Beautiful Days With Brandi

RIBLE job and here's why: -While planning, she consistently gave me everything LATE. From venue options, to a list of caterers, to decor options. Nothing was delivered when promised. There was always an excuse, then magically shed go from 1 caterer to 4 caterer options in one day. -While planning I had to repeatedly remind her of questions that were still unanswered and what the wedding colors were -At the rehearsal she INULTED my dad and myself. -Before the ceremony, I'd asked for sunglasses to be on a table at the ceremony sight for out sunrise wedding. Didn't think it was that logical for her to put them at the reception site indoors but whatever. Now I have a lot of sunglasses that nobody touched. -At the ceremony, she was told by MULTIPLE people thay the aisle too narrow but she said it was fine. It wasn't, and my DAD COULDNT WALK ME DOWN THE AISLE (my dad stepped in and fixed it so I could walk back with my husband) -At the ceremony, the music cut out because her phone DISCONNECTED from the Bluetooth and I wasn't able to walk down to my music -At the ceremony, she said she would instruct everyone to stand when I started walking but she did not. Awkward. -At the ceremony, she did not bring a microphone even though I TOLD HER that we'd NEED one because the waves on the beach are too loud. She said it would be fine because we're a small group but even though I was yelling, only the front row heard the vows. -At the reception, there was no champagne toast. -At the reception there was no flow or direction, I'd never been to a wedding before and didn't know that I was supposed to dance with my dad right after my husband. He almost left because he thought I didn't want to dance with him. -At the reception there was no opportunity for speeches. My mother inlaw had something prepared and was pretty heartbroken she wasn't able to give us a toast. -At the reception people got up to dance a couple of times but were cut off by Brandi for random untimed announcements. -At the reception, We sat so far away from all of our family. We both sat down, looked at eachother and spencer said "this kind of blows" and just got up. -At the reception, Nobody even knew we were cutting the cake or doing the drinks thing. It wasnt announced and she didnt play the "cake cutting song" she asked for. We've talked about this and she didn't take ownership of anything and blamed a flop wedding on my inability to afford a dj. But I'll let you look at my grievances and decide if a dj would've saved me from having a laughing stock of a wedding. I asked for her fee back (not the whole wedding just the planning fee of a couple hundred bucks) and she said no because she did her job. But it's fine. I was already legally married so at least she didn't ruin that. And to end it on a positive note, everything Brandi didn't have a hand in, went perfectly. One good thing about Brandi is that she is nice and was willing to rework the fees and budget with me when I got hit with a 20k home expense. Her assistants, though hired because of nepotism, were both very nice. Especially Taylor, thank you for frequently asking me what I needed because I was so late and frazzled. Just budget a bit more time for your great makeup skills! And Brittany, I'm so sorry your phone and shoes were stolen at the beach!