Marsha VanArk

Distinctly Yours Wedding & Events, a Wisconsin wedding planning company based in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. We specialize in helping you achieve a one of a kind wedding event that is a true reflection of who you are as a couple and providing your guests with a exceptional event experience. We pride ourselves on bringing your wedding vision to life while ensuring that you and your families remain stress free. Whether you need us to provide guidance through your entire event from engagement to wedding day, or step in towards the end to ensure your day is executed flawlessly. We will be there to make sure your celebration is everything you've imagined it to be and give you the confidence that it will be amazing! And most of all...you will enjoy it, too.

About Marsha VanArk

Distinctly Yours Wedding & Events, a Wisconsin wedding planning company based in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. We specialize in helping you achieve a one of a kind wedding event that is a true reflection of who you are as a couple and providing your guests with a exceptional event experience. We pride ourselves on bringing your wedding vision to life while ensuring that you and your families remain stress free. Whether you need us to provide guidance through your entire event from engagement to wedding day, or step in towards the end to ensure your day is executed flawlessly. We will be there to make sure your celebration is everything you've imagined it to be and give you the confidence that it will be amazing! And most of all...you will enjoy it, too.

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Sunset at Rhinelander wedding lakeside

Claire & Ross’s Intimate Destination Wisconsin Northwoods Wedding

Photos  above and throughout blog by Brown Street Studios Meet Claire & Ross. These two sweethearts came to us from Chicago, and chose to have an intimate destination wedding in the Wisconsin Northwoods. What a GREAT day! We are so excited to share the photos and memories from their wedding day as well as the […]

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Couple at SentryWorld outside golden hour

Chris & Elizabeth’s Summer SentryWorld Wedding | Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Meet Elizabeth & Chris. Elizabeth and Chris are delightful people with the two cutest boys. This family happened to be Marsha’s neighbors at the time! Elizabeth was pregnant at the time that they hired Marsha as their wedding planner, so they were able to walk through the phases of pregnancy, delivery, parenthood, and wedding planning

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Couple dances at reception at Willow Springs Garden in Wausau WI

Brianna & Evan’s Willow Springs Garden Wedding

Meet Brianna and Evan – our creative, lovely, dog-loving bride and groom. Brianna and Evan are our kind of people – low-key, kind, and all about family. They have 3 dogs, who are their babies, and their dog-loving touches were all over their wedding day. Their dogs were also part of all our planning meetings

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Bride and Groom kiss under rose arch

Chad & Carly’s Clean and Classic Wedding at the Rothschild Pavilion

2020 Heartbreak & 2021 Joy Chad and Carly are a resilient pandemic couple, who were forced to either cancel or postpone their 2020 wedding. They were understandably heartbroken that they wouldn’t be able to have the big, beautiful wedding that they had always dreamed of, so we were able to walk through that challenging grief

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Kate and Andre at their wedding in the woods

Kate & Andre’s Boho Wedding in the Woods

Today, we get to feature one of our very favorite weddings from 2021, Kate & Andre’s bohemian wedding in the woods. This wedding day is just about as romantic, dreamy, and fun as it gets!  For starters, please meet our Bride and Groom, Kate & Andre. These two military service members met while stationed abroad,

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Real Wedding: Summer Golf Course Wedding

Romantic Summer Wedding at The Ridges Golf Course

Meet Morgan and TJ, our dear bride and groom who we completely fell in love with. They were relaxed about everything, and they had such pure excitement to get married! They were simply happy that everyone they love was together to celebrate. Morgan and TJ hired Chloe Ann Photography to be their wedding photographer, and

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Couple connects at barn wedding

How to Make the Most of Working with Your Wedding Vendors: Part II

In our previous blog post, we disclosed some of our top tips for how to have smooth communication with your wedding vendors. We’ve got tips in there about how to talk to your vendors, how to ask for referrals, reminders to be patient, perspective, meeting preparation, and more. Click the button below to read up

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Couple connects at barn wedding

How to Make the Most of Working with Your Wedding Vendors: Part I

They’re hired, but they won’t email me back. Now what? Imagine this – the proposal is done, the date has been picked, and you have hired most of your wedding vendors. Hooray! What a huge undertaking! Now, it’s time to nail down the details but so many of the vendors just aren’t responding to your

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Couple enjoys weekend camp destination wedding in Wisconsin

Q&A with Destination Wisconsin Wedding Planner: Weekend Camp Wedding

Being a wedding planner requires industry insight, great organization and systems, high amounts of people skills, and a crazy amount of pre-planning, just to name a few things. But being a wedding planner for a destination wedding requires all of that, plus more!  Destination weddings bring logistical challenges (How do we get everyone there? How

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5 Simple Tips to Help Take the Stress Out of Planning a Wedding

5 Simple Tips to Help Take the Stress Out of Planning a Wedding

For many, wedding planning can be a huge ball of stress that takes over the bride and groom’s life. But, for many it is a joyful, exciting season of preparation for the best day of their life. What’s the secret to planning a wedding without boatloads of stress? Our lead planner, Marsha, has offered us

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