Smith Creek Village Reviews
Reviews
We're all about trust. Our community relies on honest reviews to help you make those big decisions with ease.
4.4 out of 5 rating
4.4 out of 5 rating
22 Reviews
88% recommend it
-
![Emily]()
Emily G. Sent on 05/08/2022Wonderful place to get married!
We rented out one of the Ranches for our wedding and it was so amazing! If you're looking for a forest setting,rustic,nature surrounded place to get married for a really reasonable price,definitely come here:) they have multiple site options for weddings as well when you email about wedding sites they offer. We rented it for 2 days total $1700. -
-
![Elyssa]()
Elyssa Sent on 04/30/2019Exactly what I dreamed my wedding would be and everything more!
Lauren took us on our tour and was so incredibly informative, genuine and kind. She made our experience so effortless in her detailed breakdown and was so helpful every step of the way. -
User1347656 Sent on 09/25/2013Stay in contact with them almost daily , get all permits complete and go step by step
-
![Aileen]()
Aileen Sent on 10/04/2011The park officials were very helpful and flexible. The rates were extremely affordable and the area is gorgeous! I would absolutely recommend this as an "outside of the box" wedding venue to anyone who wants something a little more on the rustic side :) -
![Heather]()
Heather B. Sent on 08/02/2023The perfect family reunion wedding
Smith Creek Village was a fantastic venue. It was very affordable so we rented a big ranch building for Friday and Saturday night during peak season. We had enough time to host a big friday welcome dinner, the wedding and sunday brunch. The ranch buildings include enough bunk beds for all of the guests (which we did not use), making it an incredibly inexpensive wedding location for your guests. It was nice to have enough time to see everyone and enjoy our guests over the entire weekend. The cabins were fantastic and our family was very happy, even those who are not outdoorsy. The big leaf restaurant impressed us (it is great during peak season so don’t judge if you tour during the winter). We would have hosted the rehearsal dinner at the big leaf in retrospect given how nice it was. Everyone ate at the restaurant so our guests stayed close and they spent a lot of time together as a big group. It felt like a big family reunion. We took amazing photos at Silver Falls the day of the wedding. I would recommend this venue for DIY couples who are prepared to add lights and a sound system. (I would highly recommend asking them about signs ahead of time and anticipate that no one will know where they are going. Just give a little extra time for the guests to get redirected by the very helpful Smith Creek Village welcome kiosk) -
Brianna G. Sent on 10/03/2021
Beautiful venue with lots of on site lodging
With all of the chaos of a COVID postponement we are still so glad that we ended up having our multi-day hybrid Hindu/western wedding with Smith Creek Village! The Smith Creek team also went through a lot of changes in the venue throughout the pandemic so communication was spotty at first but once the venue was fully back up and running they were flexible and easy to work with. We had one event at the Ranches- a gorgeous space and more DIY with vendors etc. The second event was at the lodge with more help from the smith creek team. It was so fun to have our guests staying on site in the cabins (or camping at the ranches!) and they appreciated the access to the new coffee shop/restaurant on site. -
-
Featured
Autumn Sent on 07/12/2020Perfect venue
Wedding planning during a pandemic is a rollercoaster. I fully expected that we'd have to get married in our living room after canceling our small ceremony at one of the ranches. But Silver Falls pulled through big time. We didn't get to use their outside elopement area because of weather but everything turned out perfectly. Brooke was so so so helpful and patient. I was driving myself crazy but she kept it together for me. -
-
User883944 Sent on 08/01/2012We got married at the New Ranch in the park. It was a beautiful location! The only down side is it is a overnight facility so you can't check in until 4pm so it calls for an evening wedding but the view is amazing when the sun sets. We had about 70 people there and had plenty of room inside and out. Overall it was a breath taking place to get married. -
User1283865 Sent on 08/12/2013If you are a bride who likes the outdoors, try this venue! We used the New Ranch as our venue site and some of us slept there in the bunks, some in nearby cabins and some in hotels in nearby silverton. It was beautiful scenery all to ourselves! It has a commercial kitchen that our caterer friend used. The only downside is showers are not located at the ranch, but it has bathrooms and everything else. One of the biggest pluses is it is so inexpensive you can save money for other things. The key is to reserve it 9 months ahead of time! You also have to make sure it is clean when checking out and they a very picky. We took amazing photos in the nearby scenery, I recommend the upper north falls trail, I could do it in my wedding shoes and you get right up to one of the falls! Everyone raved about what an awesome place it was!
-
![Diane]()
Diane K. Sent on 08/24/2019Poor communication and fairly complicated process
Quick Review:
I would not recommend this venue unless you are paying for a full wedding planner who can deal with the venue when they don’t respond. If you do book this venue because of the beautiful location make sure you stay on top of them with your emails and phone calls.
