Graceful Weddings and Events LLC

VÉRA ELITE GROUP | Weddings Designed as One Complete Experience VÉRA Elite Group creates weddings that feel intentional, personal, and unmistakably yours. I’m Traci, founder and creative director of VÉRA, formerly Graceful Weddings & Events. For more than 25 years, my work has crossed wedding planning, event production, floral design, beauty, hospitality, and luxury client service. That experience gives me a different perspective on weddings: I don’t see a collection of vendors and individual details. I see the entire experience. I can walk into an empty venue and immediately see what it could become—the flow of the room, where guests will gather, where the eye should land, how lighting will change the atmosphere, how florals should interact with the space, which textures and furnishings belong there, and how every element can work together rather than compete for attention. That is what VÉRA does. From full-service planning and production to floral design, installations, tablescapes, décor, rentals and styling, we bring the creative and logistical pieces together under one clear vision. But your wedding should never look like our wedding. It starts with you: what you love, what you absolutely don’t, what matters enough to splurge on, what doesn’t, and most importantly, how you want the day to feel. I’m fiercely budget-conscious because exceptional design isn’t about spending the most money. It’s about spending it intelligently. Knowing where an investment will completely transform a space—and where spending another dollar won’t meaningfully change the experience—is part of good design and good planning. After more than 500 events, one thing has become very clear: the weddings people remember aren’t necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets or the most trends. They’re the ones with a point of view. The ones where you walk in and immediately understand something about the people getting married. Whether you’re looking for complete planning and production, floral and décor design, a statement installation, or someone who can take a blank venue and completely reimagine it, VÉRA brings the design eye, strategy, vendor knowledge and real-world production experience to make it happen. No cookie-cutter weddings. No spending money just because the wedding industry says you’re supposed to. No recreating someone else’s Pinterest board. We design the room. We engineer the flow. We create the atmosphere. We obsess over the details. And when you finally walk into your wedding, it doesn’t feel like a beautiful wedding you’ve seen before. It feels like yours.