My daughter was married at this venue recently. It certainly was pretty, and their set up made lots of things easy for the bride as she was planning the wedding. But there are a lot of things which could be done much better. The person my daughter worked with was called a "wedding planner." But I would call her an "event coordinator" instead. Yes, this venue offers vetted vendors for music, flowers and a number of things which we found quite helpful and helped costs down. But the food wasn't great (although folks don't attend weddings for the food) and the reception barn isn't terrific. The dance floor is small and the space is a little tight, even for 110 people. Our event coordinator set up the gift table and a photo display of the couple (with lots of their childhood photos) in a far corner behind the tables. Most folks didn't even see those things. So days and days of work on the display were for naught. The bar area isn't attractive. We found that our event coordinator was great in working with the bride, but not so much with the parents. (And yet it is usually funding from the parents which allows a bridal couple to select this venue. Perhaps they should keep that in mind!) Perhaps the bride was told that we must remove everything (all signs, photo display, extra favors, etc etc) that evening after the reception ended, but that was not her understanding. I found out as we were leaving that we had to load everything -- not just the extra booze and cupcakes -- in our car. We did that, but it was difficult. Had I known this prior to the wedding, I would have brought comfortable shoes to change into for the loading job. I was aware that someone had to remove everything from the bride's room prior to the reception, but that set up needs to be changed. What parent wants to remove themselves from the cocktail hour to retrieve all the bags and stuff left upstairs over the carriage house by the bridal party? Why not have a key-card system similar to a hotel whereby the room could be kept locked and the parents could remove things later on while the young people were dancing? Amazingly, this venue is also not set up for hot weather. Since many of their weddings happen in May and June and throughout the summer, one would think they would have ceiling fans on the verandas and large air movers for the seating area. Yes, there would be some noise, but nothing as noisy as the nearby traffic. My husband was not happy with the sound system during the wedding. Someone set up the reader's standing microphone right in front of the speaker. So when someone went to this microphone to speak, an electronic squeal was elicited and the reader stepped back from the microphone. Not many could hear the reading. And the event planner didn't bother to discover that the bridal couple would be reading their vows to each other, so there was no amplification for their voices and again, not many folks could hear them. Since this venue does nothing but weddings, this seems like an unforgiveable oversight! Contrary to what the bride understood, when we arrived at the venue prior to the wedding, the only place for the men to go was to the barn. We thought they could hang out in the house next to the carriage house, keeping them out of sight until the wedding began, but this was not the case. A good wedding planner would have been seeing to every need just prior to the wedding, but again, this was not the case for us. I realized about 20 minutes prior to the ceremony that the boutineers and coursages were just inside the carriage house door with the bouquets for the bridal party, but no one was distributing them. I made that happen, but it's quite likely that the wedding might have started without them. And one small thing ... our event coordinator was dressed in very casual clothes during the event. I know it was hot, but it seemed unseemly that she was dressed for a picnic and yet was serving plates during the reception and was visible to all. A simple black outfit would have been appropriate. All in all, I think this venue could have been great, but too many things were not quite right.