Wood Retreat Reviews
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Heidi Sent on 04/21/2020Large and Cozy Venue
Woods Chapel is a beautiful venue. The Wedding Coordinator really knows her stuff and kept us on track to start and finish on time. Although the venue can seat up to 300, it feels cozy and warm. We had a great experience with the Woods Chapel and have nothing but good memories of our wedding day there. -
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Kevinalyssa Sent on 07/09/2019A fairytale day
The Woods Chapel was the perfect spot for our wedding day. We’ve had so many guests comment about how idyllic the grounds were! I had my hair and makeup done offsite and got dressed (with my bridesmaids) in the chapel’s cottage. My husband and his groomsmen got dressed in the cottage but on a level below us so we could still do our first look. We couldn’t have asked for anything better! So many beautiful tall trees, bridges, wooded spots and nooks to take pictures inside and outside. I am confident this would be a lovely venue year round. The chapel is absolutely breathtaking and even better than the pictures. We didn’t even add any decor, and it was still beautiful. Tracy was super helpful and great to work with from start to finish. She even helped open the doors to the chapel for my grand entrance! There’s a small reception area, but we chose to have ours offsite because of the guest list. If you want a romantic fairytale feel for your day, this is your spot! -
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Erica Sent on 10/08/2014This venue is absolutely gorgeous! The fairytale wedding I always dreamed of. It provided the ability to have a beautiful outdoor wedding, but have an equally as beautiful indoor wedding if the weather didn't cooperate. The grounds are perfect for pictures- a pond, bridges, flowers, lots of trees, the castle-like cottage and the chapel. It is a little more expensive, but definitely worth it to have an outdoor wedding where you don't have to decorate! (we only had our ceremony there).
If you want to have the natural flowers on the grounds for your spring wedding, definitely make sure you have a discussion with Tracy before you book your date about when they will plant the flowers. We had our wedding in late May and she planted flowers only a couple days before. We were so very glad that she went through all the work to plant them! It was beautiful!
Tracy was very easy to work with, very friendly, and very responsive! She was very professional at directing everyone at the rehearsal and at the ceremony itself. We got so many compliments from people about it being the most beautiful wedding they have ever been to. Most people hadn't even heard of it before so it also felt more special and one-of-a-kind! We highly recommend the Woods Chapel.
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Jason Sent on 05/12/2020Disappointed
I'm not usually one to leave reviews, and I hate to do this, but I feel the need to put it out there. My fiance and I aren't married yet -- we were planning for a June 26, 2020 wedding at The Woods, but the coronavirus pandemic threw all our plans out the window. Tracy at the Woods wanted us to make our final NON-REFUNDABLE payment during a pandemic, when one of us was laid off and when we were struggling to move forward to even figure out how/when we're going to get married.
Of course we signed a contract (before the pandemic), but our reception venue, the Plymouth Creek Center (where we signed a contract as well) offered to void our contract and give us a full refund of our deposit because they understand that this pandemic is a difficult time and that there's no way we could have foreseen this. Tracy, on the other hand, hasn't answered questions via email and has refused to even acknowledge our request for a full or partial refund (the few email replies she's sent have been vague, and she avoids our questions about the deposit).
Ultimately, we knew we needed to change our plans and not do our ceremony at The Woods because we can't afford to be throwing out $3000+ (when it's all non-refundable, with no exceptions), because at this point we can't say with 100% certainty that we'll be able to have a normal-sized crowd at a wedding anytime soon...and we simply don't need a space like The Woods if there's a chance that only a couple dozen people (or less) will end up being at our wedding because of a pandemic.
Under normal circumstances, we would have not broken a contract...but these are clearly not normal circumstances.
I know there are other venues that are probably sticking to their contracts as well, but Tracy's lack of empathy has been so disappointing to us. I wonder, if she were in our shoes, would she think this is fair?
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