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| - We recently had our wedding at the Wright House, and they really pulled it off at the end. The garden is absolutely gorgeous, and I really loved being about to step outside of the reception hall and spend a few minutes enjoying the garden when I needed a minute to catch my breath. The decorations were very nice, and I was so happy that I didn't need to worry about decor or set-up like you might have to at a non-wedding focused venue. Also, Candi was our day-of coordinator, and we were happy with her.
I am docking a star because the Wright House made this event more stressful than necessary leading up to the wedding. They don't answer e-mail in a timely fashion, and they also do not communicate internally. I felt like several things were sprung on us at our final meeting with the day of coordinator, such as needing to provide our own glasses for the bar. The biggest problem was that I called a month ahead of time and asked that they touch base with our caterer (they gave us a handout with their requirements but we'd lost it), and they didn't do it until one week before the wedding. This resulted in finding out at the last minute that they wanted the caterer to do more than the caterer could do, so we had to shell out $600 to hire Wright House staff for it. Planning an event here would be much easier if they were more communicative and had electronic copies of important information.
The other big negative is that Ellen, their florist, is very difficult to communicate with. When I asked them if their was a better way to contact her since she wasn't responding to email, and they told me to just send her more emails. On multiple occasions, she would say she'd get back to me the next day or the next week and never get back to me. In November, she told me she'd get me a fine-tuned quote the next week. I followed up in February, at which point she asked for info I'd already given her and then repeated the exact same quote. At that point, I found a different florist.
All in all, the wedding went very well on the actual day of, and the venue is as beautiful as the first time you see it. I just wish they'd up their professionalism a bit and find a new florist.
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