This place is just the one for us! It is quaint and beautifully located in Stillwater. The interiors are so beautifully decorated and Carlota and Sofie were so flexible and worked with us from the beginning. The cake is out of the world, so yummy and delicious. The gardens,apple trees and friendly lab-Choco gave us the chance to have our beautiful wedding.

The Outing Lodge has so much natural beauty. It was the perfect setting for our simple but very special day. We took our wedding photos in the forest behind the lodge that couldn't of been more beautiful. It will always have happy memories of that day. We do have some warnings about the Outing Lodge. Our wedding planning was smooth sailing and very flexible until our first wedding coordinator left the lodge for personal reasons (they seem to have a high turnover of coordinators). It is hard to write a negative review about a place that gave us a beautiful wedding day, but our experience with one of the owners was not very positive and she caused both of us quite a bit of stress. She wouldn't allow us to use our friend’s tent company (that works with their vendor, Apres, but was half the cost). We were required to use a more expensive tent vendor that, the evening before our wedding, delivered a tent that was too small to fit all of our guests comfortably. We were also charged for extra guests because they had to set up a special table inside for some family members with disabilities – even though no extra guests came. We pleaded that this was unfair, and that we had guests who were unable to make the wedding at the last minute and no additional guests in attendance. We had repeated issues with misleading or hidden fees and charges on the invoices we received, which were changing throughout the weeks up to the wedding. We would also recommend getting an itemized bar tab and having someone keep close tabs on the bar, because some of our family members said they were being overcharged and that the bar menu was being mismanaged. In the end, we were unfairly charged for several things, and would insist on a very specific protocol if we were ever to use the Outing Lodge again. In particular, we would want all forms of communication to go to the same ppl and we would ask for clearer, itemized invoices that explicitly note all changes and all fees.

The Outing Lodge felt like home. It is truly a gem of a space filled with really lovely people who take the business of weddings to heart. We really enjoyed our experience, from the beginning with Outing Lodge. Our wedding planner handled the details of our wedding with care, and advocated for our desires on the details of the day.

My only critiques were of the food at the reception as well as the general up-keep of the property.

The food was one of the most important things to me and we wanted to do something a little out of the box. We were assured that this was a possible and workable situation, but were disappointed at the lack of communication with the chef in this process as well as the end product of one of the dishes served at the reception.

As to the up-keep of the property. We had our wedding outdoors and were assured that the construction of a home on the property would be cleaned up by the time of our wedding. Unfortunately this wasn't done to the level we hoped for.

Other than that, we were very happy with the location as well as the service we received at the Outing Lodge and plan on returning often. They helped to make our wedding everything we hoped for and something we'll never forget!