The White Sparrow Barn

This venue is breathtaking and affordable! The property is huge which gives clients the ability to do pretty much anything they want for an event. The inside of the barn is also spacious with two women and men bathrooms, storage closets, a kitchen and a room for vendors. I love this venue for many reasons including it's air conditioned, all furniture/ rentals they have are included, the location is private and lastly the staff is kind and helpful.

My perspective of White Sparrow Barn was as a wedding guest. I thought the venue was beautiful and spacious. They had an outdoor area for the wedding ceremony and an indoor area for the reception. I loved that they have a covered outdoor porch like section where guests could have cocktails and socialize while waiting on the bride and groom to take photos.

Unfortunately, they don't offer the same opportunity to all brides and are more interested in "first come first serve" in terms of who gets a check in their hands first -- this is what I just experienced over the phone with their venue planner, Marissa, who offered no apology or sympathy for what she pulled. I've worked as an event planner for 10 years and a soft hold is as respected as contracted ones because planners understand the importance of these details to the client. A venue that gets snatched from under you or a date that gets taken with no opportunity to contest for it is a very big deal to brides. I'm an out of town bride who was very excited to book this venue and reached out to Marissa very early on to express my interest and book a site visit. Sure, my site visit wasn't going to be for a few weeks but if I was told IN ADVANCE there would be an issue, I would've flown out earlier or had my parents go see the venue and sign the contract for me. Unfortunately, I had the rug pulled from under me instead and as other brides know, the wedding date and venue are two of the most important puzzle pieces in wedding planning. Needless to say, I was gutted.She emailed me 45 minutes before she sent a contract to another bride. That's right... 45 minutes via email and she didn't have the courtesy to wait for me to respond before she sent the contract to someone else. The worst part is when I called her after seeing her email, she simply didn't care.Advice to the Huerta family: You have a beautiful venue. I just wish your venue planner offered the same respect to your clients as much as your clients gush about your venue to other brides. Unfortunately, this left a very bad taste in my mouth

My wife and I had our wedding here in 2016, and I would rather be tortured than go through the experience and stress of planning a wedding with the staff of the White Sparrow. After booking our wedding here, they tried to tell us that we couldn't bring in kegs to the venue. After pointing out this wasn't in the contract, they tried to tell us that we could bring kegs, but could only keep them outside, and bring in glasses of beer from outside.Obviously, I wanted to be flexible, so I called one of the owners to try to talk through the details, and he literally proceeded to rudely argue with me on the phone, and told me, and I quote, "I can literally put the bar on the roof the day of your wedding. It's my venue. I can do whatever I want."Fearing some type of retribution, and not wanting to have our big day ruined, I finally settled for bringing in cans of beer to avoid the issue altogether, which ended up costing me a deposit on some kegs (a few hundred dollars).The day of the wedding, instead of the assistants that were promised (who are basically there to tattle to the owners if you do something they deem to be outside of the contract [re: the keg issue]), the owner who had argued with me was there instead. Needless to say, it was awkward. He also apparently got mad at some kids that were at the venue for playing upstairs. We weren't happy. To the owners, get someone to run your business for you - your out of control antics and lack of any real sense of customer service will catch up to you.To any prospective customers, you get what you pay for (a beautiful venue, no doubt) but I would rather have had our wedding anywhere else in retrospect given our terrible experience with the owners.

Absolutely gorgeous venue and beyond outstanding service. I agree with Dana's review. They really do strive to make it as perfect as can be! Amazing, amazing venue and service.

My fiancé and I were married at The White Sparrow on February 25th and I have so many wonderful things to say about this venue! Our experience was great. First of all, this is such an elegant and unique place. I received endless compliments from guests about our gorgeous venue. The white backdrop and plentiful natural lighting was a dream for our photographer and videographer.I would like to address some of the concerns other people had who used this venue, because they terrified me when I read these reviews (I had already signed a contract).I had absolutely NO issues with communication with The White Sparrow. I sent numerous emails for many months and almost always received a response within the day, often even within the hour. In fact, Marissa, our wedding coordinator was the best I have ever been around (and I have been apart of 5 weddings this year). She made sure that everything ran smoothly and went above and beyond to help in any way she could. I entrusted Marisa with numerous tasks and was blown away by her competence in all things wedding. Kailea also helped quite a bit on our wedding day. Even the security guard was very helpful and kind. The White Sparrow team is amazing!! Other things to address: Yes the county road to turn on is easy to miss. We put up white balloons and a sign and had no issues with guests getting lost. Because our wedding was in February the bridal room was cold when we got there the morning of the wedding. Kailea cranked up the heat upstairs and we were warm within 30 minutes.Yes the owners are strict about certain things. However, we signed a contract disclosing what is and is not allowed on their property. There were no surprises on our wedding day about what was expected. They obviously take pride in their barn and want it to remain in pristine condition!If we could go back in time we would choose The White Sparrow again and again for our wedding venue. We had such a wonderful experience and I think it's the prettiest venue in the dfw area!

