• User rating:

"In the middle"
AlisaR
Colorado
June 30, 2011

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We had our wedding and reception at the Miramote Lodge and worked with Kris Bowing. We felt that she had given us such a great deal that we used them for the catering as well. Planning the wedding was great and we had little to no issues. The day of the wedding there were a few things that I was not happy about but in the end we had a great time and enjoyed our party because we were among all of our family and best of friends. The wedding reception area was set up beautifully. It was elegant and very tasteful. There was a mix up however on how many guests were supposed to be in attendance and there were not enough tables set up. The coordinator had not set up enough seats for the final count that I had given them and we had people standing around while the staff put up more tables. This was not the end of the world and was taken care of quickly. For some reason the facility coordinator decided that she should be the only person manning the bar with 200 guests, which I did not appreciate. The reception was well under way and we ran out of appetizers before all of the guests could go through the line. I can appreciate that after this happened we were able to start dinner right away so that our guests didn’t get too stir crazy. The food was very good but I later found out that most of our guests had only had a choice of chicken because they had run out of the beef that we had ordered. The good part to this was that everyone did get to eat so at least no one starved. We had chosen to do an open bar of beer and wine for our guests. I can only assume that our guests really like beer because not only once did we run out of beer but twice we ran out of beer. This was a little frustrating but Kris and her staff did what they could to accommodate us by doing an open bar of liquor and going to pick up more beer in the meantime. Overall we feel like our wedding was a great day. I feel that things could have definitely been worse but I hope that the staff at the Miramonte learned from this experience and are better able to handle this type of event better in the future. I think that things would have worked out a little bit better had they had more staff there and had someone else behind the bar other than the person who was supposed to be running the WHOLE show. I think we all saw that day that it is not possible to keep an event flowing correctly from behind a bar with a never ending line.

This is the subjective opinion of an independent reviewer and not of Decidio, Inc.