I hate writing online reviews. After I order kitty poop-pan liners from Amazon, or after I have suffered through an intimate relationship between my gastroenterologist and my large intestine, I want to put those moments behind me. I don’t feel an urgency to write about them.

If a website I am perusing has an obtrusive popup asking me to complete a short survey after my visit is complete, I invariably say “no thank you.” And after a phone call to some far-off hotel or some local pharmacy, I can barely be moved to respond to “Enter 1 if the experience was Excellent, Enter 2 if it was not.”

I’m not a total curmudgeon, I’m just slightly curmudgeonly. I suspect that many, and possibly most, reviews on sites such as Amazon are bogus, and I don’t feel the need to add my views to all those 5-star reviews. If I really have a complaint about something I’ll try to go to the source and straighten things out.

So imagine my surprise when I received a congratulatory email from Google. With balloons flying I was notified that a review I had written (one of only 3 over the past 7 years) had now been read for the 500th time. Like a biblical prophet, I now see myself like an oracle shouting from on high.

What product or service had pushed me to break my usual misanthropic tendencies and write a review? Our daughter and son-in-law married a bit over five years ago. The wedding was a modestly opulent affair, and if I do say so myself, came off rather nicely.

I remember being impressed by the locale, by the food, and by the band. But apparently, I was most in awe of the floral arrangements. It was to the floral designer that I penned my glowing review–one that has been read an average of once every 3 days for the last 5 years (talk about a must-read!)

What did I say?

Yanni and Sylwia worked with us to design the wedding of our daughter’s dreams. They listened to her vision and ran with it. Walking into the room last Saturday night left us speechless. The flower arrangements were better then we could have imagined in the space. The collaborative effort over the past months between YDS and our family sure paid off!

That’s pretty damn positive coming from an old codger like me! And a Google search shows that Yanni Design Studio still exists, so consider this an unpaid advertisement to use the studio for your next wedding or over-the-top Bar Mitzvah.

Just be sure to invite me. I might want to write a review.