Place is beautiful love the set up in front of the pond

My daughter fell in love with this venue as soon as she saw it! Her dad fell in love with the price as soon as the owner shared it with us! the whole experience could not have gone better... to begin with we came to the venue NUMEROUS times early on to meet with the wedding planner, florist and musicians. The owner never refused us that opportunity. Then the day before and day of the venue was set up and manicured to perfection! The weather tried not to cooperate, so we were thankful that there is an indoor option - that alone set our minds at ease and saved money renting a tent "just in case" as some venues suggest! The security guard helped park cars and a golf cart was used for those needing it. This venue is the BEST KEPT SECRET in North Texas and would cost 2-3X the $ of any similar DFW location (which is where we live!)! You cant beat the personal service and attention that the owners give to the Bride, Groom and the entire wedding party! I plan to book it again for an upcoming ANNIVERSARY! This MOB was more than delighted to make our daughter's Dream Wedding Come True at Gray Acres in Pottsboro,TX! Also... a big SHOUT OUT to Floral Designs by Dawn - an area florist with such a creative flare!

We booked this venue because of the outside beauty and the owner telling us how smooth other weddings have gone. We completely regret booking with her. When we booked we were told we had to book her security guard at $25 an hour for the length of the reception if we had alcohol and that we could self serve if we only had wine and beer as long as we had someone with liquor license there it was fine. Right after we signed the contract the first security guard quit and she had to hire a new one and he was more expensive at $35 an hour and had to be there for the ceremony too which we thought was weird but went with it. Also when we booked she said she had a $600 security deposit formality that was required and most brides just wrote her a check and then she handed it back at the end of the night. Also something we were fine with. At the rehearsal she went to my husband’s parents and a bridesmaid and the best person asking about money and when we were paying this deposit. She never once went to me and my husband while we were there and she knew we were paying for the venue not our families. One of the groomsmen made a bad joke about weed (we live in Oklahoma where it’s legal but he wasn’t going to bring any because it isn’t in Texas he was joking about showing up stoned) and she freaked out and said that we had to make sure that we had $600 when we got there and she would be keeping it to check her venue for damage and then refunding it and we needed a bartender because self serve was no longer ok. We told her we could cancel the alcohol because we couldn’t find a bartender on 12 hours notice. When we got to the venue she said she got us a bartender as a gift to us but the bartender told my husband that she is booked last minute like this all the time. The security guard we had to hire played on his phone most of the night until a bridesmaid pointed it out to the owner that since we are paying him he should do his job. When my husband tried to make conversation with him about where he’s licensed and what he does when he’s not working weddings he wouldn’t answer. So I’m not sure if he is licensed. We used a small speaker she provided for the reception and I was later told she kept coming by and turning it down. The reception was indoors, we didn’t have it very loud to start with, and she was out in the country so no noise ordinance applied and the reception was over at 9:30pm