Watermark Marina

management of Watermark after I had already booked it. I was promised things would only get better, and a lot of things did, and some things got worse. Imagine my panic after Tina told me that she needed a million dollar liability insurance policy for every single one of our vendors. Vendors I already had contracts with, and who could not afford this policy. After I contacted them all. and had some of them back out. I called Tina panicking about my situation and she told me she had talked to her lawyer last week and only needed them from my vendors providing alcohol. Where was my phone call? email? NOTHING We rented the Watermark for the weekend and our bridal party stayed upstairs. There are four large suites and they each had keys in the door. Since one was our suite we took the key out the door and left it in the room. After the wedding we all went for a dip in the pool. and were having a great time until my husband and I realized we had been locked out of the room. We called Tina who told us this was not the first time this had happened, and showed up with a million keys, none of them worked. My new husband and I had to sleep in soaking wet bathing suits on a pull out sofa on our wedding night. Guests lock themselves out of rooms, it happens. There are 4 rooms upstairs, they should have 4 labeled spare keys, especially since this was NOT the first time this had happened!!! The icing on the cake was when Tina tried to charge me $100 key fee for coming to open the door, which never got opened! Needless to say I didn't pay it, but I still can't get over how inconsiderate it was to ask, and how irresponsible they were. They have done absolutely NOTHING to make it right or apologize for our ruined wedding night. Not happy.

some maintenance issues with management but most were taken care of prior to our event... my husband ended up doing the landscaping! We got married on the dock and it was BEAUTIFUL... exactly what I always wanted. Its so quiet here which is really hard to find in Wilmington. I wanted to get married on the water (river) but not be in the sand... perfect! We set up a huge tent on the lawn for our reception and overlooking the water at sunset was so romantic :) I highly recommend this venue!

any questions we had about reserving the hall. She even let us get in a day early to begin setting up!! That was a huge help. the one thing I found a little frustrating was that every inch of the place was an additional price. Because of my budget, we were only able to use the main dining hall. However!! We were married on a Friday which meant that the price was less than a weekend price!!