What is meant to be the most exciting day of your life is often the most stressful…read more The flow of your wedding, the needs of the guests, and trying to stay on schedule all distract you from enjoying your big day. It may not seem like it, but the venue you choose greatly impacts your stress levels. Pick a good venue, and your wedding will run smoothly, pick a bad venue, and it will be chaos. Maplehurst Farms is designed to simplify your wedding experience so that all you have to do is enjoy the ride. We were skeptical at first about paying a big price tag for a venue. I always joked that I've never done this before--getting married, that is--and I didn't know what we needed, how much it should cost, and whether or not we were getting ripped off for the sake of "marriage" like so many other services you have to pay for. We decided to get married at Maplehurst because it is a beautiful venue. Everything went off without a hitch and it was a perfect experience. All of our memories are of looking deeply into each others eyes, dancing under the lights. And we owe much of that to the amenities that the venue offers. Everything at the venue is designed to make your wedding easier. They have countless decorations, furniture, and place-setting options that can be used to set up the barn for a uniquely beautiful reception that fits your style. They have a guest house on location where you and your wedding party can stay for several nights leading up to the wedding day. This allowed us to stage food and decorations and it greatly simplified the logistics of the wedding day, letting us focus on getting ready and enjoying our champagne, rather than worrying about traffic and timing. The best part of our wedding was having all of our friends and family celebrating together, and staying in the guest house with our wedding party was one of the highlights. They have a great team of people who are there to serve and support you. They accommodated all of our questions and needs, helped us source local services like caterers and the makeup artist, and they cleaned up the venue after we were done. The owner, Jessie, understands that this once in a lifetime experience can be stressful or beautiful -- and everything about the venue and the services they provide is designed to make your day simple and special. If you want your wedding to be an unforgettable experience with none of the hassle or stress, Maplehurst is the venue you should choose!

We attended a close friend's wedding at Maplehurst Farm Wedding Venue located in Mt. Vernon…read more It's a nice venue out in the "country" with vast farmhouses and farmland. The wedding was gorgeous and a great venue to hold events. [Taken from the web] *Event Spaces: Includes a large open grass field for outdoor ceremonies, and a 5,000-square-foot rustic barn with an open-air side connecting to an adjacent patio for indoor-outdoor receptions. *On-Site Amenities: Features a bridal suite, groom's cottage, fire pit, yard games, and access to the historic mansion's porch for photographs. *Guest House: Features an adjacent 2,000-square-foot, multi-level guest house that sleeps up to 10-12 people, complete with decks and hot tub access.

These guys absolutely made my grandson's birthday party a hit! We rented a bouncy house to be…read moredelivered to my backyard for his fifth birthday party. They delivered the house early, had it set up with no fuss. We had no problems with it the entire 4 1/2 hours the kids were climbing all over it. They delivered it out to Whidbey Island on a Sunday afternoon and were professional, friendly and happy to be a part of our celebration. I will definitely come back and rent from them again. This is one small business that I will be supporting in the future. Thanks again!

My son's wedding was at Natures Connection last weekend. Incredible venue. Several places on…read moreproperty to have ceremony, large building for food, large tent for event space (fits 200 comfortably.) Bathrooms clean and maintained throughout event. Water feature, pond, large bridal quarters, grooms cabin, abundant parking. Very family friendly venue. I don't think there's a better family friendly venue around for a rustic, vintagey, woodsy wedding.

Beautiful venue for your wedding or event. Great in-house catering or bring in your choice.read more

Steve is so amazing. My (now) fiancé hired Steve to secretly photograph out proposal on our trip to…read moreSan Juan Island in August this year. We went to the lavender farm on the island and a few minutes later, he proposed in the lavender field! I didn't know it at the time, but Steve was a few rows over photographing us! After the proposal (and I found out what was happening) my fiancé and I got to take engagement photos for the remainder of our time there. Steve was so easy to work with and despite me being in shock over just having gotten engaged, I felt comfortable around him. My fiancé says he was easy to plan with and I'm so happy Steve was able to be part of our day. The photos were amazing!!! Thank you, Steve!

Definitely 5 stars! We had a group of 24 people for our Mom's 90th birthday with one hour to…read morephotograph everyone in many groups. We made the deadline and the pictures are fantastic. We highly recommend Steve who was professional beyond expectations and a pleasure to work with.

