Beautiful venue with lots of natural lighting while being inside in the crazy Arkansas weather! VERY accommodating when we found out RiverFest was coming back on our wedding weekend after we had been promised that it was canceled. AFFORDABLE ...once you account for the included tables and chairs! INCLUSIVE being that they have an amazing restaurant on site that caters weddings, they have bartenders and AV techs for hire, they set up and tear down for you, they have a room for the girls to get ready in with snacks and drinks, they tell all vendors when to make deliveries, and much more! Listened to every little detail I shared and did an amazing job setting everything up like I imagined it. Mindy, the lady I worked with for about a year is incredibly kind and helpful! The workers truly want you to have the best wedding possible, and will work hard to make that happen for you! Food is tasty! Truly, I cannot say enough good things about my experience with the Library!
Complaints - the food was better at our tasting than at our actual reception, which was a bit disappointing. The day of coordinator was not the lady I had been working with and I did not expect that; however, she was just as kind! I was told that the venue would be setting up our rented tablecloths and place settings; however, I had communicated that the wedding party would be coming in at 1:30 to set up and the venue workers had yet to put the tablecloths on the tables by the time we arrived, meaning that the wedding party had to scramble to do that in order to set up the centerpieces. They have several rules that suck, such as no open flames (sparklers for exit) or things that scatter (confetti, etc for exit), so just be aware of these before booking! Communication can be slow at times. Have to pay for rehearsal time slot if you want to book in advance; however, you can wait until about 2 weeks before your wedding and be assigned an open date for free. You are not allowed in to the venue on your wedding day until the Library is open to the public unless you want to pay extra. All of these complaints are totally reasonable, I just wasn't aware of some of them when booking; therefore, I was thrown for a loop some.