06/11/2026
Working on the website event gallery tonight reminded me of one wedding I'll never forget. The entire event was supposed to take place outdoors.
Four days before the wedding, I was watching the forecast and knew we were headed for trouble. You know the kind of Arkansas weather that rolls in, plops itself down over the state, and acts like its paying rent? Yes, that kind of rain. 😒 I called the client, and after a brief panic attack, the mother of the bride sprang into action.
A few phone calls later, she found a building at the fairgrounds. The challenge? I had never seen the building in person-it was in another town, over an hour away, I couldn’t travel to see it before we were to arrive-and all I knew was that it was nearly 11,000 square feet.
11,000 square feet? You could easily seat 800–1,000 souls in that kind of space. We were expecting fewer than 70 guests. The challenge wasn't fitting everyone inside—it was figuring out how to make them feel like they belonged there and didn’t disappear inside it.
When we arrived, we spent nearly five hours from brainstorming to transforming it into an intimate event space. We worked around equipment, storage, and everything else that came with the facility. What should have been a quick forty-five minutes to an hour setup became a complete redesign on the fly.
In the end, the guests never saw the challenges. They saw a beautiful celebration. And that's one of the things I love most about this industry.
Planning isn't just timelines, flowers, linens, and pretty details. It's problem-solving.
It's adapting.
It's finding solutions when circumstances change.
