The Carousell Works Reviews

Diane has been great to work with in planning out wedding. WE were able to get our date and then come in early to discuss what we wanted for our ceremony and dinner. She is allowing us in early so we can decorate and have our rehearsal so we can scope the place out with our photographer and wedding party and get out final details in order. She has been so kind and understanding that we have enjoyed working with her and even more excited for the day of our wedding. Her recommendations have been so helpful and wonderful and she even gave us some new ideas too.

I would recommend this place to anyone and everyone that will listen to me! It is set in an old school house that has the original (but sealed) hard wood floors perfect for dancing, she has her own table cloths chair covers and napkins at the location for you to rent from her if you choose to. It comes with a bar area (away from the dining room) a kitchen for the in house cater in back (guests wont know where they are coming from) and a guest greeting room outside of the dinning and dancing area. I had over 200 guests and it did NOT feel cramped when everyone was dining in the same room with the buffet tables and the cake and the DJ already set up in the same room. Diane (the owner) was so helpful with everything! She treated us as if we were family and was willing to bend over backwards to make sure our day was perfect! She helped so because I was planning my wedding out of state and she was very helpful. She greets guests when people start to flow in and gets people comfortable. She even saved our toasts when the DJ's microphone broke suddenly and didn't work she quickly turned on her sounds system and gave us her mic for us to use. This place is very reasonably priced also! Make sure you check this place out!

Diane was very easy to work with for our wedding reception. We loved the layout of the rooms at the reception giving our guest options to hang out away from the music or stay close to the action. We had lots of compliments on the food which was wonderful. The option to bring in our own alcohol saved us money and allowed us to provide drinks for our guests for the night.

Diane is great to work with. She helped make my wedding reception beautiful and very memorable! Thought everything turned out wonderfully!

Diane at Carousell Works was wonderful to work with!! She helped us plan the reception and worked with us within our budget, and the wedding and reception were absolutely perfect!! I definitely recommend Diane and The Carousell Works to everyone!!! And the guests at our reception are still raving about A Catered Event's food...absolutely delicious!!!

Diane was absolutely amazing to work with. Everything turned out beautifully and my husband and I are really pleased with the outcome of it all.

The Carousell Works was the PERFECT place for a wedding reception! From the moment we initially signed the contract we were taken care of. The staff was very helpful in determining the meal, the table linens, and other details that are often overlooked. The food was AMAZING!! We are still getting compliments on the overall atmosphere and catering. The building gives a unique space for a reception with a very affordable price. Thank you to the staff for making our day so special!!!

Diane was a great help. She and her in house caterer (Kevin with "A Catered Event") were very nice to work with. They are creative and helped us to put together the rooms in a way that suited our needs. The building is an old historic school building with wood floors and very high ceilings. It was not necessary to decorate much besides our table center pieces. They worked with our wedding planners' schedule to make sure the tables had all the linens on in plenty of time for them to put together the center pieces.

One big plus was the fact that they do not have a license to sell liquor. They allowed us to bring in our own alcohol (we paid $100 per keg from the liquor store and you'll never get that kind of price at a typical reception venue) and they provided the bar tenders. We did have to pay the bar tenders but that was a minimal cost when considering how much money we saved on alcohol.

We have nothing but good things to say about the carousell works and a catered event foods! We were able to set up the day before and when weather ruined our plans of getting married outside, we had no problems getting the ceremony moved to the carousell works. The staff was very helpful in making sure everything turned out great for our big day! They helped our ceremony and our reception run as smooth as possible! The food was outstanding and we heard about it all night long!! At least a dozen people said it was the best food they have ever had at a wedding! Kudos to Kevin and his team on that!

we had so many compliments on how beautiful everything was - it is truly a gem of a location and the entire team made us feel comfortable and took care of everything for our special day!

An amazing place to have your reception! A building that has a lot of history and is very romantic and elegant! The staff is wonderful and very professional! Every bride wants that "magical" night... It is very easily created at the Carousell! Amazing food! Cost is very reasonable and we were able to set up all our center pieces for the tables the day before which helped a lot with our busy schedule! I would recommend the Carousell to any couple that is planning their big day!!!

The Carousell Works is a fabulous venue to hold a ceremony and reception. Our day was absolutely flawless thanks to Diane, Kevin, and their incredible and attentive staff. They were very accomodating to our needs and let us decorate the entire day and rehearse the night before. They responded quickly to our questions and the value for cost couldn't be beat. We were allowed to bring in our own alcohol, the food provided by the inhouse caterer 'A Catered Event' was not your typical wdding food- much better! and extremely reasonably priced.

Everything was perfect and our guests were extremely impressed by The Carousell Works!

Loved loved loved my venue! Diane was wonderful to work with, she got back to me promptly and professionally. She also helped me aleviate any issues that might have come up!

One word, PERFECT! The Carousell Works was the perfect place to have our winter wedding! What a beautiful set-up, everything was above and beyond what I had expected. We had so many complements on our location, the building, and the food, etc. The staff was so helpful and friendly, I felt comfortable asking questions when I didn’t know most the time what I was doing. The Carousell Works made my wedding the success it was, I couldn’t ask for a better location or group of people to help me! Thank you Diane & staff!

WOW, says it all. Diane was so flexible and accomodating it was unbelievable. What a tag team Kevin (Catered Event) and Diane (Caroussel Works) make. They made my daughter's wedding amazing. Flexibility, cost and beautiful. The hall in itself is beautiful and then the decorating.
Thank you very much for helping to make this such a memorable day!!!

The Carousell is a very pretty place to have your reception, it has alot of room and they allow you to bring in your own keg! So insted of paying $300 for a keg like some reception halls you pay like $80.

The Carousell also has a cater there called A Catered event, He also has amazing food. During the wedding I dont think one person didn't say "the food was great".

The reception site was absolutely beautiful when I arrived. I was treated respectfully by all staff from the time I booked all the way through the event. Everything was done at the right time and without interupting guests during the event. The best part was that I was able to go to the site the day before to decorate which lightened the load that every bride feels the day of the wedding. I would definetely recommend Carousell Works to family and friends!

We had our wedding reception at Carousell Works. It was such a great deal! The entire cost of everything from hall rental, linens, bartenders, etc, was very affordable! We were actually quite surprised at how reasonable everything was! The bartenders were great. The have a FABULOUS caterer on site. Diane was very flexible and helpful during the planning process. They had an event the night before the wedding, but we could still get in during the morning the day of to decorate with plenty of time. People really enjoyed the "entry room" space where they could chat and not have to yell over the DJ's music. They also decorated it beautifully outside of the hall. Highly recommended!

The Carousell Works in Big Lake was a great place for us to have our reception! Diane and her staff were very attentive to detail and very flexible with the planning and the day before/day of activities.

Great venue, Diane is very easy to work with. Staff go above and beyond to ensure everything is to your liking.

Unique setting for reception, great value for the money.

We had a beautiful wedding ceremony and reception here and Diane and the staff were nothing but helpful to make our day special. Thanks!

great location, excellent hall - decorating was great, they were SOOOOO flexible!!!!!!! great value for the cost - kept our costs wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy down!!! GREAT GREAT GREAT

Thank you Carousell Works! We had such a wonderful time at our wedding thanks to you guys! the place was absolutly beautiful! All the staff was so nice to work with! I think the cost is okay however it seemed though there was a charge for everything which made it a little confusing.

Thank you again!

This venue treats outside vendors like garbage. The way the staff conducts themselves in front of guests during an event is so unprofessional that it is a wonder that this venue continues to book future services. Do not let one sales person sway you to continue using this vendor. Speaking from first hand experience... we will never attend another event here.