Mapleside Farms

s beyond helpful and approachable. Pam worked with us on our actual wedding day (because Debbie had a family wedding to attend), but jumped right in and made sure everything was perfect. The Taste of Excellence waitstaff was BEYOND friendly during setup, dinner service, and cleanup. Our guests raved about the food, stating it was the best wedding food they've ever had. Booking this venue and catering service was a large part of our budget, but it was 100% worth it. Guests told us that our wedding looked like it could have been in a wedding magazine!

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detail, communication and overall customer service is top notch. I highly recommend Mapleside for any event, wedding, etc. they will make the process stress free. Thanks again!

rything was so lovely and went so smoothly! I would highly recommend this venue for any special event. Everyone I dealt with was beyond helpful! Overall a fantastic experience!

nd support. I would recommend Mapleside and a taste of excellence to anyone in Cleveland

ould take her to the hillside to watch the sunsets and just relax in the peaceful atmosphere. I remember watching The Barn being built, I was wondering what it was going to be. Fast forward a few years later, still together, still going to Mapleside, no longer wondering what that new building being constructed would be for, we already knew. We knew years down the road, whenever the time was right, where our wedding would be held, without a shadow of a doubt. Yes, it was years later, many years. We discussed and approximate we had our date selected in our minds 8 years in advance, a Saturday on the same date as they day we officially became a couple. It would be another few years until we finally got engaged and officially booked The Barn on our day. For years we imagined the day, pictured and planned, and waited for our time to come. For having known for so many years where our special day would occur, and just daydreaming about the details, nothing could have prepared me for the day to finally arrive. The people at Mapleside absolutely and fantastically exceeded our expectations beyond our wildest imagination. Every went completely flawless, the venue was beyond magical and beautiful on our day. I have heard from so many guests comments like "this is the most beautiful venue I've ever been to!" you don't need to tell me, I've been coming since I was a little kid, the property is unmatched! Planning and prepping the months leading up was so easy. we had great contacts within A Taste of Excellence and Mapleside who made every step of the way completely stress free and efficient. The staff was beyond friendly, and THE FOOD. Oh my goodness the food. Sometimes you go to a wedding and the meal served is just that, just a meal. Nothing special. My wife and I are foodies, and we wouldn't allow that. Mapleside's caterer, A Taste of Excellence, absolutely lives up to its name. The meals were absolutely outstanding. No one had a bad word to say. They made it so easy to have a gluten free wedding for my wife who has a dietary need for that. The lemon chicken was probably one of the top 3 meals I've ever tasted, absolutely mouthwatering. Mapleside so far exceeded all our hopes, visions, dreams, expectations, etc, for the day. The day could not have gone any smoother, and if it wasn't for this incredible venue, it really would not have been as special and magical. Mapleside has always held special meaning in both of our hearts, and now, it has solidified that meaning for all our lives. Thanks to all the wonderful people at Mapleside and Taste of Excellence who made our dreams become reality, the day could not have gone any better, and we could not possibly be any happier.

leside guests entered the reception thinking the lodge was still a restaurant /bar and was ordering drinks in casual clothing… The “security” we had was never there or on site. Mapleside is neglectful at following through with any refunds or any follow up what so ever. Along with the no security and blunders of the day, there was no parking for my wedding guests in the designated area for their parking tags. They allowed Mapleside guests to park where the ceremony was held and all of my ceremony photos of walking down the aisle has a parking lot of cars. To say the least it is not great shots walking through a parking lot of cars in your wedding dress. They guaranteed there would not be any cars there for the ceremony. In top of ceremony botched photos, many photos inside the actual lodge was ruined cringe because of missing ceiling tiles from water damage that was not there during our walk thru. We majorly regret having Mapleside as our venue. Nothing but disappointments even 6 months passed. They are money hungry and truly don’t care about your special day. You would be better off getting married at your local bar if you want unwanted off the streets guests in there disrupting your day.

tion for an indoor ceremony downstairs in the cellar should inclement weather interfere with an outdoor ceremony. All the staff working that day were super helpful, accommodating, and very professional. The price for booking the Lodge was WAY under our budget and it is an amazing price for such a beautiful space! I have already recommended Mapleside to several people who are planning weddings and I will continue to do so as long as I know people who are getting married! I will never be able to thank Mapleside and it’s wonderful enough for making our big day seamless, stress free, and absolutely perfect!

