The Historic Mission Inn

Great place to get married. I loved everything about the mission inn & the food was really yummy

Everything about our experience with them has been top notch and classy. We had our reception in the Spanish Art Gallery and have received many compliments about how good the food was (the fondue fountain was a hit) and the overall ambiance. Our catering manager was so sweet and we always felt like VIP's. We can't wait to go back for our anniversary too!

This location was so beautiful, we knew it was the place for our wedding. The St. Francis of Assisi chapel at the Inn is beyond gorgeous and has that old-smal-church feel to it. It is nondenominational so we had a catholic ceremony at our church the day before and asked our deacon to come officiate at the Inn. we had the reception in the Galleria which is right next to the chapel so our lovely cocktail hour was held in the courtyard in front of both rooms. They have great rooms that hold anywhere from 50 to 300 guests. Our was meant to accommodate 125-175 and our final count was just 100 but it still turned out great.

The rooms at the Inn are exceptional. A room for bride and groom is included in the wedding packages which is super nice. The staff in general are supper accommodating, chilling champagne for us and grabbing umbrellas out of our valeted car. Also all of the sales and catering people are exceptional and will help make the wedding absolutely exactly what you've already imagined. The great thing about this place is the outdoor appeal for photos, etc. so try not to get married during rainy season. Who knew it would rain in November? Oh well, no biggy, everything still looked beautiful, I just had a wet train.

Had our rehearsal dinner at the restaurant Bella Trattoria which is attached to the Mission Inn and it was amazing. We also had breakfast at the hotel restaurant which was super good too.

Loved everything about it, can't wait to go back...

This place is stunning!!! The rooms, restaurants, and gathering places are the most amazing Ive seen! I am an interor designer and this place blew me away! When my husband and I first found it online, we were shocked that this place was even located in California, let alone Riverside. So we went down on a Monday afternoon and didnt make an appointment. When we got there the place was packed full of appointments, but they squeezed us in to see a tour of the place. It was breathtaking. I knew right from when they showed us the church that this was the place I was going to say my vows in. I started to cry and just couldnt be happier with how this place fit my prospective of how I wanted our wedding. The atmosphere reminded us so much of Spain. Another reason why we got married there was cause my husband lived in Spain for 6 months and it took him back there too! The wedding Vendors were a little tricky to work with though. I would recommened either going with another Planner from somewhere else first unless its a last resort. When you book with the Mission Inn, you get a Planner to help you for a little bit. None of the big stuff. We paid an extra fee for the Mission Inn to give us an upgrade for a planner to be with you through everything, with vendor meetings and helping you chose vendors. If you bring any outside vendors that arent on their list, you pay an additional $250 per vendor. Its ridiculous but non of the vendors worked for us so we got ALL outside vendors. But it was worth it. I loved the Mission Inn and the organization of it on the day of your wedding was flawless. I didnt worry about a thing, and I couldnt of been happier with our day!

Pictures really don't do the Mission Inn justice. We loved this place from the very first time we toured it. I wanted something of a spanish feel, my wife wanted to feel like a princess in a castle. We both got what we wanted for our wedding. The chapel is amazing. They have plenty of options for receptions depending on the size of your wedding and your budget. We were in the Galleria with about 75 people. The whole night was great, very helpful staff, great service, great food. Can't wait to go back for our anniversary.

This was my first choise for my wedding however they were already booked. I was very impressed.

This place is amazing, I would have loved to get married here - except it did not fit our budget and it's either you get what they offer or you look somewhere else. I wanted a spanish theme and they fit perfect since they even have a chapel/ churhc there. Still it was a bit pricey for a dinner reception and does not hold 200ppl.

This place is gorgeous!! We are getting married in the ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHAPEL and having our reception in the Music Room!!! I am getting married Aug. 14th 2010 and soo excited!!! The staff at the Mission Inn our GREAT to work with and makes me feel at ease!
-amandaflores85

This venue is BREATHTAKING! Once you step foot in it, you no longer think you're in Riverside but in Europe. The architecture, the chapel, the restaurants... everything is so impressive. My fiance and I had never been here before, but once we saw it for the first time during their bridal open house, we fell in love with it and booked it on the spot, 1 1/2 years before our wedding date. It's smart to book early because this place is known for weddings, and we were told prime dates get taken up quickly. I believe it. There were about 5 other couples meeting with coordinators at the same time we did. They have a whole staff of wedding coordinators, and you are assigned one for your wedding day as part of their package. They are well organized and really cater to the bride and groom, always available to answer any questions we have. The best part is that it is not as expensive as you think it should be. The package even includes the hotel room, and there are cheaper options of doing it on a Saturday morning or mid-day. I am really looking forward to getting married in this beautiful venue, and I know I'll have even better things to say after the wedding!

