(Closed) Share your British Columbian vendors!

• QBbride
• 9 years ago

• Wedding: September 2012

• Your wedding date: Sept 2, 2012
• City you live in: North Vancouver, BC
• Ceremony venue: my Grandma’s house, Qualicum Beach, BC
• Officiant: family friend
• Reception venue: my Grandma’s house, Qualicum Beach, BC
• Caterer: Livewire Catering (not impresses so far – he has taken months to respond to our e-mails and still hasn’t got us a proper quote – YIKES!)
• Coordinator: none
• Photographer: Chris Boar of CB Photography
• Videographer: none
• DJ/Band: RSM Productions
• Florist: probably Thrifty’s for bouquets (my aunt is doing the centrepieces from her garden)
• Cake: Savary Island Pie Co. (pies)
• Dress: Paloma Blanca from Isabelle’s Bridal
• Shoes: Rocketdog (purple flats – bought online)
• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress: Bill Levkoff 586 (buying online)
• Hair Stylist: Zahra (my hair stylist from Vancouver)
• MUA: not sure what this is?
• Invitations: Delphine Press (bought a groupon)
• Rings: e-ring from Spence, my ring will be from Spence, not sure about his
• Other vendors: Party rentals – Black and White Rentals; buying paper lanterns from paperlanternstore.com

• _Adelaide_
• 8 years ago

• Wedding: August 2014 - South Bonson Pier & Community Centre

• canadianplum
• 8 years ago

• Wedding: December 2012

All of my vendors were amazing, I would recommend every single one of them. I seriously got lucky with my vendors, I don’t have one single complaint about any of them.

• Your wedding date – December 1st, 2012
• City you live in – Vancouver, BC
• Ceremony venue – Holy Rosary Cathedral
• Officiant
• Reception venue – Grouse Mountain
• Caterer – Grouse Mountain
• Coordinator – Breathtaking Events
• Photographer – Will Pursell Photography
• Videographer – EXL Films
• DJ/Band – BDJC (Chris)
• Florist – Budget Blooms
• Cake – Mom
• Dress – Images in White
• Shoes – Images in White
• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress – Small store in Richmond
• Hair Stylist – Shelly Baxter
• MUA – Shelly Baxter
• Invitations – Father-In-Law
• Rings – Jewler in California
• Other vendors

• BrookeBQ
• 8 years ago

• Your wedding date- June 7 2014
• City you live in- Vancouver
• Ceremony venue – Rock Water Secret Cove Resort
• Officiant- deciding between two atm, but local people!
• Reception venue- Rock Water Secret Cove Resort
• Caterer- Rock Water Secret Cove Resort
• Coordinator- N/A
• Photographer- Linsey Hulls
• Videographer- N/A
• DJ/Band- still hunting
• Florist- mom and I are doing it
• Cake- mom is baking it
• Dress- probably an Allure March 2013 collection
• Shoes- haven’t picked yet
• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress- don’t know
• Hair Stylist- Amelia at Hair Matters
• MUA- not sure
• Invitations- homemade
• Rings- Ben Moss
• Other vendors- N/A

