Chateau on the River

ala which tasted even better at the wedding than at the tasting. The price was very reasonable also. Much better than the other venues I looked at. Our event coordinator Lana Kosnik was amazing. She was extremely helpful and responded to all of my emails within minutes over the course of a year. The onsite manager Amber was great too! She called me a few days before to verify some details, and let us in the building from 2-6 the day prior to the wedding to set up. We were also able to get in 4 hours before the wedding to finish, and back in the morning to clean up. While I was in the bathroom freaking out about the rain, my bridesmaids told me they had staff outside with towels drying off everything so I could still have my ceremony outside. I have nothing but good things to say about this venue & catering company. I would recommend them to any bride!!

o runs this location caused a few shortcomings which ultimately left my group unsatisfied and made it difficult for the on-site staff to do their jobs properly. Cass manages all events through the catering company and while he was always very attentive and kind, it usually took an average of 4 phone calls over the course of several days to get in contact with him. If you spoke to any other member of the Kosch staff they rarely had the information or authority to assist you in any way. A great deal of information about our order was never provided to Amber. She was never told we would require a microphone or cake service which resulted in us needing to take care of these details ourselves. Amber was also not provided with adequate serving dishes for our meal. We ordered a sandwich and salad buffet. First, we ran out of vegetarian options for our guests, which was quite embarrassing. Amber was also not provided with large enough serving dishes for the food, which resulted in the buffet running empty halfway through serving in spite of the fact that we had so much extra food that we couldn't even manage to take it all with us when the event was over. I want to emphasize that the girls monitoring the buffet were in constant attendance so this was not a service problem but an issue of the dishes themselves not being able to serve enough people at once. If you are having a wedding here your event will be after park hours. Our shower, however, was going on while the park was open to the public. This resulted in several people coming into the building to use the restroom or peeking in the windows during the party. I personally didn't take much notice and none of these people bothered by guests but some might not like this. What is a serious problem is the parking. We were promised designated parking for our event which was not provided, so when we arrived for our event another party in the park had taken much of the hall's parking. Those people were not following park rules regarding how to park or what kinds of activities were allowed in the park which resulted in the police being called. While none of our guests were in violation, the police interrupted our party several times demanding cars be moved, even though each time it was revealed that the cars in violation were from the other party. It was very embarrassing and made my guests extremely uncomfortable. The hall needs its own parking to prevent this. This was the second logistics issue, as at the beginning of the party we discovered that the address provided to us (the one listed on the catering website) leads the marina, not the Chateau. Several of our guests got lost trying to follow their GPS because they were being sent to the wrong building. Fortunately a very kind person working the marina spent a lot of time helping our guests get to the right place. It's my understanding that this venue has been open for less than a year so I'd imagine that with time many of these shortcomings will be worked out. Once again, everyone we worked with was very kind and accommodating and the actual site manager did a wonderful job, but ultimately Kosch catering did not provide enough information or adequate resources for our party to be managed well.