Miramonte Lodge

This venue is a wonderful place to host a wedding or any event. The large yard is wonderful to have a large outdoor ceremony with a wonderful privacy fence. I grew up 4 blocks from this location and they have made some wonderful changing and improvments. We used their DJ, which was alright, didnt even meet her until the cermony was getting ready to start, which wasnt the best thing ever. Mike assured me that the DJ would have all of the music we wanted and of course they didnt. But the day still went on. The food that they provided was wonderful. If it wasnt for Jim and Sandy (who should be the ones who run this place anyways) my day would have been a disater. Mike does not return phone calls. We ended up dealing with the bartender for everything else. All Mike wanted was our down payment and once he got that he didnt have anything else to do with our wedding, Jim and Sandy did everything else for us. I just now got my wedding pictures this week, which I should have had a long time ago. A family friend came from the east coast and took some pictures for us as well and I already have them and she already made me a photo album for us and we have it. But Mike wouldnt return phone calls so we could get our cd with the pictures on them. Lets see how long it takes them to get us our prints. Other then that, we had a wonderful time at our wedding. Thank you so much Jim and Sandy

My experience at the Miramonte Lodge was great. Mike and everyone else there were nothing but helpful to us and made sure everything was the way that i wanted it. It was very inexpensive and very beautiful!! I really liked it because i didnt do have to look for a photographer, minister, dj, caterer or coordinator, all of that was a part of it!!!! SO helpful!! :)

We had our wedding at the Miramonte Lodge on 8/23/09 and we had a great time. The food was really good, and the caterers worked really hard at getting everything just right for us. The event pretty much went off with out a hitch and the ceremony was perfect outside at the gazebo. The DJ played Yanni during the ceremony and the minister was funny and our ceremony that she wrote had every one touched and moved. The photographer and the video guy really put alot of the family at ease before taking the pictures, I really appreciated that. For the money that we paid, we really got a really good deal. Everything was included and I didnt have to shop around looking for vendors, which to me was a real time saver. I am recomending the Miramonte Lodge to anyone.

Miramonte Lodge is a beautiful venue! It has a gazebo in the back which is ideal for having the ceremony and photos. The catering staff is amazing! They went above and beyond to make sure I was at ease and things were set up to make my day perfect. The responsiveness and professionalism of the owner Mike has something to be desired. He didn't even show up for our last meeting 4 days prior to the wedding, leaving it to the catering staff to try to figure out what was going on and put my mind at ease. Overall, the value for cost was totally worth it, if you can deal with the owner taking days to return your phone calls, not showing for meetings and cashing your refundable deposit check prior to the event. The venue was decorated perfectly and everything went fairly smooth due to the catering staff (Jim and his wife). The food was amazing and all my guests really enjoyed themselves regardless of the little "snags" at the event (It rained so the ceremony had to be held inside and the DJ/owner used the wrong version of "La Marcha" so the music ended in the middle of the wedding march). I'm still awaiting my photos and video. I did, however, get a dvd of the rough drafts of photos. Of over 700 pictures taken, 40-50 were good and needed little color or lighting correction. If the owner was more organized it would have made my experience less stressful and more enjoyable. Perhaps he needs to hire additional staffing to help him in the future.

***EDITED*** After digging further into this, I have found out that Mike Klien is not the owner of Miramonte Lodge, he is a vendor that they use that is like a one stop shop for getting the customer vendors (catering, dj, etc). Kris Bowen, the main Event Coordinator of Miramonte Lodge, has been working with me to resolve the below issues and has been AMAZING! I still would not recommend working with Mike Klein (of Colorado Weddings), but I would look into whether or not you can use your own vendors for everything. As far as I am aware you can. I know for a fact you can use your own catering and dj, so I'm almost sure you can provide any vendors of your choosing. Kris Bowen has been extremely accomodating since she found out about my issues that I had.***Previous Review*** (replace Miramonte Lodge with Colorado Weddings)Miramonte Lodge is a very pretty venue. My wedding went great, due to me planning every last detail of it. That being said, here are the issues I had with them. The day of the rehearsal no one showed up. We had met with Mike (the owner) 4 days before and he had told us someone would be there at 10am (when our rehearsal was scheduled), and that we needed to bring everything for the reception (decorations, etc) so that we could show them how we wanted it set up the next day and we wouldn't have to worry about remembering everything on our big day. Well, like I said, nobody was there and we waited an hour before we left. We just left our stuff in the entryway since we didn't know what else to do with it.During the 2 meetings that we had with Mike preceeding the wedding, he had convinced us to book their DJ, which we were okay with since they were around the same price we had budgeted. He assured us that their DJ was amazing at keeping the party going, seeing that they only do weddings so they are great at making things run smoothly. Well, we didn't find out until the day of the wedding that we weren't getting a professional DJ, the same guy (Mike) was going to DJ our wedding. While we were eating the speakers completely crapped out and we couldn't find him anywhere to fix it. I've worked with sound ssystems before, and during an event there should ALWAYS be someone at the sound booth in case something goes wrong. The music eventually fixed itself, but then he ended up announcing some song that he was going to play and played the song he had just played 2 songs before. He didn't even notice even though everyone stopped dancing and had dumbfounded looks on their faces, until I walked up to the stage and told him. I do not feel like the experience he gave us with the "DJ-ing" was worth the $600 we paid for it.A couple of days after the wedding I had called Mike to find out when we could go pick up our stuff from the wedding (centerpieces, etc), and he said the first day anyone would be there was that Saturday, only 6 days after our wedding. When we showed up to get our stuff there was absolutely no organization. We had to dig around in their storage room for at least a half an hour trying to find everything. They lost my vail that I had taken off during the reception and had forgotten to take with me at the end of the night. Not only that, but we had extremely nice crystal vases that are my grandparents (one of whom passed away recently), and when we counted there were only 9 there. Well, we had used at least 13 of them, so I knew there were some missing. They were setting up for a reception that was later that day and had taken our vases (that were in a box that was clearly marked with our name) to use for that reception. Needless to say, we took them back, rightfully so. When I told them that I couldn't find my vail anywhere they told us that we should have come back sooner to get our stuff if we didn't want anything to get misplaced. It had only been 6 DAYS and that was the first day we were told was available for us to come get our stuff. If we were any other just married couple we probably would have been on our honeymoon still. If this is what happens to stuff left there for less than a week, I don't want to know what happens to everyone else's stuff.The food was delicious, and we had ordered a cheesecake wedding cake from them that turned out phenominal (I even took the rest home to eat, lol), but those were really the only plusses that they had to offer. I will never recommend this venue to anyone. Your wedding day is surrounded by enough stress as it is. Why add unnecessary stress when you don't need to.