The Beachmere Inn Reviews
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User2150737 Sent on 05/28/2015My wedding day at the Beachmere Inn was perfect. What more can a girl ask for! From the front desk, Jamie who was so knowledgable and helpful, to the wedding coordinator, Carole who literally took care of everything, to the day of event coordinator, Deb who treated our day with such care! This sweet lady ran across the front lawn to tell our DJ he had the wrong bride entrance song. Forever grateful. Carole was the most professional, detail orientated super wom -
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Lisa Sent on 08/29/2009Ok, here is where I pour my heart out. The Beachmere Inn is a breath-taking location, with an expansive, rich, green lawn overlooking the Marginal Way and the ocean. I mean, man, what a view! BUT my experience with the "wedding coordinator", Donna, was so awful and so absolutely stressful, I would definitely NOT recommend this as a venue for your wedding. This woman was unprofessional, disorganized, unqualified, and misrepresented herself and the venue throughout the entire process. Let me answer the questions for you that she will not answer truthfully: 1. NO, we cannot host more than 50 people comfortably at your reception. Unless it is 100% going to be a sunny day and you plan on holding the reception on the lawn, more than 50 people CANNOT fit in the reception room. 2. NO, we do not have a ?rain plan? that has been practiced and will be effectively executed if needed. We traveled 2,000 miles to have a wedding on the ocean and it called on account of fog. YES FOG. NOT EVEN RAIN. Who made the call? The same person who did not want to be bothered with moving the lawn chairs off that green, expansive lawn. 3. NO, you will not have a ?bridal prep? room. 4. YES, you must book a 3 night minimum and NO the honeymoon night is NOT complimentary. (we ended up booking at The Meadowmere Resort for that one night and it was the best choice we made the entire time!) 5. YES, I will be your wedding planner. Maybe she does not quite get what a wedding planner does, but it was Adam and I who contacted the vendors, arranged to meet with them, worked out the prices, and confirmed with them a few weeks ahead. By day-of, I had lost so much faith in Donna that I ended up creating a contact list including every vendor, their emails and phones, their arrival times for the day-of, and what they were doing/bringing and I have it to her so that she could at least have it all in hand at that moment. Three times that day she told me she could not even find that list I gave her. Hello?!? 6. YES, I will be there for your rehearsal. Oh, my lord, can you read that again. Ok, now let it process and wrap your mind around that. On the Friday before the rehearsal, she notified us that SHE WOULD NOT BE THERE!!! What?!? You are on the wedding coordinator and you won?t be there to know who my friends and family are and who is supposed to walk when? WHAT?!?
Ok, so I think you, dear reader, sweet bride-to-be, sitting there trying to decide
how to plan your wedding, are starting to get the picture. So many other things went wrong, but basically, you get the gist. And then my parents tipped her. WHAT? She did not even thank them. Wow.
The Beachmere Inn's reply:
Dear Adam & Lisa
It was with great surprise that I read this post. I am sorry that you chose to not address these specific concerns with us directly, as we all worked so hard to accommodate the many changes, additions and variations for your wedding, right up to that day.
Our reception room absolutely hosts more than 50 people. When a five piece band, photo booth, larger dance floor, cocktail lounge seating, special lighting and décor is added, it does change the flow of that room. Our rain plan is in place well in advance of wedding day. For your day, we took direction from the family to move the event indoors due to the fog. Fog can be quiet damp, which affected the wood string quartet that declined to play outdoors. Our first and foremost wish is to have everyone outside on our impeccable lawn and it is what we strive for on each occasion. We talk about our plan B in our documents and in this case in several emails. Once the family decided to have the wedding indoors we implemented this plan in plenty of time to set up the vendors who needed to place their flowers, music, arbor and of course the chairs. Most brides get ready in their guest room, as most choose to stay with us. We do have minimum night stays and work to make accommodations the best we can. I am pleased you enjoyed your stay at The Meadowmere. We did offer you a 30% discount for your Feb. 2009 stay with us when you came up to meet with the various vendors. Many vendors were quite busy with Valentines, but we made sure to set up a meeting area for you to chat with them. Donna, who is no longer employed here, was not a wedding planner. She was our events coordinator, helping to coordinate the activities happening here at the Inn. I can see in reviewing the emails she did help to coordinate your interviews, helped to secure your event decorator, made numerous suggestions on vendors, assisted with family reservations, transportation and researched organic wines and selections for your guests. We work very hard to anticipate, and organize for each wedding. After reviewing hundreds of emails for over 8 months, I know our team worked very hard to create the jazz themed wedding you desired. Our new events coordinator comes to us with over 15 years of event and wedding planning experience. We hope, that you the reader, understand that we will continue to strive to do our best for every Beachmere Bride. We are sorry that this bride & groom feels our efforts we not enough.
Sarah Diment - Owner
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