Spring Grove Park

Absolutely beautiful! You check it out and you'll fall in love, too.We wanted an outdoor ceremony, so I searched all over West Michigan and even areas of Northern Michigan for an outdoor venue that fit within our budget. Most of the places had a very manicured look to them, which wasn't what I wanted at all. Spring Grove Park is the PERFECT place for those who want to enjoy nature on their wedding day. The grounds are absolutely breathtaking, and there's a spring-fed creek with little waterfalls running through the area.We didn't have too much trouble with mosquitoes (though you may want to bring bug spray) and we had no problems with the public. Or at least if there were any, it never came to my attention.The main drawback with this park is booking. It's first-come, first-served, and you can't book any earlier than 365 days in advance. It's tough competition in the popular summer months, especially when graduation open houses want the weekends as well.

The park was beautiful. Mosquitoes bad. The building had picnic tables which could not be removed. Limit was 100 guests. We managed fine and had a good wedding. The one thing I had a major problem with was that the park was public and even though the park people reassured us that they would be on site to prevent people from disturbing our day, they were not. There were at least four groups of families taking their pictures in the park that day even though we had paid to have those areas of the park. Now I have people standing on the sidewalk, strangers that I have to Photoshop out of photographs because they were "kind enough" to postpone their picture taking so that we could have our ceremony and take our pictures. We had to ask them at least three different times to move. It was a little preposterous.