Well, it's been a while and I seem to be the only one following this thread so here's the update/my rant, and it's a doozy:
About a month ago, our venue essentially backed out on us. After we had already put a deposit down and signed a contract, I got an email saying due to competitive pricing, they are adding $900 onto our total. I was dumbfounded. I read our contract over and over and while it said pricing was subject to change I figured that meant quoted prices were subject to change, NOT locked in prices that I had already put a non refundable deposit on. I was so pissed. I had all our paperwork and I sent it to her, with the prices we had agreed on...but she wasn't answering our calls or emails.
Two days later she calls to tell me the price changed because a couple had been penciled in for the same date, no deposit down but she was supposed to call them first before giving the date to anyone else. She forgot to call them before giving us the date. Now they were angry and saying they wanted the venue's largest, most extravagant package and they were missing out by giving the date to us, who wanted the smallest package possible. So to make up for the loss, the coordinator now wanted $900 extra from us due to "competitive pricing".
Needless to say I demanded she honor the contract I signed or she give us our deposit back. No response to my repeated calls, but days later I received the deposit back! With no note or apology. I emailed her to say what a disappointing experience it was working with her and she replied offering to give us another date at a discounted price! I was heartbroken. Cried a bit. We wanted NOTHING more to do with them at that point. The entire thing was SO unprofessional. A nightmare, really. I had to break the news to all the parents, grandparents, out of town family, my sisters I had asked to be bridesmaids...good thing I hadn't bought the invitations (I had already designed) yet.
We are now booked to have a very small ceremony with the two of us, our parents, and a friend or two, in a gorgeous garden here in Texas. No reception, no cake. We are renting the private room at our favorite restaurant. Not the wedding I was originally expecting, but it'll be more about the two of us, no fuss. Plus now we have way more $ to play with or save. They even gave us a free night at the local bed and breakfast! Still a little upset that everything is changed but at the end of the day we just want to be married, dangit! Lol. No wedding goes without it's share of drama so I think it should be smooth sailing from here
