Difficulties booking the venue of your dreams!

I would take this as a red flag. I understand that vendors get busy during peak season but there's no excuse for a month of no response.

If they are unresponsive now, imagine how frustrating and stressful it will be to try to communicate with them as your wedding approaches and gets closer. I know that's hard to hear if you have your heart set on a particular venue, but I can't imagine having to chase around the coordinator of a venue to try to get responses out of them in addition to managing all the other things that go into planning a wedding. You want to enjoy the planning process, so anything that increases your stress levels just doesn't seem worth it. This is a once in a lifetime experience and you should get to enjoy it!

So, about 4 months ago I also looked into the Guild Inn Estate. Gorgeous venue! However, It took them 3 weeks to even get information to me. I took it as a huge red flag and walked away. The venue we went with has been amazing, and their response time is same day. I couldn't imagine having the stress of an unresponsive venue.

Guild Inn is also a super new venue, so maybe they just aren't in the swing of things yet.

Start looking for other venues ASAP! We had a similar situation with our venue but we are already 3k in and can't walk away. The excise is always high wedding season, but to me not responding for a month is no excuse. Start looking around before you make a deposit and can't get your money back!

Honestly, if they're not responding to my phone calls, I'd start looking elsewhere but that's because I don't have any patience for that.
My venue contact works at multiple venues and is in peak season and she responds the next day even on the weekend.

It def shouldn't take that long for them to get back to you. But event manager is in peak season too but still gets back to me within 48 hours. I'm unhappy with her memory as she always asks me things I think she should know like which viewpoint our ceremony is at or at one point asked me what she quoted me at originally. But she always had responded fastly no matter the season.
I wouldn't feel rejected and you shouldn't have to lie about your budget. With every venue I reached out to, and I reached out to a lot, I discussed how to cut costs and get rid of things we don't really need off the quote. NO ONE seemed offended by this and instead understanding and helpful about it. They realize weddings are expensive and most of the event managers prob couldn't afford the venues they worked at themselves. They get that wedding prices are inflated and things add up quickly and were more than understanding about the budget we had and how to stick to it.
I don't know why the event manager is being pretty slack, but if this is your dream venue I would get aggressive, and don't take it personally lol

I agree with Erin, they are in the midst of high wedding season and may not have a spare moment. I assume by reaching out you mean emailing? If you are just trying to contact by phone you could try email and if you have emailed try calling . Is the email direct to your event coordinator you could try contacting the generic email as she might not be there. If you have tried all this and they still aren't responding you have to decide how much you love this venue as they might be a little hard to deal with. Good Luck booking your venue! I hope it works out!

Maybe it is worth going back in person. See if you can book an appointment with this person. As it is currently prime wedding season, that may play into why you are not getting as speedy a response as you would normally expect though your wait seems quite long. I don't think you need to mention your budget when speaking with them but I definitely think you should make them aware at how the lack of attention is making you feel and remind them that you have the power to reach others with your reviews. Hope this helps!