Hi moon
my coordinator was Fiona too. I can tell u tat she is like what u described, nothing's neg. with her somehow..in fact, one thing i was quite upset wif her was tat i told her clearly i wanted the spiral wedding cake n i was looking forward to seein it on the AD. she took note of it n said okie, no problem at all. Note that she said NO PROBLEM AT ALL.
guess what, during my march in, i did not get to see my "dream" cake..but just a normal wedding cake!!! I felt so damn upset cos i was really lookin forward to it.
when i signed my package with PPR, it was actually Yvonne who was my coordinator..but she left n Fiona took over. At then, Yvonne is really accomdating.
You might wan to try negiotating with Fiona, tell her that u exchange your free flow of beer (if yours is free flow) for 2 barrels of 30litres beer and get her to waive off the wine corkage charges. that was exactly what I did and i tell you, i had 35tables n lotsa drinkers but all was enough.
one thing i must make clear is that I neg. this with Yvonne and not Fiona..so I duno if she'll agree to it anot.
I feel it is not much of a problem cos moreover that time when I signed with Yvonne, i still got $28 dollars off each table and still manage to get this done. dont see why Fiona cant do it.
go down personally to PPR..meet up with her then discuss all these. dun do it on the fone cos she's not that approachable on the fone. but once in person, she actually not too bad still.
hope aLL these helps!