My husband and I just had our ceremony and reception at Camp Lakotah and it was overall wonderful…read more
I will first start by saying that all the issues that were mentioned in the one star wedding review seemed to have been mostly addressed, or have greatly improved since then.
Communication between Sandy and myself was mostly done by email, and I allowed plenty of time for her to respond, plus I requested multiple face to face meeting to ensure we were all on the same page. Any issues I felt needed to be addressed, we're promptly handled by Sandy or her business partner.
The facility is used year around for multiple events, however, Sandy and Cliff aren't around all the time so allowing her time for travel is a necessity.
We had them prepare the food for our reception. We decided to do this because it included linens, stemware, plates, silverware, service, clean up, coffee, water, milk (although I don't ever remember seeing it). We reviewed the food tier selections and based our choices off of preference.
Sliced turkey breast, and pork tenderloin. Carrots, corn, fresh fruit, salad, garlic potatoes and gravey, and rolls with butter. And a late night cheese and sausage tray with crackers. Besides the pork being dry and needing BBQ sause it was all very good. The verbalized price of meals changed considerably, compared to the actual written quoye, so that upset my husband ($16 increased to $18). But really for the amount of food, it wasn't bad. It would have been nice to be able to take left overs, even small boxes for those staying at the camp.
The serving staff did an ok job, they could have been dressed nicer, tank tops, nasty tshirts, etc. But the head server, was amazing, I never caught his name, but he wore a button down shirt and a bow tie.. he was very professional! Cliff helped set the food out in the buffett, but I don't think I saw Sandy at all. And the dirty dishes were all carried to the back to be cleaned. Nothing done in the hall next to the tables.
At this facility you are also in charge if bring in your own bar, we did beer and wine. We brought a beer trailer. Which worked great. We had 23 beer pitchers, we only got 1 back, we are thinking the staff were picking them off the tables. They were also quick to pick up glasses of beer or wine that people were still drinking. If you went out to the dance floor your glass was gone.
Sandy would have allowed us to get into the hall on Thursday to drop off supplies. However, we waited until Friday, when she opened the doors at 11am. The hall wad clean. Each table had a clean linen still in a package on it, and 8 stacked chairs next to it.
We cleaned up our on decorations the next morning, but had we not, Sandy had offered to have them packaged up for us by noon.
I emailed Sandy all of my issues/comments/suggestions a few days after our wedding.
Everyone who attended commented what a lovely place the camp was, and how great everything was.