Portland, Maine Elks Lodge #188

Joyce Valenzuela

I had my wedding at the Elks this past weekend and everything was beautiful and VERY reasonable pricing. Their ballroom is gorgeous and spacious. We worked very closely with Kim, we dropped off all of our wedding decorations 2 days prior and Kim took care of everything and turned our dream into a reality! Once it got closer to our wedding, Kim was very focused on us. The only MINOR issue that happened, was my guests seemed to be waiting on their appetizers and dinner a little longer than I would've liked and we had some complaints about food being taken away before it was finished. But food was delicious!

Kimberly Brown

I went for a group reading with a psychic medium in a room at the rear of the building. The rock group on the other end of the building got continually louder throughout the evening, until we could make out every word of the horribly off-tune singing. Evening was a total waste. Aside from that they had clean restrooms and handicapped parking but no automatic door openers for wheelchair users that I could see.

Donna Zahn

We had a small gathering in the lounge area following my mom's funeral. The space was perfect & all to ourselves. The food was excellent. The food actually exceeded my expectations. We had no issues with Kim at all. Found her pleasant & helpful. Would highly recommend.

Eric Cyr

Reception Hall is very nice, we had our daughter's wedding there and the cost, functionality, and eloquence of the hall is great. The staff or "Kim" leaves a lot to be desired. Her personality is rough, she does not respond, and was very rude when interacting with her. Make sure you get everything in writing, if you can get her to respond to via email or text. The day of the wedding there was a Elks member who had recently passed and they were doing a function in the members lounge...due to this we were not able to use the kitchen (which we paid for) until Kim and her staff was finished and during this time we were treated very poorly. We had also agreed on using the kitchen for the rehearsal dinner the night before so we could eat and decorate the hall...when our caterer arrived they were treated poorly and told they were not allowed to use the kitchen. This made for a very awkward stressful experience. We also hired a couple of staff members to help serve at our reception and they did absolutely nothing to help, leaving family members to help serve and clean up. So Hall is very nice, Kim and her staff horrendous.