Bayside Event Center
2759 Seaman Rd, Oregon
(419) 693-6950
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My now husband and I looked at the hall early this year. We went in for our scheduled appointment and walked into a hall with no one to be seen. After I said hello a few times a woman walks out and says “can I help you with something?” I very nicely say “we are here for our appointment to look at the hall” she says “well here it is” and walks back into her office. We were in complete shock and immediately turned around and walked out. We should have ran for our lives then. After not being able to find something that met our needs location wise, we ended up reaching back out to the hall to see if we could come in and actually have someone speak to us and show us around. The owners are extremely kind and made that right for us. So, we booked the hall. The contract we received had little to no information about anything besides the price of the hall, bartenders, cleaning fee and tablecloth fees. So naturally when you are planning a wedding there are questions that you kind of need answers to. Well good luck with that here. Connie, the “manager” (I honestly have no idea what to call her job title), was unbelievably rude and uninformative every time we had a question. Trying to get ahold of her, or actually getting an answer out of her when you could, was like pulling teeth (and that is an extreme understatement). A big concern of ours was being able to decorate the day before the wedding. We were told no. No reason, just no. So we asked if we could book the night before, that we would pay. We were told by Connie that we were not allowed to book the hall, with guaranteed money in their pockets, because if someone wants to book it for a funeral, they can charge more for those. WHAT?!?!?! So I bring this to the owners attention, they say we can absolutely have the night before to decorate and at no charge. The day we went in to decorate the hall, there was a new co manager there who was incredible. Answered all of our questions with ease and kindness. The hall was disgustingly dirty, with an inch of dust on the entryway table, fingerprints and filth on every door/mirror. We brought in our own cleaning supplies and had multiple people (our friends/family) wiping and cleaning every surface. It smelled so unbelievably bad in there, we had to bring in our own febreeze, glade plug ins, candles etc. They had dirty table cloths set out on all of our tables, that we had to pay for mind you. The new manager said absolutely not, got us brand new cloths and reset all of the tables for us. She was lovely and is absolutely the person who should be in charge. I was extremely sad to hear she would not be there on my wedding day, but instead Connie. Oh well, no fault of hers!
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My advice would be to book somewhere else until this is completely under new management and the owners take things more seriously.
Let's start at the first time I had the pleasure of meeting the manager/coordinator, unsure of her title, Connie. She was completely rude in the way she spoke to me even though she thought I was the bride at that point. No one ever wanted to approach her with anything because of how poorly we were ALL treated. She wouldn't give us an answer as to when we could decorate - when we offered to rent the hall on Friday too, we weren't able to in case there was a funeral because she said they can charge more.
Because there is a new manager/event coordinator that started we were able to get in for 2 hours on Friday to decorate. It was so hot in the building though and the new coordinator turned on the air conditioning while we were setting up and you could hear that it was on. We asked for and paid a tablecloth fee for black tablecloths and skirting on the head table and buffet table. The head table and buffet had white tablecloths and skirting that were SO DIRTY with yellow stains everywhere. It is embarrassing that anyone would think this was acceptable to present to anyone and sad to see that businesses are run like this
The main hall was not clean. The front room had a layer of dust on the table that we cleaned, we vacuumed and we windexed the glass front door prior to the wedding. The entrance had two planter boxes on each side with weeds in them so we bought mums to fill them to look more presentable.
The DJ, photographer, and caterer all went to the reception hall earlier that day to finalize something and all told us how poorly they were treated by Connie
When we arrived at the hall it was 82 degrees inside. You can't hear the air blowing like you could the date prior. I approached Connie in regard to this (in a hostile manner I will admit) and said that this was unacceptable. She said the air has been on since 11 set at 74, she then allowed us to turn it down but we found out then it didn't work. If she came into work at 11 she should have monitored that and realized that something wasn't right but the hallway to her office and the back door was COLD. She tried to blame it on the catering company coming in and out but they were using the COLD hallway door. After some review reading today I can see this was complained about 2 months ago and responded to by who it says was the Bayside Event Owner which leads me to believe it was a known issue.
The bartender was sitting in front of a fan. I notified Connie that she obviously knew to bring a fan. She nastily told me that that was her niece, and she takes medicine. I told her I didn't care, you don't think guests could take medicine or the pregnant person in the bridal party that feels like she is going to pass out deserved to be cool. THE BARTENDERS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WORK IN THOSE ENVIRONMENTS EITHER IT'S NOT AN OUTDOOR VENUE. Our guests were fanning themselves with plates. We had to facilitate her getting us one of the big fans that they had to blow on the dancefloor, it wasn't something that was offered freely or done by Connie.
