Toledo Ohio Wedding Review

Real brides review wedding vendors in Toledo Ohio and surrounding area

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Great Lakes Vintage Limousine
1021 Sandusky St Ste B
Perrysburg OH 43551

800-320-0668
www.greatlakesvintagelimo.com


We rented the white rolls royce. It was awesome, red carpet roll out and champagne included. Its only a 2 seater but everyone thought it was awesome. They were reasonably priced, on time and super nice. GL

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We used Great Lakes as well, and we were very happy with their service. The Rolls Royce is extremely nice. We received a lot of compliments on it, and it was a lot of fun to go down 475 in the Rolls. We definitely got plenty of attention!! I would highly recommend them!!

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Friday, May 16, 2008

DO NOT GO TO DAVID'S BRIDAL in TOLEDO

Don't even think of going here. I made an appointment for my bridal gown. The woman brought me several off the rack to try. My appointment was at 3pm. It was after 4pm before I ever had the first gown on my body. She walked around the store and cleaned out the dressing room for a half an hour before even asking me what I'd like to try. When I wanted to try more gowns on, I asked if I could go choose more styles from my size on the rack. She told me that I couldn't and handed me their catalogue and told me to pick from there. I couldn't believe that I was standing in a store full of wedding gowns that she refused to let me look at. I really should have left at that point but I persisted. So I actually found a beautiful gown for me. I then chose jewelry, veil, tiara and all the details. It took almost 4 hours and I only tried on 4 gowns. It was truly an unbelieveably bad customer service experience. Now, I absolutely realized that this is a large chain operation. But it's the bridal business for gosh sake...don't they know who their customer base is for sure? Anyway, I found a wonderful LOCAL bridal salon, Gallippo's on Summit Street that gave me the most wonderful and personalized service. I had an appointment the day after the one at David's so I didn't make a decision about the David's gown until I went to Gallippo's. After such a GREAT experience at Gallippo's, there was NO way I was buying at David's Bridal. I bought a beautiful designer gown at Gallippo's for not that much more than what David's was going to charge me. Unfortunately, I had to use David's for my bridesmaids gowns because my girls were scattered throughout the east coast and midwest. Again, I went with my bridesmaids while they tried on gowns and we chose my colors and gowns. I will say that the woman who assisted us was GREAT in Toledo (I think her name is Janisha). The problem came in with the delivery and shipping. When we made the order we paid for shipping so that the bridesmaids gowns could be shipped to one of the bridesmaids who happened to live somewhere where there was not a David's Bridal Store. We were told that the gowns first come to the Toledo store and then have to be shipped to the customer from there. No problem. We gave them all the information. So then weeks later I get a call that the gowns are in and to come get them. Having remembered the nightmare of trying on my wedding gowns, I prepared myself for rudeness and incompetence. I was not disappointed. They had NO record of paying for shipping and no names or addresses. They insisted that we had not paid for shipping because they had no record of it. I called my bridesmaids and had them check their receipts. Sure enough the receipts had the shipping charges and shipping addresses. I called the store again and explained that I had the receipts. They argued with me again. Finally, someone admitted that they had a new shipping person who might be making a mistake and they would look into it. On day 3 of attempting to straighten this out, they called and again had no information. I went through the whole story again and then they said they would ship them for me to resolve the matter. I reminded them that we PAID for the shipping so they weren't doing me any favor. So finally the gowns were shipped. Bottom line, DO NOT GO TO DAVID'S BRIDAL in TOLEDO! Buy local! Just as a side note, my mother and other bridesmaids used the David's Bridal in Wilkes Barre to get their gowns and they had a good experience at least with trying them on and ordering.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Decorative Sound - DJ
211 Colony Rd Rossford, OH 43460 (419) 666-2028

Horrible company. We called to ask questions about reserving them for our wedding since the four emails we wrote over a months span went unanswered and we had to book a DJ. Mike answered the phone with "WHAT" and my fiance said hello? and he goes what do you want. My fiance went ahead and asked him questions and he answered everything with " we are the best in toledo, everyone reccomends us". when my fiance asked what his rates were and he replys with "well do you want the cheapest or the best?" My fiance couldn't take it anymore and said he had to go and refused to even pay him a cent to be at our wedding.

My photographer had reccommended us to him and we tol dher of our experience, she saw him bowling the next week and asked what had happened, he said he was mad a another DJ and thought it was him calling on a private line. Fine but why no apology she asked. He replied " why apologize I am the best and I am going to book that date anyways I don't need them". If you want a man who truly acts like an arrogant jerk go fo r this company. It is horrible business practice to not even aplogize after you mess up!