A few days ago, because of the wedding agency problem, I had a very unpleasant experience with a wedding company that handled the wedding of a garden villa, thus reminding everyone to be careful of all kinds of disguised fraud tricks of the wedding company:
Trick 1: When the wedding company provides a wedding reservation (for example,14,800 yuan includes a number of services and a banquet package for 8 tables), it is necessary to know the menu and price provided by the wedding company and try to understand the actual banquet menu of the venue.
Because my personal experience tells me that many wedding companies will charge you a banquet fee of 1080 yuan/table based on the menu of 680 yuan/table in this venue. Of course, if you happen to need eight seats or are satisfied with the menu, this way of cheating money will not obviously cause you losses, because this is the "package price". But once you want to increase the number of banquet tables, you will be cheated by 400 yuan for every additional table. The more desks there are, the more money will be cheated.
Trick 2: My wedding company told me that drinks and drinks can be consumed in unlimited quantities as long as you pay an extra 18 yuan per person. When I asked them if they could come forward to negotiate the preferential price, they flatly refused, saying that they could not be cheaper. However, after understanding, drinks do not bargain as long as 12 yuan/person, and can be lower after bargaining.
Trick 3: When I asked to upgrade the villa suite (two rooms and two halls) given by the original suite to a villa (two rooms and two halls), the wedding company insisted on paying an extra 1 000 yuan, but the retail price of the venue was only 530 yuan, and I was cut again. I suggest that when booking and getting married, you must know what style and price your wedding room is. If you want to upgrade, you should also understand the difference in preferential prices of wedding rooms at all levels.
Trick 4: The venue I want to book was booked by someone else after I signed the contract and paid the money. I asked to cancel the contract and refund the deposit, saying that as long as the money I paid was returned to me, I could not be held accountable for breach of contract. The general manager of the other party has been slow to show up and has been using delaying tactics in an attempt to make me default on payment time. When this scheme was discovered by me, I tried my best to defend the ambiguous words in the original agreement in the contract (for example, both parties knew that the venue I booked could only use one restaurant, and no other restaurant could sit so many tables, so the contract only stated the address of the venue, not the specific restaurant. However, in the event of a dispute, the other party insists that in order not to refund the fee, more than 20 tables can be placed in the lobby downstairs, which is not clearly stated in the contract. So I suggest you carefully observe all the contents when signing an agreement with the other party. If you can explain it in detail, don't be embarrassed to explain it in detail, and then sign it when you feel that there is no problem at all. Because when both sides are unhappy, this is the only weapon that can protect your interests.
Trick 5: Take advantage of your ignorance (two married people are basically amateurs and can't have many similar experiences) and charge a high fee when you propose to increase the outside service. This is hard to prevent. I suggest you choose more wedding companies and know more about each other's expenses when adding this service. After careful comparison, you will find the mystery. When I asked for candlelight ceremony service in other wedding companies, I got 20 rattan baskets, candlesticks, candle cups, spotlights, igniters and a * * 500 yuan1. When I asked colorful etiquette service company to provide candlelight ceremony service, 20 ordinary flower candlesticks+spotlights+igniters cost * * * 1600 yuan, which is not only expensive, but also a service worth 300 yuan. It is impossible for me to know so much. Therefore, I advise you to consult your friends who have held ceremonies around you. Every detail is clear, so it is unlikely that you will suffer from running more wedding companies.
Marriage is the most important thing in one's life. If you have experienced an unhappy wedding, or lost a lot of money that could have been used for your honeymoon or mortgage payment, it will cast a shadow over your good memories. Therefore, while advising everyone to be cautious, I also hope that those wedding companies will not be too black-hearted and do not base their happiness on the suffering of others. In addition, don't believe what some people say: wedding companies have limited profits. In fact, the actual profit of a "dirty" wedding company is 100%, and even a less dirty wedding company has an actual profit of at least 50%. Take my expenses as an example. According to the "normal" price of Colorful Company, The package fee is 14800 (including 8 tables 1080 yuan banquet)+meal fee plus 12960 (the actual menu only allows 8 160)+ beverage fee of 3600 (actually 2400)+ candlelight ceremony1. ), before and after the total 16476 yuan, excluding tax. Therefore, I think this wedding company is definitely a black shop. I hope that when you are preparing for your wedding, you will be lucky to meet a wedding company with excellent quality. Of course, I also advise you not to look for such a black shop again.