Conway · Arkansas
Elope near Conway.
One hour straight up I-40 and you are here. Of all the city markets we serve, Conway is the easiest drive by a mile.
One hour, one highway
Get on I-40 west, stay on it for about an hour, come off at Russellville and drop south across the Dardanelle bridge. That is the whole trip. No back roads, no complicated directions to put on an invitation, and nothing your grandmother cannot manage on her own.
Because it is that simple, Conway weddings out here almost never involve hotel blocks. Your people drive up in the morning, they are at the chapel by noon, and they sleep in their own beds. That takes real cost and real logistics off your plate.
Conway is getting expensive, and you have noticed
The town has grown fast and wedding prices grew right along with it. Couples call me after touring places in town where the venue fee alone runs $4,000 to $7,000, and that fee buys the building. Flowers, cake, planning, coordination, setup and cleanup are all still ahead of you.
Our weekday minimony is $2,900 Monday through Thursday and it includes all of those. I am the florist and the planner and the day-of coordinator, and I am here the whole time. You are not assembling a team of six vendors and hoping they get along on the morning of your wedding.
Good for a young budget without looking like it
We get a lot of couples in their twenties from Conway, plenty of them UCA and Hendrix graduates who are getting married with their own money. What matters to them is that the day does not look like it was done on a budget, and it does not. It is a real chapel my husband built by hand, real gardens I planted, real flowers cut and designed here.
What you are saving is not coming out of how the day looks. It is coming out of the day of the week.
What is included
Four hours of venue time including two hours in the bridal suite, your bridal bouquet, two boutonnieres, an arbor floral swag on the gold arch or the wooden cross, cake florals, your wedding cake, a cake and punch reception with a champagne toast, music, your first dance and send-off, on-site planning and day-of coordination, and all setup and cleanup. Up to 30 guests, with room for 70.
You book your photographer, your officiant, and your hair and makeup. I will happily send you names I trust.
Come see ours
We are on 20 acres at the foot of Mt. Nebo in Dardanelle. My husband Josh built our chapel by hand and I planted the gardens. I design every bride's flowers myself and I am there on your wedding day running it, start to finish. Send me your date and I will tell you the same day whether it is open.
If a weekday works for you, $2,900 covers just about all of it.