Kemper Center

Cindy, Event Coordinator, and James, Events Manager, were incredible. They totally contributed to the successful of our wedding. Our wedding day was memorable, beautiful, and well coordinated.

We did not have our reception at Kemper, but did use the chapel for our ceremony. It was perfect for us! We loved the old feel and needed very minimal decoration since it has so much character.

The Kemper Center is a beautiful venue and the lady who we worked with at first was great, but about a month in she quit and we started working with Cindy. Cindy is very nice and a great lady, but she's not very good at being organised and knowing what's going on, which is a very important part. She billed me for the wrong things a few times and I had to send it back to her to fix, which wasn't too terrible but a bit of a pain. Also she said that on the day of the wedding she'd have someone be there at 10am to let us in and, low and behold we got there at 10 and no one was there or anywhere to be found and the door was very much still locked so we spent over half an hour trying to get a hold of her. or anyone there really. before we could finally get in, but her not answering her phone at all really didn't help much either; we had to wait until we ran into someone else who works there. That 37 minute delay we had almost caused me to be late to my own wedding ceremony. She also was very bad about responding to emails and calls in a timely manner if at all. In the end everything that needed to get done got done and everything turned out fine, but the process of getting to that point was anything but seamless. And again, Cindy is very nice and overall a great person, she just lacks most of the skills required to be good with planning things for weddings (those being organization, good record keeping, and timeliness). The venue itself is absolutely beautiful, I would probably still pick it again if I could go back and change my mind because it really is a beautiful venue. If I would have kept the first person instead of getting stuck with Cindy it would definitely give it 5 stars. She's the only reason why it isn't.

Absolutely Wonderful! We booked Simmons Auditorium in May 2015 with Allison for our wedding reception Saturday, May 28, 2016 and we were very pleased with the location and it did not disappoint. Cindy the event coordinator that started in January 2016 was great! We were disappointed that one of our vendors told us about the staff change at the Kemper Center and that Allison was no longer there as of November 2015. As the bride I did not hear directly from them about the staff change. You would think as a professional courtesy they would reach out to their clients that have events booked when there is a staff change, but they didn't. Lucky for them Cindy is wonderful. She is super friendly and knowledgeable about weddings and all around great to work with. From the first phone call to the goodbye hug at 11:45pm on the night of our reception Cindy was so helpful, professional, accommodating and amazing. She went above and beyond with helping us with the plans for our reception. Cindy explained everything and made sure we understood all our options for drinks and liquor services. The day/night of the event the entire staff was incredible and the venue was clean and the AC was cranking out and everyone had an amazing time!! The grounds were lovely and it was a picture perfect day. We loved every moment. The only slight disappointment was the fountain was not on so we didn't take any pictures around it otherwise it was a splendid day that we will cherish for many years to come!!!