Stone Mountain Lodge and Cabins

The staff at Stone Mountain Lodge was always accommodating and helpful to us throughout the process and also to our guests during their stay at the cabins, almost a month after the event our guests still speak fondly of the staff. Plus they were able to recommend great vendors which facilitated the process and relieved a lot of stress. The location of the ceremony is conveniently in walking distance from the reception area. Nestled cozily in the mountainside, this venue offers the perfect touch of nature and was just what we dreamed of for our special day. The scenery is gorgeous and pictures do not do it justice! Ashley at Stone Mountain Lodge helped us make the event everything we dreamed of and more.

ue was perfect for us! You really don’t need to decorate much since the property is so gorgeous. The staff truly cares about every little part of your big day! They even drive you, your spouse and photographer up the ridge in their at. To get pictures of the mountain range! Shout out to Casey for making our day better than we could have imagined! Everything about our day was perfect, and I couldn’t have imagined a better place to have our wedding!

tel rooms/ cabins. Everyone loved it, and working with Ashley was a breeze. The rooms are being updated and all of our guests were happy with their rooms. No problems at all with our day, and in fact it was perfect :)

mprovements in a short amount of time: room updates, grooming of the nature surrounding and within the venue, a new dance floor, etc. The staff were incredibly friendly and helpful as well. Worth every penny! Everyone loved the venue and are still commenting on it, months later!

cabin was dirty and had brown water coming out of the faucets and a very unplesant smell. I would advise any bride and groom to choose another venue, you'd be better off having a ceremony at a motel 8.

hough she's not a "wedding planner," Ashley helped us out so much from making decisions about the tables to our rehearsal to day-of decisions...she was flexible, efficient, smart, and had a great attitude. Also, the bridal tent was a great perk and we had so much fun getting ready! I really felt like I was able to make this wedding just how I wanted it: no frills, just a beautiful celebration in a beautiful place with great people and food and drinks. If that sounds like what you're looking for, I'd highly recommend checking out SML.

ower outage (not their fault), and they went above and beyond to help keep the party moving until the city could get the power back on. Loved them, and we look forward to going back for a getaway night on our anniversary.

usiness had been sold and was under different management. Thus far new management has been terrible. There is little to no communication. No one returns emails or phone calls. The only time I get a response is when the event planner needs something and if I try asking her anything other than then what she has for me she ignores me and doesn't respond whatsoever. In fact, she gave away the date I requested for a walk through and so now I have to take off more time for work to do this on another day. I actually don't even know if the wedding is going to happen at this point because they haven't even received the final payment. I've called and emailed trying to give them money to make sure we still have our reservation and they still won't respond. Take your money elsewhere and hopefully you'll have less stress planning your wedding than I am. Update 07/01/2016 We discovered the reason they were avoiding our calls and emails. They double booked our cabin for the night before the wedding to another wedding party. The owner said there was no solution to it and they didn't know what to do. I am livid, how long were they going to wait to break the news? The day of? They offered no assistance in finding new accommodations or consolation, not even an apology. We paid the remaining balance on our contract today sans cabins for the bridal party. We are in the process of securing other accommodations. They seem to be blissfully unaware that they breached a contract and that we have legal recourse if we choose.

help from getting all my paperwork done to my walk through to rehearsal! Then finally me walking on the big day! I would definitely recommend this place to others! The rooms need some updating but that really wasn't on my big list of priorities for my wedding day. Over all 4 stars bc the rain and the shape of the room we stayed in !

view the mountains.

