My wife and I were invited to my cousin's daughter's wedding at the Box Hotel. We were excited to…read morebe going here since it sounded like a nice venue. We were going to stay over but when I called to get a price on a standard room it was over $500 due to the world cup. Usually, it would have been $200. Talk about price gouging and did not offer any overnight parking so we decide to uber, which worked out great.
We arrived a 1/2 hour early and waited in the lobby where there were a bar and a sitting area. Then we were escorted to the roof top via elevators and were given champagne. I always enjoy a glass of champagne. There were wooden folding chairs line up in rows for the wedding ceremony. We sat and waited for the bride and groom; they were a little late but all good. The ceremony was very sweet, we enjoyed it. After that they took all the chairs away and started cocktail hour. We were on the roof top, and it was a raining evening, so the roof was covered. It was very hot up there and I thought we may have moved to another area with air conditioning. But no A/C, just a fan. Not sure why they don't have any A/C up there. We all know sometimes there's bad weather and the roof needs to be closed. Seems as though they had no other accommodations.
Cocktail hour was ok. The bartenders worked hard, drinks were really good, I had margarites and my wife had Aperol spritzers. There was not much food for cocktail hour, they had oysters, shrimp and a taco bar. That's all I saw.
After that they setup all the tables for dinner on the same very hot humid roof top. Dinner was family style which we did not know. First course was 2 types of salad, dinner was, eggplant, steak and branzino. I tried all 3, my steak was a little tough. Desert was never brough to the table it was on a desert table consisted of just 3 items, churros, wedding cake and 1other which I don't remember. We were never served our food or did any waiter explain to us about the family style or where desert was going to be. I have been at other restaurants where there is family style, and the waiters will serve you.
The DJ was very good, and we did dance quite bit. I love to dance so overall I had a great time. For me, drinks, lots of dancing with my wife and extended family is great. For food, I'm easy going and not a big eater.
I need to sum this up, overall, I had a great time, due to all who were there celebrating my cousin's daughter's wedding, it could have been anywhere and spending with my wife and family are the best.
Drinks were good, food ok, didn't know about desert so I missed out on that. My wife wanted to leave to be sure we got an uber. For a hotel with a roof top venue especially for a wedding, you would think they would have some sort of A/C or other accommodations. It was very warm and humid; everyone was sweating even if you were not dancing. I'm sure they paid a lot for this wedding, and the Box Hotel did live up the standard I would have expected.