Aubrey McElroy

Review of Irvine Nature Center

We recently got married at Irvine Nature Center be...

We recently got married at Irvine Nature Center because we loved the atmosphere and views it offered. We were able to get many beautiful photos during our wedding. The wedding point is gorgeous for our ceremony. The downside to Irvine Nature Center is that in order to book the venue you must do so through their exclusive caterer, Rouge. Everything for the wedding goes through them. For this reason I would not recommend Irvine Nature Center. Rouge is extremely unprofessional and honestly a disgrace to the wedding business. Less than 3 months before our wedding Rouge cancelled our catering contract and we were forced to find a new caterer/bartenders. BUT even after they cancelled they were still involved in our wedding because you must book Irvine through them. When Rouge was our caterer they answered emails about Irvine promptly, but the second they were no longer our caterer (through no fault of our own) they stopped answering emails. None of my vendors were able to get ahold of our contact person from Rouge and Rouge refused to give us contact info for someone from Irvine. While Irvine is a beautiful venue for a wedding they are not worth the hassle of dealing with Rouge catering. I would recommend they rethink having Rouge as their exclusive caterer, I know several other venues that used Rouge exclusively have dropped their contracts with them.