Amber St. G.
Google
I'm primarily writing a review of Broadwing Farm as a wedding venue, although i have stayed in the cabins many times over the weekend or during the week as a guest. My cabin stays were good except for the bed being extremely uncomfortable. The mattress was ancient and we stayed there so regularly, once a season, that we offered Broadwing Farm an unused mattress topper in hopes it would help which they declined. As far as the wedding venue, we had a very bad experience. I should never have had my wedding here due to the lack of basic infrastructure like running water and refrigeration and the fact that once we had paid the venue it was extremely difficult to get a hold of Gio, the owner of the wedding venue, or Shyanne, the land manager, to plan the wedding details. They did not get back to me in a timely manner and made it difficult for us to even see the venue to plan. The lack of infrastructure resulted in the catering being a disaster. Also, there were rules that were never disclosed until the weekend of the wedding. Then they were written in a book somewhere that my guests were supposed to read, which was unreasonable for members of a wedding party preparing for a wedding. We had specifically rented the wedding venue, including the barn chapel and both of the available cabins, for myself and my fiancee and immediate family which were in the wedding including my mother, her husband and my sister. Others in the wedding party stayed at the Hot springs Resort downtown Hot springs. Part of the reason we chose this venue is because we wanted to do a soak together in the hot tubs. However, at the last minute Shyanne left a message on my phone on Friday, which I did not receive in all the busyness of getting ready for my wedding, that we were not allowed to have anyone over to our cabin, even the wedding party. My mother had my 2 brothers who were in the wedding and staying at the Hot Springs Resort downtown Hot Springs over that evening and they were soaking when Shyanne showed up with a flashlight at night at their cabin and hot tub which surprised and scared them and felt to them like a violation of privacy, especially since the rules had not been communicated clearly to them or me. The day of the wedding was total chaos since Gio, who had agreed to move and set up chairs for us, was nowhere to be found. The barn was a mess from things from previous events and I had to clean it up in my wedding dress and makeup while all my wedding vendors were arriving since no one else from Broadwing Farm was around to do it. What I didn't realize when booking this venue was how inexperienced they really were. It seems like they had had one other local wedding that had turned into a huge party and gotten out of hand and they were jaded as a result. I was told that Shyanne could serve as the day of wedding coordinator and although she tried her best her inexperience showed. At the reception with an open bar a couple of my family members got drunk and belligerent and Shyanne was arguing with them after she had already made a poor first impression with the flashlight the night before. At the end of the night after my husband and I had retired to our cabin, my brother and his girlfriend who were drunk came back to the venue to look for a missing phone and they were told they could not look for it and had to leave the property immediately. Apparently there was a verbal altercation and my brother was pushed physically by the owner of the land. My brother is not a violent person and did not fight back physically. In fact, he has never had any altercations with anyone before or since. Even though he left the premises the owner of the land called the local police and had him arrested and put in jail which apparently the owner of the land could do since he knows the local police. The charges were dropped in the morning after my brother spent the night in the local jail. Although my brother was belligerent i don't believe his behavior warranted physical violence from the land owner.. To read the rest of my experience go to Y. Text limited here.