The bathrooms had no soap (at least the women's), just hand sanitizer. The bartenders just poured drinks with ¾ liquor and a splash of something and rolled their eyes when you went to the bar. Connie's niece even rolled her eyes when the bride ordered a white claw. The wedding guests are who took out the trash EVERYTIME. I had to ask for more trash bags. We paid a cleaning fee but had to clean up everything that night (including cups and such) and cleaned the hall prior to the wedding.
I would steer clear until Connie is gone from the facilities and issues are addressed. I think the owners have tried to make the situation right, but we shouldn't have paid for anything but the lights we used. Paying a
My now husband and I looked at the hall early this year. We went in for our scheduled appointment and walked into a hall with no one to be seen. After I said hello a few times a woman walks out and says “can I help you with something?” I very nicely say “we are here for our appointment to look at the hall” she says “well here it is” and walks back into her office. We were in complete shock and immediately turned around and walked out. We should have ran for our lives then. After not being able to find something that met our needs location wise, we ended up reaching back out to the hall to see if we could come in and actually have someone speak to us and show us around. The owners are extremely kind and made that right for us. So, we booked the hall. The contract we received had little to no information about anything besides the price of the hall, bartenders, cleaning fee and tablecloth fees. So naturally when you are planning a wedding there are questions that you kind of need answers to. Well good luck with that here. Connie, the “manager” (I honestly have no idea what to call her job title), was unbelievably rude and uninformative every time we had a question. Trying to get ahold of her, or actually getting an answer out of her when you could, was like pulling teeth (and that is an extreme understatement). A big concern of ours was being able to decorate the day before the wedding. We were told no. No reason, just no. So we asked if we could book the night before, that we would pay. We were told by Connie that we were not allowed to book the hall, with guaranteed money in their pockets, because if someone wants to book it for a funeral, they can charge more for those. WHAT?!?!?! So I bring this to the owners attention, they say we can absolutely have the night before to decorate and at no charge. The day we went in to decorate the hall, there was a new co manager there who was incredible. Answered all of our questions with ease and kindness. The hall was disgustingly dirty, with an inch of dust on the entryway table, fingerprints and filth on every door/mirror. We brought in our own cleaning supplies and had multiple people (our friends/family) wiping and cleaning every surface. It smelled so unbelievably bad in there, we had to bring in our own febreeze, glade plug ins, candles etc. They had dirty table cloths set out on all of our tables, that we had to pay for mind you. The new manager said absolutely not, got us brand new cloths and reset all of the tables for us. She was lovely and is absolutely the person who should be in charge. I was extremely sad to hear she would not be there on my wedding day, but instead Connie. Oh well, no fault of hers! Now to the actual day. We get to the hall and it was 83+ degrees. No air, apparently it didnt work. Yet the office that Connie got to sit in all night was ice cold. I have a bridesmaid who is 6 months pregnant and was feeling extremely unwell due to the heat. I very nicely go to Connies office to ask if they have a fan that I could sit in front of her. She proceeds to start crying, saying “I cant do anything right” ummmmm, what? So I (the bride) had to console this “manager” on my wedding day because she was the one upset for some reason. Our guests were fanning themselves with their dinner plates (talk about embarrassing). Now to the bartenders. They weren’t as rude as Connie but boy were they close. My first drink, I politely ask for a white claw. She looks at me, rolls her eyes, grabs it and sets it in front of me. The person next to me looked at me in complete shock. I went up two more times and was treated exactly the same. Luckily our awesome guests were grabbing my drinks for the rest of the evening. I am a waitress/bartender, we all have bad days, but even on my worst I have never treated a customer the way I was treated. If you hate your job that much, get a new one. Maybe the extreme heat was making them cranky, who knows. They also don’t know how to actually make a drink. Unless someone is ordering a double, a captain and coke is not an entire cup of captain w
