New Kent Winery Vineyard Estate Reviews
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Lavender Sent on 07/28/2021Wedding of our dreams!
It has taken me a while to write this review, because there really aren't enough words to describe how phenomenal the venue, owners, & staff are. My husband and I got married on October 18, 2020. We were originally scheduled for April 18th, 2020. Due to Covid-19, we had to postpone our wedding. Since we were right at the start when things his and among the first weddings to be affected by this, we were nervous & anxious, really not knowing what to do. Leah & JoAnna worked diligently with me to come up with the plan that was the best for us & what we wanted. It was definitely worth the wait.. Our day in October was absolutely perfect. It was everything we hoped & dreamed it would be. Amanda was our day of coordinator & was absolutely incredible for our rehearsal & wedding day! We met Amanda when we came to tour the venue, & she will always hold a special place in our hearts! She is so kind & attentive! Leah was also phenomenal! We worked with Leah while Amanda was out on maternity leave & she was sweet & super responsive. Walking up to the venue on our wedding day, my eyes filled up with tears at how elated I was. The venue looked exactly the way I envisioned it for so long. Everything was exactly in the spots I wanted them. We were overjoyed with how well everything turned out. We spent the night at the bed & breakfast on the property our wedding night. Joe & JoAnna were absolutely incredible & made us feel so welcome. We were treated with a cheese tray & wine in our room- which was perfect following our wedding. They had all the amenities & we were just so happy to be there. We received breakfast the next morning, which JoAnna graciously helped us decide on before our stay. Wow- was the food good! We stayed a bit that morning and talked to both Joe & JoAnna about how wonderful our day was & life in general. They really made us feel welcome in there home, and we couldn't have asked for better. Overall, we had the most perfect wedding and it was all because of The Vineyard Estate, Amanda, Leah, JoAnna, Joe & the rest of our our vendors! We cannot thank you enough for all the work each of you put in to make our day so special. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We look forwards to many more date nights, and anniversaries at the winery! We absolute love The Vineyard Estate & NKW and cannot recommend them enough!!!! -
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Chelsea Sent on 02/05/2021Excellent to work with!
As a fellow wedding vendor, we loved working with Vineyard Estate at New Kent Winery on two weddings in 2020 and one in 2019. Leah & Amanda kept us in the know throughout the wedding day and gave us the flexibility we needed to capture all the images that were important to our couples while still keeping us on track. Brides: having a wedding vendor team that works well together is so important to having your wedding day run smoothly. We always love working with the ladies at Vineyard Estate at NK Winery and hope to work with them again in 2021! -
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Abbey Sent on 10/16/2015I had my wedding there on October 10, 2015. I cannot say enough about this place! First off, I want to start off with Tracy, the GM of the Vintager, how amazing she is. She truly cares about each bride there and gives you the time of day every day. Especially on my wedding day, I hired a wedding coordinator but Tracy was there to help extra even though she was not getting paid. She pretty much was like having a second wedding coordinator, even on bustling my dress she came over. Just there for me the entire time and I cannot thank her enough. Now for the actual place, I had so many people come up to me and say how beautiful the Vintager is. I do not like the white pergola because the fountain is in the middle of the pictures, but the owner put up a brown/wooden pergola on the side of the house which has the rolling hills in the background, it was stunning. I love this place so much because you have the vintage barn theme, rolling his surrounded by woods, and then a small vineyard. Even deer came out while we were taking pictures. The best part about the reception room is that you do not have those tables that are in the back corner and you put the "least important" guests at. This reception room has the head table on one end, then the dance floor on the other end, making it so that the tables are in the middle of it all. All tables are equally important and are near the main events. It was a little chilly on my wedding day, but the dance floor heated up so they were able to open the big barn doors making more inside/outside. They also kept the bonfire going all night and we had smores' out there for people to cook. Another great feature about the Vintager is that they decorate the outside and take very good care of the gardens. As a fall wedding, they had pumpkins, mums, hay, everything fall all around the building and on the tables outside. Like I said, I cannot say enough about this place and I could keep going on. I absolutely recommend this place to everyone! -
