It breaks both my wife’s and I hearts that we had such a disappointing experience here since we both wanted to support trailhead and the vision of using and supporting local vender...s. It also breaks our hearts because this venue has such wonderful reviews and it seems our experience was an isolated experience. We tried to reach out to trailhead first with our complaints, it’s been two weeks and they didn’t even have the courtesy to write us back or even acknowledge that they received our message. I’ll start with the positive, the venue is beautiful, I’ll give it that. Unfortunately that’s about it for the positive. Here are our concerns/complaints:
First, they violated many aspects of our contract. It was stated in the contract that they’d set up tables, chairs, and linens. They did set up the tables and chairs however they missed a few which caused us to have to find more tables since they (the staff) didn’t help. They also didn’t set up the linens. While I was getting ready, I had to go down to the venue to help set up and gather family to assist. This all happened when the staff was just on their phones. We were told they’d help tear down and would put all of our things at the front of the facility to gather either that night or in the morning. That also didn’t happen. We had to tear down and they told us we had to remove everything that night because no one would be there in the morning......so when my wife and I should have been enjoying our wedding night we were there tearing down. Our family eventually sent us to the bridal suite but when they were loading everything up, this lady looked at them, locked the doors at 11 and walked away without even asking if they were done. What makes this worse is per our contract, we had the venue until 12.
Speaking of staff, our experience with them during the event was horrible. Throughout the planning process, our main contact was Kaley. She was wonderful to deal with. We were under the impression that she would be there the day of the wedding, but she was not and we were not told this ahead of time. Instead we had Meranda who was nice enough, I’ll give her that, but the rest of the staff...RUDE. They we rude and short with everyone. There were many times when the staff would disappear from the bar. We had 150+ guest (some underage) and they’d just leave the bar. My wife had to wait for a drink multiple times....on her wedding night.
Last but not least, we rented both the bride and groom suites above the venue. The bridal suite was fine and exactly the one they showed us. The grooms suite however was not. We were shown a 2 bedroom 2 bath suite and were told that would be the one we’d get. Much to my surprise when we checked in, we were shown to a one bath studio. This proved rather difficult since most of my party was staying with me.
In the end, all of this probably doesn’t matter, but it does to me. My wife and I have gone through hell the past few years, my wife saved my life by donating a kidney to me, and what helped us get through all of this? Looking forward to that reception and knowing that we could celebrate life and our wedding with our family and friends. My wife deserved to have everything she wanted and to be treated with respect. I could not care less if the staff treated me like shit, but not my wife. She did NOTHING to deserve that.
In the end, we are married and that’s all that matters.