Lake Hill Winery & Banquet Hall

Lake Hill Winery was overall a great venue for our wedding. The outdoor ceremony site was simple and beautiful. Following the ceremony we loved being able to move right into cocktail hour and the reception in the grand indoor banquet hall on site. The vineyard offered a gorgeous sunset photo location. The winery’s event coordinator was professional and insightful. Complaints would include nearly running out of food even though our guest count was accurate, large up-charge on beer (compared to other venues in the area), unnecessary up-charge on tableware, no option for plated dinner service.

My fiancée and I reside In CO but are having a wedding back in the tristate area since we're from there. I contacted the winery and worked with Rachel. Unfortunately due to our date being unavailable, we were unable to book the winery, but Rachel was so pleasant to work with and get information from. She was extremely patient with me in addressing concerns and timely in her responses. The winery itself is beautiful and I've been to a couple great weddings put on there. It's a great venue option for Carthage and surrounding areas!

Our ideas of how we wanted to set up the banquet hall differed a lot from how past weddings had been set up, but the event coordinator, Maddie, was very patient and accommodating. The Wednesday night before the wedding, my mom and I and several other ladies went to the winery to fold cloth napkins for the reception dinner. Not only were we allowed in on a night the winery was closed, but Maddie and another employee served us wine and allowed us to bring in cheese and crackers :) At my husband's request, we had Maddie and owner Craig design a custom wine label for the Duckhat that was served during our toast. We were a little picky, but they tweaked it until it was exactly how we wanted it. (The wine itself was pretty darn good, too!) I would have given the venue 5/5 stars except the in-house caterer was very hard to get in touch with at times...also, we requested snacks around lunch time, as most of the wedding party spent the entire day at the venue (which we used both for the ceremony and reception), and the caterer showed up an hour late with the snacks. We had to wait until 30 days before our wedding to ensure that we would be able to use the winery for our rehearsal, in case someone else booked it the night before. However, once the 30-day mark arrived and no one had spoken for the place on Friday night, our decorator had most of the day Friday to get the banquet hall decorated...that was a Godsend for her as most of the decorating was finished by the time we arrived for the rehearsal! All in all, it is a beautiful, spacious venue and definitely top-notch for a rural community.