I had an event scheduled with Stellar Event Rentals. I received an email from Pacific Party…read moreCanopies informing me that they had acquired Stellar Event Rentals' book of business. Rather than honor the signed contract and paid deposit I had with Stellar Event Rentals, Pacific Party Canopies wanted to raise the price on me. I am truly shocked that they would acquire a book of business and not honor a pre-existing agreement with a customer. I am really disappointed by this customer service.

Good pricing for rentals, they allow you to make changes to your order up to 30 days before the…read moreevent date and provide you a window of time for setup. Also since we didn't have a catering setup - they noted we didn't need to run all the glass wear though a full dish wash - which was a huge time saver for our small DIY wedding. On the day of, everything arrived in great condition (and was very high quality). We had a unique location for the tent , and I was able to call the company day before to ensure the proper setup, everything was in perfect order when we arrived. Thank you guys for your expert service, I would definitely recommend Pacific Party Canopies for anyone's event!

*they have deleted our negative reviews from Google, which makes them look like they have good…read morereviews.* DO NOT use Copia for your wedding bartenders! They were extremely difficult to work with and had such nasty attitudes the month leading up to our wedding and the day of our wedding. It is extremely sad that people can try to ruin your day that you've been planning for 18 months. This was the happiest day for us and they were so rude to us, our guests, and our other vendors. They should NOT be in the bartending business because they are unhappy people. Bartending at someones wedding should be such a fun and exciting experience, but they looked miserable and unhappy the whole night. I'm not sure if something is going on in their personal lives, but they took it out on us and that's not okay. We provided all of the alcohol and cups. They had to show up and pour alcohol. They were unhappy with the alcohol we provided, the cup sizes, etc. We had water stations around our venue for guests to pour themselves water throughout the night. My mom asked them for some glasses to put at one of the stations and Joseph told my mom (mother of the groom) to "fuck off" when she asked. We bought the cups? We hired them from 4-10pm. Yet, when they were setting up around 1pm, they were questioning if the groomsmen were drinking hard alcohol. We had hydration sticks that we were pouring in water. Anything prior to 4pm is not your business though and should've been the concern of the venue. Throughout the night, Copia was requiring everyone to drink a cup of water before allowing them to get a new drink. This is ridiculous. By the end of the night, my wife (bride) was so fed up with them, that she went up to the bar and told them to stop requiring people to drink water. She said that people will grab a glass of water if they want one and we also had 2 other water stations around the venue. That night, we went through 10 galloons of water and 360 water bottles. People were hydrating and NO ONE was overly intoxicated. We also had a 50 person party bus for the end of the night so everyone was being safe and responsible. After she asked them to stop having people grab water, they then took away the water and when people asked for water, they said "the bride is refusing me to serve water" or "don't tell the bride I'm giving you water". How manipulative and highly inappropriate. It just felt like they were out to get us. Overall, our day was gorgeous, but it's really sad to me that these people are bartenders and tried to ruin our day. You are a bartender? What a fun job?? If you are so miserable, you need a new career.

