Just to address a few comments about the pictures on bridal gift - i say cakes throughout this video thinking the bridal gift were little cupcakes, turns out they were cookies instead and i remembered incorrectly. Either way, my opinion is still the same regardless if they were cakes or cookies 😂 i think me saying cakes is confusing and makes it seem like im talking about the actual wedding cake, my bad!
Markie, I feel like you'd be shocked to know just how much bullshit actually goes on in the wedding industry!🤣😭 I can 100% believe this story because I've actually met with wedding planners who have done almost the exact same thing. Unfortunately, common sense isn't so common anymore, and a lot of people just don't have their heads screwed on straight. Wedding drama can be some of the worst drama.
Tbh I thought it was like a nice print of the couple or something to start with and a goodie item... Lol Either way, I got the poor woman got a photo of the coordinator vs the couple and used it as a gift. So wrong.
I feel like "Miranda" just got in way over her head in planning her first professional wedding. But at least, from every indication in these videos, she seems to have done a satisfactory job for the married couple. She made a couple of awkward blunders, but I think she learned some valuable lessons. On the other hand, the mother-in-law is a crazy awful liar who is trying to scam $500 out of the cake baker by impersonating a lawyer. What a total waste of a partially functional brain.
i wonder if the coordinator was told that the picture was for a gift from the cake maker? some businesses will get pictures for their websites. but still weird that if they were or weren't aware of the reason for the picture
LOL, my exact thought. I started this video thinking it was going to be some crazy ass story…but yeah, this story sounds legit to me (especially the part about how the MIL thought the baker was easy prey). Once you work in customer service with the public or even just have plain old ratchety family members, you get to learn real quick about how easily some people will lie, cheat, steal to get whatever they think they can. There’s some really crazy/shitty people out there.
I was a CSR also, and when the caller threatened legal action I would offer the contact information to our corporate legal department. No one ever took my offer, as if they were actually trying to intimidate me.
Same! I found this version way more believable. One unpleasant family member lying and trying to get 500 bucks? Yeah I can see that. I worked at a wedding venue for 4 years and there can be a lot of chaos. All a scammer needs is to single out the right person
Word of advice to anyone. If someone says they'll sue you, stfu and tell them to contact you through your lawyer. Shut that conversation down real quick because 9 times out of 10, they're bluffing to get something out of you.
This. Best legal advice is to get legal. Even better "Have your lawyer talk to my lawyer." That scares em off real quick. Don't wanna tango with ppl that know the law. .
I don't think the mother in law was lucky. She noticed that Miranda was doing a lot of things wrong due to her inexperience and then decided to bank on it. That's how pathological liar generally works in my experience.
Yeah I think she used that Miranda had made a few rookie mistakes so had "evidence" against her in hopes that whoever she tried it on would pay out the money just to make the situation go away who knows if she did try it on anyone else they may have just given her the money to save any hassle
So true, she probably heard about stuff/ figured it out when she was handed the gift that had the wrong recipients. She may have thought Miranda was scammy so she shot her shot ripping off the vendors too. Wouldn't be surprised if the other vendors got similar emails. Edit for clarity: I think MiL thought Miranda was a scammer, so MiL decided to try and scam the vendors too using Miranda as a cover.
MIL saw an easy mark since this woman seems sweet. Kind people seem like easy targets and a lot if MIL cause hell for the new DIL and their family period
Yes! I've had a would be MIL pull some bs. Plus watching the stories talking about other MIL being heinous isn't unusual. That's why there's the term "monster-in-law."
i called itttt !!! i wrote on another video how i bet it was the mother bc she was being so weird and was placing all the blame on the baker. how she was asking the BAKER for the money, etc but wouldn't say anything to miranda. i knew that weirdo was scamming!!!! i saw way too many red flags 🚩🚩🚩
I thought so too! Did not make sense that she would ask the baker when the baker didn’t get the $ Did she think that the baker would just pay her because she mentioned the lawyer thing? So weird!
@@kristinab8326 right ??!!! she definitely was preying on that poor woman and thought she could get over on her. what a horrible person. can't even begin to imagine all the other shady stuff she's done before 🫠
Same. I figured it was either the family scamming or the planner and family together scamming people. The planner did some things that are sus though, even if inexperienced.
Omg, there ARE others who aren't on TikTok and avoid it at all costs, not JUST me?!! Wonderful! Can't 100% avoid it, simply because people post TikToks here, too, and I adore Markie, so I obviously see a decent portion through his content, as well; but Markie at least adds interest to the stupid things and never fails to make me laugh.
To the best of my knowledge, it's illegal to claim to be a lawyer when you aren't. If Melina has that in writing from then, I would go to the police & inform them that someone is impersonating a lawyer while making legal threats.
@@vikkilooper4075it depends. If they were impersonating an actual lawyer or claimed to be from an actual law firm that can be a crime still. However if they just claimed to be a lawyer and didn't impersonate a lawyer, then it's just lying and lying isn't a crime
@@vikkilooper4075actually depends where you’re located. It is illegal to claim to be a lawyer and attempt to threaten someone with that information in certain jurisdictions.
It's illegal to impersonate a lawyer. @@vikkilooper4075 you don't HAVE to practice for it to be illegal. Just TELLING ppl you're a lawyer IS illegal. Will it get you jail? It's pretty unlikely. Even practicing is very unlikely to get you jail but has gotten people sued. Now if you were to just heavily IMPLY you're an attorney then there's really nothing actually illegal. It's just a dick move. But if the words in any form are "I'm a lawyer" you've done something g illegal.
What i don’t understand is how you can blame a cake maker when the coordinator is clearly the problem. Also why didn’t they be proactive and check everything the coordinator did. Was what im originally thinking. Now im sus of the client and the coordinator.
I can kinda understand checking with the coordinator but also I can understand why you wouldn't. Since their whole job is to make the brides job easier. The bride communicates what she wants and expects to the coordinator and the coordinator makes it happen. Either way I think is acceptable.
@@YriKururu she lied, she wasn't an actual attorney... Also, I'm sure the coordinator gave updates and prices along the way (since the bride mentioned being with her for the tasting) . It's normal to give an invoice at the end of the service agreement.
@@kinglewis6553 That just doesn't make sense. Highly doubt she made the story up. It's a pretty weird, twisty turny series of lies to make up. I think if she would've made up the story, it would have been more simple and easier to follow lies. I believe her. Sounds like she was singled out by a scammer/pathological liar (the mother of the groom as stated in the story)
@kinglewis6553 No the baker didn't make it all up! This is her business and main source of income for her family. If this was all lies, it would ruin her reputation and destroy her business. And I doubt anyone would risk that happening. SMFH 🙄
Yeah I knew it wasn't the actual wedding cake and was the bridal gift, sorry if my wording was confusing. I thought the gift was little cupcakes rather than a cookie but looks like I didn't remember correctly, my bad! Still my thoughts are the same regardless of cake or cookie haha
@@CallumMarkie you could be totally right on the cupcake vs cookie hence the quotations. And I agree with your thoughts. I absolutely love your work and really look forward to your uploads. ❤️
@@CallumMarkie from my understanding of the first video, they were a surprise wedding gift. So the wedding planner wouldn't have known that she was actually going to put their picture on anything. I honestly don't believe this is real. But if it was, then that might be an explanation.
@@connieguidry6656I thought that the cookie gifts might have been more of a bonus, i.e. - The baker offers this free cookie with the sentimental design as a gesture of thanks and gratitude for being chosen to bake for this wedding. The bride would have known about it had she met with the baker originally, but since she didn’t, the coordinator “stole” the cookie for herself by putting her personal picture on it. I think that’s where the “inexperienced” comment comes from. The planner was not saying she didn’t know that the cookie wasn’t meant for her. She was saying that she thought a freebie cookie wasn’t a big deal, and that she could take it and no one would really care. Unethical and very lame, but if she had trained under a planner before starting her own business and saw someone keep samples or be given a freebie, she might not have understood the context and thought that sometimes people skim off the top a bit. At least, that’s what I think she’s trying to imply regarding her “inexperience.”
