JimBeam
07-07-2007, 01:09 PM
OK so just a little background on what my fiance and I are doing.
We're having an outdoor wedding so we didn't want to have tuxedos so we decide to do a blue blazer and khaki pants thing.
So we went to J Crew and got everything arranged so that my groomsmen that are out of town could get everything for the same price that I paid. ( Actually J Crew has a wedding division that helped with this but the guy who worked in the Danbury CT outlet has gone well above and beyond what we could've expected of him as he's been updating us on when if everybody had gotten their stuff ).
In total the blazer was $149 and the pants were $59.
That's $208 bucks for the get-up ( we're providing the ties ).
We didn't think that was too much to ask seeing as you'd probably pay almost that for a tuxedo rental but at least in this scenario you get to keep the stuff.
Well some of my groomsmen are a little heavier than others and J Crew only made the blazer in a size as big as 48L.
That wasn't a problem as they told me they could have them custom made ( originally for a higher price but then they arranged for me to get those @ $149 as well ).
So my last update I was tol about what friends haven't and have gotten their stuff take care of and I followed up with them.
I was under the impression that everything was taken care of but now I get a call and an email from my contact at the store that 2 of my friends havent paid for and/or ordedered their stuff.
The custom jacet takes 6 weeks and we're 7 weeks today from the wedding.
This is very frustrating and annoying as they had both told me they squared it all away.
I think they are both claiming money issues but that's not the problem.
Being they are close friends I don't want to get into an issue but I need them to get their act together.
It would be easy for me to say I'd pay for it and make them pay me back but I don't want to do that because I didn't do that for anybody else.
I'm pissed to the point where I want to just say OK you're not in the wedding party but again they are very good friends and I don't want any lomg term damage.
It's made worse by the fact that my fiance's mom is paying for EVERYTHING and all she asked of my fiance and I is to make sure everybody was in the right outfit.
Like I need this crap at this time !!
We're having an outdoor wedding so we didn't want to have tuxedos so we decide to do a blue blazer and khaki pants thing.
So we went to J Crew and got everything arranged so that my groomsmen that are out of town could get everything for the same price that I paid. ( Actually J Crew has a wedding division that helped with this but the guy who worked in the Danbury CT outlet has gone well above and beyond what we could've expected of him as he's been updating us on when if everybody had gotten their stuff ).
In total the blazer was $149 and the pants were $59.
That's $208 bucks for the get-up ( we're providing the ties ).
We didn't think that was too much to ask seeing as you'd probably pay almost that for a tuxedo rental but at least in this scenario you get to keep the stuff.
Well some of my groomsmen are a little heavier than others and J Crew only made the blazer in a size as big as 48L.
That wasn't a problem as they told me they could have them custom made ( originally for a higher price but then they arranged for me to get those @ $149 as well ).
So my last update I was tol about what friends haven't and have gotten their stuff take care of and I followed up with them.
I was under the impression that everything was taken care of but now I get a call and an email from my contact at the store that 2 of my friends havent paid for and/or ordedered their stuff.
The custom jacet takes 6 weeks and we're 7 weeks today from the wedding.
This is very frustrating and annoying as they had both told me they squared it all away.
I think they are both claiming money issues but that's not the problem.
Being they are close friends I don't want to get into an issue but I need them to get their act together.
It would be easy for me to say I'd pay for it and make them pay me back but I don't want to do that because I didn't do that for anybody else.
I'm pissed to the point where I want to just say OK you're not in the wedding party but again they are very good friends and I don't want any lomg term damage.
It's made worse by the fact that my fiance's mom is paying for EVERYTHING and all she asked of my fiance and I is to make sure everybody was in the right outfit.
Like I need this crap at this time !!