resent or an issue for us. I’m pretty sure all the damage has been repaired by now and the grounds are a picturesque setting for a ceremony and reception. Because they don’t have a lot of people staying there outside of weddings, their office hours for phone calling is a bit more limited. I preferred to deal with email but we never had a problem getting them on the phone if we needed to (because we looked up and wrote down their hours). The cabins are cute! If you’re the sort of person who wants 5 star hotel amenities (like room service), maybe you should look elsewhere but if you like log cabins, they’re really nice. The bathtub in one of the cabins had some issues with not immediately draining, which presented me with an interesting situation while I was dying my hair black (didn’t want to stain my toes or feet) but overall it was a minor thing. I wasn’t in the lodge rooms myself but some of my friends were and when I poked my head it, it seems cozy. Again, not 5 stars but the convenience of having rooms on location so no one has to drive after drinking is far more important to me than room service or an on-site gym (there is a pool however). Convenient again was the ability to rent linens directly from them. We didn’t have to set them up or take them down and they looked great! If you wanted, you could rent an Oskar Blues bus, again making sure all your guests are safe and happy. We had the venue for the entire day (big plus) from 11am to technically 11pm (but essentially they let us party until midnight). We could rent sound systems, lighting systems, extra tents, and more. It was a one-stop shop and that was awesome. The only things I’d say that anyone really needs to be aware of is that cell phones don’t work up there. No service for anyone. You have to go back to the days of preplanning and make sure that people know how to get there (it’s very simple) because they can’t call on the way. There is wireless internet but it’s a tad slow. Because they give out the venue to couples for an entire day, you can’t book your rehearsal date until less than a month from your wedding. When you want to get all your ducks in a row, that’s a little unsettling to have to wait so close to the date but you don’t have to worry about someone else running a rehearsal the morning or afternoon of your own booking. Thanks to Erika (our coordinator) for her professional and prompt attention before, during, and after the event. There’s a ton of ways to make this place a budget friendly venue or an everything-you-ever-wanted-that-money-can-buy venue. We found it to be a great value for our money. Highly recommend.

a few of their bridal events where we were able to meet and hire both our caterer and florist. STM offered a payment plan, which not a lot of places do, which we spread out over 8 months to make our dream wedding possible and more affordable. We knew we were taking a risk having an outdoor wedding in October, but Carrie set our mind at ease when we talked about an alternative plan, which luckily we didn't have to use. We used very little decorations at our reception because the inside of the tent is already so beautiful with the drapery and the lighting and the outdoor garden area and ceremony area are beautifully decorated by the venue and by nature. The grounds are very well kept and the resident ducks are friendly and non intrusive. We were also able to rent out all of the cabins and lodges the night of our wedding, which was convenient for our guests to have a place to stay after the reception. The cabins are clean, well heated, and creatively decorated. Our cabin, 18, was the music themed cabin and was perfect for our first night together as husband and wife. If you're looking for a stunning setting, great people/staff, and an affordable venue for your wedding, I would HIGHLY recommend Stone Mountain.

staff members took over and everything still went very smoothly. I highly recommend getting married at Stone Mountain.

Our event coordinator there went above and beyond the call of duty to make sure everything fell into place and was perfect for us. The whole staff is wonderful and the property is gorgeous and very well kept and we couldn't imagine our day anywhere else! I would recommend booking all the lodge rooms and cabins for a good sized wedding as we did, as you will get all the privacy you could want. P.S. The ducks are the best!

e wedding. My family was trying to book rooms there and would leave messages without them getting back to them. My family ended staying elsewhere. I called and emailed them with venue questions for my vendors, without them getting back to me as well. When it became crunch time, it was as if no one worked there, which made my stress as a bride very high. I had to travel one hour and walk into their office in order to get my questions answered. Previous to the wedding, they told me I could have flower petals on my aisle and told me to clean them up the best I could after the ceremony. I asked if I should bring a rake or lawn vacuum and they said it wasn't necessary. The night of my wedding instead of enjoying my reception, they had my dad picking up every last petal and threatened to take my deposit because of the petals. I ended up having a beautiful wedding, but I am very disappointed in their communication and service.

