hello ladies! back from the honey moon and already feeling the effects of real life!!
so over all our wedding was amazing! I really have good things to say about all our venders and would recommed all of them!
Ceremony:
Location: Inidan Springs Metro Park: A+ $300 for chairs and use of a 6 person golf cart to escort the elderly and handicap down to the ceremony location. it ended up raining right before our ceremony and the staff was so helpful when it can to moving all the decorations to the discovery center for plan b.
Officiant: family friend got ordained and did an amazing job at making the ceremony very personal
Flowers: Dynamic Flowers royal oak: A+ $370 for 11 bouts. and 5 cors., flower petals and bulk flowers for 6 bouquets. they were great!! I originally wanted to make everything but after doing some research it was going to cost more to buy everything in bulk and the supplies for the bouts/cors. than it was going to cost for dynamic to make them. we did white spider mums with green button mums and purle chrasanthymums for the boutquets which we did put together ourselves. the ladies at the store did spend a lot of time with me and my sis explaining the eaisiest way to make the bouquets, they were extremely helpful!
Dress: Bombshell bridal: A+ $1500 these girls are amazing, they make you feel so special and I never felt pushed or pressured to buy anything from them.
BM dresses: Bomshell Bridal: B $180 the expierence at bombshell was great the girls loved amanda and amy but my wedding party was the first time they ordered from Bill Levkoff and they didnt know that the dresses run really big so all the girls needed a lot alterations. after the dresses came in they even remeasured everyone just to make sure they didnt make a mistake and they measured within the size chart given by the manufacturer.
Alterations: Maryann with Bombshell: B $120 for the bussel, bodest and shortening the dress. she did an awsome job with my dress but some of my girls had to come back for 2nd and 3rd fitting partly bc the dresses were so big. over all the dresses looked amazing!
Tux: President Tux: B $130: a couple of the groomsmen and both dads needed to send things back to get a different size but they came in on time and was not a huge deal. we did camo vests with black tux and the boys wore cowboy boots so there was no charge for shoes.
Reception:
Location: Indian Springs Metro Park: A+ $900 for the rental of the room tables and chairs. AMAZING!! this place is so pretty and we got really lucky to have all the trees turning colors so our pics came out amazing!! but Tamara is the coordinator and she was great, always got right back to me with any quesitons I had and was always willing to meet with us. All the staff was great!
Caterering: Kosch Catering: $9600 A for premium bar pulled pork and BBQ chicken, roasted potatoes, salad, and pasta salad for 145 ppl. it also included table clothes, napkins and servers and gratuity. the food was amazing!!!!!! They dont let you try the BBQ selection at the tasting so we were a little worried about how it was going to taste but it was the best pulled pork I think ive had! Cass the Coordinator was helpful but his communitaction wasnt the best over all we had a great expierence with them!
Photos: Camera Chick: $1800 A+++++ this included the rights to all the pics and a disk with all of them on it and you had them for the hole day withunlimited locations. I could not say more about Tim and Sandy they are a great team and they are so creative!! we took our motorcycles out to indian springs and they had so may good ideas to incorporate them into the pics. the seek peeks that she posted on FB are amazing I cant wait to see the rest! they definilty were are favorite vender!
DJ: John Davis Davis Entertainment: $450 A++++ this included our ceremony and reception and he came to our rehersal for free. Since our friend was marrying us john was a huge help at organizing our wedding party and helping us figure out how to walk out. He played everything that we requested and really made our night run smoothly! with the last minute change of location bc of the rain he really helped orgaize everyone and kept everything running smoothly! I cant say more about him!
Rings: Kay Jewlers: E-ring $3000, Wedding bands $1200
Invites: Card and Pocket: $150 A+ we did dark brown pocket invites that looked like tree bark with purle and cream inserts with a pic of us in the center with the wedding info printed out on cream velum. they came out amazing and we got so many compliments on how unique they were.
Cake: Candes cakes and cookies: $475 A+ we met with Cande one time and her cake was amazing! we had a pic of a cake that we wanted that incorporated our woods outdoor theme and it came out better than we expected! she even threw in a free grooms cake to make up the rest of the servings we needed.
Overall our wedding turned out great! way better than I could have hoped. our day was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!