After a few months of looking for wedding venues and being absolutely overwhelmed with the amount of generic catering halls that weren't our style, we accidentally came across the community room at Kings Grant. It's not specifically for weddings (it was set up for a Sweet 16 birthday party when we went to see it for the first time), but it ended up being the perfect place for our wedding reception.
Kings Grant itself is a community nestled in the woods by a beautiful lake in Marlton not far from Route 73. There're homes there as well as a small shopping plaza where we also ended up finding our flower vendor. The community room was originally only for use by people who lived in the community, but over the past few years has been opened up for anyone to use. Built at the edge of a tree-lined lake, the views we knew our guests would have during an October ceremony pretty much convinced us that this was the place for us. One wall of the room is made up entirely of glass windows, which allowed our guests to see that beautiful lake, and there's also a deck that guests can go out on to take a break from the partying inside. The dance floor wasn't the biggest, which suited our party just fine, and in the middle of it there's a lovely fireplace. The only con with the space is that large air conditioning ductwork that slightly separates the room, but the other pros were far more important to us.
Once we knew that this was the place to have our wedding reception, Darlene here helped us plan a lot of the finer details. For example, we ended up going with Anthony Michael's, the caterer that she recommended. She only works a few days a week, but when she's available she was happy to answer any questions we had about our day. She has a very assertive attitude about what will and won't work in the space, having done this for twenty years, but we liked that, since we knew she was speaking from years of experience.
Overall, we were so happy to have this be the venue for our wedding reception. The October trees looked amazing for our outdoor ceremony at the gazebo, the sun setting over the lake later in the evening was beautiful, and the space worked very well for our guests (of which there were about 110). We couldn't have asked for a space that was more our style. read more