January 27, 2015

Courtesy of Wedding wire!! Read on! 


You may have fallen in love with a particular wedding venue – gorgeous scenery, stunning backdrops for portraits, ideal capacity to hold all of your guests, and it’s available on the perfect date – but there are several less obvious issues that you should ask about, as well. These may not seem like major issues now, but they could make or break your guests’ experience.
What's your Plan B in case of inclement weather?
We know, it’s difficult to think about less-than-ideal on your wedding day, especially when you’re swept away by a beautiful outdoor site. But, Mother Nature doesn’t always cooperate, so it’s important to talk to potential venues about their indoor options in case of inclement weather. Make sure you’re comfortable and happy with the Plan B before moving forward.
Are you climate controlled?
If you’re getting married at a time of year that’s prone to extreme hot or cold, you’ll need to discuss climate control options with your venue. You’ll want to make sure your guests are comfortable and not freezing or sweating on your big day!
Can I see the restrooms?
Be sure to take a peek at the restroom facilities. If you’re hosting a huge wedding with hundreds of guests and there’s only one single-person restroom at the venue, it’s a red flag. Your guests want spend the evening celebrating with you, not waiting in line to use the facilities!
How big will the dance floor be?
The rule of thumb is typically three or four square feet of dance floor space per dancing guest. You needn’t worry about having enough dance floor space to accommodate every single guest, since only about half to two-thirds of your guests will be dancing at one time, but work with your venue to make sure there’s enough space for your dancing crew to shake their groove thangs.
Related: 5 Things to Know Before Looking for a Venue
Where's the parking?
If many of your guests will be driving to your venue, you’ll need to think about the parking situation. Is there a lot to accommodate everyone or is valet parking available? It’s not only important to think about the parking facilities and their proximity to the venue, also take the cost into account. While you don’t have to pay for your guests’ parking, it indeed a nice gesture – so be sure to consider the costs of parking, whether it’s an expense you or your guests will have to tack on.
How accessible are you to guests with special needs?
Consider your guests who are disabled or have special needs. Will they be able to easily access and enjoy your wedding? Talk to your venue about specific concerns you may have – even if a venue doesn’t have handicapped accessibility as part of their infrastructure, they may be able to bring in wheelchair ramps or other accommodations for your guests.
Can I see a list of your rules and regulations?
From noise ordinances to no-candle, no-hanging-decor and no-camera-flash policies, there may be some less obvious rules that you’ll want to know before signing a contract with a venue. Some of these may be deal-breakers, other may be things you can work around, but it’s good to know up front.
How much time will my vendor team and I have to set up and clean up from my wedding?
Some venues give you a few hours, others will allow you to start setting up the evening before. Either is usually just fine, but it’s good to know in advance. You’ll also want to check on your ceremony venue’s availability for hosting a short rehearsal either the night before (ideal) or day of your wedding.

Happy New Year! OPEN HOUSE!

As we embark on another year full of fabulous weddings, I want to remind you guys to follow us on Instagram, Pinterest, twitter, and Facebook! Most of our photos and information will be updated daily via social media.

Don't forget our open house is this Friday starting at 5:00pm! Together with Perfect Beginnings, and Haute Weddings, we have decided on a travel theme. Ya Mon!  
FREE HONEYMOON! FREE HONEYMOON! 

We have a fabulous list of vendors lined up for this open house including --->

* Caterers:
             Heavenly Gourmet
             Pappas Catering (Pappasitos)
             Anne Marie's
             Spice of Life

* Bartenders4U

* 5150 Productions

* Illuminating Celebrations (lighting it up!)

* Blume Haus
* Elegant Bee
* De Vinnies Paradise

These are just a few vendors that will be here, we also have a group of top talent photographers lined up as well :)

Still looking for hair and make up vendors? We will have a couple of those too!

Don't forget to take a peek at lovely bridal gowns provided by Destiny Bridal as well!



On another note! Thank you THANK YOU brides, for voting Kendall Plantation best of the best on the knot and wedding wire. What an honor it is to be recognized in the top 5%, we can't do it with out you. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!

 Starlight Fireworks and FX

 Illuminating Celebrations/Elan Imaging

 Bartenders4U

 Starlight Fireworks and FX 

 De Vinnie's Paradis

 Anne Marie's Catering

 Spice of Life

 5150 - Philip 

 Haute Weddings/Starlight Fireworks & FX

 Blume Haus

Blume Haus

Heavenly Gourmet

 Elegant Bee

 Pappas Catering



November 13, 2014

November to Remember

Here we are! November 2014!

