My wife was crying but not in a good way.
DO NOT USE THIS PLACE!!!!!!!
My wife and I planned our wedding ceremony and reception here on a Friday in February. When we booked we decided to take advantage of the fact that they provide a lot of services in house so we wouldn't have to worry about finding DJ or catering services. The owner of the establishment assured us that their staff, DJ, and catering company have many years of experience in wedding services. When we booked we were offered a tasting of the food that the caterer provides, and that we could see as many of the décor arrangements as we wanted. My wife was able to see most of the arrangements but when we finally got to go to our tasting of the caterers food there were more table settings that she wasn't shown that she liked not a big deal but kind of frustrating seeing as though the tasting was a month before our wedding. We decided to book the DJ through the hall to save a little money and with the expectation that working with the venue for a long time he would be more suited for the wedding. We were told that the DJ would provide the microphone for the whole thing and manage the music. We wanted to meet with the DJ in advance of the wedding to go over some expectations and do's and don'ts as far as music. The owner introduced us to a young man who at the time was helping with maintenance of the hall. The younger gentleman asked us to give him a list of songs and that we would be meeting before the wedding to go through the ceremony and the timeline for the rest of the night. We asked every couple weeks from December leading up to the wedding to see when we could meet with the DJ, finally we were told that during rehearsal we would meet with the and have a chance to go over the event. At the rehearsal there was no DJ, so we were on our own to figure out our ceremony even though we had been told that we would have help with this. My wife was concerned that the DJ would be playing songs off a phone the owner assured us that would not happen well it did. At our ceremony we were informed the DJ the normally use had to take an emergency vacation, the fill in had never been used by them before. We had to practically yell our entire ceremony and speeches because the DJ didn't have a microphone. We had to manage the time on our own because the DJ wasn't doing that. a commercial played during our first dance, then it took the DJ 15 minutes with my wife and her Dad standing in the middle of the dance floor to find the song she asked for weeks in advance on YouTube on his phone. The dinner service was slow, we were running about 15 minutes late already (its a wedding they are usually running behind) we were expecting 150 people which 110 showed up. The venue booked 2 servers for a seated dinner that with the fact that we were running late it took a long time to get everyone served and some of the food came out cold. The owners were helping to try to get the food out faster, but ultimately it wasn't enough. We cut our cake it was served but we had to tell the kids that they could help themselves to cupcakes since we had a small cake but plenty of cupcakes. My wife and I also caught the owner bringing prospective clients through our wedding while we were starting our reception, then again when we were leaving. We were promised help throughout our event but were left to try to orchestrate most everything on our own. In the end we were left embarrassed by a DJ the venue hired at the last minute but had never been used by them before (we don't think he was an actual DJ but someone that said the could help them out since he had no equipment), we had strangers walking through our wedding, and my wife was in tears and not in the way you want. I highly doubt that the people running the Antigua event center have been doing weddings as long as they claim. on a good note the bartender was spectacular and the tables were arranged very nice minus the bide and groom table because it wasn't done how my wife asked for at all.
