Made a Hoegaarden clone not long ago as a partial mash with plenty of torrefied wheat & WB-06 - should be able to find the recipe I posted somewhere on the forums.
You're right about the colour through HaigSt - it's definitely not wit, more a cloudy straw. Fermentation temp wasn't hard to control, WB-06 yeast didn't explode out of the airlock as I worried, instead was very well behaved at 20C fermenting evenly over a week or so and staying close to ambient.
Was initially concerned that i'd overdone it with the spices, added as primary was nearing completion, but a few weeks after bottling things have settled into a very well balanced beer.
After trying to brew a couple of hoegaarden clones, some years apart (in experience and time) I reckon it's a reasonably forgiving style, but I doubt you could get the colour without a full mash