
Minnesota Weddings by Compass Occasions
Your venue. Your vision. Our support.
Compass Occasions provides wedding planning, coordination, décor rentals, design, styling, setup and teardown throughout Minnesota. You can hire our family team at Art’s Place or another Minnesota venue — churches, barns, wineries, hotels, private properties, event centers and community spaces.
Wedding Coordination
Wedding-day execution and enhanced support in the final months.
Full Wedding Planning
Guidance from booking through your celebration.
Design & Styling
A cohesive visual concept and coordinated décor.
Décor Rentals
Select pieces or ask about a curated collection.
Setup & Teardown
Choose the hands-on support your event needs.
Art’s Place Wedding Packages
Our intimate historic venue in downtown Hutchinson.
Planning Services
Day of Coordination
As your wedding planner, our goal is to handle all the details so you can relax and enjoy your day. Here’s a snapshot of what a typical wedding day in our world looks like:
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Pre-Ceremony: We greet vendors, confirm timelines, check in with the bridal party, ensuring all personal items like the guest book, favors, and any other items are set out and organized at the reception, adjusting as needed for any last-minute changes or special requests.
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Ceremony: We cue the bridal party, ensure the music is ready to set the mood for your grand entrance, assist with guest seating, direct the ceremony flow
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Social Hour & Dinner: We transfer items from the ceremony to the reception, greet and help guests and ensure the bar is ready to serve drinks as guests arrive to social hour. We will usher guests to be seated for dinner and assist with cuing in your grand entrance. Once everyone is seated we will coordinate with your caterer to begin serving. Having a buffet for a meal, we will dismiss the tables.
- Your Final Special Moments: Cueing speeches and cake cutting, arranging for golden hour photos, packing your cards and gifts safely away and making sure your first dances happen at the right moment
- Saying Goodbye For The Night: We ensure all the vendors are paid/gratuities handed out, and any last minute items are packed up, while you enjoy the rest of your celebration.
-Starts at $1300 (up to 8 hours)
-Each additional hour +$100
Power Planning Session
Have you ever wanted to pick a wedding planner’s brain to get the advice you need?
This 90 min session is for couples’ at any stage of their wedding planning process. We can customize this package to tackle your biggest priorities. Budgeting, vendor recommendations, timeline guidance, seating arrangements, wedding etiquette, design inspiration and mood boards. We will cover as much as you need so you are feeling even more confident and excited about planning towards the big day.
90 min Power Planning Session: $180
-After the initial session, additional time can be added for $65/hour
Wedding Rehearsal
This package is intended to give you that extra set of hands and eyes to ensure your big day is problem-free. If you would like us there to run your wedding rehearsal, this package can only be added to our Day of Coordination Package.
– 1 hour $300 –
Full Planning Package
As your planning partner from booking through your wedding, we help you shape the celebration, build a workable budget, source and communicate with vendors, guide design, and keep the decisions and logistics moving toward your day.
- Budget development and ongoing planning guidance
- Vendor sourcing, recommendations, and communication
- Design direction and planning meetings
- Wedding timeline and floor-plan development
- Rehearsal coordination
- Wedding-day coordination and execution
Starts at $4,000. Scope and meeting schedule are confirmed in your proposal.
Our Decor Service
Design and Style
Experience a seamless & stress-free wedding day with our exclusive Design & Style package. Ideal for couples looking for a fully managed execution of their wedding decor, this package includes set up and tear down services. You gain access to our curated decor collection available in a variety of styles.
- Invitation to our Wedding Decor Open House “Hitched in Hutch” to view our decor collection in person.
- Planning meeting to fine tune the details of your ceremony & reception design
- Planning & organizational tools to keep you on track
- Our decor collection is INCLUDED (Up to 20 seated tables, each additional table +$10.)
- On the Table: Vases, bases, bowls, and towers
- Light it up: Votives, candlesticks, cylinders and holders
- Displays for: Memorial, photos, favors, & desserts
- Ceremony aisle & altar decor (draping/arch decor not included)
- Design accents to customize your celebration (card boxes, signage, etc.)
- Our gorgeous artificial greenery collection & silk florals to accent our decor pieces (No need for a florist for your decor!)
- Set up: We set up all of the decor and any of your personal items, favors, photos, signage etc.
- Tear down: We return and pack it all back up (timing of this is venue dependent)
– Starts at $1800 –
Our Process
Let us guide you through the steps to officially saying “I Do” to
Compass Occasions.
From Our Wedding History
Our Weddings
Ireland + Cullen
Venue: Art’s Place and Crow River Winery
Photographer: Kiana Grant Photography
Briana + Klayton
Venue: Art’s Place
Photographer: Dreaming Tree Photography
Karlye + Derek
Venue: Art’s Place and Crow River Winery
Photographer: Alee Photography
Angie + Reese
Venue: Crow River Winery
Photographer: Dulce Photography
Michelle + Logan
Venue: Crow River Winery
Photographer: Kacey Wyrick Photography
Lindy + Drake
Venue: Linden Hills Historic Mansion
Photographer: Lindsey Marcus Photography
Kara + Chris
Venue: Lafayette Club
Photographer: Candice Stiles Photography
Mikayla + Remi
Venue: Crow River Winery
Photographer: Clewell Photography
Rachel + Eric
Venue: Crow River Winery
Photographer: Jeff Sampson Photography
Jenna + Brian
Venue: Deer Lake Orchard
Photographer: Kristine Leuze Photography
Jessica + Joe
Venue: Hutchinson Event Center
Photographer: Kristine Leuze Photography
Brooke + Logan
Venue: Crow River Winery
Photographer: Emily Theisen Photography
Ashley + Jerrod
Venue: Private Residence
Photographer: Kristine Leuze Photography
Amber + Andy
Venue: Library Square – Hutchinson, MN



















































































































































































































































































































