Hawks Point Acres

This venue is advertised as handicap accessible. I even sent an email prior to the wedding to make sure. After looking at the venue pictures, I had my doubts. They send an email ststing it was 100% handicap accessible. Not true. If you plan to use the outdoor wedding area, it is only accessible by steps and a grass area that is not level, but downhill. I called and left a message to speak with someone after the wedding. My call was not returned. Additionally, too many of my personal wedding pictures had the wedding venue mother in them, ordering my niece and fiancé around. You can see them attentively looking at her, rather than enjoying their guests. Again, several pictures show this, not just one or two. As a handicapped person, I was mortified at the lack of accessibility. I had to ask for assistance from relatives that were already seated, calling them back to the barn, after they were seated for the wedding. Lastly, the chairs used for seating are very low budget. I am a large person. My chair sank into the damp ground by a few inches, making the seating unstable. With some up front honesty, so I could plan appropriately this review may have been much different. Also, a returned call afterward may have helped. I left a message with my number and called a few times the next few days. They did not return my call.

First off let me say, this place is very pretty. My fiancé, now husband, were very excited when we found it, but I DEEPLY REGRET choosing this as our venue! It was in our price range and the owners seemed nice and flexible. We were very wrong about that. The owners, a mother and daughter team, are not flexible in the least. If you have a meeting with a vendor at the location you have one hour. No more. Even if they are on the property they will not open the gates for you to even enter the lot, until your appointment time. I can't tell you how pushy and rude the mother was to my family and vendors once our time was up at our meetings to look over the location together. One instance in particular when I was meeting with my caterer there, we weren't even at the hour mark, it had been 45 minutes and the mother was rushing us out because her daughter had an appointment. I will say both are grown adults who can drive themselves so it was an odd thing to say to get us out faster. There are many hidden charges and fees. They do pretend there are not, but there are. I have many examples. If you want extra chairs so your guests don't have to carry their chairs in, fee. If you want to get in the barn earlier, fee. If you have them reissue your deposit after the wedding because you moved, fee. They did everything they could to charge us fees. They are money hungry. The bridal room where you can get ready looks good when you're first looking everything over, but when you actually get ready in there it's another story. There are no hooks for any dresses. Not one. Luckily someone who was helping us set up had a contraption we could put on the door so I could hang my wedding dress up. Otherwise there was a small mirror they hung that had 4 hooks on it. But they were about stomach height, so they weren't good for hanging bridesmaids dresses or my dress. It would have been on the floor in front of the door for everyone to trample when they walked in and out. The night of the rehearsal there were string lights that weren't working and bugs in the tule fabric that was draped. When my mother in law emailed them to address it, they responded that it was too short of notice. That was just icing on the cake. It's their job to keep up on their facility. You pay a good amount to rent the space and that kind of a response is unacceptable. It should have been in a tip top shape.As a bride you have so much to stress about and worry about. Your venue shouldn't have to be this stressful. Take my advice, and choose a different location. The management style here is not enjoyable and makes the venue process not fun at all. Have some fun and work with people that actually respect you and are excited to help you plan and execute your big day without a hitch!

First off let me start by saying the grounds are beautiful and definitely a great setting for a smaller wedding like ours. We had 80 people are felt like it was the perfect size for our event. I do have a couple of cons I would like to share.... 1). You can only visit the property one date per month (always on a Sunday) for 1 hour. At the beginning this was fine, but as it got closer to the wedding date, there are so many small details to take into account that 1 hour, once a month is not ideal for this. The Sunday TWO WEEKS BEFORE MY WEDDING, my mother and I were practically pushed out because we had reached our hour limit. The mother and daughter team running this take their time very seriously (not really caring about the people who are spending quite a bit of money to rent this) and are only concerned with closing up shop at their exact specified time, not a moment after. 2). They don't open the gates early, EVER. If you have an appointment at 1:00 on a Sunday, don't show up until 1:05. They won't open the gates a few minutes before. Almost every time I or my family went there, we were sitting outside the gate until the exact time. I find this extremely unprofessional and not a great way to do business. 3). On the day of my wedding, the coordinator who was supposed to be on site was no where to be found. As we were setting up, we had several questions, but couldn't find anyone to answer them. Again, very unprofessional. The person on site should be visible in case a question needs answered. I should not have to go searching the property to find the staff. 4). If you want to schedule your rehearsal the night before, you will pay extra. They have all rehearsals scheduled for the Thursday before. Again, not ideal if you have out of town people as part of your wedding party. Overall, I am extremely disappointed with the level of service we received and if I had to do it over again, I would not choose to have my wedding here. The grounds are beautiful, but there aren't enough positives to outweigh these negatives.