do NOT recommend it. complete WRONG color, WRONG style, WRONG everything

Posted by newlywedbride on 2/7/2009

To all my future brides...do NOT go with Stanley Ito for wedding flowers. Wrong order/color and complete disappointment! Here's the story: We ordered 1 hand-tied SA (South American) red rose bouquet for myself, and 3 hand-tied SA white rose bouquets for the bridesmaids. Also SA rose boutonnieres for groomsmen, and corsages for mothers. And 19 centerpieces with SA roses. It was around $1000 order. Stanley Ito got the order all WRONG! We had made revisions with Kathleen 2 weeks before the wedding and had given her a very CLEAR & CONCISE, TYPED-out list of what we had wanted, she had signed it, made us a copy of it and put the revised list in their order folder. Day-of: We were SHOCKED and DISAPPOINTED when we received the flowers (2hrs before the wedding ceremony) The bouquets were NOT hand-tied, instead the bouquets, were in CHEAP-looking plastic bouquet holders. The best part of this were that the color of the roses were REVERSED, bridesmaid got red roses and I got white roses. The South American rose boutonnieres we had paid for (which are more expensive then regular roses) were TINY and bruised up. Last but not least, we ordered corsages for our mothers, instead they gave us leis?????? When we went to our reception in Waikiki, the centerpieces did NOT have SA roses, instead had tiny bud roses... Needless to say, there was nothing that we could do, because there was not enough time & we were not going to put our wedding ceremony in Ko'olina on hold so they could correct their mistake! To all the brides out there.... You DESERVE to have a PERFECT wedding day with NO disappointments... learn from my experience and do NOT with Stanley Ito. Till this day, I look at my wedding pictures and am so disappointed with the flowers!