L'Ambiance

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Decorators : Stage Decor
Vienna, VA
Moderate $$
3/5

Services

Decorators:

Stage Decor

 

Pricing:

$$ Moderate

Willing To Travel To The Destination:

No

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(Overall 3 Out of 5)
14 Jul, 2024

I am utterly appalled by the deplorable conduct of Priti Verma, L'Ambiance Wedding at the recent Clark/Flagg wedding. This so-called decorator not only failed to meet basic professional standards but also managed to turn what should have been a joyous occasion into a nightmare of stress and disappointment.

Priti Verma, L'Ambiance's behavior was nothing short of a disaster. They had the audacity to threaten to quit two weeks before the wedding, leaving the couple in a state of panic. Not only did they fail to complete the decorations on time, causing a significant delay in the start of the event, but they also stirred up drama among all the other vendors involved. Their inability to collaborate effectively with the hotel staff and wedding planning team resulted in unnecessary tension that cast a dark cloud over the entire week leading up to the wedding.

As if their unprofessional conduct wasn't enough, the decorations provided by Priti Verma, L'Ambiance Weddings were shockingly substandard and bore no resemblance to what was agreed upon in the contract. To add insult to injury, they shamelessly tried to nickel and dime the clients, opting for cheap and low-quality materials that fell far short of expectations. It is clear that Priti Verma, L'Ambiance Wedding prioritized cutting costs over delivering a service that met even the most basic standards of quality and professionalism.

I strongly caution anyone considering Priti Verma, L'Ambiance Wedding to think twice before entrusting them with such an important event. Their lack of integrity, professionalism, and respect for their clients' wishes make them a liability rather than an asset when it comes to creating a memorable and special wedding day. Save yourself the stress and disappointment by looking elsewhere for a decorator who values their clients and takes pride in their work.

12 Aug, 2021

We found out about L’ambiance and Priti through our wedding planner while preparing for our wedding Dec 2020. Covid ultimately shut down our event. As a result, we had to eat a portion of the cost of flowers for the event as well as needing to contract to use them for when we rescheduled. This was fine and we ate that cost. When we were able to finally manage to get all vendors to agree on a new date, we found out that l’ambiance increased fees as now the wedding would take place in the summer. Keep that in mind when planning.

Priti was busy and unable to meet with me in person to actually start planning until maybe 10 weeks before the rescheduled and larger wedding. We went back and fourth many times on ideas and ultimately finalized our contract merely two weeks before the wedding. At this point, even if I didn’t like the pricing, there was no time for me to even shop around for anyone else. There were many little mistakes/fees added such as any supplies they had prepared to use for the canceled dec wedding and the prices of things were not consistent between contracts. (My advice is to print each proposal bc you cannot refer to the previous to see what she was charging, so if one price was negotiated down, something else was “mistakingly” increased to recoup costs) Also the week before the wedding she realized her system had made a mistake on the contract and needed us to re-adjust yet again. Just extremely stressful and didn’t really foster trust from my perspective.

Ultimately, the finished product was fine. There were things that she claimed to take “artistic” liberties on but that mostly looked like they ran out of flowers plus she never ran those “liberties” past me. For someone spending 30k + divided between two events, she never connected with us after she got her money. When you are doing your budgeting, also add that you will have to provide a lot of hotel rooms for her workers even if the venue is only 1.5 hours away from her office. Also, some of her workers were found to have crashed our wedding and got drunk off our open bar and were found puking behind the event location. I’m glad they had a hotel nearby to sober up to break down the decor on Sunday morning. She will deny this.

In the end, I would advise that you carefully review your contracts and that no matter what you agree and sign for, vendors can/and will change it last minute as there is no contract police to help you on your wedding day. Also, be aware that anything custom made for your event you will pay exorbitant pricing for and you will not be able to keep it without paying an even bigger price to take it off her hands.

Long story short, end product was fine, sure, but very overpriced. Be prepared for a lot of miscommunication back and fourth and last minute contract changes as you will find many mistakes. Very stressful process

25 Jan, 2019

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