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Wedding ruined by car hire fiasco

7:40am Saturday 2nd October 2010

It was bride Alison Tucker’s dream to arrive at the church in a £300,000 silver Rolls Royce Phantom.

But after the top of the range car failed to show, instead of a chauffeur driven limousine decked with ribbons with a bottle of champagne on ice, she spent the wedding day journey crammed in the back of a less than glamorous Vauxhall Vectra.

It was the beginning of a wedding day nightmare that ended with a streak of oil down the back of her dress.

Mrs Tucker, 31, booked a silver Rolls Royce Phantom, decked with ribbons and champagne, to take her and her bridesmaids to St Mark’s Church in Purley for her wedding on September 18.

But after a series of frantic calls from her parents’ house in Wallington it became clear the car they had hired from ABC Limos in Croydon was not going to arrive.

Mrs Tucker’s father, Graham Baldwin, said: “I could not believe it. No one knew where the car or the driver was."

“In the end our neighbour, who was out cleaning his windows, had to dash in, get changed and take us in his Vauxhall Vectra."

“We had hired a photographer to come to the house and we lost all the photos of me getting into the car with my daughter and arriving at the church all proud."

“In the panic, Alison forgot her earrings and my wife left her handbag and a horseshoe she had made for Alison."

“The groom thought she had changed her mind.”

The family had no idea if a car would be waiting to take Alison to the reception at Woldingham Golf Club.

When they came out there was blue Bentley waiting, with ribbons but no champagne.

Mr Baldwin said: “It was inappropriate for a wedding."

“Alison got a long grease mark on the back of her wedding dress from the door."

“We have taken the dress to the cleaners but they cannot guarantee it will come off. It cost £745 and is irreplaceable.”

A spokeswoman for ABC Limos said the Rolls Royce had been sub-contracted from another company.

She said: “As soon as we were aware the car had not turned up we sent another car free. We are in discussions with the customer about compensation.”

Source; http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news/84 ... re_fiasco/

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Great advert for ABC Limos!!!

I hope they go bust!!

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A Bentley inapropriate for a wedding???? Most wedding cars are Bentleys.
No champagne???? No license to supply.
Compensation culture rears it's ugly head again.

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Grandad,

No business can get it right 100% of the time especially if subcontracting and if they have supplied the alternate car free of charge i.e the customer has not been billed for it I doubt they are liable to pay compensation although they may be liable for the cost of cleaning the wedding dress.

This is getting all too frequent one little mistake and people think they are entitled to a huge wedge of cash even when all that has actually happened is they have been a little inconvenienced

for next time?....

It's not unusual for wedding dresses to be kept for (potential) daughters or even grandaughters to use.
So yes, for next time.

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Hold on, the wedding car didnt turn up, so who messed on the wedding dress?

The blue bentley apparently.

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It reminds me of a wedding I did a few years back in our Rolls Royce. I had just cleaned the burgundy seats with the recomended cleaner a couple ofdays before. The wedding day was very hot and some of the cleaner sort of, well, became liquid. It put a great big burgundy stain on the back of the train. I mentioned it to the bride, who was already 45 minutes late, and she said nothing at all about it. It must have been visible when she walked down the isle but nothing was ever said about it at all.

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Grandad,

It might have gone well with the white.

how many get wed in white now with all thier kids there to watch?...

Did a wedding once in a White Granada (shows how long ago this was ) as we went passed her local she screamed "Stop the F*****g car" She got out leaving her father behind and went into the bar.

After half an hour her dad went in and dragged her out. Told me to "Drive on to the church please" Not a word was said for the rest of the trip

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Sounds like a bride who's got a drink problem.

maybe she needed johnnies out the bog?