Rhodes Ranch Golf Club Reviews
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Kelsey Sent on 10/28/2021Amazing Las Vegas Venue!
The Rhodes Ranch wedding venue absolutely exceeded our expectations for our October wedding! We began planning during the pandemic and ended up needing to reschedule- Rhodes Ranch immediately accommodated our new date.
The ceremony space is absolutely gorgeous- greenery, lakeside, with a picturesque mountain view as well. We fell in love with this space and asked if we could have our ceremony AND reception all in the same spot. Since we only had 60 guests, Rhodes Ranch enthusiastically agreed and began helping us form our vision for the space. The coordinators went above and beyond. They helped me with design choices, day-of timelines, rentals, and more. The coordinators even had a large collection of decorative items (signs, candles, chargers, etc) that we were able to use without additional fees. Plus, the ceremony/reception space has adorable bistro lights that many other venues charge extra to include!
The day of the wedding went so smoothly thanks to the venue staff. My family kept asking how they could help, but there was honestly nothing to do because the venue crew took care of everything! All we had to do was drop off the decorations we had purchased and they set everything up beautifully.
The food was incredible as well. We chose to do a taco bar, which was catered by the venue. I had vegan, gluten-free, and vegetarian guests at the wedding and everyone was happy with the taco options. I especially loved that the catering staff brought us (the couple) our food first to ensure we had time to eat. I hear a lot of couples don't actually eat on their wedding day... we did not have that problem!
Of all the venues we toured in Las Vegas, this one was the most cost-effective, most hands-on, and the best option for an outdoor reception that we could find. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day! -
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Brytnee Sent on 10/18/2019The Most Beautiful Day
Where do I begin? Rhodes Ranch was seriously the perfect place to have our wedding. Celeste, the wedding planner there, did an amazing job at giving us everything we wanted. We wanted a way less traditional wedding with a consumption bar and passed appetizers. We even added a taco bar. We customized so much for a great price. Celeste has so many wedding decorations to work with and add to our day to save money. She really did make everything come together so beautifully without any stress. My husband and I plan to have anniversary parties there every year now. -
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Sarah Sent on 10/15/2019
Incredible Value!
Where do I begin? This venue was everything we could have wanted and then some. We are from the Chicagoland area but wanted a Las Vegas wedding near my new mother-in-law. We found Rhodes Ranch by recommendation, and we had no idea how lucky we were! From the very beginning, Celeste made the process so seamless. She worked with us from afar to create the non-traditional taco bar reception of our dreams and helped us to arrange a rehearsal brunch at the venue for the day before the wedding. The quote we received was more reasonable than any other location we priced out and it included not only incredible service but access to decor and extras that we did not have to purchase and send over. On the big day, everything was PERFECT! The tables looked straight out of my imagination, the ceremony space was gorgeous, and the “extras” were placed perfectly. The staff were so attentive and made sure that my husband and I had food and drinks while we took pictures and mingled with our guests. Celeste also connected us with our DJ, photo booth, and recommended a hair and makeup team that totally nailed it. All in all, we couldn’t imagine a more perfect location for our wedding or a more professional execution. -
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Anita Sent on 12/07/2017We had the most amazing wedding at Rhodes Ranch! The venue is stunning. We lucked out and got an incredibly perfect day weather wise! Celeste, our wedding coordinator was so helpful, flexible and on the ball!
We had a small wedding with mostly family and close friends and the space was perfect for us. Everyone complimented the food, the space the staff and the service! We are so pleased! -
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Jessica Sent on 11/13/2016Kristen, Celeste and the entire team at Rhodes Ranch Golf Club are miracle workers. From day one Kristen made me feel welcome and worked with me to come up with a wedding package that fit our budget but didn't compromise on the things that I felt were important. She was always responsive to my emails and was so dependable. The ceremony and reception site are beautiful and my guests loved the food and the other vendors as well. Please do yourself a favor and at the very least visit Rhodes Ranch, I visited over 6 venues and while others had similar appeal it was the team there that put them at the top of my list. My wedding day was perfect, it just flowed and everything was taken care of. Thank you again for making the best day of my life a perfect one. -
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Michelle Sent on 10/12/2016Rhodes Ranch was amazing! The staff were on point all throughout the planning process and handled every hiccup the day of the wedding. The staff took care of everything and stayed in the background all night, but was there when I needed them. Dinner was delicious and the buffet ran so smoothly. I could not have asked for a better team. -
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Heidi Sent on 06/30/2013We had our wedding and reception at Rhodes Ranch on May 26, 2013 and we cannot say enough about how amazing everything was! From the planning process to the day of, everything was beyond our expectations. Justine was our wedding planner and she was fantastic! She was always so quick to answer any calls or emails we sent and was so flexible to accommodate all of our requests. Rhodes Ranch is one of the most beautiful venues here in Las Vegas, so that in addition to how great all the staff, food, and service was...we couldn't recommend a better place to celebrate one of the biggest days of your life! I will also add that I am a wedding planner here in Las Vegas, so my expectations are extremely high...and they allowed me the flexibility to bring my own creativity to the event, which was exactly what we were looking for. Thank you so much to Justine and all the other staff! We cannot rave enough about our experience and all of our guests were far beyond impressed. THANK YOU!! -
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Leo Sent on 06/27/2013Where do I start? Rhodes Ranch and specifically our coordinator, Justine, made our wedding perfect! Being from out of state, it wasn't the easiest wedding to plan. We hadn't ever even been to Rhodes Ranch prior to our wedding. So for months, I hounded Justine with countless emails and question after question. She was able to answer every single one of them and make us completely comfortable choosing Rhodes Ranch as our destination wedding venue.
