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Two michigan Bride’s has filed a complaint against its caterer claiming Marriage Days wasted in one situation Bride According to one report, she felt she was “taken advantage of”.
Stacey Rackham says her caterer, David Parker, who runs James Parker, or JP, Hospitality, signed a contract agreeing to provide catered meals from a private chef, help with setup and coordination, and provide a bar team.
Rackham paid Parker in full for his services before their wedding in Detroit on August 31. Yet, on the day of the incident, the bride, Parker, was the one officiating the wedding. told WXYZ.
New bride claims she didn’t get the late night meal she paid for and was given wrong food wedding cakeWhich ruined his special day.
“I think he was taken advantage of…and that’s not how we treat people,” Rackham said.
Rackham filed an official complaint with the Michigan Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division just days after their wedding on September 2. In the complaint, she cited staff shortages and food not being prepared as stipulated in the contract, which caused “significant disruption to my program and financial loss.”
“These are people I haven’t seen in a long time and I’m so happy to see them, so it really pulled us back into the moment where I was like, this is what I have to focus on,” Rackham tearfully told the outlet. Later he requested a partial refundWhich he has not received yet.
In the email to Rackham, Parker allegedly told her there were “no significant issues” at the event, the grieving bride told the news station.
Feeling helpless, Rackham took to social media to warn other brides against using Parker’s services.
Parker then allegedly informed her that “for every day social media posts come out and appear, we will seek $10,000 in damages per day” and that he hoped “this karma will never affect you personally or your business.”
“She responded in a really dismissive and defensive way, challenging my character,” Rackham said.
Rackham isn’t the only bride who has complaints about the services she received from Parker.
Another bride, Taylor Caradona, filed a petition trial Parker was accused of breach of contract, emotional distress and more in the Sixth Circuit Court.
In his complaint, Caradona claimed that Parker “completely failed – both in substance and in basic professional decency.”
“I planned months and months for what was supposed to be one of the happiest days of our lives, and it was taken away from us,” Caradona told the news station.
In the lawsuit, Caradona said Parker failed to provide catering for 80 guests and “breached this agreement through non-performance and substandard service.”
“We were kind of shocked. I think we were even more embarrassed. Like, this is just an embarrassing thing,” he said.
The lawsuit claims that newlyweds He bought pizza with his own money to feed his hungry guests. It claims that when he confronted Parker during the program, he acknowledged the shortcomings and said he would receive a refund – which the lawsuit claims never came.
In response to the allegations, Parker told the outlet, “Over the past 15 years, I have managed over 2,000 successful events without a single customer dispute. My professionalism has been called into question in the last year alone – particularly by a small, interconnected group of individuals associated with low-budget events.”
The news station also discovered that Parker had received a termination order from the Oakland County Health Division for “operating food service without a license” at a real estate agency that he advertised as “an event space with food.”
Both brides are trying to move on, with or without their refunds.
Caradona said, “I don’t wish anything bad towards him. We’re all human, we make mistakes, but I hope he learns from it.”