The beauty of the venue isn't worth the anxiety of the staff.
Long post but if you're seriously considering this venue PLEASE read, please.
This is my personal experience.
It is with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes that I write this review. I fell in love with Mountain View Farm because of the beauty of the venue. I just knew I would have the perfect most beautiful wedding there. Everything was fine until the week of our wedding and we paid the final payment. Then everything changed.
Once the owner got our money, that was it. The friendliness was gone, the 'what can I do to help' attitude was gone and their true colors were shown. The main issue was three "women" that worked there: the owner, the coordinator and the florist the venue "recommends" but I did not use. The easiest way to do this is to just make a list of things that upset me.
1. Every single person that worked there made me cry because of how rude and disrespectful they were the day before my wedding, the day of my wedding and the day after.
2. The coordinator that came with the venue was useless. I had multiple people ask me where she came from and who she was because she was so terrible and disorganized. Looking back, I wish I had handled everything myself and not used her services. It would have stopped me from lots of anxiety and pain later on.
3. I caught lots of backlash every time I wanted to do something MY way and not "the way its always been done". Simple things like where I wanted the tables at or how the chairs were pushed up to the tables. Things that if the bride wanted, should not have been an issue.
4. I did not use the florist that the venue recommended because she told me point blank that she could not make me happy or do the floral arrangements I wanted. Which I think was the turning point that the owner and the coordinator started thinking they were the lead actresses in Mean Girls since I didn't hire their friend. The three amigos were used to running the show together and I didn't hire one of them, so the other two changed their attitudes towards me drastically.
5. They tried to take 12 of our germ-x bottles but my mom found them, they took wine that the bartenders had left for us and left over cake.
6.They threw away a lot.... a LOT of polaroid pictures we had taken that night. I will never be able to get them back. Which I think hurts my feelings more than anything.
7. The florist that I didn't hire, was still instructed by the owner to work my wedding. Which I think was just another way for the owner to "stick it to me" since I didn't hire her friend. She (the fake florist) went around and tried to rearrange everything the florist that I did hire and myself had put together. My sister had to go tell her MULTIPLE times to leave things the way they were because that's the way I wanted it.
8. They didn't only bully me, they bullied the florist I did hire to the point of tears as well. The lack of professionalism from the owner, coordinator and venues florist was mind blowing.
9. The venues florist (the one I didn't hire and made my life awful) told a bold face lie about me to the owner. She knows good and well what she said was a lie. She has to sleep with what she did at night and I'm not sure how she could treat someone the way she did and be ok with herself as a human. I do not take kindly to someone trying to trash my character so I reached out to her the day after the wedding to address the issue and she never responded.
10. The same lying, unprofessional and mean florist that was not hired by me yet still somehow was working my wedding, was also taking shots with my sister while she was supposed to be working. That just goes to show how much respect she had for me and my husband and our wedding.
11. Nothing went smoothly. I tried for months and weeks before the wedding to nail down details with the coordinator and more ofter than not I was brushed off.
12. The draft of the wedding day itinerary had numerous errors including MY NAME. She didn't even bother to look through and change the details of a previous wedding and everything was wrong. Such a lack of attention to detail and professionalism.
13. The coordinator didn't have anything where it needed to be when it needed to be there. My sister, my mom and myself ended up doing a lot of the work because she just wouldn't listen to me. Which is ridiculous. I guess I understand now why she was part of the venues package and she wasn't extra. I would never use her again for any event ever. Completely unorganized and unwilling to help. I rented some things from her and she never gave me the change for those things either. Something else the venue took from me.
We had until 3pm Sunday the day after the wedding to have everything gone and leave. The owner was calling me multiple times starting at 8am, wondering if we were up and gone yet and if things were finished.
How rude to call that early and keep pestering when we had literal HOURS left.
It just makes me sad. It actually hurts deep in my soul to have my wedding day tarnished by such mean, heartless women who just don't care about you or your wedding day. I can understand how they have so much business because they promise you the moon and the starts until they get their check then its over.
I wish I could redo everything and run far far away from this venue. The beauty of the venue does not outweigh the stress, anxiety and tears that come with picking this venue.