I have planned several weddings, and multiple formal events, this venue was incredibly difficult to work with. The Venue itself is lovely and picturesque. It serves the purpose of... an event space and wedding venue well. The problem stems from their consideration of the Bride/bridal party, planner, coordinator and in my case Mother of the bride, time. After planning multiple events it had never occurred to me that we would not have access to the venue until 1 PM the day of the wedding, giving us a shocking 3 hours to decorate the ceremony area, and reception space whilst simultaneously getting ready for the wedding? The beautiful bridal suite the show you? Not yours until 1 PM either, hope you weren’t planning on getting ready there. If you do want to get dressed and take pictures, you can pay EVEN MORE. Every place I’ve ever contracted with for a large event has allowed us to drop iff décor the night before if they didnt have an eventor first thing(6AM) that morning and use the bridal suite from 6-7 on, through the entire evening. Not Maidon du Lac. You have to clear out of the grooms and brides room as soon as you leave for the ceremony! Like pack up everything and have a friend take it to your car, or be ok with it wandering around the property by a random employee, because you will not be allowed back in, bride want to change into another dress? Guess its the bathroom at the event space?
Why? Everything this venue does from not letting you in until 1 to kicking you off property at 10 is designed to make THEIR LIFE EASIER. Not yours, the brides day is not made to be easier, the grooms, the parents, the guests, literally 100% is to cut their time investment in the couple and get you in and out with minimal effort, we were rushed, we were not at ease, and we were not taken care of, nothing was made to make this a better experience . Do you want a rehearsal at the venue? Not unless you want to pay extra and ONLY have it on Thursday in special time blocks. When I rented this That was not mentioned, and they were completely unwilling to work with me even though I was very specific that the entire wedding party (including bride and groom) were out of state, and wouldn’t be here until Friday at the earliest, zero interest in working around our schedule.
Positively nightmarish.
And since they charge 3% for credit cards I paid by check, mailed one payment to their office, they obviously know the mail is slow sometimes, they called complaining it wasn’t there, demanded I come pay it or lose my deposit… I drove the hour to their office (not the 30 minute to the venue because who knows why) wrote another check, asked them to not cash the check if it does show up… and guess what? It showed up 3 days later and? They cashed it. Venue is pretty, management is nightmare, oh, and even with the venue not opening to 1 for a 4:00 wedding, they were late, opened at 1:10.