Therese Dozier Dba My Sorted Affair Refused to tell us what she was doing or show evidence she was doing anything at all Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Paso Robles, Nipomo, Arroyo Grande, Morro Bay, And Surrounding Areas California

I would very strongly recommend NOT using Therese Dozier (doing business as My Sorted Affair). We had the most horrible experience and I just wish I had listened to my mother and gone with anyone else, or even just done it myself.

When we contracted with her for our wedding she told us she was a wedding professional and had all of this experience, and had done all sorts of weddings. It turned out that she was actually working full time as some sort of water quality engineer and commuting almost two hours to and from work every day, had only been in business doing wedding coordination as a side business for a couple of months.

With just barely a month to go until the wedding I found out that she was doing all sorts of things that she wasn't supposed to and hadn't told us about, and that I didn't like at all (she actually said that she was planning to use HAY BALES at my museum garden wedding). Obviously I was not very happy about the prospect of spending $30K to have HAY BALES at my wedding and so asked her to go over what she was planning with us.

She told us she would meet with us to go over what she was doing, so my fiance and I showed up at the coffee shop to meet with her. She came into the meeting, didn't bring anything to show us and refused to go over what she was planning on doing then stood up in the middle of our meeting and started yelling at us and insulting us in the middle of the everyone at this coffee shop, telling us that she was an artist and not a robot, and all sorts of other very unprofessional things that made no sense at all.

We spent the next ten days trying to get her to tell us what she was planning on doing, but she just kept refusing and then just stopped answering us. With three weeks until the wedding we ended up getting a lawyer and it was a huge mess.

Then we find out that there was a clause in our contract that stated that "Due to the custom, and artisan nature of many of the design elements provided by My Sorted Affair and their vendors, TRADITIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF QUALITY ARE NEITHER GUARANTEED OR IMPLIED" (emphasis added), which meant that no matter what awful things she would have done for our wedding, we would have been stuck having to pay for it no matter how bad it was.

I am very glad that we found out what she was doing in time to stop her because no matter how much drama and money it ended up being (when all is said and done we will have paid her over $12,000) I don't think I would have ever recovered if we had paid $30K to show up and find out that she had ruined our wedding by putting HAY BALES everywhere.

And after everything she put us through before the wedding, six months after our wedding she sued us for labor that was not part of our contract and that we had never agreed to her doing (she claimed that she did 20 hours a week of labor for three months and wanted over $3300 in addition to her coordination fee) and for storage to store things she never had even told us she had (almost $800).

If for some reason you do contract with My Sorted Affair, I would strongly suggest that you read the contract VERY carefully, get a copy of anything you sign IMMEDIATELY, and consult an attorney before signing if your contract has the clause we found in our contract that "TRADITIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF QUALITY ARE NEITHER GUARANTEED OR IMPLIED."

JMS77
Bakersfield, California
U.S.A.