Your Every Heart’s Desire

Your Every Heart’s Desire held an event at the Wayne County Fairgrounods in Belleville called Winter Wonderland Holiday Event. We were first told about this event from a friend who was also led to believe that it would be a great time and a free event for the kids. Well we arrived to be met by two huge security guards at the door, we found that odd given this was a children’s event but brushed it off. The ad online said meet Anna and Elsa from Frozen pictures with Santa, face painting, free stocking for ALL kids to fill with candy at the candy buffet, adults are $ 5 each and kids 14 and under free! Sounds great right? Well it wasn’t. First off they lied about the cost of admission, adults were 6.12 each, once inside you had to pay for EVERYTHING! So we walk in and it looks like a swap meet, wall to wall vendors, looks nothing like a «Winter Wonderland». So we walk around to give it a chance and we’re talking $ 4 for face paint, $ 10 for a pic with Santa, two teenage girls with horrible costumes who put forth zero effort to be in character of Anna and Elsa from Frozen. At this point we’re wondering why we even paid for this. Then it dawned on us, we were supposed to get a stocking for the kids! Well that would kinda be worth the price of admission, at least we’d feel like we got something for what we paid. Well upon inquiring about the stocking, we were told they were only for the first 100 kids even though the online ad said ALL kids receive a stocking, there was not even any fine print saying while supplies last or anything. So after bringing this to the event coordinators attention, she simply said sorry that was a misprint, it was just a small stocking to put candy in, help yourself to the candy. Well after I spotted one of the «stockings» it could hardly even be referred to as a stocking given the tiny size, it was maybe 4 inches long? Yet nother misleading part of the advertising. Look after receiving a refund from the vendor after she read my post on her FB wall at least now I don’t feel so ripped off. But that doesn’t stop me from wanting to warn others. As an event designer it seems they could’ve actually made this hall look like a «Winter Wonderland» for the kids but it seriously looked like they put zero effort into it, there was literally nothing decorated, I mean come on hang up some Christmas lights and hang a few snowflakes from the ceiling, anything. This lady had to have made a killing at this event, just cashing in on the Frozen theme, vendors paid $ 100 a table! So my advice to you if you’re looking for an event designer/​decorator look elsewhere! Or if you see an event for kids with this businesses name on it be ready to feel like you lit your wallet on fire.