My husband and I were able to have a “small” dinner at the Fox Hollow in August of 2020, and a full first anniversary reception there in August of 2021 as well. From the beginning... of the planning process to the roller coaster of Covid changes, the Fox Hollow was very easy to work with and extremely helpful. Gennaro and Hilary helped plan the dinner in 2020 and Hilary helped coordinate the 2021 reception. We wanted the small dinner in 2020 to feel different than a full reception, but still celebratory, and the Fox Hollow was so good about helping us make changes. In 2020, we held our dinner in the smaller, but gorgeous Winter Garden room. We did our first dance together, but everyone watched from their tables and no one joined in. We did not do toasts. We had grandparent dances instead of parent dances, because we were both concerned that our grandparents, who are all in their 80s or 90s, might not be there to celebrate with us in 2021 (though, thankfully, our grandparents are alive and well)! We took pictures of cutting the cake for the photographer, but didn’t do the whole cake cutting ritual. We didn’t have a band in 2020, so instead, we plugged my MOH’s phone into the sound system there and played a Spotify playlist that my husband and I curated. We asked that drinks be served to the tables. The bar was open, still, but it definitely eliminated the need for a line at the bar and prevented clustering at a time when Covid was more of a concern. They also went above and beyond service-wise. (For instance, my husband wanted a white Russian, and the bartender ran over to the hotel to get milk.)
In 2021, the Fox Hollow was excellent about coordinating vendors, answering my multitude of questions, and making sure that the big party went smoothly. We were in the Garden Terrace room, which could accommodate our bigger guest list. Cocktail hour food, dinner food, and everything edible there was amazing. Dropping off memory table pictures, favors, seating cards, etc. was so easy. Hilary worked with us to help plan and coordinate things every step of the way, even my husband’s somewhat complicated request for a video montage to play. The timeline went smoothly, but SO QUICKLY, with parent dances, our first dance again, the cake cutting, bouquet toss, and garter toss.