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Catherine has a full life! She is a mother, friend, businesswoman, and LOVES love. She has been planning weddings and events for over 10 years. She has mastered the art of working with families, negotiating with vendors, and keeping the couple on track during the wedding process. She is a great l
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When planning my wedding, Catherine exceeded my expectations in all ways. With her style, attitude, and grace I felt as though a best friend stepped in and made my dream wedding co...
me true. Katherine is the epitome of fashion.When given my plans, she simplified and added fluidity. My wedding would have been influenced by 7 peoples' ideas of what I wanted, if not for Catherine. My husband-to-be (at the time!!!) made me interview with 3 wedding planners! Catherine was the third and unlike the previous two interviews gave me immediate comfort in knowing that she was the perfect fit for me and my family. Her wisdom regarding second marriages helped me create vows for my step daughters and made them feel the day was special for them as it was for me. Katherine brought vendors and their budgets through her friendships that I would not have received on my own. It was her connections that got me that price. I had no need to become a "bridezilla", because I had a wedding planner to do the negotiations for me. Catherine is a friend, and someone I greatly admire, not just for her wedding skills, but her fashion skills. Seriously, though, she has great fashion taste.
We had a pretty unfortunate experience with Catherine; she was unorganized, forgetful, and aloof.
This is one of most important events in ones life and support in the planning ...
process in essential. I had such an amazing team of vendors and unfortunately Catherine our wedding coordinator (the person who is there to pull it all together) failed miserably.
After having already confronted Catherine once with the issues that I was having with her, I felt it necessary to let her know that I just was not okay with her performance and attitude during and after my wedding. I decided to write her an email and let her know how I was feeling. I was absolutely blinded, by her vicious response! I was in disbelief and for someone that works in the service industry she should be horrified at her behavior and choice of words. Newsflash - I am a paying customer!!!
Here are just a handful of the completely OUT OF LINE & INAPPROPRIATE quotes from Catherine:
"You are very confrontational. You seem to really get off on being negative."
"If we look at your behavior during this entire process I think you will see that you were extremely inattentive and even slower to get back to me. You were only active when you started to feel nervous about your lack of attention to details. This is a very common behavior of people (brides) who lag on finishing up details on their end--they blame others."
" I feel so bad that you're so unhappy--both with my treatment of you and generally speaking. I feel really bad that you seemingly have the need to grind this point. I guess what you need is to feel like you matter."
I want to warn futures brides and let them know that Catherine Bachelier Smith (CBS Lifestylist) is not who you want planning your special day.
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