Cortney Loppnow-Mazurek

Review of Boerner Botanical Gardens

My cousin is having her wedding there in 2 weeks, ...

My cousin is having her wedding there in 2 weeks, and she's having an awful time with this place. She has called me many times bawling because of what this place has been doing. There have been many hidden fees that are just now popping up for her and her fiance. She has even had to cut her photographer because she needed some extra money to pay for some hidden fee stuff. Almost everything costs extra...like even bringing in your own memorial table costs $30, which she wants to do because it costs $70 to RENT a memorial table there. She even had to change it from an outside wedding to an inside wedding because it cost $1,000 to have it outside. And she couldn't get out of the contract even months that normal places would let you go without losing all the money that was put down. I'm very disappointed with this place, and what they have done to my cousin. It's supposed to be her and her fiance's special day, but it just seems to me that this place just takes advantage of people, and doesn't care about anything but money. Yes, the gardens are beautiful, but I would NEVER recommend this place to anybody who wants to get married.