our officiant, she created a wonderful, touching ceremony, even taking the time to honor my mom who passed away recently. That meant a lot to...
me and my family. She touched base with us closer to the wedding date to see how we were doing and to see if we needed anything. I really appreciated how thoughtful and helpful Carmen was throughout our entire planning process, from the early stages of planning to the big day.
If you’re looking for a wedding planner or officiant I highly recommend A Beautiful Wedding. Carmen made the process so smooth and was excellent with communication. We had some las...
t minute hiccups and Carmen stepped up immediately to help resolve the problems. Could not be more grateful.
We went with the lowest level of service and still allowed me to ask questions pre service to begin. She also stepped up as my last minute officiant. She allowed me to deal with ...
the drama I had with family for my wedding. Was very patient and respectful.
Carmen helped make our big day very special & took the time to listen to what my wife and I wanted. Carmen is professional and friendly, and made our ceremony unique to us. Carmen ...
took the time to get to know my fiancé and I, and I felt like at the end of our wedding I had gained a friend. If you are looking for a true professional, Carmen is the one.
Carmen helped us with every detail of our wedding (the ones we didn't even think about) and ensured we were on-track throughout the entire year, despite us only hiring her for the ...
6-week period! She was available on the phone just about every time I had questions and came up with solutions to problems on the fly. Her 30+ year experience shows!
Everything was super nice and your advice and help helped us a lot to have our perfect wedding day, you did a great job helping us plan our wedding. I feel so blessed. It was the ...
best week ever for us that we will never forget and it will be always in our hearts.you are the best. You are the best wedding planner!
The wedding took a lot of work, but Carmen helped us with all of it. She recommended venues, vendors, decorations, and officiated for us. On the wedding day, everything went perf...
ectly. I thought it was quite miraculous how well it went, considering how many details had to come together.
We highly recommend Carmen Hocking! We were recommended to her when we had reached out to another contact that fell through. Our first call was very thorough discussing our relatio...
nship and the type of ceremony we envisioned. Once we got a copy of the ceremony, we worked on a couple of rounds of revisions and Carmen was receptive to all our changes. Our wedding was at The Elms and Carmen had led ceremonies there before so that made it really easy as the staff were comfortable with her and vice versa. She stayed for our reception and my family really enjoyed getting to know her. Carmen was always very responsive and just a delight to work with. Thanks, Carmen!
Carmen was amazing and heartwarming! She really cared about us and the time and work she put into our ceremony. Her planning, punctuality and professionalism is superb! Definitely ...
will refer her to friends!
Carmen coordinated a very special event for us on May 21, 2021. We had a party celebrating life after life threatening illness. Carmen’s guidance, timing and suggestions were perf...
ect, from the venue, the wonderful caterer, the DJ, the bartender, the vendors that enhanced the experience, even bringing us a personalized taste testing of signature cocktail recipes. Our guests rave about this unique fun uplifting experience. She is an amazing event coordinator.
We loved working with Carmen from A Beautiful Wedding. She made our wedding planning stress free and she was available for occasional appointments on Sunday afternoons when both o...
f us were available to meet. Very flexible which was nice. She is very professional in all aspects and she came highly recommended to us and when we met with her the first time we knew we wanted to work with her. She was amazing and we highly recommend her.
Carmen was amazing!!. She was punctual, professional and friendly. Carmen provided a great service.
Carmen was AMAZING! With only a 3 day notice until our wedding she was on her A game. Our original officiant was unable to make it and called in Carmen. She asked and got more info...
rmation from us in the 3 days than the original officiant. I would recommend Carmen for an officiant and she helps coordinate. I would have hired her to do our day coordinating but I didn’t meet her until day of wedding.
Carmen is great! We had a very small ceremony in my parents back yard. She made sure to take our requests seriously and guide us in things we might be missing!
Carmen was absolutely wonderful and captured my husband and I perfectly. The small details she added had us smiling, reflecting and even laughing. It was wonderful
Could not have asked for a better day and could not have done it without Carmen. She is very knowledgeable and there for you whenever you need it. I highly recommend!
I was thrilled with Carmen. She did a great job making sure everything ran smoothly. She put in a lot of time and effort working with my son and his Bride. She did an awesome job a...
nd I would recommend her to everyone.
