Avalon Events Center

are were starting at zero. Despite that, the facility is beautiful, the food was great and service was excellent. Our reception and dance was a memorable time. The staff all worked well with us in our same-sex wedding. No real issues except for planning. Recommend.

ly, we no longer live in Fargo and were planning our wedding from Omaha. We were only able to make it a couple times for brief visits before the big day. It was also unfortunate that while planning from 6 hours away we dealt with 3 different wedding coordinators including the owner. We too got conflicting information and policies and calls about scheduling taste testings that had already been done by our parents, who drove 2 hours to attend. We had a personalized bar sign made for our event and I didn't realize it until it came back in the box the next day and thought about how many hours my bridesmaid/sister-in-law put into it, only to never be seen. The wedding reception went well but I didn't see or hear from the current wedding coordinator that was on duty that night until 11pm when I was walking to the public bathroom in the hallway. However, our vendors were fabulous and our dj kept our special night moving right along seamlessly.

evening and people are still raving about it! Anytime I had a question about the wedding, the staff was prompt to respond to any email or call I made to them. IT FELT LIKE I WAS THEIR TOP PRIORITY! They made any and all requests I had happen to ensure that all stress and responsibility was alleviated from me on the of the wedding. I cannot say enough wonderful things about this venue! Book it for your wedding! You won't be disappointed!

g that was frustrating was that they had 4 different people in the role of events/wedding coordinator in the 10 months that we were booked with them. So we had to repeat ourselves a lot and were told that we could do different things with different people. Just make sure to get everything in writing from them.

em communicated with one another. Every time we thought things were going well, another bomb dropped. I received a phone call the 2nd Monday before my wedding. My husband called back and made an appointment to meet, to iron everything out. I then got another phone call that night, at 8:16. I didn't call back because I knew we had an appointment for the next day. I was called 3 times in 24 hours to set up a taste test after we had told them that we already had one. The Monday after the wedding, they called. They demanded I call back immediately. I was on my honeymoon and didn't want to deal with them, so I called my mom and asked her to give them a call. My dad stopped by because a couple of their mirrors ended up in our totes when we cleaned up. When he dropped them off, he let them know that I was on my honeymoon and would not return their calls. I was called 3 more times, by 3 different people. No one over there communicates. They lost my invoice, and when they found it, it was wrong. Very wrong. Wrong room, wrong head count, wrong count for champagne bottles, wrong head table count. When the aisle was set up, it was set up too narrow. Waaaay too narrow. I couldn't fit down the aisle in my gown. My family had to widen the aisles. I'm a small girl, but a big dress. I let them know ahead of time that that would be an issue. She was not receptive to anything I told them. At all. They would rather you give them a head count and a color for napkins and let them decide everything else for you. We were treated like bags of money, not like people. If you are already booked with them, get everything in writing. If you have a face to face or a phone call, summarize the meeting and email it to them, Keep bugging them until they confirm that's what was agreed to.

o the place! It used to be the old Hub in Fargo and they remodeled it into such a more beautiful place. They have around 5 big rooms, each different sizes and styles to meet your wedding criteria. I went with the 'Dakota' ballroom, which fits 200 and has such a classical wedding look. We also had our reception on a Friday so they gave us the room for 3500 instead of 5000. What made this room also favorable is how decorated it looked already, it saved us so much time and stress! We planned our dinner at 6 pm but some guests ran late and I requested to have it around 6:30, which the staff seemed polite on doing. They even left it open a little later than planned too, which I appreciated for those who wanted any extra food. The bartender was also very sociable with our guests! After the reception, we received a lot of compliments on how lovely the food and atmosphere was. We even received comments that it was the best reception some people have been to. It was very wonderful!

ide was that they don't have a formal food tasting. The way it works is you tell them your top choices and if they have an event there that is serving the food you like you can stop in and taste it. The only problem was that the food that was on the top of my list wasn't popular picks with other events so we couldn't taste it. I didn't want to serve something I hadn't tasted so we ended up going with chicken to be safe. It was ok, but its probably because we were the last to eat and so it wasn't warm by the time we sat down. Also we ran into problems when decorating because they didn't allow tape or tacks on the walls. Luckily I still had an email from when we signed the contract that said they did allow tacks so we were able to use tacks. Another problem we ran into was right before the menu was due we found out they had raised their food prices so I had to completely revamp the menu to fit within my budget. Later I found out from other people that I should have probably raised a fuss since we signed the contract when the prices were still lower and they should have honored the lower prices. Overall though they were still much less expensive than any other place we found. Overall I would recommend them, just get your food requests in really early so that you can find something you like and you don't have to settle.

s scrambling right before. The carpets and window treatments are really dirty but I heard a rumor they are replacing them and once you get everything in there you really don't notice.