If you want a beautiful flawless wedding reception the Ruthie Jackson center is the place to go everything in the place is classy and elegant even the restrooms. The personnel were fabulous and treated us as if our event was the most important one ever. Cheryl was our planner/coordinator and I do not know what we would have done without her. We went to the first meeting with her with all this prearranged ideas of how we were going to save money and cut cost. Cheryl was honest and straightforward on what we could expect and where to and not to trim the budget. We had a friend that was going to do the DJ for us and Cheryl told us that it wasn’t a good idea it took several meeting with her to convince the holder of the purse strings that if you want a professional wedding the DJ is number one importance to the reception and you want a professional. I cannot express enough of how right she was. Between her and the DJ we had announcements, speeches everything went on like clockwork no one was scurrying around trying to get people here and there. We got to relax and enjoy the reception Cheryl and the DJ had warlike talkies and coordinated everything down to the bride and grooms exit. Cheryl even helped at the church when the bride had a last minute hissy about her flowers. I would not ever dream of having a wedding without Cheryl she gave us choices recommendation and did the coordinating with the different vendors found specialty items for us. It was a beautiful reception and I would not have changed a thing. My parting advice is if she recommends something listen she knows what she is talking about especially about needing a professional DJ.