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This company seems to be the perfect one stop shop for everything you need to make that special day truly memorable. Unfortunately, it will prove to be memorable for all the WRONG reasons. Mr Carl Manning and his staff (Filomena etc..) are extremely unprofessional and completely disorganized. Each meeting proved to be pointless, appointments are consistently broken and the claim to be affordable in comparison proves to be a total lie. While Carl seems charming, disagree with anything he has to say and watch his time bomb hit self destruct. It is 10 days before our wedding and NOTHING has been done. We have not seen sample centre pieces or bouquets, wedding decor or anything. The price keeps changing, even though the contract states something different. Being such an important day, and the flowers are so integral, we decided that seeing as nothing has been done to date, it was time to make alternative plans. Filomena wanted to change the cost of our centrepeices and our beautiful Hydrangas to CARNATIONS?!?! When we obviously would not agree she claimed that she would not lose her shirt over our business and encouraged us to cancel our flowers... which is exactly what we did. No calls were returned for over a week (keep in mind this is within a 3 week window of our wedding) and all the excuses were exhausted. We needed to cancel, confirm our other arrangements, but now Carl says we wont get our deposit back? Is he serious? It was them that encouraged us to cancel the flowers only weeks before the wedding. They probably assumed that we wouldn't be able to make alternative arrangements this quickly, and that we would just pay the additional costs and settle for the ugly flowers. BEWARE, this company is a Brides nightmare. Carl decided to return our call (inappropriately) at 9 PM only to yell at the soon to be bride, putting her in tears, and still not offering any solutions. This is one headache that everyone should avoid. I would never refer them to anyone.
I contacted duncan and he told me I had to sue Karl
anyone have anymore updates on these crooks
Even though the deposit I lost is gone forever, at least the law finally caught up to Karl.
http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1090292/nightmare-wedding-planner-jailed-for-10-days/
Hi everyone,
Looking for people who have had recent dealings with Total Wedding and Party Services in Cambridge (the new business under which Karl Usmani has been operating). Please get in touch with me, I am a reporter at The Waterloo Region Record writing a story about this. alatif@therecord.com. Thanks.
Hello everyone,
I also was unfortunate enough to hire Karlo and Filomena ... I call my wedding my beautiful disaster! they were fully responsible for the disaster part! The linnens at my wedding were disgusting, dirty, had holes were so wrinkled they did not sit flat on the tables! they did not even provide all the skirting etc. they were supposed to provide. the day before my wedding they were supposed to have hall decorated by the time i got there after my rehearsal dinner, When I got there half the setup was not done and they were no where to be found! When I called Karlo I was told to 'do it myself'! I was furious. to make it even better they were supposed to set up our ceremony the day of the wedding as it was supposed to be outside. They called the day of a couple of hours before ceremony was to start to let us know they were running late but would be there... guess what... never even showed up! my Husband and groomsmen were left to decorate the backyard an hour before our ceremony was to start! I fully intend to take them to Small Claims court however the name they gave me was Total Wedding and Event Planning however when I ran their business name with government it doesn't exist. Does anyone know Filomena's last name as I would also like her named in the lawsuit and/ there legal business name?
Thanks so much!
Filomenas last name is Angels
Sorry Filomena last name is Angeles
Karl Usmani and his wife Filomena has put my wife and I through hell since the mom we signed the contract. I am bewildered and in shock that the government still allows these people to continue to prey on the bride and grooms. They are playing the system very well, there strategy is close shop when problems arise which always happy happens, they then change their business name and location. There comes a time when enough is enough. We have to take a strong stand against this menace to society, Canadians deserve better then to be preyed upon. Karl and Filomena put us through so much emotional distress, and that is an understatement. They kept on changing their word, the price and treated us like garbage. We will only everything in our power legally to bring out the truth