Blackhawk Country Club in Stratford ,CT did a wonderful job for my daughter's bridal shower on June 9, 2024. The white linens and blue napkins ,and centerpieces that I choose looked so beautiful. There was plenty of room for a cookie table, a display table, a gift table and an activity table. We had about 40 guests in attendance. Blackhawk also place several high top tables in the room to fill in the spaces. These tables came in handy and were used to put the place cards and our fruit kabobs on . The general manager and staff were polite, professional and friendly, attending to all our needs. The food was delicious and everyone had a super ,nice time. The view out the window of the surrounding golf course was pretty.

I can't say enough about Kelsey and Xavier at Blackhawk. They were both so helpful in planning the baby shower. Blackhawk Country Club is absolutely beautiful and you can't beat the delicious food and wonderful service!!

The wedding venue was one of the things that we started researching early on in the wedding planning.
There were so many gorgeous venues to choose from here in CT. We made initial contacts to our top choices and began scheduling walk throughs.
Even though the many of the venues we visited were amazing, everything just wasn’t adding up. They couldn’t accommodate our time(brunch wedding), commute to the venue would be too far, was too expensive, or the actual reception space wasn’t really giving us the vibe we wanted.
I became a bit discouraged but continue my internet search. It was then I came up on Oronoque Country Club. I was blown away by the picturesque grounds and they could accommodate the date, time and most of all our brunch menu. My fiancé instantly dubbed Oronoque “God sent”.
We sent an email and Mr. Nels Nelson promptly responded and set up a walk through. We were sold on everything and left there with a contract saying that we would “sleep on it” and get back to him with a deposit.
During the time when I found Oronoque, I had also found a few more venues that I was thinking of checking out. When we got home from our walk through at Oronoque I reminded my fiancé that we had a few more walk through scheduled for that week. He told me to cancel them as we are going with “God sent”!
I am happy that I listened to my husband. Nels was nothing short of amazing from our first walk through right up to when I walked down the aisle and beyond. He is a man with many hats, he was there to help us with the rehearsals, added finishing touches to the room decor, there on our wedding day to calm my husband down when his bride was 30 minutes late and then came up to the bridal suite to calm me down because I was worried that I was running late.
Our day was “the best day ever”. Thanks to Oronoque and the Amazing Nels Nelson!