Kendall Plantation celebrated its 3rd birthday this month! Can you believe it has been 3 years?! What a joy and blessing this has been. I have witnessed over 300 weddings and events and loved every second of it. People often ask if I am tired of it yet.....NO. I am not tired of it yet, and not even close to tired of it. I love weddings! The most incredible feeling in the world is standing right behind my bride (you've seen the photos on Instagram) before she walks down the aisle. They have no idea how much their life is about to change for ever. I can't imagine the thoughts in their head as they are about to embark on their most important journey in life. And for the groom, patiently and eagerly waiting for his bride at the gazebo....OH MY! I love it! So sweet, and so innocent. Nothing else matters, no one else exists at that point. As soon as those double french doors open wide, it is direct and constant eye contact with bride and groom. She can't wait for him to see her, and he can't wait to see her. Ughhhh! So awesome! How could you get tired of that?!

I realize the last blog was February...oops! We have done some wonderful things at KP since then! New ramp onto the golf cart path, new and grand and gorgeous stone column fence and gates, lots of new landscaping, and major upgrades in bride and grooms room! Can't wait for you to see it if you haven't already!

Check out our new website too! We updated our preferred vendors list (stick to it!) and added more photos. Trying to reach 500 followers on Pinterest....can you guys help me with that?! Follow me at kendallboerne. Also joined Instagram (where I take the famous bride and dad shot), you can follow us there too!

In case you don't follow us on Facebook, here are a couple shots of some summer weddings! Enjoy!

Country Sugar

 Blume Haus Floral

Sweet August Events




DPC Event Services


 Blume Haus Floral


February 27, 2014

Warm weather coming…I hope! 


Welcome to Kendall Plantation's blog, thank you for visiting and keeping up with me!

December-February has been AMAZING. I did enough begging and pleading for good weather on the weekends…and it worked! Weekdays were filled with yucky freezing weather and all the nasty rain to go with it…but by Friday, the weather always seemed to clear up and be perfect. I have always said winter brides get the best sunsets, and it is so true. The pink and orange fire sky displayed itself flawlessly. (pictures below)
Now that we are wrapping up winter (I hope) March kicks of this weekend with many promising floral blooms. Roses are sprouting, wildflowers are popping up already, and the trees are turning a gorgeous lime green. We are currently going through some major upgrades in the brides suite, and our website. I can't wait to share with you all the new things to come…it's pretty cool.

For those of you who made it to our open house, you know how amazing it was. For those of you who didn't come I have added pictures below to show you how super cool it was. Most of our favorite vendors came out to share all their services, and we even had some new ones come out. We had just about 150 people at the open house (WOWZERS) and I couldn't have asked for better weather.

Don't forget to use me as much as you can for any questions or concerns you have. I have 300 weddings under my belt and I am happy to help you any way I can :)  Use me!

As always, I am happy to provide my vendors list to help you choose the right vendors for your wedding, we did our homework so you don't have to!

Have a great weekend, looking forward to the spring!

-Kristin










December 11, 2013

Vendors we love…love you too. 
2 Reasons:

1. KP knows what you are getting when you hire any of our recommended vendors. 

2. KP does not know what you are getting when you hire your own.

Let me expand on these two reasons why you should not hire a caterer outside our recommend list!! We are happy to let you choose your own caterer…after all…it is your wedding, but, let me tell you how important it is to have a caterer that knows what they are doing and genuinely cares about the turnout of your event. I included just a couple of photos that are frightening and clearly prove the lack of professionalism and care towards a wedding. I know how much you are paying us, your dj, planner, flowers, cake people, dress, invitations, decorations…OMG the list goes on and on…so why would you put all this effort into planning the perfect wedding that represents you and let it go with a caterer who shows up late, has dirty dishes, doesn't cover the tables, doesn't have enough staff, food was cold, etc. 

Did I lay that on thick enough? Kendall Plantation goes to all lengths to make sure all your vendors know what to expect and do on your wedding day. It seems that everything falls back on the caterer, and when it is their turn to preform, it is already too late to change them. So, in effort to help you, we are offering an amazing deal. If you choose at least 6 vendors from our vendors we love list (one of them being the catering) we will give you a free sparkler send off and $50 off your contract for each vendor you book from our list. How doest that sound? Too good to pass up!!! 

Merry Christmas,
Kendall Plantation




October 22, 2013

Bloggity Blog Blog--THE PERFECT WEDDING (ALMOST)

Happy October,

This year has been amazing! Great brides, great families, and perfect weddings....right?!
So you want the perfect wedding? Here is my thoughts on that, (in case you want to know).


