The Thyme Garden

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The Thyme Garden is a beautiful botanical garden and an incredible venue for weddings and special events! The owners have dedicated their lives to making a wonderful space to share with others and it is well worth the trip to visit or book one of their tour and luncheons. You can see the largest collection of herbs in he northwest growing in their display gardens, purchase hard to find culinary and medicinal herbs starts for your garden there. I love it!

Janet cancelled our wedding via email. It was awful! Ever been broke up with through text message or email. It's like that! Hits you like a ton of bricks. Janet did not ask us if that was O.K.? Verbal, written & implied contracts are all legal in Oregon. I don't see how you can agree in writing to do something & then completely change your mind after the fact. Its important to think before you speak especially in the premeptive planning stages for a wedding. Bottom line here for Janet & anyone else who makes decisions at Thyme Garden is that its a big deal to cancel someones wedding after you said yes. I have carefully read the communication from Janet regarding my wedding & confirmed that a written yes turned into a no. That should have been phrased as a question not a flat "NO" that has no room for discussion. Furthermore Janet even mentions the slow response on the change of heart. Seroiusly! To present some timeline here it took less time for her to say yes we will take your money that day in Sept then it did for a renege on the whole thing. May go without saying but we would have appreciated a "NO" from the start like a professional that takes their role seriously. If we knew there could be a cancellation we would want what anyone else would want in this worse case scenario. We would want the bad news to be relayed in a timely fashion. When the renege is precised by the word "slow" it really adds salt on the wound & shows admittance to the lack of timeliness. Let's add more salt to the wound now & renege not only slowly but with a reason that is arguably a discrimination matter. I can tell you they didn't cancel due too money. Seldom does discrimination concerns cancel weddings but it has & all in writing. I am strongly considering a legal claim against their entity since we have more then a verbally contract. I'm a licensed wedding DJ in Lincoln County & have been for years. I'm very very familiar with wedding contracts & how time frames work with money & situations where reneging is involved. We were given an excuse related to insurance but based off a discrimation arguement. Being an licensed wedding & event DJ in addition to being a property owner with a business insured that's open to the public just like Thyme Garden I have to argue that their pitiful insurance excuse is completely unfounded. If founded then these would still be considerations at the responsibility of the person charging for use of the facility. With this in mind based on the reason for the renege this would technically be the fault of Thyme for not having their ducks in a row until after they committed already. I will be providing some copy & pasted clips from Janets email since seeing is believing. So far Thyme Garden is our only wedding vendor with any legal trouble with us. Everyone else is playing by the rules which is really nice.