Foundry Park Inn & Spa

We just got married at the Foundry on Halloween, and it was fabulous! Casey Gray, our Foundry wedding contact, was super detail-oriented and really took care of us. The venue is beautiful for pictures (inside & out), the spa is great, and our guests are still raving about how great it was - and how wonderful it was to have everything all in one place: the ceremony upstairs, the reception downstairs, a bar (Melting Point) right behind, and a great restaurant (Hoyt House) onsite where we hosted our brunch. Almost all our guests stayed there at the hotel, and it was so self-contained that it made it easy for all the travelers we had there in Athens. And our photographers loved it, too. Lovely venue, lovely staff - I highly recommend the Foundry for weddings!

We had our ceremony and reception at the Foundry Park Inn. Everything was wonderful! Casey Gray was wonderful to work with and was always quickly responsive to any questions or concerns I had while we were planning up to the day of the wedding. The hotel is in a great location for myself and all of our guests to be able to enjoy all that Athens has to offer while in town. We enjoyed it very much! The only down side would be that sometimes depending on what events are happening, it can get very loud. That wasn't an issue for us, but for planning purposes, I would recommend finding out what other events are happening if you book something here.

My husband and I had our wedding at the Foundry and everything went great as far as planning!!! Casey did an awsome job meeting all my needs and also dealing with me chaning my mind up to the last minute. The only real problem I had was casey was not going to be there the day of my wedding but someone was supposed to be filling in, well we though that person didn't show up. BUT we did find out there was another wedding the same day and close in time, so instead of taking care of both of our needs my needs were just completely forgoten while the other bride had the foundry's full attention. My mother was running around like a chicken with her head cut off the whole day trying to get everything in order when someone else should have been taking care of that. I will say the food was AMAZING! We had our rehersal dinner and reception there and everyone raved about the food. Also the cake they made for me was beautiful and delicious (i recomend the chocolate with butter cream icing). Overall the day turned out great and it was all little details that only i knew about that went wrong, while our guests thought things went great.

The Foundry Park Inn was a really fun place to have a reception. The ballroom was more ecclectic than most--it had the traditional dance floor, tables, and chairs, but the walls are brick and the celling is vaulted with wooden beams. When you dress it up with white linnens and twinkle lights, it looks AWESOME! You can also open up the doors, and there's a great outside area.Plus, you can't beat a place in downtown Athens.They provided the food (which was AWESOME), and they helped with all the reception planning. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a traditional wedding with a little flavor.

The Foundry did a great job of setting up the ceremony and reception areas exactly as I wanted them. The staff was helpful. I really enjoyed working with the planner that helped get the wedding organized and she did an amazing job helping me find the chairs I wanted to rent from another vendor as well as the linens. The only problem we had was that they asked us to pick our wine and beer selection, which we did and on the day of the wedding they provided different beer and wine. When asked they said they were unable to get what I had asked for and what they had promised, however did go to a store and get the specific beer my husband wanted since I was adamant about it. So although I was disappointed that I wasn't informed in advance, which would have resolved the issue all together, they did do a great job of trying to make up for the mistake. I would definitely recommend them because the wedding turned out so BEAUTIFUL and that was the only real hitch.

The wedding coordinator did a great job at getting everything I wanted. The place itself is beautiful. The food was ok. The only real bummer was that even though the coordinator and I had discussed allowing my party to stay for an extra hour even after the open bar closed, the day of the wedding the people at the venue told me the dj had to stop playing at the time when the open bar closed. They basically forced my guests to leave even though everyone was having a good time and I had discussed it with the coordinator. I suggest you get everything in writing in advance, that way the day of no one can change anything on you.

Casey, the wedding sales manager at the Foundry Park was absolutely wonderful. She was really quick to get back to me and accomodated everything we requested. My only complaints would be the service of the staff the day of the wedding. We had to ask them to vacuum the room where we got married because there were leaves all over the floor, and I had to ask 3 times for them to get table stanchions and the tealights they said they would provide. Also, the room the night of our rehearsal was locked and our guests had to wait in the cold while we got the manager on duty to unlock it for us. The planning process was great but the staff that weekend left a little to be desired. I would still have my wedding there in a heartbeat though.