Planters Inn

We loved having our wedding and reception all at Planters Inn for about 75 people. Rachel Sneed is amazing! Before we booked the venue, we absolutely adored her. She is EVERYTHING you want in a local on site person to help you through the many details. While Planters Inn did not officially give many of our things such as band and photography, Rachel was always ready with great advice of who to contact. I hope Planters Inn realizes all that they have in her. Gorgeous place for a wedding. All of our guests had a fantastic time.

I really enjoyed my reception in the ballroom and courtyard of Planter's Inn. It was very intimate and elegant. The food was very good and beautifully presented. The service during the evening was impeccable. Rachel, the new planner, was great, but Chris, the food manager, was the person who made the night go so smoothly. He was very professional and assured us that we would not have to worry about a thing that night. They were flexible and receptive to our ideas for the events of the night. Normally, they do not allow music out in the courtyard, but they did for us, so we had our first dances outside under string lights (HIGHLY recommend stringing a few strands of italian lights across the courtyard!). We used their sound system in the ballroom for music. We burned our own cds and only had to press start on their 6-cd player. In our last meeting, we brought our centerpieces and candles and showed Rachel how to set them up, and she did it for us on the day of! Very easy! The biggest, and really only, disappointment was the cake. It looked beautiful, but it was dry and bland. It tasted as though it had been made a week before. I am not sure what happened as they have a pastry chef, but it was a really disappointing end to the dinner. Perhaps the coconut cake is their most popular because it's all the chef can do well! Since Planters does not do ANY tastings (big mistake in my mind), we got the wedding cake kit from Publix, which was fabulous, and picked our flavors from there. In hind sight, we should have gotten the cake from there and paid the cutting fee. After my mom complained, they reduced the price of the cake, but it was still not competitive with Publix. All in all, I am very happy with our reception at Planter's Inn. It is very expensive, but it is very elegant, and the food is good. Recommendations: chicken/filet and crab, She crab soup, brie passed h'ors deurves, string lights in courtyard, sparklers for send off, and carriage for get away!