Take MIL to small claims court. She fraudulently represented herself as the MOB and tried to fraudulently get money from vendors. That's theft. She also told lies about the coordinator (and probably lied about vendors) which could be defamation. She's playing some really stupid games, someone should award her the stupid prizes she wants so badly.
oh this would be a slam dunk for defamation assuming the MIL contacted more then just the baker with this scheme. throwing the coordinator under the bus by saying that she up charged them a ton would affect that persons business at any of the places she used for the wedding and since all the actual contracts show the opposite of what the MIL said, it shows malicious intent from the MIL side. the only one i see being a problem is the "stole 500$ tip from every vendor" claim, depending on where this would be, burden of proof would be on the coordinator and since the tip is off the record..... its not easy to prove that the MIL is lying about it. just my 2 cents..... 100% Not A Lawyer.
At my wedding my dad lied to my grandmother (his mom) that he had paid for everything when it was my husband and his family who paid for everything and me doing a lot of DIY things. The ONLY thing he did was pay for my dress, but only two weeks before the wedding (when we were engaged for 2.5 years btw) and the boutique kept telling him they couldn’t hold it down anymore and my husband basically made him pay at that point, like dude 🙄 also they got the photographer who fought with people and was honestly just awful at his job over all. If my husband’s amazing cousin didn’t swoop in with his own camera and photo booth I wouldn’t have had pictures at my own wedding. Sometimes your parents just suck lol
I have family in the wedding industry and from the stories I have heard from my family this sounds very believable. The one part that isn’t believable is the wedding coordinator cake bit. She just wanted a free goodie. Also my personal experience my coordinator pretended to be me so that is normal from my experience.
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to ignorance. The coordinator panicked because she was stuck in the fiction that she was the bride. It’s not normal to pretend to be the bride, they are the ones the vendors actually should have contracts with. Cake and flowers are the only two vendors with whom you can actually conceal the identity of the bride- catering and music are physically at the wedding and dress hair and makeup are physically on the bride. The venue will also usually be present at the wedding as well.
Pretending to be the bride doesn't sound like an industry standard, from my totally uninformed perspective. Wouldn't that make it harder to keep working with local vendors?
@@adbreon There must have been some vendors she couldn't pretend to be the bride with, for the reasons you mentioned. So if she knew it was 'safe' to pretend to be the bride in some instances, but not in others, doesn't that suggest ignorance isn't the issue?
@@THEDubbleHelixx I think I probably explained it poorly to be honest. They were emailing and coordinating things on my behalf and would answer as me for particular things. They did not show up in person pretending to be me or anything like the other coordinator in the story did.
Honestly it just sounds like a crazy mother-in-law and that would not surprise me in the slightest. Because if you have seen the way some of these grooms mothers act while their son is getting married to a woman they don’t like. Those cows can get crazy.
Yup this is exactly what I'm thinkin too. MIL was controlling all the convos until the other 3 connected and their stories collaborate each other's while the grooms mother just looks more insane.
Yes! Take the Miranda aspect out of the story and it makes more sense. Especially since the vendor never saw the bride. That is something I can believe
I was in the wedding industry foe 17 years. Wedding coordinators (especially new ones) always hand out businesses cards to venders and try to get them to recommend them to other brides. Why would she not only not be networking but also make it impossible to work with the bakery again? It makes no sense.
So, after watching the first video on this subject, I was 95% certain that the next twist in the story would be that the wedding coordinater was a friend of the bride's family and that's why the "mother" didn't choose to go after her and instead targeted Malina. *This* video just...absolutely blew my mind. Also as to the question of what the MIL's thought process was? Presumably she thought that if she convinced Malina that she was a lawyer specialising in this field, Malina would then be scared into submission and boom, an instant "donation" of $500 in the MIL's account courtesy of someone desperate to avoid legal action. Think the whole Jeanette Braun situation - the thought process is largely the same: "if I seem intimidating enough, they'll all just shut up and do what they're told".
Being a florist, I've dealt with some wacky weddings. I don't have any difficulty believing that this is true. I've had people claim they 'thought delivery was included' (even though we don't have a delivery service, & that is one of the first things I tell people who are looking to order from us) And then DEMANDED a discount on their order since they had to have someone coming pick it up. So yes, some people will do anything to try to make a little extra money.
Ok... _maybe_ the coordinator pretended to be the bride because they'd asked her to handle everything for them and she thought that it'd be quicker and easier to deal with all the vendors if they thought she was the bride making decisions for her own wedding. Like, maybe she thought theyd insist on confirmation from the bride herself or something, and she thought she was being smart and getting around that Then the baker needs a picture and she's like "oh no, if I give them a picture of the real bride and groom, my ruse will be found out!" And just decided to say there must have been a mistake with the file. Hey! Maybe thats why she disappeared, she didn't want to be there when they saw them
this makes so much more sense. the MIL demanding refunds from the cake maker for the coordinator's mistake was so confusing. I know people like this so this doesn't surprise me (and i do believe it). Either way very entertaining story
I worked in the wedding industry for 2 and a half years and in that short amount of time I've seen family try to cancel weddings vendors, family be escorted out of weddings by security because they were crashing the wedding, and family start full on fist fights because they disapprove of the other family. Weddings bring out the worst in people imo
The thing is you have to find someone who is willing to mentor you when you’re going to go on and become their competition. The best option for getting experience is finding a non-solo coordinator whose company you can work up through or a venue that has in-house coordinators (I worked as a venue coordinator for years before branching out to exhibitions and events). It depends on your area though whether those options are available.
Damn, I can't help but feel bad for everyone involved (minus the mother in law scammer). A wedding should be a happy occasion, not this dumpster fire. I hope the happy couple can look back and laugh after the situation is resolved.
As an event coordinator with more than a decade of experience, I do not believe the coordinator was that confused. In order to take a client, you have to advertise your services, set prices, and have some general knowledge of wedding and event planning. Coordinators also do not foot the bills if they're just now taking their first client. A wedding firm may do that, but independent coordinators are invoiced by vendors and pass that on to the clients. I believe the mother in law part of the story because I have had some WILD mothers in law at my events. But the coordinator part is just really throwing me off. She's either not going to succeed in this field because she has no critical thinking skills or she's lying about what actually happened. 🤔
Again, ex wedding planning firm owner here. I was VERY sought after in the wedding industry in our area and even at the height/end of my career, never did I have a $2,000 wedding cake….not once…..and I did $50-$70k weddings…..The fact that a first time wedding planner booked a wedding with THAT kind of budget is absolutely insane.
I've been to a LOT of weddings with wedding cakes costing way more than $2000! My cousin's wedding cost a hell of a lot more than $70k, and her wedding cakes cost close to $8000! So yes, there ARE cakes that cost $2000. Also, she wasn't talking about a wedding cakes - she was talking about baked desserts. And, depending on what different toppings etc, that she used, it could've EASILY cost that price!
@@samanthafairweather9186 Right? And even if she was talking about a cake that cost two grand, the client chose and went through with that baker. They could’ve picked a different baker/vendor if the price was too high for them. Just like anything else, the creator/artist/baker/etc. sets their price and you choose whether or not to pay that or take your business elsewhere.
How were you in the industry for any length of time and yet you don’t realize that prices vary wildly from state to state? Maybe you live in a low cost of living state, but here, $2,000 would be a very typical wedding cake for a wedding of around 100-150 guests, not even ostentatious. And 50-70K would be a very average wedding cost here. I’d imagine somewhere like NYC would easily be double that. ETA: LOL Your “photo” is terrible photoshop or AI. IMO, your career in the industry was probably just as authentic.
