The Courtyard Monterey Park Reviews

My wife and I had our Chinese wedding banquet at this venue. All our family and friends have nothing but positive comments about our wedding celebration. This would not be possible without Jennifer! She helped us from beginning to the very end. Wedding planning was very stressful as you all know, we were lucky to have Jennifer to offer a hand every step of the way. The hotel is new and VERY clean. We hope to book more future celebrations in this venue.

We worked with Jennifer throughout the entire process and was so thankful to have her! She was so patient with us, very open and kind. She gave us a lot of pointers and advice throughout the planning process that we felt very comfortable with entrusting her and the Courtyard Marriott with our special day. She is very responsive and honest with us from the beginning. She was also very involved during the day of, helping our wedding planner with the minor details. The entire venue it self is beautiful and we were able to take pictures throughout the hotel. Because it rained on our wedding day, we had to move inside for the ceremony. However, because she knew how important it was for me to have the wedding outside (because the venue is beautiful!), we were able to take pictures outside and it was such a great experience! I couldn't have wished for it to be any different. Thank you Jennifer and the entire team for being so flexibe, supportive, honest, and kind to us throughout the entire process! It truly felt like we were a part of a family celebrating us :)

Attended a wedding recently.
Location was close and convenient.
Nice venue with friendly service and may considere my next event here.

I haven't done a wedding in a long while, 17yrs to be exact, so i did have sticker shock. But other than that, overall my husband and I really liked the venue a lot because it was one of the newer hotels in the area that also offered a chinese banquet menu. We had it customized also and the chef and manager worked clisely and amicably with us the entire proces. The manager and chef team were also flexible with minor adjustments to the menu due to food allergies of guests. I am most appreciative of that! I must also make mention re: the entire service team that served the food the eve of the event especially Steven Vega, the team leader truly exceeded all expectations and that was a really big plus for me personally, as most people know, chinese restaurants have great food but the service is often times to be desired! I congratulate the entire team that worked on our event for their great effort making our event positive and definitely memorable! THANK YOU!

But worth it. They didn’t allow outside catering but their food was better than I expected. I would do it again if I had a choice.

We really enjoyed having the option to provide our guests with the experience of a 10 course Eastern menu. The food was delicious! The event space is also very nice, in addition to the hotel lobby that guests enter through. There were a few hiccups with communication (e.g. the menu we paid for got switched just a few weeks before the wedding which was stressful. Thankfully, we were able to speak with the catering team who was able to fix it.) Overall, we enjoyed having our wedding at this venue!

Starting with the negatives first: they took our appetizers and desserts away after the reception (bride and groom), even though we paid for it all, so we felt we should have been able to take it home. Especially the desserts: we opted to bring our own desserts from a third-party, and yet they took those as well, which should have rightfully been ours. We also felt that the food was cooked better during our tasting than on the day of the reception. Another thing, my wife didn't like that there was not a place to get ready and do makeup unless you booked a room to stay the night.
The Chef's choice of the vegetarian dish was disappointing, not worth the price.

They have a cool option to have boba catered in-house during your reception, and although we hit a few roadbumps in getting that together, the boba was a big hit with everybody that attended. I do want to mention that this was not at all the fault of David, the owner of Bobaful, but rather a mixup between the hotel's manager and Courtney.

For the good part though, the coordinator (Courtney) was very helpful throughout the whole planning process, and was easy to contact. She would reply to our emails within a week. They also great perks included in their wedding package; we chose to get the suite for our stay and the room was fantastic (spacious, 2 king beds, 3 bathrooms, with a lounge area that connects the rooms). The banquet captain, Steven, was super helpful on the day of and went above and beyond (he even put all of our props and wedding decor into our room for us on the night of). Everybody also loved the bartender. Parking is great and convenient; there's a garage underneath the hotel (but they do charge a service and tax fee on top of the parking fee). Overall, we would recommend this venue to others.