Our experience with Michael at Asanka Cuisine for our wedding was a profound disappointment, not only due to the unmet promises but also because of Michael’s poor behavior throughout the process. Despite countless efforts on our part to ensure everything went smoothly, we were met with disregard.
Promises of essential catering support were broken without apology or explanation. Michael specializes in last minute communication that will leave you blindsided and forced to scramble. Michael will not even fulfill the bare minimum - providing the food and serving details to the wedding venue - leaving us to handle it ourselves. He attempted to finalize wedding details with us the day before the wedding, showing a complete lack of respect for our time. Key coordination details were withheld for months, leaving us stranded and stressed when we needed clarity. Michael has a troubling pattern of dishonesty.
Michael was given the opportunity to make things right, but he remained dismissive, unprofessional, and entirely unwilling to take accountability. Trusting his integrity and respect for clients on one of the most important days of their lives would be a mistake we wouldn’t wish on anyone else.
Edited on 10/16/24 in response to Michael and Asanka Cuisine’s message from the morning of 10/16/24:
Dear Fellow Readers,
As a courtesy to Michael and Asanka Cuisine, we extended the option for the wedding venue to accommodate Asanka Cuisine’s food by catering it, with the understanding that we would handle payment ourselves. The first image shows that, on July 23, the venue informed us they would not cater Asanka’s food, and instead, Asanka Cuisine would need to provide their own catering team. This message was promptly forwarded to Michael, the vendor, who responded on July 24 with a simple, "Received with thanks."
The second image reveals Michael’s consistent pattern of unprofessionalism, just one day before our wedding, Michael contacted us asking, “Any idea if Deerfield will be plating the food and managing cleanup?” It’s troubling that a food vendor would ask such critical logistical question the day before the event — a question he had been informed of a full month earlier. Instead of handling these responsibilities, Michael proceeded to harass us with demands to finalize details the day before our wedding.
The third image is from our wedding venue, an unbiased, outside party. It confirms that, two weeks prior to the event, Michael had failed to provide essential details about Asanka Cuisine’s service for the day of the wedding. We, the bride and groom, had to personally reach out to Michael and relay the necessary wedding information to our venue ourselves.
There is evidence for everything we have shared.
Michael, we are not interested in your slander of our relationship or falsehoods. We were raised better. You are a simpleton. We hope you learn grace and decorum. Character is destiny in life. We hope God will reshape yours.
Roosevelt and Lisa Bohmari
Luke 23:34
P.S. In the event that Michael edits or deletes his original response, the final image serves as a record of his initial message.
