Gateway Hotel & Conference Center

I had my wedding on April 26 and the Gateway did an amazing job. They helped me on all my special requests and answered to any and all questions I had.

It was beautiful, but seem to be orienting new staff and it made my job as the bride more work since I had to keep following up with them since they were making numerous mistakes with the room blocks and requests for the reception. Give them a year and then hopefully they will be more organized. They did try to make up for all of their errors by giving is the fancy suite, but I would have just preferred having a smooth experience. I am not a wedding planner; that should be there job. :). The wedding reception was gorgeous and food was great and service the day if the event was amazing, but the journey there was a pain!!!

Very easy venue to work with: they took the hassle out of much of our wedding preparations. They do the decorating for you and the food is phenomenal. We are still hearing compliments on the food for our wedding. No better place in Ames for your reception than the Gateway!

We had a brunch wedding reception and the Gateway Conference Center catered the meal. Several of the guests commented on how good the food was. The staff was great to work with and they helped make it a very enjoyable day for us.

The food was great!! The venue was beautiful! The only thing that we were not expecting is the service by the event planners. They talked about how they would be there every step of the way at the rehearsal and on the wedding day. Neither people who we met with at our final meeting was there for the rehearsal and we saw them 2 times the day of the wedding. It seemed like there was no communication between the event planners and staff. I had to tell the staff what we wanted. The wait staff was amazing (except for the bar tender. She was ride to our guest and us!) we felt like we would be well taken care of by the event planners but it seemed like after they received out check they were out of the picture.

Everyone was so nice, helpful, and easy to work with. The food was AMAZING, all our guests are still raving about it! It was a little more expensive compared to another reception spot we looked at, but totally worth it. :)

The Gateway Hotel and Conference Center was a great place for my daughter's wedding reception. We loved having the hotel and event venue all in one place. The food was excellent!! Working with Jacque Uthe, the wedding and social events coordinator, made planning a wedding very enjoyable and fun. She responded to my emails, phone calls, and any questions immediately. She had great suggestions for us to get the most for our money. She keep my stress level at a minimum and stayed late the night of my daughter's wedding reception to make sure all went well, even though it was also her own wedding anniversary. She is awesome with details and accommodated our wishes, even adding some things that we did not expect that were amazing. We also had a brunch, held in the Iowa Stater restaurant, for our departing guests the next morning. It was delicious!! Jacque goes above and beyond to make sure everything runs smoothly. We have loved hearing all the compliments from our guests on how nice the reception was and it is largely due to Jacque and the staff at the Gateway. We are glad we chose Gateway Hotel and Conference Center.

We were going to have our reception in the smaller town we got married in, but a fire forced us to have to find a new place within 2 months of the wedding. We looked at places in Ames, and the Gateway was the most helpful and made everything seem possible. Also, having the hotel without the typical hotel feel was perfect on the day of our wedding. We had an amazing time and didn't have to worry about anything. All our friends and family agreed!

My fiancé and I wanted to find a wedding venue where we could have an outdoor ceremony, indoor reception, and amazing food. Gateway did not disappoint. The ceremony at the waterfall patio was gorgeous. The reception was held directly inside in the garden room. The hors d'oeuvres and meal were delicious. Everyone raved about the food. The staff went above and beyond in making sure everything was perfect for us. Can not say enough good things about Gateway.

they were very organized during the wedding day and leading up to it. It is a bit expensive but they have really nice rooms to use! the only thing I didn't like was that at the end of the night they seemed to clean up and disappear and didn't give us the leftover cake like we had asked but at least they saved the top layer od the cake like they were supposed to!

Using The Gateway was absolutely the best decision I made in planning our wedding. The staff is so on top of things as well as friendly and flexible. They took care of any detail I asked them too and because they are all seasoned professionals, they often had things done before I had even thought of them. We had both our ceremony there (outside) and reception and both went fantastically well without a hitch due to the diligence of the Gateway staff. Plus, the food is absolutely wonderful.

the rooms were ok, had no mini fridge though... and had to switch our room three times on the first night. rented a conference room to open presnts in and had them cater breakfast, so that was nice. overall decent hotel.

I loved working with the Gateway! The entire staff was amazing. From the wedding coordinator to the chef, everyone was awesome. My husband and I felt so taken care of. Whenever we had a question, they were prompt and curtious. Plus, everyone raved about the food, which isn't always the case with weddings!

Gateway Hotel and Conference Center has a great location, easy to find.

We used the Gateway Hotel & Conference Center for our Ceremony and our Reception. The ceremony was held on the Garden Waterfall Patio which is beautiful and was a great place for our ceremony. The reception was help in the Garden Room that overlooked the patio. Everything was great except for the food. The food was not what we ordered or had tasted. This was very disappointing since we had ordered a non-breaded chicken and received a breaded chicken.

We had our reception here as well as our brunch the next day. Food was great. The staff was great. We were very pleased.