Hi Knotties,
I haven't posted a ton but I did want to give everyone an update on some of our experiences with vendors we used in Mau for our wedding a week agoi.
Quinnies Nail Salon-Booked a morning-of bridesmaid wedding party for mani's and pedi's. They 'closed' for us and let us bring food and champagne which was great. They didn't do such a great job on one of my bridesmaid's mani's and I was supposed to recieve a FREE french mani and pedi as the bride. I upgraded my free package to include tips- they charged me $98.00. Instead of me just paying the difference they charged me for both!!! DON'T GO HERE! They change the rules once you are there and they can see you are in a hurry to get to rest of things and don't have time to sit and argue over what is free and what isn't!
Cafe O'Lei- We had our rehersal dinner @ the Dunes location and they also catered our wedding the next day. The food was fabulous and the service was impeccable. Dana, set up the rehersal dinner and let us know that there would be the standard service charge (18%) and we would be required to tip the servers above and beyond that for the Dunes location. After we paid on a credit card the full amount, we tipped them VERY generously in cash. As soon as they had the tip the server let us know that the tip WAS included and we didn't need to tip above and beyond the 18% service fee. We never got anything back! Don't let Dana talk you into tipping above this fee (unless you want to, which we would have no problem with, except we wouldn't have given them an additional 25%)!!!
Lori Lawrence-Awesome with everything the week of the wedding. Our boxes of decorations never arrived (they still haven't almost 2 weeks later) and she really helped us organize things to recover from these not showing up. She defently prefers her own vendors and won't really go with anyone else even if you ask her-but-her vendors are awesome, so she knows what she's talking about! Sometimes difficult to email back and forth with for the time before the wedding, phone is best for communication.
Stacey @ Bars R Us- Awesome, Awesome, Awesome-book her!