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My seamstress/veil maker--http://www.honeycombveils.com/
She was amazing--created flutter sleeves for my Hentry Roth dress with lace that was an almost perfect match, did them alterations, and took it in for me when I lost the weight even though she was working on tons of Broadway projects at the same time! She also was willing to bring my dress to my apt when my final fitting was scheduled 2 days after I had an emergency appendectomy. She was the best! I originally bought a veil from her, but after working with my dress for so long, she wanted to create one that was designed to go with it-- for free!
I also looved my cakemaker and my florist (local Alabama vendors).
My florist was my favorite vendor (Last Petal). She was the easiest vendor to work with and without much direction she executed some beautiful designs.
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I would have to say our day of coordinator. Though she was new to the game she was orgainized, professional, and executed my vision for the set-up perfectly even though we were communicating over email with a distance of a couple thousand miles between us.
She even saved the day when I failed to bring the liquor permit to the venue! I would have lost it if there was no alcohol available.
I got my dress at Kleinfelds and absolutely loved them there. Stella was my seamstress (I really need to send her a Thank You!) and she did a fantastic job on my dress. I also had to cut my dress to get it off of me (that's a long story), and they fixed that at no charge!! So now I have a pristine dress to... do what with, exactly?
My photographer. A couple that just got married themselves! Thier business name is even The Happy Couple Photography.
My florist was by far my best vendor - Susan Garden of Garden Party (http://www.gardenpartynapa.com/). She was wonderful to work with, very affordable and her designs were incredible!
My planner (Weddingbee PRO blogger Angel Swanson)! She was an absolute dream to work with and I totally miss our daily emails!
I loved so many of them. Here they are, kind of in order of my favorites!
DOC: Sarah, Lusardi, New York Engagements was probably my favorite vendor of them all. She was so organized and made it so the entire wedding weekend was totally stress free. Really think the world of her!! http://www.nyengagements.com/about.htm
Videographer: Steve Taub, a documentary film-maker. Reasonable, captured all the important moments, beautiful editing, and the nicest guy.
Florist: Magnolia. Loved Angelica, their work was great, and she was willing to work in our budget. Plus, despite the unexpected 95 degree day, the flowers looked stunning and still looked great at brunch then ext morning.
I was more than happy with all my other vendors: Sally Duvall (makeup), Red Carpet Bridal Beauty (hair), Dave Cross (photography), Staccato (Etsy vendor for paper goods, she was AWESOME)
The only vendor I was dissapointed in was our music vendor - The Marc Topaz Band. During the reception, the band itself was amazing, great. We got a ton of complients on them. BUT there were a number of issues I had that I didn't think I should have had for such an expensive vendor. 1) Ceremony musician showed up AFTER the time the ceremony was supposed to start, so we ran 15 minutes late. I never received an apology (even though the band said they would charge ME for every 15 minutes over the agreed upon time they would work). 2) We asked for a short hora, wrote it on the sheet of instructions. It went for TWENTY minutes and they only stopped because I finally went over and asked them to. It was ridiculously long and I was super tired and sweaty from it. 3) The band leader was generally not responsive or interested in our input, he thought he knew best.
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i loved my photographer - trista lerit
and my florist, kristin from the treasured petal. kristin is a weddingbee pro vendor!
a toss up, between my sweet as pie photographer who took dreamy photos, www.heatherfunk.com
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my yumtastic cake baker who was simply sweet with her exotic cake flavors. (i can't wait to order our anniversary cake from her www.sweetweddings.com
It would have to be our coordinator, Daniela De Luca of Dolce Vita Weddings. She really was my eyes and ears in Rome. For those thinking of a destination wedding in Rome, I highly recommend Daniela!
I honestly can't choose, they were all so great..... in terms of a personal connection, my favorite was our DOC, Jenn Poletti of Perfect Planners because we have become great friends. But all of our vendors did a great job!
Definitely our photographer, who happens to be married to one of my best friends. They recently started a photography business and he does great work. They are now located in Colorado due to a military move.
Here are a few of my favorites from our wedding:
So far my favorite is my wedding planner, Paola! Right next behind her is Jordana, Hazelnut photography and I have to love that my BFF is catering my wedding, By Brazil
My favourite was the photographers (http://www.michaeltphotography.com/). They are wonderful!! Their service was excellent, and the pictures they took were beautiful.
We had a lot of great vendors, but my site coordinator was by far my favorite. She was amazing! (Angie at The Great Room from Putting on the Ritz catering - puttingontheritz.com)
This is difficult, but I'd say my florist was my favorite vendor. I loved my flowers (almost cried when I saw my bouquet and couldn't bring myself to toss it before our honeymoon so I left it on our front stoop for someone to take)!
My bouquet:
Bridesmaid's bouquets:
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I loved all my vendors, but the most positive experience I had was with my florist (www.lovesmeflowers.com). I had kind of given up on flowers, but she really exceeded my expectations and took it upon herself to care about how my flowers looked. She never let me feel bad for not wanting to spend a lot of money on flowers.
I will also be forever grateful to my DOC, Christine (www.bellenuitevents.com), who agreed to help me out when my original DOC quit 1 week before my wedding. She did hadn't booked an event b/c it was her birthday weekend, but when she heard about my emergency, she agreed to be my DOC. She was so professional, kind, and extremely oganized.
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Laura Hooper did the calligraphy for our invitations. I was absolutely blown away. And my friend is a graphic designer and designed our STDs, invitations, menus, placecards, etc...even our fancy beer koozies! Yep, we're classy like that. Anyway, Laura Hooper and my designer friend tie as my favorite vendors!
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I think my photographer - my planner (Melissa at Et Lofte Events in Toronto, wholehearted recommendation) was wonderful, totally sweet, and responsible for the fact that I didn't have to worry/think about a thing on the day, but Rob Shaw, our photographer, not only took gorgeous pictures that I am still looking at over a year later but was a joy to have around on the day - sweet, friendly, totally non-intrusive. I recommend him to everybody, even though I'm not even sure he's still doing wedding photography.
I can't choose! We were lucky enough to have some really great vendors.
I loved our harpist Sara Shute, who played gorgeous music and was a dream to work with. We ran into her after the wedding at a bridal show and chatted away like old friends. She was just awesome.
Our florist has been a friend to my parents and the community for just about ever. She is always doing work at cost for my mom's school, and does wonderful work for my dad any time he needs some flowers! She was so sweet with us. We got a hug and kiss every time we went to go see her, and she really went the extra mile for us. She even gave us a beauuutiful arrangement as a gift!
Our reception venue was a local brewery, St. Arnold. They were so simple and easy to work with. Relaxed requirements, lots of advice, no muss no fuss. We still like to go there for their Saturday brewery tours, and we attended an office party there this year...that was inspired by our wedding!
And, our photographer was a good friend, Josh Irvin. He and my husband were good friends back in elementary school, and they reconnected about a year before our wedding. We're wedding photographers, too, so they bonded once again and have been buddies ever since-he's in Washington now, but plans to move to Austin soon! He was great. Totally professional and fun to work with, although I wouldn't have expected anything else, working with a friend.
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my favorite wedding vendor has to be our photographer -
Yun Gen Yang
He's located in NYC, but we had him come to Boston for our wedding. I actually found him through weddingbee. I forget who, but a bee did mention him in a post once. I immediately checked out his website and loved his work. He was extremely laid back and we loved what he did with his camera! :)
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Who was your favorite wedding vendor?
Gosh I guess our wedding planners were the biggest lifesavers... but I also loved our florist, Belle Fleur, too.
What about you?