I was just alerted to the story WFAA-TV’s Tanya Eiserer ran on the 5 pm news this evening depicting a recent supposedly “noisy music wedding” at Aldredge House. It came on the personal Facebook page of Dallas Observer reporter Jim Schutze.
Here’s the thing: Schutze was at the wedding.
Eiserer said that “loud parties continue and soon will get worse” at Aldredge House — not true. There will be no more weddings. The one in the video was in October and one of only two weddings at the home, owned by the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance, of which I am a member, in two years. Eiserer interviewed the same few neighbors who complained originally. The evidence she used was a two-year old tape (made before the Alliance fired the caterer who got us in this mess) and then “loud wedding music” allegedly from the October wedding in the video, which was made by the next door neighbor, Nick McCune.
Oh and she mis-spelled the name of the DCMSA president, Barenda Hino as Harenda.
What she didn’t say was the music heard on the video was being played a full block from the Aldredge house.
Stanley (Stephanie Stanley, who lives behind the Aldredge House) cited a wedding that was held there one afternoon in the rose garden that ended when a New Orleans-style band marched down the street.
“It was like being at a band practice or a street in New Orleans,” Stanley said.
Hino (Barenda, president of the DCMSA) said it was one of only two weddings allowed at the home in the past two years. She said it was a family that lived nearby and their daughter had always dreamed of a getting married at the Aldredge House. Hino said the band did not start playing until it left the grounds of Aldredge House as the wedding party marched toward the family’s home on Bryant Parkway.
She said they had permission from the residents on Bryant Parkway for the band.
As Schutze says on his FB post, “She didn’t even try to come back to the bit about things being about to get worse. She did not allow the Aldredge house spokesperson to fully rebut the video. This was a hit job planted by a paid flak, and 8 bought it:”
Tanya Eiserer let herself get badly Hoodwinked in a story on WFAA at 5pm today. She led with what she obviously did not realize was video faked up by enemies of The Aldredge house on Swiss and then went to a quote from a neighbor who lied about an event there.
I was a witness to the actual event — a small quiet family-only garden wedding in the late afternoon this Fall.
The wedding was followed by a really wonderful en plein air dinner on my nearby street, Bryan Pkwy. My street is modest, congenial, not cursed with coarse nouveau riche bullies, so we had a wonderful evening together.
The bride’s family hired a New Orleans style Dixieland band for a triumphal march from the Aldredge house to our street a block away. But the bride’s mother was so concerned about disturbing Swiss Avenue that she ordered them not to play a note until they got to Bryan Pkwy. I know they stayed silent on Swiss, because I watched.
The video Eiserer aired had loud music dubbed crudely over a scene of the band walking on Swiss. The video was faked up by somebody on Swiss or it was faked by Eiserer.
I don’t think it’s Eiserer because nothing in her rep allows me to think she would do that. But there have been multiple instances of the Aldredge house enemies lying to reporters.
When this goes to council tomorrow, the council needs to know that the people hiring lobbyists and conning gullible reporters against the Aldredge House have a track record of lying and ruthlessness, including trying to ruin a lovely wedding by unfairly making an issue of it. It wasn’t my family, but think if it was your son or daughter, with a bunch of malicious liars trying to tear up their wedding day.
The Aldredge House Alliance has been diligent and fair throughout. They are good neighbors. Their enemies are the kind of Hatfield and McCoy hillbilly feuders who tear up whatever neighborhood they live in.
This is amazing because the video, with music DUBBED over it, will further portray the Aldredge House as the wild party house that doesn’t respect its neighbors, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. There will be no more weddings at Aldredge House. DCMSA members will work hard to be good neighbors once again.
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