Harvey House

Where to start!? We had been looking for a venue that didn't "feel like southern California" forever! Our friends told us about Harvey House and we were blown away. First off, Idyllwild is adorable and feels like a little northern California mountain town. The venue itself was GORGEOUS! The inside decor was on point and outside was just beautiful. Huge trees, natural landscaping and even the cutest little creek in back. Jeff could not have been more helpful during the whole process. He was always available for questions and responded super fast ( he even immediately answered my middle of the night panic emails). During our second site visit he introduced me to their new coordinator Jill and she was the sweetest! They held my hand every step of the way and made sure I was comfortable throughout the process. They have a list of people that you can use for flowers and food etc... which was awesome because not being from the area we weren't familiar with any of the businesses. They had all worked with the inn before so we didn't have to do any of the logistics. They require that you use a day-of coordinator which at first I was opposed to because we were trying to watch our spending but it turned out to be the best money we spent. She coordinated all our vendors and took care of set up and all the little details that we didn't want to deal with on our wedding day. The house also has bedrooms that they will only rent out to you and your guests so it really felt like our home for the weekend. My room had a little area for getting ready and the grooms room was downstairs so no worries about accidentally seeing each other before the ceremony. The day of the wedding was so easy and the inn had staff available to answer any questions and make any last minute changes ( I'm looking at you people that don't RSVP on time!). The ceremony was amazing surrounded by gigantic trees and the reception was flawless. I could not have asked for a more perfect day at a more perfect venue. This place is so, so special. I plan to convince all my friends to get married there just so I can go back and visit :)

Decent enough house. Was not a fan of having cameras in all the public areas, just felt unnecessary. Went there for a wedding, which was nice. Staff were efficient and polite. After the wedding, we had a party, which we were being quite too loud at I'll admit, but shutting off the wifi seemed too extreme. A simple call over would have sufficed.

If I could give a negative star I would. My daughter and future son-in-law wanted to have their wedding here. They were driving around Idyllwild and just happen to see the beautiful house. We called, spoke to the owner Jeff and set an appointment to get everything scheduled. When we arrived, Jeff was leaving... He said you will be meeting with my wedding coordinator Jill. I proceeded to ask Jeff if she could help us get scheduled and was she able to go over pricing and he assured me she could. We met with Jill and she was lovely. She gave us all the information she had, including pricing. She did say that we could go over all we wanted with Jeff, and that he could probably give us a better price as he is the owner. Oh GEEZ was she wrong. Jeff came back with the outrageous price of over $19,000.00- all of the prices that Jill had given but a random $9,995.00. We were blown away and he refused to honor the pricing that Jill had given us. We texted and emailed Jeff about the issue and he basically said Jill was wrong (even though remember he said she was more than capable of going over all of the pricing) I was so mad, but my daughter loved this place so my son-in-law to be said he would help with the expenses and that if Jeff could give him a 20% discount he would pay the difference. Jeff would not bend one inch!! He was so unprofessional, first for not showing up to the appointment at all, to taking forever to respond to emails/text messages, and when a representative of his organization makes such a tremendous mistake, he took Zero accountability. AND TO TOP it off he has camera's in the house watching your every move (which we did not know about) that is weird if you were staying there! They are a new business and it is sad that they do not want to build a reputation of honesty and respectability. Please do not put your most cherished day in the hands of Harvey House!