Detailed Review:
Let’s start with the positives:
The venue is beautiful, if you want an outdoor wedding and reception this was perfect. If you love Silver Falls you will be able to go and take wedding photos at the falls this is a good venue for that. Their catering was good. The rooms were decent for cabins and it was really fun to hang out around the campfire with our closest friends and family after the reception wrapped up.
but you have to use their catering and it’s only beer and wine. In addition to using their catering you also have to fill a certain number of cabins depending on the day you choose to have your wedding.
Now onto the cons:
You have to pay for a certain number of rooms for the night of the wedding. The coordination of the cabins was a nightmare, you have to assign each one before people can call can reserve their rooms, or you have to put them on a purchase and have them pay you. With everything else going on with planning a wedding this was a lot more to juggle, though from our experience doing everything on the purchase was easier as long as you trust that your guests will pay you or you are ok covering the cost.
I said the food was good, but I was disappointed with how the price increased from when we were quoted to when we had to finalize everything for our wedding. Over all they added more options, but it was just more added cost only 1-2 months before the wedding. Also they only have beer and wine, not really a con for us but might be for some. The soda’s are included in the bar tab and they will try to get you to do “bottomless beverages” for the non alcoholic which is like punch, iced tea and virgin mojito, unless you know your guests will really drink this go with a by consumption amount for these, it cost us about half of what they would have charged us as the bottomless (reception of less than 90 people)
The communication was great during the quote process, they got back to us quickly and answered questions promptly. This quickly fell off after we signed our paperwork. For our 6 month meeting they had changed up coordinators and it took emailing the general info email to get someone to schedule it with us. At this meeting we were told that the “day of coordinator” was really a “catering coordinator” (heads up I see a few places on the internet that still say they provide a day of coordinator they DO NOT). Things seemed ok at this point, but they changed up the coordinators again before the 2 month meeting. These two meetings were essentially repeats of each other and after the 2 month meeting it took a month for them to send us the updated estimate with the new catering prices. This left us about 4 weeks to work out all the kinks, which probably would have been fine if they had responded to our first email promptly but it took a week and a half to answer our email and that was after calling and emailing the main info email which got the attention of someone higher up. We were still trying to get everything nailed down the day before we had to pay (2 weeks prior to the wedding). Because of all this hassle we did get the dance floor comped and the original quoted price for our sparkling toast ($4 a glass vs $6… more on that later). They also gave us some banquet tables for the bridal party instead of the picnic tables.
After all of this we were fairly nervous for the day of. When I arrived I met with the venue coordinator for a few minutes, and then I didn’t see her until just before we entered the reception. I did find out from some of my friends turned decorators that they banquet table for the bridal party and +1s didn’t have chairs until they asked, and when I arrived there were only 10 chairs when I specifically asked for 14 during the finalization phase and they said that wouldn’t be a problem. After that was settled we managed to get through dinner and to the hand passed sparkling toasts, which were really disappointing, like maybe a ¼ to ½ of a glass full (1-3 sips maybe) for each glass (these they are charging $4 a glass for…) I was also a little disappointed that they started cleaning everything up rather early, yes most of our guests had filtered out but the group that was spending the night was still there and it was only like 8-9 pm so they were cleaning up more than an hour before the end of their service.
A few little other irksome things: getting ready room was underwhelming, they provided little hand mirrors and one large mirror, but my bridesmaids took to the large mirror in the bathroom for most of their final touches. The boys had to wait until one of the lodges was available for them to get ready which wasn’t until after 1pm. They never checked in with us when we were getting ready and as I said I didn’t see the venue coordinator for a second time until after the ceremony (I got there around 11am ceremony was at 5). We were also unable to do a rehearsal there the day before because we had a Sunday wedding and there was a Saturday wedding, we had to squeeze one in before the ceremony (good thing we did a first look)
Overview:
Overall this was a beautiful venue, the food was good and the catering staff was nice, some even joined in the dancing. We were very underwhelmed by the “venue coordination” and only saw our coordinator a handful of times all day, which really made us wonder where she was and what she was doing when we would get her “there’s an event today, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can” auto replies. As I said at the beginning, I wouldn’t recommend this because of the poor venue coordination and all the hassle we had dealing with them, but our wedding was beautiful and overall everything worked out.
-
User2094499 Sent on 04/12/2015I booked this wedding venue for my reception party of 80. After I signed the contract for my chosen meal and service plan, I got several emails telling me that they changed their pricing, and I was forces to pay extra.
During the ceremony the servers were very rude to several of my guests and complained to multiple people of the size of the party. They also only brought out 20 place settings, and when they were asked to bring out more they refused.
Very unprofessional, and the planner Adrienne is unresponsive.
