To whom it may concern,
I am writing because I have been abused in the worst way. I recently got married (October 2, 2010) and throughout the planning process endured verbal and emotional abuse by the officiant. He is the owner of Fresno Wedding Chapel, Rev. Carl, and is the most unprofessional, unreasonable and the most unorganized person. Two days prior to the wedding he verbally abused me by shouting at me and belittling me. Because I could not find another person to marry my husband and me, I was forced into using him. The day of the wedding, he showed up for five minutes and then left. He did not show up until thirty minutes after. He was half an hour late in starting our ceremony causing all of our guests to wait and then didn’t bring the vows I provided for him and proceeded with another ceremony, which he didn’t even practice beforehand. He promised us, and we paid for, photography and he forgot the SD card to take pictures. If it hadn’t been for my sister and her camera we probably would no memories of our wedding. He said he would provide background music and didn’t know which track to play. He changed the tracks on the cheap radio he brought as I was walking down the aisle. The music skipped and he not once took the time to learn my name much less my husbands.
Then he took my marriage license and after several attempts to contact him and meet with him to get my license back he finally met with me on Wednesday October 7, 2010 at around 4:15p.m. He pulled up in his white truck on the side of the street and not once got off of the car. He practically threw the license at me and then I wanted to ask him a question. I asked if he had made copies. He then began to call me “stupid”, and say what a stupid question I had. He then sped off, almost running over my feet, and laughed as he did. I then called him to try and get the $49 he owed me back and the abuse continued. He called me stupid over ten times and dumb and said that I was the stupidest person he had ever met. My husband overheard the whole thing because he was on speakerphone. I called Fresno police department because I was scared that he would come back to my house and physically harm me. They said they could not do anything as a crime was not committed. The crime he committed, in my opinion, as to make our special day a complete nightmare and then made it thereafter even more of a nightmare. He has been on the top ten worst companies to hire on the BBB before (something I discovered only after already hiring him) and feel that enough is enough. He needs to have his license pulled so that he cannot do this to anyone again. He should not be allowed to treat people this way. He is a crook who takes people’s money and then proceeds to treat them as if they were less than nothing.
I am considering filing a small claim against him because this has affected me emotionally and financially. I believe that he needs to be put out of business and I do not recommend him to anyone.
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