Venue
La Cima Club www.lacimaclub.com
A+ The venue is beautiful, the food was wonderful, and most importantly, their customer service is top of the line! They scrambled togther to make adjustments for my rained out ceremony to be moved inside and did such a lovely job! Sherry Montoya was my contact throughout the planning process and always answered my emails in an hour or less!
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Dress
Pronovias at Lulu's Bridal www.stardustcelebrations.com
A I loooooooved my dress! Kim at Lulu's was so sweet and very catering. She made me feel like I was the focus of her attention.
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Bridesmaid Dresses and Alterations
Becky Fowler
B- I know Becky gets great reviews from the knotties, but I just didn't have the same experience with her. She did all my bm dresses at the very last minute so she could spend her daughter's birthday with her and my bm's didn't even get a final fitting. Only 2 of the dresses fit snug and the other 3 fit loose around the waist. She make shrugs to go around the girls shoulders that 3 were too big and would literally fall down to the ground, but she also didn't charge for those either. I called her the day of since that's when everyone got their dresses to let her know about the shrugs and a crooked seam in one of the dresses so she sent her husband to pick them all up and she had them done then had him bring them back.
As for my dress all she did was make my veil and make a bustle. My veil I wish was just an inch or 2 shorter, but since I got it the night after the rehearsal dinner, I didn't bother with asking for it to be fixed. It wasn't that bad and it worked. My bustle, however, did not stay at all. Not even for 5 mintues. She did my dress so last minute that I never got to try it on at her place and walk around in it. We had to put about 20 safety pins in it so people wouldn't step on it. We even had to delay the first dance just to get my dress fixed.
All in all, she did get the bm dresses worked out. I just wish we never had to go through the hassle, and what she charged me for wasn't worth it.
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Photography
Joseph Mark www.josephmark.com
I can't grade our wedding pics yet but we LOVE our epics! Joe and Stephanie are the best photographers in Dallas!!!
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Day Of Coordination
Jennifer Ashford with Altar Ego www.altaregoweddings.com
A+ Let me just saw WOW! Jennifer was absolutely amazing!! We were all going crazy trying to figure out a plan for the ceremony since it was supposed to be outdoors and ended up storming, and through everything Jennifer stayed calm and handled everything so well. She ran errands to buy extra things to make my outside decor work for inside and just went above and beyond to make things run smoothly. She was very organized and ran everything well for our rehearsal which was outside and then made sure everyone knew the plans had changed when we decided only 3 hours before the ceremony start time to have it inside instead. She handled a chaotic day and made it beautiful and as relaxing as possible for me.
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DJ
Seth Hoisington www.dallasrhythms.com
B- Seth did a great job with the mics during the ceremony. I've been to several weddings where the sound is in and out, and we never had that problem with him. I never heard the music that was played during cocktail hour, and did enjoy the music that was played at dinner. However, I wasn't just completely happy with the music at the reception. I'll just say I am content with it. I paid him $2000 to play what we wanted to hear durning the reception so that we didn't get any corny cheesy stuff and even gave him a song list to go by. We didn't get any cheesy stuff except for the very first song that was played. Seth told us we needed to be on the dance floor for the first song to really get the guests out there, but Josh just walked off because the song was so bad. I would say out of everything he played that night 1/3 of it was from our list. We spent so much time going through music and finding songs we would like to hear and we didn't even get to hear half of our list. We told him in 2 meetings we wanted our music played and that there would be 'older' people dancing but they would dance to anything. He didn't listen to us much and played what he wanted to play. Our dance floor did stay busy which was great, but we really worked hard on our song list and expected him to play those songs.
I also gave him instructions on when to fade out the father/daughter dance which I guess he didn't review because I had to tell him while I was on the dance floor to fade it out. I also gave him instructions during our final meeting to tell the guests during cocktail hour to make sure they filled out papers for our 'wish jar'. I knew people would need to be told since it wasn't a traditional guest book. He didn't do that and we got maybe 15 out of 130 to write on them which only half of those even put their names on them.
Seth was an okay dj if you don't have specific music requests, but I think charged too much for us not to get what we wanted.
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String Quartet
Aria Strings www.ariastrings.com
A+ I only paid for an hour of their service, but we started 30 mintues late due to storms and other complications, and they continued to play without a complaint. I couldn't imagine my day without their beautiful sound! They were perfect!!
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Hair
Tangerine Salon and Spa www.tangerinesalon.net
A+ Marshall and Janet made us look like rock stars!! With all of the rain and storms, my hair still looked fabulous by the end of the night! Everyone was so happy about their hair and thanked me for choosing such great people.
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Makeup
Stephanie Watts
A+ Beautiful work!!! Stephanie is truly and artist! I have never felt so pretty and I owe it all to her! All of my bm's looooooved their make up and thanked me for choosing her. She is also a sweet and very patient person. When we were having a crisis on trying to decide where to have the ceremony due to horrible storms, it was my turn to get my make up done, but she patiently waited on me to go across the street to look at the venue and make a decision and didn't charge me a dime for her having to wait.
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Linen
BBJ Linen www.bbjlinen.com
A I never had to deal with them because La Cima did it all, but everything was beautiful!
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Chivari Chairs
RSVP Soiree www.rsvpsoiree.com
A Again, I never had to deal with them since La Cima did it all, but my gold chivari chairs were gorgeous!!
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Cake
The Cake Guys www.thecakeguys.com
A+ AMAZING!!!! My cake was sooooo beautiful! It was the prettiest wedding cake I've ever seen and tasted fabulous!
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Lighting
A I was honesly a little worried about this company at first due to communication issues, but as it got closer to the date, it seemed like the owner got email on his phone and then communicated very promptly. As for the day of, he was wonderful!!! Our lighting looked great! And since we moved inside instead of outdoors, he put a pinspot on us for the ceremony which was awesome! He even chipped in and helped set up some ceremony things! I highly recommend him!
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Invitations
Designs by Jessica http://www.jessicasdesignshop.blogspot.com/
A+ Jessica was AMAZING to work with! She was so fast with any changes I wanted made and communicated very well! I liked her work and customer service so much that I had her do some business work for me as well.
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