Haak Vineyards & Winery

They provided everything we needed for our reception. The patio was the perfect place for the amount of guests and the food, beverages, cake were absolutely delicious. Once we signed our contract on what we would be responsible it was so comforting to know that when we arrived at the designated time everything was executed by their capable staff and all we had to do was pick up our decorations and gifts. This was easier than we anticipated since we are in our 70's we were nervous about attempting the planning, etc. After meeting with the event manager everything just fell into place. We had a beautiful as well as fun reception. T he best part was that it stayed within our budget.

Kathleen and Kim were a joy to work with. They really went above and beyond to make the day perfect and it was! The only thing that I had any issue with was the cakes they were absolutely beautiful but extremely dry. I loved how everyone at the winery made me feel like i was the only bride on their schedule I felt so special.

- Kayla

This was a very smooth process and everyone was very professional and helpful.

This was the best wedding experience I could have asked for. The staff has been wonderful about everything. Besides the winery setting such a beautiful backdrop, the catering, coordinating, and friendly staff made this easy and fun. The food was amazing, as I heard this from many people. The cake was beautiful and they worked with my design and topper. I highly recommend Haak Vineyards and Winery for a wedding venue!

Haak was an absolutely gorgeous setting for an outdoor wedding. Kathleen was always prompt with answers to any questions we had and very flexible in making sure everything needed was available for us to have the small, intimate wedding we wanted. Kim provided outstanding food and sangria and of course the wine was fantastic! Overall, I think Haak is a great venue. You definitely get your money's worth!

All Great!

Haak Winery was a wonderful place to have a wedding. It was beautiful without extensive decoration and really looked amazing in the spring. The food was amazing, service was unbelievable good and we had plenty of room to be able to enjoy the day. I would highly recommend the Haak winery as a great place to have your wedding

The staff at Haak are absolutely wonderful and worked with me on every detail. Haak is a true gem: the scenery is beautiful and different for the Texas area. I highly recommend this venue.

We had our wedding last night, June 12, 2010. We had the most amazing night of our lives. Kathleen and David were awesome, along with the rest of the Haak Staff. The food was outstanding and the cake wowed the crowd. We would recommend this venue to everyone!!!

Kathleen (winery facility) and David (catering / cakes) were both amazing in helping us plan our event. They were also very prompt in answering all our questions. The venue is gorgeous at any time of year. If you are looking for an awesome spot for having a wonderful outdoor wedding, Haak winery cannot be beat!

Haak Winery was great!! I had to completley re-set my wedding due to Hurricane Ike and when I called Kathy and David at Haak, they were ready to answer any questions I had. Kathy helped me with the settings and David went over the menus. The food was unbelieveable. I am still getting rave reviews on the menu we chose. The setting was beautiful and with the decorations it was very elegant. They went out of their way to make my wedding rememberable. I will always be greatfull!! Thank you David, Kathy and The Haak Winery.

The winery is a wonderful place to get married. It is beautiful and they provide so many services! Go visit them, it's a great place!

Our wedding was in October on one of those beautiful, cool days. The surrounding vinyard was a perfect backdrop. The chef worked with us to give the guests wine and appetizers on arrival, like a cocktail party before the wedding, and then a buffet dinner after the ceremony. People mention that it was one of the more lovely and unique weddings they have attended. My pictures are beautiful, and I feel like I picked the perfect wedding venue for us.

