Hello lovely brides and brides to be!
I am currently in the process of getting a venue planned out. Our wedding date is set for October 22,2022 as of right now it seems we have all the time in the world. But in reality it's coming up on us fast lol Anyways we went and looked at venue back in Decdember of 2020 and at the time with covid being so new and everyone having to shut down our venue we wanted was actually looking like they were going to close down permenatly. As of today (April 1, 2021) they are back up and going which is great news for them as a bussiness. Unfortunatley I am having second thoughts on going through with this venue. And that is because the lady who is in charge of event planning is horrible with being in contact with us. When we first ever reached out it took my partner 5 emails to even hear back from her. Now it took us a phone call, a voicemail, and 2 emails to get a hold of her. Once in contact with her it has taken her multiple days for her to respond back to us about appointments to meet up and discuss following through with booking this venue. The day we had planned she just didn't respond. We tried scheduling another day after she told us she was free the rest of the week only for her to respond with "oh no I can't do that day. I'm busy." So now we are scheduled for the following day with her. The last email we sent to her we asked if the date we want will even be available because if not it will just be a waste of all out time.
Another side note the reason I am so set on getting our venue picked out is because I have a feeling with vaccines coming out and covid somewhat calming down that a lot of women/men will be planning a 2022 wedding and I want to make sure I have my date saved. Also sorry for all the rambling this is my first forum!!
Now my question for you guys is at this point with her being so hard to stay in touch with and having such horrible communication problems already should I even bother with dealing with place as a venue. I feel like it's very unproffesional and it's very frustrating when it takes her about 3 to 4 days to get an actual response. When we go to book this place we have to put down half of the total as a deposit. Another thing I am worried about is spending all this money as a downpayment just to deal with someone who won't respond ina timely manner.
I would love feedback and opionons on how to deal with a sitation like this. Thank you all in advance.
Anne-Marie a stressed 2022 bride to be.