The Vintage Venue

The Vintage Venue is a beautiful location. The ceremony and indoor reception area are great if you are looking for a rustic look in your wedding. Although the venue provides an all-inclusive deal, there are some aspects of the business that you should be aware of before making a commitment. Due to personal reasons, I had an unusually long contract time of a year and a half so I was able to witness more than one normally would. Within a year and a half, the venue let go, to my knowledge, 3 kind hearted women, one of which would have been my day of coordinator. When it came time to finally have my wedding, my day of coordinator was one of the managers, Ada. When I first met Ada at the Loveland Venue she was very sweet and honest with me on how to achieve my dream wedding within a budget. Once she became my new wedding coordinator, I began to see a different side of her. When I would speak with her, she would speak poorly of the previous employers. My husband and I experienced the loss of my mother in law resulting in us re-scheduling the wedding. Her client relationship skills are not the best, because she forgot about the circumstance and joked about how much better the wedding would have been had we not re-scheduled. When we reminded of the reason, she showed no sympathy. As for the decorations, I was told several times that the venue staff would be taking care of everything the day of so long that I brought all the decorations I wanted the night before. I created a large document with pictures explicitly explaining how I wanted certain parts decorated and organized all the decorations into bins that were color coded and numbered. The document was reviewed by Ada and myself 2 weeks prior to the wedding and I was thanked for the organization making her life easier on the day of. I politely asked to at least have the inside decoration completed by 3:00 for photographs and the outside by 4:00. I was told this would not be a problem. On the day of the wedding, I walked into a venue that was not completed and Ada was in her office. She told my mother that they would not be responsible for any outdoor decorations and if any of the decorations that I provided were made of glass, they would not be responsible for placing. My final heartbreak was when I found out that she had taken credit for a sentimental arrangement that I had thought of for my mother to arrange for my mother in law. She stated that I had asked her for help to come up with something special so, she wanted to do something special. All this to say, the venue itself was not the issue of the day, my husband and I had an amazing time aside all the chaos and all the decorations that the florist and my mother completed looked beautiful. My advice before committing to The Vintage Venue would be to hire your own day of coordinator at the least. If you are unable to, make sure every promise made to you outside of the contract provided is given to you in writing. The vendors that come with the venue are a good option if money is an issue, but be aware that the DJ they have hired, although a kind man, is not the best DJ out there. He will play every song from beginning to end, and although my family stayed on the dance floor for the full 4 minutes of the ChaCha slide, I would have preferred to listen to more of the songs on my playlist. The food was great. The cake vendor, E&M Sweets, working with the venue did not disappoint.