. You can have every part of the wedding here so it makes the day easy. You get the whole day so you can take alot of time setting up (don't feel rushed). The staff was very helpful, always answering my questions and willing to work with us on details. They let us hang things from the trees and inside the tent. The floor in the tent probably needs replacing soon, but it was just old green carpet, nothing terrible. We easily fit 100 people in and my friend was able to do 140 at hers here. I put 4 stars for value only because they don't have to set anything up but chairs and tables, and have a coordinator there all day so I thought it could have been a little cheaper. Not much less than $5000 is a little much for just renting the place for a day and that little bit of set up. The bridal tent was nice and it does have an air conditioner. They allow a big range of vendors (they do have a list otherwise there is a small fee to bring someone new in). They can't sell alcohol there, so either the caterer has to serve it or you buy it before and have it brought, but you can't do a cash bar if you were hoping to (buying it from a liquor store before is a very cheap and great idea)!

few of our guests’ rooms and left the remaining balance to be paid at check-in. The day after our wedding, our credit card was charged for 3 extra rooms. The first was for a room paid for in full by our friend. Stone Mtn. refused to issue a refund to us, so my friend had to dispute the charge with her credit card company and pay us the difference. The next was a double charge for the room my husband and I stayed in. The third was a charge for a room we never booked. When I asked Stone Mtn. to address the discrepancies, they argued back and forth with me for 3 days. They didn’t know who stayed in which room. They did not have their records straight. I sent them confirmation emails and credit card statements until they begrudgingly issued me one refund and told me to dispute the rest with our credit card company. The person handling the books wouldn’t take responsibility for these mistakes and mostly just placed blame on us. We chose Stone Mtn. because the venue allows outside caterers. We had restaurant friends who offered their help. Carrie okayed this, but we kept running into licensing and insurance issues with the event coordinator. They didn’t seem to be on the same page with this policy. We should have asked more questions before we signed a contract. There was a lot of back and forth before we settled on one of their preferred caterers. Setting up for the wedding, we had a hard time getting help from the staff. The vacuum we asked for barely worked. We asked for a new one but it never came. We were told a ladder would be available to hang lights. The only ladder available was an extension ladder. We made it work but it wasn't very safe. The event coordinator seemed to be the only staff member available and had a lot on her plate. She set up all of the ceremony chairs by herself. She was giving tours of the grounds to potential clients. She was not present during our ceremony rehearsal, which made her attempt at directing the ceremony procession inadequate. We paid $200 for two hours of clean up time (I am told we were the first and last wedding to be offered this service). The following morning, our decorations were in shambles. Delicate items were thrown into trash bags and left on the floor. There were items missing, broken and left outside. When a friend called to ask about her lost sunglasses, the staff member informed her that the venue had hired temporary staff to clean up our decorations, and that they couldn’t be responsible for personal items left. When we were ready to leave in the morning, the 500 feet of string lights that we purchased and spent three hours installing were still hanging. The staff suggested that we leave them up for the wedding that day. They clearly did not want to take the lights down. We agreed to come retrieve the lights later in the week. When we came back a few days later (from Denver), the lights were still not down. Carrie promised to purchase new lights and mail them to us. She did, but she only replaced maybe 2/3 of the length of string lights we purchased. The staff was friendly but not very helpful. They just didn’t seem to have a good grasp on what was going on. Our wedding was beautiful but it could have been much easier.

o great because we could stay on the property in the cabins and the hotel rooms after our wedding event-which all of my guests really appreciated.

