Unity Village Weddings-Events

ndest and most caring group of people to work with.

pel for us in case of inclement weather. The staff made sure that guests were directed to the new location, helped us move decorations, & were responsive to other concerns that came up regarding the change. The property has beautiful fountains and gardens that provide amazing photo backdrops. The food was excellent, and everyone we worked with at Unity was friendly and helpful. Minor issues that came up were dealt with quickly & to our satisfaction. We also appreciated the on-site hotel and rental cottages for our family & friends.

make my daughters wedding flawless, she was happy and that is what matters!

iconic Unity tower in Unity Village. What took place on that day turned out better than either of us could ever have imagined! It was an experience we will never, ever forget. The panoramic views of the Kansas City area from high above the Unity Village grounds were absolutely amazing, making it the perfect venue for the romantic renewal of our wedding vows. The service we received from the Weddings and Events office was exceptional! Our event-planning angel was Gretchen. It was she who suggested the tower location, but offered us other venue options as well, one of which was the beautiful Atrium Garden Chapel. From our first interactions with Gretchen, she always tried to make sure that we were getting everything our hearts desired for this special occasion—including an officiant list, support materials for the ceremony, and suggestions for accommodations available on Unity Village’s gorgeous grounds. Most importantly, we always felt that Gretchen genuinely wanted to make this the best possible experience for us, and that made it especially enjoyable to work with her! Our officiant was Rev. Michael Perrie, an ordained Unity minister, who co-created a very meaningful vow renewal ceremony with us, and even took the time to arrange for the background music to accompany our vow exchange. Having a high-quality Unity minister to enrich and preside over our ceremony made the experience all the more meaningful for us—we could genuinely feel God’s presence as we renewed our vows. We highly recommend Unity Village as an ideal setting for any wedding ceremony—one that would be absolutely perfect for getting a newlywed couple off to a good start on their journey of a lifetime together.

was everything we could have hoped for!

Garden which was newly made and extremely beautiful. This venue made our dream wedding possible. Hannah is very organized and helps you plan the event.

s going to rain which concerned us because the indoor chapel area is very outdated and does not compare at all to the outside space. Unity Village is very up and coming and renewing their spaces so hopefully in the near future the indoor chapel space is updated because it could really use it in my opinion! Hannah and Bobby-the wedding coordinators were extremely helpful and always able to answer our questions along with being very timely and accommodating. I never felt like they wouldn’t be willing to help or make changes if needed. The only thing that was a little bit of a con was the grooms dressing rooms/getting ready room is very small compared to the bridal one and the guys ended up hanging out in the bridal suite because theirs was very small. Along with the only bathrooms (that we found at least) were connected to the bridal suite so when guests were coming in from the parking lot and going to the bathroom they were seeing the bride & groom and the bridal party which caught us all off guard and was kind of disappointing because usually guests shouldn’t see the party/bride and groom before hand. Possibly adding another bathroom for guests before hand would be helpful. Other than that Unity Village was a great space for our wedding! I couldn’t imagine doing it anywhere else. The space is so big and you have it all to yourself it’s great. The reception space is newly redone and is great for large weddings. We had over 200 people in the space and never felt crowded at all.

red. We don’t live in Kansas City so it made it much more difficult to plan my wedding. But luckily Hannah was very attentive to us and our needs. She was able to bring our vision to life with our day of coordinator Camille. Everyone was very friendly including the staff at our rehearsal dinner, hotel, and air bnb. The whole day went perfect down to the weather! The food was excellent not only at our rehearsal dinner which was a pasta station. But also at our plated reception. The bartenders were amazing and so friendly. I have nothing but positive feedback to give them. I’m so sad that my wedding is over because everyone was fantastic! Thanks again Unity Village for making my day beautiful!

