Wildscape Ranch

My wedding was in June, we met Chris July 2014 when we started our wedding planning process and he was very personable didn’t try to over sell us on his «One Stop Wedding Shop» which actually made us want to use his venue even more. I loved the barn, the only complaint about the barn itself was the dance floor being very narrow, not a lot of people danced at the wedding and I would say it’s because there wasn’t much room to do so. I was the one who emailed and called Chris when we had questions or needed to make a payment and he always got back to me in a timely manner but when my husband would try to contact him he never got a response. He was very understanding and helpful while planning the wedding but as it became June he had more and more «suggestions» and comments. Chris originally told us it was MANDATORY to us «Kool Kegs» in Arlington (I do not recommend them either) but then the weekend before my wedding told us if they weren’t doing a good job we don’t have to use them, which would have been AMAZING news since we have other bartenders we could have used but weren’t able to because it’s now a week before my wedding. The day before my wedding, at rehearsal he was telling everyone how it was going to happen and instructing my husband’s family what they needed to do as if he had planned my wedding for me. He started to get a little rude towards the end of rehearsal, and seemed frustrated about all of the people who came to the barn but there were a lot of people involved in the day. My wedding day, or the most stressful day of my life, Chris only made things worse for my family, guests and vendors. The whole night he was smiling to my husband and I, telling us how great everything turned out but behind our back was causing so much drama. He YELLED at one of the girls helping with the food, she spilled a little grease on the floor in the barn, and I understand that it’s grease but it was easy to clean up. Two friends had to step in for the poor girl he yelled at and then he tried to get them to mop it up. He continued for the rest of the night saying how «Unprofessional» my wedding was and that if we would have gone through him to get catering it would have been better. The food was everyone’s favorite part of my wedding so I thought that was a bit ridiculous. After the ceremony Chris wouldn’t let my husband’s grandfather go through the sliding barn door because it would let too much AC out, which he told us from the begining, but we weren’t expecting grandpop to have triple bipass surgery a few weeks before our wedding, so he made him walk all the way around the barn. When it came to the alcohol he didn’t allow shots, which again, we understood, we told the bartender to make sure everything was a standard pour and no shots. (Which again this is the bartender HE MANDATED) People were still taking shots, my husband said he would take care of it so Chris didn’t have to get involved with his friends and he responds «No I will take care of it because this is my venue and what I say goes». After everything that happened that day I was ready to leave my wedding a little earlier than expecting, apparently after we left he told the bartender to stop pouring because he was closing the bar even though we paid for the venue and bartender until Midnight. RIGHT, before I walked out for my grand exit he was trying to convince me we didn’t need to have the wedding go on until midnight «becasue guests leave after the bride and groom leave» and he also was trying to cancel the last hour he already gave us and said «I know we talked about that last hour but you need to make sure it’s okay with your vendors» as if we didn’t already talk to them about it before the last moment of my wedding. He also got into an arguement with my husband’s aunt at the end of the night, I have yet to hear the full story but I can only assume he did something very wrong to make her mad. OVERALL, HE WAS VERY UNPROFESSIONAL.