Wow, this is going to be long, but here goes....
Weather: Absolutely perfect! The week had been high 80s all week, cooled down to a perfect 76 for our wedding and remained nice and breezy for the entire night! Couldn't ask for anything better! (good thing I didn't waste any time planning a Plan B - oops!)
Venue: Grande Bahamian Event Home - this house looked absulutely phenomenal online. Maybe its because of the huge rental price ($10,500 for the week + $2,500 event fee) or maybe because it is up for sale, but this place did not meet my expectations. Of the 4 commercial icemakers in the ad, only one was in place when we were there. There were cobwebs everywhere... just lots of little things that I didn't expect to be wrong when we were paying so much.
Wedding Planner - Marie with Bordeaux Events: Highly recommend! It wasn't until we were down there that I realized her true worth. Mid week I was sick of getting tons of questions asked to me by both my mom and FMIL so I called Marie to see if she could come over and answer their questions for me. She was there that evening and answered all for them. On the day of the wedding I was unaware of all mishaps (including getting in trouble for noise) because Marie handled all of it. The event went off without a hitch (as far as I was concerned) all because of her! Also, when we were in the planning stages and went to OBX last October, she arranged us to meet ALL of our vendors in a five hour window - it was priceless!
Photographer - Kristi Midgette: Kristi was a lot of fun! I haven't seen any of my photos yet since it has only been a few days, but she really set us up in a lot of fun poses, everyone loved her and she worked well with all! She came over early to set everything up how she wanted and was very helpful the day of.
Officiant - Jay Bowman: I read many times on here and on Jay's website that Jay personalized the ceremony like none other. Not to be cliche, but he did just that for us! We had only met him in the initial meeting, emailed a few times and then talked for five minutes the day of and he absolutely nailed it! We had people coming up to us after to ask if he was a family friend - he did absolutely incredible!
Ceremony Musicians - Roy Murray: This was an understated detail that I had overlooked, but everyone had absolutely great things to say about him! It was a great tocuh to have live music on the beach (Roy played the trumpet and had a friend play the guitar) and they learned two new songs just for us. We had him play our first dance song on our processional and he nailed it - definitely something worth paying for!
Florist - Bells and Whistles: Not extrememly satified with this. We had given Dorothy our initial budget and the proposal she came back with was almost four times what we said we wanted to spend! It was then up to us to cut things back from her proposal, even though she said that it would be so gorgeous with everything included. This was very hard for us to do, even with the help of Marie, and I wish I wouldn't have been put in this position. The decorations were beautiful (and simple) but it was a hassle to get it to the point. We didn't even see Dorothy on the day of the wedding - she sent her assistant instead.
Food and Catering - Argyles: They did both cake and catering. Apparently the cake was late and we didn't get an extra tier that we had paid for, but it was still delicious. We did heavy appetizers instead of a sit down meal and the attendants passing around the food were great! I think everyone was able to get as much food as they wanted and were quite satisfied. The food that we acutally had wasn't what we had tried when we sampled it, but everyone seemed to like it.
I know I am forgetting some, so let me know if anyone has any other questions! It was absolutely perfect - I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do it all over again!! My husband (so weird saying that) is not one to usually get into this kind of stuff, but he is going through some serious wedding/vacation withdrawal. We are so sad for it to be over, but had the best week of our lives!!!
Please let me know if I can help anyone else and I will let you know when professional pictures are available... here's a few until then! 