You don't have to do much decorating because the place is stunning on it's own. We had the perfect day. This venue has to be one of the best in the Medina, Brunswick, Strongsville area. Highly recommend.

were great! We had a beautiful day and even set up lawn games on the grassy area, our guests had a blast.

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it all over again, it was the perfect day!

only was the venue amazing, but the food was delicious through Taste of Excellence catering. The main event coordinator was very helpful, responsive, and reliable! Our company looks forward to hosting another event here at Mapleside Farms. Oh-- one last thing, the view from the barn is EMACULATE!!

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from the deck must be experienced rather than explained. I've seen the sunset at Mapleside before, but on this day, it was a beautiful storybook ending to a perfect day. Taste of Excellence did an amazing job and everyone was raving about the food and service. I can't say enough about our experience. I wouldn't change a thing.

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ult and were very cold and firm during the process. They make you pay for everything, down to each fork lol. End of day we loved every single second so we’d do it all over again if we had to!

outdoors and inside. When planning we worked with Taste of excellence primarily and they are incredible, talented, and passionate people that helped make our so wedding amazing!!

utiful as well. We took pictures by the pond and orchard. I would highly recommend this venue. Staff for the event were very attentive and helpful.

he asked me my budget for catering and she basically told me that it wasn't doable, but never explained why. I scheduled my tour and an the morning of, I got a message on Google calendar that said family emergency and canceled for the day. I'm very busy so I was disappointed , but things happen. She reached out to me the following week to reschedule and asked me the same questions we already discussed and once again, made me feel like I'm too poor to have my wedding there due to catering. When we calculated it out, it looked like we could afford it. She asked me when we could meet up and it just happened that every date I said, she couldn't meet those days. Only time she had was in the middle of the day during the week. We were constantly going back and forth and I felt as if my business wasn't wanted there and I was being pushed out. I never emailed back and she didn't even try to follow up to see if I was still interested. I'm really disappointed because if I knew why I "couldn't afford it," I could've adjusted my budget to make it work. Maybe I'm crazy, but we are only inviting 125 people (honestly it will probably be closer to 75-80) but $7000-$8000 wasn't enough. 🤷‍♀️

he entire time, almost as if we were an inconvenience. Trying to book a venue is already stressful, but with the lack of communication from karen, it was even more stressful.

at Mapleside & their caterers Taste of Excellence, were fantastic! Maddie Coppa was our wedding coordinator/representative and she was great! She kept us informed of all the new changes/restrictions and helped throw a beautiful wedding that we will never forget, while keeping us safe & following necessary health protocols. The Barn is rustic elegance and doesn't require much in decorations. The views are stunning. The food was amazing, from the appetizers to the buffet dinner. The staff were all professional and fun. All of our vendors did a great job putting our vision into place. We would definitely recommend Mapleside and if you can request a representative, ask for Maddie Coppa!

thank you to Medeana Hobar Who went the extra mile to make sure everything was done perfectly and treated us like family. Everything was beautiful!!! from the outdoor ceremony, the breathtaking views, and gorgeous wooden structure of the barn and assisting us in putting up our decorations to make the special day just perfect. Thank you

They are worth the experience.

location was, how much fun they had, and how enjoyable the food was. We had a lot of help from Medeana Hobar, our coordinator, from A Taste of excellence. She was there every step of the way, from answering silly questions during planning, to helping us avoid the chaos during our special day. Great experience, great wedding, great time.

