never ending story about Atira Weddings / Love Weddings

(Source: Twitter and Malay/Muslim Weddings Cozycot Forum)

Looks like the never-ending stories about Atira Weddings / Love Weddings International has surfaced again.

Blogged about this bloody wedding company here and here before and another bride-to-be blogger, Nuptial Nervosa also posted about this issue here before.

I cannot stress enough how important research is when it comes to something as momentous as planning a wedding. We're lucky to have internet search engines and social media platforms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, online forums and blogs in our era - search them, read them, utilize them - not all are reliable, but with overwhelming reviews, the right assessment and good old common sense, in shaa Allah you'll be able to steer clear of such unscrupulous wedding companies who are out to cheat your hard-earned savings.

impian yang musnah (jiwang pe title)

Those who regularly read Cozycot Forum (Thread: Malay/Muslim Weddings) would have seen these postings on the forum last month:

 (Source: Cozycot Forum)

This struck a chord with me because a few weeks before the above postings were posted on Cozycot forum, one of my friends and his tunang told me about their negative experience with Anggerik Impian. I won't go into details since it's not my story to tell but essentially it involved pretty much the same bullshit: empty promises, unanswered calls and messages, bad attitude and lousy service, siap dengan threats being thrown at each other via Facebook. My friend told me that a few days after the showdown happened, he received private messages from two other couples who said that they had problems with the same wedding vendor as well.

I thought of posting about this on my blog - even had a draft ready! - but decided to withhold it first.

Until I received this email this morning:

SO TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!

My fellow comrades... you have been warned.

[Updated as at 24 October 2012 here.]