To begin, I absolutely loved our wedding. It was beyond beautiful! However, the process of getting there was excruciatingly painful. It is my firm believe that the word "yes" ...is not part of the Jekyll Island event planning's vocabulary. They in no way made the process enjoyable and it was through pure grit and determination that our wedding turned out so well. Upon reflection, we are two months out from the big day, I feel that there is a lot about the attitude of thee event planning staff that needs to fundamentally change. They seem to not enjoy the wedding planning process and have zero tolerance for the many unique quirks and desires of a bride, groom, and their families. My thoughts are if you don't like weddings and can't handle the stress of working with brides them please find a new job. It is time for the upper levels of management at JIC Atl take a firm look at their event planning department and consider exactly how they run their business, because when I tell you that working with the JIC event planning staff was one of the most stressful exhausting and patience wearing experiences of my life, I am not exaggerating, it was a pretty darn horrific experience. The venue is gorgeous, but planning a wedding should be FUN, not full of exasperation because at every turn you are told NO by those you are paying QUITE a lot of money to, to have your wedding day look and run as you wish. Additionally, despite multiple emails and phone calls to confirm our guests were served the incorrect type of beef. Additionally, if wedding cake is important to you at all stear clear of JIC. We had three tastings. During tasting number one each bite of cake took a glass of water to swallow. During tasting number two each bite of cake took half a glass of water to swallow. By the third tasting we were just fed up. We were assured that on the day the cake would be excellent and that the JIC cake tastings never went well. That was a major falsehood. Additionally, I was given a preview of the cakes on the big day just before the ceremony. Fortunately I had already had a little champagne the smooth the edges, the wedding cake looked nothing like it was supposed to plus it had the world's most disgraceful icing patch job right in the middle of the second layer. Literally it was the ugliest wedding cake I have EVER seen in my life and it didn't taste any better. The grooms cake was supposed to be in our wedding colors, we even provided swatches of the colors for the pastry Chef (and seriously I think saying chef at this point is a bit of the disgrace to all the wonderful chefs out there in the world), the only thought I can come up with as to how those colors ended up on the grooms cake is that the pastry staff is colorblind. Additionally, there was an icing mishap with the grooms cake as well, one whole side had the icing swiped off. So in short if you want to enjoy your wedding planning process and treasure the taste and look of your wedding cake run FAR FAR away from the Jekyll Island Club.