Courtyard Des Moines Ankeny

This venue was excellent. Ann, the catering manager, did a great job at helping us with all the questions we had throughout the planning process. The place had many complimentary items with only one food &a beverage minimum to hit (it did not increase by tiers depending on the number of guests you had coming). Kelly, in charge of the staff and running the reception smoothly, was also amazing to work with. The food was hot when it came out, the wait staff had drinks filled consistently throughout the night, and they were all very pleasant and easy to work with. My family was all very pleased with the rooms, room block pricing, and the availability of the back patio and lobby areas. Really, a fantastic venue area to work with!

We used the Courtyard by Marriott in Ankeny for our wedding reception and we were continually impressed with the hotel, the reception room and their wedding coordinator, Ann. Our reception was wonderful, we had enough space for 300 people to fit comfortably. I was very impressed with their ability to serve everyone in a short amount of time. All tables were served in 15 min or less. It helped keep everything running on time and prevented some from finishing before others were served. Ann, who coordinates weddings for the Marriott, is amazing. She's well organized, easy to work with and very helpful. She had great suggestions and was always available to help when asked. I highly recommend the Courtyard by Marriott for Wedding Receptions!

Ann, Alyssa, and the rest of the Courtyard staff are an amazing team! They are all so down to earth and approachable, yet extremely professional. Having worked in the hospitality industry ourselves, my husband and I had high standards and expectations for our wedding reception. The staff at Courtyard went above and beyond to work with us to make sure our day was everything we wanted and more! Ann was very quick to respond to my e-mails and was more than willing to accommodate changes as they came up including numerous floor plan changes and bringing in Exile beer. Alyssa was fantastic the night of the event and made sure everything ran smoothly. When we came up a few chair covers short, the Courtyard team was on it - going so far as to contact our rental vendor to get a few extras! They made the room available to us as early as they could. The food was amazing and we got a number of compliments about how great the staff was throughout the night. The staff impressed us even more when they took the chair covers off for us - something we anticipating having to do ourselves early Sunday morning. The whole experience was well beyond what we possibly could have hope for thanks to this amazing team! You can be sure that any event at the Courtyard will be everything you could want!

The courtyard did an amazing job with my wedding, I couldn't have been happier with how well everything went. Amanda and her staff were always so helpful and very friendly.

The food, the service, everything was great! They did pretty much whatever we wanted and they were very patient with our families as well!

They have great service and even with us getting to the hotel late after our wedding, they got us our room and made sure we didn't need anything else. Super nice people

I am over the moon! It was perfect from start to finish! We chose the Marriott since we had tons of guests coming from out of town. They gave everyone who stayed for our wedding a discount on their rooms. They had a wonderful food tasteing event several months prior to the big day and allowed us to bring a total of 6 people. We of course brought our parents. They had the room set up just like it would be for the reception and staff onhand from all areas of service to answer any questions we had. They set up a meeting with us several days prior to make sure our event was as close to what we had dreamed as possible. I dropped of several framed pictures, tons of table runners and a few other decorations I had. They displayed our pictures in they entry and put out all the decor just as we had talked about. The space looked so wonderful! Just like I had visioned. From the moment we arrived till the last song was played, it was everything I had hoped and more. The service provided by the staff was excellent! The bartenders and servers were professional, kind and on top of everything. We were so busy the server even went through the line and plated food for my husband and I. They made sure we had everything we needed. Our parents and us are still recieving compliments about how wonderful the food was. We got to stay in the honeymoon suite on our wedding night, which was just the icing on the cake. The next morning our guests were treated to a wonderful complimentary breakfast. Our gifts were kept secured and our leftover cake was reserved until we checked out. When I went back a couple days later to pick up my decorations and table runners, they had all been folded and safely repackaged. I was so pleased with everything. I didn't have to lift a finger and got to enjoy the event worry free from start to finish! I would recommend the Courtyard By Marriott in Ankeny again and again!

All of the employees at the Courtyard were fantastic to work with. The food was great, the service was great and they made the room look amazing!