Any tips to win a dispute claim from a wedding vendor (florist) that failed to do her job as promised.

Wedding was Friday and beautiful but the florist failed to deliver what was promised to us. We have receipts and everything plus photos of how dirty and unprofessional the candles looked. We tried to call to work something with her but she was incredibly rude and refuses so we're going this route (only partially on the credit card)

Hello! I got married 8.22. We worked with our photographer for our engagement photos and rebooked her for our wedding. As part of the wedding package, we were supposed to receive 10-12 sneak peak photos 72 hours after the wedding, which our photographer verbally confirmed with me on the day of.

I am trying to not let my eagerness become annoying, because I understand live happens, but it has now been over a week and we haven't heard from her at all. I sent her an email yesterday morning and we still have yet to hear from her. At what point do we reach out again?

I hired a small business to cater my wedding.

Our original communication for the menu:

Meats:
Carne Asada
Pollo

Sides:
Rice + Beans
Esquites

Drinks:
Hibiscus Refresher

We met, they quoted $15 per person.
She said they lost the list and had me resend our selection. She then asked me what price they quoted me because she couldn’t remember and I said it was $15 per person.
She then asked to come out to the venue so we could go over logistics regarding cooking space/setup. She came out, asked us again about or food preferences…. I repeated what we had already discussed and the total changed from $1545 to $1750 with the esquites added on to the order.

My coordinator and I asked them to show up at 4:00/4:15 the day of the wedding. My ceremony starts at 5:00.
5:00 rolls around and they’re still not here… I message them and they say that they’re on their way (which is 15 minutes from the venue). I told them that no one can drive up to the ceremony right now because the ceremony is about to start.

They set up at 5:30/5:45. So they were over an hour late to the agreed upon time.

There are no rice and beans. There is no esquites.

My coordinator approaches me around 8:00 right when we’re about to cut our cake and says that the caterer is wanting to serve the esquites. 1 hour and 20 minutes past the time dinner was served. I would say less than 15 guests out of my 112 were able to eat it.

When they were confronted by my MIL in regard to this situation, they said that we talked about serving esquites after cake (we never even mentioned cake cutting), and then they said that esquites is a mexican dessert and is always served after or in place of cake.

I don’t even know how to approach this.

Hey hey!

Wedding is weeks away… anything you did that you wish you hadn’t…. Or didn’t and wish you had?

Thanks! 💜

I got eloped because the stress of thinking of who to invite and who would get upset if I didn’t invite them was so stupid to me I opted out of it completely. But I wanted to get perspective on a situation that happened a few years ago. My now husband got a wedding invite (and +1) of a former coworker
(they worked together remotely for a couple of months but never met irl) across the country. I had never the coworker and neither of us knew the bride. We obviously didn’t go, but I can’t stop thinking about a couple seemingly inviting a couple of strangers to their wedding. I know wedding planning isn’t cheap, did they actually expect us to go?

Hi Reddit! I'm a bride-to-be and want to make sure I dot my i's and cross my t's before the big day. If you're a past bride, a past wedding guest, vendor or anyone in between, I'd love to hear from you and get your thoughts on what would've made someone's wedding day just a tad smoother.

AIA this is a bit of a pity post 🙂 I’m hosting quite a big engagement party at the end of the month and I just feel totally stressed out by it and all the anxiety of inviting different people from different circles along with difficult family situations. Worrying about people who don’t get along being in the same room, family drama, people not turning up, having friends message me asking to catch up before the party because I haven’t seen them in a while ETC I just didn’t expect to have so much to worry about and maybe I’m just having a bad day but it’s all just really putting me off the idea of having a big wedding which ironically was what I thought I always wanted🤣 I’m sure it’s just the anxiety talking and that everything will be great on the night but I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience with engagement / wedding celebrations and could put my mind at ease? Or maybe experiences where you decided a big wedding just wasn’t for you?

Took some advice from my previous speech, changed some things around and added in some more words about the bride. let me know if there's anything I should change from here

Alhamdulillah

I’d like to thank all of you for being here, celebrating this lovely couple and I hope you’ve all had a lovely time so far today, and continue to as the evening goes by.  My name is bestman and after many years of me saying it, I’m glad Groom has finally admitted that I am indeed, the best man. 

I would be amiss if I didn’t start by mentioning the bridesmaids, you all look stunning. However, only to be eclipsed by our beautiful bride. Bride, words cannot do justice to how beautiful you look today.  Groom you are very lucky to have any bride sitting next to you but even luckier to have someone as beautiful as Bride. 

Groom I know that in Bride you have someone who professes total love for you, someone that has been an unfaltering pillar of strength and who has stayed at your side through thick and thin, through the good times and the not so good times.

Her loyalty for you is unquestionable and her faith in you is endless. It's clear to me that you have both found your perfect partner and I couldn't be happier for you both. Even if her first impression of me was probably that I was a ‘bit of an idiot.’ And that's putting it mildly.

