Wedding planning is difficult and stressful as is. You deserve a venue that makes you feel supported and excited for your wedding. In my experience, Over the Vines will absolutely not provide this.
My fiancé and I booked the same day that Josh Kuhl took over the business. Promptly following this, we started to not hear from Josh. This continued for months with absolutely no word from him.
Josh has been addressed and new owners have, yet again, been put in place. I have not had a better experience with them. Myself and other brides have been receiving mixed communications, long rambling phone calls devoid of any substance, and very little empathy for the hell that we have been put through.
This has been a stressful and heartbreaking experience. I don’t want anyone else to go through what we’ve been through.
Tbone AtWork
I got married 4 months ago, and over the lack of responsibility and zero call backs. I even went onsite multiple times - he hides in his home!
1) Small Claims Filed 2) Better Business Bureau filed and being investigated.
Will try to provide monthly updates.
Chuck Mano
How disappointing that a venue like this has been taken over by someone who does not respond to email or phone. I’ve been trying for weeks! Sometimes reviews are one sided so I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it appears he has truly run this venue into the ground.
Taylor Hallam
Unfortunately I would not recommend this venue to anyone as long as Josh is the owner.
The only reason our wedding went the way it did was because of our day of coordinator Charity from In Good Hands. Our wedding was in August and was originally booked when Billie and Ryan were the owners. Josh took over the beginning of June and everything went down hill. He NEVER responded to emails or calls. We even sent a note in the mail with one of our payments asking him to respond to us-he cashed the check but never got in touch with us. It was all extremely stressful. Charity ended up doing way more work then she was supposed to do and we could not have been more grateful for her- because of her we had a beautiful wedding day. I hate to see such an incredible wedding venue (that my husband and I and our guests loved) go down hill due to this new ownership.
We won’t be getting our damage deposit back due to something breaking (understandable) but he was originally trying to get more money to cover it because the damage deposit wasn’t “enough” AND we were also overcharged 300 dollars on our bar bill that wasn’t given to us until the end of the wedding night after we had been drinking. We asked for the bar bill multiple times before the wedding and never received it. We won’t be getting that extra 300 dollars back.
Writing this review is hard because our wedding day was truly so perfect but it wasn’t because of Josh it was because of our day of coordinator.
Future brides and grooms do NOT book your wedding here, save yourself the added stress and go elsewhere.
Valerie Anderson
Brides and Grooms - Run Far Away
Our experience with this venue under the new ownership (Josh) was extremely disappointing. We originally booked when it was owned by the previous owners, who were absolutely wonderful - but since the change in ownership, everything has gone downhill.
Josh was incredibly unprofessional from start to finish. He never introduced himself to me (the bride) and the only time he spoke to us was to deliver our bar bill - which he didn’t get to us until the very end of the night, and it was incorrect and had to be changed multiple times, making us late to everything else we had planned afterward. Communication throughout the process was non existent. Literally no emails or calls/texts back.
Like many others have said in their reviews, don’t expect to get your damage deposit back. He will find reasons to charge you for things outside of your contract and make the process unnecessarily difficult. It’s been over a mont and we have heard NOTHING from him.
The only reason our wedding day ran smoothly was because of our coordinator, Charity, who was absolutely amazing. She does not work for the venue, but she went above and beyond to make sure everything went as planned. Without her, the day would have been a completely different story.
There are so many beautiful venues that actually care about their couples - please, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. This place is not worth the stress, money, or frustrations.
Rick Kopf
BRIDES - GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. I hate to say it, but as beautiful of a venue as this is, the new owner, Josh does not communicate and will not return phone calls, emails etc. My daughter's wedding was held there and if it wasn't for Charity Zych, whom we hired as a day of wedding coordinator, many details would have been missed or forgotten. Initial communication with the venue was with the previous owners and it was wonderful. Prompt, timely responses and answers to all the questions we had. The wedding was over 4 months ago and after repeatedly asking for our damage deposit back, still have not gotten it. 3 weeks ago, I finally got a hold of Josh and he mentioned it was the end of his busy season and they had some catching up to do. Still haven't heard anything. I called today and left another message. I WILL BE SUING THE VENUE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT IF I DO NOT HEAR BACK WITHIN THE NEXT 7 DAYS. I URGE ALL OF THE OTHER CUSTOMERS TO DO THE SAME. ALSO REACH OUT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND FILE A COMPLAINT. This is a goldmine that is going in the tank unfortunately.
Autumn Helfvogt
Billie and Ryan were amazing throughout the whole process. Ownership changed and we were the first wedding of the new owner, Josh. I am certain the day before and day of only went ok because Billie and Ryan were around to help with his first wedding. My crew cleaned up everything to stacking the chairs and bringing the tables down. Ryan couldn’t believe how much help my family and guests were. It is October and we still haven’t received our damage deposit back, we signed a contract and on our invoice it says to be returned within 2 weeks. We got married in June, way over the 2 week deadline. Josh will not answer any sort of communication, if you have booked or are wanting to book please be aware that there are many others having issues with getting in touch with Josh. Why be more stressed out than you have to? Plus not being able to get your money back. I recommend spending your time and money elsewhere and I am so sad that have to say that. It’s just not worth it.
