Earle-Harrison House & Pape Gardens

The Earle Harrison House and Pape Gardens are AMAZING! My wedding would not have been ANYTHING like it was without the house, gardens, and INCREDIBLE staff. The grounds manager is by far the best lady I have ever had to work with. She made my wedding planning and day fun, enjoyable, and perfect! My wedding day went PERFECT and if you have been a bride, you know that is rare. I was amazed at how smooth everything went, and it was all because of the Earle Harrison House and their staff, mainly Kathy. If you work with this venue, APPRECIATE KATHY! She will make your day EXACTLY what you want if you tell her your vision. The grounds and gardens are beautiful, well kept, and a gorgeous place to get married. I cannot say enough good about this venue. I would recommend it to anyone without hestitation!

Beautiful venue, wonderful location but the staff is nothing above sub-par. The property manager offers many different amenities for the location such as designing and creating the decorations for all things one would want for their wedding. This would be a great asset to have if the execution is done according to the groom’s and bride’s wishes. In our case, the manager had minimal time to meet with us and never understood our vision as she always had another client to meet with or had other needs to attend to. Come the day of our wedding, the decorations and linens were a completely different color, the table toppers we had ordered never were and all of our flowers had been misused. Our wedding cake did not even have the flowers we had ordered for it! All of these details due to the fact that the property manager overlooked our wedding and never allowed proper time to perfect our vision. My family was great and handled the entire situation while my husband and I were off taking pictures, ultimately making our day amazing.

Kathy and all of the Earle Harrison House team made our wedding day PERFECT!! We could not have asked for more!

This was my dream wedding and I could not have done it any other place. Kathy and her staff were amazing!!! I would recommend this place to everyone!!!

This venue is amazing and the cost is beyond compare! The staff at EHH is so helpful and talented. We took our materials to Kathy and she made beautiful arrangements for the tables. We were 150% satisfied and our daughter kept saying that it everything was "perfect".You won't regret using EHH!

My wedding would not have been what it was without Kathy and the beautiful venue she maintains. Kathy is absolutely AMAZING at what she does. It all ran soo smooth, I wouldn't have changed one thing! our day was PERFECT!!!!Laurie Hutto

The staff at Earle Harrison House always gave more than we contracted. They helped make our reception carefree by attending to all the little details

Kathy was a dream to work with! The wedding and reception were absolutely marvelous. The setting was breathtaking and Kathy went above and beyond to make my daughter's dream wedding/reception come to reality. We bought cut flowers and Kathy meticulously set up and made all the centerpieces. Her talents are amazing. Donna Tucker - MOB

Kathy at Earl Harrison House & Pape Gardens did a tremendous job and the reception was beautiful. The price is reasonable and the service is amazing. I felt like I was in a movie with how romantic the atmosphere felt. She went out of her way multiple times to make everything more than perfect! Thank you Kathy for making our wedding everything I dreamed it to be!

It could not have been any better!!!! The grounds are beautifully maintained...it is a great value for all the services recieved...the staff is very professional from your first meeting and tour until wedding day...loved the whole experience and can't thank you enough.

Kathy made sure that everything was exactly how I wanted it--making herself available for extra meetings, arranging flowers, and setting up the inside and outside even better than I imagined! On the day of my wedding, a few hours before it was supposed to start, I saw her outside blowing leaves from the grounds to make sure everything was perfect.

This was definitely the least expensive outdoor venue that we found, and on top of that they have a huge inventory of things like decorations, tables, chairs, dishes, etc, that they let you use for no extra charge.They even take care of setup and tear-down for you. The lady who runs the place is extremely helpful and will try to get you exactly what you want. She has lots of contacts with vendors and she only recommends ones that she trusts from previous experience. It is a beautiful place to have an outdoor wedding and reception, and fit our budget great. 5 stars all-around from us.

The Earle Harrison is a great place to get married. For what you pay, it is definitely worth the money. With its two main employees, you couldn't even imagine how much they can accomplish. They made my wedding so beautiful and I am so happy I was married there.

Kathy at the Earle-Harrison house is absolutely amazing. I had my wedding there in May of '09 and it was incredible. I had so many people tell me that it was the most beautiful wedding they had ever been to.Everything on the grounds is beautiful, but the personal attention and creativity of Kathy and her team make it 100 times better. She really worked with us to make sure that the day was exactly how we pictured it. She did almost all of my decorations and went above and beyond anything that I could have asked for. We even had a brunch on the grounds the following day. It was perfect. Having grown up in the Waco area, I don't know of a single place that would be better.

OMG!!! Could not have asked for anything better! Wedding was in April 2009...Kathy bent over backwards to help us with everything! then we had rain(pouring Rain) the morning of the the wedding and still managed to have an outside wedding...though Kathy was ready to have it insideif needed...SHe and her staff went above and beyond helping us out...she has awesome ideas and listens to you too...we had a wonderful wedding and the most fab reception! Can't go wrong!!! they book up fast!

I could not have lucked out and found a better place to be married. The gardens are just beautiful. My favorite part was having Kathy step in as a wedding planner type figure for my wedding. I wasn't able to afford to pay someone to be my wedding planner. Kathy enjoys doing wedding so much, and she has so much experience, she was great. She was sooooooooooooo helpful with the planning. And then the day of services, WOW, I was so impressed! I loved every bit of having my wedding at Earle Harrison House and Pape Gardens. My guests have raved about my wedding venue for months afterwards! They all told me it was so beautiful! So I was especially pleased that I loved the venue so much and my guests loved it as well.

Kathy and her team were the best! The day of the wedding I didn't have to worry about ANYTHING! They took care of the setup, set all of the tables exactly how I wanted, and took wonderful care of us. They also helped clean up & move the centerpieces back to the storage area (we shared the altar arrangements & centerpieces w/ another couples who got married the same place the next day). The place was so great & didn't need any extra decorating. The place was a little pricey, but worth every penny! You truly get what you pay for. Anyone getting married should definately check this place out.I forgot to mention the copius amount of vases and other various items she has in her huge storage area that you can use!