HMR Designs Reviews
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4.6 out of 5 rating
4.6 out of 5 rating
18 Reviews
92% recommend it
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Michelle K. Sent on 03/29/2023Brittanie Ahrens is a Dream!
Brittanie Ahrens from HMR was a dream come true when helping me design my wedding. As an event professional (a planner) I have dreamt of my wedding for years upon years, particularly about how it would look. However, even though I consider design a strong suit of mine, and I am able to be so creative and thoughtful about design for my clients, when it came time to put pen and paper down for myself, I always kept hitting a wall! Nothing was special enough, nothing was unique enough, everything I kept thinking of just didn't feel right. But when I finally got my initial scramble of ideas in front of Brittanie, she worked with me to create the absolute dreamiest vision that exceeded my wildest expectations. And if you ask her (as we work together often as colleagues), I have extremely high expectations. But when we walked into the venue the day of our wedding, my husband's and I's jaws hit the floor and tears flooded from my face. She some how brought to life the vision and dream I never knew I had or could be realistic. Brittanie is one of a kind - a pleasure to work with, always thinking outside of the box, and one of the happiest people you will ever meet. I cannot express my gratitude or recommendation to work with her enough and if you do, you will leave your wedding or event glowing for months to come. -
User2673001 Sent on 07/05/2016HMR created my dream wedding! I felt like I was part of a fairytale. I am blown away by how gorgeous they made my wedding and am only sad that I cannot keep their flowers in such a perfect state forever. What wonderful professionals and what a gorgeous product! Thank you, HMR!!! -
User2229070 Sent on 07/16/2015HMR took my vision & Pinterest boards and executed it perfectly. They also made suggestions for little things to fit in with my decor, like adding mirrored bars and extra candles that helped add to the effect. Everything was absolutely beautiful. They also had to get the room set up in a very short amount of time during our cocktail hour, as soon as they room was cleared of guests they came charging in and went straight to work (the husband and I were having some private time on a balcony and could see the room flip in action). I was really impressed by their speed and attention to detail. They were a little on the expensive side but you get what you pay for! -
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Allison L. Sent on 10/02/2021Great Before & During, but Unresponsive After
HMR worked with us and our budget to create the most magical art-deco inspired display for our downtown Chicago wedding. They met with us to go over samples, talked us through flower options, and even found some of my favorite flower (anemones) for my bouquet way past their season! Natalie's attention to detail was superb and made our day absolutely gorgeous.
However, after the wedding we struggled to get a response or really any help when six of my mother's lanterns that were used as part of the decor were not returned to us. We don't know for sure if they ended up at HMR or were broken, but when we contacted HMR to see, they took forever to respond and then said they were too busy to check the warehouse. -
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User1810436 Sent on 09/15/2014We hired Jessica to do the florals for our wedding, after a great meeting where we felt very confident that she had a great idea of what we wanted.
Months passed, and the time for the sample was coming up. We asked her if she needed any more information and she said no. She sent us one idea we didn't like, which made us nervous, but she still seemed confident she could deliver.
On the day of the sample, it was readily apparent that she didn't get what I was thinking, at all. It's possible my vision had changed-- but she should have taken me up on my offer to make it clearer as the sample date approached. What she presented seemed eminently unimaginative. She just slapped together a recreation of one particular photo I had shown as an example of something I liked... but not that I loved. The things I loved-- and had shown photos of-- were nowhere to be seen.
She then told us that for our budget we simply couldn't do much better.
That made us quite upset. We are spending a great deal on flowers, and she had clearly spent no time or effort on this design. I wrote her a lengthy email expressing my desire to move forward, giving very clear, direct instructions for what I wanted to see-- with updated photos. I opened and closed the email by saying that the reason all of this went wrong was because of her failure to communicate-- her tendency to wait weeks to write an email response, her lack of desire to check in and confirm that our visions were the same.
She waited FIVE DAYS to respond, in any way, to an email requesting better communication. This was appalling.
We got our money back and headed to Kehoe, where Phil got our vision spot-on, first try, without even having a meeting in person first. Let's say Kehoe does designs, HMR does recreations... Kehoe has imagination, HMR needs you to have imagination for them... and oh yeah, Kehoe treats its customers like customers, HMR treats them like plebians worthy of their disdain.
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