Honestly, the mother-in-law just sounds evil... Why would you ever think it was ok to 1. Pretend to be the brides deceased mother and 2. Then try to cause this big issue at your own sons wedding about something that wasn't even true?!.... This just makes me even happier that I went for a small simple wedding on the beach with none of the ridiculous extras! People are insane!!!
So happy I’m not the only one that is worried about the MIL being a bigger problem than what’s being shown rn… I really hope that the bride is going to be able to stay married to her husband and that they’re able to go reduced/no contact with her…
I don't think he should break contact with his mom. Although what she did was very wrong but the better solution would be to have a talk with her or give her a warning to not interfere in their relationship in future
Did she talk to the bride in person?? Bc it would be so easy for a friend of the wedding planner to call and pretend to be her, telling her this whole story to avoid getting dragged..
I suspected that the total bill was 7500, including lots of other stuff. Also, after your traveling, I'm now aware of how much I love that blue background.
Wouldn't be hard for the MIL to say give the refund to a different account, because the credit card belongs to the coordinator - whether that's true or not
If you frequent any wedding drama or mother in law subreddits none of this story surprises. It's apparently common. Couples have to make secret passwords with vendors to keep things from being changed or sabotaged so much that it's industry standard now.
Some people splurge on the “look” of the wedding and cheap out on the important parts like coordinating. A lot of people can’t afford the weddings they plan 🫠
i am so confused why any of this matters. cake lady has a signed contract. any other drama is mute. I would block them all. cake lady fulfilled her contract.
What kind of statistic is that? Weddings are paid for by all sorts of family members or the couple themselves, there's no rule that the groom's family doesn't pay
@@faceofvisiontradition was that the bride’s family paid for the wedding. Not sure people adhere to that now but my parents paid for my wedding a few decades ago
@@molybdomancer195 the key word is "was", plus different cultures exist. Traditions are "broken" all the time, there's no evidence to claim that the groom's family didn't pay for anything.
well, that was quite a few twists I didn't expect but it does make more sense? It does seem like a wild crazy story but after years of scrolling through Tiktok and reading reddit stories, this one seems believable to me.
I think she either had already handed in some paperwork filled out wrong and was too embarrassed to say "actually can I have that back" or "actually can I have new blank ones" and refill them out because filling it out with YOUR info was probably SUPER EMBARRASSING. So she decided "well it doesn't really matter anyways" etc. OR- she was in the middle of filling it out and thought that because the cake details would all be the same it shouldn't matter anyways and was too lazy to change it/did it up in pen and didn't think to white it all out etc. Or she filled it out in pen right there. The point being she probably figured it out at the picture part, but was tooooo committed and decided to roll with it anyways.
I am so baffled why someone would take on a wedding with zero experience let alone a big wedding. You usually intern or apprentice for any job field specifically for this reason. Furthermore, any reasonable thinking person would not say they were the bride when they were if fact a coordinator, even if you were just a friend helping you wouldnt pretend to be the bride. Not for nothing but coordinators often get discounts or other incentives with vendors they team with especially as you use them more but I digress its makes zero sense to say you're the bride because how weird would it look if a vendor called to ask an important question to who is the "bride" and then you got to say um let me call you back bc I don't know the answer....strange. Also why oh why would this fake bride use her own bridal portrait with her husband....baffled is what I'm left being, is this "coordinator" playing naive/ignorant(no knowledge) or is she truly lacking the cognitive thinking ability or have a low common (or otherwise) sense threshold
That's what I was thinking. Like why would a coordinator not have any experience at all and not know that their job is coordinator not pretend to be a bride. Like it's a common sense thing. The whole thing smells fishy.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it comes out the MIL did do it to other vendors. She probably hoped they would just pay out to avoid any trouble and who knows some vendors may have genuinely thought they would have to go to court over it and the "refund" would work out cheaper than taking it court,paying lawyers and having to miss bookings due to having to take time away from work
I could believe someone close to the bride and groom would attempt to use a wedding to get freebies for themselves but I am reluctant to believe a wedding coordinator would be silly enough to fill out things as if they're the bride. Even the most inexperienced of coordinators would know that that's the wrong thing to do.
there is always a chance that miranda is autistic, has mental illness etc. there are reasons someone might do something illogical because it felt logical to them.
5:20 I think in the coordinators defence the form as shown didn't ask for the bride and groom, or happy couple, etc. It asked for "you and your partner". In smaller text under it there's a whole thing about how if you're ordering as a gift fill it out using the details of the soon to be wedded couple. I can totally see someone who's a bit dense taking everything 100% literally, it wasn't a gift so they ignrored the small text, and filling it in with them and their partners details. Is it a stretch to believe? Yes. But is it plausible? Absolutely.
Currently planning my wedding. I have not seen ONE inquiry form that asks for bride & groom.. every single one I’ve filled out asks for my name and “partner’s name”
My wedding planner did elopements. She also was the officiant. It was beautiful and perfect. Don’t let this make you think twice. You could bring so much joy and happiness to other people. Good luck! 🥰
I think the wedding coordinator didn’t put a picture of herself and her husband/bf on the wedding cake, she put it on the bridal gift which was a cookie (?) for the bride and groom to enjoy after the wedding
It sounds to crazy totally crazy, why would you use a wedding planner and not look at reviews or speak to someone who had worked with her before and how did the grooms mother get a copy of the bill to be able to change it ? Who paid for the wedding ? How could the baker be at the wedding but not see the bride ? So many questions 😂
I can believe a mother in law would do this tbh. Some moms are seriously unhinged, especially if they don’t like who their children are marrying or if they just want to make everything about themselves.
Knowing several people who have overbearing mothers in law, I completely believe that the mother in law tried to meddle in and manipulate this situation 🤷🏻♀️ there are some brides who have a lovely MIL and some who don’t. This bride just happened to have one of the wild ones!
All of this sounds way too convoluted. I think she made it all up to get more attention for her and her business. Until I see the receipts, I say it's fake. Entertaining, but fake.
Normally I’d agree but it actually sounds more credible now. Wedding industry people get crap like this all the time and the MIL thought she could intimidate a vendor she saw as an easy target. If she disliked the bride she might have wanted to cause issues. A lot of comments from people in this industry or who know people in it seem to think it’s very plausible. Of course you could be right, the inexperienced planner putting her photo on the cookies makes zero sense unless she meant it as a bonus gift to the bride and her guests, kind of a weird but well-intended thank you for their business. If she paid for those it would make sense, but it’s weird and a terrible idea. Very unprofessional even for an inexperienced planner. These days people put all their business on TikTok. Everyone wants to share every aspect of their lives. Sometimes it’s true, sometimes it’s bullshit.
@vikkilooper4075 Thankfully, no. I had a good relationship with my partner's parents until they died, and my friends have good relationships with their own in-laws as well. I'm sure there are crazy ones out there, but I don't believe this story until I see receipts. It's either a fabrication from this creator or the wedding planner she's talking about, because it sounds way too crazy to be believable. Good for this baker for going viral, though.
@christinem1458 I'm inclined to agree. There are some in-law horror stories, but it feels like if even one of these story beats didn't happen exactly the way they did, then none of this would have happened. This makes me really skeptical that the story is true.
Can you imagine the reaction of that bride when she saw that video about what her MIL did? I would not have wanted to be in her position, she had to tell her husband what his mother did AND try to do damage control for them as the wedding couple.
