Museum at Prairiefire

-Rex display is an awesome attribute. Our guests (we had some kids) loved the TV showing the dance floor and the dinosaurs that would come across the screen. (The T-Rex eats you.) The Museum is easy to work with. They have tables and chairs that we had access to, along with high tops, ancillary tables for the buffet, cake, gifts, candy bar, dj, photobooth, ice cream vendor, etc. They also did not charge us for extra vendors. All in all, it was phenomenal. I would highly recommend it. The negative is that we felt the event coordinator misled us in the beginning and just said all the right things to win our contract. She was very accommodating in the beginning. (Background: The museum is open on Saturdays from 10 am - 5 pm. Our ceremony was at 5 at a church down the street. Our vendors only had from 5-6 pm to set up. To give them more time, we did a cocktail hour on the terrace from 6-7. Her idea so that was wonderful.) However, she said she would assist with set up. I could give her a picture of how I wanted the candy bar display to look and she would take care of setting it up. She would handle the receiving of the flowers and placing of the centerpieces, again if I provided a picture. There would be a fee associated with her services (about $200). We were sold. At our second meeting about 3 months out from the wedding date, her tuned completely changed. She doesn't do any labor. We had to have someone else do all of that set up. She said the $200 she was referring to was to pay the valet company to set up the table and chairs. (I took very meticulous notes during our initial meeting as well as had 6 other people with me - my groom, sister, mom, dad, his mom and his sister - and we all had it that she would help us.) We scrambled to find a family friend who could act as our event coordinator and be on site to help facilitate our vision while we were getting married. We also worked with our caterer and bartenders, all of which was provided by Garozzo's Italian Restaurant. (They were so awesome. I cannot rave enough about them. Tonya is amazing! But, that is another review!) Garozzo's was extremely helpful and took over a lot of that for us. Looking back there were only minor hiccups along the way, the actual event was stunning. I only wish the Museum coordinator had been more upfront with us about her role. Her lack of involvement would not have changed our minds in using the museum; it would have prevented a lot of unnecessary stress.