1850 Settlement Reviews

We had a great time at our June wedding, the inside barn was great for dinner and dancing. We had always wanted to get married outside under a large tree and 1850 had the perfect spot!

The venue is simply stunning, and the property manager, Anna, was absolutely amazing work with!! Quick to respond and extremely helpful on the big day.

This was the perfect venue for our wedding. Anna, the venue manager, was one of the kindest souls I've ever met. She gave us recomendations FOR AN AMAZING coordinator to help with the day of needs. As a teacher and graduate student, she made everything run so smoothly. It was a family affair, and Anna and her husband were like family that day. Our parents are still talking about the kindness and ethusiasm from both her and Brandy. I feel so blessed to have met her and have had her as our venue manager that day. If you're looking for above and beyond customer service from genuine kind souls, The Settlement will not disaapoint.

If I could give 10 stars to this venue, I would. I cannot tell you how wonderful it was working with The Settlement, and especially with their new manager, Anna. The management changed shortly before our wedding and I was w bit nervous that Anna wouldn’t know what was going on. I could not have been more wrong. She went above and beyond to make sure everything went as planned. She helped find vendors when some of ours fell through, she set up all day with us, and she was an absolute joy the entire time. We had multiple vendors on site, s’mores at the bonfire, and we even had a Ferris wheel. The Settlement was the perfect location and size and I think they’ve found their perfect manager. Anna, Ben and I cannot thank you enough for making sure our wedding went as planned. I would recommend The Settlement and working with Anna to anyone looking for the best outdoor, rustic, barn wedding venue in Texas!

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The settlement circa 1850 or the 1850 settlement was amazing! We had our wedding 4/8/2017 on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. The Settlement provided the most perfect setting for the guests to enjoy the gorgeous weather of San Antonio. I fell in love with a rustic chic barn wedding when I started planning, and this was the closest barn from San Antonio. Besides the convenience of location, the barn itself is amazing. The details of the original settlement and the record of the newly built barn really sets it apart from any other venues we visited. The owners could not be more friendly. They even bought out a surprise pony named miss Scarlett during our cocktail hour that won the heart of all the guests. Our parents could not be more happy with our wedding and our guest could not stop gushing over how nice and fun the wedding was! Picking this venue was the best decision we made. The best part is the owner is relentless in improving the facilities constantly. By the time we had our wedding, there were so many more nice surprise updates in the facility and the decor that weren't even present when we signed our lease a year earlier! i would definitely recommend this venue and perhaps come back for our vow renewals in the future!

We recently had our wedding at The 1850 Settlement, with rave reviews from all of our guests!
Working with Amanda was easy and she was very quick to follow up on emails and answer ALL the questions I had throughout the process.
I'd recommend The 1850 Settlement to anyone looking for a wedding venue! It was a great experience!

I was seriously so in love with my venue. It had everything I was looking for. It had this amazing rustic barn with old fashioned lights. It was snug in the hill country where it felt intimate but was not too far away from the city where it was too far of a drive. The color of windows on the old buildings inspired my wedding colors which was blush and aqua. It matched the theme amazingly. I would definitely recommend this venue to brides who want either a rustic theme or a vintage theme. Either way, it's one of the most unique and special places to have a wedding.

My wedding happened during a a venue manager transition period. It was a little uncomfortable and confusing at the beginning but once Anna (the new manager) took over she made our experience so much easier. She was very helpful before and during the event. She played a major role in having a flawless wedding.

Mandy is fantastic she is so helpful and the venue is beautiful, it has options that you can work with to create any feel!

The venue we picked for our wedding was stunning! Just outside of San Antonio made us feel like we were in the country but had all the amenities of a big city! Our 200 guest were able to fit great leaving plenty of room to dance. The bridal and groom suit were cozy and comfortable for 8 bridesmaids and groomsmen! The layout with the extra building for the guest to look in was definitely a bonus. All in all, great venue!

The 1850 Settlement is a beautiful place for a wedding but we don’t recommend it at this time due to the management. We dealt with the property manager exclusively during the months of preparation. We never saw her the weekend of the wedding, even when she said she was going to be there (email). We had an appointment at venue 2 days prior to wedding to practice hanging decorations. The appointment was made verbally and confirmed via email and text and detailed who was to be there, what equipment, and that there was no other conflict at venue at that time. We got to venue and a rehearsal dinner was going on and no staff person was present. The bride’s mother of the other wedding came over and we explained our situation. She was gracious and said they would be finishing soon and then we could come in then. A staff person showed up about 15 minutes later, didn’t know who we were and said we couldn’t be there. When I showed her the correspondence dealing with our appointment, she begrudgingly worked with us. When we got to the venue the morning of the wedding on time, cleaning staff was just finishing cleaning but the tables and chairs had not been set up so our decorating got delayed. No property manager. The staff person did not identify herself until about 30 minutes before wedding. Despite repeated requests to talk to the owner or the property manager, as of to date, we have not received a phone call from either one. The property manager did contact the wedding coordinator after the wedding to make amends with her and the emails contained untruths and deflection of blame (the wedding coordinator copied us into the conversation). When we responded to the emails with documentation (copied previous emails and texts), we still didn’t receive any phone call from the property manager or owner. We had a beautiful wedding and we are very thankful. We just feel this isn’t the way to treat people or a way to do business and felt like we should give future fam

I had my wedding here back in April and it was the worst experience dealing with management. 2 months before my wedding they fired the manager (who I had been dealing with the whole time) so I was having to deal with the owners who knew NOTHING about my wedding. I had spent a couple hours out of my day one day to fill out my floor plan that was supposed to be set up for me when we got there. The day we went to set up and NOTHING was done. There were WAY too many tables and chairs in the barn so my bridesmaids and I had to take them all down and haul them to the back which took about 2 hours .. and trust me , they are HEAVY ! My dad had built a bar for the reception barn and an entry to my outside ceremony made out of old doors. My wedding day, the new manager (this was her first day) and my dad agreed on them buying the bar for $250 and said that they wanted to keep the doors for a couple weeks to see if they had any interest in them and that if they did they would purchase them. At the end of the night the people we hired to clean up were kicked out 30 minutes prior to when they were supposed to be out and were told that there was no event the next day so they could come back the next day. Well, when we came back the next day everything was already cleaned up and there was no mention of ANY problems what so ever. A couple months go by and my dad expressed his concern to me that he had not yet received his deposit back. I called the manager and she said she needed to figure it out because I was her first wedding. Another month and a half went by and still nothing. I messaged them on Facebook , saw that they had “read” it so messaged them again the next day and THEY BLOCKED ME!!! After sending numerous emails after that they FINALLY responded and said that there was supposedly a broken chair in the bridal suite (why would you put a brittle broken chair in there for people to sit on then ?!) which also supposedly cost more than the $500 deposit! Ha ... yeah ooookay!

If you want a venue that makes you wish you would have just run off or got married in the backyard then these are your guys. I found out a little too late that these guys are scammers, I was warned after I had already paid the deposit, so I wanted to warn everyone before its too late.