Gary Helfvogt Jr.
My wife and I got married on June 6th 2025 and it was a gorgeous place by all means, Billie was absolutely fantastic to work with same with Ryan. They made sure everything was perfect. And in order for us communication between us and them was top Notch i have nothing but good things to say about them. But on the other hand the day we got married is when the new ownership came on. And that was Josh, that took over. We got married 3 months ago. And we have yet to receive our damage deposit back. We've texted, we've called, we have emailed and he has yet to reach back out to us We were supposed to receive it back after the wedding was said and done per our contract, we should have already received it .from what I have heard, this is a reoccurring thing of him. Not keeping communication with the people that are trying to get married at his venue. very, very disappointed on the new ownership of this establishment.
Hannah Peek
We got married on 6/7 at Over the Vines. At the time, we had been working with Billie but Josh took over the week of our wedding. Billie was amazing to work with and great at communication! I understood taking over a wedding venue was a lot to take on, so it was understandable initially when our damage deposit was delayed. We left the wedding venue is perfect condition just as we found it. Josh’s communication has been poor, I followed up countless times via email about not receiving our damage deposit. Now I cannot get a response over email from him at all. I gave him grace with the timeline but It has now been over 3 months since our wedding and we have yet to receive our damage deposit back. Josh will not respond to us, and even after sending a letter to him, I still have gotten no response or no deposit check sent in the mail. It’s very disappointing as he has now violated our signed contract.
Wedding venue, was excellent with perfect weather! Worth checking out. Very well done with barn, large tent enclosure, ample quality bathrooms. Beautiful Possible caution as most barn style venues, no barn AC.
Janet L_s
It's nice. Not enough bathroom stalls and bathrooms could have been cleaner.
Kelsey Nemec
Over the Vines is a spectacular wedding venue - it was exactly what we were looking for to host our special day. We worked with Billie and Ryan for 95% of our wedding planning (they were awesome), but ownership switched over to Josh about a week and a half before our wedding. Everything went off without a hitch and was beyond perfect, although I will say that Josh was relatively hard to get a hold of, unlike Ryan and Billie. I assume that there was just a little bit of overwhelm during the transition, and I'm sure it'll only get better as Josh settles in. Otherwise, everything was perfect and none of our guests could stop talking about how stunning the venue was! We used the lawn for our ceremony (with a third party tent due to heat), the barn for dinner, and the tent for dancing. Having multiple different locations, and therefore avoiding any room flips, was so appreciated and our guests loved seeing the entire property as well!
Laurie Coffee
Fabulous wedding venue!!!
Michael C.
Very nice place liked everything about my experience there
Wedding planning is difficult and stressful as is. You deserve a venue that makes you feel supported and excited for your wedding. In my experience, Over the Vines will absolutely not provide this. My fiancé and I booked the same day that Josh Kuhl took over the business. Promptly following this, we started to not hear from Josh. This continued for months with absolutely no word from him. Josh has been addressed and new owners have, yet again, been put in place. I have not had a better experience with them. Myself and other brides have been receiving mixed communications, long rambling phone calls devoid of any substance, and very little empathy for the hell that we have been put through. This has been a stressful and heartbreaking experience. I don’t want anyone else to go through what we’ve been through.
I got married 4 months ago, and over the lack of responsibility and zero call backs. I even went onsite multiple times - he hides in his home!
1) Small Claims Filed
2) Better Business Bureau filed and being investigated.
Will try to provide monthly updates.
How disappointing that a venue like this has been taken over by someone who does not respond to email or phone. I’ve been trying for weeks! Sometimes reviews are one sided so I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it appears he has truly run this venue into the ground.
Unfortunately I would not recommend this venue to anyone as long as Josh is the owner.
The only reason our wedding went the way it did was because of our day of coordinator Charity from In Good Hands. Our wedding was in August and was originally booked when Billie and Ryan were the owners. Josh took over the beginning of June and everything went down hill. He NEVER responded to emails or calls. We even sent a note in the mail with one of our payments asking him to respond to us-he cashed the check but never got in touch with us. It was all extremely stressful. Charity ended up doing way more work then she was supposed to do and we could not have been more grateful for her- because of her we had a beautiful wedding day. I hate to see such an incredible wedding venue (that my husband and I and our guests loved) go down hill due to this new ownership.
We won’t be getting our damage deposit back due to something breaking (understandable) but he was originally trying to get more money to cover it because the damage deposit wasn’t “enough” AND we were also overcharged 300 dollars on our bar bill that wasn’t given to us until the end of the wedding night after we had been drinking. We asked for the bar bill multiple times before the wedding and never received it. We won’t be getting that extra 300 dollars back.
Writing this review is hard because our wedding day was truly so perfect but it wasn’t because of Josh it was because of our day of coordinator.
Future brides and grooms do NOT book your wedding here, save yourself the added stress and go elsewhere.
Brides and Grooms - Run Far Away
Our experience with this venue under the new ownership (Josh) was extremely disappointing. We originally booked when it was owned by the previous owners, who were absolutely wonderful - but since the change in ownership, everything has gone downhill.
