The Dock at Seaboard Station

Lis B.

Great Venue, good communication

Nicole Muller

Great venue! The Dock was perfect for our wedding size of about 115/120 people and the space is gorgeous! It lets all the details and decor and people of the wedding shine! I loved our set up with the dance floor next to the patio. The bridal suite was spacious and so cute! Nicole was great at answering our questions and making sure everything was perfection! I hope I get to come to The Dock again for another event!

Bridget Dickinson

Beautiful venue

Brooke Robotti

Richelle Norman, a very pleasant woman, worked at and owned this venue when it was called Traine. We were initially very pleased with this venue, with everything running smoothly. And then communication start changing. We noticed that a new lady named Nicole took over the venue but it wasn’t until we went to have our first in person meeting that she told us she was the new owner. We were so excited for her new purchase and had high hopes for the future of what was now The Docks (even though we had already printed our invitations). It did not take long for that positive trajectory to switch gears. After taking over, we were forced to sign a new contract disallowing our dogs that were initially to be included in the wedding. We were able to push back on that but still lost some other promises that were made to us initially by Richelle. Our dogs came, did exactly what they were supposed to do and left promptly, as she requested. Additionally, the drafted contracts were completely disorganized and very obviously copied and pasted from another document so that dates, times, and locations were all incorrect and inapplicable to our agreement. This new contract would have been a manipulative ploy for us to spend more money had we not caught these changes ahead of time. Not only this, but she forgot she added a portion about providing drinks until we brought it up to her the night before when she told us that she wasn’t responsible for providing water. Then, the renovations began. We are a lesbian couple with a large wedding party that really loved the large bridal suite on site. Without mention, she immediately changed it so that it was split in half and a new suite (one that you had to walk outside the building to access - not favorable on our rainy wedding day) was added. Because of this change, there was not enough space for the bridal party to get ready, so we had to get an AirBnB and we’re unable to use the bridal suite that morning, costing us over $1000. She also added an accent wall the weekend before our wedding and told my wife “well, it will either be done or it won’t.” Moreover, she generally just has a terrible attitude and demeanor around guests and other vendors. She made inappropriate remarks to our vendors about how she will happily throw away any decorations left behind after our time is up and that we have better thought about what to do with our tree decorations because “she won’t be dealing with those.” And that we were “cheaping out” on our food and “this is what we get”. Not to mention that she forced staff to start cleaning up 1.5 hours before the end of our contracted event up time so that people had nowhere to sit, causing many of our guests to leave early. She made other vendors do tasks that they should not be required to do bc she very obviously doesn’t want to pay her staff to clean up her own venue. So many people came up to my wife and I to complain about her attitude and inflexibility. We were made to feel like an inconvenience to her even though we were paid up and hadn’t been intentionally offensive or unhelpful. Overall, we left the wedding wanting to change absolutely nothing except our venue. When Nicole doesn’t even have enough decency and professionalism to speak to the brides/bride and groom/grooms at the rehearsal or on the day of the wedding, you kind of know it’s a place you won’t bother to recommend to anyone else in the future.