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jagore08

I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Tina Molina but she comes highly recommended here.  I haven't heard anything negative about her business or her professionalism, besides this post.  

Are you still using her services?  I ask this because I don't think the Facebook thing is that big of a deal.  People take FB way too seriously.  

Vans18

So sorry you went through this, on my experience with Christina Molina was quite the opposite.  I had an amazing weddding due to her help.  She coordinated everything and also made my invitations.  I can't truly imagine what my wedding would have been like without her.

daisymedina26

Wow this comment just sounds like a personal problem to me. Face book really?
Well as an extremely satisfied client of Christina I felt I had to respond. Christina is a very professional person and does not let person issues interfere with her business I can say this honestly from personal experience. Christina is friends with someone I dated years ago! YES you read correctly! Upon learning this I felt a little skeptical about hiring her. Christina's work is so great and she has amazing reviews that I took a leap of faith and hired her anyway I am SO GRATEFUL that we did. After meeting with her my fiancé said wow she really knows her stuff and her rates are amazing so we hired her on the spot. Not only that she custom made our invitations designing a beautiful logo that had so much meaning for us. What everyone else says is true she responds to email so promptly. We also order our table numbers and escort cards with her at a very very affordable rate! Thank you Christina for all the good work! I'm really stress free and looking forward to my wedding thanks to all your help

DodgersBride

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_california-los-angeles_tina-molina-events-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:68Discussion:67d373ee-989c-4e50-8f90-cc9a7bdf3850Post:9896377f-d22d-4fcb-9db5-cc121c12d929">Re: tina molina events</a>:
[QUOTE] Well as an extremely satisfied client of Christina I felt I had to respond. <strong>Christina is a very professional person and does not let person issues interfere with her business I can say this honestly from personal experience</strong>. Posted by daisymedina26[/QUOTE]

That is great that you and many other brides have had a good experience with her but that doesn't change the fact that OP didn't. You don't know OP full experience with her so I think it is unfair to imply that OP lying based solely on your experience with her.

kristin.anthony

Christina Molina was completely unprofessional at a wedding I just attended this past weekend.

She was rude to guests, even went so far as to roll her eyes and mumble something under her breath after some guests asked why their prints weren't being printed at the photo booth at the end of the night.

She was also dressed unprofessionally for such a formal wedding, She was wearing a pair or leggings and a very tight sweater, her assistant was dressed more professionally than she was.

She lied to the maid of honor when the MOH asked where all the prints of the bridesmaids were. Christina told the MOH that the bride had already picked them up, but we asked the bride and she said that they never got printed.

This woman is completely unprofessional and RUDE!

dstam

I'm currently looking for a doc, and funny running into this post becuase my best friend used Tina Molina Events.  I have to say from personal experience at her wedding this coordinator was not as professional or great as others make her sound. Her assistant Elena did a much more superb job. Tina Molina was sour faced the entire time of the wedding due to some issues with one of the vendors.  She did do a good job, from keeping it from the bride so that she didn't stress out.  But there were several times where I caught her rolling her eyes, and it looked like she just wanted the day to end.  Even with what happened with the vendor issue, she should have tried to keep a smile on her face. Fortunately there were no wedding disasters and everything ran smoothly. But I did not like that one of the guests asked Tina Molina to take a family picture, but she said, oh no the photographer will be coming around to take pics with the bride and groom, the guests asked kindly if she can take a picture with their own camera, tina said it again, that the photographer will do it. After the guest insisted, she rolled her eyes and just took the picture.  But you can tell that she was annoyed.  After the experience at my friends wedding, this took place almost a year ago, and now that I'm planning my own wedding I know that I wont be using Tina, but I would prefer to use Elena.  From personal opinion, Tina Molina is young, lacked experience, probably why her prices are so cheap, and could act more professional.  I felt bad for my best friend and her husband, cause there seemed to have been some communication issues between the vendors and Tina, but tina should have cleared all that up, I thought that's what coordinators are supposed to do.  I do know that I will be interviewing plenty of coordinators before my big day, and one of them wont be Molina events.

yeelittbalanza

Where do I begin…

 

Everything started out great.  About a year and a few months before my wedding (right after I got engaged), I was scouring theknot.com for a day of coordinator and stumbled upon rave reviews for Christina Molina Events.  She was a knot.com pick and everyone who had used her seemed more than pleased with her services.  My future sister-in-law had even considered using her for her wedding.  I visited her website and actually got some feedback from other knotties who had used her, reassuring me that she was fantastic.  I emailed her with a few basic questions and she was quick to respond.  I decided that I would go with her and made the deposit and signed the necessary contract for her Day Of Services. 

