Tercero by Aldea Weddings is a beautiful hidden gem. Notoriously not the most eye appealing area. However, the minute you step onto the venue grounds, you forget you’re in the midd...le of a loud, stinky city. My fiance and I are so glad we found Tercero. The cutest boho feel, excellent coordinators and the business itself is run by a wonderful family. Shaina worked with us on our wedding and she was so nice to work with. The day of was beautiful and I wouldn’t have it any other way. However, I urge you to be careful when selecting through their contracted vendors. I understand their vendors are not a direct reflection of them, however, to my fiance (husband now) and I, being able to have our vendors included in the cost of the venue was a HUGE selling point for us. We know finding individual vendors on our own would be a headache and more work than necessary so we opted to go with Tercero. Given the beautiful venue and awesome people we met there.
I put too much trust in their vendors, honestly. We booked our wedding 17 months out, and I chose the best vendors (or so I thought). Only for the florist (bloom and blueprint)to bail on me 4 months before the wedding, after already signing a contract with them for months prior. During this time, it was post COVID wedding hecticness, and finding a replacement florist was stressful and a pain. It felt like so many florists were booked up on my date, but I got lucky and was able to find a replacement who fit our budget. Tercero was graceful in this, and made sure we didn’t pay extra for florals that were included in the contract, to offset costs on our end.
From there planning was effortless, although you’re not able to have your planning meeting until a couple short months out, my only complaint on that would be more in person meetings to be able to plan more efficiently with my coordinator.
Fast forward to the day after the wedding. We receive an email from the photography service, Lumiere, letting us know an updated turn around time for photos… “10-12 weeks business days” whatever that means, when I originally signed a contract that said 8-10 weeks with 12 weeks being the latest. Alright, fine, whatever, I got my photos back yesterday after 12 weeks of waiting. And the photos were so poorly edited, my wedding colors washed out, my skin tone as a Mexican woman washed out, literally could barely recognize my wedding cake in these photos. When I talked to someone from Lumiere, they let me know it’s because of the theme I chose and re-editing would be an extra fee. She then called her contracted editor, I guess they don’t do them in house? And changed her tune and said they recently rid themselves of that theme due to its color changing effect on wedding photos.. nobody informed me of that. Though eventually she agreed to have them re-edited, I’m waiting a few more weeks waiting for the photos to be re-edited and was told again, if I wanted them prioritized id have to pay more since I already have access to the original gallery (the poorly edited gallery).
Through this experience I have also learned the photographer present at my wedding, was a contracted photographer and had ZERO affiliation with Lumiere, which is weird because they contract photographers to take the photos and someone else to edit them, then what does Lumiere do besides provide Poor customer service? While I loved the venue and Shaina, the TWO bad experiences with their vendors really rubbed me the wrong way.