This is where you should have your wedding.
I’m not generally the type of person to write online reviews, and when I do, it’s usually not because of a positive experience. That sa...id, I want you to understand that the first Thank You I’m writing after our wedding this past Friday, August 21st, is to the Delafield Hotel by way of this review. Kim, Steve, and the entire event staff executed flawlessly (not hyperbole).
One of our highest priorities for our wedding was to make sure that we took care of our 150 expected guests. As much as it was intended to be a celebration of our relationship, it was equally intended to serve as a thank you to the people who have supported us as a couple. And, while we definitely do not have a limitless budget, we wanted to have great food and an open bar.
We considered over a dozen wedding venues, many of which were downtown. I knew of the Delafield Hotel from its excellent restaurant, I.D. It’s swanky, upscale, and the food is phenomenal. But, for all of those reasons, I also avoided calling the hotel as a first option for our wedding venue. I knew what we had previously spent for dinner there as a couple, and I fully expected it to be beyond our reach. But, after seeing the pricing of the aforementioned venues, and after feeling like we were just another number to those venues, we decided to give the Hotel a call.
It took about ten minutes of meeting with Kim to decide that this is where we wanted to have our wedding. Kim is prompt, organized, and direct, and she does not over- or under-sell her team’s capabilities. She said we could create a custom wedding package that would work for our budget, and we did.
Even after we had to reschedule because of COVID (originally planned for May 30th), Kim and her team let us know our options, and helped us to find a new date this summer that worked with the Hotel and with our other vendors. They even willingly adjusted our minimum down when we had to cut the guest list by two-thirds, to help control the size of the gathering. They proactively put all of the necessary protocols in place, and they called us as soon as any development had the potential to impact the wedding (e.g. the recent mask mandate). In a year where everything has, quite frankly, gone to hell, they made the re-planning process easy.
And this past Friday, Steve and the wait staff executed perfectly. The food was excellent (not just for a wedding), the drinks were strong, and the service was outstanding. They took care of all of the little details the day-of; from setting up our décor to securing our gifts after the reception. They let us and our family focus on our guests, not on turning over the venue for the next wedding. In short, as with everything else in the planning process, they made things easy.
If you’re not already under contract with a venue, or if you are having to reschedule because of COVID, call the Delafield Hotel. It was, hands-down, the best decision we made in planning our wedding. To the team at the Delafield Hotel – thank you for making our wedding day perfect.
Josh & Cam