This reminds me of a story from a friends wedding about some stranger couple that showed up, dressed up for a wedding, and passed around an envelope to put cash in "for the wedding couple" and then they tried to walk away. But I guess before they could some drunk uncle intercepted them and put in a bunch of money (over a grand) only to stumble up to the married couple and shove the envelope down his older brothers pants 😅 And people were going up to the strangers and thanking them for the great idea. Me and a few other sober people were thr only ones that hadn't recognized the two We also watched as they walked back to their car looking incredibly upset. Never did figure out what they were so mad about 😂😂
Couple of things I find sketchy: 1) No matter how new you are to the industry (I work events), it's just basic common sense, you're the planner *YOUR* face should never be on anything, let alone the cake. Was the bride not involved at all in choosing her cake? From flavors to size, to colors, to design to who bakes the d@mn thing, the bride *should* have had the most input. 2) As the planner coordinator, you're responsible for everything on site making sure everything and everyone is where they should be and knows what is expected of them. You're damage control. You either prevent something from going wrong or you fix it. You *DON"T* leave until it's over. We've got an emergency kit where we carry everything from sewing kits, to medicine, to bandaids, stain remover, duct tape and a whole other bunch of stuff just in case because you never know what you'll need in an event and specially weddings. And I would have thought that as this couple is her very first client, the planner would have been more meticulous about everything to make sure nothing goes wrong because their review and possible referrals could make or break her business. 3) As for the bride, how the heck did she find this planner? If she's having a big, grand wedding then I would have thought she'd go for a more experienced person with the experience and portfolio to back her up. The planner filling out all the contracts as if she were the bride could possibly be seen as fraud. The baker definitely didn't know that the person she was talking and the *actual* client was actually someone else. The bride and groom have grounds to file a civil suit against the planner. 4) Yeah the mother-in-law was a real piece of work (if true.)
I believe it. A venue I worked at had a similar thing happen. Crazy MIL said it wasn't fair we charged a clean up fee and wanted to sue our janitor for not cleaning the bathrooms properly. Turns out she was saying the marbling pattern of the sinks was dirt. Granted the pattern was horrid, but the janitor had those sinks so clean you could eat off them.
No, you'd just call the vendors and say "I'm the wedding coordinator." The VENDORS will have done weddings before, and will know whose name to put where.
I work in the wedding anniversary. I saw a mother in law bring a bunch of kids into the room where the wedding dress was hung up and gave them all red koolaid. There was no reason for any of them to be in there and of course it got spilled on the dress. I also had a MIL wash her face after I did her makeup just to piss off the bride. Another time a mother in law was in charge of the marriage certificate and she "lost" it in the trash... Where it was found later.
I’ve had some absolutely insane situations happen working in optical offices, psychiatric offices, and definitely when I was in retail, so I’ll give Malina the benefit of the doubt.
I knew something was up with the “MOB”/MOG. It was blatantly obvious to me that she wasn’t a lawyer. I feel so bad for everyone involved but especially the bride and groom. Imagine being tied to that crazy ass woman for life. Oof.
At first I thought, ok MIL is claiming to be the brides mother because brides mother passed away and she is the only mother bride has now, MIL treats and sees bride as her own (as it should be). How sweet...and then the story continued 🤦♀
I don’t have any other social media so I appreciate all the videos you post. Keeps me in the loop. 💜💜 If this is how the mother in law is about the wedding, I’m guessing she is gonna be a meddling mom in the couple’s relationship…I’m sure she already is. Plus, I hate it when people say “I’m a lawyer” or “I have family that are lawyers” to try to get one over on someone, scare them, etc.
As someone who’s mom is a Wedding DJ & I have personally DJ’d weddings that she couldn’t attend. You would be surprised what weddings bring out of people. I am not surprised by this at all. I once had a man yell at me because I “didn’t count right.” Yet I did exactly what the mother of the groom asked me to do. It didn’t help that this was at a very close friend of mines wedding so his parents are like my second family and they were not very happy with what happened.
Ha ha! I just watched the first video on this and left a comment before catching up...I said I believed that the "mom" was pretending to have been scammed in order to scam money off the vendors...and that seems spot on now!
This sounds exactly like something my step-grandmother would have done just to get attention and to get money out of it. My step-grandmother was a notorious lier and manipulator.
they AREN'T thinking, that's just it. almost everyone is lacking critical thinking skills. cannot make executive decisions without being TOLD what to do... it's insane
Just to address a few comments about the pictures on bridal gift - i say cakes throughout this video thinking the bridal gift were little cupcakes, turns out they were cookies instead and i remembered incorrectly. Either way, my opinion is still the same regardless if they were cakes or cookies 😂 i think me saying cakes is confusing and makes it seem like im talking about the actual wedding cake, my bad!
Markie, I feel like you'd be shocked to know just how much bullshit actually goes on in the wedding industry!🤣😭 I can 100% believe this story because I've actually met with wedding planners who have done almost the exact same thing. Unfortunately, common sense isn't so common anymore, and a lot of people just don't have their heads screwed on straight. Wedding drama can be some of the worst drama.
Tbh I thought it was like a nice print of the couple or something to start with and a goodie item... Lol
Either way, I got the poor woman got a photo of the coordinator vs the couple and used it as a gift. So wrong.
I feel like "Miranda" just got in way over her head in planning her first professional wedding. But at least, from every indication in these videos, she seems to have done a satisfactory job for the married couple. She made a couple of awkward blunders, but I think she learned some valuable lessons.
On the other hand, the mother-in-law is a crazy awful liar who is trying to scam $500 out of the cake baker by impersonating a lawyer. What a total waste of a partially functional brain.
i wonder if the coordinator was told that the picture was for a gift from the cake maker? some businesses will get pictures for their websites.
but still weird that if they were or weren't aware of the reason for the picture
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Honestly as someone whose worked in customer service? I can 100% believe that the story was made up by someone in hope to scam refunds out of vendors.
LOL, my exact thought. I started this video thinking it was going to be some crazy ass story…but yeah, this story sounds legit to me (especially the part about how the MIL thought the baker was easy prey).
Once you work in customer service with the public or even just have plain old ratchety family members, you get to learn real quick about how easily some people will lie, cheat, steal to get whatever they think they can. There’s some really crazy/shitty people out there.
I was a CSR also, and when the caller threatened legal action I would offer the contact information to our corporate legal department. No one ever took my offer, as if they were actually trying to intimidate me.
Same! I found this version way more believable. One unpleasant family member lying and trying to get 500 bucks? Yeah I can see that. I worked at a wedding venue for 4 years and there can be a lot of chaos. All a scammer needs is to single out the right person
Yep completely agree! From my personal experience with MILs and the public I know there are people who would scheme like this.
Here to give validation, I 100% believe the MIL bit. I can smell it.
Word of advice to anyone. If someone says they'll sue you, stfu and tell them to contact you through your lawyer. Shut that conversation down real quick because 9 times out of 10, they're bluffing to get something out of you.
What if I don't have a lawyer
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@cuteDRAGO it's best to research lawyers and talk to them before you need one.
If you don’t have a lawyer, you still tell them to contact your lawyer.
This. Best legal advice is to get legal. Even better "Have your lawyer talk to my lawyer." That scares em off real quick. Don't wanna tango with ppl that know the law.
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Actually, *unhinged mother-in-law* is much more believable than someone in the industry doing what Miranda was acused of doing.
I don't think the mother in law was lucky. She noticed that Miranda was doing a lot of things wrong due to her inexperience and then decided to bank on it. That's how pathological liar generally works in my experience.
Yeah I think she used that Miranda had made a few rookie mistakes so had "evidence" against her in hopes that whoever she tried it on would pay out the money just to make the situation go away who knows if she did try it on anyone else they may have just given her the money to save any hassle
So true, she probably heard about stuff/ figured it out when she was handed the gift that had the wrong recipients. She may have thought Miranda was scammy so she shot her shot ripping off the vendors too. Wouldn't be surprised if the other vendors got similar emails.
