Dear Bed and Breakfast.com-

This posted review is entirely incorrect. I have spoken to many bed and breakfast owners who have stopped having weddings at their Inn for the sole purpose that people like this reserve the Inn and then abuse it in everyway possible.

This reviewer was not on the contract and was merely a guest of the Inn. We have a contract as most Inns do for weddings. In the contract it states that you are completely responsible for your guests and attendees while here at our Inn.

These people kept every door in our Inn wide open letting in bugs and lord knows what else in the Inn, when we had repeatedly asked then to please not leave the doors open. We live on a corner lot beachside with lots of foot traffic and anyone could just walk right in, so it was for the safety of our guests as well.

This party did not inform us of a rehearsal dinner the night before, but sprung it on us that evening. We let then use our dining room and all of our good china and silverware free of charge. Any caterer would charge you for the use of plateware and silver.

Heat lamps were not requested by this party, I am sure you can understand as business owners that I can not give things away free. This party knew their reception was outside and should have planned accordingly. Needless to say we allowed them to use the heat lamps and did not charge them for it. We also allowed them to burn our wood, which cost us money to replace in our fire pit for free.

They stained a chair, a settee, they dumped cake in our parking lot and did not pick it up. Their caterers (family members) threw the rest of their ice sculpture with cocktail sauce and shrimp down our front sidewalk that people walk up.

They moved items around in the Inn when in the contract it clearly states that nothing is to be altered or moved in the Inn.

They brought in their own alcohol which per our contract because we have a full liquor license, is illegal and against Florida policies. They drank 3 bottles of champagne and left in the morning without paying for them and somehow 2 bottles of wine went missing from our wine fridge, now I do not know who took them, but if the doors to the Inn were closed as we had asked, they may still be there.

As with most lodging there would be a charge for something extra, especially a day before the wedding.

Breakfast was served late due to the guests all staying up late in the eve, I figured they would appreciate a warm and fresh breakfast. As I did not know how many would be attending I cooked to order, and there was plenty of food.

The bride and groom had already left at 7:30am and a lovely breakfast was ready for the rest of the wedding party on Sunday morning, a wonderful quiche to be exact, which I did not serve after the father of the groom insulted me, when all I had ever asked of them was for the doors to be kept closed upon entering and exiting the Inn.

Now we have fruit flies all over the inside of our Inn.

As they have stated, they are not bunch of 20 somethings. These people choose our Inn for its beauty. If we had no rules at all, how would we keep this Inn as beautiful as it is for the next guest to enjoy. Guests must understand that a B&B is someones home, and when in someones home you should be respectful.

And we have had many 20 somethings whom have stayed here and behaved well.

As you may notice, we have many wonderful reviews about our Inn, we go to great lengths to see that every detail is taken care of. We have had many wonderful weddings here and have a few more planned next month. None of these wedding guests had anything bad to say and we went out of our way to please them, the same as we did the Scott & Sara Kaye wedding.

The honeymoon suite was cleaned for the day, the bride then got ready in that room and after she left we went in to do turn down service and found the room in much disarray and took 45 minutes to clean. We did this as a courtesy as most hotels and motels only clean a room once, we were never thanked for this gesture. Yet instead we received this review.

We ordered extra white chairs out of our own pockets because the bride did not like the chairs on our veranda.

Furniture was never moved back to its original place on our patio as per contract, we had to move it ourselves. The rental company for the chairs and tables came and no one from the wedding party was here to see that they were removed properly. We helped the rental company place the items on the truck and see that all was accounted for.

They had an open bar for many hours inwhich our inhouse bartender only made $7 dollars in tips. Due to lack of tips we had tip him additionally.

It would be a shame if we were to be like many other Inns and decide to stop having weddings. This review is inaccurate and I am willing to send pictures of the damage, the contract and their bill if you would like proof of what had occurred. It would be awful to have our reputation ruined from a party that was not happy simply because we asked them to close the doors of the Inn.

We are devastated that after all we have done for them, they would do this to us.