Millsite Lodge

Beautiful setting, wonderful food, and a fantastic family business. Overall, we rate our experience as a good one. If you upgrade to specialty linens, be aware that the color ivory is more of a buttercup yellow and not a true ivory. On the eve of our wedding, we saw the color of the linens for the first time and they were very yellow rather than an off-white. It was not a neutral color at all, and it clashed with the coral on the tables and the ivory chair sashes in a sour way. Millsite Lodge did a nice job quickly finding white table cloths to cover our tables on the morning of the wedding, because I refused to put a clashing yellow on my tables (my colors were peach, pink, and coral). I did have to downgrade from linen napkins to paper napkins so that we could have white napkins; however, I still paid for the linen upgrade and did not get any of that money back. There were a few hiccups in communication. A week prior to the wedding, I discovered that the cheesecake bar hadn't been ordered by The Colonnade. I am thankful that I am a micro-manager going over all the fine details carefully--no dessert for my guests would have ended disastrously. That was definitely a bit of unnecessary added stress along the way. Just a few days before the wedding, I discovered that a flavor we selected for our smoothie bar was never actually available... and I'd already had menus printed. I had to bear the cost and time of having our menus re-printed. Millsite Lodge recommended a DJ for our reception called Five Stars. This DJ played a huge part in ruining our special evening. The wrong song was played when I came down the aisle. The Bride & Groom's first dance song was "mixed" and the voice in the song sounded like Minnie Mouse on drugs. The DJ didn't follow our timeline and played the Groom/Mother dance when the Bride/Son were on the dance floor. We did a panicked switch. We tried to do the Bride/Son dance again, and he played the wrong song (and it was country music!). The wedding coordinator from Millsite asked me if I wanted a redo on the Bride/Son dance because it was so horribly done the first time (he even announced it was a Father/Daughter dance and my dad wasn't even at the wedding...awkward!). I told the wedding coordinator we would like a redo... and it never happened. There were more issues but this is a Millsite review. Again, Millsite isn't affiliated with this DJ, but I never would have trusted this DJ's services or hired them without Millsite's recommendation. My wedding was $25,000 in total and he came pretty darn close to ruining it. Yes, we were celebrating our love, but music is a huge part of that celebration. Even as we walked down the aisle at the ceremony, the music (again, the wrong song) was also crackling loudly with static on the speakers. Be aware of the unpredictable Ohio weather when you decide to go for an all-outdoor wedding. We had discussed the rain plan 7 months prior, thinking "that won't happen to us" and it almost did happen to us. It caused 10,000% stress. If you book this property and there is a 30% chance of rain, you have to be okay with your ceremony under the pavilion... a 30% chance of rain in the state of Ohio isn't hard to get on any given day. I did, however, still get married under the trees after a lot of behind the scenes juggling by Millsite moving my ceremony back & forth once the surprise rain passed. Overall a good experience. This is a beautiful property run by good people.