Edit for clarity: I think MiL thought Miranda was a scammer, so MiL decided to try and scam the vendors too using Miranda as a cover.
Psychopaths work that way
MIL saw an easy mark since this woman seems sweet. Kind people seem like easy targets and a lot if MIL cause hell for the new DIL and their family period
Y'all obviously don't have much life experience
If you spend enough time reading mother in law horror stories on reddit then you'll know that this story is 100% plausible 😂
Yes! I've had a would be MIL pull some bs. Plus watching the stories talking about other MIL being heinous isn't unusual. That's why there's the term "monster-in-law."
"If you spend enough time believing anything you read on Reddit you'll believe anything said in a TikTok"
@@theMoporterright? So many Reddit stories are clearly made up, especially AITA ones.
Implying people aren't lying off their asses for those MIL stories? Lol
@@theMoporteryeah the JustNoMIL sub is entertaining and crazy but at least half of them are fake
i called itttt !!! i wrote on another video how i bet it was the mother bc she was being so weird and was placing all the blame on the baker. how she was asking the BAKER for the money, etc but wouldn't say anything to miranda. i knew that weirdo was scamming!!!! i saw way too many red flags 🚩🚩🚩
I thought so too! Did not make sense that she would ask the baker when the baker didn’t get the $ Did she think that the baker would just pay her because she mentioned the lawyer thing? So weird!
@@kristinab8326 right ??!!! she definitely was preying on that poor woman and thought she could get over on her. what a horrible person. can't even begin to imagine all the other shady stuff she's done before 🫠
I thought she was idiot - but that did not even cross my mind!!! Good one!
Fr! Peak “toxic boy mom” behaviour 💀💀💀
Same. I figured it was either the family scamming or the planner and family together scamming people. The planner did some things that are sus though, even if inexperienced.
Markie is so on top of internet drama he’s how I catch up on things since I tend to avoid TikTok like the plague
SAME LOL bless him
My algorithm doesn’t feed me this side of TikTok so it’s all stuff I’ll never see otherwise
He’s doing the Lord’s work! Blessed be! LOL
Bro same
Omg, there ARE others who aren't on TikTok and avoid it at all costs, not JUST me?!! Wonderful! Can't 100% avoid it, simply because people post TikToks here, too, and I adore Markie, so I obviously see a decent portion through his content, as well; but Markie at least adds interest to the stupid things and never fails to make me laugh.
To the best of my knowledge, it's illegal to claim to be a lawyer when you aren't. If Melina has that in writing from then, I would go to the police & inform them that someone is impersonating a lawyer while making legal threats.
It's not illegal to claim that. It's illegal to give law advice. That is practicing without a license.
@@vikkilooper4075it depends. If they were impersonating an actual lawyer or claimed to be from an actual law firm that can be a crime still. However if they just claimed to be a lawyer and didn't impersonate a lawyer, then it's just lying and lying isn't a crime
@@vikkilooper4075actually depends where you’re located. It is illegal to claim to be a lawyer and attempt to threaten someone with that information in certain jurisdictions.
@@vikkilooper4075it is illegal. It's considered fraud. So are the threats real or implied, because the are a form of coercion.
It's illegal to impersonate a lawyer. @@vikkilooper4075 you don't HAVE to practice for it to be illegal. Just TELLING ppl you're a lawyer IS illegal. Will it get you jail? It's pretty unlikely. Even practicing is very unlikely to get you jail but has gotten people sued. Now if you were to just heavily IMPLY you're an attorney then there's really nothing actually illegal. It's just a dick move. But if the words in any form are "I'm a lawyer" you've done something g illegal.
What i don’t understand is how you can blame a cake maker when the coordinator is clearly the problem. Also why didn’t they be proactive and check everything the coordinator did. Was what im originally thinking. Now im sus of the client and the coordinator.
I can kinda understand checking with the coordinator but also I can understand why you wouldn't. Since their whole job is to make the brides job easier. The bride communicates what she wants and expects to the coordinator and the coordinator makes it happen. Either way I think is acceptable.
@@YriKururu she lied, she wasn't an actual attorney... Also, I'm sure the coordinator gave updates and prices along the way (since the bride mentioned being with her for the tasting) . It's normal to give an invoice at the end of the service agreement.
Nah, to me this seems more like the cake maker made the story up
@@kinglewis6553 That just doesn't make sense. Highly doubt she made the story up. It's a pretty weird, twisty turny series of lies to make up. I think if she would've made up the story, it would have been more simple and easier to follow lies. I believe her. Sounds like she was singled out by a scammer/pathological liar (the mother of the groom as stated in the story)
@kinglewis6553 No the baker didn't make it all up! This is her business and main source of income for her family. If this was all lies, it would ruin her reputation and destroy her business. And I doubt anyone would risk that happening. SMFH 🙄
I believe the picture issue was on the gift “cookie” the pastry person created for the bride and groom (something extra) not the actual cake.
Yea that’s what I was thinking
Yeah I knew it wasn't the actual wedding cake and was the bridal gift, sorry if my wording was confusing. I thought the gift was little cupcakes rather than a cookie but looks like I didn't remember correctly, my bad! Still my thoughts are the same regardless of cake or cookie haha
@@CallumMarkie you could be totally right on the cupcake vs cookie hence the quotations. And I agree with your thoughts. I absolutely love your work and really look forward to your uploads. ❤️
@@CallumMarkie from my understanding of the first video, they were a surprise wedding gift. So the wedding planner wouldn't have known that she was actually going to put their picture on anything.
I honestly don't believe this is real. But if it was, then that might be an explanation.
@@connieguidry6656I thought that the cookie gifts might have been more of a bonus, i.e. - The baker offers this free cookie with the sentimental design as a gesture of thanks and gratitude for being chosen to bake for this wedding. The bride would have known about it had she met with the baker originally, but since she didn’t, the coordinator “stole” the cookie for herself by putting her personal picture on it.
I think that’s where the “inexperienced” comment comes from. The planner was not saying she didn’t know that the cookie wasn’t meant for her. She was saying that she thought a freebie cookie wasn’t a big deal, and that she could take it and no one would really care.
Unethical and very lame, but if she had trained under a planner before starting her own business and saw someone keep samples or be given a freebie, she might not have understood the context and thought that sometimes people skim off the top a bit. At least, that’s what I think she’s trying to imply regarding her “inexperience.”
Take MIL to small claims court. She fraudulently represented herself as the MOB and tried to fraudulently get money from vendors. That's theft. She also told lies about the coordinator (and probably lied about vendors) which could be defamation. She's playing some really stupid games, someone should award her the stupid prizes she wants so badly.
oh this would be a slam dunk for defamation assuming the MIL contacted more then just the baker with this scheme. throwing the coordinator under the bus by saying that she up charged them a ton would affect that persons business at any of the places she used for the wedding and since all the actual contracts show the opposite of what the MIL said, it shows malicious intent from the MIL side.
the only one i see being a problem is the "stole 500$ tip from every vendor" claim, depending on where this would be, burden of proof would be on the coordinator and since the tip is off the record..... its not easy to prove that the MIL is lying about it.
just my 2 cents..... 100% Not A Lawyer.
I hope that bride and groom go no contact with his mom, because she's a thief and a liar.
They have. There's another video about it.
seems like the mother in law didn't think this would be communicated to anyone or would be posted on social media
At my wedding my dad lied to my grandmother (his mom) that he had paid for everything when it was my husband and his family who paid for everything and me doing a lot of DIY things. The ONLY thing he did was pay for my dress, but only two weeks before the wedding (when we were engaged for 2.5 years btw) and the boutique kept telling him they couldn’t hold it down anymore and my husband basically made him pay at that point, like dude 🙄 also they got the photographer who fought with people and was honestly just awful at his job over all. If my husband’s amazing cousin didn’t swoop in with his own camera and photo booth I wouldn’t have had pictures at my own wedding. Sometimes your parents just suck lol
I have family in the wedding industry and from the stories I have heard from my family this sounds very believable. The one part that isn’t believable is the wedding coordinator cake bit. She just wanted a free goodie. Also my personal experience my coordinator pretended to be me so that is normal from my experience.
