Vow & Verve

Service levels: Full-service planning

Team size: 2 – 8

About Vow & Verve

Carina Blanton

Founder, Lead Planner & Designer

As the founder of Vow & Verve Weddings, Carina is known for her expressive warmth, attention to detail, and confident leadership. Her ability to remain steady, reassuring, and detail-focused allows her clients to feel fully supported and genuinely celebrated at every stage of the planning process. Certified through the New York Institute of Art and Design, she approaches each wedding with equal parts structure and heart. She believes exceptional design should feel intentional, personal, and layered, and that flawless execution is what allows a couple to be fully present.

In short: supporting you, getting to really know you, and making sure your day is reflective of you are our top priorities. We place a lot of emphasis on learning the nuances of your personalities and your love story, because that's what helps us go above and beyond for you.

In three words: Confident, Honest, Supportive

Services by planning level

Service included in starting price

Service available for an extra cost

	Full-service planning	Destination wedding	Partial planning	Day-of coordination / wedding management
Description	Our comprehensive, personalized, and truly full-service experience encompasses every element of your celebration. We curate, manage, and oversee every layer with intention, creating an elevated and beautifully executed event.	We are rooted in Raleigh, but able to travel wherever your love story takes us for full-service planning and design.	Designed for couples who have secured their venue and core vendor team, but desire elevated design direction and expert coordination in the months leading up to their wedding. Design support begins one year out. Full coordination begins eight weeks out.	Designed for couples who have completed their planning but desire professional leadership and structured execution in the final weeks leading up to their wedding. We step in during the final stretch to protect your investment and ensure every detail you’ve planned is executed with precision. Coordination begins eight weeks out.
Planning begins	12 Months out	12 Months out	12 Months out	3 Months out
Event Styling & Design
Vendor Management
Rentals & Linens
Final Venue Walkthrough
Timeline Creation & Management
Onsite Event Management
Budget Planning
Contract Review
Invites & Stationery
RSVP Tracking
Venue Visits
Venue Recommendations
Vendor Selection
Wedding Website
Wedding Favors & Accessories
Accommodation Coordination
Transportation Coordination
Pricing	Starts at $10,000*	Starts at $12,000*	Starts at $6,500*	Starts at $3,400

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Sara S.
•Mar 31
Vow & Verve - Simply The Best
Ally and the team at Vow & Verve are truly the best! The planning process was so much easier once she stepped in and the day went so incredibly smoothly - we really didn't have to worry about a thing! Working with Ally was so easy - she's so thoughtful and really cares about the couples! Five minutes after I left the venue, I realized I had left my grandmother's wedding lace around my bouquet so I called Ally and (though I'm sure she was very busy breaking down the venue) she reached out to the florist for me and I was able to retrieve the lace the next day. She was also very responsive and always ready with a solution when the inevitable issue/change cropped up. Our wedding was everything we wanted it to be and that is largely due to Ally and Vow & Verve!
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Caleb W.
•Dec 19, 2025
Raleigh Weddings is great!
Raleigh Weddings was an incredible wedding planning team to work with. They were great communicators throughout the entire process, always keeping us informed and on top of things. Their quality of work and preparation was top-notch - we didn't have to worry about a single detail on our wedding day. In fact, we were actually ahead of schedule thanks to their planning. Raleigh Weddings truly made our special day stress-free and unforgettable. We highly recommend them, and in particular, Ally Carpenter, to any couple looking for a professional, reliable, and experienced wedding planning team.
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Gabby N.
•Dec 14, 2025
BEST WEDDING PLANNER EVER!!!
Carina was hands down the best decision my now husband and I made while planning our wedding. She is warm, kind, thoughtful, resourceful and attentive. She did an incredible job at understanding our vision and finding the perfect vendors for us. Not only did she care about planning our wedding but she also cared about us. The most challenging part about planning our wedding was the fact that we live halfway across the country. Carina accommodated our schedules and the time difference effortlessly and kept us in constant communication. Working with Carina never felt like work, it felt like chatting with an old friend. Carina executed our wedding day with such ease and grace. When emotions were heightened, Carina was the calm in the storm. Because of her professionalism and expertise, our wedding day went by so smoothly and my husband and I, as well as our family and wedding party, didn’t have a single worry. Carina is an incredibly talented wedding planner and now, friend. What sets her apart from others is her personalization, dedication and genuine heart. We are so thankful that we found Carina. Anyone would be lucky to work with such a phenomenal human being.
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Jeanne
•Dec 11, 2025
Best decision ever!
Hiring a wedding planner is one of the first decisions we made during the wedding planning process. We needed a planner that knows how to stand on business and deal with logistics for a ginormous crowd (300), but also be someone that can vibe with us because they'll be dealing with all our shenanigans during the planning process on the day of the wedding. We went through a handful of wedding planner consultations before we met with Carina and after meeting her - it was definitely wedding-planner-love at first sight! And it was the best decision we made! During the year long planning process, Carina was able to lay out the whole process so we never felt rushed. She also designed our whole wedding beautifully, because neither I nor my now husband have a single artistic bone in our body. Aside from her impeccable planning skills, she is just a delightful person to be around who sincerely just loves what she does and bringing her couples vision to life (while staying reasonably under budget). She took what is usually a stressful process and made it as fun as you can make wedding planning. My now husband and I didn't think there was any way we could have our 300 Vietnamese wedding without any major bumps (just due to the sheer number of people), but thanks to Carina and her wedding magic, we had the most beautiful perfect day! We couldn't have had our perfect day without her!
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Hannah
•Nov 19, 2025
Best wedding planner EVER!
Oh where to even start. If you’re engaged and looking for the best wedding planner on the planet, you’ve found her. Carina is by far the most amazing choice we made for our wedding. I don’t know how we would have even planned our wedding without her. Carina is so so talented. She always had everything handled and I didn’t have to worry about a thing! Any time I was stressed or had a question about what we needed to do, she would have already had it done and been three steps ahead. Our meetings honestly felt like going out to lunch with a close friend. I could always count on her to have everything handled and to be there if I needed anything at all. I gained a life long friend and I couldn’t be happier!! Thank you so much Carina for making our day magical and perfectly curating my vision for my fairytail wedding. If I could give you ten million stars I would 3