Had our wedding back in 2017! Loved the whole experience from start to finish. Everything was taken care of for me read more

The Preacher's House - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me

****DO NOT GET MARRIED HERE, THEY RIP YOU OFF**** We booked this place on the ideal we always wanted to get married up on the mountains of Gatlinburg. We love it here. Well first off, it's not up on top of the mountain. It's literally in a valley that looks out. Everything was great the minister was polite but not reading from the bible. He reads off a scripted piece of paper. Photographer was great. I know he took some nice photos. Unfortunately I won't be getting those photos. They don't tell you how much photos are. Well they are 1699 plus tax. We only got maybe 20 photos taken from a ten minute ceremony. So they expect you to pay 100$ for a photo. Um yeah, no!!! Luckily we took our own photos elsewhere which turned out better than theirs. There was no coordinator on site. You pull up their steep drive way ( so I hope your vehicle makes it up ) to a cramp parking. I will be reporting them to BBB. The way they are pricing there photos is ridiculous and way over board. That's a down payment on a car,or even a mortgage payment. At least. Don't waste your time here. And to others who has had the same issues I suggest reporting them to BBB. ( +1 703-276-0100 ) and shut them down. Since they want to be unjustified with their costumers. Costumers can take a stand against them.... I wish there was a zero star. read more

I guess I should have read the reviews on here before booking. First, the whole ceremony was a joke. The "ordained minister" literally recited the entire ceremony off three pieces of paper that he had typed up. He was literally flipping pages in the middle of our ceremony. On top of that, he also mispronounced entire words and sentences and nobody could understand what he was saying. He would get to a word and then completely skip over it and on top of that he mispronounced my first name during the ceremony, like how hard is it to say "Katy"? My husband and I couldn't even focus on what was being said because we were trying to keep from busting out in laughter. Then comes the worst part of all, the photography fiasco. We thought our appointment was at 9:00 the next morning to go over pictures and apparently it was at 8:30. The lady ended up calling me around 8:45 because she had us down for 8:30 and I apologized and said I thought our appointment was at 9:00 and she said she would see us in a bit. We then had a hard time finding the place and got turned around a few times and ended up showing up a little past 9:00. I was upset about being late and getting lost because I am not a person who is normally late to anything and the first thing that was said to me when I walked in was, "We only have 20 minutes until my next appointment now.." No introduction, no greeting. She then hit me with "I tried to call you again but you didn't answer.." Like, it wasn't like I wasn't trying to navigate and get us where we needed to be. News flash: You can't talk on the phone and use google maps at the same time, genius. The only price that is mentioned beforehand was the $399 minimum purchase as well as the $899 for the digital print release (but can increase depending on if you want more). There are zero prices for packages anywhere to be found that would have prepared us for what we were going to spend. Well, we get there and the minimum package for the digital print release is $1,600, not $899, which is over twice as much and will only support a maximum of an 8x10 for reprint and is on crappy jpeg format instead of RAW. On top of that, zero editing is involved with the $1,600. We went in expecting to spend around $500-$900 for a few pictures in digital format and be done (since we were told that the minimum for digital was $899 . We left spending $1,600 ($1,800 with tax) just for 100 digital pictures. We weren't expecting to spend so much money the next day after our wedding so we paid $500 and was set up for a payment plan. After we agreed to it was when she told us that our pictures would not be available until the entire balance was paid off. On top of that, I asked the lady if they could request a signature upon delivery of our package when it was mailed through USPS priority mail in case it got delivered to the wrong house or taken off our porch and she said, "Um, no we don't do that." So you can't click on the box when you are mailing something that will require a signature that might cost you fifty cents more for a photography package that cost EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS? Since they want to be deceitful on the front in about how you are getting a wedding fur for $299, let me just tell you about the prices. If you want a simple wedding printed wedding album alone without any digital prints it's $1,200. If you want one 11x14 canvas print alone it's $500. In conclusion, they reel you in with a price of $299 and you think you will be having a wedding for around $1,000 and you end up spending more like $2,000 or more. There is a reason why there are so many contracts to sign with this company and why all of their calls are recorded: because they want to make sure they aren't sued for their morally deceitful business practices. Are the legally in the wrong, no, but they sure are morally wrong in many ways. All of their prices for EVERYTHING need to be known beforehand so couples are prepared to pay an extra $1600 (minimum) on pictures and can make a more informed decision based on these prices. Don't worry, the money we were going to use for our honeymoon will now be spent on some condensed jpeg pictures on a disk that we will get 12 months later when we can pay it off. Oh, and I hope that the non-reliable USPS mail man doesn't deliver to the wrong address or someone takes the package off of our front porch because they refuse to click a box that will require a signature for delivery. read more

I loved the location for our wedding. We wanted a small simple ceremony with close family and friends . The views were amazing. I would highly recommend the location!! read more

My husband and I renewed our wedding vows here this spring. I was blown away by the setting-just beautiful! An outdoor deck overlooking the Smokies-cannot do it justice to describe it. The website has many pictures that Pastor Ed and his wife, Casie took. They are both great photographers. Many packages available to suit your needs. They can do full weddings or just a simple ceremony for two. Cakes,flowers,music, video can all be arranged , as well as accommodations.Wish I could give them more than 5 stars. Thanks Pastor Ed and Casie!!A different "Destination Wedding". Good for those who don't want to go to Vegas,but still want to get married out of town.Lots to do in the surrounding area. read more

