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ALI SMOTHERS · GATHERINGS BY ROOTED & KNOWN · TEXAS HILL COUNTRY

ALI SMOTHERS GATHERINGS BY ROOTED & KNOWN

A gathering should
feel like you.

Thoughtful details, warm hospitality, and room to be present with your people.

A couple beneath the oak canopy at an outdoor Sacred Oaks ceremony, Camp Lucy. Photo: Reagan Wright Photography. A polished corporate gathering at the Westin Dallas A long garden table arranged for an outdoor dinner A mountain lodge tucked into a forested landscape

Sacred Oaks · Camp Lucy

Room to play.
Room to grow. Room to be.

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As much help as you need.

Bring the big vision, the modest budget, or the half-formed idea. We’ll shape the right level of help around your people, your purpose, and what you want them to carry home.

  • Full planning From first idea through the last toast.
  • The final mile A clear plan and calm finish for what you’ve begun.
  • Weddings, corporate events & retreats Intimate dinners, work gatherings, and weekends shaped around your people.
Tell Ali what you have in mind

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A practiced eye for place.

A few places from Ali’s years in events and hospitality. Each has its own character; the right one starts with you.

Retreat ideas: Camp Lucy for a tucked-away Hill Country weekend, or King River Ranch for wide-open space and a slower pace. Ali can help you explore these or a place already close to your heart.

Ali Smothers · Gatherings

A gathering should feel like you.

The best gatherings aren’t a template. They begin with the people you love and the feeling you want them to take home.

Ali helps you find that feeling—and shapes the evening around it, down to the small details you’ll remember.

Ali Smothers · Gatherings

About Ali.

Ali and Caleb celebrating their wedding together

Ali Smothers has spent more than a decade in events and hospitality, including work alongside her sister. A gifted connector and thoughtful communicator, she brings beautiful taste, clear direction, and a kind, steady presence to the moments people remember.

She has a way of hearing the feeling behind an idea, bringing the right people together, and giving the details a sense of purpose. From an intimate dinner to a wedding weekend, her hope is simple: that you can be present, your guests feel considered, and the whole gathering feels wonderfully like you.

At home, she’s a wife, mom of two, devoted friend, and the baker who makes saving room for dessert an excellent decision. That same warmth runs through her work: generous, personal, and thoughtful down to the last place setting.

The happy little plot behind it all

Rooted & Known is our family’s hospitality studio: gatherings and retreats, thoughtful goods, and books for reflection and adventure. Caleb brings the big ideas, NINE apparel, and a hopeful belief that a word we wear can shape the way we move through a day. Ali brings exceptional taste, a gift for gathering, and a loving willingness to see where her wonderfully wild husband’s next idea might lead. Together, we’re making room for more love, joy, peace—and one more person at the table.

Meet our family Explore NINE See the first shirts Explore Field Guides

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Weddings.

A couple beneath the oak canopy at an outdoor Sacred Oaks ceremony, Camp Lucy. Photo: Reagan Wright Photography.
Sacred Oaks · Camp Lucy
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You want to feel present in the day you have imagined, trust the details are being held, and know your people feel welcomed from the first arrival to the last dance. Ali can help shape a celebration around your story, priorities, and pace.

A day that feels like yours

  • Your story, at the center Start with what matters most to you—not a template.
  • A thoughtful flow Bring the ceremony, gathering, and guest experience together with ease.
  • Room to be present Choose the level of planning support that lets you enjoy the day.

PossibilitiesSacred Oaks celebrations · full wedding weekends · organic garden vows · beautifully personal backyards

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Corporate events.

A corporate event set for dinner at the Westin Dallas
The Westin · Dallas
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Gathering moments

  • Welcome & conversation
  • A shared team activity
  • An evening around the table

You want your purpose to come through, your guests to feel considered, and the day to run with calm confidence. Ali brings the program, play, and hospitality together in a way that feels polished, human, and genuinely fun.

Professional, with a human touch

  • A clear reason to gather Let the occasion and message guide the experience.
  • Considered hospitality Make the arrival, transitions, and small details feel welcoming.
  • A well-held plan Bring timing and moving parts into one thoughtful picture.

PossibilitiesCreative off-sites · leadership weekends · client gatherings · team field days · dinners with a reason

Big budget, small budget, somewhere in between. Ali can build a thoughtful package around your scale—because the goal is not “more event.” It is more connection, more clarity, and people leaving closer to the purpose that brought them there.

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Retreats.

Two thoughtfully made beds in a warm Hill Country lodge room
A room to reconnect
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You want people to step out of their usual rhythm, reconnect, and leave with a little more clarity or closeness. A retreat can make room for that through a considered place, a thoughtful pace, and time together that has a purpose.

Space to reconnect

  • A place with a point of view Choose a setting that supports the reason you are gathering.
  • Time that can breathe Balance shared moments with room to pause and take it in.
  • Details that carry the care Let the welcome, rhythm, and setting work together.

PossibilitiesLeadership weekends · restorative escapes · creative residencies · purposeful time together

From a tucked-away Hill Country weekend to a lodge farther afield, Ali can help find the setting, shape the rhythm, and make the rooms, meals, and shared moments feel like one clear story.

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Dinners.

A long garden table with natural greenery and warm evening light
A polished table in the garden
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You want to enjoy your own table, see your guests settle in, and have the evening feel personal without carrying every detail yourself. Ali can help shape an intimate celebration around the people, the menu, the room, and the feeling you want to send home.

An evening worth lingering over

  • A table that welcomes Use the setting and small touches to make people feel at home.
  • A natural rhythm Give the evening a gentle flow without making it feel overplanned.
  • A host who can join in Find the right support for the details you would rather hand over.

PossibilitiesHigh-touch celebrations · easy Sunday suppers · backyard candlelight · evenings worth lingering over

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Let’s make the dream happen.

Tell Ali a little about what you’re imagining.

Your email app opens with a first note to Ali, ready for you to review and send.

A practiced eye for place

Experience, thoughtfully gathered.

More than ten years in events and hospitality. A few of the settings Ali knows.

The ceremony aisle beneath the live oaks at Sacred Oaks
Sacred OaksCamp Lucy · Hill Country
A candlelit Fort Worth Club reception
The Fort Worth ClubFort Worth · reception
A wedding at Warwick Melrose
Warwick MelroseDallas · wedding
An event at the Westin Dallas
The WestinDallas · events
King River Ranch
King River RanchJohnson City · retreat