Wedding By Love N Blooms
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10357 56 th st
Pinellas Park, FL
33782
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(727) 768-0275
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Flowers for Every Bride and Budget is not just a motto - it's the way we do business. Every Brides dream wedding calls for high quality designs and outstanding service. That's what we do best. Ask any of our brides.
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All our designs are created with you in mind and feature the freshest of flowers - direct from the growers for you.
Call to arrange you free consultation. Easy payment schedules available. Weddings are our only priorty! Please allow us the chance to make your wedding as beautiful as you want it to be.
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"Amazing wedding flowers"
Pamela Las Vegas, Nevada
July 14, 2009
My daughter was married October 2008 and the flowers Cynthia created were amazing! I am truly sorry to hear of her passing. She had true talent and was a pleasure to work with. I'm sorry to hear all the terrible stories from other brides, but if her health had been good, they too, would have loved her work.
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"A wonderful and talented woman"
Clearwater, Florida
March 29, 2009
I was so sad to hear that Cynthia had passed away. She did a beautiful job with our wedding and the love and time she put into it was amazing!Her style and creativity was like no other. We will forever treasure meeting Cynthia and hold dear the pictures of our wedding knowing she was a special part of our day! Her memory will last with us forever! God Bless!
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"God Bless"
JS TAMPA FL
March 28, 2009
Money can be replaced...so I suggest her estate start replacing it
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"Rest in Peace and God Bless."
Florida
March 26, 2009
Cynthia has passed away. If she had not become so ill so quickly, she would have exceeded everyones expectations, as she always did in the past. Please keep in mind that money can always be replaced, but a life cannot. I speak on her behalf when I tell you she was truly sorry for the way it all turned out. Rest in peace Cynthia, we all miss you!
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"Hold on to your Bouquets"
EvBY VA
March 26, 2009
Cynthia passed away on March 10th-
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"Time for Action"
Spencer Guzman/John Maya Tampa, FL
February 21, 2009
As many have you already have experienced the situation that many of us are in, Cynthia Youkon cannot get away with what she has done to many of us. Me and my future husband are too amongst the ones affected by Cynthia's illegal actions and now its time for affirmative action. I propose that we bind together as a community and try to get our funds back. I know that many of you are upset and words cannot describe the situation but now its the time to formulate a plan to try to get our funds back. We all have the same situation where she gave us all the same speal, "pay in full and i'll give you a 15% discount. No credit cards accepted, only cash, check or money order." As she may have thought that she was smart, I know that in our situation we made out the check to her personally. I am willing to talk to other clients of Cynthia's and formulate some type of strategy to handle this sensitive case. Please do not hesitate to contact me or my partner regarding your situation as we all need to get together as a team. I hope that something can get resolved from all this and that she pay for her illegal actions. She took our payment on December 23 2008 knowing that she was unable to fulfill her contract as some of you had weddings in December to which she did not attend. Again together we have a fighting chance! Spencer Guzman 917-593-8953 John Maya 917-593-8307
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"Get in Line"
EBY Fairfax Station VA
February 10, 2009
Same story as previous ones. She's got all the money and they've got nothing for a March 2009 wedding. Son contacted the State Attorney's office. Was told to file a police report. He filed a complaint with Pinellas County Department of Consumer Protection.
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"Morale responsibility"
Diane St Petersburg FL
February 9, 2009
I read everyone's review (a couple months too late) but I have had the same exact experience with Cynthia however I did receive a letter in the mail today from her stating she can not do my wedding and that she is sorry that she can not refund my money at this time. I paid in full for my flowers for my wedding in March. I was told by Cynthia that if I paid in full that I would get a 10% discount so of course I decided to do that. I think she knew all along that this was going to happen so that is what saddens me. I did receive a letter stating that she is very sick and is in the hospital. I am sorry that she is sick and I will pray for her. If she is not sick then I will pray for her even harder b/c she obviously needs those prayers more. Cynthina you should think about being morally responsible like you said you would be to everyone in these reviews. You should also realize that there is a contractual responsibility that you will have to fulfill. Please do not use this vendor as you will be very upset and disappointed and out a lot of money!!!
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"Turned her into Better Business Bureau"
Ames, IA
February 9, 2009
I recently recieved a letter from cynthia stating that she would not be able to fulfill her contract with me. She also said that she was unsure of when or if she would be able to refund my money. When I tried to call her about the situation I found out that all of her numbers have been disconnected. My wedding is in June and I had paid her the full amount. All brides out there do not use her services.
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"an honest wedding floral designer"
Cheral Floral Tampa, fl
January 29, 2009
I am a wedding and event floral designer in tampa bay area. Just today I had a bride's mom and dad in my studio in tears because of a very similar experience with this company. They paid love n blooms in full for a March 2009 wedding and have tried every means possible to get a hold of them, to no avail. This family cannot just come up with another $1,500.00 to replace the florals ordered. We are working with this family to give their daughter her dream wedding on a very limited budget. If you find yourself in this situation, please call or email us. We are a genuine floral design company, doing more than 70 weddings each year in the Tampa Bay area, in business for 7 years and have excellent referrals! I cannot post web, email etc, but we are Cheral Floral Studio in Tampa, FL. Wish all of you the best of luck and will do our best to help!