I helped my sister plan her wedding at this location. They were so helpful and willing to work with us in the beginning but when plans changed and we had to cancel the wedding they would no longer return our calls. They only sent us an email asking us not to contact them anymore. Who does that??? Once you give them a down payment they could careless about making you happy. They only want your money. The "Preacher's" house isn't very Christian oriented. I would not recommend this location to anyone. Sorry read more

We absolutely loved everything about our wedding. Great photographer, wonderful minister and spectacular view. We truly could not have asked for more. read more

We were married this week and had our wedding through this great company. Our ceremony was organized and absolutely beautiful. They were extremely patient with everyone. Took tons of pictures and were very fun to work with. My bouquet was a wildflower mix and was beautiful. the day after the wedding we had our photo appointment and that was a wonderful experience, watching the video back was more emotional than our actual wedding. The owners are husband and wife and are super nice!! All staff working with them was also very nice. Bought the best package of our pictures because they were absolutely beautiful. Could not have asked for a better day, they truly make things go perfect. read more

Stay away, this company misrepresents prices, horrible experience for our son and daughter in law. Beautiful wedding and scenery. Everything after they were done was bad. I would not recommend this company to anyone. We enjoyed the area all around Gatlinburg and pigeon forge, great area and great people in this region. read more

This venue is perfect for people who want to fill out a questionnaire and be done with wedding planning, and don't forget to bring all your life savings if you want your wedding photos. I am going to start with the good.... and then I will get to the bad. Sorry, this is going to be a long post. The view was beautiful, that is why I fell in love with this venue. The pictures almost looked photoshopped because the mountains are so breathtaking, the photographer is also good at photographing the 20 generic poses they use for every wedding. My flowers also turned out better than expected after a lot of hassle. Now, unfortunately, the bad. You have specific instructions to not arrive at the venue until 15 minutes before your ceremony; as the bride, I showed up at exactly 2:45, and was the only person there. The photographer showed up at 2:50, and then got out of his car and completely ignored that he had a panicked bride waiting on him, he then had to double as coordinator (something you could tell he didn't do often) because a coordinator never showed up. After the ceremony, the photographer continually called my husband by the wrong name after being corrected multiple times. But the wedding day wasn't the worst of it, the real kicker came at our photo session. They do not give pricing details until your image purchasing appointment, before that point, every email just gives you the "minimum amount" that you might have to pay without any explanation or details about YOUR wedding package. We arrived with the minimum amount listed on every email(we're on a budget and paying for everything ourselves), believing that this will be what we need to order our photos..... NOPE. somewhere between the last email I received and our purchasing appointment the price of our images and the required deposit DOUBLED. We were then pushed to apply for credit to pay for our images. As someone who is on a budget I was very upset. It would have been different if they had been transparent from the start so I could financially prepare but they sprung it on us and then expected us to be able to give them whatever they demanded because they were holding our wedding images hostage. I was hoping to have amazing memories of my wedding day. but the lasting feelings that My Gatlinburg Wedding left me with were anger, frustration, and disappointment. read more

These people care nothing about you other than your money. We cancelled our wedding NOT expecting any money back. Cassie said we had one year to use the money for family pictures. So I booked my cabin and was making an 8 hour drive with a new baby to use our credit that we paid toward the wedding for family pictures. They did not want to take our photos. She said we had one year of booking to use the credit but when I originally cancelled the wedding she said I had one year from the wedding date. So basically these people have my money and would not even take a family photo sessions. These people are bad. Very nice when you first book with them. One photo session was all I was asking for. Then when I called she said to stop calling. I will never forget the way these people made me feel. read more

Do Not Book This Company. My husband and I got married at this location. We thought we were getting a good deal because a week stay was included. To find out the cabin was only 700 of our 1500 package. The video was a joke. There was no sound and the camera was stationary. They didn't get me walking down the aisle or the doves flying off. All you can here is click click click from the camera and you see flashes every once in a while. I tried to contact them several times for questions prior to the service and it took them days even weeks to respond. My mom done my flowers because they couldn't do anything I liked. The 1500 didn't even include chairs. The cake was tiny, the Just Married sign is a dollar flag that fell apart. It is 1 month since my wedding and I have not seen any wedding pictures yet. No photo book or my extra photo I was supposed to have. This place is a JOKE.. The only thing good was that I married my best friend and the view was beautiful.. read more

i got married at the preachers house four months ago and still have not received any picture yet!!!!! during the wedding as per their policy no one in our wedding party was allowed to take any pictures. so now i have not one single picture of my wedding day. the package i paid for was to include a picture package but four months after my wedding i still have yet to get any pictures! terrible! i have sent emails and was told longer. even though the package i had was suppose to include the pictures i got an email a month after the wedding asking me to purchase more. when i said no that i just wanted the pictures that was supposed to come with the package i already paid for they said another8-12 weeks. guess what..... still no pictures. four months after my wedding. so if you want any pictures for your wedding day...... don't go to the preachers house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more

My husband and I got married here and that is a day I will never get back again. It was supposed to be a magical day, the best day of our lives, but it was indeed a nightmare. They rushed my whole wedding and crammed it all into 5 minutes. It was so staged that it didnt feel real. They yelled at all of my guests upon their arrival and then ran them off as soon as we said "i Do". The pictures they took were pretty close to all the same pictures, and the video was AWFUL!! you can't hear us talking, see me walk down the aisle, and theres peoples heads blocking the whole view! For not being allowed to take your own photos or videos, they should have at least tried to do a descent job, but there only worry was getting the next wedding going. The view is breath taking yes! But those people do not care it's your day, and if you want a special, perfect day like i thought i was going to have, i do NOT reccomend this place. My guests were not pleased either, so thank you preachers house for being so inconsiderate of our wishes. read more