To the “professional” wedding planner who stiffed my brother’s GF for a wedding cake she provided to you:
You refuse to answer calls or emails and my future sister-in-law depends on that money to buy supplies to create cakes for other weddings. They had to cancel their first vacation in 3 years to make up for the loss and make sure there weren’t any disappointed brides over these last couple weeks.
Vacation for them is a trip to CB for a few days or camping. That’s all they wanted and you took that from them… Not to mention that she was forced into a cheap deal for the work due to a quote far below regular price you gave that bride. She makes beautiful cakes and is only trying to pay the bills to stay home with her daughter for a few years and you are seriously fucking with that.
I noticed you have a Better Business Bureau complaint against you as well. My brother and his GF are too honorable to get too serious about this, and don’t have a clue that I have done this, but I thankfully am not. I implore you to do the honorable thing and respond to calls and emails and pay for the cake you received.
(I suggest any ladies out there that have hired a wedding planner to do your homework on the internet and see who you have gotten yourself in league with).
If after some time I find that neither you nor your partner have paid my future sister-in-law, or at least contacted her, I will be urging her to sell the debt to a local bill collector, but not before I stop by your listed address a few times a day and call you all day everyday to politely inquire about possible payment… Both of which I can legally do.
I am off work on disability here just around the corner from your home/business, so I have the time. Karma is cool but it is a hundred times more magical when I am the bringer of that Karma… Those can be such blissful moments indeed. So please respond to her. I would much rather spend the near future golfing than camping out on your neighhbors lawn.
A business like yours is only as good as its reputation and if you don’t handle your business like a grown-up I will personally ensure that that rep is tarnished beyond repair. —Camping trip with Neice STOLEN!
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
OP….if the bride and groom aren’t too concerned about it and aren’t going to do anything about it, why is it any of your business? Haven’t you better things to do?
*sigh* grrrr
The OP has bigger issues than the topping on the fucking cake. Hmmm, no wonder you are on leave from your job. Hope they can increase the dosage of your meds before you harm yourself or an innocent bystander.
Wedding plan: no free ride ladies. Get off your asses and stop running the world into the ground with your insane demands.
Obviously you didn’t read the bitch properly, sebastard: the one being stiffed MADE the cake – the wedding planner was supposed to pay them for the cake and didn’t.
Sounds like this is a situation where a couple barely making ends meet getting fucked over by some inept “wedding planner.” The fact that the cake maker is too nice to do anything about it does suggest, however, she’s not the greatest business manager. You have to have some amount of balls and assertiveness to be in business for yourself, and the proprietor of the business got had by someone who obviously knew this one was too nice to do anything if they stiffed them.
I’d say this is a perfectly valid bitch. No one deserves to be stiffed for their work, and this wedding planner needs a swift kick in their junk.
Nice Goin’ Fat:
Very creative, yes – such informative, clever, well thought out and witty comments! Amaze us with your literary talents! I am in awe!
Oh, and NGF, projection dos not look good on you.
Such brilliance! I bow to your moral and intellectual superiority! My apologies for fouling your air with my meagre existence.
Projection dos. That a new OS?
Selling to debt to a collector sounds awesome. Nothing like some bad credit to straighten up a business. By the way OP, is this “planner” located in the Woodlawn area by any chance?
Seems like the dispute is between your brother’s girlfriend and the wedding planner. She has the option of a collector or take them to Small Claims Court. OB since you have nothing to do with this case, you are inviting yourself to harrassment and possibly disturbing the peace charges, if you go in the direction you’re talking about.
The credit agency thing is BRILLIANT. And unless she’s incorporated, I think the wedding planner is personally responsible for debts and that means her personal credit rating would be hurt….or something. Commercial law class was a long time ago 😛
She’ll have to pay a portion to the agency, but some will buy the debt, and as such OP’s sister in law can recover some money now and not wait for the debt to be collected upon.
Also: why are wedding cakes so damn expensive? It’s just flour, sugar and water, etc… I know there’s a lot of work that goes into them, but I’ve seen some that cost more than a grand and all it was was a basic white cake covered in coloured fondant with fondant circles stuck on. Looks great, but incredibly easy to make. If people paying for half the shit they pay for (cakes, cupcakes, crafts of varying variety) knew how much it really cost and how easy it was….they wouldn’t pay out the ass for it.
I mean around $3 for a cupcake at a certain store that owns a pink van? Costs me a 10th of that to make one cupcake (probably WAY less) and mine look just as pretty and taste just as good as they do. It’s highway robbery is what it is.
stay away from the courts. not worth it… the bro is correct
PK that’s because everything is highly inflated for a wedding. Brides and mothers of the bride are easy marks. They want a bigger and fancier wedding than all their friends because afterall that’s the important thing. What’s $10-20,000 to have a party? I mean you wouldn’t want the bride to do something rational like using that cash for a downpayment on a house or anything.
perhaps this wedding planner could incur an “accident” all misfortunate and unforseen like 🙂
if you look at the avail wedding planners out there and look for some key words in part of the post you can see where the OP has provided your answer “Plastic Diver Guy”…and anyone else wondering i think if you read it carefully you will see the evil-doer is shown…i searched the better business bureau thing too and found out…Google worked like a charm….Thanks poster
Fat…nice one…Koda…i think you mean stress leave ..the OP stated it was disability leave…he may have lost a leg or have some sort of injury for all we know…i dont blame the poster for wanting to help out…some folks dont have the stomach to call out other people for their behaviour as we have seen in a few other bitches…looking at this list online there are quite a few wedding planners…might be time to weed out a few…OP never threatened anyone…just offered to bill collect..which he is entitled to do as often as he wishes and in person or over the phone as long as not past 9pm or something like that…and of course remains professional.
OMG I agree, Bro Tim. I priced a few wedding venus and the receptions ALONE cost well over 10K…wtf? I just keep thinking about all the stuff one can buy with 10k….and ever watch “say yes to the dress”?….4k for a dress you’re going to wear once? *shakeshead*
Nice Goin’ Fat loves me 🙂
So, when are you going to make an honest man of him Seb. >; )
I think a lot of people don’t mind paying for a professional cake, because it gives them piece of mind. They know it will be there, on time, looking perfect. Might be why someone would hire a wedding planner too though. It’s hard to deal with people who have poor business practices any time, but when you’re a small business it can really affect your bottom line. I hope your family gets their money back OP.
weddings and all the trappings—>might as well use the money for bum wad
If I ever had a wedding, I would just do everything myself and put my own spin on things. Like, go to sobeys and get a bunch of hideous yummy cake and stack them on top of each other and use lego men on top for decorations. And instead of giving us silly gifts, make our friends and family donate to an animal shelter instead because I hate humans and loves the little fur ones :). And the location could be wherever, who the fuck cares; a parking lot or a baseball field. And since I’m only going to wear the dress once, I don’t think I could spend more than $200 on it. And it would NOT be white. Probably yellow :D. And finally go to the dollar store for shitty fake flowers and other tacky decorations ;D. I don’t need some prissy wedding planner to tell me how to have a wedding! Why spend 10-20 thousand dollars on a wedding that’s just like every other wedding!? You could feed several little kitties with all that money :)!
OMG DEEP N’ DELICIOUS CAKE STACKED
you go girl!!!!!!!!!!!!