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Eric Sent on 12/27/2025Extremely Pleased with the Farmhouse in Hampton, NJ
Huge shout out to the Farmhouse in Hampton, NJ! We were able to plan a wedding in only 3.5 months because of this dedicated and talented team. The entire experience was easy, fun, and professional. The entire team was reliable, organized, and efficient which gave us ability to have peace of mind throughout the process. Gina Milo took such great care of us leading up to and on the day our wedding. We couldn’t be happier with this venue and the amazing staff! -
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Stacey Sent on 07/09/2024Great space but NOT what I wanted service-wise
I have waited months to write this review of The View in Lincoln Park / Landmark Venues as a whole. We had booked an inclusive venue from what we thought was a well-established company in the wedding business thinking it would make our lives easier and avoid the need to spend additional money on a wedding planner but they were difficult to work with all around.
The venue itself is beautiful, the food was wedding-reception-tasty and we booked in May of 2023 for a July 2024 wedding and were able to secure some promotional pricing. These are the only positives I have to share.
The issues began during a venue visit in September of 2023. The outdoor ceremony space had a chain link fence surrounding it. This was the case when we signed but I was told by VIVIAN BIFULCO, our Event Coordinator at the time, that the space was going to be landscaped and made suitable for a ceremony. It was apparent by September that the venue had no plans to do this, so I asked for an alternate solution. They proposed having the ceremony on the third floor space, which was previously off-limits to us. I said “Great, send over an updated contract.” At this meeting I also needed to adjust my headcount down from 130 to 110.
Upon having Viv send over the new contract—which only had some of the changes we had requested—we quickly realized that Landmark / Vivian had previously only sent us a payment terms document and had attempted to pass off what was actually the original contract as a revision.
Upon discovering this, my now-husband and I immediately picked up on ambiguities within both documents that could potentially have had us paying significantly more in cancellation fees (if we had to cancel). Upon approaching Vivian about this, we had explained that we were under the impression that the payment schedule we had signed in May served as Landmark’s protection in the event we canceled and asked that cancellation terms be updated to align to reflect this understanding. This ask was above Vivian, but she proceeded to drag her feet on getting an updated contract and became barely responsive over email, conveniently seeming to forget the status of the contract changes. Eventually we were calling the CFO of Landmark Venues, SCOTT GROGAN, directly. I asked that he make the changes and arrange for Vivian to be removed from our wedding.. In October of 2023 I had to send a strongly worded email to Scott explaining that he had missed our agreed upon by-when date to make the changes we asked for and we intended to pull out. He had received periodic reminders prior to this. He then replied immediately, cited “personal issues” as a reason for the delay, sent the updated contract, and then matched us with MATTHEW TOBJY as our new Event Coordinator.
We thought this could be a positive change in the relationship since we had toured Hudson House, another Landmark Venue, with Matthew and had initially liked him.
MATTHEW TOBJY was better at responding to emails than Vivian, but only seemed to have 75% of the information at any given time. Specific moments I found troubling during the course of planning our event were as follows:
I had scheduled a venue visit with our florist where Matthew told me explicitly that the ceremony space would be set to a configuration for 110 so the florist could see it. When we arrived it was NOT set to a configuration for 110. He explained they don’t configure the space unless there is an event, to which I responded “Then why would you tell me you would have it set?”
Our tasting, which was scheduled to take place at their sister venue Liberty State Park, was rescheduled the morning of due to flooding. While it was admittedly a bad weather day, I must emphasize it was NOT A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT where we were advised to not travel. My mom was very close to traveling to attend the tasting, my now-husband’s family had changed their plans to be there, and I lost wages to accommodate the date, so I considered the late notice completely unacceptable. Ultimately all of the dates provided were not able to be attended by our families so we were the only couple at the group tasting without our families (we brought friends).
At the tasting, menu items had changed vs. what Vivian had written in our original contract. They were able to serve some of the original menu items at our wedding, but we were understandably disappointed we could not try them ahead of time.
Matthew attempted to charge us a $325 early entry fee needed for my HMUA to complete our wedding looks. This early entry fee was NOT written in the updated contract (which Matthew plainly admitted), but was listed on a promotional packet that had outdated information (see the above point about menu items). Our early entry need should also not have been a surprise to the team at The View since my invite time was 4pm since day one. My now-husband had to advocate for that fee to be waived, and even still, Matthew did not allow us in at an optimal time of 7am. It only ended up working because one of the moms opted out of professional hair and makeup to help us.