Carmen and Blake were amazing. Quick to respond to me anytime I had any questions, sent us readings and vows to review to help us with picking ours...it was great working with both...
of them, would definitely recommend!!
Carmen was absolutely fantastic. The ceremony she wrote was great and several guests even complimented the writing, flow, and wording. She was great to work with and was quick in ...
reaching out to make sure we were good with everything. I couldn't have asked for a better officiant. Not only was the wording great but her speaking skills and reading of the ceremony were perfect.
Carmen was fantastic and very accommodating. She makes you feel like you have a trusted partner and confidant to help you with all the details and decisions. She quickly grasped wh...
at I wanted to helo my son’s proposal to his bride to be go off with out a hitch. Because of Covid, I could not be there. I am in Houston and she in Kansas. She didn’t miss a beat and went above and beyond to make it a most momentous occasion. The proposal took place at a park. She went to the park to get acclimated with the area and to measure the tables and space. This park was over an hour out of her way!
Her table design and set up at the park way exceeded expectations! It was even better than I could have imagined!
She was there on time, picked up the food, and set it all up. The flowers and linens were elegant and definitely added to the joyous day.
It was easy to pay her via Venmo, and she was readily available on the phone, text and email.. This is our first child to get married and it was very emotional not to get to be there for such a huge milestone. However, Carmen was instrumental in being our “proxy” by doing all the set up/take down work
Carmen, I am very grateful to have found you !! Thank you for everything!!!
Carmen was wonderful to work with! We had planned our daughter's wedding at a venue and because of covid we had to change our plans about two weeks out. Carmen had many contacts t...
o help us plan the perfect wedding in our backyard! She arrived at home early in the day and stayed on site overseeing the wedding and handling all the details beautifully. We many obstacles to overcome and Carmen was flexible, encouraging, and worked hard to make sure my daughter's wishes for her wedding were everything she had hoped it would be. It truly was a beautiful wedding! I would highly recommend Carmen!
Carmen Hocking was amazing from the beginning to the end. We had to postpone our wedding due to COVID-19 . Carmen reached out to us on our originally planned date to ask if we were...
ok. That meant the world to us. She was supportive throughout. We highly recommend working with her.
Carmen Hocking was a great officiant for our wedding. We were very impressed with her professionalism. We knew after five minutes with her at our first meeting, she was the best ch...
oice for us.
Carmen was fantastic! We hired her on early in the planning process. We used the package where she really dives in 6 weeks before the wedding up until the day of. We also asked he...
r to be the officiant. When COVID-19 hit Carmen was an essential reason why we truly did have a stunning wedding. She was on top of everything. It was beyond perfect and everything I had hoped for in our wedding. Carmen wrote a beautiful wedding ceremony and even helped preserve my wedding dress after the wedding. We cannot thank you enough for her constant support, skill, and professionalism. It truly was a beautiful wedding!!
Carmen was an ideal officiant for our wedding ceremony. She obviously has a great passion for celebrations of love and was always accommodating and receptive to our requests throu...
ghout the entire planning process. I would definitely recommend her to anyone in need of an officiant or wedding planner.
Carmen is a wonderful officiant! She writes very personable ceremonies that fit the couple she is writing for. She is a very kind person and wants your ceremony to be perfect for y...
ou. She was timely with writing and open to suggestions. I HIGHLY recommend Carmen.
Carmen was a pleasure to work with! Her attention to detail with everything and quick reply’s to emails made everything SO easy and having that peace of mind that she responds in ...
a timely fashion. I cannot wait to work with Carmen for future events!
We had a great wedding experience because of A Beautiful Wedding. We began working with A Beautiful Wedding at the beginning of our engagement and everything went smoothly. We hire...
d her the day we got engaged. All the preparations that it took to make this experience happen is because of Carmen and A Beautiful Wedding. She was professional, organized and attentive to me. Thank you Carmen and A Beautiful Wedding for a wonderful wedding experience we will never forget – the best day of our lives.
Carmen was our wedding planner and she did an amazing job! As an out of town bride I really appreciated Carmen’s advice and opinions. Leading up to the wedding Carmen made sure eve...
rything was organized and within style and budget. On the day of the wedding she made sure everything was perfect! I would definitely recommend Carmen as a planner, she really cares about the couple!
