05/11/2026
Our ‘rescue bride’…from shattered to SHIMMERING in 5 days!
She booked her ‘destination/dream wedding’ at another local, well known venue back in AUGUST. She wanted a simple, low key, intimate, fairytale TUESDAY wedding. (She eventually got it!) Thursday morning prior to wedding Tuesday, as she prepared to travel 6-7 hours to the Pooler/Guyton area she receives a TEXT (from THE Venue) not a call, a TEXT!! They cancelled her wedding…not due to damage of property, not due to sickness or death or owners, not due to financial failure, but was ‘text’ due to ‘double booking’…a fancy, cover all, phrase in the ‘hospitality’ industry to mean THEY MESSED UP at YOUR expense (& their benefit). Bride finally found out the venue booked a large corporate event on her already booked, paid for, long secured, wedding date!! No real offer of refund given in ‘text’ …actually was ‘offered’ to come AFTER the new clients finished at 4:00 to set up and have their pre-planned FOUR-THIRTY wedding!! Bride threw out a BIG S.O.S. through social media…Spring Hollow Events reached out on Saturday. They came out Sunday afternoon, very frustrated, in tears, defeated, heartbroken and basically very skeptical that her TUESDAY wedding would even happen.
We assured them it COULD! We contacted the owners of Harry's Barbeque and Seafood in Claxton (btw, they are closed on Sun & Mon!!)
Levi AndCallie Smith immediately contacted the bride, made their food order and delivered & set up an awesome spread of delicious southern barbeque and fixins!!
Jeff + Mollie Weddings did a great job capturing this shimmering couple with some great photos!
So, there really are HAPPY ENDINGS.
And…a funny (personally kinda neat) side note…. April 21 was our 42nd anniversary as well…and..they realized last minute (VERY LAST MINUTE) that they had NO cake cutting utensils…yup you guessed it..they cut their cake with our ANTIQUE engraved April 21, 1984 wedding cake knife!!! How cool is that!
Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Lantz
a.k.a. Nichole Western-Lantz and Chris Lantz
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