Kohl Mansion - A Wedding Venue Review

One of the most important decisions you will make as a bride- or groom-to-be is venue selection. Your venue will set the tone and theme of your wedding. It was an agonizing decision for me. When planning my wedding I visited tons and tons of wedding venues all over Northern California from coast, to wine country, to San Francisco, to the Peninsula.

So I thought I would share my experiences and opinions about the venues that I visited. This review is for Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, CA. By day it is a private girls school, by night it is a gorgeous wedding venue. By Bay Area standards, the rental fee was average at around $10,000 but there was no corkage and while they have vendor relationships, you could choose your own caterer and so on. The wedding coordinator was super helpful and accommodating and responsive. I would have loved to hold my ceremony and reception here, but the rental fee just cut too much in to my budget but if you can swing it, I would highly recommend it

The "Great Room" is a classic ballroom with soaring ceilings and floor to ceiling windows that opens out to the gorgeous patio with a dreamy fountain.

The "Morning Room" is an intimately elegant room with chic black and white checkered floor. It was suggested that this room be used to host the cake. An entire room just for the cake!