Plaza Rive-Sud — Attraction in La Prairie

I attended a wedding at this location, which was a comedy of disasters.

PROBLEMS: There was a golf cart to help older guests from the ceremony site to the reception hall. The driver brought the grandmothers from both families to the reception hall, and started driving off as the grandmothers were still leaving the cart. Both of them fell on the pavement, and one cracked a rib. These are 80+ year-old ladies; the driver was completely negligent of this, and it took the staff over 15 minutes to find a first-aid kit afterwards.

The (flimsy and cheap) steel chairs used for the outdoor ceremony had been left out in the rain, and had rusty water inside them. This rusty water stained around 20% of the attendees' clothes, leaving rust stains on their backs. I have no idea why they used steel chairs - they had identical ones indoors that were solid plastic and would have been better suited to outdoor use.

The venue is a wedding factory, with four weddings going on at any one time throughout the premises. There was literally less than 15 minutes between the end of the ceremony I attended and the next ceremony they had scheduled for that same location. I believe this rushed schedule is part of the reason the golf cart driver was so reckless and caused problem #1.

There are no outdoor lights on the rear patio of the building. There is plenty of seating area in the rear of the building, but use it after sunset at your own risk. There are unmarked steps, uneven paving stones, and other tripping hazards all over the patio. After dark, navigating this area is not safe, especially if your guests have been having drinks - you'll just be stumbling around in the dark.

The food and bar service was not organized at all. After hors d'oeuvres, we moved from the side hall into the main reception hall, and somehow the bar service was cut off for over an hour during this move. The bar was stocked, the staff were there, but for some reason they "couldn't" serve us. They also "couldn't" tell us why their services were down. Finally, the food service was so laughably late that we didn't receive our first course of the meal until 10:30PM. By this time all the guests were hungry and irritated with the bar being closed as well.

If you use this venue, be prepared for the following possibilities: You will be rushed around Your elderly guests will be manhandled and hurt Your food and drinks will be late You will be left in the dark outside after sunset Your outfit will get ruined by rust stains

All things considered, I'd say you have a 25% chance of enjoying your time at this location, much less getting your money's worth.

I hope the management makes substantial changes, because my experience left me with the impression that they're trying to milk as much cash out of customers as they can while providing the bare minimum of services they can...

Used to Be Exceptional. Now: Disappointing and Dystopian.

My family has been coming here for over a decade—back when the brunches were exceptional and the golf course views were beautiful. That is no longer the case.

The energy is off: a few overly scripted staff, but most seemed disinterested or outright rude. The grounds haven’t been cleaned for spring, and the once-lovely view is now an active construction site—mud, machinery, and no place nice for a photo.

Inside, it’s noisy to the point of being chaotic. Sparse, mismatched decor, echoey space, and a strange setup of ropes and barricades made the whole experience feel unnaturally confined and disjointed.

The food? A few dishes were genuinely delicious and well-prepared. The base offerings were bland and uninspired, more reminiscent of a motel breakfast bar than a high-end brunch. Presentation and variety have taken a noticeable step down.

Worst of all: the service. Essentially none. No water or wine or coffee poured, no check-ins, and a spill incident at an adjacent table was handled clumsily. At payment, the tip options on the terminal started at 15%, calculated after tax. A 15% tip in our case was $100—for service that consisted of a maximum of 5 minutes clearing a few plates. When I declined the terminal tip (planning to leave a service appropriate amount of cash), a staff member immediately confronted me, assumed I was leaving nothing, telling me that they had to pay tax on 15% (at a buffet hall?) and continued pressing even after I explained. Completely out of line.

A sad decline. Mother’s Day for a mother should feel special. This felt big box buffet transactional at best—and uncomfortably insulting at worst. Still, if your only criterion is “all you can eat,” this may...

I had my wedding there. I am writing a detailed review as I hope the venue can take this as constructive criticism and other brides can learn from my experience.

The owner is nice. He will negotiate a price with you. But get it in writing. He has too many weddings ans gets mixed up. For my wedding he insisted that we had asked for extra 9 chairs. Which was impossible because when we were emptying the room at the end of the night we did not have extra nine chairs. Also on the contract there’s a stamp that says paid but it doesn’t say the full amount paid!!

Cassandra the coordinator is one person for 5 weddings. She tries hard, really does. But it is impossible for her to attend to all weddings at the same time. I was lucky I was able to grab her a few times during our night. I would probably recommend her for to have a better system of keeping track of information as I found it created the confusion with the extra people that they put seats for.

The owner also probably needs to invest in having more than one coordinator.

I was disappointed to hear from my guests that finding the cocktail area post wedding was hard. It shouldn’t have been my bridesmaid and groomsman that directed the guests. It also had to be from the side by the parking lot to get to our terrace. This was the only hall. All other halls had a better access to their terrace.

The food was delicious and the drinks were great. The staff worked so hard. They were so understaffed and it showed. Some of my guests had to get up to get a meal because they would forget.

I would probably recommend having a small wedding there because of lack of staff and the ability of them to pay attention to a large wedding detail.

Overall, not what I had hoped for but the day is over and...