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Ben Sent on 09/13/2015Tracy at the Vintager Inn was amazing! She warmly welcomed us on our first visit and sent us off with a hug on our last. She is the most hospitable person there is, really making us feel as though everything was going to be taken care of and we had nothing to worry about- she was right. The ceremony spot was beautiful, the barns are gorgeous and we had the best night of our lives. With 105 people we had plenty of room to dance and sit comfortably. It was an amazing night and gorgeous venue for pictures! -
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Allison Sent on 06/15/2015Andrea was absolutely fantastic with everything that we needed for the wedding! Even went I felt like I was bugging her to death, she always politely and promptly answered any questions that I had! She was very flexible on my ideas for everything from my bridal portraits to the ceremony and reception! The venue was magical and my day was awesome! -
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Aubrey Sent on 06/14/2015New Kent Winery provides a stunning venue and wonderful staff! This place is gorgeous both inside and out! You cannot go wrong using this location! -
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Crystal Sent on 07/23/2014The Vintager Inn was by far a dream come true! When we first saw the Inn, it was under construction. We spoke with Ken and he told us his vision. We knew right then and there that was the place we wanted to get married. Ken was absolutely amazing with helping out with making our dream come! He was so helpful leading up to the wedding and when the wedding day came Ken was running around along side with us making sure everything was put together perfectly. We had the plan of having the wedding outside even with clouds in the sky. 30mins before it was time to walk down the isle, we had to quickly move the wedding into the barn. Even though that was not my dream... it still turned out BETTER than I could have ever imagined. So, here we are 3 months later and everyone STILL tells us how amazing the venue was. We were truly blessed to have found such an amazing place!!!!!! -
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User989126 Sent on 11/04/2012Wonderful, wonderful service from this company! They always responded quickly, were very flexible and accommodating, so polite and they were even excited for me on the big day! We truly enjoyed working with everyone at the winery, I would highly recommend New Kent Winery to EVERYONE!! -
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User6929629 Sent on 10/24/2014This venue was absolutely stunning and perfect for our wedding. We were so fortunate to stumble upon it! Ken, the owner, truly has the best venue for a rustic style wedding. After viewing the property, we had basically made our decision and booked it.
However, to agree with what a previous reviewer said, my husband and I booked this venue before he began creating more rules and regulations, and he expected us to adhere to them. Being respectful people anyway, we obliged to many of them but had to have our wedding coordinator check him on some things that he had promised to us initially and technically no longer offered with the venue.
Ken is VERY concerned with the integrity of his property. Just be aware of this when you book this venue. Otherwise, it was absolutely everything we wanted and we keep hearing from our guests how beautiful and perfect everything was! -
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Kaitlyn Sent on 10/16/2017My husband and I got married at this venue in October of this year but we toured the venue when it was still known as The Vintager Inn. Let me begin by saying the venue is stunning, the wedding went off perfectly, and all promises to me were kept - there were just some slight irritations that came up along the year and a half leading up to our wedding.
During the first walk through, we fell in love with the venue and the area and also the coordinator that we met with. Not long after, we contacted the initial coordinator and were shocked to find that she was no longer employed by the Vintager Inn and that it was under new management. At this point, however, we were not too worried and did not think too much of the change. However, the slight irritation occurred when our money was sent off to solidify our date and it felt as if there was no communication between the staff and myself. I had to contact the new owners of the venue as I had not heard back from the then second event coordinator in some time. The owner did contact me back advising that they received the money and that our date was in the books. We then were contacted multiple times with different staff members again, and it began to feel as if the lack of stability in their staffing was worrisome.
I then became aware of the changes being made to the venue via their Facebook page as I was not able to attend the open house event to show their changes. Initially, I was slightly nervous as I fell in love with the old venue but I am here to tell you that all of the changes made were fantastic!
