UMUC Marriott Inn and Conference Center was affordable, flexible, and professional in planning our wedding reception. Leyla, our event coordinator, worked with us throughout the entire planning process to make our dreams become a reality. She did an amazing job and the wedding exceeded my expectations. The food was amazing and the staff was very polite and professional. I'd recommend this location to any couple looking to get married close to College Park, MD.

We worked with Liz Clayton and the staff at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center and they were all wonderful. We planned our wedding from out of town and Liz was always available by phone or email to answer questions and help coordinate with our other vendors. Liz was extremely helpful the day of the wedding to make sure everything went according to plan and was able to make sure no glitches ruined our day. Everyone at the Inn and Conference Center was very professional and pleasant to work with. I would definitely recommend this reception site and staff to anyone!

We loved the UMUC Marriott Inn and Conference Center. Our reception was everything that we expected and more. The staff, service and accomodations were beyond our expectations. Dara McBee and Sara Wise are outstanding representatives of the Marriott experience!

I'm so glad I had my reception at the Inn and Conference Center. Our wedding coordinator, Liz, was fanatastic. She was so nice and accomodating. She was responsive, and always got back to me quickly. She was really helpful on the day of our wedding with setting things up and getting our gifts up to our room. Additionally, the food was fanatastic. Everything went smoothly, and they are very reasonably priced for what you get.

The Univ. of MD Conference Center is the best! My wedding date had to change due to an unexpected blizzard!! The conference center was gracious enough to allow my husband and I to stay at the Marriott on campus as planned and even extended our stay by 3 days due to flight cancellations. On top of that we were able to reschedule our wedding reception. Leyla, our event manager, is top notch. She suggested details that my husband and I had not yet considered and she was very easily able to contact any time we had a question. She even set aside time to meet with our vendors. I am a fan for life of the conference center and Marriott.

UMUC was awesome. The only problem I had was that the cost per person did not include tax and gratuity and it was an oversight on my part. I was frantic/worried/sad so I called my my event manager who said "No problem". She cut out some items in the package and brought the cost down significantly with out taking anything significant out.

My event manager was really good about making sure I stayed on top of things and was really flexible when I wanted to change things around. The day went very smoothly and the room was set up perfectly!

The food is amazing! It was so hard to choose what to put on our menu so we had 4 options plus a kids option.

The only weird thing was that they gave me some guy I had never met to be my 'day-of coordinator'. He made sure people went where they needed to go, but he kept making strange suggestions (i.e. bride and groom drink from the same champagne glass for a picture... it was a stupid picture).

Exceptional quality and a remarkable staff. Our first co-ordinator, Leyla, was a disaster. After discussing our concerns with her supervisor, we were given a new planner and it was smooth sailing. Sharon, who ultimately co-ordinated the event, was an absolute godsend. When we think of our wedding day, we know Sharon was responsible for making it perfect. The Marriott was an incredible value for our dollar. Even though the resption was a typicaly "hotel ballroom," we had enough freedom to avoid cookie-cutter. I would highly recommend this site, just aviod anyone named Leyla!

I had a great experience holding our ceremony and reception at the UMUC Marriott. Our event planner Liz was fantastic and went BEYOND the call of duty the day of the event. She helped with the tiniest details at the reception and made it beautiful. I had some trouble at the beginning of the process - our original sales person wasn't very responsive. But we loved the space and once we started working with Liz my worries went away. We had a mix of Indian and American food, and Liz helped us find an outside Indian caterer and worked with them so I didn't have to. Overall, a great experience!

The Marriott Inn and Conference Center was a great option for us. They were extremely flexible with the menu options before we signed our contract. Everything went smoothly at our wedding at the reception site most likely due to our coordinator. Our main concern was the quality of the food. Unfortunately there were some changes in the way the food was prepared at our tasting vs what was served to our guests. While we didn't appreciate the changes...I don't think our guests knew the difference. However, many of our guests told us that their dinner was over cooked. While our experience was fairly positive I offer the following word of caution to all brides at all venues....get everything in writing in your contract. There were several unexpected charges on our bill which I had to work to remove two days before my wedding. These included guests being charged for parking, service charges for bartenders as well as an promised discount that wasn't included. Needless to say, arguing each one of these charges was not what I wanted to focus on while my guests were in town. It also made me feel cheap. Each of "overcharges" was resolved...some easier than others. The most irritating to resolve was the parking charges for my guests at the hotel. Also, some of my personal items were not returned to me. If you bring items to the reception, designate someone to be responsible for them.

So the food was great! All of our guests really enjoyed their meals. I felt like I could not maintain communication with our event planner as much as I would have liked to. She had a lot of other events and had a weird weekly schedule. Sometimes 2 or 3 days would pass before I got a response to an email. However, most of the requests we had were fulfilled. We had guests who forgot to book rooms and Leyla was VERY flexible with us and booked rooms for family members the week before the wedding at the discounted rate. Overall a good experience, but I'm impatient and move quickly. I would have liked quicker responses.