Those of you who have been to wedding fairs and get hassled to enter all those competitions, some really are real.

I have been to a fair today in harrogate and I have won a planning party worth £100!

Can't wait to get the details through from her and see what extra ideas I can get.

Also saw loads of things I really liked including a dress designer! Woo hoo!xx


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was the harrogate fayre worth going to....i still have not found a venue so thought going to it may not be worth it. but keep wondering whether to head there tomorrow.x

oh and congrats on winning a prize!

It was big and over whelming. It's £8 to get in but you do get a goody bag, I'v not had a proper look through yet but I have found head and shoulders conditioner?? and some snacky things and a bottle of water. Me & BM went and had a lovely day out, something a bit different. We parked quite a way off but tbh it wasn't that far a walk and it didn't rain for us.

I'm kind of in an eco chic kind of mood atm so I like what I am seeing but trying to work out what I can do for my self. Lots of lovely people to talk to and get ideas from, only a couple that were pushy.

Only paid for petrol, parking and entry, so quite a cheap day out for the 2 of us. I'm guessing we went at the wrong time as it was really busy, but by the time we left it was nice! hey ho.

Going to another tomorrow see how that is.

woohoo go you :0) xx

well done, pass some luck on to me xxx

Wahoo well done xx

i went to one and won a bottle of moet champagne lol

well done love thats great!

I'm going to my first wedding fayre on 23rd Oct I'll make sure I enter all the competitions, you never know...smeone's got to win!

Z x

Thanks, I have tried and tried to organise a date to have it. And when I finally pinned down a date I can use, she was on holiday. I bet she thinks I don't want it. I'm now waiting for my BM to get back from commonwealth games so we can come up with a list of dates.

Congrats!

i went to won yesterday but no comps to enter:( but i did get lots of ideas on what i want

well done on winning though!!

Need your advice please. I have emailed the woman who ran the competition and she has replied that she is no longer able to honour her offer and I am wondering where I stand on consumer rights??

Her email reads (edited for anonymous purposes)

"Sorry for the delayed response but I have been pondering what to do . . . I have to apologise but unfortunately I am no longer able to do your Free Planning Party.
I’ve taken on a lot of work recently and I’m really struggling with my time. I am currently re-writing my website and will no longer incorporate Planning Party.
I am sorry Rags but it’s just not going to be feasible I’m afraid."

What should I do?? Do I have rights as a competition winner? Is it worth the effort??

i would let the venue know and as they should be aware of this for any future shows she may want to participate in xx

You would be entitled to something up to that value if she has decided not to continue with wedding planning. I would let the wedding fair organisers know though as utimately its their reputation that has been compromised so you may get some freebies as a good will gesture. If it was a raffle where you paid to enter they HAVE to honour the value. I attended a WF on Sunday and bought a raffle ticket and won first prize - its a photography shoot and photos and I promise if that goes pete tong I will complain.
Re her comment about running out of time it may be a blessing in disguise because if she can't plan timings how much help can she be. Wish you luck, please persue it though as you did have a contract with her as she did with the WF organisers.

Carl and I get to the Petwood hotel wedding fair on the 26th of September we had always thought that the prize draws were gimmicks and nobody ever won how wrong we were. We entered both draws one being to win a selection of goodies from Debenhams including a bottle of bubbly , large photo album / photo frame , small photo frame and a ring holder pictures in my album we only entered because I liked the bag they were giving out then the man asked us if we wanted to enter the prize draw to win the above we only did so to shut him up the 2nd prize draw I cant remember what the prizes were but we ended up winning a three course meal for 2 which would normally have cost £25 each could not believe it when we received both letters confirming our wins on the same day.

I have forwarded the whole correspondence between me and said company to the organisers of the fair. Hopefully they will be able to advise me on what to do next. Thanks for that idea. The only ones I was coming up with were expensive ones lol:)

Just the ones we had trying to organise a date.

Yay fee :)

I won a wedding dress box from a nationally recognised dry cleaners!! I thought AWESOME!! until I went in to collect it and they told me I had to spend £80 on dry cleaning the dress that hasn't been made for me yet!!!

My wedding fayre competition prize I found a Teeny bit of a rip off!!!! and I'm not going to be using it!!! :(

I found out today that I won a set of champagne flutes and a bottle of bubbly from a fair I went to on Sunday :)

Well I found a penny on the floor this morning so it must have been that that brought the luck!

Thank you greyarea :)

What happened with your win babe? Its illegal to cancel something in favour of a higher paying customer. She has to honour your win!

Couldn't find the right page and didnt wanna start a new discussion, so poaching this thread just wanted to ask where is the safest/best place to enter wedding related competitions?? x