UPDATE: In the months leading up to the wedding, I was disappointed with the lack of communication. I believe this was due to my original coordinator leaving her employment there. Just make sure to not wait around for them to contact you; instead email them as soon as you have questions. Besides that, the actual wedding day was perfect! All of the staff were helpful and organized. All the guests told us what a beautiful wedding it was.

Another thing, I think the venue is more expensive for new brides because you now have to use the vendors from the preferred list. If you choose to go with a vendor outside the list, there is a $250 fee (but some of the vendors cover this fee for you, at least my DJ does).

I had seen some mention of "perks" by former Mission Inn brides (free massages at the spa, etc.), but there were no perks for us.

A slight problem I had the day of the wedding is they don't let you into the bridal/groom suites until 2 hours before the ceremony. They do give you a free room with your package, but check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and they don't guarantee early check-in. So since I don't live close by, my only choice was to book a room for the night before so that my hair stylist/makeup artist could start getting us ready at 11:00 a.m.

All in all, like I said, the day went off without a hitch. It was truly a dream wedding, and the pictures turned out amazing!

The Mission Inn is a remarkably stunning venue (the reason why we chose it), but the year we spent planning the long-distance event with the Mission Inn coordinators was not always easy. I discovered that our first coordinator was fired after the email I sent to her bounced back as invalid. The Mission Inn assigned me another, who was difficult to reach, and often times answered my questions with more questions. Communication and planning was a source of frustration, but when I just let everything go, the staff (minus my coordinator) sprung into action on wedding day. I never saw my planner on wedding day, but I got an email from her requesting feedback. I wrote her a thorough review, and the email I sent to her bounced back as invalid...no joke. Even though working with the Mission Inn frustrated me at times, I was so impressed with how well everything went on the day of, and felt on that day, they really took care of me.

Everything thing turned out amazing! I recommend this vender for a perfect Romantic Wedding!

This venue is amazingly beautiful. However, I had problems from day one after signing the contract. The first catering manager I had was not very helpful and gave us wrong information several times which ended up costing us a lot of money. (long story) Then a new catering manager took over which was better than the previous one but She was not flexible at all and took forever to return our calls and answer our questions. This venue literally gave me soooo much stress that I decided to hire a wedding coordinator (which was NOT in our budget) just so that I wouldn't have to deal with this venue any longer.

I got married here, and it has a lot of meaning to me. I used to go here for Festival of Lights with both my grandma's when they were alive.

When I visited it again, I knew it was where I wanted to get married. The grounds are absolutely breathtaking! We booked with them a year ahead of our wedding. Some of the coordinators there are very unprofessional. I had a problem with Sharon when we visited to show my MIL. Every question I asked her, she gave the wrong answer to. The coordinator that I was assigned to was super helpful, and found out she left... and I was assigned to Sharon. I immediately refused to work with her, and was given to Brittany Hadji. I cannot express how much better it was to work with Brittany. She is so nice and sweet!

She did everything to help me make my wedding everything I wanted. The day of the wedding, I worked with Natalie (and someone else, I can't remember her name =/). These two girls were super nice and made the day flow nicely.

I have great memories of my wedding day, because I got married in an already beautiful place.

<3 Bri

They have the most efficient and organized people. I'm soo glad I chose Mission Inn as my wedding place.

The venue is absolutely beautiful and is the perfect backdrop for a traditional/romantic/vintage wedding.

The coordinators were very responsive and catered to our needs. It's at a 4.5 for responsiveness because my coordinator took a couple of days to respond to my emails (she was out with the flu). Other than that it was fine.

The food was great as well as the service for the bride and groom, but I gave the quality of service a 4 because I heard that a waiter or waitress being snappy at a few of my guests with the coffee and water.

This venue is beautiful. I recently got married here on 11/28/09, so we also had the benefit of viewing the Festival of Lights-Stunning!!! This venue is pricey but worth it-the food is amazing! I had so many guest telling me it was the most beautiful wedding they have been to. You are given two wedding coordinators from the Mission Inn, I worked with Hazel and Natalie great girls to deal with. I do recommend to book early. I booked my wedding in December, 2008 and back then they were almost booked for every weekend in 2009! The St Francis Chapel is breathtaking. Our reception was in the Galleria Room, with Cocktail hour in the Atrio patio-beautiful. I also suggest taking pictures before the ceremony (venue is huge!) so you have more time to mingle with your guest during the cocktail hour and enjoy the reception.

