Sinkland Farms Reviews

Sinkland Farms is a BEAUTIFUL venue and I cannot recommend it enough! Susan and her staff are so knowledgeable and pleasant to work with. As someone who had a limited budget, I was so impressed by all that was included in the rental of the venue. From the beautiful tables and chairs to the stylishly decorated reception space, Sinkland Farms provided so much more than any of the other venues I looked at. The venue itself is absolutely stunning and makes for the perfect backdrop for any event no matter the season. If you're looking for an ideal place to host your wedding or event look no further!!

Best venue we have ever used! Won't go anywhere else now.

Perfect place for a wedding. Susan is so fun to work with. The venue had exactly what we wanted.... an outside area with gorgeous views, and a backup really chic barn that we desperately needed and were happy to have when it poured rain on our wedding day!

Sinkland Farms was the perfect venue for my rehearsal dinner, day of preparation, ceremony, reception, and fireworks show. The value we received was greater than what we paid and I could not have been happier. Sinkland Farms provided us (at an extra charge) with many of the rentals we needed, including chairs, decorations, and picnic tables. The manor house, also an add-on, was spectacular and large enough for my entire bridal party to get ready in. My bridal portraits were also taken in the house. Sinkland Farms was very flexible and allowed us to host a fireworks show at the end of the evening. They moved items that we did not want and provided us with many, many options for decor and setting. We chose to hold the ceremony in the meadow behind the ice cream shoppe in front of the iconic tree. The pictures were astounding. The only stress that I ran into at this venue came with curating the decor; I found their inventory to be a little bit disorganized which caused me to feel a little overwhelmed. Having said that, I was still able to find and use everything I could have wanted, so this did not detract from the experience overall. I could not recommend this venue highly enough if you are looking for a shabby-chic, rustic wedding venue.

Sinkland Farms provided an AMAZING location for our wedding - we had the perfect day weather wise which just enhanced the beauty of this location. It's quaint, rustic and completely gorgeous. They are in the process of upgrading their facility which should only make this place an even better choice for an event. We are SO happy we picked Sinkland!

This is a hard one, the place is amazing and our wedding was beyond beautiful! The team here is hard to work with. They never knew who I was, example being when we came to visit and pay our second deposit I was asked if "what weekend I was looking for?" I met the owner several times and the day before my wedding she thought my father and I were there to help paint her cows. They are difficult to get in touch with, and the whole time we had a lot of anxiety about whether our date was really saved. In the end the wedding was gorgeous and it was everything I ever dreamed of, so if you choose this venue, make sure you are on top of the people you work with there and very organized to keep track of what you have already done or amount paid to them.

My daughter got married here 2 months ago, in June of 2023.

The good: The actual VENUE is amazing. Truly amazing with picturesque views; activities for kids; a ceremony, cocktail, and reception space all at one place; beautiful flowers and antiques that decorate the reception barn. Its really stunning on a late Summer afternoon and our weather was perfection so the venue itself does NOT disappoint.

The bad (and thus the reason for only 3 stars). The owner Susan is quite frustrating to deal with. Your first experience of trying to get a hold of someone over there will have you pulling your hair out. Once you get a hold of someone and go over to take a tour, the experience is pleasant enough, but the sales pitch is definitely front and center. As you will see in some other reviews, there's an "extra fee" for most things you see that you may want to incorporate, like the bridal suite (broken down into two sides), barrels, flower carts, etc. She will offer to be your wedding planner, florist, and everything else that goes along with your big event. I hired my own wedding planner (that I was planning on doing from the start) and was SO happy that I had someone to be the "middle man" when dealing with this venue as I knew it would add a level of frustration to wedding planning that I didn't have the capacity to handle. Next bad: you can only pay by check and they will take a LONG time to cash it... like months... so be prepared. Finally, last bad: Their bar service, which you are contractually forced to use, is NOT good. Their servers didn't know how to make two very common signature drinks we had for the wedding (despite a laminated recipe sheet we provided). They repeatedly asked another vendor, our catering team, to help them. They were completely unprepared for the starting of cocktail hour and had no drinks pre-poured despite that having been discussed, leading to long lines at the bar area. The bar service provided was just completely unprofessional. I will say, the intern working at the venue was wonderful and very helpful.

This venue has the "bones" to be amazing. The management and staff could do so much better.

ATTENTION ALL BRIDES!!! Do not book your wedding at Sinkland Farms. I just had my wedding there and good lord do I have a story to tell. But this property has A LOT of improving to do. If only I knew how poorly the management was I would have ran out of that place and never looked back.

