We had our wedding in May. The venue is beautiful and we had a perfect day, however, we would not recommend this venue. The owners were so overbearing and controlling. In all the w...eddings we have been to, we have never experienced the owners being so visible and present throughout the entire day. I had several guests ask me after the wedding why everyone was “being watched” so closely. Rich and Shirley stood off to the side of the dance floor like hall monitor at a middle school dance. It was embarrassing. My bridal party hair and make up ran over a bit and Shirley came in to see what was happening. I mentioned I thought we were like 20 min or so from being done. Next thing I know, Shirley took it upon herself to start MY wedding without my go ahead. I was getting my veil and blusher on as I was being hurried out the door to walk down the aisle. I never got to experience time with my bridal party to just take it all in. I didn’t see everyone all lined up or have a minute with my mom before the ceremony. Shirley ruined that for me. Also, as we were finishing pictures Shirley was trying to rush everyone to line up for the grand entrance. We were not even finished with pictures and I didn’t even have my dress bustled. I had to yell up to her that I wasn’t ready. She made things so incredibly stressful for me. I also found out after the wedding that both Shirley and Rich ate dinners and the help they had at the venue also ate our food. We did not pay for any of them because, again, we were not expecting the owners of a venue that we paid a lot of money to, to be including themselves and their employees as guests at our wedding. We think this is so unprofessional and rude. The owners decided to cut some of our guests off at the bar and then had Ray the bartender shut the bar down early. This was so uncalled for. It’s a wedding, of course people are going to let loose and have fun. No one was doing anything wrong and again, if we weren’t being watched like hawks none of this would have happened. They wouldn’t even let my 74 year old father in law have a drink. It was so ridiculous the way that our guests were treated and we were very angry and embarrassed. Ray even called us the next day to apologize, even though it was out of his hands. If we would have known Rich and Shirley were going to be like this we would have never ever booked this venue. I am sharing this review to warn others about them. I did not hire a wedding planner, I hired a venue. Shirley is NOT a wedding planner but she certainly likes to pretend she is. She will try and control every part of the day. They will act like hall monitors and be present throughout the entire day/night. They will include themselves as guests at your wedding. They also will shut down the DJ and cut all the lights on at 10pm on the dot because of you aren’t out of there with all of your things by 11, look out. We are focusing on the beautiful day we had and our ceremony and friends and family that made everything so wonderful for us. Rich and Shirley tarnished a lot for us that day and it is our hope this review will be helpful for those looking for a venue in the future. As for us, we have all of the happy memories from our wedding day that we are cherishing and going to blot out all of the negativity. Cheers to all the newlyweds!