out. It’s just absolutely gorgeous

nto, as planning a wedding effectively took up a year of my life. This review is written after many drafts and contemplation. NOTE: This review is for MAPLESIDE FARMS BARN, not A Taste of Excellence. I will leave them a separate, outstanding review. Mapleside Farms BARN Summary: This barn stands on property that has been maintained as an apple orchard and working farm for a century. The owners have very vividly changed hands within the past few years and after many changes and expansions, a beautiful barn venue was built within the last 5 years. What you have here is a stunning, gorgeous, jaw dropping barn venue atop a sweeping, beautiful setting that is run by new, greedy, absent and insensitive people. It is a cash cow for them and nothing else. Pros: This is THE best barn venue in northeast Ohio. I looked at them all. The only runner up was Rivercrest Farm in Dover, Ohio. I highly recommend looking at Rivercrest if you find Mapleside too difficult. Mapleside is new, spotless, romantic, charming, rustic, warm and facing the best view you’ll ever find for a wedding in the Cleveland area. Our guests were completely in awe and are still saying that it was the most amazing venue. Did I mention it poured rain all day at our wedding and we could not go outside once? That’s how beautiful it is. Rainy wedding was still a success. Choose Mapleside if your #1 priority above all else is beauty and romance. Cons: As a reflection of the new owners disinterest in their cash cow of a barn, they hand off 100% of the barn management responsibly to a catering company. While I thought the catering company was the best in Cleveland, they are still... a catering company. They are not barn managers. And while they may scoff at this statement, they know what I’m talking about. As the consumer, you are FORCED to speak to the caterers with every single barn question, which does not always go smoothly. In fact, the barn managers and owners with not only ignore you if you try to contact them, but they will “tell on you” to the catering company and you will have to receive an awkward call from the caterers that makes you feel small and intimidated. It is a very childish, selfish, greedy, disgusting way to run a business. But when you have the corner on the market for barns in Cleveland, why should you have to be kind? Buyer beware that this is the situation. The product of dealing with the caterers with questions in regard to a farm with multiple festivals, concerts, fairs, thousands of families and kids, tons of noise, etc. is that you have to work HARD to get all the info. Example: I visited the barn ½ dozen times before booking it to observe the farm at ceremony time. I witnessed a stalled wedding b/c the bride was too upset to come out because of all the farm noise interfering with her wedding. The security guards told me that she had not been informed of all the farm elements that could be loud during her ceremony. So, I still booked the barn but spent a year (yes, a year) sending follow-up emails to a million people to ensure that would not happen to me. All in all, we loved our wedding at the Barn. But because of bad farm management, days and days and days of my time were taken up all year over email and phone and this venue became a full time job.

aste of Excellence's (the exclusive caterer for Mapleside) dinner choices that we selected were truly excellent. The catering staff was extremely attentive to our needs during the reception. The biggest negative was communication. Karen (from ATE) was our contact for both the venue and the caterer. Her communication quite often was abrupt and at times it felt like we were being rushed through our questions/concerns. We booked this venue about 11 months out. Never once were we told that September and October are big festival months at Mapleside. Imagine our surprise when about 3 weeks before our wedding we read about the Johnny Appleseed Festival that was being held that same weekend and drew 20,000 festival goers the year before. This proved to be a logistical headache that we had to work through with the coach we arranged as transportation for the bridal party and our out of town guests. Then, after a requested final walk through we saw a huge 2-3 story slide had been set up close to where my daughter's ceremony would be taking place. I asked Karen if we could have the slide shut down for the ceremony which was only about 30-45 minutes. When we arrived on wedding day Karen told us that security would shut the slide down for the ceremony. Relief? Wrong! Not only did our guests sitting on the left side get to hear the screams from the festival goers going down the slide since it remained open, those sitting on the right side got to hear the very loud music from the other wedding that was taking place at the same time. We were in the Lodge and they were in the Barn so we were right in the middle. It seems that Mapleside is trying to attract as many different groups as they can to maximize their revenue but are failing to be attentive to each of their needs. We did not think asking for the slide to be shut down for our ceremony was an unreasonable request. We also sent the owners a message about our experience and have yet to hear back from them. Is this a sign that they don't really care since there are no do-overs with a wedding?