We were a very small wedding party (only 46 people total and 39 ending up present), so this venue being kind of intimate worked great for us. In the spring the location is stunningly beautiful, everything is so green and the vines create a certain atmosphere that was exactly right for us. We did have to drive 1.5 hour one way to get there as the winery is not exactly close to Houston, but it was so worth it.
Both the event manager and the chef were very easy to work with, esp given our crazy (working + school at the same time) schedules. Kathleen, the event manager, allowed us to bring our Dachshund on the premises as we wanted him to be our ring bearer, and Kim, the chef, took care of pairing the wines with the food. The selections out of her catering menu are more then decent and reasonably priced, and she can adjust it for any dietary requirements.
I am not giving this location full 5 out of 5 only because they have a very strict policy of not allowing any food and drink from the outside. We were fine with using Haak's catering and wines but they also insisted on providing the cake while I had my own, and much cheaper, cake lady. At the end this all worked out, as my friend let me use her cake design as a wedding gift, and Haak's baker re-created it just fine, plus Kim the chef built the cake very cleverly, making it big enough to look beautiful but inserting a fake second tier in the middle to keep the costs low (as we didn't need a cake that big for 46 people).
But overall the location is great, the staff were very attentive to our needs and we feel that we made a great choice having our wedding at Haak's.

All my guests were very impressed with the venue. It is beautiful, the food and drinks were very good, and the staff was friendly. Kathleen took extra time to assist me with the decorations beacause I was coming from out of town and did a wonderful job. The cost is a little more than you expect if you are inviting more than 150 guests due to extrea fees, but that is probably my only complaint. I would definitly recommend Haak!

The winery was a great place to have a big wedding. The staff was extremely accomodating and helpful. They will work with you to make it the wedding that you always dreamed of.

The site is gorgeous. It's a family owned business, I found that the staff were very friendly and helpful. The day of the event, I had forgotten the book for the guests to sign and they made one on the spot for me. Kim, the chef was easy to work with. She and my fiancee' hit it off talking about inventing sauces, so she came up with a special sauce for the meat for us. They aren't large so if it's the staff's day off you may have to wait a couple of days to get questions answered. The chef and cooking staff were very professional and on top of their game.

we were very pleased with the response to all of our concerns and questions during the planning stages. However, the plated dinner service was slower than we would have liked. The wine, food and venue setup were all fantastic!

The Haak Vineyards & Winery did not host my ceremony, but they did host the reception afterward.
The day couldn't have been any more beautiful! After the mass, everyone began to arrive at the winery around 4:30 pm, and the hosts were ready for us. We had over 210 guests in attendance. From the beginning to the end, guests couldn't say enough great things about the Haak. Everyone enjoyed the appetizers (fruits & cheeses), the dinner, and especially, the great tasting wine that my husband and I selected for the event! Guests roamed the vineyards and snapped pictures as the sun went down - B-E-A-U-TIFUL!. We then danced the night away until 10 pm.
The next day, family and friends stated that our wedding was gorgeous - from the beginning of the mass to the end of the reception at the Haak. We were definitely happy and wouldn't have changed a thing.
I do recommend having a person or two (such as a wedding planner or a GREAT friend, like we did) to make sure everything is running smoothly. Although the Haak is the host, they are very busy serving food and wine. I really recommmend that David and Kathleen allow their staff to do all that and tend more to the needs of the wedding party - just in case the party does not have a planner or friend to assist. We also have not received a breakdown of how all of our money was spent. We told the Haak the amount of people that would be in attendance and how much wine we would need. The chef gave us an amount to pay and stated he would give us a breakdown of everything. We paid, but we have yet to see how the money was distributed.
Overall, I would highly recommend the Haak Vineyards and Winery to anyone who would like to host a special event.

'A perfect place to make a wedding if you are a wine lover."

The winery was easy to work with if you went with everything they said and had no ideas of your own. We were not allowed to schedule tasting until after the contract was signed, half was paid and we were with 90 days of the wedding. Little backwards but it can work if you have a backup plan in case you dont like the food (though I heard that the new rental contract forces you to use their catering services). We tried to have the rehearsal dinner there but they would not even talk about food without a signed contract. Decided to spend the $ elsewhere. Oh and the pastry chef dropped the 4 tier cake so there was no wedding cake (except that purchased from the grocery store). I thought that it was a little pricy for a small town venue but still ok. Overall, I would use caution in recommending this venue to another person. I could go on and on but while I think they have potential, they are still working out the kinks in becoming a full service wedding venue.

