Villa On Georgetown Lake

Having worked hundreds of weddings as a coordinator and staffing specialist, I was very excited about this working at this new venue. It’s location is a stretch but the architecture and scenery is beautiful BUT beauty does not make up for personality. The lady in charge, site manager — Tina was just awful from start to end. She did not return calls, was defensive about every single question or concern and was right out rude from planning to the day of. I have no earthly clue why the owner would want someone with that sort of attitude promoting weddings and events. I will never ever coordinate or work a wedding there again after my experience with her last weekend.
She was horrifically mean spirited, rude and furious and just about verbally assaulted anyone she spoke with on the day of the wedding I coordinated there. I did everything I could to change her tune, make her happy and just keep the bride and groom sheltered from her grotesque nature. She was in my face all night complaining constantly about very silly things such as ‘diapers being in her trash cans’, ‘cups being left in the bridal suite’ and even told me that the attendees and wedding party were ‘trashy and disgusting’. This party was calm, respectful, fun loving and also friends of mine. Speaking about your clients that was is just unheard of.
For those of us in the industry — weddings can be stressful enough on a couple, having a coordinator and good vendors make all the difference on creating a fun and memorable day for them. But when you have someone like Tina parading around during their wedding complaining and threatening charges on every single mishap– it can really cause a bad vibe. I am not one to get angry easily but her raising her voice, yelling at me over the tiniest and silliest things I was just in awe of how angry this woman must live her life.
I stayed 3 hours after I was paid to help her out and clean up every tiny piece of trash while she sat and pointed/​complained. And then she complained some more that it was taking me too long. I showed up early on in the day to get set up and introduce myself and her response was «You need to leave my venue and sit outside and wait until 2pm, I have a life you know». Woah. That woman has no business booking weddings, taking care of that venue or even being in any sort of sales/​personnel business. She was just awful, so much so I wanted to let others know to STAY AWAY from this mess. Don’t spend your wedding fighting with her, dealing with her drama on your big day — it can sincerely ruin the vibe. Do not let the beauty of the home (venue) detour you. There are hundreds of venues in the greater Austin area. Avoid this one like the plague, unless they fire Tina. She claims to be best friends with the owner so that is unlikely to happen anytime soon… Good luck Villa on Lake Georgetown, your reviews online and verbally are horrific due to one bad apple. This business is not going to succeed at all.
After my experience, and not really wanting to ‘bash’ anyone– this all had to be said to save prospective brides from booking with her disastrous attitude and way of operating this place!