Planning A Wedding In Ohio

Laura:
Unfortunately, my son and his wife hired Syndi Shy of Classic Events, and she completely destroyed their wedding. Syndi lied about everything. She never paid the photographer; the cake was a $700.00 horrible mess. My daughter and one of the bride`s good friends had to find a new cake an hour before the wedding. The check for the facility bounced and the minister informed us that she had not been paid as well. The security officer had not been paid. And to make matters even worse, Syndi told the photographer that my son had not paid her because the IRS was after him and he did not want his fiancé to find out; therefore she had to post date the photographer check (which later bounced). Thank god, after meeting my son, the photographer knew Syndi was lying and told use what Syndi had said about my son.

The bride`s family, my daughter, the photographer and I were serving our guest. We had to serve the champagne, help set up the bar, and clean tables after dinner. We also caught her trying to load the left over beer and wine into her car. I could go on and on about what she did not do. My son and daughter-in-law were completely devastated.

This women should go to jail for what she has done. Needless to say, my son and daughter-in-law are suing. Syndi is a pathological liar and thief.

She actually referred a bride-to-be to my daughter in law. Fortunate for the bride-to-be, she called my son and daughter-in-law after they were married, but not before she gave Syndi $5000.00. Of course Syndi will not refund her money. I hope you decide to sue; she needs to pay for what she had done to you.

I am so very sorry to hear about both of your disasters. I have lost $2500 to Syndi Shy. It was the deposit for me wedding reception. She kept saying she would get to me different options for a tent reception and then she never got back to me. I tried to get ahold of her for 4 months and then only to find out all her numbers had been disconnected. It was a hard lesson learned. We are trying to rectify the situation but she appears to be notorious for not showing up to court. Thankfully when she tried to contact me 4 months later and ask how things were coming along I would have nothing to do with her outside of trying to get my money back!

I am so sorry to hear that this has happened to more people than just me, I wanted so bad to get the word out before she could ruin anyone else`s wedding, there must be something we can do! I decided against suing, and it`s my own fault cause I asked her over and over to provide reciepts and she never did, so how could I prove I`d paid her? If any of you want my help in your lawsuits, I`ll do whatever it takes to get that terrible woman out of this business! My email is laurarich26@yahoo.com. Let me know if I can help in any way.

I actually had the pleasure of working with Syndi for a brief amount of time, I am being completely sarcastic when I say it was a pleasure. I actually work as a Banquet & Catering Director for a facility in the central ohio area. One of my brides hired Syndi to help with the decorating, floral arrangements etc. She was not to interfere with anything that I was involved with (set up, food selections). She made it a point to butt in on everything, and even called my boss and told me that I was "never in the office" and "very difficult to get a hold of and work with", she even told the bride that our prices were "outlandish". She tried on several occassions to get us to discount our meal options even more than we had, I suspect to try to gain more money for herself. She also tried to charge the bride $3000.00 for her floral arrangements. When I finally met her, she sat down and began our meeting by yelling at the bride and groom and saying that her mother was sick and in the hospital, that she typically worked for $30-$40 thousand dollar weddings and that their`s was too cheap for her to even waste her time! I was completely shocked, is this how she does business? I have planned my fair share of weddings and NEVER had an experience like this in my life. Ladies, I feel your pain, it was bad enough having her on my end...I couldn`t imagine having her actually work for me.

I have been talking to one of the brides who got screwed over by Syndi, I have her this info to do a report on Syndi, and I need to go and do it to but I keep forgetting. We all need to do this.
Http://www.ripoffreport.com/
I`m so sick of hearing her poor pitiful me stories about how her parents are sick and the only reason no one likes her is b/c we`re all racist against her. Grrrrh.

Call Kent Justice at FOX News 614-481-6836 lets get a story going on her...

-r

Same thing, but in So Cal.

Just wanted to let all the brides looking for a caterer/wedding planner. Stay clear of Syndi Shy and Classic Event Catering. She is a con artist and will rip you off. I am in the process of fighting her in court to get my 3000 back I payed her. Luckily I got wise to her before it was too late and my sons wedding was ruined. I am following up with a contempt hearing on May 17 because she failed to disclose her Financial assets as ordered by the court. I hope to prove she deserves to be put in jail. Anyone interested in writing a letter how they were mislead and not given services please drop me an E-Mail. We need to stop her before she ruins another Brides wedding Day.

I forgot my Email is LindaHach722@aol.com

I don`t know what all of your problems are. Mama and Papa Shy catered my wedding in 2001 and I was more than satisfied with the service that I recieved. My cake was exactly what I wanted and it was just perfect. You all obviously don`t have very good people skills. Treat someone right and they will treat you right!
Syndi is an awesome person and I am disapointed that you have nothing better to do than treat her like crap. Get a life.

