Bad Experience with my Wedding Stylist

Please don’t screenshot this and send it to her. I already discussed this with her but I’m posting for awareness. To anyone who booked Petal Swing for their wedding, be careful! We booked them over Il Fiore and Moki Gray because among them, she replied the fastest and she seemed to have good reviews in Wawies. Our motif was minimalist white and neutrals. I told her that I wanted an all-white styling, but she said a little color would look better. So I said white and beige is ok. If we’re using pinks, it has to be blush pink or the lightest pink na neutral pa rin. We exchanged pegs and signed the contract.

Closer to the wedding maraming naging changes and we had to pay an extra 60+k, but this isn’t their fault so okay. I tried to make tawad but she kept saying it’s peak season and flowers are expensive. Our wedding is small by the way, just 70 guests. Come wedding day, They were late in giving my bouquet and entourage bouquets and I didn’t like how they looked. Malayo sa pegs na siya mismo nagbigay. And puro PINK, despite me telling her over and over that our motif is white..

I didn’t dwell on it anymore since I was too happy that day. When we got to the reception, I was surprised (not in a good way) to see BIG vases and flower arrangements (I told her I wanted LOW and minimalist), and worst of all, puro PINK na naman. Not just pink but HOT PINK FLOWERS. It didn’t go with our motif AT ALL and for a perfectionist bride, it felt like I was at a different wedding, because I personally dislike pink. Especially screaming PINK. After our wedding, I saw the photos of our reception, and detail photos, and I hate them. It’s all pink and I really found them ugly and not fit for our personalities.

Some guests did not notice and even complimented the flowers because they were fresh. To be fair, they were fresh naman. But to people who really know me, nagtaka sila why the flowers were pink and thought the styling wasn’t “me”. I also found the welcome signage they made to be not to my taste, despite the peg I showed them, because they used tacky fonts.

I talked to her after our wedding and listed down all my disappointments. Her only excuse for the pink flowers was “naubusan kasi ng white flowers on the day of your wedding” like WOW!!! I paid for white flowers and she decided to use HOT PINK instead because there’s no more white “daw” without asking me first! It just pissed me off more but there’s really nothing I can do anymore. I also never met her because she wasn’t there to meet me on our wedding. I have a feeling our wedding wasn’t prioritized because it was a small wedding or they had another wedding that day. Whatever it is, booking her was a big mistake and if I can do it all over again, I would get a different stylist.

Edit: another thing I specifically requested was to use REAL candles because I don’t like LED candles especially yung candlestick type. She still used LED candles and when I asked her why, she said her other clients daw kasi complained about the candles being a safety hazard… again she changed them without telling me even when I told her I wanted real ones!