Very beautiful venue with a central location, god size, and a good value. The price included tables, chairs, linens, and the bartender etc. It apparently also included taxi service, but we were not given ANY details in regard to this service. Which brings me to the reasons that I scored this location only a 3. First, the owner who also serves as the manager is very difficult to get ahold of and to work with. She took over a week to get us contracts, and missed the appointment to pick up the contract and the deposit. She assured me that it was a one time thing, but repeatedly missed appintments, failed to answer emails, or return calls. At 40 days out from our wedding she still had not gone through the final set up details with me and missed ALL subsequent appointments due to being out of town with "family issues". My greatest fear was that she would be a no show for the event became a reality. She was a no show for the actual event, sending bar tenders to let us into the building etc.
Aditionally, the upstairs csrpeted floors had not been cleaned in some time and there were toothpicks and drinking straws all over the floors upstairs. Originally our guest list included needing the use of the upstairs and luckily we did not need much of the upstairs. I would have been appalled for my guests too see that. Also the marble surfaces were all covered with sticky substances that we had to entirely clean ourselves. The kitchen was also disgusting.
We were also told that the tables and chairs would be set up to our specifications, which they did, but did not remove the extras which were sitting in a space we intended to utilize and had to move ourselves.
Unfortunately, I think that the owner relies on the beauty of the space and it's size (it is the largest venue in town without having to book the mac center or the civic center). She is too busy with family obligations to care about a person's special event.
Although my wedding turned out asthetically beautiful, it was not due to any help from the venue. It was all because of help from friends and family. If is had to do a do-over, I would have booked the Finlen. The lower price of the Front Street Station was not enough to justify the additional stress the owner put me through. Weddings are stressful enough without having to put up with an absentee owner! read more
