Wedding Blog

Our latest Beehive featured a question about bouquet jeweled initials, so I thought I would share my experience purchasing mine.I decided that I wanted one letter each for my MOH, BM and Mr. Petunia’s female honor attendant, plus two letters for myself: one for my first name initial and one for my new last name initial.

I purchased them from Bouquet Jewels after coming across this vendor in a Knottie bio. I can’t remember now if there was a review or if the review was good/bad, but my own experience would earn them a C.

Each letter costs $12.95. When I made my purchase, they had a special promotion that netted me $12.99 toward my total bill. The shipping charge was $10. My first issue was that the letters took about 18 days or so to arrive, which in this day and age I find a bit much too long…

I noted right away that the box in which they came packaged was not particularly large…in fact, it seemed not large enough at all (length-wise). I was more surprised when I opened the box and saw these:

It seems like a lot of warning for something that didn’t seem very well packed in the first place, but okay.

Above are two letters, in fine shape.

 
(Please excuse the dusty black table)

And here is the condition of the “E”jewel: broken. Also note that the wire posts themselves are not entirely straight — on any of them.

Okay, so my invoice says that one must call them within 24 hours of receipt to report damage and obtain authorization.

I report the damage and their response is this: “wow, they really need to be manhandled for them to break that way.” Argh!

First of all, I’m not crazy in love with letters period (though I guess they look fine in pictures). Then I’m told, basically, that I broke it, when the box is tiny, the bubble wrap minimal and the letters look dubiously soldered to their posts. (I speak for the ones I received and the way in which I received them).

I more or less communicated my feelings. I did receive a replacement, within about one week, so I can’t complain about that per se. But I’m just not sure these were my best spent $62…