The RoseMary Wedding Venue — Attraction in Melissa

Where do I begin?! These guys are PHENOMENAL. My name is Jules Thieme, and I’d be more than happy to go into more detail with anyone personally about my experience with the Rosemary barn. You can search my name on Instagram and message me there. Scroll to the 3rd paragraph to read my personal experience:

It’s crazy how one wedding party/guests can take things south and the whole family can just jump on google and it’s their word against the businesses. After reading several negative reviews that were recently posted, I was surprised. Something didn’t feel right. Nothing about these reviews feel legit.. from the beginning, there’s nothing level headed about them, and it’s questionable what they’re rooted in. If you read the replies from The Rosemary Barn to each comment, you’ll see what I mean. In other (EXTREMELY rare) negative reviews, you can see they’re constantly humbling themselves and asking what they can do better. The thing about these google reviews is, like I said — the reviewer’s word against a business’. Every wonderful, 5-star deserving business in the world has a handful of people who direct their insecurities/anger/lack of control at their keyboard and type away in hopes to harm the reputation of said incredible business. As a reader or potential client, you’ve gotta look at the overwhelming majority of reviews and decide for yourself. Anyway, after seeing this happen to The Rosemary Barn — I couldn’t stay silent and desperately want to share my wonderful experience with them. Like I said, please feel free to message me, and I can help provide some insight and represent some of the integrity they’ve shown me throughout my time working with them.

I saw a flier at a local jewelry shop and decided to go take a tour. The venue was still in the process of being built. After meeting the family behind The Rosemary Barn, and catching their vision, I had a gut feeling (looking back, I’m SO thankful I listened to it), and we decided to book with them. At the end of the building process, the venue had turned out more lovely and elegant than I could have ever imagined. The Rosemary Barn team went above and beyond to make this dream come true of a wedding happen for my husband and I. My favorite parts of our wedding were how even though we had a larger guest count, it still felt so welcoming, intimate and not overwhelming, (thanks to their floor plan options). I also LOVED the fire pit option, after we did our exit for the photos, we actually got to hang around a little while longer and enjoy our people by the fire. At the very beginning of the venue’s existence, they were extremely experienced with the wedding industry, and were beyond helpful and professional. We felt valued, honored and appreciated every step of the way. Since then, I’ve kept in touch with the wonderful family behind The Rosemary Barn, they are each living, breathing examples of the integrity that doesn’t end after “office hours” but crosses over into their every day lives. These people are genuine and pure gold, it was a massive blessing to find them, (everyone knows how stressful planning a wedding can be). I have photos from our wedding day all throughout our home, the venue is absolutely timeless and the bright, clean look of the space brings an elegance that speaks for itself. I’ll try to either add photos to this review or post them on a separate one, or go scroll through my instagram feed and there are plenty on there.

Thanks for reading this, and I hope this review has helped you see through any phony reviews or negative reviews with no weight to them. @julesthieme...

Updated review 6/16/24

While I have not been physically back at the Rosemary since my daughter’s wedding, I have been impressed with the follow up from the staff following My original review. They seemed genuinely interested in my feedback and began implementing changes to give the overnight guests a better, more complete experience. They have followed up several times and have shared their current communication and accommodation improvements. This venue is beautiful, and as I said in My original review, they have the ability to soar with all they have on site. I look forward to revisiting this beautiful Venue and Airbnb!

My daughter recently got married at the Rosemary Barn. It is beautiful, and the staff was pleasant. They answered questions before the big day. I became nervous as the date got closer in that I really started to read over all the rules. My daughter picked this venue a year out- this was my first wedding as mom so we didn’t know a lot about anything. There was a lot of pressure to pick and find a date as multiple venues were already booked a year out- so- we loved the grounds at the Rosemary and I signed the contract. My error in not taking my time reading all of it in detail before signing. When I say there are a lot of rules- I mean that literally. And a lot of “fines” if rules are broken. So, my advice is to take your time and read everything.

My main issue with this venue is that it really does not feel set up for the guest experience. We rented the two sides of the Barndominium via VRBO and the venue. I am not sure if they are owned by same family, but that is my guess. So we paid for our rehearsal dinner on site, the wedding the next day, as well as the onsite lodging. We spent a lot of money. The lodging looks nice- but it is not set up to make the guest feel welcome. And please be aware- YOU ARE NOT Allowed to park under the lodging/ that is reserved for their workers and vendors. So, it was difficult to load and unload- and we had a lot of stuff. Once we were aware of the parking situation, we tried to be quick and agreeable- however, everytime we were told to move. As far as the lodging- I had to ask about how to get in- I didn’t know where to find the access info as it wasn’t sent like most VRBOs. I had to ask for WiFi, and it was “I think it’s either …,” the bride’s large side never got the password. Lastly, after hurrying out of the venue to avoid late fees (in fact they said they had never seen a wedding get their stuff out as fast as we did) I had to message again to ask about any check out instructions. I run a very successful short term rental- this is just not the norm. I think the lodging is really an afterthought to the venue. At least that is how it feels.

Don’t get me wrong- it was a beautiful venue, we had a beautiful wedding, and the staff was nice enough- it just felt very impersonal and money/next wedding vibes. There are so many beautiful venues that I would say this one may get lost if they don’t focus more on the customer service side.

My other daughter is getting married in a few weeks- and so far that venue feels a bit more personable and interested. Josh and Megan were nice - it just all felt very impersonal at a time when it’s the most personal for the bride and families. An all inclusive may have felt differently -I am not sure.

I would not recommend the lodging and I’d look for comparable venues. I gave 4 stars because, really, nothing was wrong, but it definitely could have been so much better. The potential is there and I hope they read this with hearing my encouragement more than...

I recently had the opportunity to to attend the wedding of my beautiful granddaughter at Rose Mary Barn, it’s a very beautiful venue but the owners and their family who help operate the venue are rude and not accommodating. Some of the requests that the owners felt were unreasonable were things like opening the gate 20 minutes before rehearsal so 10-15 cars that were lined dangerously on the little county road with no shoulder, could get in the parking lot, once we were allowed in, we had to wait standing in the wind and cold for them to open the doors so we could rehearse, no other weddings were being held that day or previous night, we requested to unload our wedding decor the night before, since the forecast called for rain but the venue would not allow it, we requested to store the plastic containers our decor was in , in the storage room, during the wedding, again no was the answer. Our florist needed to begin an hr early decorating and we would pay for the additional hr but again, no we couldn’t. Our little children were playing outside on the benches and the venue staff got on to them and told them to stop. During the wedding it became extremely hot and heat was coming out of the air vents, but we weren’t allowed to open the outside doors.Earlier in the day I was getting ready back in the bridal suite but before I could finish we were all required to get everything out of the suite and take it to our cars in the gravel parking lot all dressed up in our heels and wedding attire. I’ve spent 40 years planning and holding events and have worked with numerous venues and especially during such a joyous but stressful occasion as a wedding you would hope to work with warm, kind and accommodating people. I don’t like to give anyone a bad review and very rarely have but because of all the outside help My daughter had to serve and take care of the wedding guests, my granddaughters wedding was beautiful and wonderful but not without much unneeded stress and pressure from the venue owners and their family members that work for them. I’m saying this as my opinion not to be challenged because this is what I...