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"stay as far away from this buisness as you can!!!!"
caren newman new port richey florida
January 23, 2009
do not walk run.....Cynthia took a deposit from my daughter for flower's for her wedding.The deposit was taken in november,by that time her buisness was already going under.PLEASE STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM HER BUISNESS AS YOU CAN!!!! I feel she knew she was signing contract's and never going to honor them!!!!From what my daughter's venue is telling us there are many many girl's that have been ripped off.We will find cynthia youkon and have our day in court!!!!!!
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"Run away fast!"
Safety Harbor
January 23, 2009
Can not reach Cynthia Youkon. Took our money and did not perform. I'd be here all day explaining her lack of professionalism.
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"Do NOT use them!"
Clearwater, FL
January 15, 2009
We had the same experience. My best friend's wedding is this Saturday. Cynthia was fabulous until about 2 weeks ago. She just stopped returning calls. Her voicemail was full, and her emails bounced back. Then, on Monday morning, the bride's mom spoke with her, and she said everything was fine, and there were a few changes she needed to make. She asked the bride to call her that evening at a set time. Big surprise, she did not answer and did not call back. So for the last 3 days, we have been calling all her phones, sending emails, filling out her contact form online, stopping by the shop and leaving notes, everything you can think of! The bride even got a call from another bride who stopped by the shop to try and find Cynthia and found our note and called to see if we had gotten a hold of her! So, in order to avoid wedding day dilemas, we went to another florist (Grass Roots in Tarpon Springs, FL who have been fabulous). Just today (Thursday, wedding is Sat), the groom finally got a hold of her....and she argued with him!!! She claimed she still had rights to the wedding!! Can you believe that! Only when he mentioned small claims court did Cynthia finally admit that maybe she could have handled it better. Listen, I am a business owner myself, and know that things get tough some times. But when you go into the wedding industry, you do NOT have the luxury to just let things go. This is a once in a life time event, people depend on you. So suck it up and just give the brides a darn phone call!
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"Extememely Disappointed"
Rick Port Richey
January 13, 2009
Our experience was almost identical to the first review. The info below is long but I want to show the feedback and communications we had thru-out this experience. Enjoy the reading. Also, the formatting did not allow me to separate paragraphs so everything runs together This is an email I sent to the owner 4 days before our wedding (Note: She finally got back to me because I managed to track down a private number for her and caught her off guard): -------------- NOVEMBER 11 -- Thank you very much for getting back to Michelle and I on the changes we discussed earlier today. Cynthia, I want to take a quick moment to clear the air because Michelle and I are all about communicating and resolving issues within relationships (both personal and in business.) Please know that I write this without an ounce of anger and am only putting it to words because you seemed quite irritated with us on the phone today and I am a believer in clearing up tension quickly before it spreads unnecessarily. That would not be productive for anyone. I am not sure if you remember our first consult, but we chose you because we felt your personality fit nicely with ours. Since then we have thoroughly enjoyed our interactions with you and you have been very responsive. We really appreciated that. We knew that you would do a wonderful job for us and that the flowers will be beautiful. Being in the wedding business you probably know better than us that the last week for a bride is very stressful. Chock full of last minute to-do’s, follow-up’s, phone calls, fittings, logistics, etc.. Despite her persistant and diligent planning for the last 10 months, Michelle’s last week has been “stereotypically insane.” J Michelle was unsuccessful in reaching you in order to check on the viability of a small change and to make sure that everything was on track. A peace-of-mind call more than anything. She used the tools (email, biz phone, and cell phone) provided by Weddings by Love n Bloom to communicate and went two weeks without a response. I am not sure where the breakdown occurred and it really is not important. We are very laid back and simply assumed you were busy and would get to us. That brings us to this week where we even stopped by the shop at lunch today hoping to catch you and were unsuccessful in that as well. It was very much a departure from our previous experiences that doubt began to grow as to what was happening. We even began discussing what we could possibly do for a back-up plan since we are four days out and our florist was M.I.A. I truly hope you can appreciate how she was feeling. I feel that all is fine now and I am hoping you do is well. We are really looking forward to seeing your artistic side displayed in our flowers. All I have heard about for the last several months from Michelle is “Black Magic roses this and Black Magic roses that.” J I know she is very excited and I just want to be able to keep reassuring her that everything will be fine and her wedding will be wonderful. I am trying to turn her week away from the stress and towards the fun! I truly thank you for your time. We are now off to make sure David’s Bridal got her alterations correct after the 4th try. J Best Regards, Rick Glover (and Michelle too) P.S. I also want you to know that we are just as motivated to provide feedback when we get great service and I really look forward to writing a great recommendation letter while Michelle fills out all the thank-you cards. -Rick --------------------- HER RESPONSE ON NOV 11th: Hi Richard, I'm sorry if you perceived irritation, it