Electra Cruises

In regards to the above-mentioned for Electra Cruises I am [redacted] and I was the coordinator for this event This bride is trying to extort money from Electra Cruises We are now going to court and I want to point out the following as it is the truth about this event and the claims this couple is making: Bride turned down the rehearsal that we offer Tue/Wed before the wedding dayI did do a rehearsal but the bride said it was "a rushed minutes" But it was the groom who stopped me in the middle of rehearsal and said "you don't have to go into detail, we get it" The bride/wedding party does NOT even need to be setting anything up The crew and myself DID set up the following items as we always do prior to boarding (so to say they had to set everything up is ridiculous): Bring champagne and bouquets to brides' room Pin on corsages/boutonierre Offer/bring champagne to family members, groom, groomsmen already on board Reserve rows at ceremony area Wash and set out toasting glasses and cake servers Put petals around cake They forgot their sand ceremony items and I went to each boat to find some for them and provided the ceremony vessels and the sands Bubbles on ceremony chairs Set up buffet/coffee station with appropriate serving items, water in chaffers, sterns, etc Set up seat assignments in alpha order on the board that bride brought After ceremony: (and these were the items Jovan moved into the bride's room after I had put them in a place that we would have immediate access to to set up the dining room I had to go look for them.) set up tables with bride's overlays, party favors, center pieces (Jovan was there setting up, why? I do not know We do it) After charter: myself and staff, as always, start to take the bride's linens off the tables and bag them for her, remove center pieces (unless guests were allowed to take them), take any left over party favors off tables and box/bag them for the couple, load onto a cart outside the boat to make it easy for them(again, bride and some other guests were upstairs doing it with us, why? I do not know we were already doing it) We departed at 340p because their florist was still not done Had she hired enough of HER own people for the FLORAL swe would have boarded on time I nicely gave them warnings: "we are boarding in min" and again "we are boarding in min", and again "we are boarding now ladies" The capteven motioned to me that we needed to board and I pointed to the florist to let him know that was the reason we weren't boarding When I went to ask captto board he asked "outside florist"? Because it's usually a problemFlorist got nervous and that's when she started blaming us for not "helping" [redacted] mentioned on Yelp that she did events and even she knows how many staff members to hire Tell your florist that not us I've done events We put wedding party to work? NO! I asked the florist about the name tents because there were double names and some nick names florist/friend said "ask the brides' maids, they are sisters and they will know family names", so I did We have no way of knowing who "***" is, or that it is their aunt, etc I also told the sisters to just put in a pile with the table numbers and I WILL PUT ON THE TABLES They said "no we'll just do it" Grand entrance yes there are photos The flower petals are being dropped on them as they are making their entrance This is the only time I drop petals on the couple Since the florist insisted on setting items up in dining area (which we were already doing) I had asked her what I could help her with and she just gave me a couple of little vases to put up by the bar That was itI put the items specifically for the dining tables in the dining room area so I would have immediate access to them to set them up which WE always do (overlays, table numbers, table number stands, doilies)The florist took it upon herself and moved these bags that I needed to the brides' room She should not have done that and said "I'm taking them because I need to organize them" I told her that "needs to be done prior to getting on the boat" I'm the one that went thru the two bags and consolidated everything Florists, guests, wedding party do NOT need to be on this deck while we are setting up In fact the DJ announced that everyone make their way to the first deckFlorist insisted on setting items up Guests are at tables around cake on Athena, and yes it was announced several times We can't force people to get up if they want to stay seated However, every guest was on that deck watching the cake cutting We get everything done and leave on time unless there are outside vendor issues or guests arrive late, etc Thank you [redacted] Electra Cruises