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I was very excited about working with Renee of Fatty Patty's. My mother and I went for a tasting and she had forgotten we were coming. It wasn't too big a deal since she always keeps some tasting cakes and icings around. They tasted amazing. I had looked at her website and knew she could create just about anything and her price was reasonable. I had brought pictures of a bunch of cakes we liked different aspects of (shape of this one, detailing of that one etc). Not too long after, we booked her. I didn't live local, so I left it to my mother and wedding coordinator to iron out the details. Overall, Renee can bake beautiful tasty cakes, but she does not do well at running a business. Dealing with her became a stressful ordeal. The end result being that there had been 1 picture I had given her just to show the ribbon edge and flowers on it, and she made THAT cake exactly. Ignoring that we had talked about a different shaped cake, and that we REALLY didn't like some of the detailing that was on that cake etc. But here it was - that EXACT cake, wrong shape, wrong detailing and all. But it tasted good and my wedding was fun so I just didn't care. If I had to do it over again, I would have saved everyone some communication stress and not gone with her.

That is the exact review I posted on Weddingwire.com since that's where I found her.  She disputed it, got it removed, and sent a NASTY email that has my mother in tears.  I found out later that she was nasty to my wedding planner on a few occasions going as far as to say "Maybe you should just go to Publix!"  If I had known that, I would have. 

If you have a picture of the EXACT cake you want - she can probably do it and it'll taste good. Dealing with her, however, left a terrible taste.

Geez, I'm sorry you had to deal with that!  By mistreating you, your mother, and planner, she's simply adding to the evidence that she has no business sense.  I agree that you were very specific and straightforward in your review, nothing that seemed unfair or slanderous.  It's unbelievable that weddingwire would pull your comments!  How else are other brides-to-be going to know what they may be getting themselves into?  

We're meeting with a baker today after work for a tasting.  I've already printed photos to take along.  Because of your post, I'll make sure that I spell out exactly what I want.

Update!

It continues to get worse. She has futhered the nasty emails to my wedding planner and is now harrassing my photographer!  I happen to have become good friends with my photographer so when she called upset, it made me livid.  

For all Florida Panahandle / Panama City brides - AVOID Renee of Fatty Patty's!!!

For all brides looking for vendors - do NOT trust the reviews on WeddingWire.com!!

MightySaphire is right.  I have been contacting them and they say they are "looking into it", but have had NO useful response to my forwarding the emails from the cake baker. I think I am going to unregister there, and avoid that site. I just wish I had realized not to trust the reviews initially! Which is why I am posting about it on weddingbee so that hopefully, other brides don't run into the same problems.

Thank you SimplyUnique! 

And I do want to be clear that I do not think that all vendors on weddingwire are bad - just weddingwire itself and Renee of Fatty Patty's. 

 Since we all know how great weddingbee is, I had an idea for a low-key personal message review idea.

http://ideas.weddingbee.com/topic/vendor-list-for-pm-reviews

Please comment with what you think!

Well, I have officially unregistered from weddingwire.  You know what
their helpful advice was when I explained the unprofessional drama that
had insued? They told me I should have been annonymous in my review.
Very helpful - thanks. Have I mentioned how much I love weddingbee lately?