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The Rice Mill is a beautiful, romantic, unique venue that was perfect for our wedding!!! We had a sit-down dinner for about 185 people and we used both the indoor and outdoor space! The food was absolutely delicious!! I had the pleasure of working with both Jenna and Eve and they were both so kind, super helpful, and extremely knowledgeable! They made the whole planning process really easy! We planned the wedding from NY, so they were really accommodating and always responded to emails and questions promptly! They were great to work with! Overall, we LOVED the Rice Mill --- it is a FANTASTIC venue that helped make our wedding a truly magical day for us!!

Good Food Catering is wonderful! They provided the catering for our wedding on 04/21/18 at Historic Rice Mill. We got the Best of the Lowcountry menu and it was phenomenal! <3 Very 'Charleston' and got many many compliments on how great it presented and tasted. We didn't want to ordinary wedding meal menu, and Good Food definitely delivered on that. Highly recommended.

My Wife and I had such a remarkable experience here at the Rice Mill. Our coordinator, Jenna was first class from start to finish. We held not one, but two ceremonies celebrating an Indian wedding on Thursday and an American wedding on Friday. There was a lot of commotion, last-minute adjustments, etc. and Jenna and the ENTIRE staff at the Rice Mill adjusted incredibly. I also received multiple compliments from my guests regarding the food, but more importantly the customer service from the staff, and especially the bartenders. Jenna even came in on her days off to meet and work with us as we were from out of town. Truly an awesome venue, and experience thanks to these great people. HIGHLY recommended!

The Historic Rice Mill, Good Food Catering, and our INCREDIBLE day-of coordinator Eve were all perfection from start to finish. The venue is gorgeous, the food delicious, and the service exemplary. We were a bit clueless walking into our wedding planning and Eve was patient, communicative, and accommodating throughout the process. It's a bit of an undersell to call Eve our "day-of coordinator" because she was active and helpful from the day we called about viewing the venue all the way to after the wedding. Her creativity, warmth, and solution-focused attitude helped us create the perfect wedding day and to feel supported throughout the process. This venue is beautiful and incredibly charming - you won't have to do much to it. And the food is to die for. We did buffet and had 100 guests...there was more than enough space for everyone to sit. We embraced the low country cuisine and our guests were in awe of how tasty it all was. All in all, our wedding was such a wonderful experience. Our guests raved about it from start to finish and we were able to enjoy it ourselves. Eve, the Rice Mill, and Good Food Catering made it easy to create a personalized wedding day that left everyone feeling that they had experienced something special. I can't stay enough about how highly we recommend them!

I cannot be happier with our decision to use the Historic Rice Mill and Good Food Catering for our February 2018 wedding! We booked HRM sight unseen as we reside in Houston, just based on the gorgeous photos we saw online, then visited the venue a few months later to do our catering tasting and meet Eve, our day-of coordinator. Eve was amazing to work with - she was on top of every little detail and everything went off without a hitch! During our catering tasting she was accommodating, flexible, and provided great recommendations to help personalize our day. She was always quick to communicate about any and every question I had, and worked with my vendors one month out to create the perfect day-of timeline. I can't thank her enough for her assistance with our special day! I also can't write this review without mentioning the delicious food provided by Good Food Catering. You cannot go wrong with any of their delicious menus or food options. We did passed hors d'oeuvres during cocktail hour, and a surf and turf seated multi-course dinner. I had so many compliments on the food! Also worth mentioning is my maid of honor has a gluten allergy, and they were more than accommodating for her to ensure she had a dish she could enjoy as well. From the gorgeous view, to the exceptional service we received (from Eve's coordination down to the friendly wait staff), to the delicious food options, we cannot recommend the Historic Rice Mill enough!

Amazing Work! Jenna was wonderful to work with right from the start! We planned our wedding from out of town, so relied heavily on Jenna's recommendations. She responded to all emails quickly and thoughtfully. It's a magnificent venue (we received so many compliments on the view!), that is enhanced by the remarkable team that works there. Also of note - the food was outstanding. Many thanks to Jenna and her team for making our wedding easy and fun!

