Creating Your Unique Wedding
At Abel Estate, planning your wedding is about shaping a smooth, elegant experience that fits the flow of the lakefront setting. The venue is designed for simplicity — a ceremony by the water, canapés in the courtyard, then a seamless move into the pavilion for dinner. Our planning approach mirrors that clarity. We help you build a day where timing, movement and atmosphere all feel intentional, without unnecessary complexity or endless decisions.
Your planning specialist guides you through the details that matter at Abel: how the light falls across the lake for photos, the best way to schedule guest movement between spaces, and how to make the most of the pavilion’s modern layout. The goal is an effortless, contemporary celebration where everything feels cohesive from start to finish.
Concierge Planning Options
At Abel Estate, planning is shaped around the natural flow of a lakefront ceremony, courtyard service and pavilion dining, helping your day feel cohesive and beautifully timed.
Basic Planning – Free
Included in every wedding package, this gives you a sequence of planning steps by email plus a meeting with our Wedding Planner 3–4 months before your wedding. It’s designed to help you resolve any remaining details before you’re introduced to your Wedding Host.
Standard Planning & Styling – $749
Let’s help build your dream! Our Wedding Planner-Stylist supports you with the key elements of your day — guest experience, styling, food and drink choices. Styling advice matches your plans, whether you’re creating your own look or using one of our packages, and includes a Pinterest board and mood board.
We’ll cover tablescapes, layout, timeline, set-up and pack-down. We can recommend celebrants, photographers, florists, DJs, cakes and stationery. In addition to the Basic package, you’ll have two on-site or video meetings.
Lite Planning & Styling – $249
Need help getting started with planning and styling ideas? The Lite package gives you practical direction with styling advice (including a PDF mood board) and planning guidance so you know where to begin and what to focus on. Along with the Basic package, you also have one on-site or video meeting soon after booking.
$1,500 Day-of Coordinator Free
Your day-of coordinator, also known as your host, spends 14 hours on the wedding day making sure everything goes to plan, whether that’s setting you up in the Vineyard Suite with a bottle of bubbles, checking that the wedding signs are all in place or the microphone for the celebrant is in working order. If you hired an external event planner, you’d expect to pay $1,500 or more.
Using your timeline and other wedding information as the script, she makes sure all the actors in the romantic wedding production hit their marks and deliver their performances, working alongside your MC to liaise with guests.
Most importantly, the host is your crucial support person on the day. Her number one concern is your needs. She’ll be standing alongside you at the beginning of the bridal path, she’ll make sure your glass is suitably topped up, and give you a hug goodbye at the end of the night.
Planning provided by the venue were exceptional from start to finish. The staff were incredibly attentive, responsive, and dedicated to ensuring every detail of our wedding was perfect.
Every detail was executed with professionalism and care which was noticed and appreciated especially by the bride and groom which ensured a stress free and highly memorable wedding.
Take Your First Step
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Send us this short form if you’d like pricing details, to arrange a venue viewing, or to get other information.
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Having the spreadsheet to fill in was super helpful, and so were the planning meetings. All the staff went above and beyond to try make everything possible.
My husband and I are working full time, so having that concierge package made it so much easier for us. We did not get that stressed with planning, especially in the early months.