We deeply regret the issue JillK369 experienced with our company. Upon Jill's first contact with us she should have been informed that we have a strict policy to only accept 2 events on any given weekend. We pride ourselves greatly on the quality of our work and use this as a means of quality control.
Jill should have also been informed that we already had 1 event booked for her date in March of 2012 and that we had a second pending event for which we had not received a deposit or contract, but for which we had already submitted 2 proposals. These were our mistakes and one of the owners of Always Flowers called Jill personally to apologize for her experience and help her secure another vendor.
After the incident, we had a company wide meeting in order to make sure all new clients were made aware of our policies and potential conflicts and the main Always Flowers employee in contact with Jill was written up.
Jill called us for the first time on Thursday, August 18th, 2011. We left 2 messages for her over the next 4 business days (our offices are closed on the weekends). We finally connected with her on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 and, on that date, sent her our new bride forms requesting her information. At this point, no floral selections had been made, no order had been placed, and our services were neither secured nor promised.
On Monday, August 29th, 2011, we received the executed agreement and deposit securing the same date for the event pending mentioned above. At that point (3 business days from the main date of communication and information gathering with Jill on 8/24/11) we called her to inform her we would not be able to commit to her event.
Jill was understandably disappointed that we could not service her wedding in March 2012. Again, we deeply regret Jill's experience as we truly respect and value each and every client and potential client greatly. The matter was taken very seriously internally in order to prevent another such occurrence.
We not only take great care and pride in our creativity, our quality, and our business, but in our integrity, respect, responsibility and commitment as well. Hopefully, our standards and morals will translate through in this comment.
Jill - again, you have our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience you experienced. We took the situation to heart and hope you know it was taken as seriously as possible.
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