*They have removed our negative reviews from google review…read moreI've NEVER had a more negative experience with anyone in my life. I know a lot of these reviews are in regards to their actual event center, which I cannot speak to, BUT I can speak to their wedding bartending and it was HORRIFIC! My wedding was about 3 weeks ago, and I finally feel like I am in a space to review. For awhile, I was so sad by how our day transpired, that it was hard to think of the positives of our day. I've never met such hateful people, on what was supposed to be our happiest day. This is going to be a long detailed review, but we had so many bad experiences, that I want to make sure that I am as thorough as possible to help others getting married AVOID them at all cost. Disclaimer: we got married at Stepping Stones Garden and they required us to use their preferred bartenders. We had such a bad experience with them leading up to the wedding and tried to get out of our contract with the, but Stepping Stones would not allow it. Leading up to the wedding: - we had pre-arranged to have a separate "cocktail hour" bar for an hour. When we asked to do a separate bar they said "where do you think you're getting married, Seattle?". Even though Stepping Stones said that they've had Copia do separate cocktail hour bars many times before. So this comment just felt rude and unnecessary. Then, they were very difficult and said we could only have champagne. After getting Stepping Stones involved, we finally were able to get them to budge and have 2 beverages (white claws and white wine), which still seemed silly. - They told us that the bar would be closing at 9pm even though the wedding reception did not end until 10pm. After talking with Stepping Stones, they said this was odd and that they usually did last call at 9:30pm. We finally got them to budge on the ending time once we got stepping stones involved. - Overall, leading up to the wedding they had a very nasty demeanor. Working with them was truly the only thing that I was stressed about leading up to the wedding. I was hopeful that their nastiness was just before the wedding and not during the actual day, but boy was I wrong. Day of the wedding: - We provided all of the alcohol (beer, wine, seltzer) and cups. My godfather is a beer salesman so he graciously provided us with the alcohol. When he arrived the morning of the wedding to drop off, Copia would not accept all of it. If the alcohol didn't get used, we planned on taking it back? As soon as my mom arrived with 10oz and 16 oz plastic cups for the beer and wine Copia was immediately frustrated and said they would not be using our cups, even though they did not specify a size we needed to purchase. The contract did NOT state a cup size. -In our contract, we paid extra for the cocktail bar to be open for one whole hour. Copia had the cocktail hour bar open for 15-30minutes. They allowed everyone to get 1 drink. As soon as there wasn't a line, they shut it down. My parents (MOB and FOB) went up to the cocktail hour bar during this time and asked for a drink where they were told no. They then went to the main bar to get a drink, where again they were told no. They did NOT communicate to us that they'd shut down after everyone got a drink. My poor parents were busy helping us that the got out to cocktail hour late and were refused. -I was very clear that I wanted people drinking out of glassware during dinner, but then switched over to plastic cups once we were on the dance floor so that glass didn't get broken. I think they were so mad at us for getting the wrong size plastic cups, so they didn't end up requiring people to use plastic. There were beer glasses and wine glasses on the dance floor, which in result, we had broken glass on the dance floor while people were dancing barefoot. - Joseph told my husbands mom (MOG) to "f*ck off", when she asked for more plastic cups to put out at the water station. We paid for the cups. - Throughout the night, Copia was requiring everyone to drink a cup of water before allowing them to get a new drink. This is ridiculous. By the end of the night, I was so fed up with them, that I went up to the bar and told them to stop requiring people to drink water. I said that people will grab a glass of water if they want one and we also had 2 other water stations around the venue. That night, we went through 10 galloons of water and 360 water bottles. People were hydrating and NO ONE was overly intoxicated. After I asked them to stop having people grab water, they then took away the water and when people asked for water, they said "the bride is refusing me to serve water". How manipulative and highly inappropriate. - Their attitudes were just so rude to us, guests, and other vendors all night. Overall, our day was gorgeous, but it's really sad to me that these people are bartenders and tried to ruin our day. You are a bartender? What a fun job?? If you are so miserable, you need a new career.

I went to a beautiful wedding September 6 and if a picture is worth a thousand words, this…read morephotographer's booth is worth a million laughs, hugs, and memories. The magic of the day wasn't just captured, it was lived again every time someone stepped into the booth and a copy of the photo can be printed immediately and handed to the group; instant gratification We went from formal wedding portraits to spontaneous, goofy, intimate snapshots with family and friends, and honestly, those are the photos everyone keeps talking about. The booth isn't just a backdrop, it's an instant mood lifter, part entertainment, part memory maker. I can easily see it lighting up birthdays, reunions, or even corporate events where you actually want people to loosen up. In a world full of posed smiles, this is pure, candid joy framed forever. I don't know the young lady running the show but she was professional without being stiff, big smiling eyes, approachable, and an easy way that disarms the crazies. If you're having an event and want to add a spark, I highly recommend Luxe Booth NW.

Well they did it again! Incredible service and absolutely kind and gracious business owners…read more Husbands and wife duo that literally do everything start to finish. I booked them for my husbands 40th and my mother in law booked them for my brother in laws 40th last night. They are worth every penny and more! Thank you!!!

Chef AJ and team provided the PERFECT rehearsal dinner experience for my family. The food was…read moredelicious, the service was excellent and the Chef was very skilled at cooking and entertaining us at the same time. The team provided beautiful table settings with our requested color theme, set up quickly and disassembled efficiently. Absolutely wonderful!!