Unity Village Weddings — Attraction in Unity Village

Our overall experience with Unity Village was less than satisfactory. Though they gave us a great ceremony and reception, everything leading up to it was dissapointment after disappointment. Unity Village gives their guests the option of having an outdoor wedding ceremony with a backup indoor chapel in case of weather. They also have the reception hall on grounds with full food and bar service and a hotel within walking distance. These features is what brought us to Unity Village. Their grounds and chapels are very well maintained and are great for wedding ceremonies. Their food and bar service are spectacular, and their staff are very friendly and professional. They certainly know how to throw a great party. But despite all their strengths, there is one main reason I would not recommend them for your wedding venue. That is that we were lied to many times during the process. It started when we first signed on with them. We signed our contract for our certain date and they said once the down payment was made we could not cancel. They could only cancel for certain reasons. These being weather, natural disaster, war, etc. So a few months after we made our down payment, they emailed us saying due to circumstances beyond their control they needed to remove us from our date. This is nearly a year prior to our selected date. They gave us no specific reason. We then went to reschedule and they gave us a discount for the hassle. For our new date they told us that we were the only ones on the grounds that day and that their hotel had nearly all its rooms available. So we should have nearly the entire hotel. Well, a few months later we went to block our rooms and the hotel desk said they only had a few rooms available. The entire hotel was booked on our day. This caused us to look into hotels within a short driving distance from the grounds a few months prior to our date. At the first few meetings they also told us we could bring our own beer to the reception. The only stipulation to this is that they needed to serve it and at the end of the night we could take what was left with us. Well, that changed toward the end. They told us we could not bring our own beer, but they could purchase whatever we wanted locally. The deal was that we pay for the beer in full upfront, they buy and serve, and what doesn't sell we get back. We agreed to this and a few weeks after they email us saying that we couldn't take what didn't sell and we wouldn't get a refund. So this deal got cancelled. Overall; I would not recommend Unity Village for your wedding venue despite all their strengths and conveniences. The added stress their lies caused us during our planning was not worth what...

We worked with a few different point people at Unity Village as we arranged for our mid-July wedding in Kansas City from our home in San Francisco. Angel was especially great about answering all of our questions and helping us to visualize what our wedding might look like in Lowell’s Terrace Garden and the Chapel in the Woods. I highly recommend these less popular venues for an intimate outdoor ceremony, especially in the summer, when the trees provide much-needed shade. Angel met with our KC friends who toured the space for us and showed them the grounds, the backup chapel, and the hotel suites. Then Jamie took over as the Unity point of contact for our rehearsal and ceremony. We were all set for a ceremony in the Chapel in the Woods and planned to use the getting ready rooms in the hotel, but predicted temperatures of over 100 degrees made us rethink the plan. Luckily, no one else had booked a wedding on the property for the same day and the staff was incredibly understanding about our last-minute change. We ended up moving the ceremony into the Atrium and using the Atrium dressing rooms for final touches before walking down the aisle. The men’s dressing room was a bit snug, but the women’s was quite spacious, with ample mirrors and lighting. We did our first look in Lowell’s Terrace Garden on the footbridge, which is a short walk from the getting-ready room in the hotel. Our videographer was able to capture some great drone footage of the campus and we were allowed 1 hour of “tower time” at the top of the Unity Village tower. We ran into a few snags with music during our ceremony, but it’s hard to say what went wrong. We booked a block of rooms in the hotel, including the king suite, where we spent our wedding night and which we had access to the whole day of our wedding (which was especially helpful as one of the groomsmen needed to shower and another needed to shave). We also booked the Hummingbird House and the Filmore Manor, which are two Airbnb properties located on the Unity Campus. The accommodations were more expensive than others in the area, but it was so great to have our family on site and close to everything. We had 11 women getting ready together the morning of the wedding and loved being in the Hummingbird House for this experience. On the whole, we were pleased with the ceremony, the site, and our experience working with the event staff at Unity. We recommend reading carefully through the contract and ensuring a full understanding of all charges prior to making a final payment. (Photo credit: Whitney C Photography /...

Very unique venue, superior service, and superb spiritual setting—get married or remarried at Unity Village, and you get all three!

My husband and I recently celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary with a vow renewal service at the top of the iconic Unity tower in Unity Village. What took place on that day turned out better than either of us could ever have imagined! It was an experience we will never, ever forget. The panoramic views of the Kansas City area from high above the Unity Village grounds were absolutely amazing, making it the perfect venue for the romantic renewal of our wedding vows.

The service we received from the Weddings and Events office was exceptional! Our event-planning angel was Gretchen. It was she who suggested the tower location, but offered us other venue options as well, one of which was the beautiful Atrium Garden Chapel. From our first interactions with Gretchen, she always tried to make sure that we were getting everything our hearts desired for this special occasion—including an officiant list, support materials for the ceremony, and suggestions for accommodations available on Unity Village’s gorgeous grounds. Most importantly, we always felt that Gretchen genuinely wanted to make this the best possible experience for us, and that made it especially enjoyable to work with her!

Our officiant was Rev. Michael Perrie, an ordained Unity minister, who co-created a very meaningful vow renewal ceremony with us, and even took the time to arrange for the background music to accompany our vow exchange. Having a high-quality Unity minister to enrich and preside over our ceremony made the experience all the more meaningful for us—we could genuinely feel God’s presence as we renewed our vows.

We highly recommend Unity Village as an ideal setting for any wedding ceremony—one that would be absolutely perfect for getting a newlywed couple off to a good start on their journey of a...