This is a really beautiful and amazing venue. We have recently visited for my best friends event for this Fall.

We had our reception in the Galleria and the courtyard right outside of the Galleria. It was absolutely beautiful. You hardly even have to use decorations because the Mission Inn and lights are gorgeous by themselves. The bridal room is also beautiful.

They should add a couple more $$ signs to the profile here, haha. What a great and beautiful venue . . . we chose it also for a centralised location for our families. What can I say? The ceremony chapel is very beautiful (though dark) and it sat most of our guests, some were standing in the back. They gave us two coordinators for the day that kept everything moving on a very tight schedule. Frank (gr) and I decided to see each other before the ceremony just so we could get more pictures. The property is big and you want to be able to walk around the hwole thing with your photographer. If you only use the short time after the ceremony to get pictures, you will not be able to utilize the whole amazing property. We used the reception room with the giant stage, everything was set up beautifully. Kudos to this location. They do more than one wedding a day so when the timing can be tight!

At first the relationship with my assigned coordinator was poor. After speaking to management, I was reassigned and received invaluable service. They responded to emails and phone calls. The Mission Inn is so beautiful and rich with history that I was honored to be married there. The bridal dressing room was spacious and modern, the chapel was in prestine condition and my coordinator Natalie began the ceremony on time and got me down the aisle on my very specific queue. Thanks to everyone for making my day beautiful.

The Mission Inn is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Not only is everyone super friendly, they are organized, quick to fix issues, and put brides and grooms at ease with the planning. The Inn has preferred vendors that can be selected for everything from cake, to flowers, to officiants which makes the task of finding vendors a bit easier. The Inn provides a coordinator to help with everything! My coordinator was the sweetest girl on the planet and she made everything flow with ease by suggesting ideas and just to make us laugh in what would be a stressful time. The reception was catered by the Inn's expert chefs and everything was delicious!! I am so glad we chose the Inn over our original plan for a winery wedding -- we got everything we wanted here for MUCH less!

The Mission Inn is beautiful. We had our wedding in the Music Room and it was breathtaking. The food was magnificient and the bell captain was extremely good. The Mission Inn is also a great place to take bridal portraits.

I had a bad experience with the Mission Inn, particularly with Jan. She must be from the south. As a Latina American women and a Doctor I was insulted by her. I felt that she didn't care to have our business. She spoke down to us when we when to visit them and she was not only condescending but, she was a know it all. I am a puzzled why the Mission Inn would have such a women there working as a director. I will never do business with them again!

The Mission Inn at Riverside is a perfect location for pictures. It seems like you are in Europe were in fact you have not left southern california. The staff are great to work with. The food is delicious. And expect to have a romantic and intimate ceremony at St. Fancis of Assisi Chapel. See it for yourself and you will be wowed.

The Mission Inn was fantastic!! It was beautiful and the pictures are great. The staff was very easy to work with and kept on top of the every detail. Thanks!!

The Mission Inn is the most beautiful place I've seen in southern California. I would just advise that anyone planning to book the Mission as the venue for their wedding, bring their own planner. The coordinators there are useless. They also have a problem with keeping coordinators. I booked my event in January and my wedding was in July and I was assigned 5 different coordinators with in that time frame. None of them were capable of picking up where the other left off. If I had to do it all over again, I would still choose the Mission Inn and hire an outside wedding coordinator.

The service was amazing and the wedding coordinator, Jennifer, is absolutely great! She took care of EVERYTHING! The day turned out perfectly.

Very beautiful. I would recommend it.

The Mission Inn was the absolute perfect place to have a wedding. They took care of everything that we needed and had the answers to all of our questions. They were so professional and so helpful. And of course, the venue is breathtaking.

AMAZING! My wedding was in December so we got the benefit of all our guests enjoying the Festival of Lights. It was super breathtaking. People are still e-mailing us about how beautiful it was to this day! If you are one for architecture, great restaurants, Christmas, little antique shops, horse and carriage rides, etc..then the Mission Inn is for you!

I worked with Hazel and Patricia alongside my own wedding coordinator to ensure that my day was all about my wedding. We got a lot of discounts because again, we had our wedding on a Thursday during the offseason; however, book in advance because this is really the only location in Riverside worth having company holiday parties at etc..We saved tons and even received a free 60 minute massage the morning after. I loved it. I have never been so pampered. Also our honeymoon suite was something to die for. The Alhambra suite is high recommended.