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to ignorance. The coordinator panicked because she was stuck in the fiction that she was the bride. It’s not normal to pretend to be the bride, they are the ones the vendors actually should have contracts with. Cake and flowers are the only two vendors with whom you can actually conceal the identity of the bride- catering and music are physically at the wedding and dress hair and makeup are physically on the bride. The venue will also usually be present at the wedding as well.
Pretending to be the bride doesn't sound like an industry standard, from my totally uninformed perspective. Wouldn't that make it harder to keep working with local vendors?
@@adbreon There must have been some vendors she couldn't pretend to be the bride with, for the reasons you mentioned. So if she knew it was 'safe' to pretend to be the bride in some instances, but not in others, doesn't that suggest ignorance isn't the issue?
@@THEDubbleHelixx I think I probably explained it poorly to be honest. They were emailing and coordinating things on my behalf and would answer as me for particular things. They did not show up in person pretending to be me or anything like the other coordinator in the story did.
@@alleekatdaddie Ah, that makes sense.
It wasn’t on the cake. The picture was on a gift for the couple from the baker. Still odd.
Honestly it just sounds like a crazy mother-in-law and that would not surprise me in the slightest. Because if you have seen the way some of these grooms mothers act while their son is getting married to a woman they don’t like. Those cows can get crazy.
Yup this is exactly what I'm thinkin too. MIL was controlling all the convos until the other 3 connected and their stories collaborate each other's while the grooms mother just looks more insane.
Same thoughts exactly - creepy-ass "Boy Mom" MILs get absolutely unhinged around wedding time.
Still convinced, there's no wedding coordinator and the bride and mum tried to pull a scam and now that it's blown up they're back tracking
My thoughts exactly !!!
Yes! Take the Miranda aspect out of the story and it makes more sense. Especially since the vendor never saw the bride. That is something I can believe
I was in the wedding industry foe 17 years. Wedding coordinators (especially new ones) always hand out businesses cards to venders and try to get them to recommend them to other brides. Why would she not only not be networking but also make it impossible to work with the bakery again? It makes no sense.
Poor preparation and an assumption that this particular cake vendor wouldn’t remember her the next time she had a bride who wanted to work with them.
So, after watching the first video on this subject, I was 95% certain that the next twist in the story would be that the wedding coordinater was a friend of the bride's family and that's why the "mother" didn't choose to go after her and instead targeted Malina. *This* video just...absolutely blew my mind.
Also as to the question of what the MIL's thought process was? Presumably she thought that if she convinced Malina that she was a lawyer specialising in this field, Malina would then be scared into submission and boom, an instant "donation" of $500 in the MIL's account courtesy of someone desperate to avoid legal action. Think the whole Jeanette Braun situation - the thought process is largely the same: "if I seem intimidating enough, they'll all just shut up and do what they're told".
At this point I’m wondering if there even was a wedding 😂
Are the cakes in the videos even real 😭
@@theMoporter Is anything real? Does cake even exist???
@tobybartlett *solipsism has entered chat*
@@tobybartlett The cake is a lie.
Being a florist, I've dealt with some wacky weddings.
I don't have any difficulty believing that this is true.
I've had people claim they 'thought delivery was included' (even though we don't have a delivery service, & that is one of the first things I tell people who are looking to order from us)
And then DEMANDED a discount on their order since they had to have someone coming pick it up.
So yes, some people will do anything to try to make a little extra money.
Ok... _maybe_ the coordinator pretended to be the bride because they'd asked her to handle everything for them and she thought that it'd be quicker and easier to deal with all the vendors if they thought she was the bride making decisions for her own wedding. Like, maybe she thought theyd insist on confirmation from the bride herself or something, and she thought she was being smart and getting around that
Then the baker needs a picture and she's like "oh no, if I give them a picture of the real bride and groom, my ruse will be found out!" And just decided to say there must have been a mistake with the file. Hey! Maybe thats why she disappeared, she didn't want to be there when they saw them
this makes so much more sense. the MIL demanding refunds from the cake maker for the coordinator's mistake was so confusing. I know people like this so this doesn't surprise me (and i do believe it). Either way very entertaining story
I worked in the wedding industry for 2 and a half years and in that short amount of time I've seen family try to cancel weddings vendors, family be escorted out of weddings by security because they were crashing the wedding, and family start full on fist fights because they disapprove of the other family. Weddings bring out the worst in people imo
I'm surprised new wedding coordinators don't shadow experienced ones before they take on their first solo job.
The thing is you have to find someone who is willing to mentor you when you’re going to go on and become their competition. The best option for getting experience is finding a non-solo coordinator whose company you can work up through or a venue that has in-house coordinators (I worked as a venue coordinator for years before branching out to exhibitions and events). It depends on your area though whether those options are available.
Damn, I can't help but feel bad for everyone involved (minus the mother in law scammer). A wedding should be a happy occasion, not this dumpster fire. I hope the happy couple can look back and laugh after the situation is resolved.
I buy that this is true because Grooms moms get fuckin wild around their sons getting married.
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As an event coordinator with more than a decade of experience, I do not believe the coordinator was that confused. In order to take a client, you have to advertise your services, set prices, and have some general knowledge of wedding and event planning. Coordinators also do not foot the bills if they're just now taking their first client. A wedding firm may do that, but independent coordinators are invoiced by vendors and pass that on to the clients. I believe the mother in law part of the story because I have had some WILD mothers in law at my events. But the coordinator part is just really throwing me off. She's either not going to succeed in this field because she has no critical thinking skills or she's lying about what actually happened. 🤔
You havent been around enough liars. They dont ever think through things.
Since tiktok is looking like it's going to get banned in America, you gotta be our eyes so we know all the drama!
Congress is all about grabbing headlines and not actually doing anything.
It won't be banned, they're attempting to force a sale to a US based company.
@@marlepluto ah, sweet!
@@marleplutoSo that the US can push for whatever shady business they want to use TikTok for... dangit
@marlepluto it might be banned, it either gets sold to a US company OR it gets banned in the US.
Again, ex wedding planning firm owner here. I was VERY sought after in the wedding industry in our area and even at the height/end of my career, never did I have a $2,000 wedding cake….not once…..and I did $50-$70k weddings…..The fact that a first time wedding planner booked a wedding with THAT kind of budget is absolutely insane.
It's not a cake price, 2500 is all the desserts she did
I've been to a LOT of weddings with wedding cakes costing way more than $2000! My cousin's wedding cost a hell of a lot more than $70k, and her wedding cakes cost close to $8000! So yes, there ARE cakes that cost $2000.
Also, she wasn't talking about a wedding cakes - she was talking about baked desserts. And, depending on what different toppings etc, that she used, it could've EASILY cost that price!
@@samanthafairweather9186 Right? And even if she was talking about a cake that cost two grand, the client chose and went through with that baker. They could’ve picked a different baker/vendor if the price was too high for them. Just like anything else, the creator/artist/baker/etc. sets their price and you choose whether or not to pay that or take your business elsewhere.
How were you in the industry for any length of time and yet you don’t realize that prices vary wildly from state to state? Maybe you live in a low cost of living state, but here, $2,000 would be a very typical wedding cake for a wedding of around 100-150 guests, not even ostentatious. And 50-70K would be a very average wedding cost here. I’d imagine somewhere like NYC would easily be double that.
ETA: LOL Your “photo” is terrible photoshop or AI. IMO, your career in the industry was probably just as authentic.