Josh was incredibly unprofessional from start to finish. He never introduced himself to me (the bride) and the only time he spoke to us was to deliver our bar bill - which he didn’t get to us until the very end of the night, and it was incorrect and had to be changed multiple times, making us late to everything else we had planned afterward. Communication throughout the process was non existent. Literally no emails or calls/texts back.
Like many others have said in their reviews, don’t expect to get your damage deposit back. He will find reasons to charge you for things outside of your contract and make the process unnecessarily difficult. It’s been over a mont and we have heard NOTHING from him.
The only reason our wedding day ran smoothly was because of our coordinator, Charity, who was absolutely amazing. She does not work for the venue, but she went above and beyond to make sure everything went as planned. Without her, the day would have been a completely different story.
There are so many beautiful venues that actually care about their couples - please, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. This place is not worth the stress, money, or frustrations.
BRIDES - GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. I hate to say it, but as beautiful of a venue as this is, the new owner, Josh does not communicate and will not return phone calls, emails etc. My daughter's wedding was held there and if it wasn't for Charity Zych, whom we hired as a day of wedding coordinator, many details would have been missed or forgotten. Initial communication with the venue was with the previous owners and it was wonderful. Prompt, timely responses and answers to all the questions we had. The wedding was over 4 months ago and after repeatedly asking for our damage deposit back, still have not gotten it. 3 weeks ago, I finally got a hold of Josh and he mentioned it was the end of his busy season and they had some catching up to do. Still haven't heard anything. I called today and left another message. I WILL BE SUING THE VENUE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT IF I DO NOT HEAR BACK WITHIN THE NEXT 7 DAYS. I URGE ALL OF THE OTHER CUSTOMERS TO DO THE SAME. ALSO REACH OUT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND FILE A COMPLAINT. This is a goldmine that is going in the tank unfortunately.
Billie and Ryan were amazing throughout the whole process. Ownership changed and we were the first wedding of the new owner, Josh. I am certain the day before and day of only went ok because Billie and Ryan were around to help with his first wedding. My crew cleaned up everything to stacking the chairs and bringing the tables down. Ryan couldn’t believe how much help my family and guests were. It is October and we still haven’t received our damage deposit back, we signed a contract and on our invoice it says to be returned within 2 weeks. We got married in June, way over the 2 week deadline. Josh will not answer any sort of communication, if you have booked or are wanting to book please be aware that there are many others having issues with getting in touch with Josh. Why be more stressed out than you have to? Plus not being able to get your money back. I recommend spending your time and money elsewhere and I am so sad that have to say that. It’s just not worth it.
My wife and I got married on June 6th 2025 and it was a gorgeous place by all means, Billie was absolutely fantastic to work with same with Ryan. They made sure everything was perfect. And in order for us communication between us and them was top Notch i have nothing but good things to say about them. But on the other hand the day we got married is when the new ownership came on. And that was Josh, that took over. We got married 3 months ago. And we have yet to receive our damage deposit back. We've texted, we've called, we have emailed and he has yet to reach back out to us We were supposed to receive it back after the wedding was said and done per our contract, we should have already received it .from what I have heard, this is a reoccurring thing of him. Not keeping communication with the people that are trying to get married at his venue. very, very disappointed on the new ownership of this establishment.
We got married on 6/7 at Over the Vines. At the time, we had been working with Billie but Josh took over the week of our wedding. Billie was amazing to work with and great at communication! I understood taking over a wedding venue was a lot to take on, so it was understandable initially when our damage deposit was delayed. We left the wedding venue is perfect condition just as we found it. Josh’s communication has been poor, I followed up countless times via email about not receiving our damage deposit. Now I cannot get a response over email from him at all. I gave him grace with the timeline but It has now been over 3 months since our wedding and we have yet to receive our damage deposit back. Josh will not respond to us, and even after sending a letter to him, I still have gotten no response or no deposit check sent in the mail. It’s very disappointing as he has now violated our signed contract.
It's neat. No aircon so plan accordingly.
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Wedding venue, was excellent with perfect weather!
Worth checking out.
Very well done with barn, large tent enclosure, ample quality bathrooms.
Beautiful
Possible caution as most barn style venues, no barn AC.
It's nice. Not enough bathroom stalls and bathrooms could have been cleaner.
Over the Vines is a spectacular wedding venue - it was exactly what we were looking for to host our special day. We worked with Billie and Ryan for 95% of our wedding planning (they were awesome), but ownership switched over to Josh about a week and a half before our wedding. Everything went off without a hitch and was beyond perfect, although I will say that Josh was relatively hard to get a hold of, unlike Ryan and Billie. I assume that there was just a little bit of overwhelm during the transition, and I'm sure it'll only get better as Josh settles in. Otherwise, everything was perfect and none of our guests could stop talking about how stunning the venue was! We used the lawn for our ceremony (with a third party tent due to heat), the barn for dinner, and the tent for dancing. Having multiple different locations, and therefore avoiding any room flips, was so appreciated and our guests loved seeing the entire property as well!
Fabulous wedding venue!!!
Very nice place liked everything about my experience there
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