g an outdoor wedding ceremony with a backup indoor chapel in case of weather. They also have the reception hall on grounds with full food and bar service and a hotel within walking distance. These features is what brought us to Unity Village. Their grounds and chapels are very well maintained and are great for wedding ceremonies. Their food and bar service are spectacular, and their staff are very friendly and professional. They certainly know how to throw a great party. But despite all their strengths, there is one main reason I would not recommend them for your wedding venue. That is that we were lied to many times during the process. It started when we first signed on with them. We signed our contract for our certain date and they said once the down payment was made we could not cancel. They could only cancel for certain reasons. These being weather, natural disaster, war, etc. So a few months after we made our down payment, they emailed us saying due to circumstances beyond their control they needed to remove us from our date. This is nearly a year prior to our selected date. They gave us no specific reason. We then went to reschedule and they gave us a discount for the hassle. For our new date they told us that we were the only ones on the grounds that day and that their hotel had nearly all its rooms available. So we should have nearly the entire hotel. Well, a few months later we went to block our rooms and the hotel desk said they only had a few rooms available. The entire hotel was booked on our day. This caused us to look into hotels within a short driving distance from the grounds a few months prior to our date. At the first few meetings they also told us we could bring our own beer to the reception. The only stipulation to this is that they needed to serve it and at the end of the night we could take what was left with us. Well, that changed toward the end. They told us we could not bring our own beer, but they could purchase whatever we wanted locally. The deal was that we pay for the beer in full upfront, they buy and serve, and what doesn't sell we get back. We agreed to this and a few weeks after they email us saying that we couldn't take what didn't sell and we wouldn't get a refund. So this deal got cancelled. Overall; I would not recommend Unity Village for your wedding venue despite all their strengths and conveniences. The added stress their lies caused us during our planning was not worth what they provided.

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rooms to the newly renovated reception hall was top notch! It also made for STUNNING pictures. Bobby is doing great things over at Unity Village. Great work!

in love with the venue as well! The staff at Unity was incredible from every aspect, from food preparation to planning the big day. We also had the wonderful help of Bobby Kyser with BKE(he’s also with Unity) doing all of the decor and floral arrangements for the day, & I highly recommend everyone do the same! I gave Bobby free rein for the big day and he took my vision above and beyond what I had originally imagined! It rained all morning of our big day and the staff at Unity did absolutely everything they could as soon as the rain stopped to make sure we could still get the ceremony done outside! We did not do a first look together, so the staff did everything they could to help keep us from seeing each other, including taking me through the underground tunnels! I couldn’t recommend Unity more, our day was perfect in every way!

arried here at the Fillmore Chapel (beautiful and historic) and the towers here are absolutely gorgeous for outdoor pictures. The reception hall is pretty big, so they are flexible to the amount of people you have. We had a smaller guest list, but they managed to make the room look full! We got a lot of compliment from our guests on how delicious the food was here! I am glad I went with Unity Village to have us on our special day.

ts. I cannot recommend it enough! Both my husband and I plus our guests were absolutely blown away by this romantic and practical location!

hey rest of the staff became like family by the end of the night.

..it made the planning so easy!

can't wait to see how the pictures turned out. Not only was the venue gorgeous, but the staff was also helpful before and during the wedding and were very organized. They also responded to my inquiries in a timely manner leading up to the big day. All in all, I would not have wanted to get married anywhere else in the KC area. They take great care of their space and take pride in providing you with good service. HIGHLY recommend!!!

d also made sure that random people didn't get in our way for photos and that there were no stragglers on campus during our ceremony so there were prom photos in the background. The ceremony was on the bridge of faith and it was beautiful! The only suggestion I would have on this is that if you want to be standing on the bridge make sure to check the times for sunset as we had to stand at the foot of the bridge so that I wasn't looking directly into the sun during our vows (wouldn't have been great photos if I were squinting the whole time). So if it is important to you to stand on the bridge have a later wedding time, or a different season, ours was 04/23/16 at 5:30 pm. The reception was great as well, the food was very good! The coordinators even made sure we had a to-go box for each of us to be able to eat later, this was clutch. You get to talking to people and barely eat during the actual dinner. Price point is great, we had about 200 guests and it was very affordable. Even though it is an affordable venue I didn't feel that we were having to sacrifice a beautiful venue or quality for the price point. The campus is beautiful and reception hall is also a great space. Angela Alesi is their event coordinator and she was great to work with. She makes sure the day is all planned out then hands it over to her day of coordinators. She was always quick to respond to emails and any questions we had. The campus also has a hotel which was super convenient for our out of town guests. I also stayed there on Friday night and we had the honeymoon suite the night of the wedding so we didn't have to arrange transportation.

and random bystanders out of our wedding area and out of our guests sight. We also did the reception here and service was fantastic. They also gave us a little lee-way with set up times as we needed more time than what they had originally scheduled us. A couple of our servers were a little on the grumpy side and bumped heads with my coordinator, but I was unaware of this until after the fact. There is a bit of fine print with expenses that we were unaware of when we signed the contract, but those expenses were explained in full before wedding day so we knew what to expect. Also, the venue wedding coordinator was sometimes difficult to get ahold which became frustrating when I needed to know an answer immediately. All in all, I would still highly recommend this venue for both ceremony and reception. The venue is beautiful and the staff really do work hard to make sure your day is beyond perfect! All the stressing and hard work definitely paid off come wedding day!

