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December 2024 by pam weaver
I attended a gala there. Beautiful venue.
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December 2024 by Kimberly Carr
The venue is very nice. The service was also really good.
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September 2024 by Darrell Rigsby
Beautiful ballroom!
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August 2024 by Reese Lisenby
My husband and I had our reception at The Florentine in June and everything was perfect! Will West, the event coordinator, is very trustworthy and works so hard to make your dreams come true! The venue is gorgeous, and the food and cake are the best I’ve ever had at a wedding. We still get compliments about it! The Florentine takes care of the food, service, alcohol, cake, decor/setup, and florals, so it’s so easy to only have to communicate with one person about all of this.
I wish we could do it again and look forward to the next wedding we go to at the Florentine!
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August 2024 by Kathryn Stallings
The Florentine is a beautiful wedding venue with the perfect dance floor for a large wedding!
We utilized two spaces for our daughter and son-in-laws’s wedding. The Cafe worked nicely for the cocktail hour! The wedding party and guests were then led up to the Ballroom, by a Second Line, for the reception! It was a different and fun!
Michael Sanchez did an amazing job with the florals! All of the food, from the cocktail hour through the sit down dinner and beyond, was delicious! The wedding cake was stunning! We received countless compliments on the entire evening!
Will West, the Special Events Coordinator, is such an asset to the Florentine! They are very lucky to have him as the lead. Will was enthusiastic and helpful during the entire planning process. He was responsive and available for questions and meetings. Will, also, was spot on with all of his referrals! Each one that we used was terrific; including Nationwide Coverage and Ashley Pierce Weddings!
We highly recommend The Florentine, Corretti Catering and of course Will for any event!!
Thanks again for everything!
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June 2024 by Peyton & Tony Portante
My husband and I had our reception at the Florentine in February and there are just no words to express how amazing this venue and staff is. Our wedding was so amazing all thanks to the event coordinator, Will West!!! We have received COUNTLESS complements about the Florentine, the food (sooo many comments about the food), and just how smoothly it all went! As someone who had no clue about wedding planning or what I wanted, Will made it so easy and perfect! The timeless elegance and beauty of the Florentine is something you cannot easily find. They also provide in-house catering and florals so the communication between vendors was so simple and easy. I attached a few photos from our day but photos do not do it justice. I could not recommend this venue more!
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May 2024 by Bert Orum
Excellent
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March 2024 by EO Birmingham
The staff went above and beyond to ensure a successful event. Venue is GORGEOUS!!!
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February 2024 by Trista Hudson
We just had my son's rehearsal at The Florentine. It was absolutely beautiful. We had a seated plated dinner for 100 people. The tables and linens were perfect and the flowers were gorgeous. We chose the filet with shrimp and the salmon. Both were delicious. And the salad was outstanding.Will and Michael were easy to work with and executed everything we asked for. I would absolutely have an event there again.The only thing I didn't like was the video option. They cannot accommodate Apple products which made us getting the video operating more difficult. But overall a fantastic experience!
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February 2024 by Philip Hogue
Very beautiful
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January 2024 by Botagoz
A restaurant with a history of 100 years. Live music. Nice service. Dishes worthy of the highest praise. 5* well deserved.
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July 2023 by Olivia Calini
Having our wedding reception here was a dream come true! Will West was a pleasure to work with, incredibly professional, and tirelessly answered all my questions. The venue is absolutely gorgeous, and the food was amazing as was the experience! I wish the passed hors d'oeuvres had been done differently. My mom (mother of the bride) only got 1 hors d'oeuvre because no one was told there were only 4 per person and guests were taking handfuls, not realizing they were taking others'. I thought by the way 4 per person was stressed when ordering the food, they would've been given accordingly to each guest. Knowing what I do now, I would've asked for them to be plated. Some of my bridal party also only got one, if any.We paid a couple hundred dollars to use their projector for our wedding slideshow. Apparently, the projector could not read video files, only photos, which was not disclosed to me when I had inquired what format to make the slideshow. (I had a second vid format as backup but it didn't "see" either on the thumbdrive). This was a huge letdown to us and our guests... It was so embarrassing for me to see reject photos playing on the screen. Thankfully, our MC noticed my embarrassment and had it cut off after about a minute of it playing. All the hours I spent creating something beautiful to share and my only way of honoring my deceased grandparents felt taken from me. No reimbursement was given so we spent a couple hundred extra for nothing.The biggest let down of all was using their in-house florist. If I could rate that experience separately from everything else, I'd give 1, maybe 2 stars. From the start, my fiancé and I were uncomfortable and did not feel that the florist was on the same page as us. Anything that came out of my mouth as an idea, he seemed to cling to like it was written in stone. I didn't know many flower names nor had I been able to find photos of what I wanted online so it was hard to redirect. I almost didn't have flowers for my wedding as it was on Friday, and the florist thought it was Saturday. Thankfully, I was able to remind him in time. I had chosen a slightly cascading bouquet and wanted the bridesmaid bouquets hand-tied. The florist let me know he would be delivering a little late, which was fine since we were also behind. When he arrived, I was quite disappointed to see my bouquet was very, very round and all the bridesmaids bouquets were posy bouquets (which I had specified in our initial meeting I did NOT want). We had to leave the hotel to make a 40 min. drive to the ceremony location, which we were already late for. With the time crunch we were on, I knew it wasn't an option for all the bouquets to be taken apart and redone. Plus, the delphiniums had already been cut shorter than I wanted. At our reception, he put blue flowers, when I had specifically requested all white. I wanted so desperately to just enjoy my wedding at the reception of all places. I tried to brush it off and deal with it later. I contacted the venue about it a few different times and was told it would've been very easy to remove the blue flowers had I just said something then. As a bride, I had no way of knowing this and what would have been left would've been a sparse arrangement of florals that were still not what I requested. There weren't even hydrangeas and hardly any white stock. I really appreciated how the owner called me personally to apologize about the florals and admit that a mistake was made. She was very sweet and sincere about it. She had been very gracious to not charge an additional deposit for us staying over our time a little at the venue and though that was before the florals were discussed, seemed to want it to count for the mistakes with the florals. They were referred to as such a small part of the day, but being they're in most of my wedding photos and video, I disagree. Ultimately, I do not feel it was rectified.Overall, The Florentine will always have a special place in my heart, and I am so thankful we chos
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June 2023 by Barbara Lilly
Beautiful. Was there for a fund raiser breakfast
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March 2023 by Juliet Reed
Attended a luncheon here and the space is really nice.
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March 2023 by Lucretia McCarter
The food was delicious. Great venue for business gathering.