The venue was exquisite, especially to see the total eclipse of the sun on August 21, our wedding date. Jenna was FANTASTIC, we couldn't have had a better experience. She was always responsive, shared good ideas on decor, vendor options and had a calm about her that made me feel confident. I am from Toronto so I relied on her for early deliveries, long distance coordination, and meetings. She understood our vision and helped execute it into reality. Good Food Catering was excellent, the only dish we didn't love was the fish. The appys, the filet, and the chicken were outstanding! The ambiance was complimented by the eclipse and we had transformed this quaint old historic building into a romantic paradise. The team was also very accommodating; when we moved up the guest arrival time and opened the bar, it was not a problem. When we extended the wedding an hour the night of, it was not a problem. I would highly recommend this venue and team to help make your wedding day one of your best ever memories. Thank you to Jenna and the team for all your help.

The food was out of this world wonderful! We had a lovely tasting and was able to choose exactly what we wanted to eat for our rehearsal and wedding reception dinner. Our only complaint would be they served the wrong beer during our reception (one we unfortunately did not care for at all) and did not put forks out with our cake. My mother in law had to find someone to scrape up some forks so our guests could enjoy our cake. If you're looking for great food, Good Food is the way to go! They just need to iron out those fine details.

Virginia's on King did a FANTASTIC job for our rehearsal dinner!! I had booked our rehearsal dinner somewhere in Mt Pleasant but then we found out that our wedding was going to be the same weekend as the bridge run so I decided to move it away from the Mt Pleasant area! Because of that, I ended up booking Virginia's on King a little more last minute than I would have liked. I wanted somewhere that was affordable, easily accessible and in the heart of Charleston that my family and friends could be comfortable in. I hadn't tried the food at Virginia's on King except brunch one time a couple of years ago so I wasn't sure exactly what to expect. The food was great and all of our guests really enjoyed their meals with no complaints!! We had a guest with Celiac disease and they were VERY accommodating with no issues or questions asked at all! The service was amazing the night of our rehearsal dinner, they checked in with us several times to make sure everything was perfect. The bar setup was perfect and the room was a PERFECT size for about 40 guests! We were all comfortable, the decor was nice and very southern/charleston, and everything else was great! No complaints at all and definitely one of the more affordable options in Charleston! Would highly recommend!

The food was wonderful. I did passed hors d'oeuvres and stations for a day wedding. I also asked for special mini pies. I loved all the food but my favorite was the blueberry mini pie, and it wasn't even on their menu. They really work with you for special orders. I also really enjoyed the mac and cheese and lobster. Also their caprese salad was so cute and served on mini forks.

The Historic Rice Mill and Eve with Good Food Catering did their absolute best to make sure our wedding was everything we wanted it to be. Seriously the BEST food, smooth coordination and flow of our day, and great (fast) communication throughout the planning process. Eve made planning from out of town so easy. She also arranged all of our rentals, gave very straightforward and helpful advice, and even stayed super late after a wedding the night before mine to set everything up for our morning ceremony. Could not recommend Eve and the Rice MIll enough!!

Everything about the Historic Rice Mill was AMAZING! We held both our ceremony and reception on site, and we could not have asked for a more picturesque setting for both. The exposed brick, large windows and beautiful views were enough to sell us, but our wedding day (and all of the planning) were that much better when we met the amazing staff! We were lucky enough to work with Eve, who literally managed EVERYTHING - from the rentals and food to deliveries and day-of coordination. Eve met with us on several occasions to make sure everything was planned exactly as we wanted, she came through the day of when I forgot to drop-off important items, and she made it her mission to ensure that all of our guests were having a wonderful time on the night of our wedding. She was genuinely interested in making our night one that we would never forget, and we can't thank her and the HRC/GFC staff enough for all of their hard work!

I had a good feeling about the Rice Mill before our venue tours even kicked off, so it felt totally right when they emerged as the obvious frontrunner. We were working with a relatively modest budget and without question Rice Mill had far more to offer in terms of beauty and wow-factor than other venues in the same price range. Jenna and her team were fantastic to work with and all their help and guidance throughout the process was invaluable. The event itself went off without a hitch just a week after Hurricane Matthew. The Rice Mill Staff and Good Food Catering (their in house catering company) took such care to make it a beautiful event. Strongly recommended!

The food at our rehearsal was fantastic!!! Guests loved it. Venue only serves wine/beer which worked well for the rehearsal. Would be nice if there was handicap access for elderly guests but there is a restroom on the second floor. Communication with the on site coordinator could have been a little better but the venue printed me is for the guests and did come through in the end to make our night special. Thanks!

