Okay long story short, I made a princess castle cake for my husband's niece this past weekend. I purchased the Wilton Castle Kit specifically for this cake but in the hopes that I could reuse it down the road for another castle cake. Anyways, when dropping off the cake my SIL was busy and I didn't see her to ask her to keep the "plastic" parts of the kit aside as I would like to reuse them. Sunday was the party (we were not able to attend) and I didn't speak to her until Tuesday (via email), in the email I asked her if she could please put the castle kit parts in a bag for me and I would get them from her the next time I saw her. She emailed me back to say she didn't know I wanted them back and she threw everything in the garbage when she was cleaning up after the party. She said she was very sorry, she didn't know I wanted the stuff back and offered to buy me a new kit so my question is....should I take her up on the offer and have her buy me a new kit or should I let it go?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Since you didn't tell her, she couldn't really know-even though she should have. I would split it with her, provided this would cause no hard feelings. A good relationship is probably more important, but if she is generally willing 50/50 would be very fair to me.
Same thing happened to me on my sister's wedding cake. Hers was separated with the Wilton globe set - about $30, plus the plates. Her wedding was at her house and some of her friends, trying to help out, decided to clean the kitchen. They threw away all of my globes and plates - and they put the top tier in the freezer, but without any sort of covering. To me it was kind of the *duh* factor, but luckily I discovered this right after the fact and the separators were in a fresh bag all by themselves. I think that if they had been gone for good, I probably would not have taken a replacement set from her friends, I know they didn't mean any harm. But at the same time, it's like, HELLO?? Why would you think those go in the trash??? I say let it slide, but we've probably both learned a good lesson. Always specify what has to be kept and/or returned.
Thanks everyone! I think I'll just let it slide since I didn't tell her. I honestly thought it was a no brainer that she wouldn't of thrown them away without asking me first. Oh well lesson learned on my part.
Thanks again everyone!!
I agree with this too. I am sorry you lost the parts though, that stuff isn't cheap!
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