Brackenridge Heights

This is a beautiful location - the building itself is quite old but has been very well taken care of, looks extremely elegant & picturesque as you're coming up the drive. The banquet hall is just perfect - two ornate fireplaces, a twisting staircase, simple chandeliers, a high vaulted ceiling, tall windows, textured painted walls. Outside there is a gazebo.
Andrea Ruppert was my go-to woman there; they accommodated everything I asked for very graciously. The day of the wedding is always going to have slip-ups; for me, different tables for the reception had different numbers of people, & OF COURSE I had forgotten to match groups of people to specific tables, so neither myself nor the staff knew if "table 8" should contain 8 chairs or 10... By the time we found that out, I didn't have time to do anything about it. Andrea patiently sorted through all the name cards, counted up how many of which group were to a table, & assigned table numbers that way... she did what she had to do to avoid a crisis!
This venue is kindof a steal on the value side. As long as you go over a certain amount for the food, you don't have a price to pay on the venue. However, make sure you do a taste-testing there to get an idea of how much (or how little!) you are serving your guests. My parents had eaten there before so we did not think a taste-testing would be necessary. BUT they do not serve restaurant-portions, which I naively assumed, so I'm afraid many of my guests probably went away hungry. That's embarrassing! They also forgot to make coffee.
Our wedding was actually the first under Brackenridge's new ownership, new chef, etc. Given that we were their first wedding, I was very pleased with everything & I can recommend them 100% to anyone else. I can guarantee they have the coffee thing down by now!