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Review added by Sadly Mistaken (07-12-2011) |
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We worked with Priti from Samaya Events in Schaumburg. In the beginning, we thought that she was approachable, willing to work with us, and organized.
However, as our wedding planning continued, we noted that she became more and more disorganized, to the point that we started ignoring her "budget" and "to do" emails because we were more up-to-date than she was.
When we would send her detailed emails regarding various topics, most often than not, we would get responses that were literally no more than one or two phrases. And most of the time, those responses did not even address our initial email details.
It got to the point that we were correcting Priti's mistakes regarding our other vendors (sometimes more than once with the same issue). We felt like she was not reliable in the end, and took on the job of verifying everything with each vendor ourselves. We were hoping that our planning experience was because we are both very detail oriented, and that perhaps we were expecting too much. Even with our above experience, we decided to give her the benefit of the doubt. We were hoping that on the actual day, Priti would come through and perform her job adequately.
Unfortunately, on the actual day, Samaya Events' organization was so poor that we ended up having to rely on our wedding party to move things along.
First, we paid for multiple wedding planners to be at our event: one for the groom, one for the bride, and one to oversee the whole event. However, on the actual day, *none* of the three planners were reliably found by anyone. They did not give us contact phone numbers or information on the wedding day, so when they were not found, we had no way of reaching them. And the two planners that were supposed to be by our side were with us for a few minutes in the beginning of the day, and then simply disappeared. The third wedding planner was also seldom seen. When we noticed this, we had to ask our wedding party to organize lines, open seating for our events, move people along, and communicate with the other vendors to let them know what was going on. We understand that there are a lot of "behind the scenes" organization that needs to occur at weddings, but if you specifically hire someone to stay by your side, wouldn't you expect that to happen?
Second, we felt like rather than following a time-line that we, the bride and groom, wanted, we were simply doing things in a manner that Priti wanted. Throughout the entire process, there were specific details that we wanted to happen, to make the wedding day "our own". These were timing details about the order of events during the wedding, and the reception. We weren't so picky as to dictate minute by minute arrangements, but we had a general "flow of events" in our mind. We can't even begin to say how many times we repeated ourselves to Priti about these issues. But in the end, the order was in accordan
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Review added by Rebecca Johnson (02-18-2008) |
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Samaya Events planned my wedding and they were fantastic to work with. They made sure all the details of my wedding were perfect. I highly recommend them.
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