Hidden Pines Chapel

I’m leaving this review because I’m going to my friends wedding here in a couple hours and I’m totally Psyched!!! Let’s party! Whhaaaahoooooo!!!

If you are considering Hidden Pines for your wedding venue, I highly encourage you to read this summary of events from our wedding before you do so–
I was the Best Man at the wedding, so I witnessed everything firsthand. I was incredibly disappointed in Hidden Pines Chapel and their staff.
–The family requested that 8 chairs be at each table. HP called and said that 10 chairs would be used because they didn’t have storage space for the extras. A brand new wedding venue with no storage space?
–They don’t own a piano. Fine, but they wouldn’t even let us leave the piano there overnight, so the father of the groom had to bring one for the rehearsal dinner, take it back home, then do it over again the next day.
–There is no space at all for the groomsmen to leave their belongings or hang out in. The groom found an empty room (future office room) to escape to, but the HP girls tried to kick the groom and the best man out of that room, that they used to pray and talk in, 10 minutes before the ceremony.
–Tanya wasn’t around to give instructions to guests when they arrived. Guests roamed around the building and hung out in the reception hall.
–Tanya was clueless when the ceremony was supposed to start. She gathered the bridal party at the back door, only to stand there. The ceremony started 25 minutes late!!! She didn’t even tell the live musician, who had already been playing for over 30 min.
–Tanya wasn’t even in the room when the ceremony ended to direct the groomsmen and bridesmaids off the stage… There were a lot of confused faces about what to do. She came out from her office when the last couple exited…
–Tanya didn’t communicate the Bridal Party’s names to the DJ to be introduced, so the bridal party stood in the hallway for over ten minutes, while she did this.
–None of the HP employees were there to make sure that the guests didn’t go through the buffet line while pictures were taking place, so everyone had finished their food before the party was even introduced…