vendor is the worst. Because the caterer is your main contact for venue information, we had to *try* to communicate with them for majority of the planning. I say TRY because the venue coordinator we originally had (who also happens to be the VP of this catering company) could not care less about us. I would email him up to 3 or 4 times the exact same email without a response for a couple weeks. He neglected to tell us that there was a festival happening the day of our event. During our final walk through, he didn’t know any information about our wedding. He conveniently couldn’t find any of the emails I had sent them (probably around 30 at this point)… I honestly don’t think he knew my name because of the lack of information he knew. I sent him my wedding day timeline about a week or 2 before the final walk-through and he was the only vendor not to reply to it, so it probably was not read… and he was 10 minutes late to our final walk-through – the catering office is 2 miles down the road from the ceremony/reception site – VERY UNACCEPTABLE. There is absolutely no reason not to show up to a meeting on time. Additionally, during our rehearsal, all he did was stand against the fence on his phone. He didn’t introduce himself, he didn’t tell us any information – he did absolutely nothing. At that point, he might has well have not been there. The communication and frustration was so terrible with the venue coordinator that we had to ask for a new coordinator the week of our wedding. THEN IN WALKS KAREN: Karen was our new venue coordinator. She was amazing. She did all the work that the old coordinator lacked and actually communicated the information that needed to be done. Karen even apologized for all the shortcomings that our original coordinator had. The day of the wedding, she was very attentive and made sure that everything was running smoothly. I can’t even explain how nice it was to have her there! TL;DR: do not hire this company unless you have Karen, the angel sent venue coordinator.

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people we talked to, and they made it go very well. The air conditioning wasn't working in the lodge. I was miserably hot over memorial day weekend 2018. For the amount of money Mapleside gets for weddings, its time they upgraded their A/C.

der if you want to book there. The "event coordinator" does not actually coordinate the event so much as the food and the set up of the tables. If you get married there, I strongly encourage a booking of a wedding planner there. A Taste of Excellence is the exclusive caterer, and the event coordinator is one of their staff. Mapleside Farms does not talk to clients, TOA talks to you only. The communication form TOA staff is less than amazing. I had one appointment that the staff arrived at 45 min late and he did not call me or alert me at all. They also told us about two months from the wedding that we would have to have a rehearsal on Thursday or during the day on Friday. Thankfully, after we complained at how unfair and unprofessional this was that no one let us know, the rehearsal was able to go on at 4 on Friday. It's my opinion that an "event coordinator" would be in communication about such a detail long before a 2 mo mark before a wedding, but they are really just caterers. I also think that we were often treated as dollar signs versus people setting up one of the biggest days of their lives. Would I do it again? Maybe not, but the views are still amazing. Just have to weigh what's important to you in a site.

ioned!) barn. I was in love with the venue from the first time I saw it, and it kept improving from there! They added a pergola (great to have your ceremony under) and added all new landscaping! It was an amazing venue and I have been receiving compliments on it non-stop since the wedding.

rn and the Lodge can both have a wedding in it. I recommend displaying a sign at your site saying "the wedding of your name" so guests don't get confused. they have the ceremonies at different times so that they both aren't being interrupted by the other. The sunset and view make for some amazing pictures. During the summer they have concerts on Friday nights so you will have to have your rehearsal on Friday night around the tents and small food tents but it works. My guests loved the look of the place and couldn't stop raving about the view. All in all my husband and I had a great experience with Mapleside and would have another event their anytime.

dditional fees piled up quickly and became astronomical. An extra $16 per guest for a chair and a place setting was the cherry on top. Not to mention our event coordinator showed up 15 minutes late with no apology. We had seriously dreamed and planned on getting married here... no more.

we wanted to consider both. I set an appointment through the Knot the tour the venue. Karen from Taste of Excellence emailed me directly saying she was available on date x at time y. I replied directly to her email and said I was confirming firm date x at time y. She replied and said perfect! We went at the scheduled date and time and she never showed up. Someone that worked there had to call her and she said that she never got my confirmation. I thought I must have been going crazy, but I double checked my email and it was there just as I had remembered it. If she had forgotten or double booked, I would have understood if she just apologized to me. We are going to pass on this venue as I cannot trust someone with my wedding who so obviously lies to me. We also felt that the Lodge fit no where near as many people as it said it did. I felt like it would have been crammed with 100 guests.

rn which was having a wedding in two days and wasn't even ready. She then said she could possibly get us under a 100 a plate and when I told her our budget was 15,000 she flat out said "oh no, you can't afford to have your wedding here" and suggested that we have a cookout for our reception. You can have a beautiful barn wedding for so much cheaper and nice than Mapleside. Look at areas in Akron or even medina. In getting married next October and stayed well under my budget and found a venue a lot cheaper and even prettier than Mapleside. It's not worth the money and stress to have it here.