The whole celebration.
Concept, budget, venue and vendor coordination, guest experience, design direction, timeline and on-site leadership.
Ali Smothers · Gatherings by Rooted & Known
Make it beautiful.
Make it beautiful.
Make it feel easy.
Celebrations, dinners and weekends planned with a clear eye, a warm welcome and enough calm left over to enjoy the people you invited.
A Song Beneath
the Stars
the Stars
Musical Guest · TBD
Upcoming · KINSHIP No. 01A Song Beneath
A Song Beneath
the Stars.
A beautifully held evening with live music, good drinks and something sweet beneath the evening sky.
See the evening + reserve a spotGood taste · Good timing · Room for people
A party should feel like you.
Ali is the force behind the calm: a DFW native, a planner’s heart and a warm, clear-eyed lioness who knows how to turn a beautiful idea into an actual day.
She can build the vendor list, chase the details, make the right call and keep a room feeling generous while the moving pieces do what they need to do. She is a boss about execution—in the best way—and still knows the whole point is the people gathered there.
Give her the dream. She’ll bring the list, the timeline, the good vendors and the nerve to make it happen.
WeddingsDinnersMilestonesShowersRetreat weekendsFamily gatheringsThoughtful brand events
Selected places + experience
A practiced eye for place.
Ali has worked across intimate Hill Country venues, classic Dallas rooms and the DFW hospitality world. She reads the weather, the guest list and the feeling you want to leave behind—then helps turn a place you love into a plan that feels like yours.
Texas garden weddings · DFW celebrations · Destination research by conversation.
Thinking, “Maybe we should get married there?” Tell Ali where. We love the research part—finding the right hotel, chapel, house or town, then helping turn it into a plan. Start with Places Worth Knowing, and inquire when a place catches your eye.
Dripping Springs · Texas Hill Country
Camp Lucy
Sacred Oaks beneath the live oaks, Ian’s Chapel beneath its green roof, and a destination that gives the whole weekend room to unfold.
Visit Camp Lucy ↗
Johnson City · Pedernales River
King River Ranch
River air, intimate scale and the kind of Hill Country setting that rewards a slower plan.
Visit King River Ranch ↗
Uptown · Dallas
Warwick Melrose
Historic rooms, crystal light and the kind of ballroom that can move from ceremony to dinner to late-night without losing its poise.
Visit Warwick Melrose ↗
Central Business District · Dallas
The Westin Dallas Downtown
Urban energy, garden-capable spaces and a strong canvas for a Texas wedding or welcome dinner.
Visit The Westin ↗
Downtown · Fort Worth
The Fort Worth Club
Grand windows, warm service and a room with enough history to make a wedding, rehearsal dinner or milestone feel like an occasion.
Visit The Fort Worth Club ↗Planning somewhere else? Ali is happy to research a destination with you, starting with the place you already love—or helping you find it.
Inquire for a quoteWays to work togetherAs much help
As much help
as you need.
Every gathering is different. Begin with a complimentary conversation; Ali will recommend the right scope before any work begins.
You began it. Let Ali land it.
A clear plan for the final weeks: vendor follow-through, run of show, layout, guest flow and the details keeping you awake.
Intimate still matters.
Dinners, showers, birthdays, family weekends and thoughtful little reasons to put out the good glasses.
The planning processClear from
Clear from
the beginning.
No mystery packages. No pressure to make the party bigger than the reason for having it.
Meet
Tell Ali the occasion, the people, the place and what you hope everyone feels.
Shape
Receive a recommended scope, working budget and a plan clear enough to trust.
Gather
Ali manages the moving pieces. You welcome your people and stay for the good part.
The feelingBeautiful.
Beautiful.
Never precious.
Candlelight, flowers with a little wildness, music at the right volume and a room that makes people want to stay.
Concept imagery created to show Ali’s point of view. Completed celebrations will join the portfolio with permission.
Start with a helloWhat are
What are
we planning?
Share what you know. “We have a date and absolutely nothing else” is a perfectly respectable place to begin.
Fort Worth, DFW, the Texas Hill Country and destination gatherings by conversation.