The Mansion

d we highly recommend The Mansion to others for any type of event. This family will do just about anything to make your day and your event as seamless as possible. Thank you again for everything!!

es the venue has to offer for our special day. We fell in love with its historic appeal and outdoor landscape. We also liked that we could choose all of our own vendors. They seemed very laid back and let us visit a couple times before the wedding date with our event coordinator with no issues. Everything leading up to the wedding day was smooth, even the wedding day itself. Even though it rained, it was still a pretty indoor wedding. HOWEVER, when you book your wedding date, you pay a $500.00 refundable deposit that should be issued back to you 3 weeks after your wedding if there were no damages. Ours was NOT given back. In fact, we didn’t even receive a letter explaining to us why. About a month and a half after our wedding date, I began leaving voicemails explaining the situation and requested a call back. This lasted over the course of 2 weeks. I even sent an email. No response. A week after those attempts, I received an email for the owner’s daughter. She apologized that we never received our check and she would make sure it got in the mail right away. My husband and I waited a week, still nothing. I called and reached the owner, Timmy. After he answered, I began explaining the situation. He wouldn’t let me continue, as he began yelling at me, saying “You left the venue completed trashed! The whole outdoor property had trach strung everywhere & INDOOR furniture was left outside!” I attempted to explain that he must have me confused with someone else, as we didn’t have our wedding outside due to the rain/ storms. He still proceeded to yell so I requested that he send pictures to me proving that I “trashed” his venue. He complied, and sent 3 pictures. The first picture was of a TRASH CAN in the kitchen that still had trash IN IT. The last 2 pictures were of the front porch. The rocking chairs were moved from one side of the porch to the other. (The rocking chairs were originally on the front porch, but they were moved to a different spot on the front porch.) THAT IS ALL! They kept $500.00 for one trash can that was missed during clean up and rocking chairs that were moved. Again, I attempted to call and email The Mansion after receiving the pictures explaining that there is no way they can keep $500.00 just for that. There were no damages! My coordinator had to plead with them for over 2 months just to get $300.00. We are STILL out $200.00. Needless to say, they are money hungry, and if I could go back I WOULD NOT BOOK MY WEDDING THERE!!!!!

tion and ceremony areas don’t require much to make look beautiful, because of all the strings of tea lights set up indoors and outdoors. All that was needed was to set out some floral centerpieces and other rustic decorations. Easy-peasy. =) The Mansion owners were kind to provide a list of reasonably-priced vendors familiar with the venue, which is how I found our caterer. However, I had to give this 4 stars because my mother and I didn't have a great experience with management the week of the wedding. It all turned out well in the end, as the owners were able to be accommodating. In short, The Mansion was still a perfect backdrop for our October wedding, and I would still recommend it to other brides on a budget, who are looking for a rustic and refined wedding ceremony and reception.