Ronin 2 — Attraction in Houston

While we were excited about having our wedding here, after five months of planning, we were notified by phone that we were double booked. Ronin somehow managed to confuse a Sunday for a Monday in a completely different year when booking our wedding. We signed the contract back in January and are finding out about this in June. All correspondence had the correct date in it, yet somehow it ended up scheduled in a different year. So, Ronin either lied to us, or they're so bad at their jobs that they were double booked for five months and had no idea. In fact, they didn't realize this until we inquired about potentially renting more space from them with their available add-on spaces. While on this lovely phone call, we were told that we were the second couple to request that date, by just a week's time apparently. So, we were asked to either move the date of our wedding or move to a different space. I find this story extremely hard to believe but hey, congrats to the other couple that gets to use Ronin 2; I just hope Ronin and team don't manage to do anything to ruin your special day. While they attempted to make it right by offering up one other space that currently exists, and one space that doesn't exist yet, it doesn't exactly work for us as a back-up. We no longer trust them to host our wedding, and wouldn't dream of using them for any other event after this debacle. We've spent the last five months planning around this location (that we had confirmed) and now we have to change rentals, save the dates and invitations, and potentially vendors, just because they don't know how a calendar works. While our money was refunded and they've apologized, they have cost us more money than what we got back from them. In addition to the money wasted, they've wasted our time which is extremely unprofessional, and because of this, their whole team should be seen as such.

My advice: Don't trust Ronin to host any sort of major life event or celebration, they might just...

We hosted our wedding at Ronin Art House 2 on 2/3/23. Keagan, who manages the Rōnin Art House 2 venue and Jamison, who manages the adjacent space next door called .Five are extremely professional and responsive. They worked with me on my multiple revisions to the contract to change times and other details we didn’t realize we needed until the week of the wedding. The venues are both well appointed and .Five was a truly unique place to host our cocktail hour. We received many compliments on the character and unique feel of the venue afterward. All transactional items are simple with Rōnin—online and paperless as well. My only recommendation is that if you use this venue, you will likely need to also rent .Five for additional catering space. We rented .Five for that purpose and host our cocktail hour while Ronin 2 was being flipped from ceremony to reception and I did not realize until after the wedding that our caterers did not get to use the space at .Five due to the fact that we were using it for the cocktail hour. I thought there was more space in the back, but relied on our planner to work with the caterer. I should have confirmed this all myself. After the wedding, I was told by the caterer that the delays in serving dinner were due to not having enough space for food prep. I also had a number of caterers turn down quoting the event due to the inability to use certain equipment they required on site. If you are serving a simple buffet meal, this might work; but if you need space for plated meal set up, you will need all of the space in .Five for your caterer. This was not an issue resulting from venue management. This is just something I would want to be aware of if I was booking here. Overall, this venue is beautiful and perfect for a wedding of around 50 people. I would definitely host here if I had the chance to do this...

Had such a great experience with Ronin 2 for our 44 person wedding this past weekend! It’s such a beautiful venue and has more space than you’d expect. Our day was very cold and rainy and the patio was quite chilly, but the inside of the venue itself stayed very comfortable despite not having any heating! That was one of my biggest concerns for the day of, so if any future couples were wanting to use this venue during the colder days in Houston- it felt great inside and we had no complaints. We had lots of people rave about how beautiful the space was and we had very minimal decorations besides the tables! It’s a great option for an industrial chic venue and worked well with our moody winter burgundy and navy vibes. Keagan and Jamison were easy to contact and work with and were very responsive to all of our questions and concerns. The valet was also super worth it and super easy- the guests that drove to our wedding really appreciated it especially since it was such a cold and dreary day outside. I’d definitely recommend Ronin 2 for any...