I regret ever hiring Bear Country. We hired this company for our July 2022 wedding. Before checking her website, check BBB. She’s paid to have reviews hidden and removed on other sites. Communication started out great. The closer we got to our wedding the harder it was to get ahold of the owner, Danielle. She no showed us for a venue walkthrough, after she was over half an hour late we finally received a response that she was not going to be attending and her assistant was supposed to contact us. The next couple weeks we kept getting told that her assistant was supposed to help us with all the questions that weren't answered when she did finally respond. We had to repeatedly reach out, and received unfulfilled promises about when we'd get our final quote for the catering cost to the point where our payment was late because we had no idea how much we needed to pay. We were genuinely worried that we wouldn’t have food show up at all for our wedding. The day of the wedding the catering was over an hour late, and requested to serve dinner an hour late because they didn't bring everything they needed. They stored our cake improperly and chunks of the cake fell off, and the linens were disgusting. Nearly every single one was stained upon arrival and our day of coordinator had to try to cover up the stains with table arrangements with limited time. Danielle had the audacity to behave like she was doing us a favor for not charging us for linens she claims we damaged even though she can’t remove the stains or repair them and will give us our full $100 deposit back anyway. Since then, it's been scarce contact FULL of excuses as to why I haven't received my refund and it’s been ten weeks. I paid by ACH and she's saying it got rejected after waiting two weeks to even bother claiming that she was going to send it. Then, five weeks ago she supposedly sent us a check, but when we’ve asked about it she won’t respond. This is a poorly run business with owners that don’t care about their clients after they get their money. If you’re looking for a caterer for your wedding, save yourself the headache and frustration and look elsewhere.

Where do I even start? If I could rate Bear Country Catering 0 stars, I would. It was an absolute awful experience working with Danielle and team. Her poor business managment skills, lack of communication, and ability to make up an excuse for every issue is just the start. It was so bad working with Danielle and this company that we were reaching out to other catering companies days before our wedding in an effort to ensure we were going to have food.
Below is a few of the issues we had with this business for our August 2022 wedding.
- Zero communication after paying deposit.
- Excuse for every issue in not being able to communicate.
- 30 min late arriving to venue for wedding
- They forgot knives for our 200 guests
- Ran out of drink cups that they were supplying within 5 minutes of serving
- Half the staff that was promised
- They forgot table runners
- Unprofessional staff
Saving the best for last…. We had 40 people that DID NOT eat. We were notified the morning of the wedding that guests would need to serve themselves for everything but meat, that was not our original plan. The sides ran out so quickly and the meat was not served to 40 people. We paid for 220 people. Called Danielle multiple times the week before to let her know that we would be more around 200. (Trying to be courteous) We had 194 folks show up and still they still ran out.
At the end of the day, save yourself the awful experience my wife and I had to go through and find someone else to cater your event.

Danielle Rowley is a CROOK. She no call no showed at my friends wedding. They sued her and WON - she is being petty and saying she’ll file bankruptcy instead of pay what is owed to them. She would have ruined the wedding if the venue didn’t save the day booking a last minute venue - who magically showed up.