We had hired the services of Golden Aisle for my son’s destination wedding at Goa from 27th to 29th May 2019. All arrangements for the wedding was SUPPOSED to be taken care of by Golden Aisle but they lagged majorly & if I may say even misguided us and gave us an extremely high quotation for things which we eventually got in for FREE.

- Major goof up in inviting the guests and talking their details: Firstly it was their job to coordinate with the guests; for this, we had provided them with a guest list which had two categories Group 1 & Group 2. We had specifically asked them to give a priority and to call the Group 1 guest only and then Group 2. However, they went ahead and invited guest from Group 2 and we had EXTRA GUESTS.

- Guests who were not coming for the wedding and had not shared their travel dates were also counted as confirmed by them. It was just a week prior to the wedding that we had to call everyone & get the correct data as Golden Aisle were absolutely incompetent in taking care of the details of 130 people (total guest for the wedding) and this blunder would have cost us a lot of embarrassment to our reputation in the society.

We wanted a beach wedding and we also wanted Hindi Bollywood songs for the wedding; for this Golden Aisle were charging us an exuberant fee of Rs 2 lakhs. So we did a little study on google…. And guess what…? We got to know that the beach license for the wedding was NOT REQUIRED & for the Hindi songs we JUST had to PAY Rs 20,400/. That’s it! And we were good to go. Now there’s a huge difference between Rs 2, 00,000 & Rs 20,400/-

Then comes the wedding time: we had hired (read paid) them for welcoming the guest with garlands, flowers & tilak. For this 2-4 representatives of Golden Isle were supposed to be present in the lobby and welcome our guest. But the team of people assigned for this were instructed to just stand there & do nothing. Every time a guest arrived when we wanted them to do the welcome they used to simply stare at us with completely blank faces. Even a simple thing like tagging the bags as per room allotted was not done. Finally, the staff of Zuri & my family took over the charge & they were welcoming the guest. Now, this was intensively awful.

During the wedding, we had hired only 3 vendors from outside (basically the mehendi, make-up & cake artist) and ALL the details related to them was provided to the planner so that they could coordinate. But guess what …?? Keeping the tradition alive they didn’t…. so the mehendi artist was not allowed in the hotel and we wasted a lot of time communicating with the hotel staff and the ceremony got delayed. The worst was when the vendor for the cake also faced the issue and my daughter had to leave the wedding in between to resolve it because……..you know the story by now – They didn’t do it…….

For the baarat we had asked for the horse/ghodi but again…. we all were ready and the ghodi was missing. The ghodi was late by a good 20 minutes, the cost was we ended up missing the Wedding Mahurat and we all know how important it is for a Hindu Maharashtrian wedding. We were so disheartened.

The only thing that was good by Golden isle was the decoration during the 3 evening functions but for the day function of Mehendi, it was just illogical…. Pool party without fans & shade in Goa's summertime.
Finally, my conclusion is people don’t hire Golden Aisle they are good at sales but bad at execution and worst in communication.
SO DON’T HIRE THEM, they would surely make you work……..really HARD.