My wife and I chose the Resort at Squaw Creek as our wedding venue due to its stunning views of Squaw Valley. When we first talked to them, we said that we had a very specific and ...personal menu that we wanted to re-create and they were totally open to it. We ended up choosing the entire menu and wine list and they brought in the wines we wanted as well, so everything was custom. Most venues won't be nearly so flexible, and this was our main deciding factor of choosing Squaw. The quality of food was incredible, and the culinary team did an amazing job interpreting and re-creating our menu.
The planning of the wedding unfortunately was quite difficult. Our first wedding coordinator left the Resort just after we negotiated and signed all of our contracts, and our account was passed off to a new employee. As we were planning our wedding from across the country, this presented numerous challenges, and we had to walk the employee through everything all over again, re-discuss, and re-negotiate all of our contracts. She finally got up to speed and had everything rolling smoothly until...three weeks before our wedding she also quit suddenly, and our account was passed on yet again. Fortunately, the new coordinator had at least participated in our tasting so had an idea of our vision, and assured us she would help us make a successful event. Unfortunately, we had to go through the whole process of discussing and negotiating our contract yet again, which was hugely stressful just before our wedding. At the end of it all, we got the wedding we wanted and had originally discussed, at the price we had originally agreed upon, but it was far from being easy. The Resort is a beautiful venue and we had our reception in the Cascades Restaurant, which was an excellent room lending itself to our lounge-style setup. Only criticism is that the room is somewhat dated and tired; the chairs inside were very ugly, the ceiling is pretty low and unattractive, but we made do and had a beautiful event nonetheless. Squaw was the right choice for the venue and quality of food and hopefully it was just a fluke that we went through three wedding coordinators, but it is imperative to get every possible aspect/price of your contract spelled out in case the same happens in the future.