DO NOT HIRE WEDDING STYLIST BADZ CASTRO

Four months have already passed since my husband and I got hitched yet people still do talk about our wedding. It’s unbelievable!

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Up to now, we are still blown away by how well our wedding was received by family, friends and some random people on social media.

We are incredibly blessed to have worked with these suppliers.

Thanks to them, we got featured on both Cherryblossoms and Faeriewings and Bride and Breakfast!!!

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Yoradyl Dawn – Event Stylist
Jai Villalon – Hair Stylist
Jasper Cuizon – Photographer

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Van Cabulong – Emcee

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Maison de Bonbon – Catering and Venue

However, there is one thing that everyone should know…

Facebook is only but a highlight reel and underneath our guise of smile is a story that has caused us severe stress-induced anxiety, emotional meltdowns, and undue financial burden.

Here’s how it all started…

When I was scouting for event stylists from CDO, I found Badz Castro on Facebook and I immediately fell in love with his work. After doing an obligatory background check, I discovered that he was hired by people we know and that he has already worked with some of the popular wedding suppliers in Northern Mindanao. On top of that, he was featured on Bride and Breakfast a couple of times. So it only made sense *at that time* to get him as our event stylist.

A few exchanges of messages later, my husband and I traveled all the way to CDO to meet him at Maison de Bonbon on the 21st of September last year to discuss important matters and for our contract signing.

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On that day, we handed Badz Castro 5000 PHP as our deposit to book him for our wedding day and signed the contract. We even treated him for lunch.

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Weeks later after we met, we gave him another 5000 PHP purportedly to secure the flowers and foliage needed for our wedding. This time, we sent it to his Metrobank account on the 12th of October.

It wasn’t long after that we had a hard time trying to reach him.

Either he won’t receive our calls or he deliberately turned his phone off. It’s also worth noting that he was online most of the time yet he still chose to ignore all of the messages I left on his inbox.

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In case you want to see our Facebook chat from beginning to end, as well as the contract, I have uploaded them on Dropbox.

Unfortunately for us, when I was looking for reviews about him prior the contract signing, I haven’t found any negative feedback at all. Not one.

Our traumatic experience has put such a huge weight on my shoulders to let other people know about him. I feel it’s my moral obligation to warn couples especially all the hands-on brides who are planning and coordinating their very own wedding like I did.

Apparently, ours is not an isolated case. I found a recent post about him on a Facebook group.

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I sent Ghin Lubrino-Sermana a message to know more about her experience with Badz Castro and this is what she had to say:

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I guess we got a little bit luckier that Badz Castro only ran off 10000 PHP from us. But 10000 PHP is still nothing to be sneezed at.

We have already filed a police report in CDO but that didn’t do anything. We’ve also brought this issue up to NBI CDO yet they refused to cooperate. I think we need to pull some strings but we don’t have any strong connections in CDO sadly.

Because of his fraudulent act, we lost sleep trying to find ways on how to bounce back from this ordeal. My husband and I ended up spending more money than we originally planned – money that we didn’t even have.

But thankfully, God is good. After several emotional meltdowns, anxiety attacks and countless prayers later, we found Ma’am Yoradyl Dawn on Facebook. She was such a blessing. Despite the 3-week notice, she was able to transform my vision into a reality. I’m so grateful that we were able to pull through it all in the end.

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Remember this face and name.

May this post serve as a stern warning to everyone who’s getting married.

RONNIE “BADZ” CASTRO

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/badz.castro

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/badzcastro0388/

Gmail:
event.designsbyniccocastro@gmail.com

Update 1:  After I sent an email to Bride and Breakfast requesting to remove any mention of his name, he can no longer be found on their website.

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Update 2: After interrogating a handful of people, I found out that he has been fooling clueless couples for a while now. I am not writing this post in the hopes of getting our money back (although that would be great). All I want is for justice to be served.

To all wedding suppliers, please warn your clients about Badz Castro AND don’t work with him anymore because his scamming spree needs to be stopped.

I urge everyone who featured him on any social media platform to remove his name so to avoid other people from falling prey to this fraud.

If you have been a victim of this person and would want to take legal action against him, my husband and I are very much willing to cooperate.

Just remember if something bad like this happens to you, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. As long as we are in this fallen world, there will always be people who are waiting to take advantage of us and we can be victims of their sins. In every bad situation, let us rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer (Romans 12:12 ESV).

If you had a bad experience with Badz Castro, please share your story and this post.