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Complaint Review: Santiago Mansion - Orange California
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FrustratedBride -
Orange , California, USA
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Santiago Mansion
8015 E santiago Canyon Rd. Orange, California, USA
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Santiago Mansion Santiago Canyon EstateCrown Rose Wedding Venue Nonprofit Venue Never host your wedding Terrible OC Venue Orange California
I am not one to write bad reviews so this is a first for me on this site. I heard about Santiago Mansion from a friend who has worked with their planner named Mona. When I saw the pictures, I knew this was an exclusive location and wanted to have my wedding here. In result, for over 2 months, we visited the venue, exchanged contracts back and forth and decided to sign and let go of our backup venue for this. I had told all our family about this venue to. Now the details about what happened: Mona doesnt respond and even her friends say you have to give her a couple days.
Im sorry but as a bride, I am going to expect that the property manager (Mona) does her job in a timely manner. When she would say "I'll have the contract for you in the next 24 hours, she wouldnt have it ready until you text or call her 10 times. This was the first sign but the venue is just so pretty! When it was time to sign, her numbers were all off, she was making promises that she wouldnnt write down like "the deposit is fully refundable" and spelt our names wrong throughout the whole process. She is a terrible saleswoman ...when you ask her a question, she ignores it and only talks about how it makes her feel. She wears her emotions on her sleeves and that is not how you do business.
When the time came to sign the contract, she dropped the face of the earth. A week goes by and I hear nothing. Then someone from the property office calls me and says the owner did not accept my wedding because he wants to do more nonprofit events. If you are a nonprofit, DO NOT CONSIDER THIS PLACE. Ive read terrible reviews for nonprofit events and if their contacts are terrible at communication, can you imagine how this could look to your donors? I even said I would donate some money to a nonprofit and the owner didnt even respond to me. He is totally MIA and that makes this place even more unreliable.
Mona then started telling me the CFO wasnt the best and the owner is fine. Mind you, I had NEVER heard of the CFO till they dropped us. Mona called me frantically asking me if I gave her any bad reviews and totally blamed the owner for not informing her. She said..."you followed all the requirements by the book, you were the easiest bride to work with I dont know why he rejected your wedding".... asked me to write a complaining email to him so she can send it over to him to get me free vegas suites. SOOOOO unprofessional!
PLEASE DO NOT GO THROUGH THIS. I wasted 2 months, thought I had a venue then had a frantically search for one because we didnt want them to get taken for our wedding date. This is a brides WORSE nightmare. I almost wonder if it was racism but would have loved to hear from the owner.
