Dreams Fulfilled Productions

Yesterday (January 26, 2012) was my friends memorial and this disgrace of a business was supposed to deliver and release 50 pink breast cancer balloons. It was one of my friends last wishes and the owner Geraldine She also charged one of my friends credit cards for something she didn’t even bother to do! I will NEVER use them for anything EVER and I will make sure everyone knows just how low they are.
On a day that was so difficult, one thing that could’ve lifted our spirits for a moment watching those balloons drift into the sky for my beloved friend never happened, and it can never be fixed.
Geraldin rerobbed us of that!!!

One of my biggest mistakes hiring her. A liar and a thief!

I contacted Geraldine about 3 months prior to my wedding but I only needed her as my «day of» coordinator so 3 months was plenty of time.
Her responsibilities were provide the floral, decorate the ceremony site, decorate the reception, and be the point of contact if anything goes awry with the vendors.
Things started out good, she scheduled for us to meet at least once every two weeks and she was working closely with the owner of the restaurant at which the reception was being held.
She seemed disorganized at times. I would arrive to our meetings expecting her to have ideas layed out already but instead she would fumble with her laptop going from site to site scanning for ideas. It was overlooked because what I was mainly interested in was how beautiful everything would look and judging from photos from past weddings she decorated I had gone to the right person.
Another good thing was that she was willing to work with my budget. She verbatim said, «Whatever your budget is, I will make it work».
So we signed a contract, (which I’ve asked her several times to send to me and I’ve yet to receive it) and I ended up paying her the full amount prior to the wedding date. My mistake.
The day before the wedding I was telling her everything I was going to bring to the rehearsal for her to have to set up in the morning.
Among those things were the seat covers that I told her previously I was going to provide since her «connection» was $ .50 more per chair
cover than mine.
She acted shocked and said, «Lisa, Lisa, Lisa please don’t tell me you rented your own?!» I said, «Yes, Geraldine I did. We had this discussion a month ago and I told you I could find cheaper.» She continued to tell me that they had them in inventory for me. So I asked her if they were in her inventory, why was she going to charge me $ 1.50 each?
She said she wasn’t going to charge me and with that alloted money she was going to put that towards more floral. *What the hell?!*
I was so upset because if this was going to be included in the price why the hell would I spend an extra $ 300 of my own money?
Well, so I would never wish for a disaster to happen but my chair cover lady didn’t have enough covers for my wedding and I ended up needing Geraldine’s chair covers. It worked out, but her bs she spouted to cover up the mistake she clearly made irritated the hell out of me.
Day Of: I’m really not happy to see Geraldine but it was my big day and a few other things were going awry so I wasn’t going to let her mess up ruin it.
The boutineers: I specifically asked for red for the groom’s family and pink for the bride’s. (My mother in law’s wishes)
1^st of all they were «peach» boutineers and purple orchid wristlets.
So now there was no determining who was on the bride’s side and who was on the groom’s! (VERY important in the Vietnamese culture)
Did she expect for the men to wear the wristlets too?
The bouquets: Mine was all white and the heaviest and bulkiest bouquet that I’ve ever seen. We had a full conversation of exactly what I wanted and it looked nothing like it. I wanted it to be mostly white with hot pink flowers sporatically placed.
The credit that I can give Geraldine was that my ceremony looked absolutely gorgeous they way she decorated the arch and the isle.
I was so pleased that I was starting to overlook the rest and I was starting to get excited about the reception. She filled my head with beautiful details of how it was going to look.
Envision:
–Blue and white drapes hung from corners of the ceiling and all meeting in the center of the ceiling where there will be lanterns cascading down in the shape of a chandelier.
–Flowers behind the water on the waterfall that was at the entrance of the restauarant.
–Fish tanks and photos of food covered by drapes. (Chinese restaurant)
–Drapes covering the back wall decorations of the restaurant (Colors of the décor clashed with my theme)
–Table centerpieces arranged on each table
The reception started at 6pm, and I arrived at 5:15pm. People were scurring about everywhere and NOTHING was done!
It ended up that that the only thing that got accomplish were the centerpieces, and that was getting finished as people were showing up. She blamed it on the restaraunt owner that he didn’t let her in at the time they supposedly agreed on. George (the owner) told me the day we booked it that we could start setting up at 3pm so when she told me he said the morning was ok I was surprised but happy. I’m not sure to this day what was agreed on bc he says one thing and she says another. Regardless, she should’ve had the agreement in writing.
She really wasn’t much help at the reception, she lost the pen that we gave to her for my photo signing and she left early without saying anything.
At the end of the day I’m wondering what exactly my money went towards. She ruined my wedding and didn’t even offer me any compensation.