The food was wonderful - The service by Jenna (our coordinator), which included a poor and unprofessional attitude, was not. We were told setup was included on the contract (and had discussions about personal table runners and table number placement) until the day prior to the wedding, in which we were told certain items would not be placed. Her reply was something to the effect of "everyone knows caterers don't do that." I've never been married before and wasn't aware of typical expectations and relied on vendors for specific guidance. I was also confused because the contract stated they do all setup and because we had specific conversations about personal items that she said would be setup. We only had table runners, numbers and favors. I had to ask extended family to run over the morning of the wedding to take care of that. Then the caterers took our bakery items at the end of the reception and bottles of alcohol, which we purchased ourselves and provided. My mom had told Jenna she was going to grab bags to pack up the remainder of cookies (we had out as snacks), to find that they were gone 5 minutes later when she went back with the bags. Nobody claimed they knew where the cookies went. They also didn't serve both flavors of cake, or ensure that there was cake available at all times. We had many guests who didn't get a slice. They also threw out our favors that were on the tables while our guests were dancing. We personally bagged pralines with tags for our guests - not to have them thrown out! I realize not everything goes perfectly, and we expected a minor issue or two to pop up, most of which our guests I'm sure wouldn't realize, but what really stung was her attitude after we addressed our concerns. She disputed every detail and even went so far as to say the florist was talking poorly about me, which A) was completely unrelated and unnecessary and B) was completely surprising - we loved the florist and felt the whole process was easy with the florist! There were no apologies, just disputes and attitudes. With that said, the food was great - compliments to the chef! I recommended if you go with them to ask for someone other than Jenna as a coordinator.

When you book the Rice Mill, I believe you must use Good Food. It was easier for us at least, so we did and boy was it amazing! Note that the price I listed is also for full bar service for about 160 people. As for the food, it was some of the best food I've had a wedding. They have a full kitchen onsite so everything was hot and delicious. We had passed apps during cocktail hour of lobster mac & cheese, baby lamp chops & bacon wrapped shrimp and scallops. We then had two stations, one a full Italian station with chicken, shrimp, and 3 sauces and the second was a pork tenderloin with mashed potatoes and asparagus. YUM! It was soooo good and Eve at the Historic Rice Mill is so easy to work with. Highly recommend this company for one of your biggest wedding expenses.

I used Good Food for food and bar and would recommend to anyone interested. Everyone loved the bartenders! They were so kind, funny, professional, fast, and friendly! Good Food also gives you the option to have a mixer only bar which means you provide the alcohol while they provide the mixers and the bartenders. We were able to save tons of money this way - just be prepared to get the alcohol to and from the venue (if there is any left over).

Delicious food that everyone enjoyed! Eve gray was a pleasure to work with as well. Highly recommend the historic rice mill and good food catering.

We used the Rice Mill for both our ceremony and reception and loved it. Jenna was absolutely fantastic to work with. She was knowledgeable and very quick to respond if I had any concerns. The best part about the venue is the waterfront view. We got so many compliments on our selection of venue. I would recommend this venue to everyone.

My wife and I can not thank GFC enough for what they did to make our wedding night perfect. The flooding from Joaquin made our wedding a little more interesting as a lot of Charleston was blocked off from access due to flooded roads. GFC being one of the places blocked from access. I don't know what they had to do to get to their kitchen, but they braved the flooded streets to be able to provide the food and beverages at our wedding. This really meant a lot to us and not only that but the services and friendliness of the staff was excellent. On top of that the food was to die for. GFC worked with us up until the last few days of our wedding to make sure the menu was perfect. We appreciate everything they did for us and I will always recommend them to anyone that needs catering in that area. Sincerely Drew and Ally

Perfect venue for a reception of 100-150 people. With respect to other comparable locations in the Charleston area, this is the best value there is! The atmosphere was relaxed, the layout is comfortable, building has a classic look that needs little additional decoration (money saver!), and there is a beautiful marina view (great sunset pics!). The event staff was amazing and management was flexible and made the event easy to plan. The menu selection can't be beat! I had the wedding of my dreams and the Rice Mill in large to thank for it.

It started raining minutes before my ceremony and the staff got drenched moving chairs around. Thanks so much for working so hard for us! The view was unbeatable, the food was delicious and the service was perfect. Thanks for a great time!