Honestly, the mother-in-law just sounds evil... Why would you ever think it was ok to 1. Pretend to be the brides deceased mother and 2. Then try to cause this big issue at your own sons wedding about something that wasn't even true?!.... This just makes me even happier that I went for a small simple wedding on the beach with none of the ridiculous extras! People are insane!!!
I'd rethink her new husband. Unless he breaks all contact with "mom" I'd leave him.
So happy I’m not the only one that is worried about the MIL being a bigger problem than what’s being shown rn… I really hope that the bride is going to be able to stay married to her husband and that they’re able to go reduced/no contact with her…
I don't think he should break contact with his mom. Although what she did was very wrong but the better solution would be to have a talk with her or give her a warning to not interfere in their relationship in future
@@khushi-zd1xipretty sure they're saying it not only based on this situation, but also because she's apparently "known for lying"
Did she talk to the bride in person??
Bc it would be so easy for a friend of the wedding planner to call and pretend to be her, telling her this whole story to avoid getting dragged..
I suspected that the total bill was 7500, including lots of other stuff.
Also, after your traveling, I'm now aware of how much I love that blue background.
i have a possible plot hole. i presume the cake was purchased with a credit/debit card so wouldn’t the refund go back on the card and not to the MIL?
Wouldn't be hard for the MIL to say give the refund to a different account, because the credit card belongs to the coordinator - whether that's true or not
Mil is asking for tips back, not the cake price. And she said tips were in cash, also seems they didnt exist
If you frequent any wedding drama or mother in law subreddits none of this story surprises. It's apparently common. Couples have to make secret passwords with vendors to keep things from being changed or sabotaged so much that it's industry standard now.
If I was the coordinator, I'd rather people believe I'm a scammer than know that I thought giving a vendor a photo of MYSELF was a logical choice
why would someone having such a big grand wedding hire an inexperienced wedding coordinator with no portfolio...
They most likely know the coordinator personally. She might be a friend of the bride or groom.
Some people splurge on the “look” of the wedding and cheap out on the important parts like coordinating. A lot of people can’t afford the weddings they plan 🫠
Bc they are inexperienced with weddings too😂its their first one too
i am so confused why any of this matters. cake lady has a signed contract. any other drama is mute. I would block them all. cake lady fulfilled her contract.
Another thing that's wild about this is that the groom's family almost never pays for anything at a wedding, so the MIL is 100% a scammer lol
What kind of statistic is that? Weddings are paid for by all sorts of family members or the couple themselves, there's no rule that the groom's family doesn't pay
@@faceofvisiontradition was that the bride’s family paid for the wedding. Not sure people adhere to that now but my parents paid for my wedding a few decades ago
@@molybdomancer195 the key word is "was", plus different cultures exist. Traditions are "broken" all the time, there's no evidence to claim that the groom's family didn't pay for anything.
well, that was quite a few twists I didn't expect but it does make more sense? It does seem like a wild crazy story but after years of scrolling through Tiktok and reading reddit stories, this one seems believable to me.
I think she either had already handed in some paperwork filled out wrong and was too embarrassed to say "actually can I have that back" or "actually can I have new blank ones" and refill them out because filling it out with YOUR info was probably SUPER EMBARRASSING. So she decided "well it doesn't really matter anyways" etc. OR- she was in the middle of filling it out and thought that because the cake details would all be the same it shouldn't matter anyways and was too lazy to change it/did it up in pen and didn't think to white it all out etc. Or she filled it out in pen right there. The point being she probably figured it out at the picture part, but was tooooo committed and decided to roll with it anyways.
I am so baffled why someone would take on a wedding with zero experience let alone a big wedding. You usually intern or apprentice for any job field specifically for this reason. Furthermore, any reasonable thinking person would not say they were the bride when they were if fact a coordinator, even if you were just a friend helping you wouldnt pretend to be the bride. Not for nothing but coordinators often get discounts or other incentives with vendors they team with especially as you use them more but I digress its makes zero sense to say you're the bride because how weird would it look if a vendor called to ask an important question to who is the "bride" and then you got to say um let me call you back bc I don't know the answer....strange. Also why oh why would this fake bride use her own bridal portrait with her husband....baffled is what I'm left being, is this "coordinator" playing naive/ignorant(no knowledge) or is she truly lacking the cognitive thinking ability or have a low common (or otherwise) sense threshold
That's what I was thinking. Like why would a coordinator not have any experience at all and not know that their job is coordinator not pretend to be a bride. Like it's a common sense thing. The whole thing smells fishy.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it comes out the MIL did do it to other vendors.
She probably hoped they would just pay out to avoid any trouble and who knows some vendors may have genuinely thought they would have to go to court over it and the "refund" would work out cheaper than taking it court,paying lawyers and having to miss bookings due to having to take time away from work
I’ll say this once, I’ll say it again… it all sounds made up 😒
I really do believe the vendor. It's a wild and crazy story but people are wild and crazy enough to pull stunts like this.
I could believe someone close to the bride and groom would attempt to use a wedding to get freebies for themselves but I am reluctant to believe a wedding coordinator would be silly enough to fill out things as if they're the bride. Even the most inexperienced of coordinators would know that that's the wrong thing to do.
there is always a chance that miranda is autistic, has mental illness etc. there are reasons someone might do something illogical because it felt logical to them.
@@foxbunsor the cake lady made this whole story up
@@kinglewis6553 for what? there is 0 benefit to lying, she gains nothing from people believing its fake.
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I think in the coordinators defence the form as shown didn't ask for the bride and groom, or happy couple, etc.
It asked for "you and your partner". In smaller text under it there's a whole thing about how if you're ordering as a gift fill it out using the details of the soon to be wedded couple.
I can totally see someone who's a bit dense taking everything 100% literally, it wasn't a gift so they ignrored the small text, and filling it in with them and their partners details.
Is it a stretch to believe? Yes. But is it plausible? Absolutely.
Currently planning my wedding. I have not seen ONE inquiry form that asks for bride & groom.. every single one I’ve filled out asks for my name and “partner’s name”
Naaaah that's slackline level stretching
The past few months I've been considering about being a wedding planner but geez, this is enough to make anyone think twice!
My wedding planner did elopements. She also was the officiant. It was beautiful and perfect. Don’t let this make you think twice. You could bring so much joy and happiness to other people. Good luck! 🥰
I think the wedding coordinator didn’t put a picture of herself and her husband/bf on the wedding cake, she put it on the bridal gift which was a cookie (?) for the bride and groom to enjoy after the wedding
The amount of people “telling their sides” of stories on TikTok is just sickening now
Tell us you don't believe a word of this without telling us. Very smooth. Keep up the great work Markie.
It sounds to crazy totally crazy, why would you use a wedding planner and not look at reviews or speak to someone who had worked with her before and how did the grooms mother get a copy of the bill to be able to change it ? Who paid for the wedding ? How could the baker be at the wedding but not see the bride ? So many questions 😂
I can believe a mother in law would do this tbh. Some moms are seriously unhinged, especially if they don’t like who their children are marrying or if they just want to make everything about themselves.
I think what I always think, which is that wedding stuff is too expensive!
It's the matrimony industrial complex
I feel so bad for this bride. The MIL is going to be a fucking nightmare for the rest of her life 💀
Knowing several people who have overbearing mothers in law, I completely believe that the mother in law tried to meddle in and manipulate this situation 🤷🏻♀️ there are some brides who have a lovely MIL and some who don’t. This bride just happened to have one of the wild ones!
I work retail and I believe not her story, but I believe that things like this happened
This whole story sounds crazy and suspicious, but also given things I’ve heard and seen I’d totally believe someone would try and do this too.
