A Merry Minstrel Singing Telegram Inc

Sitting in Santa Barbara CA 2 days before my father is to celebrate his 89^th birthday at Leesburg Rehab North Campus, recovering from a series of maladies over the previous two months, I was deciding what to send his way to help celebrate. Flowers? A card? Not this time. Both my father and his wife were worn out from the hospital visits, ambulance rides and doctor visits. Then it dawned on me. A singing telegram. I googled and found Merry Minstrels. Michelle made it easy; pulled off the event and made the special request USO singer, ‘no big deal’. My WWII veteran father was thrilled. His wife was thrilled and that one simple moment of levity seemed to breathe new life into both of them. On top of that, the performer’s husband graciously agreed to capture it all on video — a last minute request of mine — and dropped it into dropbox for us to view before the day was out. I watched the video. I sang. I laughed. I cried. Dawnn and Merry Minstrels made my father’s birthday one he’ll never forget and one we can all revisit as often as we want to.

I am extremely disappointed with merry minstrels customer service end. The entertainment that was received was good, but there was a major billing issue. I put down a deposit for a service rendered by merry minstrel. The rest was paid in cash by the host of the party. The invoice was then sent to the host of the party with all of MY credit card information. Card number, address, and expiration date. I called the business owner and told her that sending a person’s credit card information to someone is illegal and a huge inconvenience. Instead of apologizing for the incident and having the best interest of the parties involved, she got extremely nasty with me. she called me a b**** and a wh*** about 30 times. And threatened to call the police on me for wanting my deposit back for the inconvenience of having to get my card replaced and call all the businesses I have monthly recurring charges to give the new card number to. While I was trying to speak to her about the incident she would not listen to a word I was saying, and was yelling over me the entire time and calling me names. What she did was illegal and I will be reporting her to the better business bureau.

I really wanted to embarrass a friend for his birthday so I had Merry Minstrel send over a «Fairy» singing telegram. It was AMAZING! The performer was so funny and had my friend’s entire office laughing hysterically! I live in Los Angeles and I had to set this up via the phone for a performance in Winter Park, FL and the company made it so easy. If you are ever looking for an out of the box birthday gift… a singing telegram is the way to go!