My friends got married here and it was a shit show of issues they dealt with..here's the details but I refuse to let this go unnoticed....I'm appalled and would never want anyone's special day to be ruined like this.
hey everyone, I'm sorry that this is very long but, Christie and I wanted to share our experience with our wedding reception venue. We hope that this will deter any future clients hoping to rent this venue.
To start off, I will say that this venue seemed like it was the perfect fit for our reception. Tonie DiGuilio, who runs the place, answered all the questions we had. Little did we know that the answers told to us and things we talked about would not be followed through on the day our wedding. The Texas Hall has the big red barn and a house that has been converted into a staging area for the bridal party. When we did our walk through, the house was very warm and we were assured that it would be very cool and comfortable for us to be getting ready. On our wedding day the thermostat said 83 degrees inside. It was a nest and we turned the temperature down. It never cooled down. Putting on a tux in an 83 degree house is awful. My wife could barely have her makeup put on because of the sweat. The house never cooled down. When I confronted Tonie about how hot the house was, she told me that someone must be turning up the thermostat. Not in anyway try to fix the problem. Out of the two bathrooms in the house one of the toilets was nonfunctional. Having 80 guests expected to use one toilet is completely unacceptable. We were also told that the sound system had a board with 2 speakers and a microphone so that all a DJ would need to bring would be a laptop. There was only one speaker, which was very soft and it was very hard to hear, and a microphone. There was a huge delay from the mic to the speaker and it was almost unbearable to use. While I was getting stuff set up people were coming up asking where to pick up chairs and other stuff. I had to tell them, with my tux on, that this was a closed private event. And they proceeded to come in. The entire time we had the venue people were coming and going, picking up and dropping off things they had rented from them. On top of all of this, Tonie was giving tours of the venue during our eloted rented out time. While my wife was getting her wedding dress put on and I was getting the decorations all in place there she was with more potential clients. She told us that they just showed up and asked if they could tour the place and she didn't know we would be in there. That was the icing on the cake. She should have just said no and told them a time to come back when it wasnt rented. I would not recomend this place to anyone even if they offered it for free. I really hope this revue will help you decide that this may be a cheaper wedding venue but it is Not worth it and the day of services will not match up with what they tell you from the beginning. read more