...welcome to my world.
Congratulations on another great solution. We just "over designed" a great identity for a new salon, located in our posh downtown area. In my opinion, we nailed it. But, they are going to stick with the clip art tree and comic sans.
We lost time, money and energy but gained knowledge, experience and a valuable lesson. We will try to ask the right questions in order to deliver what the client is really looking for. Then, when they tell us comic sans, we can: convince them otherwise before spending hours on design work, deliver the crap design, or wrap them on the head with a hammer and send them packing.
Congrats all the same -
GP