My FI and I took the day of work and traveled to Geneva for a day of appointments with vendors which resulted in a number of Checks! So long...
First we met with the innkeeper, Theresa Gage, of the
William Smith Inn. She was amazing. So helpful and friendly. The room are really big and the house is beautiful. She let us reserve the whole house for the weekend of our wedding with no deposit or anything. She gave us till July (wedding is in Sept.) before our guests need to make any real decisions. Also the house is ours. We can have people come and go as we like, have parties, whatever we wanna do. She was extremely accommadating and had lots of suggests (she use to be a wedding planner in the area so she is use to planning wedding stuff). So FI and I will be staying in the Statemen room the night of the wedding! Check
Also boxed rooms at the
Hampton Inn Geneva for our guests for the night of the wedding. The suites were already booked for the weekend so the FI and I wont be staying there but our guest have the option now.
We also had the opportunity to check out the rental property we reserved thru vacationrentals.com (
http://www.vacationrentals.com/vacation-rentals/22841.html). We werent able to go in because we waited till the last moment to ask the owner and she was out of town. But she said we could walk around the property. Which is right on the lake and beautiful. We are going to use the property for the reheresal dinner and my bridal party and I will sleep there with my parents and get ready there. Only down fall....no way a limo will be able to get to the house caz you have to go down a steep hill with some sharp turns...but I'm thinking a SUV might work as a mode of transportation for me and my two bridemaids?
Next we met with a pastor willing to do our wedding. No check here yet. She was nice but
Father Adams at ▼ St Peters Episcopal Church in Geneva sounds like the perfect fit for our wedding but he is in Europe till the end of Feb so we couldnt met with him. But he already said he would marry us on the phone so we just need to met with him when he gets back. SO almost check
Then the cake tasting! We went to
club 86 first. The strawberry cake was delicious. But we were not impressived with the creative aspect of the wedding cakes she showed us. and she refused to do a three tier wedding cake for 60-80 people. I love cake making shows so I want something unique (for a low cost) and a three tier wedding cake.
So we went to
Creative Confections by Linda in Seneca falls. Sweetest old lady I have ever met and soooo creative. She is a bit messy with her shop and her cake pictures are all over the place. But she has been making cakes for 41 years and is soo talented. And she was only about 50 dollars more than Club 86 for a beautiful work of art and a three tier cake. So we booked her. Check.
Thanks to Emirose I now have my hair and makeup booked as well.
Danette Stewart at Unique touch has my name reserved for my wedding date. I just have to wait a little while before I have her play with my hair. Thank you again Emirose!