Doubletree by Hilton Palm Beach Gardens

ady, lots and lots of problems, etc.

t was much less expensive than other venues we looked into, even if it didn't appear to be at first glance. The coordinator at the hotel was extremely helpful and nice to work with. The reception included a room for the night, and the room was stocked with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries. The food was delicious. In addition to the main course, the per head cost included beautiful appetizers, including chocolate covered strawberries, bruchetta, etc.;I cannot think of anything that I would warn other couples about. Maybe one heads-up -- the cost did not include chairs on the beach, so make sure you request that there be seating on the beach if you would like it. The cost was very reasonable, however, but I remember not realizing until further into the process that I needed to request seating for my guests. It was easily taken care of, so this is not so much a warning as a 'heads up.'

room to go to bed. The lighting, the way the tables were set up and the location by the ocean was wonderful.;We had two choices for meals for our guests per our agreement with the Doubletree. They were New York Strip Steak or Chicken Marsala. We put these choices on our RSVP cards and guests told us in advance what they wanted to eat. The hotel did NOT serve the steak, instead I think it was prime rib but I'm not sure. Which isn't a big deal but it isn't what we agreed on, either. The guests who had the prime rib really enjoyed it. The chicken marsala was very, very dry and wasn't good. Despite the food fiasco, I would still recommend the Doubletree. I had such a memorable reception there and they did everything else right.

s on my choice.;They are not very organized. There was a party from the night before that we had to help clean up the morning of before setting up our own stuff. There was only one person there to help us.

everages. The napkins on each table had paper clips holding them together (they were folding into birds of paradise). The cake was not completely served, it was cut but was only served to the three tables near the cake table. When we realized that imported beer was being served instead of the domestic that was in the contract we could not locate anyone incharge to fix the problem. When the hotel event coordinator was informed the next day he blamed us for the mistakes.

with our theme. I also loved the rooms at the hotel and appreciated that they gave us a complimentary room to stay in the night of our wedding;Our wedding was a morning wedding and I feel like several things went wrong. This may just be because of our early time but several things were not set up as I had wanted (I wanted the food tables as stations and they were buffets). Also we told them we wanted NO alcohol and they served a champaigne toast and then tried to charge us for it. And they did NOT serve our cake to guests. We spent a lot of money on cake and no one got any!

difficult to see the entire room at once.

more hours would have been much better.

were thrilled to have our wedding there.;Yaser Mohamed is no longer there. I don't know what the current Catering Director is like, so that could be a pitfall.

an. Great backup room space for bad weather.

ar the beach by the hotel pool and there was enough space for a buffet to be held. We were able to reserve most of the outside area and took up majority of hotel rooms. The wedding receptoin was perfect with a side room for the cocktail hour and then a grand entrance into the reception area, which was decorated with lightening/decorations that were more than we had expected. We had a breakfast for all of our guests the following morning which was great and they held the flowers from the reception to add to the ambience of the breakfast. Also, we had a pizza/beer party after the receptoin by the hotel bar which had views of the beach and our wedding guests basically had the whole area reserved for them.;There are many weddings at the hotel so I felt like it was harder to get the wedding coordinators at the hotel to pay attention to my wedding details. However they really pulled through in the last week. Also, we had many events at the hotel, therefore we dealt with them much more than other wedding would have. (rehearsal dinner, reception, postwedding party, breakfast)

was not that helpful. She was okay no major mistakes occured but I think that was do in part to the fact that I hired a wedding planner a few weeks before the wedding.

ll two weeks later and two of our guests were not fed.