Starlight Chateau

My daughter booked the Chateau for her wedding and reception. I had never seen a DIY kind of venue before. We couldn't have been happier. The venue itself is beautiful. They were married outside in the Grotto area and then had the reception indoors. It was perfect! Cynthia was wonderful, offering ideas and helping us in every way possible. The DIY yourself idea was new to us, but was perfect for our budget. Cynthia was awesome chipping in when and where she could to take some of the stress off. She even helped us make bows! Thanks Cynthia for making my daughter's day so wonderful and for helping me to not lose my mind! :)

My son recently was married here. The building is a historic old convent renovated beautiful. The brides dressing room was spacious and beautiful. The photos we took of the bride in that room were gorgeous. There were 2 wings, one for the groom and one for the bride. Both had men's and women's bathrooms. Very clean. Since it was winter, the rooms were very comfortable. We were very impressed by the hall and Cynthia (the business owner) not hall manager. Since it was winter, we can not comment on the outside grass, flowers, but I bet it is beautiful in summer. We would recommend this hall for anyone deciding to have a wedding or event. Dawn

I'm not sure what the problem the other reviewers had but my experience was entirely different. Granted, due to the coronavirus the wedding that was planned was canceled pending the all clear is given but to Cynthia's credit I was given a very reasonable amount of a partial refund. And the day that happened when I'd arrived I saw that the roof was being replaced so that tells me there is upkeep being done on the facility. One other item to note is that they'd take payments for the event (I'm assuming if it's being planned out far enough in advance... and if you're planning on having something like a wedding in a month's time then you've got other issues).The building itself is a converted monastery and with it comes the history of the building. Personally I thought it's a unique location with a back story to it rather than an impersonal structure. And the courtyard (even though I saw it in the winter) also looked like it'd be a comfortable, classy place.I didn't feel right giving five stars as the wedding hasn't gone off yet and while I have no illusions that there wouldn't be issues along the way with pulling off a wedding I also don't see that there would be something that couldn't be resolved. While the Starlight is a DIY sort of thing Cynthia still had several suggestions that were based off experience with planning a wedding. As because she's done this way more than I have those suggestions and tips were appreciated.

0 stars but it made me pick one Never will I let someone know about this place . She never answer when it's time to handle certain things . She will Rob you for your money . My wedding was post to be there and she just upped and canceled out of no where she very rude and unprofessional never will I go to a event there

I love this rustic venue. The hall is beautiful with high ceilings and unique window framework. My husband and I had our wedding and reception here and the night was very wonderful. The only issue we had was during the planning of the event. The manager tried to control every situation and was very aggressive. She tried to run the order of the wedding, set up, and decorations a certain way as if she was the one getting married.

The inside of the chapel itself is beautiful. The outside of building looks like hell. Broken/boarded up windows, weeds everywhere. Trash everywhere. Extremely hot in the venue, ac can't keep up. They also cram the tables together to get as many people in as possible. They have a courtyard that they chained off to keep people out of. Not sure why. There was only two toliets on the first floor and no mens room.

After I posted the below review on Starlights Facebook page not only did the hall manager delete it but went on to post a long post bashing the bride. Totally unprofessional. I would never recommend anyone using this beautiful old building until Cynthia is replaced. It is a shame that such a historic beautiful is flawed only by this lady. Beautiful hall, awful awful hall manager!!! Overall manager was very non-accommodating to ideas that were not her own and with getting Into the hall during the whole wedding weekend. Tried pushing her outdated decorations on us starting at the consult and thru when we were decorating the hall with our own stuff the night before the wedding, she was physically aggressive with our children which is NEVER ok with other peoples children.THE HALL WAS HOT AS HELL as somehow they made mistake and instead of turning the air conditioning on it was put on heat instead. Our cake melted and a lot of guests left early due to the temperature in the hall. Hours later after many complaints about the warmth the security guard realized the error.Leading into the review from our friends who helped with clean up the day after she asked then harassed them in asking to keep our leftovers... Not just ask, harass us about it when we were trying to assess everything, make a plan for clean up. Then when I asked her to give me some space, her and they security guy went and harassed Matt about it . ALL DAY she bothered me about stuff, was worse than she was fri and sat, complaining about every bride she's had, " why do they do this I don't know blah blah blah" wanting to tell me stories and show me stuff. I had to get stern with her and tell her to leave us alone, that we had a lot to accomplish. Then she was a total witch, didn't want us to prop the door open to load stuff because it was raining even though there was a canopy above the door, brought out this list about scrubbing the tables with soap and water, all this other stuff that I'm sure she never showed you, stuff that is the hall's responsibility, wouldn't let me take stuff out like the chalkboards when I wanted because she had to take 100 pictures of them. Kept locking the door when we'd go to unload even though we told her we'd be right back for the next load. She is a piece of work. I took a bunch of pictures of how we left it, to show that it was clean and fine if she tries to stick you with anything friends who took care of clean-up for us day after our wedding"