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10/26/2012
Purple Vendor Review Chateau Resort and Conference Center, Tannersville Pa
   
Vendor Review
Chateau Resort and Conference Center, Tannersville Pa
I am bring this up for one reason and one reason only, to provide the brides on this website with a first hand review of a very disappointing wedding venue in order to save them the stress that we have suffered.
After our wedding last year, my husband and I left a couple of negative reviews on tripadvisor.com and on Yelp concerning our experiences at The Chateau Resort and Conference Center in Tannersville, PA. We have since been contacted numerous times by the management there asking that we take down our posts as they are "unfair" to the resort and color them in a bad light. The comments that we left reflect our opinions of the experience that we had with them.
I urge you all to consider all your options before handing over thousands of dollars to this venue.
chateau resort and conference center, chateau resort, tannersville, poconos, reviewm, venue
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09/20/2012
Head Table Arrangement
Table Numbers/Centerpieces
Table Numbers/Centerpieces
Table Numbers/Centerpieces
Head Table Arrangement
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Centerpieces/ Table Numbers
I posted my table numbers when they were in the process of being made...and here they are in all their glory at the wedding!

I hand shaped all the numbers from wire, spray painted them gold, and stuck them in mini pumpkins!

These pics also shows my centerpieces. They were NOTHING like what I wanted, but they were done by a friend of the family for cheap and they looked good anyway.
table numbers, center pieces, pumpkins, wire
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09/20/2012
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Personalized Baseballs
Handmade Soaps
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Our favors were awesome!

Personalized baseballs with our names and wedding date. Another stroke of brilliance on my part. A couple guests asked us to sign them, and I got to practice signing my new name!

And

Handmade soaps, made by my mom. Wrapping, tying and tagging them was a family project (myself, my mom, my dad, my sister and her boyfriend) and I really enjoyed the quality time we spent putting them together. There were a handful of different scents and fabrics used to wrap them.
favors, baseball, soap, diy
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09/20/2012
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Share the Love with your best man and maid of honor
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Share the Love with your best man and maid of honorPurple
   
Its one year later and I am finally getting around to sharing some pics of our wedding! I'll try to post some over the next couple of days...

One of my favorite parts of the wedding was our cake cutting. We didn't want to smash cake in eachother's faces, but the guests really seem to like it. The compromise? We smashed it in the faces of our Best Man and Maid-of-Honor!! (Genius idea, I know. Remember, you heard it here first!) After, we fed it to eachother very nicely.
cake cutting, funny, humor
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10/12/2011
fitnflareslip
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Market Place
Fit and Flare Slip
For Sale: David's Bridal Fit and Flare Slip size 16

Price: $20 or the cost of shipping, whichever is higher

I paid around $55 for this after taxes and shipping.

Great condition. PM me if you would like it!
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10/05/2011
Purple Vendor Review The Chateau Resort in Tannersville, PA
   
Vendor Review
The Chateau "Resort" in Tannersville, PA
Hey Ladies-

I will fill you in on details from my big day, but for now... Here is a follow-up e-mail I sent to the management of my venue, The Chateau Resort in Tannersville, PA. Pocono brides beware!

To Whom it May Concern-

It has been 4 days since our guests left the Chateau Resort with bite marks cased by an infestation of some sort in said hotel. None of them have received even a courtesy call from the hotel management. Obviously your hotel does not care to maintain its reputation, nor does it care about basic human decency or good business practices. No one deserves to be treated with the disrespect that the Chateau Resort showed its guests over the weekend of October 1st, let alone paying customers.

I am awaiting the results of the "pest inspection" that we were told would happen after evidence of a pest problem was found. Whether or not this inspection is completed, I expect to hear from the general manager by the end of the day tomorrow. Furthermore, it would be wise for the hotel management to keep in mind that they were aware of a pest issue prior to this weekend - as evidenced by the existence of pest traps/deterrents in room 3317 - rather than to try and blame the infestation on the current guests of the hotel.

Still Awaiting a Response,
chateau resort, tannersvile, poconos, pocono
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04/18/2011
Grand Entrance
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Grand Entrance Songs?
Hey Girls! I was just going through my music list, and I am wondering song(s) everyone is using as for the introduction of their bridal party and their grand entrance at their reception?

Right now I am thinking we will do Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" for the bridal party/parents (though I think it might be a bit over done) and "Superman Theme" by John Williams to introduce the hubby and I.

So what ideas do you girls have??
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03/25/2011
bill levkoff 571
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Bridesmaids
::Dresses Ordered!!::
I placed the order for the bridesmaids dresses today! Our bridal shop was running a "March Madness" sale so we got 20% off too!

I was in Chicago for my "bachelorette weekend" this past weekend and we did a little bridesmaid dress shopping. I really expected that we would just confirm that we would be going with Alfred Angelo style 7016 but the girls liked this Bill Levkoff dress better. The color is more like Alfred Angelo's Eggplant than the Grape that I was going to choose.

I am a little concerned about how the color will look in pictures so I have been seeking them out outline.

We tried the dress on in House of Brides in Chicago. That experience wasn't so much fun. Our consultant was late and didn't pay much attention to us, nor was she very helpful. They took our measurements (well, the girls, not mine) but then wouldn't tell them to us. We decided that that was not the place to order them from, so we ended up just ordering them from a store in my hometown where I got my gown from.

I can't wait for them to come in!
bill levkoff, 571, plum, bridesmaids, bridesmaid dresses, house of brides, danel bridal
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03/12/2011
pearlcenterpiece
pearlcenterpiece
pearlfloatingcandle
pearlvasefiller
whiteminipumpkins
rubnbuffpumpkin
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Wedding Decor
Pearls and pumpkins :)
I love the look of the oversized pearls in the votives with floating candles! I was thinking of incorporating those and gold and white mini pumpkins into my decor, but I'm not really sure where I want to use them.
At first I wanted to use them for the cocktail hour decor, but the cocktail hour is being held outdoors and I want to choose some decor that works better with the fall foliage.

Maybe I will use this pearl idea for the cake table or something and go with eggplant and burgundy pillar candles with orange mini pumpkins for the cocktail tables...

I need to get back to the drawing board on this one :)
cocktail hour, pearl vase fillers, pearls, floating candles, mini pumpkins
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03/06/2011
Stop! Go no further!
Stop! Go no further!
   
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The Guest Count Ball and Chain
I feel like I am at such an impasse in my wedding planning because I have NO IDEA how many guests might be coming! I am guessing that it is between 115 and 130 but it could be more like 100 or 140.

I met with my florists a few weeks ago and they asked how many centerpieces I would be needing. I don't know! For every 8 to 10 additional guests that come I will need an extra centerpiece. Maybe I will need 12 or maybe I will need 17. It doesn't seem like a big difference but when you are paying $50 to $100 for each one, it does!

The same issue arises when ordering my favors or even deciding how big of a room I need to hold the reception.

Is anyone else having issues with not being able to make definite plans because its too far out to get an accurate head count? What are you doing about it? Do I just have to wait until closer to the wedding to make these kinds of plans?
head count, guest list, reception, guests, numbers
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loislovesclark

2 years since wedding
Lois
Clark
Oct 01, 2011
Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, United States
The Chateau Resort and Conference Center
The Chateau Resort and Conference Center
Littlewing Studio Photography
Purple
We will be having a fun and elegant fall wedding with plum/eggplant and burgundy as the main colors, and lots of pearls and lace. I am calling it my "Victorian Autumn" wedding.
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