Lionsgate Event Center

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Erica Beatman

The Wedding venue business is a crowded and competitive business, and more often than not a venue will claim to give you an excellent value, but under scrutiny you see the additional costs mounting up. However, The Lionsgate Event Center, home of the Dove House and Gate House, was the rare treat that provided us with supreme value with an amazing location and fantastic amenities. Our journey with Lionsgate started after viewing nearly a dozen other venues in the greater Denver area. We were after a fall wedding (November 6th was our date), and we kept running into locations that were either too… Hotel conference room feeling due to a lack of appropriate fall outdoor space, or locations that would be great, but charged an inordinate fee for that great space. Furthermore, locations that seemed to provide good value in their fee, were actually worse deals after realizing that chairs/tables, linens, and staff would be additional third party rentals we would be responsible for…the costs just piled up. Enter Lionsgate. We had our tour at Lionsgate and fell in love with the grounds, especially the Dove House: their venue designed for Weddings less than 125ish people. The Venue was a mix of an old rustic home, with hardwood everywhere, and an amazing outdoor space that had such character and such charm, it would take several more paragraphs to capture it. Upon meeting with our eventual wedding coordinator Ally showed us all of the options available to us, as well as gave us the rundown of all that Lionsgate had to offer. This was huge; in their already reasonable Fall fee, all of the linens, tables, chairs, decorations, market lights, centerpieces and more were all included! It was so refreshing to see a place that didn’t offer a barebones experience at a premium price, or try to nickel and dime us with all of the small stuff. Furthermore, the location had an extensive contact list for caterers, DJ’s, photographers and a myriad of other services that they handled directly; no need to coordinate with several different parties. They also have their own liquor license on site allowing them to handle liquor packages in house and at a very competitive price. Our wedding day came, and it was fantastic. It was so smooth, so well set up and so well run that while we kept expecting to run into a snag, one never came. Everything was clean, on time and set exquisitely. The ceremony site was beautiful, and with the exception of a passing ambulance, perfect and serene. Even the chickens came out to attend! Our coordinator, Alli, was with us throughout the planning processes and provided us with insight, guidance and assistance in every decision we made. She helped us arrange vendors, table settings and so much more. She was far and away the most important, and integral member of the Wedding. She was kind, passionate, and genuine; she cared about us and our Wedding and it showed. We can’t express how much we appreciated having her on our team; without her, the wedding would have been a far greater endeavor and likely far less successful. Lionsgate was everything we could have asked for and more. No other venue had that charm, or that service at a price even close. Thank you Lionsgate, thank you for everything. Thank you Alli!

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Natalia Story

We are so glad we ended up choosing the Gatehouse at Lionsgate for our wedding venue. We couldn’t have possibly loved the location more (or the staff, especially our coordinator Karli) — and all our family and friends were equally impressed. We looked at a couple of different options for our wedding venue, including Lionsgate. One of our biggest requirements was that the venue allow outside food, because we’re huge foodies and were also trying to keep costs down — and we wanted to bring in a whole pig from our favorite Chinese place and assorted takeout from our favorite Indian place. (By the way, the guests said it was the best wedding food they’ve had, and it came out to be a 10th of the price we’d have paid at a venue that would have locked us into their own caterers.) Overall, out of all the venues we looked at that allowed us to bring in our own food, Lionsgate was by far the best. It had a bit of the rustic feel we were looking for (the Gatehouse has a beautiful white silo with green trim and ivy), but it wasn’t too kitschy or fake. The outside is beautiful, with its green lawn and white gazebo and iron gates — as is the inside, with its stained glass windows and wooden floors and copper bar. It’s a beautiful location with a lot of character, and we fell in love with it as soon as we saw it. It’s also got a TON of perfect spots for photos: the silo I mentioned, chandeliers hanging from trees, stained glass windows, barn doors, painted murals, a swing on a porch, ivy-covered walls, a restored vintage yellow truck, and much more. It was also pretty great that the venue cost included nice white outdoor chairs, dinner tables, nice dinner chairs (not just crappy fold-out ones), linens (with a ton of choices), cutlery, dinnerware, and even lamps/vases/candleholders and other centerpiece decorations. And their staff sets up and cleans up everything for you. And if you don’t have a caterer, you can just pay a per-person staffing fee and they’ll also make sure to help set up your buffet, clean up dirty plates from tables, etc. Plus they have an on-site liquor store, which allows you to get alcohol at pretty much wholesale prices, meaning the per-head cost for alcohol is extremely affordable. And throughout it all, Karli was there to make sure everything went smoothly, my groom and I had everything we needed, etc. And she patiently answered probably dozens of emails from me when I was freaking out about all sorts of details. I definitely think that was one of the best things about Lionsgate: an on-site coordinator included in the cost that can be your resource as much as you need them to be, and that will be there for your rehearsal and wedding to make sure everything goes smoothly.

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Debbie Maness

I would not recommend this place to anyone. Trying to communicate with the wedding planner was less than satisfactory, even while keeping emails. The day of the wedding they didnt have our table deco ready for us to use when they finally got it, it was filthy dirty. The vases and mirrors had fingerprints and they didnt have enough even when asked several times by email. The staff was very uncoordinated during the reception they failed to listen to the bride, groom, or either mothers. Water glasses was not filled no one knew about the other drinks served at the bar, the dressing was not put out with the salads, our guests were just left sitting at the tables inside not knowing what was going on. I have never seen such a disorganized place then to top it off we were charged for 150 when less then 80 showed up but because they set the tables for 150. A week before we even went in and told them only 100 guest. So read the fine print if you are going to use this venue and hopefully you wont get screwed. And the worse the bride and groom was locked out of their honeymoon suite from the inside thus suggesting staff inside. Was put in a different suite then 2 hours later got to go to the suite that was booked for them. A horrible place to have a wedding done. There is too many things wrong with this place. Look for something else!!! Everyone was so displeased with this place Bride,Groom, Mother of the bride (provided all the food and dishes were lost ) mother of the groom provided wedding cake ( boxes were thrown away so we had to take all the cakes home in plastic wrap) The wrong makeup artist was booked, losing the deposit since the bride didnt want the replacement one. A very displeased family. The photographers were very good at their job and did wonderful.

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