TLDR summary:
I do not recommend The Perfect Touch after my experience with them in planning my February 2020 wedding. They were unorganized, unprofessional, missed countless deadlines, and were defensive/hostile to work with. They promised items that did not exist in their inventory, made substitutions without discussion or approval from me, tried to charge me for their mistakes, in general made significant mistakes in documentation and delivery of my requests, had under-trained and non-responsive staff, and told me they'd see me in court if I went public with my experience through reviews and media. The list of things they did wrong is very long but, overall, The Perfect Touch was not reliable and made the experience extremely negative for me. No bride should have to endure the level of stress, chaos, and disrespect that I was faced with in working with them. There are many options of rental companies in Houston, I would not choose The Perfect Touch.
The detailed report:
Let me preface by saying this is my experience, and I cannot speak to that of others'. Per my contract, I have advised The Perfect Touch of my grievances prior to publishing this review.
I'm writing this review because I wish that I had paid better attention to the reviews on Google before hiring The Perfect Touch. I hope that in writing this I can prevent another bride from experiencing the chaos that I dealt with in working with them. Some of the reviews described similar experiences to my own, but I didn't see them until more recently as my dealings with them started to take a bad turn.
To start, their staff was not reliable and not experienced enough to be managing large wedding projects. When I first signed on with them, I was working with Savannah. However my original rep left and I was never informed, nor was my project formally handed off to someone new. After many calls and emails I was advised Savannah had left and, almost as an after thought, they assigned my wedding to Ali. Ali was extremely unorganized during my entire planning process and, towards the end of our engagement, became contentious and dismissive. A few weeks before my wedding the GM told me "this was a learning experience for Ali, we are training her". I suffered a lot during this training period and do not appreciate receiving subpar service so that staff can be trained at the expense of my time and wedding experience. In general, I found their staff to be inefficient and unprofessional. I was passed from person to person and they still couldn't get it right.
Regarding my actual experience, many things went wrong. The most glaring of which was the lack of organization and documentation in decisions made. I spent HOURS of my time explaining what I rented, following up to see changes, following up on missed deadlines and correcting their errors on invoices. After a while I started having to take pictures of every single item rented and asking to see them in person, because they constantly changed or forgot the items I was renting. Once it became clear that they were not documenting or honoring our verbal agreements/selections, I chose communicate by email so that I had most everything in writing. If you do choose to work with this company, I suggest you only communicate via email so that everything is in writing, and that you ask to see all rental items in advance and retain photos for your records.
Their inventory is nice, but they made many promises for items they did not actually own physically or have in stock. In the months leading up to my wedding they told me they ordered several of these items not in inventory, but the orders were never made. Then, weeks leading up to my wedding they were scrambling last minute to try to find them, and in the end had to offer alternate selections because they could not procure the items we agreed upon. I was promised arrival dates of items that were never even ordered. Had I not followed up so many times, I wouldn't have been able to have a similar centerpiece to what I was promised. They actually had to borrow it from another vendor. If you choose them, make sure you take photos of EVERY item promised and confirm it is in stock.
When you are planning a wedding and spend a lot of time selecting rentals (candelabras, tables, chairs, etc.), it is very frustrating to be told weeks before the wedding that the items never existed in inventory and you're going to have to make due with something entirely different. What is worse, however, is how defensive the staff was when I was not happy with the last minute changes. They were not responsive to emails and did not provide any status updates, and blamed me for incurred costs to resolve their mistakes. Vic, the owner, told me "I had to pay $200 to buy the table you wanted. I didn't charge you for it." The reality is I did not even get the table I wanted or had agreed to. I was promised a 4ft semi-circle, sweetheart table, but they only had a 6ft. SEE FB FOR FULL REVIEW! read more