Holloway House

I wish I could comment more on Holloway House, but it turns out the staff doesn't show up to appointments. My fiancé and I were visiting OKC from Seattle to look at venues, and we made an appointment to receive a tour from Lauren, the Holloway House representative. We were very excited, as we had a limited amount of time in OKC, but we waited over 20 minutes and no one ever showed up. Luckily we secured a different venue.Lauren's no-show was extremely disappointing to us, but also concerns me for other future brides considering this venue.

The owners of Holloway House also own The Wild Mother floral. I thought it would be a good idea to use Holloway House as venue and day-of-coordinator service and The Wild Mother for floral. Getting tied up with working with these girls for all of these services was a mistake. They changed the contract on the venue after we signed. The contract said we had the venue until Saturday at midnight. That was a lie, and told us actually we need to be out by 10 and that time until 12 was for 'clean up'. Even if we paid them to clean up, we had to be out by 10. For the floral meeting, I told them my wedding colors of navy, gold, white, peach and burgundy and they were to create a PowerPoint of their ideas. When they showed me ideas, the flowers in the pictures were mauve, light brown cappuccino roses, and off-white blah colors. I told them their vision was not what I had in mind and I just had to accept that they took "good notes" from our convo. They wouldn't send any new photos to me. Day before the wedding, we went to set up/arrange tables and chairs. The floors were nasty and covered in crickets in the corners, random sequins, and just dirty. Also, we requested to use some of their farm tables. Those were dirty as well with melted candle wax, sticky food/drinks spills on them. We had a find towels and clean these before we could place napkins and decor down. Absolutely pathetic. I paid the chair rental company to uncover and unstack all 100+ chairs. When we got there they weren't. I asked Leah why not, and she said she told them not to because the tables weren't delivered yet. Wtf?! My parents, fiancé and I sweated our butts off uncovering and unstacking chairs that were stacked so tall and had to fold up all the chair covers. I was pissed. I originally decided that we worked with Leah so much that I requested her to be our day-of-coordinator since she owned the place. She agreed. A few weeks before the wedding she said she couldn't and arranged for me to meet another girl. Very frustrating. So day of wedding, I have hired through the venue the day of coordinator and had to hire their house manager. All of the bridesmaids bouquets were placed out for us, but not the corsages or boutonnières. I was a nervous wreck and those were the last things on my mind. They were in the floral fridge. Not once did they tell me I was responsible for entering the fridge and getting these out. I had hired 2 of their staff members and they didn't get them either. This was why I wanted Leah to be the coordinator, and this probably wouldn't have been forgotten. We were required to have 2 security guards there during reception. One was standing and the entrance of the hall to the bathroom and it just looked really tacky for her to be totally visible and in the doorway. Not the vibe I was going for during my wedding. The greenery/foliage on the tables was wilted at 4:30pm when I entered the venue right before my 6pm wedding. It looked like trash. Also, I wanted clear glass vases for the bridesmaids to place their bouquets to use as additional decor on tables. The vases were not there for us. Or maybe they were, and they just expected me to go find and get them? Ugh! Ok, end of rant.