I have a niece! Ainsley Eloise was born this afternoon, she’s in the NICU and my SIL is still recovering from the c-section. Eloise was my grandmother’s name
My brother said she even gave a little cry after she came out. Obviously it will be touch and go to make sure she continues to grow and develop, but for now things seem positive.
The extortion has begun. Photographer now says we have to pay an extra $600 if we want them to shoot everything they said they’d shoot, venue has increased the price on us by $1,000 and flat out lied to us before. I’m going to lose my shit on the venue if they don’t fix it by Monday. Contractually they have us, but I will blast them on every goddamn review site on the fucking Internet if they fuck us like this. I’ll find fucking blogs that get 1,000 views a year and fucking take out ads I don’t care.
I should just tell these people to call the old landlord who I took to court and ask their lawyer if commonWealth is the right guy to try to pull one over on.
The contract is like “we can demand more money from you at any time”? I’d expect a contract to generally be in favor of the party who isn’t demanding a bunch of new things.
We have a 5% discount but there’s a 100 guest minimum. They told us verbally and in an e-mail that kids count towards the 100 guest, and that if we come short of the 100 guest it’s ok and we can just spend the difference on upgrades like food stations at the end of the night or upgraded linens/silverware. Now they’re saying only adults count and none of that other spend offsets, so we owe an extra 5% per guest.
They claimed the contract says that, and I don’t know why I assumed they weren’t lying about that too since they lied to us before but… Just read it, they’re lying about the contract too.
Basically if they fight us on this I’m going to point out that my best man is a journalist, my groomsman is a journalist AND lawyer, and they’re one of the biggest wedding venue companies in the region and it sure would be a shame if we took this story to all the newspapers and tv stations to see if they thought it was interesting to know that this company is lying to young and in love couples and then trying to screw them out of a thousand dollars in the last days before their wedding.
The math is pretty straight forward on that proposition, and they should just give in and honor their word. So we’ll see. Gonna play nice at first, but if they want to play hardball, it either ends with them honoring their word or me trying my best to ruin their reputation in the media.