Hillwood at Davies Manor

location was the most affordable and had a fantastic backup plan for rain. My only complaint is the Hillwood staff. To say they were rude is an understatement. The first few walk throughs and meetings were great. They approved my plans for the historic grounds with no questions and loved what I planned to do. I felt awesome about my event. Cut to the week of my wedding, I received phone calls everyday about issues they had with my vendors. Now, it was my understanding that they had already been in contact with my vendors and worked everything out..... I was wrong. Two days before my wedding I spent hours on the phone working with my rental company and Hillwood to solve a delivery crisis. That had already been worked out and written on my paperwork. Hill wood was now saying they would not honor that agreement. The day of the wedding we arrive to setup and the front porch was covered in hay from the event the evening before, the floors inside were filthy, the drink tubs behind the bar were missing, and the prior events linens and other rentals were still inside. I was guaranteed to have a clean building at 8 am the day of my event. Hillwood failed to make that happen. The property manager cleaned up the mess from the event prior. We had a friend go and purchase drink tubs after spending time on the phone with Hillwood, who said they did not provide tubs for the bar, when I had in it writing. Once the Hillwood staff was away, we had a fantastic wedding and everyone had a blast. I understand that all weddings are stressful, but Hillwood was my only vendor who couldn't seem to get it together. Calling a bride two days prior to her wedding and costing her more money because you refuse to hold up your end of a contract is ridiculous in my book! If you do choose Hillwood, because it is an amazing venue, just be prepared for things to get crazy the week of your wedding.

centerpieces and you are good to go. The grounds are beautiful as well. You couldn't see a more beautiful place. The cooperation from the staff does leave something to be desired. Don't show up without an appointment or unannounced, you won't get a warm reception. But minimize contact to the needed meetings and everything will go fine.

full time job and taking off work is not an easy thing for me to do, but the venue is only open Tuesday through Friday until about 4:00 for tours/appointments, unless they have an event already scheduled. I was able to go after work and be there at 5:00 one time to see the venue for the first time; however, this was not easy to arrange. I was given grief when I requested to meet at the venue at 5:00. Second obstacle: There are a lot of rules. We were told that an option would be to get married in front of the big oak tree. Their only request was for us to not break the bark or hurt the tree in any way. We arranged to hang ribbons, linen, and fishing wire on the tree; however, all three of those options were turned down quickly. They were; however, very respectful of me as the bride and ensuring that my privacy and finances were protected. Also, the location is beautiful and I loved the history of the location as well as the indoor/outdoor option.

up lights already in place. We decorated the 20ft fireplace, mantle, and hearth, with candles and it didn't need any more. Very rustic like but classic, which is exactly what we were looking for. Loved it! Will definitely recommend.

y price budget friendly;thus, does not lack in the charm of the building. This is a must book (saves money) The only bad comment that I have is with the Lighting guy "Kevin the Flower Guy". Whatever you do, do not add additional lights with this guy. He told my mom over the phone that what we were wanting in addition to the venue was not worth his time to do (even though we were paying him to do it). If you want additional lighting do not go with this Kevin "RefEx Flower Guy", he does not reply to email, is not organized when showing potential customers, does not have pricing for potential customers, and he refuses at the beginning to tell you there is a minimum of around $1,000.00 to use any of his services. He is very unprofessional and I am trying to find a way to report him to the BBB! Seems like he charges what he thinks he can get out of you! Not professional at all. I think you get the picture. I could go on for days about this non-professional so called business man!

that we would need, a huge hall for everything to happen in, and had rooms for the groomsmen and bridal party to all get ready in on site. We had our rehearsal dinner there as well in order to set up for the day of the wedding, the night before so we wouldn't be rushed to do everything the day of the wedding. For the most part the staff was really easy to work with. We only had a handful of issues that were easily handled. They changed the dates that they wanted paperwork back from you, 3 weeks before the wedding they sent out letters saying that sparklers were not allowed at their facility going forward, and we had an issue with a candelabra come up missing. There was a wedding the day after our's that packed up the candelabra by mistake and we were blamed for it. It took nearly 2 weeks for the other wedding to find it in the midst of their wedding stuff but our wedding was blamed for it at first. If you do have your wedding there, it will be absolutely beautiful but I would suggest having them do a check walk through with you or whoever is responsible for the cleanup with one of their workers to make sure that you do not get charged for something that you didn't do. This place feels up extremely fast too but they will work with you to find wedding dates. Our original date was booked but they were able to give me days around it so that we could work with them to try and have our wedding there.