Oh yeah, lol, we are ALL making things up just to be mean, every single one of us. I have a life but thanks anyway.

Have you look up all the complaints on Syndi Shy. It is just not about weddings. Before you judge and tell us to get a life you should be in our shoes. I am glad you had a good experience however the rest of us did not. To be honest with you this is the first good thing I have heard about Classic Event Catering. I would say to you, be thankful your wedding was great and you have those wounderful memories. Sit where we all did and it`s not so fun on our side. So to you Heather, before you know what happened don`t jusde us. We all known Syndi and to be honest you were not at any of our weddings and you do not know who we are so don`t judge us. If you need some more info on what Syndi has done why don`t who talk to the people who were taken for over 25K dollars and then say to them get a like.

Hello, I am having the same trouble with Syndi. She wont answer my emails and messed up our reception. I should of done more research. Its my fault. There were many things that she said she would do but never did. Most were in the contract. What upsets me the most is the food. She promised me if I had 150 show up I would have extra food. I only had 100 people show up. And we ran out of food. The contract said 150 people. We are thinking about taking her to small claims court. But I don`t know if it is worth it.

Well when I first hired her I tried to research and I couldn`t find a thing. At least now when you type her name into a search engine it comes up with some of this negative stuff, which was my goal all along, to keep other people from the same problems. I think it`s done a lot of good so far.

I notice the negative remarks towards Syndi Shy, I have one question for this message board. What was the final outcome of the court situation? If you are complaining about her services and have not taken action. Why complain? I am working with her on an upcoming event. We have signed the contracts and I pray our event turns out excellent. She is only the cater nothing more. I am skeptical of people who have every piece business. You have to do your own homework. And make sure things are being handled accordingly. I would like to thank everyone on this message board. I am keeping my eyes open. I will let you know the out come.

I started this board so that people like you who were considering her might read it first and be aware of the dangers.

However, since I started the board there`s been a lot more to come out of it other than just warning people. We`ve been able to come together and help others by writing letters, etc in their court cases. I was not able to take her to court because of receipt issues and because my husband and I were both in the Army and stationed so far away, but my goal was always to try and help other people before the damage was done.

I`m not really the sit around and complain kind of person, there really isn`t time for it in my life. I`m just trying to help.

We also used her as a caterer and although she did bring mountains of food, it wasn`t really what we asked for and it wasn`t good at all. Since you have a contract, then I sincerely hope things turn out better for you.

Yes, pray tell, what was the outcome? If all of you had such horrible dealings and lost such huge ammounts of money than why just slander a good woman? If there was that much money at stake for any event in my life, there would have been no question about wether or not I would take the offender to court. Quit complaining if you aren`t going to do anything about it. I believe that all of you are being petty and are over exgeratting the problem. Grow up. You cannot expect a woman who relatevly recently lost her husband and who is taking care of both of her parents to be PERFECT. I know you aren`t perfect.

Heather,
It is not about slandering her name. It is about making people aware of the issue; they had with Syndi. When people do business with people they expect things to be do in decent and in order. They paid their money and expected the event to go off without any problems. If that did not happen then they have a right to share with others. One way to stop things like this from happening is to be honest and do the service you are paid to do. I asked that you please stop taking offense as to what people are stating that happen to them.

The problem I have is when people start calling her names and making unkind remarks about her. Like I said before, she has been going through a tough time, and I have heard about some of these people who were supposedly robbed by her. If people wouldn`t add more guests or change their minds at the last minute, than there wouldn`t be a problem. At the bottom of this page is a link that connects to this page, also about Syndi. There is a message there from another supporter of Syndi and her catering. Maybe you should read that one too instead of attacking me for standing up for a hard working and caring woman!

Heather,
It is nothing personal and I am not attacking anyone. You have attacked these people who had problems with Syndi. I did read the other two who gave positive feedback. Just like any other business there is pros and cons to the business. This is the same case. So stop attacking people because they have given a con as to why not to use her business. The pro is the other two feedback.

I thought of a lot of things that I wanted to say in our defense but we are just sparring now. We are here to simply put the information out there and that`s it. Everyone has the right of freedom of speech, we`ve told what happened to us, and you told what happened to you, that`s it and that`s all just calm down.

I am sorry that things are so hard for her now, I`m not a mean or malicious person, I don`t want to ruin anyone`s life. My husband and I were hard working people who paid for our wedding out of our own pockets, we are Soldier`s in the U.S. Army for crying out loud, and she had no trouble taking us for whatever she could take us for, so before she starts seeking sympathy she should sweep under her own rug.

Anyway, like I said there is no use in virtual arguing, the info is out there, people can take it or leave it. You told us once to `get a life` yet now your stalking around our messege board complaining about every post?