Event Planners

Legacy and Legend is an elopement planning and photography business serving couples in Asheville and the surrounding mountains. Its website describes all-inclusive elopement packages that cover the officiant, a bridal bouquet, a venue and photography. It also offers adventure sessions, and its blog shares real elopements, including a sunset ceremony at Max Patch and a vow renewal. The site also has a free guide with tips for eloping in Asheville.

Seize the Day with Grace is a wedding coordination service. Its website describes day-of coordination packages that include a consultation, a rehearsal, coordination on the wedding day and work with the couple's vendors. It also lists partial planning, where it builds a detailed timeline, and customizable packages. The site says couples can use wedding-related items from its own inventory, and that it works with events from small elopements to large weddings and receptions.

Bunn House is a restored brick mansion near downtown Asheville that works as boutique lodging in a bed and breakfast style. According to its website, the house has 4 bedrooms and sits on grounds with outdoor gardens, with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and downtown. Its website says the house was a private residence until 2013 and that it hosts larger events several times a year, including weddings, corporate retreats and family reunions. The site adds that a private chef or catered meals can be arranged on request, and it asks visitors to use its online form to make contact.

Love & Wisdom Inc. is a team of wedding officiants with an office on Broadway Street in downtown Asheville. Its website says the business began here in 2012 as Asheville Marriages, added Charlotte Marriages in 2018 and took the Love & Wisdom name in 2020. The officiants write custom ceremonies, and the site says they work with non-religious, spiritual, interfaith and religious couples, adding elements such as prayers or blessings on request. Couples are matched with an officiant after sharing details about their wedding, and the team says backup officiants are on hand if an emergency comes up. Along with Asheville and the rest of Western North Carolina, the company lists service in Boone, Charlotte, Wilmington, Highlands and Cashiers, plus Greenville and Spartanburg, SC. It also offers premarital resources and end-of-life celebrations.

iDaph Events is an Asheville-area company that organizes running, cycling and multi-sport races. Its website lists upcoming races in Hendersonville and DuPont State Forest, including a half marathon and 8K, a trail race and a 5K with a 1-mile. The site also has pages for event photos, race results, an online store and volunteer sign-up, plus a fitness blog. The company says its team lives and works in Western North Carolina and that it kept organizing events after Hurricane Helene.

Fitz and the Wolfe is a nightlife and event space on Battery Park Avenue in downtown Asheville. Its website describes three themed rooms: the Showroom for live music, including honky tonk, the Palm Room, a lounge with a tropical and Victorian look, and the Den, a casual spot for conversation and games. The menu leans toward smash burgers, wings and bites. The venue also hosts private events such as weddings, corporate gatherings, anniversaries, baby showers and fundraisers, with catering and audio-visual support listed on its site. Check its website or social pages for current music nights and event schedules.

Elope Asheville plans elopements in the Asheville area. Its website says each package includes an officiant and a photographer, and that the team helps couples choose a location, ceremony style and timeline. The site lists venue options such as Claxton Farms, Pretty Place, mountain overlooks, waterfalls, gardens and downtown, plus a luxury picnic elopement. It also lists add-ons for flowers, cake or charcuterie, photography and transportation. The business says it has operated since 2010 and describes itself as a small, family-run company that works with vendors based in Western North Carolina.

Hawk & Hawthorne is a 50-acre land sanctuary and gathering place on North Fork Road in Barnardsville, at the edge of Pisgah National Forest. Its website describes wildflower meadows, forest paths, permaculture gardens and an intentional community that tends the land. The property hosts weddings, with ceremony sites set around the meadows, gardens and a heritage tobacco barn. The property also hosts concerts in that barn, now used as a listening room, and on a cedar stage inside a standing stone circle that the site says holds up to 500 guests. Retreats, workshops, classes, yoga gatherings, community dinners and seasonal celebrations round out the schedule, and an events calendar on the website lists upcoming shows. The site says visits are by appointment, registration or ticketed event only.

Ella Asheville is a wedding and event venue in the historic Broadway Arts Building in downtown Asheville. Its website describes original tin ceilings, exposed brick, hardwood floors and a working fireplace, with an open floor plan that can be arranged for seated dinners, cocktail receptions or dancing. The site lists weddings, rehearsal dinners, welcome parties, corporate gatherings, nonprofit galas and holiday parties. Tables, chairs, lounge furniture, linens and barware are listed as part of the rental, and on-site venue managers help with setup and breakdown. Céline and Company is named as the in-house caterer, and outside caterers are allowed, according to the site.