Idk how it goes as a wedding planner… HOWEVER, as a dog groomer, I’ve had plenty of “house managers” put their names as the dog owners on paperwork
All of this sounds way too convoluted. I think she made it all up to get more attention for her and her business. Until I see the receipts, I say it's fake. Entertaining, but fake.
Normally I’d agree but it actually sounds more credible now. Wedding industry people get crap like this all the time and the MIL thought she could intimidate a vendor she saw as an easy target. If she disliked the bride she might have wanted to cause issues.
A lot of comments from people in this industry or who know people in it seem to think it’s very plausible.
Of course you could be right, the inexperienced planner putting her photo on the cookies makes zero sense unless she meant it as a bonus gift to the bride and her guests, kind of a weird but well-intended thank you for their business. If she paid for those it would make sense, but it’s weird and a terrible idea. Very unprofessional even for an inexperienced planner.
These days people put all their business on TikTok. Everyone wants to share every aspect of their lives. Sometimes it’s true, sometimes it’s bullshit.
You've not known many MILs apparently
@vikkilooper4075 Thankfully, no. I had a good relationship with my partner's parents until they died, and my friends have good relationships with their own in-laws as well. I'm sure there are crazy ones out there, but I don't believe this story until I see receipts. It's either a fabrication from this creator or the wedding planner she's talking about, because it sounds way too crazy to be believable. Good for this baker for going viral, though.
@christinem1458 I'm inclined to agree. There are some in-law horror stories, but it feels like if even one of these story beats didn't happen exactly the way they did, then none of this would have happened. This makes me really skeptical that the story is true.
Agree. Because if she was at the venue, she would know the couples name
I believe this story. The first video and emails were so unhinged so this makes way more sense
Life is stranger than fiction, you’d be surprised at what goes on at weddings… as a former wedding photographer.
last time i was this early my mom needed a c section
😂😂😂
Can you imagine the reaction of that bride when she saw that video about what her MIL did? I would not have wanted to be in her position, she had to tell her husband what his mother did AND try to do damage control for them as the wedding couple.
This reminds me of a story from a friends wedding about some stranger couple that showed up, dressed up for a wedding, and passed around an envelope to put cash in "for the wedding couple" and then they tried to walk away. But I guess before they could some drunk uncle intercepted them and put in a bunch of money (over a grand) only to stumble up to the married couple and shove the envelope down his older brothers pants 😅
And people were going up to the strangers and thanking them for the great idea.
Me and a few other sober people were thr only ones that hadn't recognized the two
We also watched as they walked back to their car looking incredibly upset.
Never did figure out what they were so mad about 😂😂
Couple of things I find sketchy:
1) No matter how new you are to the industry (I work events), it's just basic common sense, you're the planner *YOUR* face should never be on anything, let alone the cake. Was the bride not involved at all in choosing her cake? From flavors to size, to colors, to design to who bakes the d@mn thing, the bride *should* have had the most input.
2) As the planner coordinator, you're responsible for everything on site making sure everything and everyone is where they should be and knows what is expected of them. You're damage control. You either prevent something from going wrong or you fix it. You *DON"T* leave until it's over. We've got an emergency kit where we carry everything from sewing kits, to medicine, to bandaids, stain remover, duct tape and a whole other bunch of stuff just in case because you never know what you'll need in an event and specially weddings. And I would have thought that as this couple is her very first client, the planner would have been more meticulous about everything to make sure nothing goes wrong because their review and possible referrals could make or break her business.
3) As for the bride, how the heck did she find this planner? If she's having a big, grand wedding then I would have thought she'd go for a more experienced person with the experience and portfolio to back her up. The planner filling out all the contracts as if she were the bride could possibly be seen as fraud. The baker definitely didn't know that the person she was talking and the *actual* client was actually someone else. The bride and groom have grounds to file a civil suit against the planner.
4) Yeah the mother-in-law was a real piece of work (if true.)
Oh yeah I don't believe this at all anymore. The story has jumped the shark
Hey markie thanks for another great video!
as a wedding coordinator, none of this is really that unbelievable lol
I was like “yeah this is all sounding a little unbelievable” and then Markie said mother-in-law and I was oh “oh. Yeah that explains it”
Thank you for your well-researched and balanced content!
I believe it. A venue I worked at had a similar thing happen. Crazy MIL said it wasn't fair we charged a clean up fee and wanted to sue our janitor for not cleaning the bathrooms properly. Turns out she was saying the marbling pattern of the sinks was dirt. Granted the pattern was horrid, but the janitor had those sinks so clean you could eat off them.
Markie keeping me in the loop
Good job markie!
No, you'd just call the vendors and say "I'm the wedding coordinator." The VENDORS will have done weddings before, and will know whose name to put where.
I believe this story, I have evil scammers relatives like this mother in-law. This sounds like something my shady uncle would do.
She did not put her own pic on the cake. It was a thank you gift is what I heard.
I love Markie because he is straight to the point with perfect commentary.
NGL-I know people like this mother in law. Sadly this story really tracks.
I work in the wedding anniversary. I saw a mother in law bring a bunch of kids into the room where the wedding dress was hung up and gave them all red koolaid. There was no reason for any of them to be in there and of course it got spilled on the dress.
I also had a MIL wash her face after I did her makeup just to piss off the bride.
Another time a mother in law was in charge of the marriage certificate and she "lost" it in the trash... Where it was found later.
Siting down and logging in just in time for a Markie video~!
I’ve had some absolutely insane situations happen working in optical offices, psychiatric offices, and definitely when I was in retail, so I’ll give Malina the benefit of the doubt.
Already seen this update somewhere else but wanted gor Markie
Yeh to reiterate a few of the comments, the images of them was for the wedding gift not the cake itself so theres a little confusion there
I knew something was up with the “MOB”/MOG. It was blatantly obvious to me that she wasn’t a lawyer. I feel so bad for everyone involved but especially the bride and groom. Imagine being tied to that crazy ass woman for life. Oof.
Hahahaha CLASSIC wedding monster in law story…. You’re now in wedding drama territory and I’m HERE FOR IT!!
At first I thought, ok MIL is claiming to be the brides mother because brides mother passed away and she is the only mother bride has now, MIL treats and sees bride as her own (as it should be). How sweet...and then the story continued 🤦♀
I believe her. MILs are notorious for being liars and starting drama 😭
The twist was twisting in this story!
I don’t have any other social media so I appreciate all the videos you post. Keeps me in the loop. 💜💜
If this is how the mother in law is about the wedding, I’m guessing she is gonna be a meddling mom in the couple’s relationship…I’m sure she already is. Plus, I hate it when people say “I’m a lawyer” or “I have family that are lawyers” to try to get one over on someone, scare them, etc.
As someone who’s mom is a Wedding DJ & I have personally DJ’d weddings that she couldn’t attend. You would be surprised what weddings bring out of people. I am not surprised by this at all. I once had a man yell at me because I “didn’t count right.” Yet I did exactly what the mother of the groom asked me to do. It didn’t help that this was at a very close friend of mines wedding so his parents are like my second family and they were not very happy with what happened.
Ha ha! I just watched the first video on this and left a comment before catching up...I said I believed that the "mom" was pretending to have been scammed in order to scam money off the vendors...and that seems spot on now!
Appreciate you keeping us up to date on this nonsense Markie 😂
This sounds exactly like something my step-grandmother would have done just to get attention and to get money out of it. My step-grandmother was a notorious lier and manipulator.
I totally believe this. I've heard some crazy mother in law stories. This actually seems tame compared to some in the just no mil subreddit.
they AREN'T thinking, that's just it. almost everyone is lacking critical thinking skills. cannot make executive decisions without being TOLD what to do... it's insane
Honestly I believe this...I've heard WILD stories about mother in laws from brides and daughter inlaws...Mother's of the grooms be crazy😂😂😂