I got married in October 2018 & the day of service was good. However, we had a prior wedding major hiccup with lack of professionalism...
The week of the wedding, I accidentally forgot to send my updated hotel information over. It was changed... from Hampton Inn Yorkville to Holiday Inn Oswego (the next town over). When changing the address we discovered they originally had the address wrong for Hampton Inn North Aurora. Which I suppose I missed in small print on pre-invoice. However, I told them Yorkville & I am getting married in Yorkville. So I don't know how North Aurora got into the equation. (It's really far away for a wedding night hotel - wouldn't even make sense) So I believe someone accidentally put wrong Hampton Inn... & I didn't notice, and neither did I. So I am at fault.
So when it went terribly wrong is that, they charged us an additional additional $75 because we updated our hotel & it was out of their zone. Keep in mind this only added a few more minutes & miles onto their trip. They explained to me those extra minutes were to cover the drivers extra time to get to the location. But it was really only approx. 15 minutes? I mean $75 that's a stretch if you ask me! So would people 1.5 hour away still get charged the same $75? We truly were on the out skirts of their zone, however we were misinformed from the beginning.
It only got worse, when I confronted them about the charge & not being happy that they initially messed up the address & I had to essentially pay for it. NOT TO MENTION: I met them at a wedding show in Yorkville, IL & when I specific asked if there would be any additional travel charges they said NO. And when I brought that up to the woman in their office, she got defensive & pretty much told me I was lying.
The main reason I was so terribly dissatisfied was that the phone call I had with them trying to resolve the issue was TERRIBLY handled. At the end of the day, I wasn't asking them to remove the $75 charge. I was pretty much saying could we split the difference & I can pay half.
Maybe I made the mistake of not catching their mistake of putting the wrong address? However, I was explicitly told there was no additional charges to Yorkville (my venue & hotel) because they go there all the time... Looking back if they would have just charged me the $37.50 instead $75 I honestly would have been THRILLED & they would have gotten 5-stars all around. Companies & myself make mistakes... However, they way they handled it was awful. The customer is not always right, however a little goes a long way when you try compromise with customer. And there was NONE of that.
At the end of the day, the week of my wedding telling me I owe an extra $75 onto an already terribly expensive bill of $800 a couple hours of transportation... It is a lot to a bride who is already financially stretched so thin. Was $37.50 really worth such an unhappy outcome?
Ashley Anderson
10.19.2018