The River Club — Attraction in Scituate

We had our wedding here on Saturday, July 22nd. We had the house from Thursday to Sunday. On Friday, the air conditioning broke and froze and the ceiling literally fell and leaked all over one of the living rooms so we couldn't use it. It was the room with 2 couches and a futon. Didn't really help for all of the guests that were supposed to stay there. I told the woman (Angela) that owned the house/venue about the leak 3 times before I got a response of "ok someone will be there". The person that came to "fix" it came about 4-5 times and just stared at the leaking hole in the ceiling and shut off the AC. He also came through while we were getting hair makeup done for the wedding so that was awkward... We woke up the day of my wedding and he house was 59 degrees!!! I caught a cold the day after my wedding, right in time for my honeymoon. Also, the house was FILLED with dead bugs. Didn't notice until we actually lived in it. The day of my wedding, I showered with a beetle. I think the highlight of the house was the broken slider door that my now husband BROKE HIS RING FINGER ON TRYING TO OPEN IT! Attempting to get his ring on his blue/purple/black sausage finger during the ceremony was just fabulous. I actually looked into the crowd of guests and said "sorry- he broke his finger yesterday" as we were squishing it on. Ugh! Oh and did I mention that you have to clean up after yourself? Not like tidy up but take all trash out, completely empty house, do all dishes, sweep/mop/vacuum. Segg and Mark that worked there were amazing and helpful. The rest of the staff was rude to put it nicely. Bartenders were telling my guests their orders were too difficult. They said they served alcohol until Wedding was over at 12am but stopped serving them at 11:30pm. Poor service overall. The woman that runs the place seemed very nice when we booked the venue... until the rehearsal dinner where she was on my back like white on rice. she was literally staring me down to the point I was uncomfortable. Then basically forced us to have dessert at the house instead of the venue. She also interrogated my single mother about not having anyone to walk her down the aisle at the rehearsal. It was very awkward and uncomfortable. At around 9:00pm during the wedding while we were partying and celebrating our wedding, the woman Angela cornered us in the bridal suite and accused us or our guests of "stealing a $100 lantern and It needs to be found immediately". I said we would look for it and ask around (durning MY WEDDING) and she just stood blocking the door staring me down. My friend said "I'm sure it will turn up by tomorrow. We will find it". Angela's response: "YOU WILL FIND IT NOW!" -she found the lantern later that night moved over to the side of the gazebo. She told my husband this later on around 11:30pm. Told me nothing and I never received an apology for the accusations towards us. At the end of the night, they tossed all of my decorations carelessly into boxes and made a mess of everything I neatly packaged and delivered 2 weeks prior.The most upsetting parts were that I asked where my cake topper was because it meant a lot to me and Angela said "don't worry, it's in with your decorations". I went through a TRASH bag and buried in it was my cake topper! I had borrowed a gorgeous veil from one of my bridesmaids as my something borrowed. When I took it off, we put it on the mirror of the bridal suite. When I went to grab my things at the end of the night, it wasn't there. Angela said "must be packed up with all of your stuff". Needless to say, it wasn't. The veil was thrown away like garbage. I am disgusted. I have never met a more passive aggressive woman in my life! She and her staff are awful. The idea of having the house on the venue is great but for what We paid for the house it's not worth it. Especially to be your own maid and live with bugs and a falling/leaking ceiling and have a strange man come in when he wants and live below you while making inappropriate sounds in the basement at night (yup that...

