We Loved our Wedding at the Bear Valley Lodge! The coordinator Mariah was extremely accomidating and easy to work with! Everything was beautiful! The only small hiccup was that we were told by some of our guest that they had ran out of some of the food options. This was a little wierd to us since we had 4 guest not even show up. They also did not handle our allergy list well and we were told later that two people who had allergies could not eat. Besides those small things we loved our day!!

I could not have been happier with the location of our venue. Absolutely beautiful if you are looking for an outdoor or even indoor type wedding. They took care of all the set up, the catering, the drinks, and worked with our other vendors to make our big day as stress free as possible. We had so much having all of our friends and family stay at the lodge together. It made the whole weekend feel very intimate and cozy.

Bear Valley is an incredibly beautiful place and we really loved the venue, both for the ceremony (at the overlook) and the reception (the lodge). Unfortunately, the staff just does not operate with much professionalism and ultimately, we can't recommend them because of this. The entirety of the planning process was frustrating, as we either didn't receive information we needed, got inaccurate information, or had to say the same thing multiple times and make corrections at every step. The ultimate mistake occurred during our actual wedding reception when an entire course of dinner was not served (dessert), which was in writing as part of the plan. Unfortunately, BV (and specifically Mariah, the contact), told us this mistake was due to a "miscommunication" and refused to refund us the price of dessert. If you have time to micromanage them, or a really detail oriented planner that can monitor everything the day of, it might be worth it, but otherwise, we would not recommend. As an aside, the food for our rehearsal dinner was excellent (pork chop, 40 people), but wedding dinner (chicken, 90 people) was really disappointing. It's unclear if this was due to the meal selection or just the scaling up, but the entree was really dry/hard and I fear had sat out for a long time.