Vanessa M.
Yelp
PROS about having our wedding at Rock Creek are:
-Reception food GREAT!
-Reception staff GREAT!
-Front desk staff GREAT!
-Wedding venue location GREAT!
-Accommodating for room changes-Flexible and Great!
-Executive Director worked hard to fix the wrongs
The rooms are pretty outdated. Nothing was really dusted. The honeymoon suite was very nice. Don't reserve rooms here if you are not comfortable sleeping on a Murphy style bed (pulls out from the wall). Most of the rooms have murphy style beds.
The wedding staff/coordinators were to say the least not professional in regards to communication, promptness, attentiveness, attention to detail etc. The sales director booked back to back weddings which I think caused some "chaotic" moments for the rest of the staff. The main people we were supposed to be working with were catering coordinator and event coordinator. We didn't hear from event coordinator until the week before or the week of our wedding. The catering coordinator was absolutely awful. I mean, WHOA! If you want warmth and happiness preparing for your big day, do not work with her. However, if you choose Rock Creek, you may not have a choice.
Between these two staff, it was apparent that they did not communicate with one another. The catering coordinator said "no" to a lot of things regarding set up. Be prepared, their staff does nothing for you and the catering coordinator will make sure you know this very fact. According to her, we had to do everything ourselves. However, on the day of the wedding the event coordinator made it seem as though it was not a problem and they would be more than willing to help move things around etc. The reception staff even lit our candles. The catering coordinator literally made us think that they DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help you on your day. If she tells you that you can rent the equipment to play your ceremony music but they do not play the music for you at the ceremony, that is BS because the event coordinator actually played the music for the people who had a wedding the night before ours.
Also, make sure you are absolutely sure about your wedding guest numbers. Babies are COUNTED regarding seating!!! So in our case, we were going to have 61 guests which included my husband and me. 4 of those guests were 4 and under. They are counted as seats and Rock Creek---more so the sales director will not make a simple exception or budge. She literally was going to make us add another section for $700!!!!! This is just for going 1 person over! Ridiculous! Talk about SALES and talk about MONEY HUNGRY! Thankfully, our count went down because a few people could not make it.
Regarding our "almost" bad experience, I slightly fault the sales director. She booked back to back weddings, our wedding was on Sunday. I'm assuming it was the last wedding for the weekend. Therefore, the event coordinator was pretty much "done." Since you have to hire and/or do your decorating, I wanted to get in early in the morning the day of our wedding to decorate. We could not do it the night before because of another wedding. I told the event coordinator the time that I wanted to decorate (7 am). She stated that she would be there but she did not show up until 11:00 am!!! Thankfully, one of the front desk staff let me in the room so I could start decorating.
When the event coordinator did arrive,strolling in at 11:00 am, she uses the excuse "I deserved some rest." Then, she had the nerve to start having issues regarding where things had been placed! Lastly, to top it all it off, she comes to me right before I'm about to put on my dress to tell me that we are "over 60 people." She counted the chairs herself. I almost lost it on her and began to cry. The seating chart I made had specifically 57 people on it including my husband and me. We also set up the chairs that way. We worked our butts off to get everything set up. Somehow, extra chairs were added. My husband ended up handling the situation and we asked the event coordinator to leave our wedding.
SAVING GRACE- Executive Director, Kendra, Front desk supervisor, Sam, front desk staff and the reception staff were beyond amazing, patient, kind and took up the brunt of the work the event coordinator and catering coordinator. Our room reservations were all over the place but Sam was an absolute professional and handled everything so well!!! We ended up having an amazing wedding.