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303 Weddings If it's not one thing it's another! Broomfield, Colorado

5th of Sep, 2011 by User228808

Multiple issues not only with April but Mike as well. Everything was good up tell 2 weeks before my wedding when we were supposed to have our final meetings. During our final meeting (August 12th) April & I had talked about making more last minute decisions, so with that being said I was told to come to the tasting a week before the wedding (August 16th) when I arrived April had given me the final estimate of the wedding. My first look I knew something didn't look right and the cost looked higher than it should. April showed me the copies of checks they received from me and sure enough they were missing a check. She then blamed Mike for misplacing the check. So I left the tasting again NOT paying. Instead we set up a time for August 19th to meet at Starbucks where I was picking up my wedding dress. She told me that Jeff would be there to meet us and walk us through the rehersal (August 25th), the gazebo would be decorated in our cordinating colors the day of the wedding, as well as if all our centerpieces needed was water they would fill with water and place at each table. When we arrived at the Rehersal Jeff was not there instead Kris was there and was actually surprised to see us there like she wasn't expecting it. She was rude when we told her we were there for the rehersal she told us to go out back and practice. About 20 minutes after us talking about things I went in and asked her if she could give us guidance, she did but with an attitude. The gazebo was decorated with dark blue tulle, when I asked her about that as my color was Purple she said that they don't do that and if April said they did I needed to contact her. April had always text me to talk about little things, I did the same asking about the gazebo and never heard back. I tried calling and she never answered of returned my call. The day of the wedding April was supposed to arrive at the venue at 3pm. My family got there at 3 and ended up cleaning. Yes cleaning. There was spiderwebs by the back door, the floor was sticky all over the place. My family cleaned for an hour. They had to finish setting up the centerpieced. April told us previously that we would start the girls pictures at 5 than the guys at 530. She didn't come get the girls tell 530 and rushed us through all the pictures including the guys pictures as my wedding started at 6pm. April was supposed to come down and get us girls to have us come up at 6 so we can line up. My step dad (officiant) finally came to get us at 615. While the bridal party was getting their pictures done one of my aunts was at the bar grabbing a drink and noticed a bottle of Pine Sol sitting on the bar next to beverages. They finally removed it after she said something to them. During the pictures my mom had told me to be careful of my dress to not step on it and as soon as my mom walked away April made the comment..."She needs to just get over it". I thought that was very disrespectful to not only my mom but myself & my new husband who was standing there. April was asked to do "fun" pictures with us and to have fun, the only fun pictures we took was the girls showing their legs and also the guys w/ the bouquets and girls w/ cigars. For the grand enterance the DJ (Susan) was supposed to fade the song into our 1st dance song, instead she playing Rap, Hip Hop & R&B. I requested on the DJ sheet that those were limited and played later in the night. They played all main songs right after another...First Dance, Father Daughter & the 2nd father daughter. I had no time in between to grab a drink or something to eat. Both father daughter songs were only supposed to last 60-90 seconds instead it was the whole song, and the 2nd father daughter dance was supposed to invite all other father daughters to the dance floor. She didn't even do the Money dance song. At the end of the night when all our guests started leaving Susan started playing older music that my older guest would have enjoyed alot more. We had the bar & dj scheduled to stop at 1130pm. My mom went to the bar at 1045 to grab a drink with another guest of ours and the beverages were already closed and covered. My mom had to tell them no they needed to be brought back out. When the time came for the bar to close they didn't even do a last call for the remaining guests. April pulled us aside before leaving telling us that she was going to put our pictures on her website and invite all guests to view our photos as a gift. She said we would be able to approve the pictures before an invite is sent to everyone else. On September 2nd I recieved a text from her stating our website was up and an invite was sent out. I also recieved an email from her which was the invite to everyone. I went through my pictures and found many that I didn't approve for my family to see. Some of which I figured she wouldn't put up which consisted of the same picture nothing different, and pictures with eyes closed that happen to have doubles where our eyes were open. I sent her an email and asked her to remove the pictures before the site was open on the 3rd. She told me no she didn't have time to deal with it and then went about deleting the link. So all my family and friends recieved an invite for a website that didn't exist. Then she said my disk of pictures would be to me in 2 weeks. I recieved a call today (September 6th) from Mike, he told me that they have my pictures and can't send them to me tell they recieve my final payment. I made that payment August 19th. So once again they had not only misplaced my check. I am in Texas on vacation helping my mom move and I had to get onto my bank account and see if the check had even been count. Sure enough it hadn't been. So now I have to meet up with them yet again to make another payment. This whole process is more of a hassle than needs to be! I would not recommend anyone to use 303weddings if they would like a stress free wedding. I have already told all my friends who are engaged to reconsider using 303weddings.

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