This property is GORGEOUS and the owners are so kind, honest, upfront, and down to earth!! They were very accommodating and helped ease some nerves during the beginning stages of planning. Their responses to questions before the event were a tad delayed, in my opinion, when we were trying to gather information about the venue for decorating/planning purposes but answered our questions, nonetheless.
My sister's wedding was at the beginning of November, the trees were a perfect fall color and the weather was (almost) perfect, we had a slight drizzle all day but nobody can control that the venue had more than enough space to keep everyone dry after the ceremony, especially with the partially covered deck!
*ADVICE TO FUTURE BRIDES*
Double and triple think about adding the "day of" coordinator to your venue package. To start, she was not present for the rehearsal the day before the event, we had a Zoom meeting, days prior, where the timeline (that we had already had for weeks and had extremely edited ourselves) was gone over ROUGHLY. When topics of concern were brought up, we were not given details to ease our nerves, the tone was more "don't worry about it, I got it". This led to multiple errors day of, grandparents were walked down stairs when they shouldn't have been, the officiant missed cues to have audience sit/stand, bridal party had no idea how to stand or position themselves at the alter. We were presented with a list of tasks that she would be handling and those were not met. The tasks included some things such as communicating and directing vendors, serving bride and groom drinks for dinner/toasts, and at the very minimum, not adding stress to the brides day. Unfortunately, those specific needs weren't met, my mother had to direct vendors and I handled the rest. The coordinator was informed to direct all questions and issues to the mother and sister of the bride and that was not adhered to. One of the bridesmaids stated "the coordinator should not be telling (bride) these things during her day, she is supposed to be calming (bride)'s nerves, not adding to them".
The coordinator was very dismissive and said "don't worry about it" too many times to feel comfortable in what was going on. When you plan a wedding for many months, there is a vision that we are trying to achieve. She had no interest in hearing about that vision or helping obtain it. She never came to the planners or bride to receive the download of what is going on or what stage we were in. She arrived, immediately started touching and rearranging centerpieces before even knowing what they are supposed to look like, did a walk around and then went to lunch....after she wanted to move 10 tables "just a little bit" after they had been fully set up already, to prevent centerpiece causalities, we declined that. There were multiple lights that needed to be turned on during cocktail hour, she stated she would handle that. When we gave her the list of things to turn on, she was half paying attention and very dismissive, as if we were bothering her with the information. When we walked into the reception, half the lights were turned on. Not the vision.
We were never expecting perfection, but would hope no other couple has to deal with these issues on their wedding day. read more
