The Atrium

I wouldn’t recommend this place for the bride that is looking to save money or wants a part in doing anything herself (i.e. table decorations, flowers, reception decorations, etc.) This place has a strict policy that everything except bridal party flowers MUST be «rented» (for 3−4x what it costs to BUY items) from them. Very irritating. The food was phenomenal. The decorations were completely wrong. I wanted leaves from local trees in fall colors scattered around a tall candle with a floating candle in the middle of the tables at the reception. Sarah at the design studio (see «Devine Events») told me all of their leaves were hand picked the day of. Completely untrue. They came straight from Kroger, every one looking exactly the same (long skinny yellow with weird red tips) and looked so fake the wedding planner went and touched them because she was alarmed too. Good thing I paid $ 10 a table for just the leaves that someone picked up the day of… If you want a wedding where everything is very hands off and everyone else gets to make everything for you, this is the place. If you are trying to control your budget, and the quality of the over all look of your wedding, RUN.

Great food! and dessert trays… the mushrooms in the pasta were great and also the steak was very solid. The dessert tray had amazing truffles, chocolate bark, and brownies. The place is a bit hard to find since google maps has it wrong and you can’t really see it from the outside street but rather only see the sign to go in. Once you are in its easy to park in the lots and enter. its 2 floors where the top has 3 rooms and a balcony set up where we had our photographer. on the bottom there is area for food, there is a bar, and dance floor. The drinks were pretty strong when we had an event here and they venue held enough room for over 100 people at tables and then also dancing.

I was looking for a one stop shop for my July wedding so I wouldn’t have to stress about coordinating multiple vendors and my guests wouldn’t have to travel between the ceremony and reception. The Atrium and Magic Moments were a perfect fit. The Atrium has a pretty garden with neoclassical gazebo and beautiful flagstone ceremony area. The building itself is pretty simple with a large room for the reception with a cool loft overlooking. But don’t understimate the simplicity. When you see the place lit up at night it is breath taking!
Magic Moments did a wonderful job coordinating the entire thing. The food was wonderful and our wedding director was fantastic! We had one quick conversation with her the week of the wedding and she ran everything exactly the way we wanted without a single hiccup.
The only complaint I had was that there were 2 rehearsals scheduled before my ceremony so we did not have access to the garden area until after 6:30p and with my guests arriving around 7p that left no time for pictures in the garden until after the ceremony. But we were allowed access to Flint Hill (across the street) and were able to get many gorgeous shot there.

After looking around at many wedding venues for a couple of months my fiancé and I decided that we liked this place the best. In house caterer (food, cake and beverages), In house decorator (in charge of centerpieces and other design elements), In house planner (day of and all the days before), In house bridal events (It’s called Romancing the Bride and it is awesome), there is just so much that’s done in-​house that it’s amazing. It’s a complete stress relief to be able to find a place like this. To be honest, after looking at a lot of bare bones venues, I was starting to freak out about chairs, tables, tents, linens, silverware, barware, tableware, lighting, flower vendors, cake vendors, caterers that charge an arm and a leg, etc etc. You have no idea how much a relief it was to sign with The Atrium.
So far our event planner has been more than helpful and always answers questions the day of. The Romancing the Bride event introduced us to all the recommended vendors and let us sample all the lovely food (it was really good!). Also, someone always answers the phone which is amazing. I can not tell you how many voicemails I have gotten from venues who only work 9 – 3 Mon-​Thurs and only give tours during those hours. Avoid those at all costs. The Atrium and Flint Hill have a joint tour at 9AM on Saturdays which I was able to make even though I lived in NY at the time (I was in town for the weekend). Most of the other venues I looked at were only open during the weekdays and therefore my poor fiancé had to scope them out first since I was working in NY on the weekdays.
The Atrium is beautiful. It has a great outdoors ceremony site and the indoors has two stories so you can get those great birds view shots. We can’t wait to have our wedding here.