We used Morris for our wedding in late June. While they were mostly fine leading up to the date, we had major problems the day of. Our reception was entirely outdoors and ran on ...generator power. When we went to the venue the day before, the generator was already running, so we asked if we should get a backup to ensure we wouldn’t run out of power. Our wedding planner, who was great, called Morris’ owner, who said we had enough power to last through the reception to the following afternoon. Well, that wasn’t the case. About 15 minutes after the band came on at 10:00, the generator ran out of fuel and the power went out. By the band’s resourcefulness, they were able to string about 30 extension cords together and plug into an outlet in the house on the side to get their instruments back, but no power in the tent. This took around 45 minutes, and we agreed to pay the band an extra $500 to stay longer and play their full setlist. That was the biggest problem. Another problem was the cooling truck they gave us for the kegs had faulty taps and CO2, so we lost two kegs and our guests couldn’t drink beer throughout the reception.
All told, we paid $13,000 to Morris, and we asked for $1305 back, which covered the beer lost, the faulty taps, the cost of renting the generator and the $500 we had to pay the band. That proposal was not only shot down by the owner, but it was countered with $305, just the cost of the tap rental, lost beer and approx. 1/4 the cost of the generator. We countered back with $805 – the $305 plus the $500 additional we had to pay the band. Long story short, it took two months!!! Of literally calling every single day to their business manager and owner to reach a compromise of $550. By the time that happened, it wasn’t even about the money for us. It was knowing that if roles were reversed, and we had nearly ruined the wedding reception because of the equipment and advice we'd given them, we would have been so wrought with guilt that we'd have been on the phone with the couple the next day to try to rectify the situation and give them money back. Not only did that not happen, but the owner and business manager stayed seemingly intentionally unreachable and indifferent to the situation for weeks upon weeks. Dozens of promised callbacks went unfulfilled. Absolutely no effort on their end went into resolving the situation. Our aggravation level went through the roof with the whole process. The fact that they were haggling over a couple hundred bucks and stalling weeks upon weeks rather than doing right by their customers was truly shameful.
If you don’t have a problem, you should be fine. We worked with two wedding planners who were both great. But, if you do have a problem, good luck with them, because the owner and business manager are non-communicative and lack the character you’d hope would come with running an honest upstate New York business.