Clara (wedding guest — bride)

And the owner was offering this 2025 wedding package deal and

That was one set price and you got everything with it.

All the vendors, two nights stay.

Exactly.

The only thing I didn't really like was that there was a tent for the reception area and I wanted something indoors.

He actually said that there was a structure coming that was like this glass ballroom, showed us pictures and it was going to be ready by like early 2024.

He also said there was construction starting on these cottages so more people could stay on the property.

So we booked it for May 17th, 2025.

We paid the deposit, which was $10,000 and didn't have to start paying all the payments until later on.

But he convinced us to put more money down because then he'd take off more of the total.

And then he offered some upgrades and we ended up putting down $30,000.

And then we still had more to pay, but weren't going to pay until the end of the year.

He just kept having all these little promotions where he was offering all this crazy stuff and just wanted a bunch of money up front.

Oh, boy.

It started getting a little weird.

Like, he was offering fireworks.

He even said you could get a bouncy house.

He just started getting really bad at communicating with me.

He was taking forever to respond.

I was like, okay, so what's up with the construction?