Michigan Renaissance Festival

g $13,000, we were told we would have our wedding planner around if we needed anything the entire day. We saw our wedding planner twice that day, once to let us into the bridal suite and once when i was walking into the castle.  When I first arrived a master of ceremonies arrived and walked me through how it would go when it was time to walk down to the pavilion for the ceremony, then the officiant came in and talked with me about how everything would go at the ceremony which was great. When it was time to walk me or my now husband couldn’t find the master of ceremonies. Then my aunt who was passing out tickets came to find us and said a group of workers was looking for Luci (the wedding planner) but she couldn’t be found. Both the staff and my mom tried locating her, after being unable to my mom walked out to the staff and found out they were at the second bridal suite looking for me so they weren’t informed what suite I was in, and the master of ceremonies I had met in the morning was no longer the master of ceremonies I would be working with. Once they finally realized where I was at we made the call to have the ceremony inside the castle because it started pouring and the master of ceremonies had asked if i wanted to change the location. Both my mom, and the staff tried to call Luci to get the change taken care of, when we finally reached her we moved the ceremony. No one went to grab my husband to tell him the change was going to take place, so they had left him and most of our wedding party sitting in pouring rain.  When we finally got everything organized Luci came in for a matter of moments to get me walked into the castle towards my husband, after that we did not see her again.   After the ceremony the staff had told me that they would take care of boxing up everything, and getting our decorations, cake, wedding gifts, etc up to our bridal suite and that it would take about 45 minutes to an hour. So we walked around and waited once it hit the hour mark we walked back to the wedding suite and none of our belongings were there, so I got worried that they took it into the other bridal suite since that’s where they thought I was that morning. So I asked staff infront of the second bridal suite, ticket takers, and finally the will call office, during this time my mother had called Luci many times to try to see where everything was. After no one having an answer as to where all of our belongings are my husband went down to the reception location, where the second wedding of the day was already taking place, and tried to locate our belongings, they said they didn’t have the staff to bring it up, and if we wanted it we would have to take it up ourselves. It was raining and muddy at this point so the wagon they gave us was awful to bring up to the wedding suite but we had no other option.  What really made this awful was, I saw a post in a wedding group from the woman who got married after me, and praised Luci for being there the whole time and she had a wonderful experience. What made her be so much more special than me on my special day? We told Luci how disappointed we were and all we were told was that she would tell her supervisor and nothing else was said.  I will also put her review but redact her personal info 

ey I want to get married!” Once you do get through though it’s easier to get back in contact. 2. It was both a blessing and a curse with how easy going they are. Yes I like there’s no rigid constraints but there’s also no definite structure either. Back in January we were assured there was private wedding parking close to the gate. Later we were told no you park like everyone else. Wish-washy about music and if we could rent a private bathroom trailer and have it dropped off. It took a lot of hounding but 2 weeks out they finally admitted we could not get a bathroom trailer dropped off. 3. The day of the wedding started out as an unorganized mess. We rented 3 mobility aid scooters from the fair for our handicap guests. It said it in all our paperwork and I paid over the phone. We were only given 1 scooter. It took so long to get the second one the grooms family almost missed the start of the ceremony. We were assured our guests would get their tickets from will call and be shown to the gazebo. Will call acted like they didn’t even know there was a wedding and no one directed our guests where to go. They wandered around and asked random people inside for directions till they eventually found it. 4. The gazebo is tiny and is awful for photos or for your family to actually see you. 5. The castle isn’t closed off. So most of the time was spent telling random people to get out. Funny enough a lot of my guests actually enjoyed that part as the actors encouraged them to yell at anyone the see wander in. “What do we say to unwanted visitors?!” “Get out!” I feel like that could be reduced significantly with signs and ropes. Now the positives 1. The entertainment was amazing. The actors were spectacular and so was the music. I thought we wouldn’t have a whole band unless we paid extra but there was a band. A happy surprise. 2. The procession to the gazebo was a parade with lots of shouting and cheer which was so fun. 3. The food was so good and there was so much of it. Everyone left completely stuffed! The servers were great they made sure no one was lacking drinks or food. 4. They let me drop off my hand made decorations on Friday during the rehearsal and set everything up and took everything down so I didn’t have to worry. 5. All my guests said it was the most fun they ever had at a wedding. I don’t regret choosing this venue as it was exactly what we wanted. I just wish they were better organized and had better customer service for the initial part.