Original Review from 2012 (update at bottom): This Thanksgiving, I all of a sudden decided I wanted to host a giant dinner for my friends. That said, my friends often have other plans and I was absolutely astounded when all 18 people actually RSVP'd yes.
After my initial panic attack on wondering how all those people were going to fit in my tiny apartment, I started counting my dishes and realized that I only had 5 plates, 12 wine glasses, random silverware, and so on and so forth and then I had a second panic attack. Better yet, this all went down Monday before my dinner happening less than a week later on Sunday.
Cue in Enchanted to the rescue. They had great reviews on Yelp and, best of all, had their rates listed directly on their website, so I could budget right there without having to call and haggle prices.
I emailed a request and received a quote emailed back within just a few hours; I was very impressed.
After a few days, I was able to email back and make a change, and received an updated quote back again within an hour. I confirmed the reservation on Thursday for Sunday pick up. Then, of course, I realized I forgot to include dessert forks and I had to email back again on Friday and they emailed back saying there was no problem, that the extra forks would be waiting for me. As of now, I already had decided that Miguel and Diana were saints.
Saturday rolls around and The Boyfriend and I roll up in his 4 door sedan. Miguel was concerned about tying the rented folding tables to the roof of the car. He immediately said that instead of the two 8' tables I was renting, he would give me three 6' tables, which would tie down better, the third table gratis. Even though he was about to head out on a delivery, Miguel and another guy stayed on to help my bf secure the tables to the roof for the drive home. Everything else was boxed and wrapped, waiting for me to put it in the car.
Fast forward, the party was fantastic and everyone kept commenting on how classy the whole event was (SO glad I didn't resort to paper plates and plastic forks!). The Monday everything was due to go back to Enchanted, they don't give you a certain time, just so long as you return it the next day, I left for the office and made sure the BF knew where to drop everything off. I guess he decided to do some work from home first, because I got a very sweet call from Diana around 1pm saying they were going to go to lunch from 1-2 and to tell my bf so that he wouldn't show up to a closed shop.
Long story short, Enchanted had exactly what I needed, despite it being very random numbers of each (10 wine glasses, 22 forks, etc etc) for exactly a price in my budget (only $51 for everything!!). I was worried that they wouldn't have what I needed, especially since I was putting in my official request less than a week before I needed it, but everything went off without a hitch and they truly allowed me to give the kind of party I wanted to.
Thanks so much, Enchanted!! Can't wait to use you again next year, for what is going to be a new annual tradition!
Update: It's now 2015 and I've hosted 3 Friendsgivings, each larger than the last. I've started including delivery as well and the $50 is well worth it to not have to worry about fitting everything in (and on) a sedan. Enchanted has never let me down, but we did have a close call this year! First, the email with the billing method got stuck in my spam box, so I didn't find it for over a week. Look out for it! Second, I always host Friendsgiving on Sunday, but my order this year accidentally got filed into the actual Thursday Thanksgiving Holiday pile. I'm so very glad that I called to ask when the truck was coming on Saturday because I nearly didn't get my order. They were very confused at first, but figured it out and were excellent about calling a truck back and rectifying everything, esp because I had already paid in full. Only a minor snafu when all things are considered, since everything still arrived on time. Thanks for the years of great service, Enchanted! read more