My now husband and I looked at the hall early this year. We went in for our scheduled appointment and walked into a hall with no one to be seen. After I said hello a few times a woman walks out and says “can I help you with something?” I very nicely say “we are here for our appointment to look at the hall” she says “well here it is” and walks back into her office. We were in complete shock and immediately turned around and walked out. We should have ran for our lives then. After not being able to find something that met our needs location wise, we ended up reaching back out to the hall to see if we could come in and actually have someone speak to us and show us around. The owners are extremely kind and made that right for us. So, we booked the hall. The contract we received had little to no information about anything besides the price of the hall, bartenders, cleaning fee and tablecloth fees. So naturally when you are planning a wedding there are questions that you kind of need answers to. Well good luck with that here. Connie, the “manager” (I honestly have no idea what to call her job title), was unbelievably rude and uninformative every time we had a question. Trying to get ahold of her, or actually getting an answer out of her when you could, was like pulling teeth (and that is an extreme understatement). A big concern of ours was being able to decorate the day before the wedding. We were told no. No reason, just no. So we asked if we could book the night before, that we would pay. We were told by Connie that we were not allowed to book the hall, with guaranteed money in their pockets, because if someone wants to book it for a funeral, they can charge more for those. WHAT?!?!?! So I bring this to the owners attention, they say we can absolutely have the night before to decorate and at no charge. The day we went in to decorate the hall, there was a new co manager there who was incredible. Answered all of our questions with ease and kindness. The hall was disgustingly dirty, with an inch of dust on the entryway table, fingerprints and filth on every door/mirror. We brought in our own cleaning supplies and had multiple people (our friends/family) wiping and cleaning every surface. It smelled so unbelievably bad in there, we had to bring in our own febreeze, glade plug ins, candles etc. They had dirty table cloths set out on all of our tables, that we had to pay for mind you. The new manager said absolutely not, got us brand new cloths and reset all of the tables for us. She was lovely and is absolutely the person who should be in charge. I was extremely sad to hear she would not be there on my wedding day, but instead Connie. Oh well, no fault of hers! Now to the actual day. We get to the hall and it was 83+ degrees. No air, apparently it didnt work. Yet the office that Connie got to sit in all night was ice cold. I have a bridesmaid who is 6 months pregnant and was feeling extremely unwell due to the heat. I very nicely go to Connies office to ask if they have a fan that I could sit in front of her. She proceeds to start crying, saying “I cant do anything right” ummmmm, what? So I (the bride) had to console this “manager” on my wedding day because she was the one upset for some reason. Our guests were fanning themselves with their dinner plates (talk about embarrassing). Now to the bartenders. They weren’t as rude as Connie but boy were they close. My first drink, I politely ask for a white claw. She looks at me, rolls her eyes, grabs it and sets it in front of me. The person next to me looked at me in complete shock. I went up two more times and was treated exactly the same. Luckily our awesome guests were grabbing my drinks for the rest of the evening. I am a waitress/bartender, we all have bad days, but even on my worst I have never treated a customer the way I was treated. If you hate your job that much, get a new one. Maybe the extreme heat was making them cranky, who knows. They also don’t know how to actually make a drink. Unless someone is ordering a double, a captain and coke is not an entire cup of captain w
I was here for a wedding this past weekend and it was absolutely horrible! Not only did the air conditioning not work and was over 83+ when we entered the hall, the “staff” was so rude. The “manager” Connie was rude to the whole bridal party, including the bride, who obviously only wanted her day to be perfect. The majority of the guests had to fan themselves with our dinner plates since it was so HOT! They finally brought out ONE fan for the entire hall that hosted over 150 people!!! The bartenders were rude, and couldn’t make a drink properly. After much back and forth of trying to get in early to set up and having to bring in our own cleaning supplies to get the hall even semi ready was just unacceptable. We had to clean up the outside of the hall since it was overgrown as well, and brought in mums to make it look decent outside as well. I mean come on, we rented the hall and paid for it. My hope is that someone else doesn’t have this problem in the future.
We went there for a sweet 16 party and it was soooo hot. The bartender had to fans over head an
Industrial size fan cooling her off. While guests were sweating it out. At one point it was cooler outside than it was inside. Felt like an oven. Family that booked it should receive some compensation.
Amazing food and service
My family had a funeral luncheon for my brother-in-law recently. I would like to say how wonderful everyone was, and the food was outstanding! Everything was set up perfectly! We were so happy we chose this hall.
Beautiful space, great communication with staff, perfect for indoor events! Great venue!
We had our Waite High 50th class reunion. The food and service was FANTASTIC. I couldn’t have been more pleased. Chicken paprikas was excellent
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Well kept clean nice size hall and kitchen
Shrimp and perch dinners were delicious
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Absolutely a wonderful place
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