Cathedral Oaks Event Center

l in love with the beautiful landscaping & trees & the building was very nice. They tried to sell us at first on the magnolia house, which is a old building that smells like it's age & was very small. They tried pushing it on us, giving the feeling like we couldn't afford the other one. However, we informed them we were willing to pay for the bigger cathedral building & it had the space we needed. So we booked & payed for the space. After about two weeks, we realized that half of the people we thought were coming could not make it, my husbands family coming from Connecticut, so we decided to cancel it because it would be a little large for my family who would come. We were then told if you don't cancel before 6 months that you do not get your money back. This was new to us, because we weren't told that, & being we booked it under six months that left us stuck. But we had no choice so we stayed. The day before the wedding, we realized we needed a little time to prepare because it would be hard to do the day of, so we contacted them to see if we could come the night before to see if we could set a few things up since no one had any event there that night or at the other venue. That was another $200 for two hours. The day of the wedding, everything seems to be going ok, I'm fixing to walk down the aisle, as the doors had just opened, & the power goes out. Obviously I'm embarrassed because it goes completely dark & I'm standing in the doorway, everyone staring at me & I'm, along with everyone else, am dumbfounded. We close the doors and ask what happened & we're told that somebody crashed into a telephone/electrical pole in Belton, that caused a fire & caused the power to go out. They have no generators, which makes no sense seeing as how much you're paying them for just one day ($5000), & then we ask what is going to happen now. They say we can move the wedding outside, which it's 100 degrees out seeing as its towards the middle of August & it's 4 in the afternoon so that's not helping the situation at all. Then we ask what kind of compensation will happen because it's almost two hours of no power & we we're told since it was an act of God there's nothing they can or will do. How someone having an accident that started a fire is an act of God I'll never know. We asked could we at least get the $200 back from the previous night since that was about the time of power we didn't have & they firmly said no. Eventually the power comes on & we continue but our guests our sweating & food & drinks are melted or turned cold due to no power. Lastly, my husband talks to the officer who is supposed to be the security guard because he's interested in being an officer, the cop tells him that they're only receiving about $50 to come & attend the wedding, yet we spent about $200 for the security. My family felt very uncomfortable with the owner, who seemed unwilling to make any kind of amends or apologize for what happened &, to be honest, I don't know if it is because we were black because I don't see many black couples or interracial couples getting married here, but when things happened that I felt should have been addressed she refused to & it has taken me a while to write this review but I felt it needed to be said.