Leaving a Review for a Bad Wedding Planner

Wait! Before you post that negative vendor review, yous should read this mail service. © past madprime, used under Creative Eatables license.

My husband and I had a very cute, quaint state wedding ceremony with our closest family unit and friends. Almost everything nigh our day was perfect. Everything, that is, except for 1 of the vendors nosotros were working with. While I won't become into specifics hither, I will just say that nosotros were left disappointed and upset past the way we were treated by said vendor.

While I had been generally frustrated by some of the deportment of the vendor throughout the day-of, nosotros found out virtually many of the problems through family and friends post-wedding ceremony day. We were quite irritated, but the fact was that since we know about these problems and didn't bring them up the mean solar day of the wedding, there wasn't much we could do.

…Or was there?

A few weeks after the wedding, I began writing reviews on Wedding Wire (which has about a m sister sites that it shares its posts with past the style — It's like the 10-headed industrial wedding complex monster). Some vendor reviews were great — like our DJs who were rock stars — and some reviews were less great — like for the baker that never came through, leaving a friend to bake our cakes the day before the wedding. The most negative was reserved for the vendor that was, in our opinion, the absolute worst. I'll acknowledge when I wrote this review, I was running high on rage, fueled by unbridled opinions of several family members and friends. It was a truly negative review, and, admittedly, somewhat uncouth. The review posted, and a few days later the vendor posted their own reply, which was equally uncouth and honestly a fleck damning and dissentious to the business that posted it.

Satisfied with the result, I forgot almost the review and went about my life. Until my parents got the certified alphabetic character in the mail. Patently, I had gotten such a ascension out of the vendor that they had decided to sue me. Yeah, it's truthful. Past law, in my state at to the lowest degree, some of the statements that I wrote were considered defamatory and therefore confronting the police force. Which meant I could be sued for a total upwards to $350,000. Basically a very squeamish house for the price of my opinion on the interwebs.

I was floored. I had heard about lawsuits for postings on the internet before, only I never thought it could happen to me. A few brusque, hateful sentences translated into a potential lawsuit that could break our new family before we even had a adventure to get started.

In the end, the matter was settled by removing the review. Which is way easier said than done! Wedding review websites are hard plenty to navigate, and to remove a postal service entirely oftentimes requires contacting them directly, which requires a shady submission grade and a lot of hope that some human somewhere will read information technology and remove your mail service.

I can't draw the relief that I feel at present that the trouble is finally behind the states. Trouble that made me realize that in our crazy world, the things you choose to say or blog virtually can really hurt you, as airheaded as they may seem. So before you go posting that crazy-mad review, follow these tips:

• Recollect long and hard.
• Exist sensible.
• Be aware of your wording — saying that they "stole" from y'all is a defamatory statement. If this is true, chances are you've already notified the authorities.
• If they broke the contract, make sure y'all have proof and are already seeking legal aid.
• Most importantly, don't air your dirty laundry on a blog.

If you lot want to warn other potential clients about a vendor, practice so with way and grace. Be careful of accusatory statements — posting that you were displeased with the services rendered is one affair; whereas posting that they stole your dress or car or grandma's walker is a serious allegation and you should really be following up with the police, not a wedding web log. If a vendor is serious near pursuing legal action, they will do and then. We were given an out — others may not requite yous that chance.

An event like this tin really sour that "new marriage" bliss. Luckily, my husband and I were able to approach the matter sensibly. We talked nigh it and made the decision to remove the mail together. He supported me through the stressful procedure of contacting the site to remove the review and waiting for the answer from the vendor's chaser. He hands could have been enraged with my foolishness in posting something so brash, just instead he was calm and supportive.

While everything worked out in the end, I realized that information technology was non worth the feet and sleepless nights. That unmarried thoughtless act caused entirely besides much drama and angst in the few days that it took to resolve the problem. Information technology made me realize that life is way too brusque to fuss over something so petty.

Guest Post By: Love and Kittehs

I am a cat loving introvert trying to brand my mark on the world in the hills of Virginia. I honey the mountains, motorcycles, art, and my amazing husband.

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Source: https://offbeatbride.com/negative-vendor-reviews/