FountainGlenn - Leander

FountainGlenn - Leander

By Robert Bell Friday, 21 November 2008

This event center can facilitate everything necessary for weddings, parties, corporate events and just about any other type of get-together.

The nitty gritty of wedding planning can have a happy couple singing the betrothing blues faster than you can say, “I do.” The process can be made easier by a full-service provider that can deliver the whole shebang from the first strains of “Here Comes the Bride” to food, drinks and the final dance floor number.

FountainGlenn is an event center that can facilitate everything necessary for weddings, parties, corporate events and just about any other type of get-together.

Co-owner Jon Bradley, his wife, Wendy, and partners Melinda and Jack Graham opened FountainGlenn in late 2006 and hosted their first wedding in January 2007. All four are Central Texas natives who had relocated to other cities across the state, but then decided it was time to come back home. The Bradleys lived in Dallas, where Jon worked in software sales and Wendy was an event planner. The Grahams were living in Houston, where Jack owned a business and Melinda was a teacher.

FountainGlenn’s 5,000 sq. ft. facility has two large rooms for ceremonies and receptions and also smaller rooms that can serve as dressing rooms. It can accommodate up to 150 people indoors and up to 500 people for events using both indoor and outdoor areas. The indoor-outdoor option is one of the big advantages at FountainGlenn.

“A lot of brides like the idea of an outdoor wedding, but they shy away from it because they’re afraid of bad weather,” Jon Bradley said. “We have the backup plan, so we can plan an outdoor event, but if it were to rain that day, we can just set up as a chapel area and they can have their ceremony [inside].”

The facility also allows the wedding to quickly transfer from ceremony directly into reception, which is a convenience a lot of customers are looking for, he said.

About 75 percent of the events hosted at FountainGlenn are weddings, and a good number of those are ceremonies for military personnel stationed at Fort Hood, Bradley said. The facility’s staff can put together weddings with little lead time, which is a big convenience for soldiers transferring soon. Bradley and his staff have planned weddings on as short a notice as three weeks. Wedding packages start at $3,995, with a discount for members of the military, as well as lower rates on Fridays and Sundays. The bride can pick and choose from among the many options available to assemble the perfect wedding.

“We have a flexibility that a lot of people don’t have by not just saying, ‘here’s your package.’ Everything is interchangeable and can be added or subtracted from a package,” Bradley said. “That makes it easy for the bride and groom to determine exactly what they want.”

FountainGlenn weddings

Basic wedding package — $3,995 (for parties up to 100 guests)

• Complete wedding ceremony and reception with dinner choice of barbecue, fajitas, lasagna, Hawaiian chicken, tortellini or light hors d’oeuvres and one beverage.

Traditional wedding package — $5,995 (for parties of up to 100 guests)

• Includes ceremony, reception with buffet service or heavy hors d’oeuvres, bride’s and groom’s cakes, choice of two nonalcoholic beverages, standard chair covers and sashes and professional disc jockey service for ceremony and reception.

Upgrades

• Additional entrées
• Appetizers and desserts
• Enhanced candelabras
• Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission bar packages (required if alcohol is served)

FountainGlenn, 2222 Downing Lane, 259-3233, www.fountainglenn.com