Mission Mill Museum

at could accommodate 300 guests without breaking the bank or requiring an outside wedding, which every Oregon bride knows is not the best idea in October. After two months of scouring the web every day, my mom found the Mission Mill Museum at the Willamette Heritage Center. We met with Laura, toured the grounds, and I fell in love. The grounds are picturesque and you'd never know you were in the middle of Salem. The Spinning Room was exactly what we wanted: big, easy to decorate, and inexpensive. I was able to execute my vision, and Laura and the rest of the staff were very easy to work with and made sure that our day was perfect. My wedding planner, decorator, and myself needed to visit a few times during the planning process, and Laura was very accommodating and was always available to help us figure out what we needed to. Due to timing issues, we were going to have to decorate the day of the wedding, but at our last meeting with Laura, we found out the day before was open for decorating and Laura gave us those extra hours for free. We had our ceremony and reception in the Spinning Room, with people already sitting at their tables during the ceremony, and thanks to half of our guest list not showing, we had more than enough room for mingling during dinner and dancing (we still would have had enough room even if all 300 people had showed up). Nearly every guest was in awe of their surroundings, partly because of the decor and partly because of the natural beauty of the mill. When you are there, you are surrounded with beauty and history, and I could not imagine having gotten married anywhere else. I highly recommend the Mission Mill Museum!

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were offering a promotion at that time. I was able to schedule everything fairly easily but then again I'm used to doing business in this town and my expectations were pretty low. Haha! However, staff is friendly and they followed my instructions exactly as to how to arrange everything. The other reviewer mentioned the inadequate PA system and that is true. However, my last walk-through that I arranged in August was with the facilities guy who knew a lot about the venue and he told us at that time that their speakers would not work well for music so we planned otherwise. We had no problem with access for guests, everything was open and ready to go. I just received my deposit back yesterday. Overall I was very happy with whole experience. The Dye House is absolutely beautiful, we did minimal decorating as it doesn't really need it. The guests enjoyed walking around the grounds as well. My weekend was fortunately sunny and warm for October.

ities coordinator" left much to be desired. She was hard to get ahold of, answered questions incorrectly and on the day of toured several groups through the reception area as it was being set up. We were told that the room had a sound system ready to use with an IPOD- turns out it was a PA system NOT meant for music!Also, staff kept locking gates behind people so guests were stuck out in the rain and had to walk out of their way to get back in. It was a *really* great price, and again, was very beautiful. Overall, I really wanted to give them a good review but the details really killed the day. Use the Mission Mill only if you have a Wedding Coordinator that can follow up on *everything* and make sure it is done correctly.