I had my wedding reception here on 6/10/2022. I want to start by saying, I really had high hopes for this venue because everything went just as I expected until my actual wedding day which was the most important part and I was very disappointed with the outcome. I will start by saying what went well since there were a few things. The food was really good, from the guests point of view they thought everything ran smoothly and the venue was gorgeous. Angela was quick with email responses when I had questions and was accommodating up UNTIL the drop off date for my wedding decorations and the actual wedding day. They switched my drop off time the day of, which I was perfectly okay with because there were circumstances that happened out of their control and I was able to accommodate them. A half hour later after I agreed to a new drop off time of 8 PM. I got a rude email saying “ Ali I can't do 8 pm its very late. I will do 5 pm, please don't be late because I have a rehearsal after.” After explaining why we couldn’t do 5 pm ( we live an hour and a half away and this was a Thursday we both have full time jobs) they agreed to 8. They said Maria will be there at 8. When I got to the venue around 7:50, I went inside and they had a venue tour going on! How would 8 PM be too late for a bride dropping off her wedding decor but not for a venue tour?! The tour left a few minutes before we sis after dropping off all our stuff. I was extremely shocked and upset thinking they were prioritizing the tour over my wedding which now I completely understand since it’s seems like they are typical sales people. What didn’t go well was that while I was eating dinner, the sweetheart table collapsed and fell to the floor. My husband was not sitting down at the time and it was just me, when it finally hit me what had happened, I had to walk out of my own wedding because I was embarrassed and extremely upset. The photographer and videographer were the ones to say “let’s go outside and take pictures” so that I wouldn’t be seen crying in front of my guests. One of my engraved champagne glasses broke but I was reimbursed by Angela for them. Which is the only thing they did to compensate us. We got married at a separate location and were late getting to the reception a little bit but they made sure to tell me over and over again that we were behind which made me super anxious and was rushing around. When my aunt and mum arrived before me with flowers for head table, Angela didn’t even welcome them and was rude asking why my aunt had flowers and where they were going. I emailed her prior to my wedding day ASKING if it was okay first off and then telling her what we were bringing and where they would be going. The DJ didn’t get to the ceremony until 3:45 and it started at 4! Angela would not let him into the building. We previously had agreed that Angela would allow him in at 1:30 so he can set up before going to the ceremony so he would have enough time. It caused me to be very stressed out a half hour before I got married because the DJ wasn’t there and he was supposed to be there at 3. My sister was calling him in the limo on the way to my ceremony! Angela ignored my emailed twice about why the DJ wasn’t let in. Guests did not have good interactions with Angela or the other staff on my wedding day, they said they were rude and seemed to not care about how they spoke to guests. I did thank Angela at end of night to be polite but over the past few days talking to guests I keep getting more...

The Short Version: If you don’t want to deal with an extremely rude and controlling woman, pick another venue. The actual venue is decent, but the staff, particularly the head lady, Angela, was so awful to the bride, the mother of the bride, and to the entire bridal party that this was almost an unbearable reception.

The Long Version: The actual venue is very pleasant, although not anywhere near as nice as described on their website. Half of the pictures shown on their site are taken across a main road that isn’t even on their property. The actual property is ok I guess but you had better visit to see for yourself if you don’t want to be surprised by the misleading online photos. The absolutely worst part of the whole experience was Angela, the manager. She is who you will work with the entire process, so there is no doubt that this is a severe problem. She is not only rude but also extremely controlling. At several points during preparations she raised her voice to the bride and the bride’s mother out of the blue

The day before the wedding when we were decorating the venue (centerpieces, floral arrangements, etc.) Angela numerous times told those decorating that they couldn’t put certain flowers in certain places and that we could not add things around her current decorations. She literally told us how we needed to decorate for our own wedding. After being totally rude to everyone, Angela and one of her staffers decided to show up at THE WEDDING uninvited. If that was all it wouldn’t have been a big deal. However, they decided to get up in front all the guest and take pictures of the wedding on their ipad! Moving around the bride and groom, both in front and behind them, like they owned the place. This blocked our photographers and those trying to enjoy the wedding, as well as continually distracted the bride and groom who couldn’t believe what they were doing. I will try to summarize the rest of the reception quickly. Angela received two cakes from the bakery; After explicitly telling her several times and two of her staff only to cut the one cake, she cut both. One was not to be cut and caused a lot of problems. Also, she yelled, in front of the departing guests, at two children who were taking a croissant after the “end of the reception” implying that taking a left over croissant was stealing because our time was over. My mother saw this and went over to mediate only to be yelled at and lectured on how “at a buffet you don’t get to take anything home with you.” It was a croissant…a CROISSANT. She lost her mind at two children and the mother of the bride over food she was going to throw away after we left anyways. The moral of the story is that those running the River Club in Scituate are without a doubt the least professional, least pleasant people in the world and that you can and should absolutely not consider them for your upcoming wedding or event.

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