g we weren't allowed into the reception hall until two hours before our wedding. Reception started at 5 but our wedding was at a church off campus at 4. I was stressed because how do you ask someone to decorate for you the hour leading up to your wedding?! We asked to get in earlier and it was difficult to get much leeway, especially when they booked a luncheon there until 1. The day of our wedding we were out taking pics and a lady I had never met came yelling at my husband and I to get inside so they could serve dinner although it was 15 minutes until we planned on dinner. I didn't appreciate the way she took care of things that night. Be sure to ask and meet who will be there at your reception. Then our guests weren't served the champagne we had ordered for the tables and a lot of people weren't served cake!!! We also had some fees at the end that were not covered when we originally met. At the end of the night, these are not the things we will remember but it was unfortunate. treconsider

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ll has beautiful windows that with the right decor can be great. ceiling is ugly. the hotel is awesome for getting ready if you book the bridal suite, very big. guest thought our reception was gorgeous, we had it in the reception hall with a cocktail hour in the rose garden. food was good, we did plated. Just hard to get ahold of the wedding coordinators, for example the friday before my wedding day no one showed up to coordinate our set-up and learn how to play our video. The price listed is expensive because we did open bar ($20 per head) and plated dinner ($20/head) and lots of guests but you can make it alot cheaper

Sheri, Angela, OJ and their team provided exceptional service from day one of planning through our event. Fast responses from Sheri to questions or concerns were always the norm with wonderful suggestions to bring together details we had not considered. Extremely professional in every aspect. The wedding was planned to take place outside on the Bridge of Faith after a long, dry summer. Then hurricane Issac blew in the day before and it appeared all activities would move inside. Talk about a disappointment. One (1) hour before the ceremony, the rain suddenly stopped, Angela and her crew immediately took steps to dry benches, tidy the area, and the ceremony went without a hitch! It was beautiful! The feast that OJ and his staff prepared was fabulous, down to the table settings. All of this on a strict budget. We shopped around many venues but couldn't afford the extremes. Unity Village staff provided those perks and left us feeling that we gave our daughter and son-in-law with a wedding they will look back on with very fond memories. Don't waste your time running all over town trying to put it altogether. All of our guests raved about the service, the beautiful grounds and orchestration of the whole event. So why stress? Sheri and her staff have everything ready and waiting for you.

e hotel on the grounds was a huge plus. The views for photography are great. The catering selections from when I booked (2011) to my day (2012) became much more limited with higher prices. The food was nothing spectualar, just run of the mill wedding food. The buffets were nothing to write home about either so I was not impressed. And if you want an outside caterer? Forget about it, the surcharge alone will scare you away. The venue is well worth the money, but the food, staff and managing of your event are not.

very helpful! Only thing I did not like was that they can be hard to get ahold of, but then again that are very busy and are very involved in your wedding day! Lots of help!

Planning a wedding from miles away could have awful but they make it pretty easy. Once they parked their car they were there to enjoy the festivities. Call the gals at Unity's wedding office and they will not steer you wrong!

worlds..an inside wedding with all the benefits of the out doors. Sheri Alexander is a peach to work with. she was always prompt with e-mails and had a pretty open schedule for out appointments!

. They were there when I or my family /friends needed assistances, when I asked for something to be changed at the last minute, they were happy to do so, or even when I felt overwelmed they were they to help calm me down. Unity village is a great and beautiful place to start the beginning of forever.

ere never told the extent of this construction. None of the fountains were working and a lot of the beauty and charm of Unity was completely gone. My biggest gripe is that on my actual wedding day, I was assigned an attendant from Unity Village who failed to turn off her cell phone during our wedding ceremony. It rang very loudly at a quiet part of our ceremony. She also showed up 25 minutes late the day of the wedding and the groomsmen could not get into their dressing room on time. All in all, my wedding was a beautiful day and the problems I had with Unity Village didn't make a huge negative impact on the day. It is clean and the chapel is beautiful, but it's a little bit too pricy. It's a great place to take photos when there's not construction.

we worked with was extremely helpful and terrific to work with.

to be able to be there for my wedding because she helped us through the entire process. At least she let us know and it wasn't a surprise!! I'm very thankful for that! I would recommend Unity to anyone intrested!!

chirping smelled the flowers it was perfect!;If using it at night additional lighting is necessary once it gets dark.