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he was gone and no one ever called to let me know the switch in management. At this point, it became harder to get ahold of anyone in the office. I would call multiple times a day and get no answer and I was lucky to get a call back in a day or two after leaving a message. Eventually, my now husband and I drove there to sit down with Carrie and get all my questions answered. This is when she told me that we did not have to hire an event planner because herself and her staff would be available the day of our wedding, and their event coordinator would be there through the ceremony to make sure everything ran smoothly. On the day of my wedding the girl who was supposed to be available for questions and to help us get everything set up had a family emergency and left the property. I think I may have seen her once the entire day and she never approached myself or my family to see if we needed anything, or to let us know that she was leaving. The general manager, who told me after the wedding that she was in the office until 4:30 that day, never came out to remedy the situation. She also left without saying anything to anyone. Luckily, the officiant I hired was able to move our ceremony along with no problem, but if I had relied on Stone Mountain as they said I could, I don't know how it would have turned out. At the end of the reception, the one staff member that was on site to close the tent up told my sister that although contractually we were supposed to have our stuff out of the tent by midnight, we could drive our cars down to the tent in the morning to pack up boxes of decorations, as long as it was before 9am. We did just that, and then received an email a few days later saying we would not get our security deposit back because of this. Obviously, we would have cleaned our stuff out if the staff had not told us it would be ok otherwise. It has now been 2 weeks since our wedding and both my mom and I have been trying to call them to discuss this situation and they will not answer or return our messages. They were the most unprofessional people to work with, and I would not recommend this place to anyone. Oh, and to top it off you pay for 5 star rooms and you get 1 star rooms. We enjoyed our wedding day immensely, but no thanks to the staff!

ur guests were a little but of a mess from the get go. We pre paid for all of the rooms for our guests to reserve and then pay the property direcly at check in and we would be reimbursed. We had to keep revieing this with them about 5 different times as they kept telling our guests all the rooms were already taken care of. During the wedding our room was not ready prior to the wedding as promised so we had to each get ready in other people's rooms which was chaotic and awkward. We also had to store all the bouquets in a different cabin which then the key didn't work to open that they gave us before the ceremony and we didn't get to use any of the flower bouquets. There was also no one in sight at th entire property for the entire wedding and no one even checked in with us when we arrived or went over anything with us or gave us any contact if we needed something. Another one of our friends keys also didn't work to her cabin and she ended up having to share with someone else. All in all, a beautiful and convenient place but they really need some help in the service area.

whole day. Warning though- there is no cell phone service there but I LOVED that! If you are getting married there, there is a hiking trail behind the facility that goes to the top of a hill and is a great spot for photos. I would also recomend getting ready in a cabin and bring extension cords. We coulnd't have been happier though with Stone Mountain. LOVED IT!!!!!!

ause of the on-site outside pool that we could use to entertain guests during their stay and while we were setting up for the wedding. The day before we were to be up there, my mom calld to make sure the pool had been filled (they had assured us a month before that it would be). They informed us that the pool was NOT filled and that it would not be filled by the time we got up there for our weekend stay and our wedding. They did however inform us that we could use their "slip n' slide" that they had purchased in leiu of a dip in the pool, or that we could take the children tubing down the river that was right across the street. For some of the children, those might have been decent alternatives, but we also had a few toddlers who would NOT have been able to utilize those. When we got up there, they had ONE hose leading into the pool, which was Obviously not sufficient to fill it. I could go on about the headache this caused, but there is more to tell. The rooms were dirty and there were bugs ALL over the rooms. Extra "hidden" costs were tacked on at every opportunity. They were not cooperative and tried to CHARGE us to use the grassy park area for our rehearsal. Although there were MANY headaches that put a damper on many of our festivities, Stone Mountain was a Beautiful place to have our wedding - having everybody around to spend a couple of days celebrating, instead of coming to a venue and leaving after the ceremony (and after drinking), was a wonderful way to do it. I would recommend Stone Mountain, but ONLY after asking all of hte important questions, reading the FINE PRINT on the contracts, and keeping as much open communication between the staff and yourself as possible in order to avoid disappointments.

ay and not have to be rushed to get in and get out. The staff was friendly and flexible. Gabbi did a great job with making sure everything was just the way I wanted it. I have heard some of my guests say it was the best wedding they have been to and have heard only positive comments from friends and families. I highly recommend Stone Mountain Lodge!!!!

istently misspelled my husbands name and even misspelled it on the blackboard that was out by the road despite us correcting them in the past. A little disappointed but thanks to the beautiful grounds and weather the wedding was perfect.