HOSPITALITY-DRIVEN. DESIGN-FORWARD.
WEDDING PLANNING & EVENT DESIGN.
Led by Gretchen Larkan, Gretchen Larkan Events is a wedding planning and design team based in Arkansas, serving couples throughout the Southeast and beyond. We create luxury, hospitality-driven, design-forward weddings that are beautiful, thoughtful, and—most importantly—an incredible experience for everyone in the room.
Our team is passionate about creating celebrations that feel effortless, personal, and a whole lot of fun. We’re the people behind the scenes thinking through the big picture, obsessing over the little details, keeping things moving, and making sure you and your guests feel incredibly well taken care of from start to finish.
We believe a great wedding is about so much more than how it looks. It’s about how it feels, how it flows, and how people remember it. From intimate estate weddings to destination weekends and everything in between, our team brings thoughtful planning, creative design, calm leadership, and genuine hospitality to every celebration.
At the end of the day, we’re here to make the process enjoyable, the details feel effortless, and your wedding feel unmistakably like you.
“Gretchen and team didn’t just plan our wedding — they understood us. The intuition and ability to translate our vision into reality is something I’ve never seen before. GLE made our wedding feel so deeply “us” in a way we could never have created on our own.
During our wedding weekend, the team worked so flawlessly together, that it was like watching a well choreographed performance behind the scenes and they all went consistently above and beyond -- doing things that we didn't even think of until the team had already taken care of them.
Thanks to their behind-the-scenes magic, we were able to be fully present, soak it all in, and enjoy a day that felt seamless and unforgettable.”
-Emily, June 2025 Destination Bride
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