 

As the month of my wedding began to approach, I became a bit concerned that I had not heard from her.  About a month and half out I emailed her, asking if we could discuss some of the things for the wedding.  Per her contract, we were allowed 2 in person meetings and however much contact we needed via email/phone.  She told me that she normally doesn’t work with/meet those who book her just Day Of services until 30 days or less of the event.  I found this to be a bit strange, but I figured she knew what she was doing and said okay.  I ended up contacting her about 30 days out to go over details and explained her to that we would be traveling two weeks before the wedding so I would prefer to get as much ironed out in advance as possible.  We tried to set up a time to meet together but between her location in northern Los Angeles and my location in Orange County we weren’t able to compromise.  She suggested that we do a phone call instead and I said okay.  We scheduled a date and time.  On that date and time I called her and it went straight to voicemail.  I tried two more times before I finally left a voicemail.  About five minutes after I left a voicemail she called me back, saying that because my number wasn’t one she recognized, she didn’t pick up.  I found this to be a bit strange because she knew we were going to have a call at that particular time on that particular day.  We went over the details for the day of timeline and she asked if I had any other questions.  I asked her a few things and she said that she would need my list of vendors and that once she got that she would compile everything and send it to me.  After we got off the phone I promptly send her my vendor list.  That same evening I also emailed her a few times with questions and things that I wanted to add to the timeline.  Over the next few days I sent her a few more emails with more details.  I sent probably about 10 emails and got 2 responses, which where short, few word answers.  She failed to answer any of the actual questions I had. 

 

I waited for 5 days for the timeline and for responses to the other questions.  During this time, my site coordinator for the reception emailed Christina and introduced herself and also asked for the day of timeline so that she could finish the work she needed to do.  Christina did not respond.  Finally on the afternoon of the 5^th day I was pretty annoyed.  I called my fiancé and asked him to reach out to her.  He called her multiple times in a row and it went to voicemail, unevenly at times showing that she was screening her calls.  He left a voicemail and asked her to call him back.  She then proceeded to call him back.  He asked why she hadn’t responded to the emails and she said that she hadn’t gotten most of the emails and that they must have gone to spam.  First, I didn’t have any of the emails bounce back.  Second, unless she marked my email address as spam, why would they go there if they were normal correspondences with no attachments? 

 

We made the decision not to use her for the day of coordination anymore because it felt like she would be more of a headache than a helpful person.  When my fiancé informed her of this she was defensive (which I’m not really surprised at). 

 

After reading the contract again we came to the realization that she probably didn’t want to meet more than 30 days out because once you are within 30 days of the wedding you are contractually bound to pay her the remaining balance.  In addition to this I have searched and searched the internet for the original great posts on theknot.com and her event website and all of them have vanished.  The check that we had originally made out to her was to her event company and the final one that we have to send to her she wants made out as check to her, not her business.  This leads me to believe that her company has dissolved and that she is out of business. 

 

As a client, I am really, really, really disappointed in her professionalism and her service.  She should have the decency to be upfront with her clients about what is going on and if she can’t provide adequate service, she should cancel her contract and refund the money. 

 

In addition, I am also a professional in the wedding industry and I have never worked with someone like her nor do I ever hope to.  This post is more of a warning to other brides out there who are looking to hire a day of coordinator.  Check up with your vendors and go with your instincts.  The moment you feel uneasy or feel that something isn’t right, voice your worries.  It’s your day and you should feel confident and reassured that everyone you have hired is going to do their job to the fullest.  I hope that no other brides have to go through what I have.