The day of the wedding, everything was set up to perfection. The ceremony and reception went off without a hitch and we received dozens of compliments about the venue. You really can't beat the mountains and palm trees as a backdrop. With all the palm trees and greenery, you would never guess you were in the middle of the desert. Food was great, service was excellent and the party was endless!
I don't think there's one thing I'd change and I am thankful for every single person that went into making our wedding unforgettable, especially Justine! Thanks so much!
(here's a peak at our wedding if you are interested in seeing the grounds, http://vimeo.com/69166584) -
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Stacie Sent on 08/18/2020Warning not to use
I need to warn anyone considering Rhodes Ranch for their wedding. They used to have a coordinator, Kristen Raftery, who was great, well organized, patient, compassionate--the list goes on. She left Rhodes Ranch sometime after I got married, and now there is a man, Dave Williams, in charge of food and beverages, that is absolutely horrible, horrendous, heinous (all the negative h words that exist). I spoke with him because some time after we got married, we realized that 72 of our bistro light bulbs that were used at the wedding (brand new when we arrived, never used since), were taken after they dissembled the decorations (because only their staff put up and take down everything), and he states he has no accountability for what happened and basically implied that I am lying. To replace the lights is $80. $80. A huge golf/country club like this isn't able to help pay for some lights that were most likely misplaced BY THEM? Like $40 would be fine. $20 even. But show that you care about protecting people's belongings and the fact that they are trusting you with these things for one of the most important days of their life. But washing your hands of it?? Unacceptable. Furthermore, Dave is somewhat of a bumbling person where it was confusing what he was trying to say and he clearly felt nervous speaking with a strong woman who had an opinion. Seems like the wedding field is probably not a good idea for a man like that!! Let's just hope you don't use this venue and lose something truly important to you, like an heirloom, because at least all I lost was something replaceable. I just don't think it's worth it since they clearly have proven they won't do what it takes to make things right. It's not even worth me addressing my wedding day at a place like that because this experience outweighs any other feelings I might have whether they were positive or not. That's why customer service is so important. It takes a lot of work to make someone think positively about your venue, but only one BAD experience to destroy all of that. Instantaneously. Would have been a very simple fix. -
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Angela Sent on 08/17/2021This is a warning to STAY AWAY
We recently got married at Rhodes Ranch and if I could, I would give it 0 stars. I should have known from the review someone else posted that it was going to be a nightmare. When I first looked into Rhodes Ranch I was working with Celeste, and she was great at first and then when the pandemic happened it was like pulling teeth to get her to respond to my emails. I found out she was on furlough but was also responding to emails. I kept asking if our date was still available and she kept saying no. I wasn't sure if she was saying they weren't doing weddings because of the pandemic or if our date really wasn't available. Finally, around October 2020 I called the golf course directly and ended up speaking with Dave the Director of Food & Beverage. He told us our date was available for the ceremony and for the rehearsal dinner. He told me that the ceremony normally would cost $2,500 and when i told him that I couldn't see us paying that amount for a 20-minute ceremony he dropped it down to $1,000. He emailed me after we spoke and told me he was going to reserve the indoor space for 50 people for our rehearsal dinner for August 5 and the ceremony spot for August 7.
Around April 2021, I received an email from Celeste saying she was back part time and wanted to go over some information. At that time, she also told me they were adding bistro lighting to the ceremony spot, and we could now have an evening ceremony. I asked if there was a way to remove them because I feel in love with the view without the bistro lights. She told me no and they were permeant. The first week of May my fiancé (hubby now) and I decided to go down to the golf course to feel out the weather in the ceremony spot since we were getting married outside in August. That is when I saw the bistro lights and pretty much lost it. From my conversation with Celeste, she told me they couldn't be removed so I started freaking out because I didn't want to get married with those god-awful lights above us. When I went into the club house both Dave and Celeste were there, and I told them I hated those lights. I got so upset because I was being told by Celeste that they couldn't be remove and then Dave told me he would look into getting them removed for our wedding. Dave ended up emailing me that week saying he can have the lights removed but not the poles. They kept saying the poles were welded in, which they weren't. Even our photographer said it was easy to remove the poles. Since the whole bistro lighting situation happened everything went downhill from there. I felt like they didn't care about our wedding because we weren't paying the full amount and they were mad that they had to take down the lights. Even Dave made comments that it was going to cost him $1,000 to remove the lights.