Beautiful venue, but beauty is only skin deep. Staff unprofessional and seemingly untrained. This place is not for the handicapped or mobility impaired. If you care at all about your guest with special needs. Pass this place up !!! They have no interest in helping handicapped guests what so ever. Ask 4 different staff members were handicapped entrance was. Got blank stares. One said "oh there is a sidewalk around there pointing to an area by some A/C units but you can't use it because catering staff had it block off" Then told me just go around there and up two steps and your good. Said like a true able bodied person with no clue what they were actually saying. I should have known I was in an unwelcoming place when they had no handicapped parking designated. Getting to area where Wedding was set up another nightmare !!! No pavement or walkway. Just take off across the grass about 150ft. Again if you ambulatory no problem but if your compromised you are in for a trek. Grass is very uneven, full of holes, ruts and very soft dirt not a good combination. Next the fun continues once you get back up the 2 stairs to the barn where dinner will be served. Tables so packed together that it's even more difficult to get to your seat. Then you are stuck there until you are ready to leave because it was such an ordeal to get you to your place. Tables so tight staff can't even get through. Chairs between tables keep hitting together. Not fun. Not going up stairs either no elevator. They do have an ADA bathroom. Thank goodness for small favors. Again keep looking !!! You want ALL your guests to have a good time.

My daughter got married at White Sparrow Barn this past weekend. Our process started in October when we booked the wedding. From start to final our experience could not have been more perfect!! I don't have 1 teeny tiny thing to even complain about. The venue is A DREAM!! You think it's gorgeous in pics...it's a million times more amazing in person! The staff was unbelievable - Marissa was our go-to and I don't know if she could've been any more amazing! Every email I sent her about the dumbest thing (looking back) she responded in less then 5 mins. The bridals, she couldn't be more helpful. The day of the wedding - oh my goodness, from being everywhere at once it felt like, to get my grandson out of the car and having a show ready for him to watch on her phone, to fixing the girls dresses...I've helped with weddings before and the venue person is usually sitting in the office the whole day IF you need her come and get her - not here - she was THE BEST!! The grounds are amazing, just for real MAGICAL! The FIREWORKS...OMG!! I'm beyond grateful that this venue was built so our baby girl could have her dream wedding!! I seriously could go on and on...

This venue choice is pretty. Some issues, however; we are not mentioning all of them that we experienced with our making this venue choice and in our opinion based on our experiences. Listed were some of the following:Difficulty scheduling and interacting with the owners for viewing the facility prior to our event (after having pre-paid a deposit) for the setting up on our event day and for clearing the venue post-event. They may be busy.No sign or arrows pointing the way to the "Barn" down an unpaved road with the facility directions or name on the road to the acreage and venue. Many of our guests were unable to find the venue until late due to no sign.Kitchen appliances needed for the dinner located in the venue were not functioning, may need service and/or replacement.Non working, inadequate sound system for the event. We were told it was working or we would have provided our own sound.Heating and cooling issues throughout the facility - especially upstairs quarters. They may have an inadequate unit for this big facility or just cutting costs. They had an industrial warehouse fan upstairs which was noisy and powerful for a dressing room of small/medium size.No elevator for upstairs area admittance for physically challenged people and elderly.Maturity, humility and professionalism seem to be lacking from the interactions. They did not take responsibility for the issues that we experienced. We do understand how difficult it can be to admit deficiency.We hope that this helps you in some way or to assist in your decision to have your event here and discuss ahead of time your expectations and desired outcome. It will be important to have your desires committed to writing in the contract you sign. DFW offers hundreds of venue choices and I would recommend to visit some of them too. Thank you for reading.

LOVED our experience! Absolutely beautiful and unique venue. From the moment our guests stepped foot on the grounds they were taking pictures and raving about the location. Big shout out to Marissa who knows that venue like the back of her hand and was our month of planner. She was FANTASTIC and made the day stress free and run smoothly. She is a great communicator and very efficient. It was unfortunately pouring rain on and off during the day of our wedding so we only got to enjoy the outside of the barn for a short amount of time, but the inside of the barn is so stunning that it didn't matter!!! We couldn't have been happier with The White Sparrow, all of our vendors, and how our wedding day turned out! We look forward to coming back in a year for more pictures!!!