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Exquisite Affairs Productions Inc.
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1 out of 5.0
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373 Broadway
Suite B9
New York, NY 10013
01/27/2010

Christine was mediocre at best. Throughout the process of planning my wedding she was helpful by giving advice on vendors. She helped me save on my flowers by recommending a great florist. I was so excited to have hired her and was even recommending her to other engaged friends prior to my event. I liked her upbeat, can-do personality. I felt she would be the one to be able to make sure my event would be perfect. After all, With all these good internet reviews how could I go wrong? Well On the wedding day it was like she wasn't even there. The only good thing she did was get me slippers because my feet hurt and fixed a flower mix-up. The whole day my bride-maids kept wondering where my coordinator was. Christine did an ok job overall on the wedding day but totally screwed us the days after. I truly felt I didn't even need her on the day. If fact it would have been cheaper for me if I hadn't hired her. I lost so much money because of her. She had offered to do us the favor of mailing our linens back for us the day after the wedding. We of course said yes as we were tired and stressed from the days events. In the end she totally screwed me by doing me the "favor" of mailing my rented linens to the wrong address. She did not notify me that the linens had not successfully been delivered to the linens company till a week after my wedding right before we were supposed to head out on our honeymoon. By then the company had already held me to our contract stipulating that if I did not return the linens in the manner specified in their contract I owned their linens and had to pay their prices. I had to pay over 4K dollars, while on our honeymoon, for the linens on top of the 1k rental fees. I had used a linen service she had recommended. She had stated she had used the company before. Why would I doubt she would get it wrong if she stated she had used the company before? She first stated that my reception hall did not include a shipping label with a return address which is why she used a different address. When I finally got possession of the linens I found the original return label at the bottom of the box with my linens. It was then I realized that I lost so much money because she had been completely negligent. When I brought this to her attention and asked her to pay for my loss she stated she would counter sue me for her shipping costs. She did not even say she was sorry or even admit to her mistake. In fact she said I was lucky that she did me the "favor" and for the services she provided. Last time I checked "favors" shouldn't amount to a 4k dollar loss. She would not have had all those shipping costs if she had shipped the linens to the right place in the first place. I can't tell you the amount of stress my husband and I went through during out honeymoon and for two months after my wedding just trying to get the linens back and losing so much money only to find out that it was caused by negligence. All she had to do was look in the box and she would have found the label with the right address. I really regret not having told her "No. Thank you." when she offered to return the linens for us. I was still home the day after the wedding and would have done it properly. I guess having dealt with all the crazy wedding planning I felt I could trust a professional to handle my linens properly. I was wrong. If something has to be done perfectly do it yourself no matter how much harder it might seem at the time. In the end I was highly disappointed. I am not the kind of person to write a bad review but truly felt the DOC was negligent. I truly wish I had been one of the other more fortunate ladies who were able to write rave reviews.

Dress My Chair
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1 out of 5.0
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107 East Huntington Drive
Arcadia, CA 91006
(949) 515-1517
01/27/2010

Do not use this service. Right now it is cheaper to buy the linens than to rent. Use
http://www.prestigelinens.com/. Same linens and cheaper than renting and paying for shipping. I ended up having to buy their linens because my day of coordinator failed to deliver the product properly and we had to not only pay for the rental fees but then we had to buy the USED linens at bloated prices. READ the fine print and do not use this company. Don't do the mail order thing. way too many problems.

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