Community Life Center

For the most part I enjoy this venue. It's beautiful, cost effective, spacious, and good on parking. I have been able to work behind the scenes helping my friends plan their weddings as a hobby and there has been a shift in leadership recently. It's different but I think sometimes different is good.Obviously whenever new leadership shifts there are a few kinks that need to be ironed out and it seems the CLC is committed to making the transition a good one!This facility is absolutely stunning and the services they offer here can be great for weddings, anniversaries, church events, baby showers and anything you can think of. Some may think it's odd to have an event right next door to a funeral home but honestly, it's no issue at all! They do a good job of keeping things separate!Overall, good venue - location is a little far from downtown (kinda out of the way) but right outside of it, so not unbearable.

This venue is beautiful for in/outdoor weddings. Reception / cocktail/ ceremony areas worked well for ease of use. I think there was only 1 bathroom for guests, in the front. would be nice if there was another near the back of the venue as well. The site has Adequate parking.

I recently visited community life center over the past weekend for a wedding. The venue is located across the street from a shopping center (Walmart, etc.). When you drive into its property complex, I will noticed a cemetery on its grounds and realized that the venue also conducts funeral services. Aesthetically, its building is nice and its grounds are well maintained. However, it should be noted that there is not much grass on the site and its predominately consists of brick pavers. Inside venue was nice --- there was a chandelier, plenty of meeting rooms, and clean restrooms. Staff members were accommodating and a decent amount of parking was available for the guests. All in all - the venue is pleasant but not spectacular.

Went to a wedding here last night. Staff was very pleasant, venue was clean and beautiful, food was delicious. Hope to come here again!

Gorgeous location. Plenty of parking and the grounds are very well manicured. The huge chandelier is breathtaking.

If you are looking for a beautiful venue for a modest price, then I highly recommend booking with the Community Life Center. The venue is absolutely stunning and being able to have the entire grounds to yourself for the entire day of your event is an amazing bonus.Another bonus for my wedding is that instead having alcohol, for personal reasons we wanted a dry wedding, we were able to have a s'mores bar instead for our cocktail hour. A lot of other venues we talked to did not want an open flame in their places but the CLC were willing to work with us in order to get what we wanted to have the perfect wedding.I will recommend to all my friends and family the CLC for any of them who want to have a large wedding look for a small wedding cost.

Hello, I'm Emily Inman. I was a very obsessive, detail-oriented bride. Here's what I learned about Community Life Center, my ceremony & reception venue that provided bar, linens, lighting, and more. PROS: indoor and outdoor ceremony site with separate reception site, 9AM-11PM rental included, can decide if indoor or outdoor the day of, great execution of services on the day of the wedding CONS: confusing rhetoric bouncing between "we're only a venue rental" and taking over tasks, great difficulty to communicate with if can not meet in person or communication styles differ, guest may be uncomfortable with the cemetery or the venue being owned by a funeral company.Tips to Make Your Life Easier:1. Get everything in writing2. Have as many meetings as possible and prep for them creating lists of topics/questionsThe Verdict: The Community Life Center gets a 3.5 for being a difficult to deal with vendor, the most stressful and flip-floppy of my vendors, and for pulling it together to get a great result on the day of the wedding. Unfortunately it is the only venue rental around Indy under $5,000 that can hold 150+ people and have the 3 needed sites. I DO NOT recommend this venue! If you are not the rare obsessive, compulsive planner, detail-oriented person willing to 1. meet in person anytime you need/want to talk or ask a question 2. spend countless hour talking to/thinking about how to talk to an easily stressed/ overwhelmed person 3. make long documents with every wedding detail on, then you are unprepared to behave in a way that will it easy to deal the Community Life Center! Save yourself the stress and pay more at another venue to save your sanity. Please think about if you can handle the stress before you consider this venue.I hope this helps! I wish you the best of luck brides- and grooms-to-be, may planning not be stressful!

Very disappointed in this place. Our wedding was originally scheduled for next month and we were very excited to have our ceremony and reception here. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, we needed to reschedule so in February, when we paid the first half of our payment, we spoke to Kelsey who told us we could reschedule at no extra charge, as long as it was within a year of our original date. Last month we got an email to schedule our "Final Meeting" to which we responded, stating we were told we could reschedule the wedding. Tara then emailed back saying that we would have to pay the full balance, which we expected, but that rescheduling would count as a cancellation and that none of the money we had already paid would transfer and that we would have to repay the $4500 we had already paid. Had we know this is February, we would have attempted to go ahead and plan the wedding. The contract we signed does not state anything about rescheduling being considered a cancellation but, since we had no proof, they took our money and we were forced to cancel.