I am so bummed today ladies. I got a letter from our venue thanking us for wanting to book our celebration there, but asking us to come in and put a deposit down on the hall in order for them to continue saving our date. Also, the letter was addressed to my last name, but with a different first name?
I had already had several meetings with the manager on site, and had signed a contract and put the required 20% deposit down. I called to tell them that, but was told that the person who handled that was not in, and asked to leave a message. My fiance' happened to be off today and said he wanted to go down there, so we did.
I had my copies of the contract, and the deposit which we took with us.
Turns out the manager we worked with changed names on our contract, whited out our deposit amounts, and took off with the money and money from many others. They haven't heard from her in over a month. In addition, we negotiated pricing with her, and details of our reception, including kids meals, special decor, serving drinks to our guests upon arrival at ceremony, and adding items to our food and drink menu. Even the time duration of our reception, and set up time beforehand. They are cutting our time frame and only giving us the two hours before ceremony to set up, which is when we have first look and bridal party pics scheduled. They won't allow us any other time to set up and decorate.
We found out today that basically everything she told us was untrue, and the venue won't honor anything she told or promised us. She wrote these things on a separate piece of paper, so they weren't actually a part of our contract, and they won't honor them. So now I have to pay full plate price for everyone, even kids under 5, along with not being able to have things I planned on. I thought everything was set, and we planned our day accordingly.
We are now looking at spending an additional 700-2000 dollars accordingly, based on actual count and extra fees that we were not told about. And I have to figure out how to get the hall set up and decorated. We have done a lot of DIY to save money. I know that my wedding isn't until next year, but I'm a planner, and like to have some sense of how things are going to be.
Just threw us off, and upset me a bit. I don't know where the extra money will come from, or how we will manage to get the hall done. Just sad that someone who seemed so nice took such advantage.
And this, just a few months after my gown was ruined in a fire. Sigh
