Couple Paid Wedding Planner To Ensure Wedding Goes Smoothly, But Got No Food & A Styrofoam Cake on Wedding Day

A wise old man once told me: “Styrofoam should be used for housing things; it should never be the thing which is housed.”

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Yes, I know that look on your face.

You must be wondering what the hell this old fogey was talking about.

Normally, I would dismiss his murmurings as a figment of merely my own overactive imagination, yet once in a while, this old man who typically resides in our Goody Feed app springs a surprise on me.

Wedding Planning Horror show 

What does World of Buzz , Mirror and Daily Mail have in common?

Typically, nothing much I would say.

Heck, other than the fact that they are all news outlet, they don’t even belong to the same geographical region for the most part.

Yet this very news made it to said media outlets.

According to the articles (links playfully embedded like the furtive truths of a wise old man), Shine Tamayo, 26, and her partner Jhon Chen, 40, had paid 140,000 pesos (3,625 SGD) to their wedding planner to supply food, decorations and wedding cake at their wedding in Pasig City, Philippines.

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Blissful and Sweet

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Even more Blissful and Sweet

With the nightmarish task of organizing a wedding reception handed off to a professional wedding planner, what started of with great expectations quickly gave way to hatexasperation (what a word, you first heard it here of Goody Feed) as the couple realized that the caterer had failed to deliver food to their venue.

As a result, and as Mirror puts: “The newlyweds had to carry trays of greasy takeaway grub from a nearby eatery to feed their hungry guests.”

Image: Facebook (GRUB Burger Bistro – Bishan)

No lah, not this restaurant. Story took place in Philippines, this one in Bishan. Use your blain.

“Grub”:

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With some blackcurrant juice to boot.

Styrofoam Wedding Cake

Well, the optimist would say though: “Hey, at least there’s the wedding cake to look forward to right?”

Image: Mirror

Hmm… looks edible…wait, what’s there in the second tier?

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Jangjang! Styrofoam!

Now, I don’t know why the other outlets called it polystyrene, but I would presume to think that its essentially the same as the more commonly-used styrofoam here locally.

You get my point though, right?

Basically, the wedding planner delivered no food, and a half-arse attempt at something called wedding cake.

Tears, Police, Arrest and Estafa

Following what seems like an endless series of horrific discoveries, Shine became justifiably distraught, “which led her guests to take her to the police station where the officers inspected the cake and confirmed the base of the cake to be made entirely out of polystyrene.” according to World of Buzz.

In a video taken by friends, the distraught bride was in tears and was surrounded by groom and friends, with the police surrounding the styrofoam cake and presumably the wedding planner.

According to the Daily Mail, Ms Shine Tamayo said:

“The woman we paid to do the food has ruined my wedding. She’s a liar. She always asked me for money and I always gave her what she needs because I wanted my wedding to be perfect.

“I will not accept sorry from her, an apology is not good enough, she needs to go to jail because she ruined my wedding.

“I have never been so humiliated in all my life. This was supposed to be one of my most treasured memories for my entire life. Instead it is the worst.”

World of Buzz clarified that the wedding planner “was arrested on suspicion of Estafa (a form of fraud)” and was subsequently released, while a spokesman for the police stated that an investigation for fraud was ongoing and the case will be taken to trial.

Wow.

Seriously, I wonder what went through the wedding planner’s mind.

She would have have known she was never going to get away with this right?

But that cake though, seriously, takes the cake in this whole matter.

Might as well do a no-show, no?