My stories starts 4 months before my wedding where I received a text from the venue coordinator (the lady I have been talking to on a week to week basis about wedding details and etc.) saying I no longer work here and the Owner will now be your main point of contact here is her number… my heart sank for a second. The lady that I have been working with for over half a year is no longer going to be there for my wedding! I personally had to reach out the owner (which I thought was very unprofessional) and she told me she would be doing my wedding. She assured my day would be perfect and so on.

Month of wedding: I had set up an appointment with her to a do preliminary walk through with her because I had a weary feeling about how unorganized she was and kept remember all the promises she made me and kept saying the day will be perfect and not worry about anything. But she wasn’t very convincing. We arrive and the venue is a cluttered mess (not the first time it has looked like this) The owner doesn’t show up until 35 minutes after our arranged time. Mind you, her house is 25 feet from the venue. I was already ticked off that we had to wait for her. As I was talking to her she kept calling me by the wrong name and was so unorganized. She loves to nickel and dime people. She would offer me a decoration piece and I would tell her “I loved it - that will look great!” she would reply with something like “Oh great! That will be another $50!!” I was getting slightly agitated as she knew we were on a budget but she kept pushing for the extra charges.

Final walk through: So many things were promised to us. For example, she told us that the venue would be set up exactly how we discussed and we were able to come in at 8 am and start setting up. We went through everything including where we needed tables, how we wanted the benches and pews, what time we were coming what we wanted done and everything. We were all on the same page that day.. so we thought anyway.

Rehearsal day/wedding: We are so excited! We brought family and bridal party at 8 am ready to go. She informs that her crew won’t be showing up until 9:30 to get the venue ready!!! I walk in to the barn NOTHING was changed from the final walk through to the day of the rehearsal. We could barely do anything venue related until way later that morning.
On top of EVERYTHING not being ready/cleaned the freezer was broken and the main refrigerator wasn’t working well as it was dripping water into the fridge. You would think she would of checked these before hosting an event? They did replace the main freezer with a smaller freezer but it was a process and it took over half the day to freeze our items that needed freezing. By the freezer being broken set us back even more!

We hired Sinkland Farms bartenders and as my father and I were getting ready to go down the aisle the bartenders show up… Mind you, cocktail hour is in 25 minutes!!! She was very cold and not friendly at first. The Cocktail hour starts and no drinks were cold, no signature cocktails were mixed it was a freaking disaster. We had a fun crowd and people were looking forward to a cold beer that we couldn’t deliver on. Lastly, she kept referring to our family as the Anderson's. Clearly, that was not our last name…It was absolutely RIDICULOUS.

There is much more to this story but this post is already long enough. This venue is not worth your money! If I could do it all over again I would not put myself, my family, and my vendors through that disastrous place again. After reading this you are probably thinking poor girl but honestly our wedding turned out perfect; it was amazing but, ONLY because of the vendors we hired and our awesome family and friends.

While this was a beautiful area and a venue, the staff has TERRIBLE communication skills. I'm looking to book a venue for our wedding in October 2023. I was talking to a representative at this venue over wedding wire and discussed all details about the wedding we're looking to have, including my request to have a wedding in October 2023. This venue is 2 hours and 45 minutes away from my house. After making this long drive to this beautiful venue, my bridesmaid and I could not find Susan, the lady we were told to give us the tour. We had to walk around the entire venue just to try and locate her. No staff member on the site had any way of getting ahold of her. After about 10 minutes of trying to locate Susan, we finally meet with her. Once we started talking to Susan, we inform her my fiance and I are looking to hold an October Wedding (as previously discussed in the messages via wedding wire) and Susan tells us the venue doesn't hold weddings in October. I'm not one to complain but this information was not listed on the website, not listed on their profile here and was not discussed with me in previous conversation. Susan then proceeded to tell us the woman I was communicating with was new. I don't care if you're new or been there for years, having the information down for which months you do not hold weddings should be one of the top most important things to relay to future brides and monitor the messages going out until the person is fully trained. Again, this was 2 hours and 45 minutes of a drive I took to visit this venue. The staff had poor communication skills, couldn't find a way to get ahold of the owner on the property and failed to relay the most important information of all while I'm planning my wedding-not being able to accommodate my desired month especially without telling me prior to making the long drive. I'm very disappointed in the lack of communication because this looks like a wonderful venue but regardless; the communication was horrible which makes me think how well will they be able to communicate, relay information or have everything ready if they are unable to communicate effectively with their customers.