The venue is beautiful and perfect for the atmosphere/look of our wedding. The farmhouse was perfect for our rehearsal dinner, getting ready, and hanging out all night. It is huge with plenty of space for the wedding party and a great sound sys...tem throughout the whole house for music. It was also a great price for delicious food & a good location.
However, Patricia the owner was extremely frustrating to work with. It was like pulling teeth to get answers to any of our emails, and any time we discussed anything in person, she would not write anything down or remember anything we talked about. It was like we had never had the meeting, as she would never follow up with any questions or requests, and it was up to me as the bride to make sure things were getting done & answered properly. She would go radio silent for weeks, seemingly ignoring my emails. It made the wedding planning process WAY more stressful than it already is. It got to the point where we were afraid to ask more questions out of fear that requests we had already made would be incorrect.
She took notes on scrap paper one singular time in our final meeting about the menu, even though she had a MacBook she could have been writing notes in every time we met. It is my guess she lost that paper as well, because items on the menu on our event order were incorrect. It took forever for her to correct it, resulting in us having to wait until just days before the wedding to make any payments.
We were also lied to about who would be our day-of coordinator. I requested that the same person also be there for our rehearsal so that I could make sure we were on the same page for ceremony plans as well as the flow of the day. Patricia was the one there for our rehearsal, and I verbally confirmed with her that she would be the one with us for our wedding. While I am putting on my wedding dress, she informs me that is actually going to be Tom the manager (who is super nice but he did not know what we had discussed at the rehearsal). As a result, there was much unneeded confusion at the very last minute about the plan.
I had also made it very clear that there could be NO nuts in any of the dishes as my sister has a deadly allergy. It was discussed MULTIPLE times and written in bold letters on our event order. There were walnuts in the salad which could have killed her if I had not noticed it. Tom was apologetic and offered to make a special plate for her, but this was very upsetting.
I also spent the morning of my wedding cleaning up trash outside from the wedding before ours and helping remove their decorations. It is inexcusable to be told we could decorate in the morning, yet have to clean up someone else's wedding first. We then had to rush to decorate for our own wedding. At the very end of the night, we were informed that we had to remove all of OUR decorations immediately because they would be closed the next day.
The chairs for the ceremony were also set up in a very haphazard way and the groomsmen ended up rearranging them themselves. Our linen colors were also incorrect and I folded half of the napkins myself after she got the correct ones. Overall the wedding turned out beautiful and our guests raved about the food, but the whole process could have been A LOT less stressful with better communication. The owner should hire someone else with event/wedding experience as it was obvious to my husband who works in the event planning industry that she did not have the necessary skills.