There were times when we felt that our safety was at risk due to the explosive outbursts and confrontations from Chevin and her son. She harassed our guests and would not respond to most texts, calls, and emails she received from the wedding pl...anners and myself. We rented the entire Venue for the weekend and also rented the cabins for 3 nights. Cabins were dirty w/ roaches throughout. There were soiled towels on the floor, cobwebs and dust everywhere. The back porch areas were so bug-infested we couldn’t use the area at night—well over 100 flying around.
When this was mentioned the day after our wedding (when she confronted us to demand more unsolicited money), she acknowledged receiving our messages- they did not spray for bugs bc she was all-natural…. But there ARE all-natural bug sprays, and even UV zappers.
The kitchen that the caterers used did not have gas, so they had to cook all of our food on their personal backup grill. They reached out to Chevin about the gas, and never heard back from her. She did not respond to our planner/caterer and didn’t show up to the wedding until the end, when she fussed at planner for using the AC and said to him, “who am I charging for using the AC, you or the newlyweds?” Thankfully, he was able to reach her in the very beginning when he had to actually ask her to cut her 18-inch-high grass that we as well as the wedding party and guests were going to walk through.
She even had the audacity to tell one of our guests that he wasn’t behaving like a married man because he was driving 20 MPH and said “what would your wife think if she saw you behaving like this?”
She entered the cabins after the wedding saying “weddings over its bedtime” which is 100% illegal. The only people who were there were our guests listed on the reservation. There was one wedding guest who missed the bus to his cabin, and one of my best friends and her husband (also staying the night) said they would drop him off on their way out…when Chevin brought him to the cabins when he was trying to walk back to his cabin. She threatened to be “coming back in 20 minutes” and “you better either be gone or going to bed”.
These two cabins hold a total of 24 guests. Everyone who was there was listed on the reservation…. Except the one guest who was brought by Chevin after he missed the bus. This was not a party, the family and wedding party were playing music from a Bluetooth speaker, sitting around and talking…some packed their things (after having been in the cabins for a few days) in the middle of the night and left.
The next morning (we were in the honeymoon suite the wedding night), everyone was gone from the cabins except my husband’s two best friends, and Chevin and her son had them cornered and was yelling.
She approached one side of our car and her son approached the other side so that we were actually locked in. They both said “pull out your checkbooks, we need $800” She said bc of a breech in the contract, however we didn’t breach the contract. Furthermore, it should have been requested on Airbnb. We felt our safety was in jeopardy, and we were supposed to stay two more days in the honeymoon suite, we left right then without even walking through to make sure we didn’t leave anything.
We actually left our alcohol inside the venue —over $1000 worth…the doors were locked when the caterers went back. I have over a dozen witnesses to attest that the cases of alcohol were visualized at the very end when packing.