Elm Grove Woman's Club

ely older Cape Cod style clubhouse.Elm Grove is 20 minutes from downtown Milwaukee, under 2 hours to downtown Chicago. My daughter's wedding and reception was so personal and private with about 120 guests.Both of my daughter's had beautiful weddings and receptions here. One was a snowy night in January, one an end of summer this past September .I would highly Elm Grove Women's Club, elegant and open for your personal touches.It was absolutely the perfect place!!!!!

venue is beautiful. Classic and elegant, simple and refined. They were a delight to work with. Very communicative and accommodating. Our guests were incredibly charmed by our venue. The building is so well preserved and lovingly cared for. It sits in a beautiful, lush setting on a quiet corner in the quaint village of Elm Grove. It's right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. I am so happy we chose to host our wedding at the Elm Grove Woman's Club. It will always be an incredibly special place for my husband and I. Our wedding was better than we dreamed it would be. We were married at the EGWC on September 20th and hosted the ceremony on the lawn. It was perfect! Our reception was indoors and everything flowed so nicely. We worked with Chef Jack Catering out of Waukesha. They were wonderful and the food was amazing. We received countless compliments about the food. The EGWC is an excellent value and I loved that we were able to choose all of our favorite vendors instead of working through a traditional venue such as a hotel. It made for a much more personal experience for my husband and I and also for our guests. Every detail of the wedding was very "us". If I had to plan my wedding all over again, I wouldn't change a thing!

rfully accomodating to all our needs, and the staff on hand at the location was very attentive. All of our guests were impressed with how beautiful and intimate of a setting the Elm Grove Women's Club was. Just delightful!

re having, they offered all the following; Chairs and covers, tables and linens, mirrors to lay on the tables (if we wanted to use them) an in-house kitchen, a seperate room for getting ready, plenty of parking, multiple bathrooms, surround sound, a piano for use, coat check, etc. Picture perfect. But, as time went on, the ladies we were working with at the venue, began to be very picky, We ended up using nothing but the table and chairs that they provided, and did everything else ourselves. We felt they had broken our contract in so many ways, but it was all so close to the date we couldn't back out of it at the time. I wish we would have enjoyed it more and got a little more out of the place..especially, because of the cost/budget we had..In the end though, it did not matter, because everything turned out to be wonderful!!!

re mirrors for the table centerpieces, all dishes/glasses/flatware, some neautral silk floral arragemetnts, and there is beautiful furniture you can use as well). Perfect size for our celebration of about 110 - room for dining tables, dance floor, and bar area with no rearranging. We did not have a large budget for our wedding and Ginger helped identify pre-approved caterers that would work for us (and we picked one of them, too). We were able to split our 12 hours of rental time between the setup and rehersal on Friday and the actual event on Saturday. And we were able to meet with Ginger at the club several times before the wedding to double check how we wanted things set up. They really made things easy for us!

tal coordinator. I explained to her that I was on a budget, and that I wanted a rental for 5 hours. She proceeded to tell me they could give me the Club for 5 hours at $100 an hour. This was in late October 2010. As the days and weeks progressed, problems began to develop. All the women at the club must have started discussing, because Ginger repeatedly told me that I should take my business elsewhere because they didn't think 5 hours was "enough time.” I repeatedly assured them that it was, and that I only wanted a cake and punch reception anyway. I began to get the idea (due to strongly worded emails and terse phone conversations) that my reception was too low budget for them. I wasn't going to let a bunch of uppity women tell me 5 hours was too short, so I persisted, and we eventually got to the point we signed the contract and were ready to begin payments. Shortly after signing the contract in December, I was told that I was to meet with another coordinator to put down my deposit. Unbeknownst to me, they were planning to tell me (at the meeting) to take a hike. Sure enough, I get to the meeting and the woman tells me they no longer rent on that date, and that Ginger made a mistake in October when telling me my date was available. I was absolutely flabbergasted when she told me I would have to disregard the contract and take my reception elsewhere. I asked her why I was being forced to suffer for Ginger's mistake, and all she could tell me was "I didn't make the mistake, so it’s not my problem. " It gets better, however, because the last thing she told me (before I left in tears) was, “If you are still interested in holding your event at the Club, you may rent for 12 hours, @ $1600.00. That is the only way you can still proceed with the rental.” Yep, that’s right, they just wanted more money. Money which I didn’t have, and didn’t want to give them even if I did. I was absolutely stunned and speechless. On top of it all, they had me trapped legally as well. The contract states that it is only binding once money has been put down, a signature does not complete the contract. Hmmm…..now I understand why they wouldn’t let me make a deposit back in November. Long story short, if you are a bride on a budget, and are looking to save money by renting the EGWC for your reception, BEWARE. These women don't want to deal with low budget affairs, for fear it will ruin their hoity-toity reputation. If you want to risk renting with them, just know that they may, without warning, revoke your contract and there is nothing you can do about it. They will also demean you and make you feel like trash, which is NOT how you want to feel when planning your wedding!