Williamsburg Winery

uests driving after enjoying lots of wine. The food was good. The staff was wonderful. The Cafe Provencal, in the Wedmore building, has amazing food! Highly recommend reservations and enjoying a high-end meal. The scallops and dessert tasting were perfect. The hotel breakfast, also served at the Cafe, has the best quiche and very nice staff! They are announcing lots of new wines, famous visitors, and expansion plans - look forward to visiting again and relaxing when it's not my wedding!

eception/ceremony area. Day-of staff was amazing, but the coordinators were rather difficult to work with and often hard to get a hold of a times.

dding coordinator at the winery, she was fantastic! We would recommend the Williamsburg Winery to any couple that wants an elegant, romantic, and slightly rustic wedding! We would get married there again in a heartbeat! Thank you for making our weekend so special! Photography done by Fowler Studios who are also fabulous to work with!

charges and the venue fee included candles, string globe lights, tables, chairs and our choice of linen colors. The food and beverage options and cost will vary based on the couple’s taste and budget - the venue will work with you to get it right. We were able to choose add-ons to make our day special and unique, including a wine tasting for our guests to enjoy during the cocktail hour. As an added bonus, the Winery offers a military discount on the space rental fee. Kari, the Winery’s event coordinator, was absolutely fantastic from the day we met her through our Wedding day. She worked with us to make a custom wedding weekend that was truly us! As our wedding day was approaching, she was extremely accommodating and reassuring… we knew that our big day was in the best hands possible! The Manager on Duty for the rehearsal dinner and wedding day, Chase, was just as amazing, tending to our every need and making sure our last-minute requests were completed with ease. The entire day of staff was extremely welcoming and gracious, they made us feel like the king and queen of the castle and then some! The onsite hotel, Wedmore Place, offered extremely comfortable, elegant, and convenient overnight accommodations for our wedding party and closest family. The hotel staff went above and beyond to work with us in attending to our guests’ needs. All in all, the Williamsburg Winery is a fantastic venue in and of itself, and the staff there make it a perfect place for the biggest day of your life! We can’t recommend it enough.

weather was bad (my husband spent all day shoveling before the wedding and the venue coordinator left because she got wet- and she did not come back). Our pictures were pretty, our vendors were AMAZING and the venue was a huge disappointment. It didn't spoil our day, but it still hurts my heart to think back the details of how horrible this venue was to our vendors, to their own employees, and to us. How you react when things are tough speaks to the character of a place, and the Winery really failed us.

ly requires any decorating due to its natural rustic beauty, and the Winery has numerous decor items you can borrow as well. This is not the cheapest venue, but you get what you pay for. Everything from food to drink to favors to linens was expertly and professionally handled with no hiccups. Even the event staff were wonderful - one waiter in particular helped fill plates for older family members and then joined in the dancing! Truly a wonderful experience!

ld not have been more perfect, the ceremony was beautiful, and the reception was equally as gorgeous! We received tons of compliments on our choice of venue and I'm so happy we went with the Williamsburg Winery

taff is incredible too. I would give them 10 stars if I could. They were very affordable for Williamsburg Va. Love love love the Winery! The Wedmore Place hotel was also incredible.

we got some beautiful pictures! Overall, the Pros: -TWW has a beautiful indoor room for a ceremony or reception, which meant that if we had weather impacting our plans, we had a really nice backup plan. The Wessex Hall was renovated between the day I booked them and our wedding day, and the improvement was amazing!! -They really do have awesome wine, our guests all loved it, even those who are not big wine fans. -Jenny was great to work with as our events coordinator. She answered emails promptly and even front loaded a lot of conversations with information I was going to ask about later. -Great price for the venue when you look at other similar venues and what you're really getting as far as space/service. MUCH cheaper (I'm talking 50% cheaper) than smaller wineries in the northern VA area, where we originally looked -TWW has a list of approved vendors-you only have to use an approved coordinator and caterer though. I thought it was helpful since were are not from the area and having TWW's opinion of the vendors was helpful. -The Gabriel Archer Tavern (also on the property) was a great site for our rehearsal dinner. It is more relaxed than TWW and being in the same location was nice for everyone. When I originally asked about this on our first visit, they said the Tavern does not do rehearsal dinners, but my in-laws called 3 months later and booked them (?). Perhaps they had a change in management. Cons: -Basically we were promised a couple of things verbally or through email that didn't happen. For instance, we were told we'd be able to rehearse both an outdoor ceremony and the indoor backup plan. On our rehearsal day, there was an event in the Hall so we weren't allowed to conduct an indoor ceremony rehearsal....leaving my coordinators and I very nervous as there was a threat of rain. Additionally, we were promised we'd be able to take pictures in the reserve cellar, but during our picture time, there was a private tasting going on and so we ended up not being allowed to do that either. -Along the same lines, at times, I didn't feel like my wedding was a priority. At our bridal wine tasting, our event coordinator told us she couldn't make it (the morning of the meeting she says this) and we had already traveled (we live in NoVa) for the meeting. There were no efforts to have another coordinator do our final walk through or guide our wine tasting, so we were left to do the tasting on our own and never got a final walk through. I think if I had been more pushy, this would have turned out differently. I really do think that it was a freak thing though and that that is not a common practice. -We had to hire a day-of coordinator in order to have our wedding at TWW (off of the approved list, many of whom were way over our budget). In the end, I liked having a coordinator on the day of, but I didn't like the idea that I was forced to have one and pay an extra $1000 (on the cheap side) in order to be able to have my wedding at TWW.

also had one coordinator at the rehearsal and a different person at the wedding, which may have caused some confusion. The venue does have a barn that they allow you to store stuff in until the next day, which was really helpful.

op of things! When I first saw the reception hall, it was on a bright summer day and I was less than enthralled with the low ceilings and dark wood everywhere. Let me tell you how wrong I was to assume that it wouldn't look AMAZING once candles were lit and flowers and linens were in place. I have had so many people tell me that my reception was like walking into a fairy tale. Book early!!! They book up super fast, partly due to their reasonable rate and partly due to how awesome the place is. The hotel rooms at Wedmore Place are really nice, too. You won't be disappointed by the Winery. The staff and the place itself truly deliver.

hearsal and the wedding day. The wine is a bit expensive, but it is delicious. If you are looking for rustic, romantic, this is your place!

f different options for both the ceremony and reception. Our wedding was in September 2012. Staff was able to be flexible as well and we were allowed to change our wedding from a ceremony + reception to just a ceremony with a small wine reception.

er guidance, enthusiasm, and commitment to our rehearsal/wedding/reception. The only negative comment is directed to the reception food. The chicken meal could have been hotter, some tables complained that their chicken was only semi warm while others had hot chicken. So the consistency of keeping the food warm could have been better.

d not have to get a day of planner). The wine is amazing, we buy bottles all the time. Wessex Hall is romantic and beautiful, over looking the beautiful outdoors. We had an outdoor ceremony which was breathtaking. We have gone to the winery many times and will sure be back many more!

ne is friendly and supportive.

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n't on and it was very hot. My planner was afraid that people were going to faint during the ceremony. And all I can think of was I'm sweating like a pig.