Pine Lake Ranch Wedding & Event Venue

even keep his kennel in her office the night of!!! We booked the all-inclusive package for our wedding, which means that PLR hired the photographer, caterer, officiant, bartender, etc. However, the day of the wedding was met with multiple frustrations when it was supposed to be a perfect day. To start out our morning, we arrived a little earlier after I had confirmed with the wedding planner it was okay to do so to prep our hair and makeup for my bridal party, when we arrived they did not allow us to gain full access until 11 due to a tour they had at 10:45. In their guidlines, it stated that they can hold tours the day of an event up to 11, I was still seeing these people on the property around 12 ( which is after the time I was paying to even be there ). They do provide morning mimosas in the bridal house. I requested cranberry juice for mine, and they accepted this. When we arrived, there were only pineapple and orange. I'm allergic to pineapple, and I dislike orange. When I asked about cranberry juice, they said the open bar would have it LATER on for mixed drinks. The DJ that was hired by PLR informed my guests they could sneak pictures during my UNPLUGGED ceremony, which felt incredibly disrespectful. He also just kept my Spotify playlist on shuffle when I expected a DJ to mix songs and really feel the vibe. If I had known that was his plan, I could have been my own DJ. The centerpieces on the table were beautiful, but not what I had selected. Other than that, the reception hall looked great! When we went to the tasting for the caterer, Sierra Catering, everything was GREAT. My now husband and I raved about the food for months. At the wedding, the food severely lacked the taste we experienced at the tasting, and my cake did not meet expectations from the inspo I had sent over. I was only unable to see the cake until I was in the hall with my guests. For a length of time, it was difficult to locate the wedding planner, and I had to ask multiple times for her to display the cookies I had brought and she did not want to until RIGHT before the cake cutting, no matter how many times she was asked. When my dog (who is registered under their service animal guidelines) made his scheduled appearance, vendors were all extremely upset by his existence. Stormy was also not there that I was aware of, and the pup had to be kenneled in the grooms area. The bartender, Pour Boyz, told multiple of my guests that she had to be tipped prior to making their drink requests. Not to mention the sour face the bartenders held all night, I am really hoping that's not in the pictures. However, I will sing the praises of our photographer, Cabrera, he did a wonderful job capturing all the shots. Multiple guests told me that he was doing wonderful as well. I cannot wait to see the photos from the wedding! I also ended up getting my own officiant, which made things better, considering my experience with the other vendors. We ended the night early due to my headache and irritation with the day. I am extremely disappointed with the unfortunate events and I am sure I could add on to this list, but overall just happy to be married.

he lake in the background. In addition, the bridal house was a huge selling point for me as well. Unfortunately, I think the venue was nice but we had issues with the preparation and execution of our event. To make our wedding planning easier we opted for the all inclusive option because it came with a wedding planner that was supposed to be more than a day of coordinator. Unfortunately the wedding coordinator we were provided, 3LE Entertainment, ended up being more of a roadblock to planning rather than support. We were forced to go through them for coordinating several of our vendors so we didnt have any clear transparency into what was being communicated to our vendors and when or if communication was even occurring. Additionally on the day of our wedding, we arrived one site to only then find out the ac in the bridal house was broken. Ac issues happen, but i had been informed by a vendor this may have been a repeat issue that had occurred before as well. The issue wasnt resolved for over 5 hours while we were on site, which required us to have to pivot locations for bridal party hair and makeup plus change plans for many planned pictures. Also specifically we had big issues with using PLR Floral. We went with Christie since she worked with PLR so she should know the venue well and what was needed. Unfortunately she was very scattered and unorganized when we met with her, and she was hard to get a hold of as I guess she does multiple different jobs outside of being a part time florist. On the day of our wedding i arrived to find out she didn’t do the flower arrangements the way we discussed as a laid out arrangement, instead she put the arrangements in cheap green plastic containers without discussing options with me beforehand. I would have paid for different containers. Additionally the expensive arch pieces that was a huge part of our ceremony pictures did not ever get setup, we only ended up seeing 1 of the 2 arch pieces that we paid for. We also never could find, or was never provided, my mom’s dedication bouquet that we opted for instead of a toss bouquet. We had to borrow our matron of honor’s bouquet just to have something to show my mom during the dedication but she never got to take one home. Wish we were provided that so my mom could have had that keep sake. I tried to work with Stormey on these concerns as well as a few other issues we experienced, unfortunately it’s been over a month with no response.

e specific vendors in mind for your day. All the vendors were so helpful in bringing our wedding together and the PLR staff were incredible at helping to plan and coordinate. We believe their day of coordination is invaluable. We would 100% book this venue again on that aspect alone. The venue itself is gorgeous and every guest we talked to was blown away, not only by the tree but the entire venue. Everyone loved the food, drinks, cake and photo booth as well. If you are considering booking here, we say do it!

on area! The spaces for getting ready were perfect for my group and the day could not have been better!