Delamar Traverse City

t impressed by the customer service or front desk here. Very expensive to be treated like you are checking in to the holiday inn.

geous view of the West Bay, and loads of sunshine & gentle breeze in the background. The day was is exactly what we wanted! We planned our wedding in just 4 months with Susan, the Catering Sales Manager at The Delamar. Susan was so easy to work with. Everything came together flawlessly. We hosted our welcome party on Friday night in the Day-club, a newly renovated room with an unobstructed view of the West Bay which in adjacent to the patio terrace. We served a variety of sliders and flatbreads. The food was fantastic. Our welcome party was casual and fun. We rented a Bayview suite and used that on our wedding day for the bridal party to get ready in (with my brides babes). The room was set up perfect for that occasion. Everyone had their own space and the suite provided plenty of room and natural light. There were an abundance of outlets and mirrors for everyone. Plus, the suite is beautiful and made for some really nice photos. The bonus was we got to view our entire wedding set-up getting prepared as our suite was directly above the bayside terrace & lawn where we were holding both our ceremony & reception. Our wedding was during The Cherry Festival so we decided not to leave the property to do site photography, as Traverse City is quite crowded during that time. The Delamar has so many great locations to take photos. Despite it being Cherry Festival, the hotel did not feel crowded and The Delamar did a great job separating our wedding space from guest space. We had our ceremony on the lawn. It was a perfect location to get married. Our cocktail hour directly followed the ceremony. We love how it was just steps away for our guests. The butler passed hors d’oeuvres were the best we’ve ever had. We served our guests the filet and halibut for dinner. It was the best wedding food we have personally ever had. So many of our guests commented to us and told us the very same thing. The bartenders were so fun and made amazing drinks! The Delamar went above and beyond for us. Then our guests just walked up to their newly renovated rooms. We highly recommend The Delamar, Traverse City!!!

ogether for our micro wedding. Leading up to the wedding, I kept in very close touch with Delamar and they were always so accommodating, flexible and supportive. On our wedding day, the team worked SO hard to ensure everything we wanted went as planned. Beacuse we did not have a wedding planner and I was my own wedding planner for the micro wedding, they really were there for us and supported us during the day when needed. They were so accommodating with shuttles and valet. We got married in the Day Club room with the view of the lake and our own patio. The food was like at a 5 Michelin star restaurant. The staff were so kind and dedicated. Cocktail hour on the patio was magical and the appetizers were to die for!!! I still think about the cucumber/salmon bites!!!! I can not describe how amazing it was and we already started planning our one year anniversary staying in this hotel and reliving these memories.

d a backup space in case of rain. Our wedding on the lake could not have been more perfect! :)

uld recommend them in the future!!

this hotel on the most stressful of days. They had more then enough rooms for our out of town guests. The rooms were beautiful! The food and bartenders were outstanding! Great venue, and highly recommended!

was turnover twice during the planning process ( we were engaged for 11 months). Communication was hit and miss with the original planner that we had, the lady who took over 3 weeks before the rehearsal definitely had it together more so than the primary person we dealt with. I found out our planner had left after not hearing back from an email I sent, I sent a follow up and got declined sender (I would have expected her email be forwarded to someone and for someone to reach out given how close we were to the wedding). When I called to find a new rep the lady on the phone was very rude and condescending. I expected to want to not want to recommend this vendor based on the confidence I lacked in the planning process, but the staff the night of was really fantastic, all in all, I see it as a wash.

s being made, prices changing, etc. I am rating the venue a 4 out of 5 based on my contract and pricing BEFORE the renovations, and I know things have changed. Planning the wedding was a bit hectic because the wedding coordinators kept coming and going throughout my 10 months of planning, and I live about 5 hours away, so I was constantly leaving voice mails and sending emails with weeks before a response. The contract I got was really vague so I had to send it back more than once to get basic things added to it. The menu and prices also changed a lot from when I made my contract to the wedding, but luckily I put everything in my contract so I got the 'before renovation' pricing that I signed up for. The outside venue was beautiful, we got married on the sand and had the white chairs and an arbor out on the beach. Our DJ supplied the sound, but they have sound you can rent from the venue as well so that the guests can hear you. The reception took place in Shimmers Night Club (which from what I understand unless you plan on paying a LOT of money to rent it out, they are no longer holding receptions in there due to the fact they have made it into a restaurant that serves lunch and dinner... something that I booked BEFORE the changes). The reception was beautiful, and the food was great! They have centerpieces you can use of theirs (glass containers, sand, sea shells, and tea lights) at no expense to you... I personally used the containers and added my own stuff to them. One of the LARGEST downfalls that I noticed is that they do not have an alcohol package, drinks are priced by per drink. So for every mixed drink (of their house alcohol) that was made, I paid $5.00. I think beer was $4 and wine was $5 or $6? Luckily a lot of people didn't drink, but the tab could have gotten out of control! Overall, it was an amazingly beautiful ceremony and reception for what I paid, but that was the before renovation prices. Pros: - Beautiful location - Attached to a hotel - Free centerpieces - Newly renovated - Great food Cons: - Very expensive since remodel (rooms for guests, food, drinks, booking costs, etc.) - Bad service (people constantly getting fired, hired, leaving, etc.) - No alcohol package - Shimmers no longer available for a wedding reception - No bridal suite to get ready (we got lucky and one of the conference rooms wasn't booked for that morning, but if we didn't want to risk it being booked, we would have had to pay to book it in advance)