Suppliers Review

I can tell that Peycie 's baptismal was a success!  Not to mention, baby was really cooperative during the baptismal rites and in the reception. ☺  Since I shared with you my suppliers for her baptism, let me do a recap and review.


Church: Our Lady of Fatima Parish
We were the first to reserve the date for baptism and we already expected that our baby will not be christened alone since it's Sunday. Reserving the date was easy, we paid P200 for the baptismal rites, P20 for each pair of godparents and P280 (P20 each) for the candles and missalettes.

On the day of christening, I was saddened that the baptismal rites/ceremony was not solemn.  It was like the priest just pour water on her head and that's it!  As they say "masabi lang na nabinyagan".  Oh well, maybe because there were 14 children to baptize.  Added to that, people were just chitchatting and just waiting for the ceremony to finish and have their photos taken. I was also disappointed because after the rites, the priest disappeared like a bubble. 

Venue: St. Joseph House of Serenity
We had miscommunication with the one in charge here.  They told us that they have 100 chairs that we can use and advise us to inform our caterer so they will only bring 20 pcs as we invited 120 guests.  Early morning of the baptism, Edward visited the site and found out that they don't have tables!  Imagine the rush and hassle!  Their "referral" for the tables saved the day! (Is it part of the business?)  Anyway, apart from that, everything turned out well.  They even gave us discount. ☺

Caterer:  GJ's Catering
This is the least I expect to disappoint me.  They arrived 2 hours late in the venue.  They commit to be in the venue by 6:30 a.m. but they arrived at 8:30a.m.  But then, they were able to decorate the place on time.

With regards to the food, they never fail.  Yes!  Still delicious!  But what made me mad, is there's no Roasted Chicken which is supposed to be included in the Menu!  What else? Oh the cake!  I sent Ms. Medz the design of the cake I want for our baby and unfortunately, it didn't look the way it is supposed to be.  (Not to mention, in our wedding, they say that the 3-tier cake are all edible but only to find out that only the base of the cake is edible.  I didn't even bother to complain, because I was on cloud nine that time).

I contacted Ms. Medz through call and text yet no response.  I found out in her fb that she had her vacation when I was calling.  Ok, given. So now that she's back to work, I sent her a message, informing her about the roasted chicken, still no response. I demand for a refund because the menu is written in the contract, we even still have refund for the chairs and tables (because they used the one provided by St. Joseph).  She sent her apologies through Facebook maybe a week after the baptism and told that it was her mistake.  She gave me options of adding the roasted chicken on our next event or she'll provide food which costs the same if ever we will be having another event.  Since I'm disappointed, I just demand for refund (because we will no longer avail their service) but she didn't reply.

Photographer: King Ignacio
He was really really great! We'll get him again for Peycie's first birthday! Kudos to you King!

Souvenirs:  Cherub Clay Accessories and iPrints
Transaction with them was very smooth. .  Cherub Clay even gave design options and update me all the time.  :)  

 

 Meanwhile, iPrints delivered my orders in 3 days (not including holidays) contrary to their committed production time of 7 working days. ☺

 

 

Here are some of the photos of our Peycie's baptism