Brides’ woe as weddings axed after hotels go bust
IT was meant to be the happiest day of her life.
But a bride has been left ‘devastated’ after losing £10,000 and being forced to cancel her wedding, after a hotel company went into administration.
Halo Hotels, which runs the Burnhouse Manor Hotel in Ayrshire and the Crowwood House Hotel in Chryston, Lanarkshire, went under on December 4.
Dozens of couples have been forced to call off their weddings despite paying thousands of pounds to the company.
Katie Quinn, 45, of Auchinairn, Dunbartonshire, has lost nearly £10,000 after being told her summer 2019 wedding at Crowwood House could not go ahead.
The mother of three, who booked her wedding at the end of May, said: ‘We paid a deposit of £600 and after that we’ve been using our visa debit card to pay £600 every month.
‘So far we have paid £3,500 but Danny [her partner] and I have been left devastated because we have lost £10,000.
‘Although our hotel was supposed to cost us £6,000, I’ve lost out because I’ve bought my wedding dress, cake, light-up dance floor, flowers, wedding rings...
‘I was informed Crowwood went into administration but that was through a friend, not the hotel. I’ve received nothing from them, not even sympathy.’
Angela Logan, from Penilee, Glasgow, said she had paid a £500 deposit and monthly payments of £250 since January, adding: ‘Because we paid it all in cash it means we can’t claim it back.’
Administrator FRP Advisory LLB said it was aware of a number of ‘customer deposits for events which the company can no longer fulfil and those customers are being contacted’.