Working with Jenna at the Rice Mill made the wedding a breeze. She was there to help every step of the way including the bid day. The ambience of the building was perfect and we didn't even need decoration because the site had so much character. Our guests loved the Rice Mill and are still raving about how beautiful it was on the waterfront. As well, the food was incredible. I couldn't have been happier with the whole experience. Thank you Jenna and the Rice Mill team!

Good Food Catering is the in-house caterer for our reception venue - The Historic Rice Mill. We were able to have a tasting with tons of options and narrowed down our choices. The final result at the reception was amazing! The food was delicious and we received tons of compliments on "the best wedding food"! The bar set up was great and no long lines! The presentation was also beautifully done and service was great. I highly recommend Good Food, they also do off-site catering!

We had our wedding at the Rice Mill on October 7th. It was absolutely perfect. Emily at the Rice Mill was amazing to work with. The venue provided the bar, took care of any rentals I wanted and had amazing catering from Good Food Catering. Emily was always quick to answer any questions I had and the day went perfect. We got a ton of complements on the wonderful food from Good Food Catering.

The Historic Rice Mill was our first choice venue to host our wedding reception! We loved the ambiance, and overall feel to the building. There are so many options and ways you can decorate and utilize this site. WE loved that you could have the dancing and music near the bar and have inside and outside places for people to talk and mingle. The food was amazing and our guests were not afraid to share that with us. The servers treated my husband and myself like royalty. They made us plates of food and brought us drinks throughout the night. The air conditioning was kicking for our august wedding and you wouldn’t have even known it was summer outside. It did rain on our big day but that didn’t hinder the photo opportunities or our guests from enjoying the outside covered area to eat and mingle. The Rice Mill is beautiful in photographs either as a back drop or just candid shots. It is pricey, but worth the money!! The only problems we had was our Rice Mill host left during the process so we had to transition to a new person, but it didn’t take her long to catch up to us and our planning. What I felt was the most helpful for me was being able to go over throughout the year and visit the site and ask questions.

Good Food Catering did an excellent job at my wedding. The food they offer is some of the best in South Carolina. They were very professional and catered to me and my husband's needs. We wanted to change some of the drink options for our open bar and they were more than willing to work with us. I would definitely recommend Good Food Catering and would use them again!

Thank you Good Food Catering for such amazing food at my wedding. The quality and presentation was the best in Charleston! Also, thank you for the special "Australian" meat pies. The perfect touch for my husband and his family.

Good Food was incredible! I worked with Emily who went above and beyond my expectations. She helped me with EVERYTHING! The entire staff was exceptional and polite and of course the food was amazing! We had a homestyle southern buffet with fried chicken, veggies and mac n cheese, along with a little mexican fiesta of shrimp and beef tacos. Their setup was beautiful and I would call on them for any upcoming events I have in the future. They went above and beyond the normal expectations of JUST being a caterer.

My wedding was at one of the most beautiful venues in Charleston (in my opinion)...The Historic Rice Mill. Not only is this venue unique, but the rustic charm of it is exactly our style, and set the most beautiful backdrop for our wedding. You cannot have a more perfect background for your photos than the beautiful harbor and boats on the outside, and the inside with it's exposed brick walls, wide planked wood floors, and beautiful tin ceiling. You do not need much decoration to made this place look exquisite...just some candles did the trick for us! I cannot stress enough the beauty here! The experience of planning and having our wedding here was also equally as wonderful. The staff were very thorough and helpful, and great to work with. The only glitch was that our rehearsal that was supposed to be there the evening before our wedding was not able to happen due to another event being planned...and we did not get this information until 4:30 the day of the rehearsal. That was easily rearranged on our part, but was an inconvenience. I would recommend this venue to anyone. Beautiful, pretty affordable, and easy to "glam up" for a wedding without having to spend much money, and the food was AMAZING! Good Food Catering is the catering company that works at the venue, and I have gotten an overwhelming amount of praise for the food. They had a lot of choices for us to pick from, and were willing to customize anything that we wanted. The "total cost of service" that I have selected included all of our food, and alcohol, and we had the ceremony here as well, so it includes that fee too. Overall, we had a blast, and the day was perfect!

