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We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!

We are back from our honeymoon and Las Vegas wedding.  What a fabulous trip! Everything turned out great, no complaints here, it was as perfect as could be.

Bellagio B
A beautiful place, it was great!. I am rating them a B only because I felt they could have done a little more for us.  We booked with the small groups department and reserved 25 rooms on a block.  Our guests ended up purchasing 26 rooms in the block and 2 add'l rooms outside the block.  We purchased a suite and asked for an upgrade, they denied us.  When we checked in we asked again and they denied us.  I guess only heavy gamblers get perks but you'd think that since we brought 27 rooms of people and about 60 guests to their establishment they could have given us something.  Not even a restaurant credit

TREVI A+++
Michelle was FANTASTIC and the staff and service was wonderful.  The food was awesome and we got so many compliments about the meal from ALL of our guests.  I shipped out a lot of our items that we wanted like favors, seating chart, etc. It was all set up when we got there.  We also made a playlist on our IPOD and played that and it worked out great!

Gimme Some Sugar  A+
The cake was good from what I hear, I only had like 2 bites, LOL but I hear it was good.  We ahd the chocolate and vanilla cake.

AWG Limos  A-
The limos were fantastic and clean and on time.  We did use them to shuttle back and forth from the hotel to church and that was a bit hard to coordinate but it all worked out.

Bellagio Photography (Cashman) A
Fantastic, the pricing is crazy but once I worked with them to get exactly what I wanted I negotiated the full package to include prints and a book and I got waht I wanted.  I have receive the site for my pics but I have not ordered any yet.  I'd be glad to let you all know how the book was when I receive it.  We also worked in a video so I should be getting the DVD in the mail soon, can't wait to see that!

Francesca Lombardo A
She also brought Lori White with her to do hair and makeup for all the girls.  They both were on time and our makeup and hair lasted all night.  Very professional and we were all happy with their work.

Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!

  • edited December 2011
    Congrats!! Thanks for the reviews!

    I would think Bellagio would have at least upgraded you... or given you a room for you 1 year anniversary or something... maybe email them saying everything went well and see what that brings you?
  • direy25direy25 member
    2500 Comments Fourth Anniversary
    edited December 2011

    Congrats, glad to hear everything went well!  I'm also happy to hear that you had a good experience with AWG - my experience was awful but it seems that I'm the only one.  Must have just been my luck.  Anyways, can't wait to see pictures!

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  • edited December 2011
    Curious how competitive you got cashman to be; and if it included the digitals?  It's usually the digital copies that take the price from bad to insulting since they charge upwards of $800/hour of shooting for the digitals every time I've heard of anyone getting a price quote.

    Married in Vegas - June 2011


  • wallacjewallacje member
    2500 Comments Fifth Anniversary 5 Love Its First Answer
    edited December 2011
  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_nevada-las-vegas_were-backand-married-reviews?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:91Discussion:fb67a38f-378f-4c3f-9752-d643370b7829Post:3ea96284-29c8-49c3-9357-fd072cd1eaa8">Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!</a>:
    [QUOTE]Curious how competitive you got cashman to be; and if it included the digitals?  It's usually the digital copies that take the price from bad to insulting since they charge upwards of $800/hour of shooting for the digitals every time I've heard of anyone getting a price quote.
    Posted by vegasgroom[/QUOTE]

    I'm curious about this too. I was quoted $641 for 79 images and 30 minutes of shooting. I almost want to try to haggle with them after the fact since inkeep getting emails, but no drop in price. This is now almost 2 months later! Sounds like the wedding was great! Congrats
  • edited December 2011
    You'd think they would do something for 27 rooms, but really.. 27 out of 4,000 is a drop in the bucket!
  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_nevada-las-vegas_were-backand-married-reviews?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:91Discussion:fb67a38f-378f-4c3f-9752-d643370b7829Post:25b4344b-dcb4-4785-b560-6b204059463c">Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!</a>:
    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too! : I'm curious about this too. I was quoted $641 for 79 images and 30 minutes of shooting. I almost want to try to haggle with them after the fact since inkeep getting emails, but no drop in price. This is now almost 2 months later! Sounds like the wedding was great! Congrats
    Posted by jb51411[/QUOTE]

    I've heard three months is the magic date when they send you the 50% off offer for your images. :-)

    Married in Vegas - June 2011


  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_nevada-las-vegas_were-backand-married-reviews?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:91Discussion:fb67a38f-378f-4c3f-9752-d643370b7829Post:1d85a0fb-508d-4e78-bf03-6fc33d3916ed">Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!</a>:
    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too! : I've heard three months is the magic date when they send you the 50% off offer for your images. :-)
    Posted by vegasgroom[/QUOTE]

    Yeah...Been OVER a year now and still nothing<img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-frown.gif" border="0" alt="Frown" title="Frown" /> Oh well....
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  • edited December 2011
    Congratulations!  Thank you for sharing your reviews :)
  • edited December 2011
    Congrats!
  • justine043justine043 member
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    edited December 2011
    congrats!
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  • edited December 2011
    Congrats Mrs!
  • edited December 2011
    Congrats! And I agree that does suck about Bellagio, 27 rooms in the grand scheme of things is not alot but they should still be appreciative of your business because you could have went to any other hotel on the strip and now you probably will next time!!!
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  • edited December 2011
    Congrats!!!!
  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_nevada-las-vegas_were-backand-married-reviews?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:91Discussion:fb67a38f-378f-4c3f-9752-d643370b7829Post:3ea96284-29c8-49c3-9357-fd072cd1eaa8">Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!</a>:
    [QUOTE]Curious how competitive you got cashman to be; and if it included the digitals?  It's usually the digital copies that take the price from bad to insulting since they charge upwards of $800/hour of shooting for the digitals every time I've heard of anyone getting a price quote.
    Posted by vegasgroom[/QUOTE]

    Don't get me wrong I didn't get any huge great deal and no I decided not to go with the images.  My Mom and FI pointed out to me that I will probably never go in and look at those images anyway. They were charging an arm and leg for the disk because I had 8 hours of photoraphy! They did give me 50% off of it but it still wasn't worth it. Instead I just worked it out to include a book of 5X7's (175 I think) and also a album.
  • edited December 2011
    Wow I can imagine.  When we first considered the Venetian and told them we needed a price for all day photography along with the digitals they quoted us about $9000 lol.

    Married in Vegas - June 2011


  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_nevada-las-vegas_were-backand-married-reviews?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:91Discussion:fb67a38f-378f-4c3f-9752-d643370b7829Post:15bc0984-8675-4345-a78c-c7fa14bf2c3e">Re: We're back....and MARRIED :) Reviews too!</a>:
    [QUOTE]Wow I can imagine.  When we first considered the Venetian and told them we needed a price for all day photography along with the digitals they quoted us about $9000 lol.
    Posted by vegasgroom[/QUOTE]

    Yes I believe our price was similar but we didn't go with that, I fought with them and told them there is no Vegas photog that charges that and we need to figure something else out. It wasn't easy but I wanted to work with them cause we didn't want any problems having outside vendor  issues at te Bellagio.  They were really good though, they took the groom and party in the high roller room and got pictures at the tables and such, it was really cool. Our photog was awesome!
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