Meadows Club Bridal Show
As a wedding vendor, I work really hard to maintain good relations with the other vendors out there. I also work to keep the blog really positive. However, there does come a time when I do need to speak out about a bad experience I had at today's Meadow Club in Rolling Meadows. After today, I am simply unable to recommend this venue. Here's what happened:
This is the second bridal show at the Meadow's Club in a little over a month that I attended. When I arrived, there was a car blocking one end of the circular driveway. As people park a little crazy when unloading for a bridal show, I didn't think much of it. I just drove around to the other side of the driveway and parked by the front door. I unloaded a couple of boxes and then the trouble began.
As I started to roll my TV into the show, Linda, the general manager at the Meadow's club came over and started yelling at me that I was supposed to use the loading dock. I mentioned that I had not seen any notifications. I was supposed to know the car blocking the driveway was there to prevent my coming in the front door. I apologized and then loaded the van back up.
Next, I couldn't located the owner of the car, so I decided to turn the van around. Well how was I supposed to know the concrete next to the black top was her sidewalk and I was not supposed to drive on it. No matter what I said to Linda, I was wrong. For the rest of the day, everytime she saw me she shot daggers at me with her eyes.
Linda's attitude towards the vendors was demeaning and condesending. Several times, she used the term, "if you had half a brain you'd have known...." While she is familiar with her venue she forgets that others may not be. If it was so important to her that people use the loading docks, then she should have put signs up on the front door.
So after all is said and done, I can no longer recommend the Meadow's club and will remove it from my recommended list. For if this is the unreasonable treatment I received at a bridal show, what treatment can my clients or fellow vendors expect at this venue. For the last thing a bride needs at her wedding is a vendor war.
This is the second bridal show at the Meadow's Club in a little over a month that I attended. When I arrived, there was a car blocking one end of the circular driveway. As people park a little crazy when unloading for a bridal show, I didn't think much of it. I just drove around to the other side of the driveway and parked by the front door. I unloaded a couple of boxes and then the trouble began.
As I started to roll my TV into the show, Linda, the general manager at the Meadow's club came over and started yelling at me that I was supposed to use the loading dock. I mentioned that I had not seen any notifications. I was supposed to know the car blocking the driveway was there to prevent my coming in the front door. I apologized and then loaded the van back up.
Next, I couldn't located the owner of the car, so I decided to turn the van around. Well how was I supposed to know the concrete next to the black top was her sidewalk and I was not supposed to drive on it. No matter what I said to Linda, I was wrong. For the rest of the day, everytime she saw me she shot daggers at me with her eyes.
Linda's attitude towards the vendors was demeaning and condesending. Several times, she used the term, "if you had half a brain you'd have known...." While she is familiar with her venue she forgets that others may not be. If it was so important to her that people use the loading docks, then she should have put signs up on the front door.
So after all is said and done, I can no longer recommend the Meadow's club and will remove it from my recommended list. For if this is the unreasonable treatment I received at a bridal show, what treatment can my clients or fellow vendors expect at this venue. For the last thing a bride needs at her wedding is a vendor war.
posted by Howard at 4:18 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah, I had the same problem with that woman. Only she messed up the wedding. She was yelling at me while I was trying to take the bride's photos. The bride was mad!
Wow... I truely am sorry. I really hope that enough bad words get out about her that she gets fired.
Wow...
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