Hotel del Coronado

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!!!! Beautiful Hotel with such history!! Staff was very accomodating and the view was gorgeous!!

This was just the perfect place for our dream each wedding. The staff was professional, courteous, and very helpful. The planner couldn't have been more perfect for us, Our guests were treated very well and it helped to have hotel rooms on site and very beautiful clean ones at that. If you are looking for a beach venue look no further. The view is stunning.

We were very lucky to have the budget to do things a little differently. Our guests enjoyed both a a "cocktail hour" and food stations before our "main sit down dinner"

We hired experinced nannies for guests with children. This was especially wonderful for parents that had children. The kids were able to eat and then be taken to an activity center in the hotel by hired "day care workers" A childrens pasta and pizza station was set up for the children. All arranged by the hotel.

Wine and cocktails were served during this section of our large celebration. We added a small "cocktail hour" for our guest (While myself and husband had 2 hours to greet the older guests in our families and take our photos) in which the following was served Meat and cheese display. Lovely and all of our guests enjoyed the variety of cheeses, meats and breads. These stations were set up beautifully and manned professionally.

The menu was out of this world! .

Our hors d'oeuvres consisted of Mini crab cakes, cheese stuffed artichokes, sun dried tomato phyllo, hotel del focaccia bites, mini beef fillet with horseradish sauce, lobster avocado and mango salad and jumbo shrimp.



Our main course consisted of Prime Beef of Rib with Horseradish sauce and truffle demiglace, tenderloin of beef warm marble potato salad, braised leeks, glazed carrots bordelaise, braised half chicken, sauteed greens, rosemary sweet corn polenta, roasted garlic jus.

We added a champagne fountain, and a coffee and dessert enhancement. By far this was my dream wedding!

I was able to arranged a ceremony only at the Del through Farrah. And now they are offering ceremony only events in their 2010 package :)

They are truly AMAZING! I recommend the Del to any bride!!

Farrah was originally my point of contact, but due to health related issues she was out of the office as our wedding came closer. However, Stephanie stepped in and she was spectacular!! She worked as if she was always part of our planning process!

Everything of done professionally and in order! I couldn't ask for anything more. The Del's staff really go all out for your wedding. It seemed that my wedding day was just as important to them as it was to me.

Our wedding at the Hotel Del would not have been possible without the help and coordination between our amazing wedding planners at Event Girls/Extraordinary Events and Weddings and Stephanie Zaren, Catering Manager at the Hotel Del Coronado. Between them they were able to negotiate a rate that we could afford on our budget and make our dream wedding come true. Stephanie is the consummate professional and made sure that every last detail was simply perfect. Her catering staff headed by Damien was accomodating and helpful and the food was AMAZING. We had rave reviews from all of our guests! Thanks again to the Hotel Del Coronado and Event Girls Inc.!

I wish that I had all the best things to say about this place to warrant how it touts it as “The number 2 best place to get married in the world, rated by the Travel Channel.” The only thing I can ask is why?

Yes this place is pretty and the historic elements of it impressive but ever since we signed the contract it has been nothing but worry after dropping the pen and sending in the deposit. First off, during negotiations they were, unlike other hotels, completely unwilling to negotiate on any terms to help defray the extremely expensive cost of holding a wedding there. This should have been our first sign. Since then they have nickel and dimed us at every turn.

1. Room Rates
We were hoping to be able to block a room for our guests to stay there. They required 30 rooms to be booked upon signing and even with the minimal discount the rooms were still well over $200 and near $300! Needless to say we were able to find a super accommodating and beautiful hotel for our guests at the Loews Coronado Bay.

2. Key Card for Dressing Room
We are supposed to have 2 dressing rooms for our wedding. The dressing rooms are these dingy conference rooms without mirrors or anything. We thought well if we don’t use them as dressing rooms, then we can at least use them to store our stuff so it is closer to the ballroom. To get a keycard for the room it would be $100.

3. Tasting
Even though we are hoping to offer choices for our guests, they only provided us 2 choices for the tasting. As well as only 1 type of wine to taste. In addition, they said that to taste extra it was $50 an entrée choice. We also were not given the option to taste any of the cocktail hour selections (would cost an additional $25) or even any signature cocktails. Given we are spending well over the tens of thousands at this place it seems absolutely absurd.

4. Resort Fee for “free rooms”
Even though we have 3 free rooms at this place we will have to pay a $25 resort fee. We’re not even going to stay there or use any of the resort facilities.

I am not sure how this place is run but probably very poorly since all these hidden costs are required to either keep it operationally viable or just feed their own wallets. The best place in the world to get married? I think not. I have yet to have my wedding there but if I could pull out I would. I just hope they don’t ruin it.

Voted by Travel Channel as one of the best spots to get married, I can see why. It's right on the beach, the hotel has beautiful architecture and such history, and some say it's even haunted. But I didn't get to experience that firsthand, darn. We went to check it out one day while we were down in San Diego and had drinks by the pool. They were very expensive, but the view of the oceanside made it worth it.

The venue was pricey and the staff just a little disorganized, but they do require you to have a wedding planner and that turned out to be a God send! Our wedding planner had a lot of experience with this venue and knew how to work with the staff to make it turn out flawless.

Loved everything they did for us. The staff was amazing and so helpful. All of our guests commented on how great the food was!

We had our reception dinner at the Sheer Water at the Hotel Del after being married on the beach. There was problem after problem with the management. Thankfully our guests weren't aware, but it made my day a bit more stressful then I would have liked.

The Hotel Del Coronado is a beauty in it's own. The vintage charm, the beautiful ocean views, and the general allure that you stepped into a Victorian Era. On top of that, if you are as lucky as I was to get Farrah Lauren as your Catering Manager for your wedding, it can't get any better. Farrah is by far the most wonderful professional I have worked with. She is so accommodating, professional and Knowledgeable. I really can't imagine not having her guide me through this emotional process. Our wedding looked beautiful, and Farrah was a key part in making it all happen.

If you get the choice of who to work with Farrah is amazing!

Everything was perfect for my wedding day and Michelle was amazing to work with.

Gorgeous venue, threw us an amazing party, really nice hotel rooms, didn't get mad at us for partying super late... Did have some problems with the room finances during checkout ie) guests who were supposed to get complimentary rooms received invoices on their final day for the cost of room tax, which annoyed some people. But a few phone calls and everything got sorted out. The one guest whose finances really got messed up, ended getting all her incidentals free for the whole weekend. The ballroom where we had the reception was GORGEOUS. Great poolside bar and surfboard rentals!!!!

One of the most historic and BEAUTIFUL locations on earth. Always a special place to celebrate anniversaries.

Great place to get married.