Another positive note, your photographer will die with all the great pictures that can be taken here. Both of our photographers saw this place and were there bright and early, around 11am and dint leave until quite late! We even did our engagement shoot here and than man (Robin Fadtke of www.zoartphoto.com) simply didn’t want to leave. LOL

Our ceremony was in the St. Francis of Assisi which is just pure heaven. Our guests were in ahhh.... The entire wall comes off when the bride enters the room with her father at her side. You don’t need any decorations with the exception of candlelight which is provided for you.

Our reception was in the Music Room with the tavern attached and it couldn’t have been more perfect for us. We only had 80 guests or so and this room has a minimum of 120 (I think) so make sure whoever tours you, shows you all the rooms. They try and show you rooms that your party will fit in without taking up the bigger rooms for some reason but I wasn’t about that. I wanted to see them all. To get a bigger room, you do have to meet a food minimum, for example, the cheapest meal X the room minimum = what your food minimum would be, but trust me you can easily do this! We wanted room to move and thank our guests and not have to squish my dress to get by. You know these types!. Haha
We also wanted tons of dance space so they accommodated us by making our dance floor bigger. The staff really went out of their way.

This is the one vendor that I was so sure about just by seeing it the year before all decked out in their Festival of Lights. It was simply perfect!!!


HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMEND!

The atmosphere at this hotel is amazing! Also, the chapel is breathtaking! Everything went almost well, but, the wedding coordinator and the caterer are alittle hard to get a hold of. Other than that.... beautiful!

The mission Inn was gorgeous! It was our dream place to get married. Everyone there was amazing to work with.

This venue has a 2 chapels as well as several rooms/settings to choose from for your reception. We used the St. Francis Chapel, which holds up to 170 guests and the Music Room for the reception which may hold up 20 250-300 guests. The venue itself is beautiful. If you are looking for a romantic spanish style location, this is very nice. The staff is great and everything came out as requested. Food was hot when served. All of our guests were pleased as were my husband and I. Wish I could do it again.

The Mission Inn was a beautiful place to get married at. The Capel was sooo beautiful, and the pictures came out great. The reception was so wonderful, the food was awsome, and the service was outstanding. The only thing that was difficult was scheduling a date. If you want a specific room for the reception and date, make sure you book it at least a year in advance, or you might not get you date or reception room you were hoping for. But once that is out of the way, everything went soomthly.

I love this place

We couldn't have asked for a better wedding or location. The Mission Inn is beautiful! We got married over a year ago and people still talk about it. The service was great. Patricia and Jennifer are both very helpful and we found them easy to get a hold of. All of the vendors we used off their list did an incredible job. The day of the wedding I didn't have to worry about a thing and everything went seamlessly. If I could do it all over-we would be back at the Mission Inn again!

We looked at a lot of venues. This one was so beautiful that we didn't need too much extra. All its staff were very professional and helpful - exceptionally so in our experience. This staff made it possible for me to plan long distance with relatively little stress. Their recommended vendors / vendors included with packages were excellent.

The Historic Mission Inn was such a beautiful setting for our wedding! Every corner of the hotel makes you feel as though you are in another country! It is gorgeous!!! The wedding coordinators were easy to work with and friendly. The hotel was also very accomodating to our guests who stayed overnight.

Great Site for having both a small wedding(less than 150 people) and Reception. The St Francis of Assisi Chapel is very Ornate. The staff know EXACTLY how to make sure your wedding ceremony is well planned. The Food for the reception was the best wedding food I have ever had...and many others at my wedding still say, that no other wedding food has compared to our wedding.

Beautiful wedding location, professional staff to make your day easy flowing and memorable.

Gorgeous!!

I recently photographed a wedding at the Historical Mission Inn Riverside and was amazed. They treated my Bride and Groom like royalty. Plus I was not at a loss for beautiful old world scenery as my back-drop. I would recommend the Mission Inn to any Bride, and vendors lucky enough to work there should definitely take advantage of all the beauty they have to offer.

The mission inn is a beautiful location for wedding ceremonies and receptions. They have multiple rooms for any size reception and a classic wedding chapel. Staff is very professional and accomodating. Food is excellent.

We highly reccomend them to couples that are looking for a unique and classy wedding location.

Would never imagine a more picture perfect location. Offering the best of the best and hands on service. A location to die for along with their honeymoon suite with chocolate covered strawberries!

Architecturally astounding, the backdrop of the Mission Inns scenery makes it one of my favorite locations to photography weddings in the world. The ceremony takes place in a splendid cathedral, and the reception halls are both private and beautifully hosted. The most important aspect of planning your wedding here is that you must be well organized and stay on schedule because you share the venues with other weddings spaced throughout the day, but that is relatively normal of any high demand venue.