I am a very organized and precise Bride who had a year to plan a wedding (I was so organized I had a binder with dividers and graphs for everything....). My husband and I got married on Saturday March 19th, 2016 at the Echo Falls Golf Course. The site is very beautiful and well taken care of. Take into consideration that it is a Golf Course with a restaurant that is opened to the public, so just because there is an event or wedding going on, doesn't mean you and your guest will be the only ones there. That was one of the disadvantages we had on our wedding day, taking your wedding pictures and having golf carts speeding by was not fun, but we made the most out of it.
The Ceremony/Reception area was very roomy with nice large windows overseeing the golf course. Our final guest count was 115, and the venue fit us in perfectly -not crowded at all, with lots of extra room. We had a very simple set up for décor with this venue, we found that it was pretty as is and we didn't want to "overpower" or go overboard on décor. I loved how we had different rooms to use on the day, such as the Grooms Room, Bridal Suite, Foyer, Buffet Room, and Ceremony/Reception room. The wait staff was very friendly and the Bartender was always busy and had drinks ready very quickly once you ordered. The Room Transition went very smoothly, I really liked how we had the General Manager (Brooke) & Catering Sales Manager (Krista) over looking everything.
The planning process was challenging, only because we had booked the venue a year early and the venue had changed coordinators a month before our wedding date. We had a lot of hiccups with the previous coordinator- i.e had our wedding date recorded wrong, mix up with tasting and who would be there, mix up with some food items, set up time for day of event, etc. These were all minor mishaps, but I didn't think any of these mishaps should have happened. The coordinator that was actually there for our Wedding, Krista, was awesome. We meet her a couple weeks before the wedding and she was really on top of things despite all the back and forth emails, etc I had with the previous coordinator. I really appreciated the little details that went into making our wedding day go as smoothly as planned.
The cons I have are for the "Day of" the wedding. We had asked if we can use a Cedar Arch for our ceremony (mainly to create a focal point at the aisle because the room was very opened, I wanted some sort of structural detail) - and it was not there. This was made note from the time we booked and re-laid at our Rehearsal (night before our wedding). I was told I had to print out the Table Numbers because there would be Holders for them. I didn't mind doing that, but then there were huge Number Blocks that were placed on the tables instead. It was fine, but I wish that was told to me before I wasted paper and ink. And lastly, we had made all the tables seat 10 guests - there was assigned seating and seating chart displaying this. A list and chart was made and given to the coordinator. Not sure where the miscommunication was, but the tables ending up only being seats of 8, which made a lot of guests confused and seated in different areas. Thankfully I have an amazing husband and bridal party who caught sight of this before I did because they handled all the stress and last minute changes. read more