1. Book your wedding at Kendall Plantation
2. Start hiring vendors from the Vendors We Love list provided for you
3. Don't count on Friends and Family to help you for day of planning
4. Ask KP about any vendor you are unsure of, we have the scoop on most of them

After the first step,the 3 steps following may seem a little harsh. But I can not stress enough that choosing vendors that are familiar with KP, and policies will make your life and more importantly YOUR WEDDING perfect or as close to perfect as possible. With out the relationship KP has with the vendors we love, there is no guarantee that they will be here on time, prepared and fully understanding of the importance of your wedding. It took over 100 weddings to develop a list of vendors that I trust enough to put on a list with our stamp of approval. These vendors proved time and time again that they are here to stay, professional, hard workers, and genuinely care about each bride they have. I did my homework so you don't have to! The vendors we love have a wide budget range.
Before you book with a wedding planner who has never worked here, a DJ who you found on craigslist, or a caterer who has no experience but offered you steak shrimp for $5.99.....lets get real.
I provide the list to you so that you can have with out a doubt the best experience for your big day. We want your guests to feel at home at KP, with the best entertainment, the best service for food, and a wedding planner that knows this place like the back of their hand and can turn water in to wine...okay...maybe not. But you get me?!
***Brides, I care about you, I love you, I want you to have a good day, I want your family to have a good day. If you are going to spend all this $$$ on your most important day, do it right (doesn't mean it has to be expensive either!!) And trust when I tell you that the preferred vendors are the way to go.  "But wait... I thought you allow any vendors to come into KP"?? Ah, yes we do. And we are always happy to open the doors to any business to come here, but the last thing you want to do is babysit on your wedding day because none of your vendors get along, or maybe they are not familiar with the site, or weddings at all (yikes, but I have seen it).

Wow! Too much information? Did the previous statements make you feel like you were being yelled at?!!! LOL, I (Kristin) am here for you to answer any questions you have with any vendors, use me!! I love weddings, I love my brides, and I love it when brides are happy happy happy on their wedding day with no regrets of choosing the wrong vendors.

Enough blogging for today, I am making an early resolution to blog at least every other week.... ;)
Cheers,
Kristin Voss
Kendall Plantation

December 18, 2012

Merry Christmas from Kendall Plantation! 


Yes...don't remind me it has been over 5 months since my last blog!!! We have been busy at KP making it beautiful and connecting with beautiful brides! Since we last spoke in July, we hosted MISSION Wedding; a huge hosted wedding valued at over $60,000. Vendors in and around San Antonio so kindly donated their services for a military couple to have the wedding of their dreams. Kendall Plantation and Haute Weddings took applications earlier in the year for a chance to win this once in a lifetime dream wedding. After much thought and interviewing, we chose a couple that could not have been more perfect and deserving for this occasion. Their story is unique and special and we congratulated them and thanked them for their service to our country by hosting a dream wedding for them and 150 of their friends and family. The wedding was stunning and we pulled out all the stops at this wedding! From invitations, to fireworks everything was donated for this beautiful couple to enjoy. We had so much support from this that we decided to do it again this year. With the website up and vendors all lined up, we accepted the first application today via MISSION Wedding's website. www.missionwedding.org. Check it out! 

 After Mission Wedding, we dried all our tears from happiness of that special day and transformed the mood into a party place for The Knot to have their annual Knot Party....it was so COOL!!!! It was great to have all vendors in one place to socialize and network with each other in a non-wedding environment! One thing is for sure, San Antonio has some great vendors who really love their brides. We are so happy to be a part of it.  We summed up August weddings that included a helicopter landing as a get-a-way, several fireworks displays, and we even made it snow inside! I love my job! 

Then came September...and a baby! Kendall Plantation welcomed our newest addition Ms. Charlee Janelle Voss. Weighing in at 6 pounds 12 ounces and 21 inches long, we are so blessed with this little GIRL and could not be more happy! 

October and November flew by and we had lovely fall indoor and outdoor weddings at KP. We decided to get in the cheery mood and add Christmas lights to all the columns outside and the trees by the Gazebo. I think we may do this every year as it looks great in pictures! The charming white light adds romance and a warm feeling that you just can't get any where else. I think November/December might be my new favorite time of the year at Kendall Plantation. 

So, I wanted to drop in and wish everyone a Merry Christmas. The Kendall Plantation family can not explain how much we love what we do, and we love working hard for our brides. Christmas is the best time of the year and we want to share our Christmas wishes with you. We will be closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but will return Wednesday. 

Merry Christmas, 
Kendall Plantation 

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Boerne, Texas, United States
Kendall Plantation is an elegant wedding venue located in between Boerne and San Antonio. Slated for completion this September we are excited to host weddings and other events! Kendall Plantation will be completed with floor to ceiling windows with monumental French doors on all sides of the building. The open feeling through the ballroom will create an elegant romantic feel for any event. Wood floors will complement the beautiful cascading chandeliers and wall sconces carefully chosen to warm the room with elegance and charm. The 13 foot wrap around porches allow for a lovely cocktail hour or some Hill Country R&R. Kendall Plantation stays true to Southern Plantation homes with its black shutters, wrap around porches, a lighted copula on top, and giant white columns all the way around. Surrounding views include century old oak trees, rolling hill tops and magnificent sunsets behind the hill.