Warning on "Cadenza Music Ensemble"

This is my husband's "ranting" review on our Wedding Musicians. This blog entry was originally posted on our wedding site: http://josephandjill.multiply.com/m



Were giving this group one star because this is the lowest rating this review can allow & because we'd like to be fair to our friend who just happens to sing with this group. (Mrs. P: Otherwise, it's zero star)

Let us get straight to the point - if you are the kind of person who puts a high regard on the music you'd want to play on your wedding or on any important occassion for that matter, please save yourself the aggravation & disappointment & bring your money to another group because dealing with this group was really a pain.

We approached this group because of a friend who happened to have a common acquaintance in the group & because a friend of ours also sings for them. But we would later learn that friendship is no guarantee of quality or at least professionalism.

In our experience, Cadenza proved to be very unprofessional both in the way they conduct business with us, their clients, & the way they handled their music.

Our first meeting with them should been warning enough when we had to go all the way to their studio in Rizal under the blistering sun without any clear directions from them because apparently even they didn't know where they were. But we extended patience & after a couple of songs we decided to go with them still.

We gave them a list of songs we'd want them to play, songs that are really important to us & with all confidence we were assured that this would not be a problem. So we met again to make our payments to seal the deal.

However the days would turn into weeks without any word from them & without any advice from them on their progress. Even the singer didn't know what was happening & even what songs she was going to sing. This was days away from the wedding. But we were assured by them that everything was on track & that they would be able to play our songs.

Finally we had our last rehearsal with them. Sure enough they were able to play some of our songs. Unfortunately when we asked about the other songs, they suddenly came back at us with something like they can't find the time to make the music pieces to play our songs & that actually we had to pay extra for them to even play songs not on their repertoire. This was after all their assurances & the faith that we extended to them trusting that at least professionalism would prevail.

Suddenly we found ourselves stuck with a group that is not able to perform the way they promised us they would & days away with our wedding. So after giving them a piece of our mind, we told them they need to deliver on our wedding day because that was what they promised us.

It was a blessing that we were so preoccupied on our wedding day to even notice that this group was playing off-key in many songs, a fact our musician friends pointed out to us after the wedding otherwise we would have really thrown a fit.

This group is far from being a professional music group & you would do good to consider another group if you want to have beautiful music on your wedding day not to mention to spare yourself the mess of having to deal with such a group. (by: Joseph Palarca)