Windsor

I recently rented the Windsor ballroom for my wedding. The ballroom is absolutely beautiful. For a Saturday wedding, they rent it out as a weekend special from 1pm Friday until midnight on Saturday for $ 1200 — a little more pricy than other wedding venues in Abilene. When I booked I was told that we would be able to rent their white wooden folding chairs for $ 1 a piece, but they ended up giving me the chairs for free. The chairs were nice enough, but they were a little banged up and could have used new paint… I think maybe that’s why they decided to just include them.
The only issue I had was that I was told on 2 seperate occassions that there were bridal and groom changing rooms. When I received the room the day before the wedding I asked the intern lady (who I had mainly been dealing with and was really nice) about the changing rooms. She hadn’t been there long so she asked Sandy (who is the manager). Sandy was pretty short and kind of rude about it, but she told me «Use the bathroom. There are hooks on the wall.» We walked into the public bathroom outside the ballroom to find a stinky, small bathroom with 2 unflushed toilets. Not the ideal place to get ready for your wedding. These were also the bathrooms that were to be used for guests of the wedding, so we had to share the bathroom with guests that needed to use it before the ceremony. That was real let down. Especially since they had told me twice that they had actual changing rooms. This building is a huge old hotel that they’ve now made into senior apartments. I’m sure it wouldn’t have been a huge deal to convert 2 of those rooms into changing rooms. Other venues that advertise as wedding venues offer that amenity.