DO NOT BOOK HERE!!! If you are reading this, pleas...
DO NOT BOOK HERE!!! If you are reading this, please continue, you are already doing better than me. I did not look at the bad reviews and just saw the good ones (many of which, I m sure, are fake). They were great salespeople and I fell in love with the place after looking at many other venues I didn t like. However, I missed many horrible details of Crest Hollow. Look at the linens are we in the 80s?? I had to use an outside vendor for linens because they were so ugly. There is only one bathroom and it s on the first floor so if you didn t pick that room then your guests wearing high heels will have to walk up and down all night. WE WERE NOT ALLOWED A FOOD TASTING. That s right, they re so good that they don t trust us with trying it before the wedding?? We also were told they COULD do a food tasting and then a month later told we could not. There was such gaslighting with Crest Hollow I just wanted to get to my wedding already to never have to deal with them again. I had to deal with them through COVID, which was awful. I changed my wedding date twice and each time I was given 10 MINUTES to confirm a new date. I had to frantically email all my vendors to see if they were available on the new date in 10 minutes or the date would be gone, my banquet manager said. They offered no sympathy and did not care one bit about me or my wedding. Another thing I didn t fully comprehend at the time I booked was that they do 3 weddings at one time. You do NOT have the grounds to yourself and you can t even know before your wedding where you will be able to take photos because another bride could be there at the time. My banquet manager (I had 3 throughout my 3 year engagement) was never responsive through emails or phone calls and I was constantly wondering what was going on with my wedding and having questions go unanswered. Whenever I had questions 99% of the time the answer was they couldn t guarantee it. They also do not do rehearsals; they do the rehearsal 15 minutes before your ceremony. I don t know about you, but I definitely don t want to walk down the aisle IN MY DRESSS minutes before I say I do. I missed the opportunity to have a food tasting, cake tasting, and a rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. All of these things were things I dreamed about that CH took away from me. I had done a walk through for our last meeting and told them I didn t want a stage for my sweetheart table and you know what appeared on my wedding day? A stage, which at that point has been decorated with flowers and couldn t be moved. I had chocolate kisses for my favors, which we told them and they knew about A WEEK before my wedding. ON THE DAY OF my mom spent 20 minutes arguing with them because they said it wasn t Kosher and wouldn t allow it to be served on their premises. On my wedding day when there were issues (because there were many), no one was to be found and I spent time looking for people to talk to. I was told by guests that they were rude and unfriendly to them. My photographer was yelled at by my bridal attendant because we went and took pictures without her which we did because she was nowhere to be found. They didn t want us taking photos near the other bride and this fight occurred during sundown, which was precious daylight we needed. It sucks that so many things went wrong on my wedding and this could ve all been avoided if I just picked a different venue. I am SO GLAD I never have to deal with CH again, but wanted to give a warning to all other brides.