They really worked with us. We are big foodies and our coordinator Susan really paid attention to all of our picky details and helped us create a menu that was perfect for us. They made sure everything the day of ran smoothly we actually had food leftover and they packed a basket for us to take with us-which we needed because there was no time to eat at our event.

Good Food Catering and Emily made our wedding day a day to remember. Every detail was perfect and everyone raved that it was some of the best food at a wedding they have ever had. I was so happy with everything! Emily was a huge help in helping us make all the small and big decisions. Thank you Good Food Catering for a wonderful wedding reception!

I mainly worked with Emily from Good Food Catering and I could not have been happier. She was organized, professional and easy to get a long with. The food and service was amazing during the reception!

The Historic Rice Mill was my dream venue for my destination wedding in Charleston. I had the pleasure of working with Emily and she was so helpful! She made everything incredibly stress-free for me (which was great, given that I'm based in St. Louis) and worked to make sure my wedding vision came to life. We had our ceremony and reception there, which was perfect. The food was AMAZING (the catering is in-house which is great since they're affiliated with some of Charleston's top restaurants). As was the service. Our guests loved everything, and couldn't stop commenting on how beautiful the venue was. I can't speak highly enough about the venue, or of Emily Weidle. My wedding was everything I could have wanted it to be.

We LOVED our catering at our wedding at the Rice Mill Building. They are really good about sitting down and figuring out the perfect selections for your event and will really tell you what they think. We worked with Emily Weidle and she was AWESOME!

AWESOME venue!! emily is the best and the venue is gorgeous...right on the water....everything about this place is perfect!

I worked with Emily. She went above and beyond my expectations. Everything was wonderful.

I visited many venues before deciding on the Rice Mill Building, I absolutely fell in love with the building the minute we walked in. The exposed brick and architectural elements of this beautiful old building really shine. Emily at GFC was amazing to work with, she was full of great ideas and helpful advice, tailored the menu to our preferences, and coordinated the day flawlessly. She even helped me work through the few un-foreseen details on the day of. The food portions were huge, and guests were raving about the location and the food. I had read several reviews saying the building can get hot, but for my April wedding the temperatures in the building were perfect, no worries there. I just can’t say enough nice things about GFC and the Rice Mill building!

Everyone is still raving about how delicious the food was and how impeccable the service was. We had stations set up and they never let the food run out! The wait staff and bartenders were friendly and efficient. I found Good Food Catering to be very flexible and our event coordinator, Emily, very nice and knowledgeable. They let us bring our own alcohol and mixers, so as far as beverages went, we only paid them for the bartenders (which was a HUGE savings). They coordinated all of our rental items and set up all of our tables, chairs, linens, and placed the centerpieces on the table. And at the end of the night, they packed up a basket with all the leftover food (there wasn't much!), our cupcakes, and two mini bottles of champagne, for my husband and I to take back with us! I think that little special touches like that, throughout the event, really set them apart from other catering companies. They compare with the more expensive companies, but at a much more reasonable price!

The food and serice was great!!

Everything tasted amazing!

We were so pleased to have had our reception at the beautiful historic Rice Mill overlooking Charleston Harbor!!! It was everything we hoped it would be and more. The space is wonderful--it really doesn't need much in terms of decorating, and the food--oh where do I begin? My husband and I both really like traditional lowcountry/southern cuisine and we wanted our wedding menu to reflect this. We had a buffet dinner that was exactly what we'd dreamed of--fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, shrimp and grits, cornbread, roasted pork, and I could go on. Everything was delicious. We worked with Catherine and she was fantastic in helping us design a menu that fit within our budget. She was also very flexible--we went back and forth on the menu and the bar package a few times and she was always very patient and helpful. She also had great advice about colors that work well in the space and she was able to set up all of our rentals for table linens, etc. We were totally pleased and can't recommend the Rice Mill enough.

The building itself is gorgeous and doesn't need much decorating. I loved the rustic, Charleston feel. Not to mention the view of the marina at sunset.

Fantastic venue for your wedding! It captures Charelston perfectly with it's location and unique atmosphere. The food was amazing, and the venue looked gorgeous for our wedding.

Good food catering have delicious foods and a great seletion!

As we rented the Rice Mill for our wedding we had to use Good Food Catering. I think we would have had them come anywhere however. All our guests commented on the flavors and variety of our menu. Great food. Only wish our taste testing was a little better to be honest. The wedding food way exceeded the tasting