Coastal Occasions at Casa Bella Village

affordable. Communication around setup could have been stronger, but we enjoyed our experience all around and would book with them again!

My issue is more with the DJ that comes with the venue. My biggest fear came true that the DJ would suck and ruin the wedding. I had everything typed out how and when I wanted the songs played and he didn’t follow it. He started playing the cake music right after dinner and so we had to do the cake and guess what.. half the people left after that! The planner told me if we did cake after dinner that people would leave so I said ok let’s do it later, I guess the DJ didn’t get the memo. Then he mixed up the songs for the bouquet and garter toss. And I also noticed he started playing a BUNCH of slow songs in a row and no one was dancing and I asked what was going on and apparently he was taking requests which was never discussed. If you have your wedding here then I would get a different DJ. I would also not have it here during the summer. I thought I would be safe in October, but no. It was extremely hot. So hot that the donuts I got for the donut wall melted off, so I had a donut wall sitting there with nothing on it. Which I wish would’ve been put away at that point. Other than the Terrible DJ and the heat, it is a nice venue and I got a lot of compliments. I would also highly suggest to reserve their bridal suite area for the night because otherwise there is only one bathroom.

out how to host my guests for a reception the night before the wedding. Most of the wedding day was us setting up an alternate location in a neighbor's back yard. I also paid for a day of coordinator to organize the vendors and they also cancelled that service and I had to find a new coordinator on the day of the wedding. They claimed that the last minute change was due to CDC guidelines related to Covid-19 and gatherings over 10 people. That guideline was in place 4 days prior to their last minute cancellation and they assured me the entire week leading up to the wedding that we were fine to proceed as long as I reduced my guest list to under 50 in compliance with the governor's orders at the time, which I did. Even 2 hours before the cancellation, I had dropped off all my items at the venue for the next night. They somehow thought that allowing my fiance and friends to haul their tables, chairs, linens and dishes to our home and back and use them for the reception made up for their last minute cancellation and told me repeatedly how they were bending over backwards for me. It was very disappointing service all around. I understand that Covid-19 presented unique challenges, but the way Coastal handled this was completely unprofessional. I would have expected the use of their items as a good will gesture for the last minute cancellation/stress. They did not do this and also didn't allow us to re-schedule an event at the location on another date. Suffice it to say that I would not recommend them for your event.