There comes a time in everyone's life when they meet their one true love, their soul mate, the person that they are going to know and love for the rest of their life, someone they can’t picture their life without, and don’t want to.  For Groom, that day came 11 years ago when he met me.   

As I mentioned, I first met Groom 11 years ago, when we worked an evening shift together at work.  I had a feeling we were going to be very good friends when he didn’t report the things I said and did to HR.  During these last 11 years, I have had the pleasure of watching Groom grow from an awkward young adult, into a more awkward fully grown adult.

There’s never a dull moment when Groom and I get together and go on an outing.  Whether it’s him trying to explain to me that it’s not a good idea to jaywalk into a street on a rainy night so I could convince him I could stop traffic by raising my hands and shouting STOP! (it did work though), or me trying to convince him if I just start crossing a busy intersection, everyone else will follow my lead and do the same and the cars will just stop and let us cross (again, worked).  Or when he had to give me his watch to do an EKG on myself because I got a little too carried away with my cheering while watching football and got light headed and nearly passed out.  Groom has essentially been tasked with keeping me alive for the last 11 years, and I have to say, he’s done a bang up job!  So Bride, don’t worry, you’re in the hands of one of the most capable people I know.  And if he can keep me alive, I’m sure he’ll do a great job in always taking care of you.

Whether we were blasting Arabic music in downtown Chicago and having everyone give us dirty looks, going to the gym at 2am to work on pad work for kick boxing, visiting my family in Ireland, spending the day fishing, or just being two grown men attending the Spongebob Squarepants musical, thank you.  Thank you for being there, being someone I can rely on, for being a friend and being one of my biggest confidants through everything
Groom (face him) I would like to think that in the times when you have called upon me for help, I have always been there for you and not let you down because you have always been there for me.  I look back at some of the things we have done together and it makes me proud to have a friend like you.  We have had some truly great times and have shared some great experiences together, memories I will never forget.  I have been honoured to have been your best man and want you to know that I am proud of the person you are, and are becoming, more than you can imagine.  I leave you and Bride with this, always remember, love is a circle, it goes on forever.

Go n-éirí an bóthar leat agus Sliocht sleachta ar shliocht bhur sleachta
(May your journey be successful and blessings on your prosperity)

I ask that we all raise a glass to the Newlyweds, to Groom and Bride

Last night my fiance and I received an email announcing that our venue is renovating... and I am devastated. They included photos and mood boards, and its genuinely awful.

Currently the venue has this super elegant mid-century modern / secret garden vibe, with floor-to-ceiling white organza draping, and a beautiful domed wrought iron gazebo in the ceremony space. Our wedding is lord of the rings/fantasy themed, and the space was perfect for what we wanted.

The new look is extremely sterile and modern. The drapery is being removed, the gazebo is being replaced with an ugly black wooden pergola. All the chandeliers are being replaced with ugly modern ring light looking things. The changes are making it look like some corporate lobby. I genuinely do not want to get married there anymore. I wouldn't have even considered the venue if I had seen what these changes were going to be be cause it is just a very bad aesthetic fit.

And that's not even getting into how close these renovations are to our wedding... they are scheduled to re-open TWO WEEKS before. I work in construction, I know how easy projects like this can go off schedule and I am sick to my stomach with fear that they won't be ready in time.

Of course the venue is taking their sweet time calling us back too, so I have been in a panic for the last 12 hours.

We are supposed to pay the next installment TOMORROW. Our wedding is in 6 months. Invites have been sent. Im at a loss. I don't want to get married there anymore, but I also cannot stand the thought of having to essentially start planning from square one again, with only six months to pull it all together.

Has anyone else been through something like this?

EDIT: The venue finally got back to us. Shockingly, they did offer to let us out of the contract and offered a full refund of the deposit, and were very apologetic about the situation. They also offered to throw in some decor items at no cost (like hanging the drapery back up) to help the space look like how we originally expected, if we decided to stay with them.

Fiance and I are still deciding, but I am actually very impressed with their willingness to try to make things right.

I’m getting married next fall and I want to break the news to my dad sooner rather than later. Basically, my parents have been divorced since I was 5 and I rarely saw my dad even though he fought for split custody. He was never a real father figure, never nourished me in the way parents do. My mom and my brother were the ones who raised me. To sum up the history- my father was an alcoholic and did irreparable damage to my brother and mom, yet they shielded me from everything just so I could have a relationship with my dad.

I love my dad, I’ve forgiven him a long time ago. So this isn’t to punish him or hurt him. I just want the person to walk me into the next chapter of my life to be my brother. He’s my favorite person in the whole world.

I am so nervous & sick thinking about telling my dad. He’s not the type to blow up or cause a seen, I just don’t want to hurt him, but I know I have to be honest. Any advice would help.