1) caterer: we spent A LOT of money on food over 25% of our budget went to this. I asked if we could have any left overs and I felt like I was ostracized for this. Our harvest tablet had at least 6 blocks of cheese that were 50% uneaten. my mom works at a food pantry so food going to waste is something we loathe and I explained this to the caterer. Later that night when inquired about left overs of dinner her response was we feed the staff and there is really no left overs which would be amazing i just don't know how true it is. I asked for hot apple cider lat minute bc the weather was supposed to be cold. I was charged more for special mugs to keep it warm and my guests told me that it was cold. I wanted Moscato and I had to bring my own bottle.
2) Transport: we had two separate conversations which included screen shots of a power point I had with transportation cars and as I was pulling up to the venue he starts asking me if I think two cars are enough or down need a 3rd? I have a wedding planner this should have all been settled prior to the day and I spoke to him a week prior and he said he didn't have any concerns.
3) Venue: insurance certificates were very specific and many of my vendor had to get special add on riders. These certificates were due 10 days prior to the event however i had them handed in a month prior and my hair and makeup people ended up not having insurance so i had to sellout 200+ dollars to have them covered to be on site for 3 hours each. I had to constantly harp for receipts of payment and the assistant i was working with went on vacation 10/14-10/24 when my wedding as the 26th.
4) DJ: did a great job but he as a little cocky and kept making comment on how i needed to shorten my wedding bc i wasn't considering the guest experience ( it wasn't even 7 hours from ceremony to reception- he was responsible for 4 hours of entertainment)
5) We hired our wedding planner through a company who sent us generic e-mails with things to do which we had already done. I wish they had a check list like WW did. Every payment I made I needed to have them manually update it and e-mail them. I was underwhelmed by my wedding planner. I felt like she was there to bounce ideas off of but i had to deal with most of the above crisis myself. She didn't seem to start to do anything until 2 weeks up to our wedding and i felt like she as 2 weeks behind me.
6) our wedding planner also did our flowers and we paid a pretty good amount and part of that was for flowers on the arbor. I haven't seen all the pictures but it looked like a bunch of roses scattered within vs arrangements.The vases came out nice and the lanterns but this whole ordeal was a nightmare.
thoughts?
thanks
