The Golf Club of Amelia Island

efore my wedding - there was confusion about another event happening at the same time as my wedding, and staffing changes on their end caused me to have to rearrange my ceremony set up the morning of the wedding and change plans with where exactly the photographer could shoot which is extremely upsetting and disappointing after paying all that money. Additionally, there are lots of hidden / unknown costs that aren’t discussed up front when I went to tour the venue and signed the contract. Save your money, avoid this mess, and go elsewhere.

y working had no idea that she had scheduled a tour with us. We decide to go with it and got the deposit paid. We get an email from the original event planner that she was resigning and she introduced us to the lady taking over. We scheduled a meeting with her to choose our menu. We get there with part of our bridal party for this scheduled meeting and this new event manager wasn’t there, and the people at the desk had no idea we were coming. We selected our menu without being able to taste anything, which is very uncommon. The week of, we’re told that she doesn’t work there, and now it was a 3rd person. The lack of communication was awful. I will say that the food ended up being delicious. The guy who was helping us ended up leaving about an hour or so before the event ended, and there are multiple items that we haven’t received back. The wait staff that was still working when we were loading up at the end assured us that everything was packed up, but it wasn’t. We got married on the beach and were told that there would be people at the golf club to direct our guests to the ceremony. Half of our guests missed the ceremony because no one in the golf club had any idea that there was even a ceremony happening. Overall, it was an unorganized, expensive experience. To give an idea, for 50 guests, we spent almost $10,000.

wn to do the tour and tasting, we found out the hard truth that this club is run down, dirty, not organized, and worst of all smaller than advertised and wouldn't work for our guest count. We lost our $1,500 deposit which they refused to refund or even work with us on a partial refund. We spent another $1,000 on rooms and flights to get there for the tour. This is $2,500 from our conservative budget that we will never get back towards our dream wedding. There was zero sympathy or customer service extended from management and they were happy to keep our money and say goodbye. We gave them ample opportunity to respond to our complaints and nothing ever made it past the sales rep, Sheridan. From the moment we arrived, there were big red flags. They don't even have a parking lot on site. They're massively overshadowed by The Ritz where all the attention and resources are. From that point, we met with Sheridan and drove to their oceanside venue where the pool and beach are. She did not have her key to let us into the venue. We had to ask a guest to let us in. The pool had chipped paint all over, the deck was dirty. They claimed we could host 125 guests here and there's NO SHOT that's possible. The indoor part of the pool venue is no more than a snowball stand. We asked to see the beach where we wanted to have the ceremony and Sheridan couldn't get access because again, she forgot her access card. She suggested we have a guest let us through and pointed towards the gate for us to give ourselves a tour while she stayed inside in the Air Conditioning. From there we drove back to the clubhouse to see the dinner space, reception venue and patio. Biggest issue here was the space being WAY TO SMALL! Again, they said they could easily have 125 guests and we saw absolutely no chance for this to happen. Maybe 75 people at most with room for DJ and catering. The room was also very old, not renovated and felt like an old clubhouse. It was dark and the lighting was minimal. The patio portion of the clubhouse was the only part that semi lived up to their claims. But still, not enough room for our number and so we simply had no choice but to cancel. The staff was unorganized, unprofessional and non sympathetic. I can't say enough how big of a letdown and disappointment this was. We literally flew down from Baltimore with such excitement and promise and as soon as we arrived, all of that changed. We had no choice but to quickly turnaround and plan an impromptu road trip the next day to see all the venues in the surrounding area. To this day, I have not heard back from any staff to follow up with me about our experience or contract. NOTHING. AT ALL. They clearly don't care and were glad to keep the money and trick the next couple that makes plans with them.