We had the most beautiful wedding here in September of 2024. I’ve held off on writing a review due to our mixed feelings with the venue after everything was said and done. Many guests said our wedding was the most beautiful, fun, unique, etc that they had ever attended. Our pictures were beautiful. Once the ceremony began, the day ran smoothly thanks to our hired wedding coordinator. The overnight cabins are a great asset to avoid guests drinking and driving. Unfortunately as the couple planning the wedding we felt there were a lot of issues behind the scenes that caused us unnecessary stress that poisoned our view of the wedding venue.
The venue bills itself as DIY and lists its initial pricing low. When we first inquired we quickly realized pricing for a weekend wedding during wedding season is over x2 the advertised price.
Many things with the venue are DIY, be prepared to have to bring in many of your own vendors, chairs, tables, linens, appliances, plates, etc. Planning a wedding is always a huge undertaking, but even more so at this venue.
At the end of the day the amount we spent to throw a good wedding here far exceeded what we would have spent if we had went with an inclusive wedding venue.
The venue does not have its own bar top, chairs for the ceremony space, or additional miscellaneous items. The venue would offer to rent you items at an additional charge that were already at the venue (and would be removed from the space if you didn’t pay for them). A lot of these items seemed like they should be included when you’re already paying thousands of dollars to the venue.
We rented one day, Saturday, which includes 2pm the day of rental until 11am the next day. We quickly realized we would need more time to set up since again, the venue is very DIY. We inquired for renting Friday and were told it would be full price the cost of a Friday wedding (which doubles the cost of rental). Additional hours can be purchased at a rate of $250/hr, which seems exorbitantly high to me. We offered to pay $500 to come Friday night for 2 hours to set up for our wedding (there was no event Friday night at the venue) and were told no, if you want to come Friday for 2 hours you need to rent the day in full for $5700. I didn’t feel like we were treated or accommodated as paying clients, every step of the way was an opportunity for the venue to try to extract an additional fee.
The venue listed being “dog friendly” multiple times and has several pictures of the bride and groom with their fur babies. The week before the wedding we were informed we could only bring one of our dogs without fee, any other dogs were $150 per dog. We have 3 dogs, and couldn’t stomach giving the venue another $300, so unfortunately none of our dogs were able to spend the night at the venue. The venue billing itself as dog friendly was a major consideration into booking so this was a huge disappointment.
To speak to professionalism, our florist began to walk from her car at 11:45am to the hall and was chased back into her vehicle by staff from the venue who told her that she needed to wait until noon because that was the only additional time the couple purchased. Our florist came to us after and told us she has never been treated this way at any other venue and was shocked by this behavior. Our caterer inquired about using a folding table in the venue and was told no because the couple hadn’t paid the additional fee to use it (this table was still in the venue the day of our wedding.)
The cleanup here is also quite extensive, we found a 2 page checkout list the next day that had never been shown to us of everything that needed to be done to get your security deposit back. We stressed for hours in the morning cleaning the venue to the standards of the list just to be told in the morning that they forgot that list was there and it wasn’t meant for us (I had already spent 2 hours mopping the floors and replacing trash bags all over the grounds.)
Lindsay was very friendly and responsive to our texts, emails, and calls. We appreciated her setting up multiple walk through with us. Unfortunately a lot of the messages Lindsay relayed to us, which I can only assume were passed down from those above her (the venue owners we never met) were unreasonable and difficult.
This venue has SO much potential and can give you a beautiful & memorable wedding day. Unfortunately I feel at this time they are difficult to work with and not client centered. They may need to revisit there rental model and customer service.

It is a beautiful venue with a great team! We had a morning ceremony and a brunch reception with Dean and Brown Catering LLC, which gave us plenty of time to clean up and enjoy the outdoors, including the pool :) we hosted around 120 people in the lodge and had a great time. It takes a lot of organizing and work, but it is well worth the price for what you get!

The infinite possibilities with this venue make it the perfect space for creating your vision. The days leading up to our wedding it became clear that we would most definitely be getting snow/ ice or rain… I refused to make the call until the day before and the owners and Lindsey were super flexible and worked with us on our last minute decision to put a tent up to keep all of our spaces covered and heated. I was still able to have my outdoor woodsy ceremony in the covered pavilion and it was nothing short of magical, sleet tinging the metal awning, fire crackling it was great.
We loved that we were not locked into specific caterers, or other vendors. We were able to rent additional hours leading up to the day of.
Highly recommend CHV for the couple looking for an intimate slow paced celebration. It’s a great blank canvas with great options for overnight stay.
For those of us getting married after kids, this was the only venue I went to where I wasn’t having anxiety about where they would be or what they could get into or break. Cannot speak highly enough about Lindsey (manager) and her responsiveness all along the way!

Sooo much credit to my amazing photographer (photography by Brea) for capturing it all these weee just some sneak peaks and photos from friends and coordinator ( Amy Frances) of set up