Hi brides to be, wanted to give you guys some vendor reviews from our wedding April 21.
Ceremony: We had our ceremony out back of The First Colony Inn. It was beautiful and did not need much in the means of flowers and decorations. We were lucky that it did not rain. Our backup plan if it did rain was to have it at our reception site.
Reception: Jennette's Pier. It was perfect. I can not think of a better setting for our wedding. We had about 130 guests, we invited about 150 and there was plenty of space. We had a relatively large dance floor and two bars set up. One inside and the other outside on the back deck.
Food: Kelly's Restaraunt. It was by far awesome. Everyone at the wedding raved about how good the food was and it was great to work with them. Mary Ann was great to work with. They seemed to be one of the only places on the OBX that did not nickle and dime us when it came to catering. She gave us a estimate and that included everything from set up, to break down to the taxes and tips and everything which was nice.
Cake: When we looked for cakes, the place was called Arglyes. (we were engaged for 23 months) IT is now I think Icing on the Cake. It was delish, another thing that our guest raved about. I was not wanting to spend a lot of money on a cake, so we told her that we needed a cake for about 90, and we STILL had left over cake. Would get a cake from her again.
Photographer: Matt Lusk photograpy. I can not be happier with him and his work. Our pictures turned out AMAZING!!! He also did our engagement pictures as well. Great to work with, was on time, and from what I asked from our friends and family, he and his wife seemed to "stay out of the way" and got the pictures without taking the focus off of the ceremony/reception. Here is the link to his blog and some of the pictures are on that.
Flowers: we used Harris Teeter at the 91/2 or 10 mp. His name was John and he was great. Again, bc Jenette's Pier is so pretty, we didnt use a lot of flowers. He did a great job and the flowers were exactly what I wanted.
Wedding Coordinator: I ended up winning half off a wedding package at the Bridal Expo and it was one of the best things that had happened to us. We used Brenda Zigler of To Have and To Hold and she rocked. She totally had it together the day before during the rehersal dinner and the day of. She was great at getting everything together and made sure that no one called me the day of the ceremony, that if there was any problems they called her. She was great! Highly recommend her.
We did all the decorations ourselves. Since we had almost two full years to plan, we had time to accumulate things.
Hope this helps. Sorry its so long. Happy planning to you all!!!
Mrs. Lauren Barry