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t I live in Houston and it was hard for me to come down to plan the wedding. This meant that I left a lot of trust in Christi to plan the wedding herself. We met about 3 times in a 9 month span. We discussed a lot of different ideas and we were both very excited. On the day of the wedding, everything was hectic and I decided to only focus on the wedding and not the reception. When we got to the reception (an hour after its starting time), we discovered that all of our guests were waiting in a small area because she was not done decorating. We had paid for an extra 4 hours in addition to the rental of the hall, to make sure that she would have enough time to finish. At the time I did not care; I was just trying to enjoy my time with my new husband. She had told me that there was going to be a "big reveal," (Harry Potter themed) but I never thought she would make my guests wait for an hour and a half before they were even allowed INSIDE the venue. When we walked into the venue, I was very underwhelmed. I stayed behind to let the guests enter first, to be polite, but the real reason was because I was upset. I did not want to enter the room. A LOT of the things that we had discussed were not present. The center pieces were amazing, but they did not make up for the fact that everything else looked horrible. We had seen actual linens at her house, and discussed table runners. The actual tablecloths on the table were made of paper. The table runners we had discussed were cheap wide ribbons from Wal-Mart or Hobby Lobby. She probably spent about $2.00 on each table. I could have done a better job. The reason I hired her was because I had no time to decorate the hall myself, BECAUSE I WAS GETTING MARRIED. I was really looking forward to a nice entryway with luggage, a platform number, and a cage (with a stuffed owl inside), or at least a fake tree (also a spring theme). We had also discussed lanterns that were about hip level around the hall. There was nothing. There was a thin string of lights over the door. Her “memento” to us was a cheap graduation picture frame with a low quality print-out of the Whomping Willow in the center. The cheap guest book I had purchased as a backup was WAY better. It was too late to use it though, because she had already had people sign (the wrong side of) the cheap picture frame. Don’t get me wrong, she is a really nice lady and part of the reason I did not say anything was to spare her feelings. However, when I saw her make another post about “all” the things she offers for “$2, 000,” I had to speak out. We did not get half of the things we were promised, and the only reason the wedding was great and went off without a hitch was our AMAZING photographer/ disc jockey. I was so disappointed with the decorations. “Simple” does not mean cheap, Christi. We paid you $2,000, and we definitely did NOT get what we paid for. It was nice, but not $2,000 nice. We were also disappointed that our head table was a long table, and it did not even fit our whole wedding party. We had previously discussed a private, sweetheart table. I also did not like how the words “Mr. and Mrs.” were very small and blended into the table. Again, with prior notice I could have purchased better ones. Very unprofessional service.

s "quarantined and not able to attend". She tried to send her family to help, but they were certainly not professional wedding planners and although they did the best they could, could not and did not make a smooth night. The bridal party was able to pull things together based on the bride's pinterest board, but the fees associated with the Wedding Planners were lost. A very unfortunate way to have the most important day in your life go. Very disorganized.