• Tega
• 7 years ago

• Wedding: September 2013

• Your wedding date – Sept 21, 2013
• City you live in – Vancouver, BC
• Ceremony venue – Holy Family Catholic Church
• Officiant – Fr Daniel Geddes
• Reception venue – Brock House
• Brock House was awesome – super accomodating on the day and the food rocked!
• Caterer – Brock House
• Coordinator – Sweet Beginings – Nicole Miller
• Ended up regretting getting a coordinator, went back on what she said she would do, missed a ton of details, and I was later told that she was pretty rude by several family members 🙁
• Photographer – Will Pursell
• Seriously he is the best photographer in Vancouver – Book Him
• Videographer – Spiro Creative
• Adera and Ryan from Spiro were super sweet and great to be around, I liked my wedding video, but I don’t love it. We hired them on Groupon for a good price, so totally worth it for what it was, but I wouldn’t pay their full price of 3K.
• DJ/Band – Kyle MacDonald – from Royal City Swing, he DJ’d and did a Swing Lesson, also helped us with our first dance – he totally rocked!
• Florist – Creative Touch Florist – Jessica Edwards is utterly amazing – she majorly outstripped every big florist here in Vancouver. I would recommend her a hundred times over.
• Cake – Sutton Place Hotel – Was awesome, but they did white icing instead of Ivory, so was somewhat diappointed.
• Dress – Clara Coture (San Patrick) They also did my alterations and they rocked, seriously went over the top to make it fit perfect.
• Shoes – Bhldn (Elopement Pumps) Brand was Hey Lady – So comfy!
• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress – Weddington Way (Watters) This was ordering online, but the dress was almost $200 less than buying here in Vancouver and we had no problems – super good service.
• Hair Stylist – Mink Makeup – Mary Phan
• I ended up not being too happy with Mink Makeup – First off their whole booking system is an ordeal, and you never talk to the same person twice. Other than that I just wasn’t overly impressed with their skills. They seemed unsure of themselves most of the time, my stylist didn’t seem to remember anything we discussed during the trial for my hair, and it turned out looking subpar and amature. I had 4 other people done as well, and all they did was very simple curls and wouldn’t go more complicated as they kept saying they didn’t have time. Although there was 2 girls for the 4 of them with 5 hours. It really wasn’t worth the money.
• MUA – Miink Makeup – Mary Phan
• Invitations – Me
• Rings – Tiffany’s
• Other vendors

• fan.zhang.902819
• 7 years ago

Do you recommend  Lynn Katey ?I am thinking invite her to officiate my wedding.

Thanks

• lemonie
• 7 years ago

• Wedding: June 2013

• Your wedding date: June 29, 2013

• City you live in: Vancouver 

• Ceremony venue: St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church – Beautiful church with lots of stained glass windows, the music director Darryl is really great to work with and did a fantastic job with our piano music

• Officiant: Jenn Cunnings – We love her, great energy and engaging!

• Reception venue: Fairmont Pacific Rim, Sapphire Ballroom – Beautiful venue and spot on service on the wedding day

• Caterer: Fairmont Pacific Rim

• Coordinator: Me 🙂

• Photographer: Erika Gerdemark (from Sweden)

• Videographer: N/A

• DJ/Band: Dale Cheyne – love him, very good at reading the crowd and his rates are good! 

• Florist: Proline Florist – Kathleen – Some of the best prices. She may sound very casual, but she gets the job done!

• Cake: N/A

• Dress: Pronovias from Sposa Bridal – did all my alterations there too

• Shoes: Jimmy Choo – not comfortable but at least they were sparkly!

• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress: J.Crew – scour the sale pages!

• Hair Stylist: Seree Chan

• MUA: Cindy Leyland – she is fab!

• Invitations: We screenprinted them ourselves…a lot of work

• Other vendors:
  • Draped Backdrop and Uplighting: Lavish Designs (easy to work with);
  • Limo: Big City Limousine (they were so-so. Slow communication, but they did show up on time, so not that bad)

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by  lemonie.

• westcoast_girl
• 7 years ago

Im JUST getting started with planning, so commenting to follow. Thanks everyone! I’ll add when I can contribute 🙂

• a1vsue
• 6 years ago

Not complete yet, but I’ll start off this list too 🙂

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• our wedding date: Feb 06 2015
• City you live in: Burnaby
• Ceremony venue: Rosewood Hotel Georgia
• Officiant: My fiance’s professor from Grad school
• Reception venue: Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Spanish Ballroom
• Caterer: Rosewood Hotel Georgia
• Coordinator: Kiri McLead
• Photographer: Randal Kurt Photography
• Videographer: Seeking
• DJ/Band: Seeking
• Florist: FlowerZ
• Cake: Seeking
• Dress: Vera Wang Luxe Jacqueline + set veil from Vera Wang LA, Armani Tuxedo from Harry Rosen Vancouver
• Shoes: Seeking
• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress: What’s Bridesmaid or Best Man dress? If it’s a second dress, we’re considering Korean traditional dress.  But still deciding.
• Hair Stylist: Signed Contract with Wedding story, but seeking too
• MUA: Signed Contract with Wedding story, but seeking too
• Invitations: Seeking illustrator
• Rings: Seeking
• Other vendors: Photobooth – we’d love to do a sticker photobooth, does anyone know if these are available in Vancouver?<br />Music: Quartet, Harp& violin duo from Musical Occasions <br />Dance Choreographer: Dance4you

