Where to begin! As a professional event manager, I can easily say that my wife and I could not have asked for a better experience from Westfields Golf Club.
To start, the venue wa...s not only exceptional (and just the right size for our medium-sized wedding), but Westfields’ wedding package was also an outstanding deal. We cannot overstate how valuable it was to our time and sanity to have multiple critical services centrally managed by Ashley Clarkin and her competent, experienced team. Rather than having to coordinate separate vendors for a reception venue, catering, beverage service, several large décor pieces, linens, and even some small décor, Westfields was able to provide us with all these services (and more), giving us everything we needed (and nothing that we didn’t!).
Ashley Clarkin and her team are exceptional. Despite our attempts to avoid doing so and despite our attempts to not be “difficult” clients, inevitably, we found ourselves changing our minds last minute over small (and one or two large!) details, asking random questions, trying to squeeze in a few last-minute guests on the day of the deadline for final guest numbers, etc.
Ashley and her team responded to our questions and changes (and there were many!) with grace, poise, and flexibility. She also served as an outstanding point of contact for outside vendors such as our florist, our photographer, our band, and our cake vendor. Beyond being a logistical and organizational genius, she also has an exceptional creative eye…once she had all the pieces together, from the cake to large and small décor to flowers, she arranged the look of the reception into a cohesive, aesthetically stylistic, and visually beautiful whole. We had a vision in our mind with what we wanted our guests to see and feel when they walked into the reception for the first time, but what you imagine vs. what you end up getting doesn’t always align. Ashley managed to take our breath away. And she and her team managed the day-of schedule and timeline perfectly, adapting or re-arranging with great skill if things ran behind schedule; nothing had to be skipped, every special moment we asked for was included, and our guests have been raving to us about the event. My wife was especially moved when Ashley, having noticed that she’d slipped out to the bridal suite during dinner, knocked on the door and helped her fix some stray hairs on her updo. Her care and concern were never clearer than at that moment. Kudos, also, to Ashley’s assistant, Juliette. She graciously kept us supplied with water on the sticky golf cart ride to grab sunset photos, and thoughtfully held on to my wife’s glasses while we posed for photos!
Thank you Westfields, Ashley, and company for making our wedding day perfect!