"The Glen" was the name of the venue my daughter and her new husband picked for the wedding. It was 45 mins from our home but well worth the drive. We knew we were going to have 200+ guest so we needed a big enough place to accommodate them comfortably with plenty of room. The plan was for an outdoor ceremony and indoor reception. The view from the venue was breathtaking and they fell in love with it right away. The price was good considering all that was included. All the tables, all the chairs - inside and outside, great open kitchen, two nice size bathrooms, nice size dance floor and also lights for the dance floor.
A week before the wedding... it started to rain! Flash flood warnings all week long! The weather man said a few time, "Tropical rain like storms!" The stress started and worry set in! The day before the wedding we arrived at the wedding to set up. The whole way there it was pouring, roads had washed out in several places along with way. At this point we started to accept that plan B was now the plan!
We set the bridal party up for the ceremony on the back patio with chairs for family and guest on both sides. We opened "the wall" that had full sliding doors and we arranged the chairs from there all the way to the dance floor. It gave the outside feel while all of our guest were cool and dry! It wouldn't have turned out better! Once the wedding was over the guest went to their tables for dinner while the wedding crew picked up the chairs to get them out of the way. Many guest thought that this was how it was planned all along! It was a perfect venue!
There are a few things that I would like to see have a little attention too. Not a complaint at all but do feel it would be a nice improvement.
1) The curtains in the bathroom would be nice to have longer. They covered all they needed to but it was made many feel very uncomfortable.
2) A fan in the dressing areas. It got rather warm in there after keeping the bride in there most of the day. With 8 people trying to get ready with hair dryers, curling irons, etc it would have been nice to have a fan to blow on the bride at least. The A/C could not keep up with all of us hot women in one room! Hahaha
3) Please add a few more brooms and dust mops to the cleanup supplies. We could only find one regular broom and one dust mop. That is a very large room for just two.
4) Parking. Parking would have been fine for dry weather but in the rain many came in with wet and dirty shoes. I think if you could just rock that whole area it would be much nicer on the guest
Other then that it was fantastic and we are very pleased with everything. I would highly recommend this venue and would consider using it again! read more