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So I finally have to vent about this...
We didn't have time to go through all of our stuff after the reception - we had to leave on our HM right away (we didn't even have time to open our gifts!). However, the day after the wedding when we went to pick up all our stuff I was kind of appalled at how haphazardly everything was just tossed into boxes. For example, I had 50 glitter covered glass votives....just piled into the box. I brought them stacked in layers with cardboard to support them.
Anyways, one of the first things on my to-do list when I got back from the HM was list all my wedding stuff to sell to get it out of my house. Well, low and behold...I am missing 6 of my nice photo frames (which I had menus in) and 6 of my TABLE NUMBERS! My beautiful table numbers which I literally spent WEEKS making myself. Which I already had offers from people on TK to buy after I was done with them.
I e-mailed my coordinator 11 days ago letting her know how unhappy I was that they were missing. There was no way the box was lost as I picked up everything from the reception venue myself and loaded the boxes into my house myself immediately after. She said she'd look into it but I haven't heard from her.
I guess I'm just pissed because a) they were my pride & joy DIY, b) I'm going to miss out on a chunk of money selling them, because who wants a set of incomplete table numbers? c) she has not gotten back to me or apologized in any way, d) This is a NICE country club (million dollar houses on the golf course) and we spent a small fortune having our wedding there.
I don't even know what to do at this point. I'm so disgusted about the entire thing that I can't even bring myself to list all of other items. I'm going to e-mail her back right now, and I know being a b#tch doesn't usually make other people want to go out of their way for you, but I'm seriously pissed. GRR!!
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I am so sorry you're having to deal with this- We are too, and it sucks. I brought everything to the wedding nicely packed, and the clean up crew essentially tossed things into boxes and hoped for the best. Many DIY projects are missing or destroyed. I can't believe my mom & DOC let it happen.
My favorite find- they didn't empty/ dry the vases, so when I finally unpacked things (about 3 weeks later, after a cross country trip in a hot trailer and days sitting out in our uninsulated shed), everything was growing mold. Including my cake topper.
Believe me, I feel your pain.
I would hound her until you get an answer. We also found, the next day, that all of our stuff had been thrown into boxes haphazardly. We went through each box and organized it all. Later on we ran into the coordinator and we told her we had already gone through it all, because she said she was going to do it. I was like too late! Because I wasn't happy that they didn't take care with my stuff. When we got home and I went through some of the things, I realized that all the ribbon that had been hanging in the gazebo wasn't there, plus my flip flops I had worn during pictures down the docks were missing as well. I have no idea what happened to them because I took them off before our entrance to put my fancy shoes back on. I did email her when we got back, but she was on vacation and she said she would look into it and get back to me.
Well, it's been a month and I haven't heard anything. I honestly don't care at this point, but the point of it was that it was my stuff. In your case, you have the right to be upset and I would hound her and find out what happened to your hardwork!
Okay since you brought this up I have a similar situation.
After the reception my mom and my BM's helped clean up/gather all my items to take home for me. My mom told me they rushed them out basically and were just throwing my items into boxes. I too had everything wrapped up nice and neat in boxes. Then our toasting glasses and cake serving set got lost and my mom got so upset about it. She got in contact with them and they did find it and H and I finally got it back this week. Well then one of the glasses got broke after I washed it the other day.
We spent a lot of money ourself and my dad spent a lot of money on this place. They were so great and I didn't have any problem with them other than this.
Sorry this happened to you as well. I would go up there in person and ask if you could look yourself.
This stinks. I'm sorry all your hard work is not coming to a complete fruition for you. I would sell as much as you can. But in the meantime I would most definately contact the venue and ask to speak to the general manager or someone who would be held responsible for what was lost. Perhaps there would be some monetary compensation (not likely, but maybe). Plus check with your guests. Do not underestimate the power of your guests. Wedding planning has shown me also the ugliness of this "world".
I hope you get it figured out or at the very least get some answers.
Our stuff was just tossed into the totes that we used to transport stuff also. It was given to them carefully wrapped with itemized lists on each tote. When we got our stuff back it was thrown in every which way and my picture frame from the wish card instructions and our memorial candle were smashed. We also got table number that must have belonged to someone else since we didn't use any.
We called the venue and they offered to replace the broken items, but it isn't quite the same. We also took back the items that didn't belong to us, hopefully they find the right owners.
wow, this is really a shame
it's sucks we all spent so much money on everything and they don't even care.
this post reminded me that we never got our cake topper back, which i spent $bank on because it was customized to look like hubby's motorcycle. so i just emailed them about it.
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Wow, I guess I feel a little better now knowing that I'm not the only one. Not that I want it to happen to anyone else, but you know...
We'll see what happens with the numbers. I don't think guests took them, at least not 6 of them, esp. since they are all numbers right together (IE, 2,4,5,6,7) so they would have been at tables all next to each other. And since I am missing the same number of table frames I assume that they are in a box together somewhere in the world.