After the line dies down for the food they take the food up and dont serve anymore. This is the only place that I have ever been to that takes the food up and doesn't leave it out. We made our final payment to the venue. Three days before the wedding they popped on us that hadn't paid all the payment yet. She claimed that we still had $400 to pay. Quite hard to do when you are that close to the weddinng.

The Quality of Service- Day of the wedding the "event planner" was no where around. If it wasn't for the DJ, things would not have run smoothly.

Responsiveness- The Winery was not good at returning phone calls, messages, or emails. Contact required personal visits to the location.

Professionalism- Although, there was a written contract, the verbal agreements were not withheld without confrontation. The Head Chef was very difficult to deal with, and I felt he over stepped his boundries when it came to the actual event planning.

Value for Cost- The cost was very reasonable, and the Venue was very beautiful and well kept.

Flexibilty- When we would show up at the winery to discuss issues, or questions that we might have had, they were always able to make time to sit down with us and discuss them.

Although, we had difficutly making the arrangements with the Winery, the overall wedding went very well. All the guest expressed that they had a great time, and it was a beautiful wedding. The food and cakes were very well prepared!!

Haak Winery is a beautiful place for a wedding. The atmosphere was beautiful especially July with the grades on the vine. That being said we did not have a good experience with Kathleen and David. There were several things that did not go well for us from food to response time. When we first met with David we did not get a good feeling about it him. He was very pushy with what he wanted to do. Our ideas were not really taken into much consideration. We also got our cake from another vendor which apparently is a no no but it was not stated in the contract that we had to have it from them. He did lets us bring in the cake but said he would no help with it what so ever which was fine. He suggested an amount of wine for us to get that was outrageous and I kept saying we did not need it. He was persistent about it so we went ahead with his suggestion. We did not even make a dent in the wine and they had to refund us our money. He did not work with us on children's menus at all. He was going to charge us the same price for less food. We never felt like we were being heard it seemed as though it was going to turn out how they have always done their weddings. Kathleen was helpful with what we needed. Overall the wedding turned out beautiful thanks to my amazing wedding coordinator and friends. The winery was a great place for the wedding but our experience with the staff was not a very good one and I would be cautious if I was choosing them for my wedding. Make sure you read everything and voice your opinion.

The food is mediocre at best: bagged greens (nothing else) for a salad, frozen string beans, small chicken breast with thin sauce. Two months before the wedding the head chef decided he wanted to make my daughter's cake and said we could only use a baker he approved. The contract signed almost a year before made no mention of such a practice. He became rude when we would not have the bakery call him as he requested and called me "argumentative". When the operations mgr was called he did apologize. It is a lovely setting and the wedding went well but we certainly didn't need the added stress prior to the event. My advice: get everything in writing before.

Haak Vineyards is so peaceful and the perfect setting for an outdoor wedding. The vineyard is beautiful and very photogenic!

I have visited HAAK on several occasions as well as participated in several Bridal Open Houses. This is truely a one of a kind venue in the Bay Area and I highly recommend this place to anyone who is looking to have a beautiful outdoor wedding. They have recently added features this past year and they are true upgrades. Go check them out...oh, and don't forget to taste the wine!

Haak winery is such a beautiful venue. Not to mention the staff is so friendly and easy to work with. You can really tell Kathleen cares about her brides and helps make their day special. We love working with Haak Winery on both open houses and weddings and we are looking forward to many more events out at Haak. If you are a bride looking for a beautiful venue with a friendly and helpful staff, great catering menu, and amazing Texan wines... Look no further!

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Each time we perform at the HaaK Winery we feel as if we are deep in The Texas Hill Country. This facility is perfect for just about any kind over event you could plan. Their staff is very attentive and professional which exhibits sincerity toward their clientele. The outdoor pavilion is the perfect place to have a truly unique event within a reasonable driving distance. This venue is defiantly at the top of our favorite places to perform.
Jason Lillico (Music for the Masses Event Production