Reiterating all of our vendors were GLBT friendly
DJ - Night Music/Jodi Ransom
Jodi was wonderful to work with. On our wedding day she kept things on track and even helped with announcements about our guest book (which was not entirely obvious as a scrapbook so the announcement finally got things going with it), doing line dances, and incorporating our father/daughter dance music last minute. She was responsive to our requests and emails and had great suggestions.
Flowers - Flower Factory
We ordered 13 dozen roses from FF to do ourselves. The flowers were stunning. We had some communication issues though on timing and pricing. We went to the store in Dayton originally 6 months prior to our wedding. They said we should wait until later to order the flowers. We went another two times and it was decided we should get the flowers from the Columbus FF but we weren't given specific details. There was some confusion and they didn't get the order until the week before our wedding, but we still got the flowers and everything turned out well. I would just stick to using one FF and ask for the contract the first time you go in.
Dresses - David's Bridal
David's Bridal is great in the fact that their dresses are inexpensive for what you get. My first experience was wonderful and I bought a dress off the rack. Every subsequent experience was terrible. I had a bridesmaid coming from Germany and they lost her measurements twice. Our other bridesmaids went in and often the salespeople could not find our wedding and couldn't give them the information needed for their dresses. They gave one of my bridesmaids the wrong dress. One salesperson basically called one of our bridesmaids fat. We chose David's specifically because we thought it would be easiest on the bridesmaids. In the end, we loved our dresses but it was certainly quite a hassle.
Tuxes - Skeffingtons
We only needed a few tuxes, but they were friendly and efficient. The tuxes fit well and looked sharp. The only dissappointment was that one of our groomsmen became too ito attend. We asked if they could refund us anything for the tux a month prior, but they declined. This was written clearly in the contract, but we thought to ask just in case.
Ceremony Musicians - Fiddles and Faces
Fiddles and Faces has some really talented violinists. We heard samples of music prior to the wedding, but not a lot of the preceremony music because we were whisked away. My wife's parents are both music majors (cellists) and they had nothing but good things to say about the two performers (Sarah and Naomi).
Hair - Shannon Goode
Everyone loved Shannon. She was able to take specific ideas, vague ideas or make her own suggestions to give all of our ladies amazing hair. My sister and I are allergic types so she was quite careful with us. We had 8 people with ribbons, roses, all up styles, half-up styles, etc. She was so sweet and able to make everyone really happy.
Cake - Golden Delight and Pistachia Vera
My aunt made our formal wedding cake, but we got the straberry sheet cake from Golden Delight and a small gluten free cake from Pistachia Vera. Both were delicious.
