Unresponsive Until Last Minute
My experience with Wedecor for my October 2022 wedding was quite fraught - though, in the end, they delivered decor for the event. We were initially connected with Wedecor via our venue coordinator, as Wedcor was the affiliated decorator in 2021 when we began planning. My first email from Wedecor in Oct 2021 said something like 'we're dealing with 2021 weddings right now, email us in 2022'. This was already not starting off on the right foot. So, then, I reached out to Wedecor in the third week of January 2022 and was promptly responded to. Things sounded fine so we locked down a contract for month-of coordination and decor. If we went with another vendor, we would be charged an additional $500 so we felt it was a no-brainer to use Wedecor. However, things went south from there. We'd heard, at the venue's wedding showcase in March 2022, that Wedecor was no longer the affiliated decor provider for the NAC (our venue) as of January 2022 which Wedecor failed to mention when we were contracting with them in January. But we'd put a fairly significant deposit with Wedecor so we couldn't back out without a sizeable sunk cost. Then, as we tried to leverage Wedecor to design our invitations (which was included in our package), they essentially recreated a design from the 4-5 samples I provided to them which was 1) not original and 2) likely plagiarism. We decided to do invitations on our own, instead, because the price was more reasonable this way and we realized we weren't going to get a truly custom design, anyways.
Then, into late summer, I'd asked Wedecor what work we could pull ahead and do early because my now-husband and I both have very busy jobs in autumn. They were essentially unresponsive until I was asked to prepare my wedding day timeline for the venue - which was something Wedecor should have done - but they were not proactive in any reach-outs so I ended up doing it myself and then asking to remove the month-of coordination from my package because my husband and I were better off taking care of it ourselves.
Throughout the fall, I kept sharing updates to Wedecor with the names of our guests, meal choices, and seats so they could print the name cards, menus, and seating chart, and there was never a reply from them (Sept 24, and three times in October). Finally I sent them an email 8 days before my wedding demanding a response because I was starting to get nervous that they were not going to deliver for my wedding. This email got no response. Then my husband emails them 6 days before our wedding which they finally responded to and tried to assure us that everything was fine. Mind you, at this point, we had no assurance that flowers, stationery, chairs, etc. were going to be there for our wedding day. We finally heard from Wedecor on the Monday before our wedding (5 days) with apology from one individual (Maryke was excellent to us) and they assured us they would get to work on our wedding. This obviously wasn't what we wanted when we asked in the summer to pull as much work forward as we're busy people but we prioritized the reviews of the place cards and menus to ensure they could get printed as soon as possible. And good thing we did review because, the first iteration of the placecards was done based off of my Sept 24th seating chart and not the three subsequent versions I'd shared with them). In this back-and-forth, they attached someone else's wedding spreadsheet in trying to defensively state that they were, in fact, using the right spreadsheet to make the place cards. Thankfully, all turned out okay and we had the decor that we wanted for our day (aside from some of the flowers being quite dead-looking already and a backdrop arch that was falling apart.