The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is ABSOLUTELY THE MOST STUNNING WEDDING VENUE there is in California! It feels like a castle in Europe but with palm trees and rolling hills all around the venue. It’s truly A HIDDEN GEM. My now husband and I wanted to book the venue immediately after seeing it and truth be told, it was a tough process initially to get through to someone in the Sales Office, as well as get a contract in front of us. This made us nervous for a few weeks, early in the process, but after getting through the initial hurdle of obtaining and signing the vendor agreement – the process got much smoother. While there was back and forth prior to getting all the details right, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this venue for weddings. It truly has everything you could ever want and then some! A BEAUTIFUL VENUE, unique hotel rooms (the BEST one being the Alhambra Suite – where Ronald Reagon honeymooned, fun fact) great food, ample restaurant options, 5-star spa and everything in one location to make it exceptionally easy for both bride and groom and your guests. I also recommend working with Melissa Chavira and Joseph Orozco in the Sales Office. They were THE BEST and made our wedding day on September 16th, 2023 truly a day we will remember forever!

Beautiful! The staff was so lovely and accommodating! Kristi Pierce, who is the coordinator at The Mission Inn, was always so responsive and professional. She always had a smile on our face and was ready to help whenever we had a question or request. She made our day perfect. The location is reminiscent of old European architecture. My guests were in awe of the aesthetics as well as the picturesque chapel where we had our ceremony. Two of my guests who are engaged want to get married there as well. It was a day we will never forget.

My wife and I got married in October (2019) at the Mission Inn Hotel and were SO lucky to have found such a truly incredible venue. The Mission Inn Wedding team seriously knows their stuff and our wedding was simply magical.

We found the Mission Inn through their Wedding Expo event (highly recommend checking it out). At the event, we spoke with Jordyn Prather (Catering Manager) and she was unbelievably helpful and accommodating. She helped make the decision to go with the Mission Inn super easy by being so truly nice, straightforward, honest, and communicative with package information and pricing. The pricing for the Mission Inn was SUPER affordable, especially considering the absolutely gorgeous historic venue and the top notch quality service you are getting. A major plus, was that our package came with a hotel room for us on our wedding night (on top of a few other wonderful perks!)

In my opinion, the Mission Inn is the ideal place to have your wedding. Besides it just being stunning head to toe in every location of the hotel/banquet halls, everything is in one place and is made to be quite seamless with the wedding event planning team. It felt like we were getting married in a gorgeous Spanish style castle and every detail was so perfectly elegant and magical. It made it challenging to pick what exact locations we wanted for our photos! We had our ceremony in the Atrio Courtyard (right outside the Chapel) and it was just glorious. We loved that since we reserved the Atrio Courtyard, that in case it rained, we had the option to go inside the chapel in case at no extra cost. We then had our cocktail hour and reception in the Grand Parisian Ballroom. It couldn’t have been more perfect. Right outside the ballroom is a private bar area with private bathrooms. The ballroom by itself is gorgeously decorated, so we felt like we didn’t need to add much to the room for decor. We had 100 guests, but the room can easily fit 250 people. The other major plus, was that we were able to have our room block at the hotel (at a pretty good price for the Mission Inn), making it super convenient for us and our guests to just go right up to our rooms after the reception was done. We didn’t have to worry about shuttling guests to a hotel or whatnot.

The Food and Drinks are fantastic at this venue and came a part of the venue pricing. We had the most wonderful and romantic time at our food tasting. The food we had was steak, salmon, ravioli and they were able to accommodate a few vegan meals as well. Our guests raved about how delicious the food was (which is not always common at weddings!) and we loved it too. The drinks were wonderful and top notch. Our package came with a champagne toast which was super special. Our Mission Inn coordinator, Paige Young, gave us a preferred vendors list which was very helpful. We ended up working with a few of the vendors, but we also were able to have outside vendors come in. The preferred vendors that we worked with were awesome and truly know the Mission Inn thanks to Paige’s recommendations.

At the Mission Inn, you are assigned a day-of coordinator as part of your package. We had hands down the BEST coordinator ever, Paige. From the moment we met her to every single phone call, meeting, email, she was just the most attentive, communicative, honest, fun, professional, and organized coordinator we could’ve imagined. If it wasn’t for Paige, our wedding wouldn’t have come together as perfectly as it did. We planned our wedding from across the country and Paige made it so easy to help us plan despite the time change. She was so accommodating, would always respond to our calls/emails quickly, and would always check about something if we had a request to try to make it possible. I would give Paige a million stars out of 10 if I could! Paige was so helpful with every moment leading up to the day before to the day of the wedding and she truly went above and beyond to make our day so special. Getting our reception site set up was super easy with Paige’s help and her recommendations were always on point. Paige always listened to what we wanted, made great recommendations, and always appropriately took charge which was so nice when wedding planning can feel so overwhelming. I highly recommend requesting Paige if you are getting married at the Mission Inn! We were additionally assigned a Ceremony Coordinator, Aricel Rojo, who was in charge with anything related to the Ceremony. It was so wonderful having Aricel as our point person for the ceremony and getting to have that as part of our package. Aricel additionally went above and beyond and was so lovely to work with. She made sure our Ceremony rehearsal went smoothly and that all small ceremony details were taken care of and that we felt comfortable and calm leading up to the ceremony. Aricel was so wonderful to work with. I highly recommend her too.

The other major thing that stood out to us, was the overall fantastic customer service at The Mission Inn. From the valet staff, front desk check in, maintenance, cleaning, the wedding teams, restaurant managers-every single team member consistently went above and beyond to make sure that we had top notch service the whole weekend. Overall, the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa was a serious dream come true for our wedding and it was truly magical thanks to the amazing staff. It was so wonderful to have an LGBTQ wedding and to always feel 100% supported throughout our wedding process at this venue. I 100% recommend it for future couples!