11/24/2023 0 Comments French house farm clearview wa![]() ![]() And, I want my days to be grounded in the meaning, purpose, and joy that come from a life well-lived. I want my spaces to be lived in and loved on. For better or for worse, I want my life to be honest. And, I don’t believe in striving for anyone else’s version of ideal. I don’t believe in avoiding fear or failure instead, I believe in embracing what we can learn from hard things. I believe that trying is more important than perfecting, and that a willingness to get messy is courage in action. Throughout this space, it’s my intention to write from the heart to share what’s real and authentic. BEWARE.This blog is an online journal about our projects and progress, as well as a place where I share how I decorate our home (with my love of antique and vintage items!), DIY craft projects, my favorite recipes, and bits and pieces of our life on this little farm.īut more than that, I suppose you could say that this blog is a love letter to our home and the life we are building here. My wife and I would not recommend ANY EVENT be held there. We’re still aghast that Thomas Family Farm was so unprofessional. When we repeatedly asked Debbie to take accountability for the black scar the bartender placed on our event, she only replied saying she was going to ask a lawyer if TFF was required to refund anything. I asked Debbie for apologies, I recommended that TFF adopt better alcohol policies, I recommended TFF should allow for friendlier bartenders. After the event, when I made this recommendation to Debbie for future events, she didn’t respond. TFF has no policy to allow for ‘escalating warnings’ that allows event coordinators/payees to address TFF concerns before taking actions that affect an event. He was incredibly unprofessional by not providing data points and so insulting calling me drunk. ![]() I told my wife, wedding party, and 25 relatives the next day what he said and every single person was astonished as I barely had anything to drink. When I challenged the bartender to give me data and allow either our day-of coordinator, my wife, or I to address any TFF concern, he only said “take it up with my sister,” who wasn’t at the event. After the event, I offered to bring my father-in-law to TFF’s facility to prove it. Not only does my father-in-law not have more than 2 drinks, he walks with a shuffle/stumble normally. The bartender wouldn’t serve my 82-year-old stepfather because ‘he was drunk’. His random decision affected our ENTIRE WEDDING. TFF has every right to not serve an individual who’s intoxicated but no one appeared intoxicated. To this day, we have not been given any reason. I can’t imagine our 80-person, nearly all over-age-50 wedding could have been any tamer. At the event, I asked Becky Harper, TFF’s coordinator, why the bartender made the decision, she said she didn’t know, then said “I WOULD NOT HAVE STOPPED SERVICE.” In the months before the wedding, Becky described 300-person events that got out-of-hand with alcohol. There was no warning given to my wife and I either. During the event, when I asked the bartender why he made this decision, HE DIDN’T GIVE ONE DATA POINT. Not one person said they saw EVEN ONE PERSON. The next day, my wife and I had 25 relatives over to our house and asked if anyone saw anyone stumbling/drunk. Our wedding had 80 guests, mostly all over 50-years-old, with only a handful of 20-year-olds. The bartender stopped serving alcohol before the contracted 9:30pm time. A bar manager / relative of mine said he was so unfriendly that he’d never get a job at a decent establishment. During the event, I had numerous guests describe how unfriendly the bartender was. No other person/entity can serve alcohol (Debbie is TFF’s owner). ![]() Thomas, owner of TFF, requires the use of her brother to serve alcohol. DO NOT HOLD YOUR EVENT AT THOMAS FAMILY FARM. There are easily a dozen other Snohomish event locations that allow for professional bartenders and policies that ensure your event will be handled professionally. HE ULTIMATELY MADE AN ARBITRARY DECISION TO END ALCOHOL SERVICE WITHOUT GIVING ANY WARNING OR REASONING, LEAVING A SCAR ON OUR WEDDING. ![]() He is the most unfriendly and unprofessional guy you’ll meet. In short, Debra requires the use of her brother to serve alcohol for any event. Thomas, is so unprofessional, her alcohol policies are arbitrary. The purpose of this review is to WARN FUTURE WEDDING/EVENT PLANNERS THAT THERE ARE MANY BETTER VENUES, WITH FAR MORE ACCOMODATING ALCOHOL POLICIES, THAT WON’T SCAR YOUR EVENT. My wife and I got married Feb 5th, 2022 at Crossroads/Thomas Family Farm (TFF). ![]()
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