Carmen was great! She helped me piece together my ceremony and even helped me proof read a little something I wrote. She helped me make sure my time line wasn't a disaster and trie...
d her best to keep us on time for our ceremony😁her calm nature definitely helped me remain calm on our big day! I can't thank her enough for making our day wonderful!!
Carmen and her team helped ensure that we had a stress free wedding day! I can’t thank her enough for helping us plan our wedding and making it special. Brian
Carmen was so great meeting with her from the very first time we met with her. She has been in the business a very long time, and that gave us comfort knowing that she would be the...
re for us on our special day. We met with her a few other times to outline the details of how we wanted our ceremony to go, and she quickly created a perfect ceremony for us with the vows we wanted, and all the readings & poems. We had a non-traditional wedding, but still wanted to do a few bible readings, but wanted them short & sweet. She also helped us incorporate our teenagers & young adult children into our ceremony with a sand ceremony that was just perfect & so beautiful and meaningful to us.
If you have Carmen as your Wedding Officiant, you definitely won’t be disappointed as she’s got your back! ❤️ Carmen is simply the best!!!
Carmen did a great job officiating our wedding! Thank you for everything!
Carmen did an amazing job! She is so sweet and helpful!
Carmen was amazing! We had a ceremony planned at a place that closed due to weather 4 hours before our wedding was to begin! I happened to get Carmen’s number from someone and call...
ed her, last minute She veered through the terrible weather and help does have a beautiful ceremony at our home which she wrote in less than an hour and charged a reasonable price… I am so thankful that she was able to come on such short notice and make our day perfect… Thank you Carmen
Carmen was the officiant for our wedding on 6.10.17! She was easy to work with, responsive, and very professional. Carmen made sure that our ceremony was unique to us. She shared h...
er unique ideas with us, but also listened to our ideas. Carmen made sure that the ceremony ran smoothly. We got many compliments on the quality and uniqueness of our ceremony. Strongly recommend!
Carmen officiated our wedding on 9/9/17. We are so happy we went with her! Not only was the ceremony beautiful and exactly what we wanted, but she truly went above and beyond to ma...
ke our day perfect. Unfortunately, the Day of Coordinator was absolutely awful - and when Carmen arrived about an hour and a half before the ceremony and saw the chaos that was taking place, she stepped right in to help. She helped my mom with decorations, helped make lemonade for guests, helped keep ME calm, and did so many other things that just weren't part of her duties. She really went above and beyond to make sure that we had a beautiful wedding day.
Mike and Carmen were awesome. Mike was our actual officiant for our ceremony. However, we got tons of tips and planning advice from both of them leading up to the wedding.
Carmen and Mike are both amazing! They helped us have the best experience possible. Thank you Carmen and Mike!
My wife and I are so grateful our lives crossed paths with Carmen Hocking of A Beautiful Wedding. Carmen helped plan our wedding that was in January of this year and she also offi...
ciated for us. Carmen took time to listen to our love story and helped create the most comforting, intimate and spiritual day that truly represented our life and love for one another. She was very professional and wonderful to work with. Her company and wedding team offer a variety of services. She gave us 100% of herself and she created a stress free day for us to truly enjoy together. We highly recommend Carmen's services. Working with Carmen and her wedding team we feel so blessed to have our unforgettable memories forever. Thank you, Carmen and A Beautiful Wedding team you are truly the best!
Carmen Hocking with A Beautiful Wedding is the most amazing officiant and planner. She is so down to earth and genuine that she really makes you feel special throughout the whole p...
rocess. She really brought our whole rehearsal dinner and ceremony together and made everything flow so seamlessly. I am not sure what we would have done without her. She is definitely the best of the best!!
Awesome service.
Carmen was awesome, she was available last minute and did a wonderful job
She was the greatest!!
Carmen was such a joy to work with! She has tons of experience in the industry, and gives great advise! We hired her as our wedding officiant, and she let us write our own ceremony...
script, but also gave guidance when we needed it. She was on time and all smiles for the rehearsal and day-of. Thank you Carmen, you truly made our day special!
I got in touch with Carmen the week of the day we wanted to get married. She was very responsive and organized. I am SO happy we found her (on FB)! Her words were perfect and it ma...
de out day even more special!
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Serving Lawrence, Kansas City, Topeka and surrounding areas.
A Beautiful Wedding