was farthest thing from my mind. I'm only concerned about why my messages were not delivered to me and believe me, I'll get to the bottom of it. Everything is set for the wedding and all notes are made to update the order. by the way, I sent a reply right after we spoke to Michelle's email, but it came back saying she was out of the office. I can't imagine why, LOL. Anyway, I hope all is well and will be doing my part, be assured, to be sure that everything goes smoothly for your day. Best regards Cynthia ------------------------- MY FEEDBACK AFTER WE GOT BACK FROM OUR HONEYMOON: Michelle and I are working on follow-ups to all our vendors for our wedding now that everything is done and life is back to normal. Unfortunately, our letter to Flowers by Love’n Blooms conveys negative feedback regarding the flowers and service provided to us. Our Wedding was on November 15th at Seven Springs Golf Club in New Port Richey. As you recall, we had some serious concerns leading up to the wedding date when we were not able to reach you for two weeks regarding our order and some changes we needed to make. I don’t need to rehash that email other than to say that in an email response on November 11th, you assured us that everything would be fine and go smoothly on our wedding day. At 5:30 PM on November 14th (during our rehearsal), we received a phone call to advise us that the white roses were moldy. We, unfortunately, had no other option than to agree to use red roses given the late notification. This was very disappointing, but I assured Michelle that the Red Roses would be fine and would match everything else. I also assumed that when we were told Red Roses that they would be black magic’s like the rest of the bouquets. I was very wrong. As per our contract, the flowers that were to be used were specifically Black Magic Roses and Pure White roses. The Red Roses that replaced the White ones (originally for the moms, grandmothers, and Best man) were not Black Magic Roses and it is very obvious in our wedding pictures. My boutonnière (as well as the Groomsmen) were to all be Black Magic Roses and they were not. We all received regular red roses which is extremely evident in the pictures [Note: they clashed badly[. Not only did we not receive what we had contracted for but the quality of the roses used was terrible. The flowers were falling apart before the ceremony even started. My own boutonnière had petals falling off of it prior to Michelle walking down the aisle. By the time we had finished taking pictures my boutonnière had wilted away to nothing. Finally, Michelle’s bouquet, while beautiful in appearance, had flowers that were beginning to wilt. While your costs were higher than other florists, we were confident you’d be able to deliver the flowers that we wanted. After months of diligently planning for Michelle’s dream wedding, from the biggest to the smallest detail, the flowers were the only disappointment during our special day. We didn’t receive what we contracted and paid for. In addition, we now have to pay our photographer an additional $400.00 to Photoshop all of the flowers in the pictures so that you can’t see the significant differences between the Black magic roses and the regular red roses that were used. (I have attached a picture which clearly shows the different flowers used.) ----------------------- Cynthia then followed up and offered to reimburse me $35 for half the cost of the boutenieres. Not a good resolution but what could we do? Nothing. I asked her to look back at the order and get back to me on a better offer and I have not heard anything since. I have even sent her a follow up email. She has several email addresses and phone numbers and yet is hiding (in my opinion.) Not the Great Customer Service that she claims to have on her summary on this site. Finally, public records available to anyone that wants to search in Pinellas County Reveals that she is dealing with a possible home foreclosure. If I were doing it again, I would not use this vendor and I certainly would not want to refer anyone to her. I feel bad that she is going thru tough times, but she needs to be honest with her customers and fullfill her obligations.
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"Awful! Do not use this florist"
Shannon Tampa
January 10, 2009
My wedding was on January 3, 2009. We had went to meet with Cynthia and arranged everything at the end of October. My wedding day comes and we can't get a hold of her, her voicemail box was full, she wouldn't return emails. We were worried she went out of business, so my fiancee went to the shop and saw the door wide open and nobody there, he left a note for somebody to call us, my parents were on the verge of having to contact a new florist on the day of my wedding. When the flowers finally were delivered they looked dead, my bouque was falling apart and the handle wasn't even wrapped. We had been given the wrong flowers and center piece vases, the whole experience was horrible and caused unneeded stress, we still haven't heard back from her.
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"Didn't even show up"
Ivana Florida
December 31, 2008
My wedding was Dec 26th 2008 at Safety Harbor Resort and Spa. I found out about weddings by love n blooms through Safety Harbor Resort and Spa because they are the preferred vendor. Met up with Cynthia in November and wrote her a full amount for all the flowers (centerpieces and bouquets). The wedding coordinator at Safety Harbor spoke to Cynthia 2 days before the wedding and confirmed everything, but my wedding came and went and no flowers were made or delivered. Also we tried getting a hold of Cynthia on the wedding day and we called her about 50 times and not one call was returned that day. Safety Harbor Resort and Spa took her of their preferred vendor list that day and we have been trying to get our money back since. Left her messages but she hasn't called us back. I will write back to let everyone know if we got our full refund back so if she doesn't show up for your wedding at least take comfort that you might get your money back.
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