Rhodes Ranch Golf Club

We recently got married at Rhodes Ranch and if I could, I would give it 0 stars. I should have known from the review someone else posted that it was going to be a nightmare. When I first looked into Rhodes Ranch I was working with Celeste, and she was great at first and then when the pandemic happened it was like pulling teeth to get her to respond to my emails. I found out she was on furlough but was also responding to emails. I kept asking if our date was still available and she kept saying no. I wasn't sure if she was saying they weren't doing weddings because of the pandemic or if our date really wasn't available. Finally, around October 2020 I called the golf course directly and ended up speaking with Dave the Director of Food & Beverage. He told us our date was available for the ceremony and for the rehearsal dinner. He told me that the ceremony normally would cost $2,500 and when i told him that I couldn't see us paying that amount for a 20-minute ceremony he dropped it down to $1,000. He emailed me after we spoke and told me he was going to reserve the indoor space for 50 people for our rehearsal dinner for August 5 and the ceremony spot for August 7. Around April 2021, I received an email from Celeste saying she was back part time and wanted to go over some information. At that time, she also told me they were adding bistro lighting to the ceremony spot, and we could now have an evening ceremony. I asked if there was a way to remove them because I feel in love with the view without the bistro lights. She told me no and they were permeant. The first week of May my fiancé (hubby now) and I decided to go down to the golf course to feel out the weather in the ceremony spot since we were getting married outside in August. That is when I saw the bistro lights and pretty much lost it. From my conversation with Celeste, she told me they couldn't be removed so I started freaking out because I didn't want to get married with those god-awful lights above us. When I went into the club house both Dave and Celeste were there, and I told them I hated those lights. I got so upset because I was being told by Celeste that they couldn't be remove and then Dave told me he would look into getting them removed for our wedding. Dave ended up emailing me that week saying he can have the lights removed but not the poles. They kept saying the poles were welded in, which they weren't. Even our photographer said it was easy to remove the poles. Since the whole bistro lighting situation happened everything went downhill from there. I felt like they didn't care about our wedding because we weren't paying the full amount and they were mad that they had to take down the lights. Even Dave made comments that it was going to cost him $1,000 to remove the lights.

I need to warn anyone considering Rhodes Ranch for their wedding. They used to have a coordinator, Kristen Raftery, who was great, well organized, patient, compassionate--the list goes on. She left Rhodes Ranch sometime after I got married, and now there is a man, Dave Williams, in charge of food and beverages, that is absolutely horrible, horrendous, heinous (all the negative h words that exist). I spoke with him because some time after we got married, we realized that 72 of our bistro light bulbs that were used at the wedding (brand new when we arrived, never used since), were taken after they dissembled the decorations (because only their staff put up and take down everything), and he states he has no accountability for what happened and basically implied that I am lying. To replace the lights is $80. $80. A huge golf/country club like this isn't able to help pay for some lights that were probably misplaced BY THEM? Like $40 would be fine. $20 even. But show that you care about protecting people's belongings and the fact that they are trusting you with these things for one of the most important days of their life. But washing your hands of it?? Unacceptable. I asked Kristen for help and she directed me toward Dave and literally said, "I'm sure they'll rectify it 😊." Smiley face and all. Boy was she wrong!! Let's just hope you don't use this venue and lose something truly important to you, like an heirloom, because at least all I lost was something replaceable. I just don't think it's worth it since they clearly have proven they won't do what it takes to make things right.

Where do I begin? Rhodes Ranch was seriously the perfect place to have our wedding. Celeste, the wedding planner there, did an amazing job at giving us everything we wanted. We wanted a way less traditional wedding with a consumption bar and passed appetizers. We even added a taco bar. We customized so much for a great price. Celeste has so many wedding decorations to work with and add to our day to save money. She really did make everything come together so beautifully without any stress. My husband and I plan to have anniversary parties there every year now.

Where do I begin? This venue was everything we could have wanted and then some. We are from the Chicagoland area but wanted a Las Vegas wedding near my new mother-in-law. We found Rhodes Ranch by recommendation, and we had no idea how lucky we were! From the very beginning, Celeste made the process so seamless. She worked with us from afar to create the non-traditional taco bar reception of our dreams and helped us to arrange a rehearsal brunch at the venue for the day before the wedding. The quote we received was more reasonable than any other location we priced out and it included not only incredible service but access to decor and extras that we did not have to purchase and send over. On the big day, everything was PERFECT! The tables looked straight out of my imagination, the ceremony space was gorgeous, and the “extras” were placed perfectly. The staff were so attentive and made sure that my husband and I had food and drinks while we took pictures and mingled with our guests. Celeste also connected us with our DJ, photo booth, and recommended a hair and makeup team that totally nailed it. All in all, we couldn’t imagine a more perfect location for our wedding or a more professional execution.