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• julies1949
• 6 years ago

• Wedding: November 1999

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• a1vsue
• 6 years ago

Can’t update so reposting.

<br /> our wedding date: Feb 06 2015

<br /> City you live in: Burnaby

<br /> Ceremony venue: Rosewood Hotel Georgia

<br /> Officiant: Doug Cameron

<br /> Reception venue: Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Spanish Ballroom

<br /> Caterer: Rosewood Hotel Georgia

<br /> Coordinator: Kiri McLead (of Lovely Event Co., and Dreamgroups)

<br /> Photographer: Randal Kurt Photography

<br /> Videographer: ARC Studio

<br /> DJ/Band: DJ UB

<br /> Florist: FlowerZ

<br /> Cake: Ganache Patisserie

<br /> Dress: Vera Wang Luxe Jacqueline + set veil from Vera Wang LA,<br />Tuxedo: Armani Tuxedo from Harry Rosen Vancouver

<br /> Shoes: Roger Vivier from Holt Renfrew

<br /> Hair Stylist: Wedding Story (contracted for Makeup, Hair, and bridesmaids service. good for asian face, wasn’t happy with bridalmaids service. They failed to keep spreading the dress and all my guests thought I had no bridesmaids seeing me spreading them alone)

<br /> MUA: Wedding Story

<br /> Invitations: Hired a storybook illustrator to pain our stories which we then printed them into cards.  Wendy Edelson, NY

<br /> Rings: Bride’s Tiffany&Co., Groom’s Cartier

<br /> Other vendors:

Photobooth: Photobooth Vancouver,

Music: String Quartet from Musical Occasions

Waltz lessons & Choreography:  Elaine Carson from Everybody Dance!

we are very very happy with all our vendors and because of them our wedding planning was so much fun and awesome!

• FutureMrsvDavis
• 6 years ago

• Wedding: August 2015

I know this is an old thread but in case any other Vancouver Brides are looking:

• Your wedding date: August 08, 2015
• City you live in: Vancouver
• Ceremony venue: Cecil Green Park House
• Officiant: John Humphreys
• Reception venue: Cecil Green Park House
• Caterer: Wescadia via Cecil Green Park House (you have no choice in this)
• Coordinator: I have a couple friends who are going to take this on. 
• Photographer: Dawn Stenzel Photography
• Videographer: None – we didn’t want one.
• DJ/Band: One of my bridesmen is putting this together
• Florist: My stepmom is doing the arranging and we’re buying the flowers locally from wholesalers.
• Cake: None – we’re going to split a cupcake since otherwise they charge you $162 for an ‘external dessert fee’ on top of something like $2.75/plate as a ‘cake plating fee’ – no thanks!
• Dress: Sophia Tolli “Cersei” from Champaigne & Lace in Abbotsford
• Shoes: I DIY’ed them based on a pair of $1,200 ones I saw. I wrote a post about it.
• Bridesmaid or Best Man Dress: I have bridesmen, and their suits are from Black & Lee
• Hair Stylist: Axis Hair Salon on Pender and Broughton
• MUA: MAC cosmetics on Robson
• Invitations: DIYed them, sent out as emails
• Rings: Bride’s band is from Spence Diamonds on Robson. I’m making the groom’s band.
• Other vendors: Renting lawn games from Haulet Games. 

• Giblets
• 6 years ago

• Wedding: August 2017

• FutureMrsvDavis
• 6 years ago

• Wedding: August 2015

• Giblets
• 6 years ago

• Wedding: August 2017