Annabelle...Annahell!!! I am a former employee of the Annabelle mansion. I was one of the many wedding coordinators/sales managers. I started the job with great hope and expectation. I soon found that the beautiful shell of the mansion hide a rotten core!
The owner, Patricia Brast, is a fake, and disturbed person!!! She presented herself to me as someone who had been used an abused by almost everyone. I soon saw the light. She mis-treated all of the employees, lied to the majority of brides, and inflated prices @ her will!
Not only is Patricia a lying pill head, but also a stone cold bigot!! I worked for Patricia shortly before the presidential election. I never stated my opinion on who I was voting for, or my political position. It was assumed that because I am black that I was voting for Obama. I was verbally assalted and in the end fired, because I would not discuss or jump on her political bandwagon!!
I urge any bride who is considering having a wedding here to runrunrun!!!! It is such a shame that a beautiful place, like the mansion has such a nut job to manage it!! All I can say is don't believe the hype!! This places beauty pales in comparrison to Patricias Evil Ways!!! She tries to by your affection, only to turn around and hang it around your neck like a cinder block.
Since leaving the mansion I have spoke with many past employees, and all have similar horror stories. I feel sorry for some of the really nice people I got to know while working there. I feel really sorry for Julie, Patricia's house keeper....She holds everything that she has ever done for her up like a banner for all the world to see. Craig...a very nice and funny guy, who has the wilpower to ignore her crazy ways. And most of all I feel sorry for her family, who has to deal with such a nutty, drug addict diva.
I take great joy in knowing that the person she hated enough to can me over is now the President of the United States!!! Aaaah Cosmic Justice!!!