All in all, after the dust settled from the venue changing hands, everything was perfect and it was exactly the venue we were looking for! -
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Cassie Sent on 04/27/2024Beautiful venue, terrible business
We were so excited to have our wedding at the Vineyard Estate. We loved our wedding coordinator, Jackie, and were impressed by her. The venue itself was stunning and exactly what we wanted. I usually don't leave reviews, but want to warn other brides. Be wary of the owners of the venue, JoAnna and her husband. Others have noted that as well. They run a shady business and I was surprised by them (negatively) again and again. First, they told us that we could have up to 180 guests. Our coordinator said that was the max, and it was listed in their wedding information packet and online. We sent out invitations and about 4 months before our wedding, the owner said she was "shocked" we would have 180 guests, because she said the maximum allowed was 150 guests. She said she would have to "think about how to make it work." Our coordinator assured us there were other weddings that had 180 guests and was unsure why the owner was surprised. Additionally, they rent an air b&b on site. The rate per night was $750 a night, and we were going to stay there the night before the wedding. We communicated this 6 months before the wedding and were told that the contract would be forthcoming. Throughout that time, I sent 3 emails asking for the specifics about the airb&b and the contract. Then, THREE weeks before our wedding, two days after she said she was going to send the contract that day, she said we needed to pay an extra $750 to rent the airb&b. She said it was a "new policy as of today." If we wanted to stay there, we needed to pay double what she originally quoted us on. Our wedding coordinator said in writing as well she thought it was unfair to change on us that short of notice and would try to talk to them. We ended up staying somewhere else.
Then, lastly, one of their associates assured my bridesmaids all the decorations and things were packed up and there was nothing they needed to do. Then, I received an email the next day stating that the flowers and food was left behind and they were "displaying your flowers at New Kent Winery" and threw away the extra food. She even apologized to me and a bridesmaid, saying she wasn't sure what happened. However, $200 was taken from our security deposit due to "cleaning fees of food and flowers." (even though they used our flowers for their benefit).
If you want a trustworthy venue, I would not get married here. There are other venues that would give you less stress!
Their business practices are unprofessional and also stressful, during an already stressful time. They are unpredictable. Our coordinator was wonderful and professional, but it seemed like she was caught in between as the owners changed policies on her, too. -
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Rick Sent on 02/17/2026Old bitter white moronic women. New Kent Winery should be boycotted.
Directly from New Kent Winery. " What a bunch of old bitter white women who are clueless morons.Go home and whine. Leave the country and live in some third world country. You will not survive a week." Posted on Facebook and style magazine. Please research these bigots and prejudice people that run the winery. They should be boycotted. Shame on them. -
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Hannah Sent on 11/03/2022Beautiful Venue, Bad Owner
If I could leave 0-star review... I would. Rude. Inconsiderate. Unethical. Brash. Those are the words I would use to describe the owner, Joanne.
The venue and property is picture perfect but do not be blinded by the stunning venue, like I was... one of the owners (specifically, Joanne) is brash, harsh, and talks negatively about anything you have already planned for your wedding. At my 6-week appointment, every detail I had already planned for my wedding, she told me was "wrong". Both wedding coordinators that were employed (no longer employed by the venue) were fantastic and I remain friends with both of them on social media and talk to them on a regular basis. Specifically, Sara. Sara was a dream to work with and Sara is the reason my wedding dreams came true for the day of.
I was not informed by the venue when my rehearsal time had changed from the late afternoon to morning until the 6-week vendor walk through appointment, after we spent 2 hours talking through what the Thursday-Saturday timeline would look like... never mentioning the Friday wedding they had scheduled.
I could have looked past those behaviors considering Sara ensured my wedding day went off without a hitch. However, the most recent interactions with Joanne have completely left a sour taste in my mouth. I will never recommend them because of the following incident.
Our contract states that the venue has 14-business days to return our damages and cleaning deposit. I had heard from Sara before her employment at the Vineyard Estates concluded that we had no damages and no cleaning fees and should expect the full refund within 1-2 weeks. We never received it. Email after email after email and several phone calls not returned to us, we finally received a deposit back 32 days after the wedding... with no explanation as to why the deposit was withheld from us. The owner deducted a cleaning fee for a "bathroom incident" that we were not made aware of the night of the wedding. When asked why we weren't made aware of this, Joanne said she didn't want to "ruin our night". When asked how we would know that this actually happened at our wedding and not a different one, her response was "because I said it happened at yours, that's how.". Come to find out from the coordinator that the "bathroom incident" we were charged for happened at the wedding the night before ours. There is simply no reasoning with this woman. She should absolutely NEVER work with customers, brides, and their families and should be completely hands off with the weddings they host.
It is truly a shame that one of the pretties venues in Virginia is ruined by the horrible attitude and unethical business behavior by the owner, Joanne.
All of the excellent reviews that speak of wonderful owners must have only worked with Joe. Having worked with both of them for two separate events, he is level-headed, kind, willing to work with you, and just a nice person.
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