BRIDES BEWARE
I don't even know where to start at what a complete and utter disaster and mess this whole place is!
Let’s start from the very beginning. My fiance and I booked this location 7 months in advance. Where we came to visit 2 times. Both times our “wedding coordinator” was over an hour late and we were shown the house by the cleaning woman! That should have really been the first sign.
Throughout the 6 months leading up to the wedding I tried contacting said wedding planner dozens of times with questions and no response or responses weeks later. Fast forward a week before the wedding and still nothing. I reached out to him yet again because there was an impeding storm lasting days in the area. I wanted to make sure we had a set backup plan. Shane ASSURED us not to worry. They are completely confident in their backup plan in case of rain. I told him IT WAS GOING TO RAIN and that I wanted the barn location used. (this was just the first time I brought this up). He said not to worry.
I also confirmed with him that I had a list of my guests names and rooms assignments for the “staff” we were told we would have by him to let guests know what rooms they were staying in. WELL THERE WAS NO SUCH STAFF and our guests were completely lost! Were they supposed to wander the house or did they expect the bride to stand at the front desk and escort guests to rooms?
AS THE DAY GOES BY GUESS WHO ISNT TO BE FOUND- SHANE- OUR “WEDDING COORDINATOR!”
However, Helen, who really was a sweetheart, was there. I told her I was watching the weather all day and it was going to rain at exactly the time of the ceremony. I repeated this 100000000 times that day. They assured me looking on their weather apps that it was not coming in our direction. I told her I wanted to move it to the barn just in case. She went out of her way to supposedly set up BOTH locations. Well guess what… exactly 5:50pm SHANE DECIDES HE WANTS TO FINALLY SHOW UP!!! And proceeds to tell me its not going to rain… as we are looking outside AT THE RAIN! At this point he tells me we have to move the ceremony inside. We were already behind and we couldnt use either location so what option did I have, so we proceeded to move the ceremony indoors. At this time, I heard from several of my guests, after the wedding, that Helen herself was heard saying “I don’t know what to do Ive never been in this situation before”. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! You’ve never had rain on a wedding before?!!
IT WASNT UNTIL AFTER THE CEREMONY that Shane then says to me “We could have had the wedding in the barn.” Well I was absolutely behind upset at this point because that is where I told him and HELEN over and over and over again that I wanted it to be held. If someone would have listened to me from the first second this wouldn’t even be an issue.
By this time we are realizing due to the rain that the ceiling on the second floor is pouring rain.. absolutely pouring and the floor is like a river between rooms. This was brought to the attention of the staff and yet again… Not enough staff I suppose because NOTHING WAS DONE. It was cleaned up by my guests!!! How embarrassing! Then I myself brought to the attention of the staff that the floor on the first floor in front of the HANDICAPPED room which my mother who has cancer and can barely walk was sleeping was also soaked. Yet again… NOTHINGGGGGGG. So I, in my wedding dress, CLEANED THE FLOOR!
The sidewalls on the tent were not put up prior to the ceremony at alllllll. It wasn’t until my husband yelled at them that it was still pouring outside and all of my center pieces flew and broke on the ground did they finally decide to put up the sidewalls....
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