A few weeks before our wedding we scheduled an appointment to meet with Celeste and Dave ended up sitting in the appointment with us. I thought everything was all set for our rehearsal dinner and the ceremony, boy I was wrong. The rehearsal dinner was a nightmare. I found out the week of our rehearsal dinner that Celeste wasn't going to be there, and I was to work with another girl named Lauren. Dave told his staff we only had 45 guests, when I confirmed weeks ago and the week of, we were going to be 60-63. He even asked me when I arrived at the rehearsal dinner how many guests we ended up with and I told him we should still be at 60-63. After we completed the rehearsal, some of our guests started asking where they should sit since there wasn't enough chairs or tables. One of the staff members told me that Dave told them there was only 45 people coming so they set up for that many guests. I had to find chairs for our guests, and they ended up sitting with people that live inside Rhodes Ranch. They also didn't have enough drink tickets because Dave only gave them 45. I had to show Lauren an email from Dave that I received that week confirming we were still at 60-63 in order for us to get additional drink tickets. Then the food was taking forever, so I had to walk around to see who had food and who didn't. I honestly felt bad for the staff and Lauren. Lauren was left there to run the bar and help with our dinner. Shame on Dave for leaving her alone and not adding additional staff to help with our event. I didn't get to enjoy our rehearsal dinner because I was running around making sure everyone was taken care of. This is something I should have never had to do. We paid for a service, and we should have received that service. Before we left, I had this feeling that I needed to follow up with Lauren to make sure we were all set for the ceremony. She had no idea that I wanted draping on the arch and that we were borrowing a basket for our fans we were giving away. You would think that would have been in our file, so she knew what to do on our wedding day.
I was hoping that our ceremony day was going to go smoothly but I was completely wrong. Lauren again was running the bar and coordinating our ceremony. When we booked with them, I was told Celeste was going to be there to help me the day of our ceremony and not someone that was going to be doing two jobs at the same time. As I was walking down the aisle, the first few rows were empty because our family didn't know they were supposed to sit there, and the chairs weren't set up for the rehearsal dinner so we couldn't show them. I will take the blame on this because I should have had the groomsman escorting people down. I didn't think anything of it since Celeste told us our guests could stay in the club house and a few minutes before she would have them go down to the ceremony spot. We were supposed to have two golf carts to take photos out on the course and those weren't there. We had to find someone to get us carts, which delayed us, and we almost missed our ride to the reception.
I emailed Dave the Director of Food and Beverage a week after the wedding to discuss the issues we had during the rehearsal dinner and the ceremony and instead of acknowledging the mistakes that happened, he started blaming me for not responding to an email me sent me on August 5 20 minutes before we dropped off our decorations, he said that I showed up announced on August 5 and dropped off decorations with little to no information about what to do with the decorations (he emailed me on July 30 and told me to stop by August 5 after 2pm to drop off my decorations and speak with Lauren, which we did), he also said that the rehearsal dinner should have been $25 pp and we got a deal for $12 pp (never once did I asked for a deal, Celeste sent me the proposal on January 25, 2020 with that amount), then he said I acknowledge it wasn't a private event and they weren't going to set up tables for our guests (went back to my emails and October 23, 2020 he was supposed to reserve the indoor space and never did and why would I book somewhere that wasn't going to make sure there was enough seating for our guests), he said the ceremony started 15 minutes late because Lauren had to help me bustle my dress since none of the girls knew how to bustle it (didn't know you bustle a dress before you walk down the aisle), then he brought up that I was in his office hysterics about light and it cost him $1,000 to remove (again never forced him to remove the lights, that was all him and he could have said no and refunded our deposit), he also said I texted Lauren days after the event (which I did to see if we could pick up our decorations and I asked about what happened with the rows and that was it) and lastly he told me "You wanted a deal to make this work for you, but you wanted full service in return. I am sorry that this did not meet your expectations." I never once asked for a deal, and he should have told me he was going to half ass our events because we didn't pay full price. I spoke with Lauren when our rehearsal dinner was over, and I told her it felt like he didn't care because we didn't pay full price and he was made because he had to take down the bistro lighting and I was right. Even Lauren said it shouldn't matter if we paid full price or half, we still deserve the same level of service.
He only accepted responsibility for the late food and that he picked up our music bill ($150) which we were quoted $125, and in all honestly forgot all about it and he never emailed me after the wedding to tell us to pay for it. I asked for him to refund the $1,000 since we had so many issues and his response was "I apologize again that the day did not go as you had hoped. As I state, you had already received a $2,500 discount (not including lights or DJ). We operated this event at a lost. I will not be giving you an additional refund." Never have I worked with someone that is so unprofessional. Even our friends that own restaurants told us we better get our money back from the rehearsal dinner because how bad the service was.
If I could go back to October 2020, I would have never agreed to do our rehearsal dinner or ceremony there. This is just a warning for other brides to stay away.
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