The bridal attendant was not available until 1pm even though we had negotiated 8am early entry, so I had to feed my entire bridal party and our moms.
MATTHEW HIMSELF WAS NOT PRESENT ON SITE UNTIL 11AM.
Matthew overlooked multiple asks via email for a floorplan showing a specific number of 72 inch rounds and 60 inch rounds. Eventually I went into Google slides and generated a mockup myself. When sent to Matthew, he described it as “really helpful” which was immensely frustrating because he could have helped himself. He also would have benefited from doing this himself because day of I double checked all table placements and chair counts and ultimately staff had to push everything over slightly to make the dance floor larger (which was needed).
I asked in an email for him to double confirm the # of rows in the ceremony setup for a guest count of 110 for the benefit of my florist and he could only provide a range. I pressed him to give exact numbers, and of course on day-of the configuration turned out to be different-but-better than what he said so I told my florist to “roll with it and make it pretty,” which she thankfully did. I don’t think Matthew understands that a lack of precision leads to incurred floral costs on the part of the bride
We had our final details meeting but there was NO WEDDING DAY TIMELINE PROVIDED to me a week out from my wedding. Matthew sent a banquet order that showed invite time, ceremony time, cocktail hour, reception start, meals, cake cutting, and load out, which my MOH who works in the events industry said was not enough for even an event coordinator to work off of, and that in lieu of having a planner, she has seen the venue create that. That being said, I had to BUILD MY OWN WEDDING DAY TIMELINE and individually check in with each vendor to ensure they knew their arrival time. I shared this with Matthew to ensure he had the information he needed.
Day of we noticed there was no place to discreetly dispose of feminine products in the stalls of the guest-facing restroom. This was coupled with signs that suggested that flushing items would be “an inconvenience to you” (as a guest) felt really weird, so I asked the bridal attendant to take the signs down. It’s not that hard to put wastebaskets in the stalls vs. outside of them, and honestly, I almost moved all small trash cans I could find in there. I made a point to explain to Matthew that if you’re in the wedding business, you should understand how to make women as comfortable as possible.
The only rehearsal time that was offered to us was an hour before our wedding and Matthew was not upstairs on time for this. We had to go get him for this. I’m not certain he was needed at all but we would have been late on this key moment had I not made a groomsman check his phone.
It was 4:27pm for a 4:30pm ceremony and nobody had gotten my bridal party. We knew our marks so we proceeded to bring ourselves to the ceremony space for the processional.
My bridal party was asked to sit at their table at the reception before our reception walkout to place their dinner orders when the venue could have used the documents I provided for the seating chart to determine who sat where and asked this information earlier in the day.
This is secondhand information, but it seems like the event coordinator did not realize our plan for walkout and was giving my bridal party direction to stand to the side when we walked out to a party song and wanted everyone up to dance right away. I also had to tell the wedding band (a nontraditional option) to “ignore instructions from the event coordinator and come upstairs” because they were told to be in the wrong place.
The wedding band also told me after the event (at my after party) that vendor load in was chaotic and it only worked because my vendors were all smart and resourceful.
Here are some additional minor comments about everything else but not directly related to Matthew, Viv, or Scott:
- My signature cocktails weren’t well mixed. I had mine redone since it was ALL tequila in my strawberry basil paloma (and I seemed to be the only one not hungover the next day)
- The halibut was chewier than at the tasting in a bad way (many still liked it) while most other items were way better. Per Viv (who I weirdly enough saw at an event prior to my wedding) the chef who did the tasting was different than the chef who did my wedding so I guess we lucked out.
- My bridal attendant (Jackie) was honestly overall great, but boy did she seem to have a hard time pinning me after my bustle broke! Family members had to rush in and help her so that I didn’t spend my entire reception off to the side
- Friends/fam did really like the Maitre D (forgot his name). I think he helped us nail the cake cutting photos, too!
- The bridal suite could benefit from a mini fridge for food/drink but also perhaps for floral preservation purposes. It also seemed to get hot/humid in the suite despite numerous attempts to drop the temperature. -
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