Core Event Center

Weddings, they can be the best day if you pick the right people. The people at Core Event Center are the right people. Joey and his team could make a wedding beautiful in a hurricane with the wedding party on fire. It's hard to even fully describe them in words, but, I will try my best.

Here are some adjectives: wonderful, excellent, perfect, fun, caring, flexible, top notch, one of a kind, and the word that matters most to us, easy going. If you can dream it, they can do it.

JOEY AND HIS WHOLE TEAM:
We tossed many curveballs at Joey and his team and they hit them out of the park.

Can we have the bar to stay open during dinner? DONE
We have 17 different people with allergies ranging from gluten free, nut free, dairy free, celiac, you name it can we accommodate all of them? DONE
My best man and father died a few months before the wedding. Can we have a video montage play of his last words and speech anywhere? DONE (They put him on a big screen so all 250 guests could see and hear him perfectly, everyone cried, don’t do that.)
Is there any chance we can have an open bar, but only for wedding guests a few hours leading up to the wedding? In a different room? Because our friends and families are all alcoholics? DONE
I know you have a shuttle, can it take the wedding party for pictures? DONE
How about tattoos? Can we bring in a tattoo artist to the reception to give our guests free tattoos? DONE
The bride and her bridal party need more time than 92 Vegas show girls to get ready, can someone show up at 8am, 10 hours before the wedding, and let them in? DONE
Can we get married in a different room than the reception? DONE
Remember our alcoholic friends and family? They need more drinks after the wedding ends, 8 hours of drinking isn’t enough for those animals. Can we supply pizza and apps after the wedding is over, in the main bar? DONE
Can we have a DJ for said after party? DONE
Can we extend the shuttle a little longer at the last minute? DONE
Is there any way that the bride, groom, friends and family don’t have to do anything at all? From decorations, cook table clean up, tear down? DONE

THE CORE EVENT CENTER BUILDING
Core Event Center has a huge fully covered patio that weddings can use for guests to go outside and sit even if it rains, I bet the patio holds over 100 people. That’s what we liked most. There are many places nearby, that they will drive the wedding party to and from for pictures. We lucked out and got a nice day.

It's right by the turnpike with lots of Hotels nearby. We recommend the Hampton, they too were great.

We loved the huge staircase, it made for some of our best pictures. The food was as good as anyone has ever had. What we remember most about the wedding was just how every time my wife of about 2 hours and I looked around people were having a blast. Just a full 6 hours of uninterrupted bliss. Which is what anyone wants at a wedding.

Here’s the thing: If you are looking for a more modern spot with anything you can dream up, this is your place. Beautiful everything. Large space, many different rooms for wedding parties, tons of parking, air conditioning (for us fat folk), two large restrooms on both sides of the center (never lines), full scale kitchen, a public bar that’s attached to the building for an after party, and a staff that literally bent over backwards like they were Mary Lou Retton in the 84 summer Olympics -- CORE is it.

When we run into family and friends they always say how this wedding was the best ever. We agree, even though obviously partial, for it was our wedding. We owe those comments and our general happiness to Core Event Center, Joey, and the entire staff. We also met our wedding coordinator and decorator, Lainie, through Core Event Center and that was truly one of the best decisions we ever made. Lainie is phenomenal and brought our vision to life flawlessly. We recommend her to EVERYONE.

We get nothing for this review but tell them Jingles and Jill sent you. Always remember, you get what you pay for and this was worth far more than what we paid.

-- Jingles.& Jill

We had a great experience with Core! They were very helpful throughout the wedding process and especially flexible during wedding week/day. It is a beautiful place, and my guests still say how good r the food was! Would definitely recommend.

I can honestly say that our wedding went better than anything I could imagine, and it was all because of Core Event Center. We got lucky to find a place that was super convenient to having the rehearsal, ceremony, reception and afterparty all in the same place. It was a luxury to have a shuttle service near the Hampton and Holiday Inn since we had a lot of people traveling for our wedding day. Joey, the event manager, was very exceptional to work with. The bartender at our wedding was terrific. Our guests went out of their way to tell us how great she was. There were, however, a few details that were missed. I think if we met with the wedding planner/coordinator prior to our wedding it would have been better.

From beginning of planning for our wedding to the rehearsal dinner to the end of our reception …. The Core treated us like family with professionalism, ease and total joy for our occasion there! They kept on point with plans made or changes that arose, their presentation was exactly what I asked for , the food was delicious -both dinners- and enjoyed by all ; my reception was held in their new Bourbon room and couldn’t have been a better decision on our part for the comfortable welcomeness that room offers ; we are so happy we chose The Core along with all the memories it helped us make with family and friends ❤️