The property is gorgeous, if I were rating the property alone it would be 4.5 out of 5 stars. Gorgeous place to have our wedding in mid September, even the weather cooperated! We picked the Parks place because Tonya told us that she has so many of the little items needed in a wedding that it would be much simpler (and cheaper) because we could use any of the items she already owns for our wedding. There’s also a playground and fire pit, so we were thrilled because it seemed like the most kid friendly venue we’d looked at and there were a lot of children at our wedding.The deposit you expect to get back if there’s no major damage, right? Wrong, Tonya will nickel and dime you for any extra expense perceived or real after the wedding. We were charged $17 for broken light bulbs, $13.73 for a broken shovel in the kids area, and our least favorite charge was $50 for ELECTRICITY. In my mind this is all the cost of doing business, we paid over $3000 for the venue and somehow that doesn’t include electricity. She told us we and our guests open and closed the doors too many times and kept them open (we didn’t notice this) and so her staff had to close them a lot, which once again, you have staff, this is their job why would be charged for staff AND electricity? You will be charged per person who steps on the property, not just your wedding guests, despite paying for “our time.” Our wedding planner who has been involved with tons of weddings at a variety of venues has never heard of this practice, EVER.Tonya will sit by the parking lot with a notebook and note what time the first and last person is on and off the property, its conspicuous and so you feel like you have to rush/herd people off quickly after the rehearsal. We were told we went FOUR minutes over our time. I get needing to set guidelines and boundaries with a property so people don’t loiter, but it really ruins a lot of the fun of the event and adds stress to an important event that is unnecessary.After the pitch you will believe that she has all of the tables, linens, chairs everything that you could possibly need for your wedding, this is also not true. I think she only ended up having four round tables and not enough table cloths, so we had to rent tables from ABC rental and set those up (on our time of course) and buy table cloths. Tonya says she has hundreds of chairs to accommodate any size wedding, but you will only be able to use the number you have paid for and guests will need to move their chair from the ceremony to eat. We only had 85 people at our wedding so assumed that we could have two sets of chairs so that people wouldn’t have to worry about that, nope… extra charge. The folding chairs that come with the property are two toned: white backs and seats with metal joints, which is NOT the look I wanted. I sadly assumed she’d have simple, elegant, all white chairs since she does this professionally. If you want that look she has some old folding chairs with wrinkled satin-ish covers she will let you use for $7 a chair.During the wedding, one of her staff was taking pictures of the ceremony with her phone, I saw her over my husbands shoulder during our vows and it was very distracting. I was hoping during the wedding the staff would be invisible and almost fade into the background, ready if needed, but instead they stood around the dance floor, very conspicuously in black t-shirts with white lettering that said something about “we’re not wearing masks but we’re trying to social distance”. It was a nice, elegant wedding, I was disappointed they didn’t reflect that in their attire.I think the biggest problem is that this property is their home. It’s lovely, but I don’t think they know how to treat it like a business, we are not house guests we are customers. I’m posting this google review because it’s the only way to let people know what you’re getting yourself into. We did review the contract, it’s very vague I guess intentionally to allow for these surprise charges at the end. This could be a top notch place with some business classes.

This is such a beautiful wedding venue! The Parks at A Walk to Remember are amazing. They go the extra mile to ensure everything is well planned and executed. Our daughter got married and we are so happy we reserved this place!!

Wonderful event venue! Tonya and Josh go all out to make sure everything is taken care of. Highly recommend!

Very nice and good place to have a wedding. Recommend.

Tonya and Josh were the perfect hostesses. Thank you for sharing your home with us all. Good times, beautiful property!

What a beautiful venue! Thanks for sharing your lovely facility with us!

It was my sons wedding,it was a very rainy day but thanks to Tanya and Josh it was an amazing day .The Parks Place is beautiful, Tanya help me so much with everything she took a lot of my stress away .Tanya and Josh owners of the venue have it together they are so organized they are so helpful you will be crazy not to book your activities with then.We had a great time and my son and wife smiled the hole time .Thank you so much Tanya and Josh for making there experience an unforgettable one.

I was overwhelmed by the environment. The owners are awsome. I cant wait to have my wedding here

Great people..great place..a unique experience you will never forget for a lifetime

Beautiful venue with a lot of features and included accessories

One of the best,venues, in Abilene

Yep

Very pretty