virtuous girl
Faith, trust, & pixie dust
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- Jul 16, 2011
another party!! Awesome I love having parties thats great that u got beautie spec as ur hair dresser... i have yet 2 book anything 4 my hair, i guess i need 2 get on top of that
And as I was typing, I got a response from Beaute Speciale! They are available!
Just have to figure out the details now (who wants what and logistics) yay!
Hi fellow CT-er! I live literally the next town over from you so I was seriously excited to find your PJ! I can't wait to see everything unfold!
another party!! Awesome I love having parties thats great that u got beautie spec as ur hair dresser... i have yet 2 book anything 4 my hair, i guess i need 2 get on top of that
Couple of things! Impressions is pretty awesome working with budgets!!! They will start at invite A and can just keep on going down the alphabet until they get the price where you want it. This will mean changing the paper, the font, the ribbon ect to get to that point. Most of their custom invites start out really high with all the bells and whistles and then you just change and cut what you need too. They will still look amazing it may just mean that you have to use a less expensive paper and maybe not do a ribbon and what not. I have no idea what letter we ended up at, we kept changing things to make it exactly how I wanted it and to be in the price range we wanted. Ours should arrive by Friday, I am so excited. We saw the computer pic of it and they are beautiful even after cutting the cost so much. I am sure they will be able to work with.
Another thing you may want to think about somewhere besides Mens Warehouse. Yes, it seems great that they will deliver tuxes to your hotel but there are catches to that and we found there service kind of sucked and selection of colors wasn't great. Everyone in the wedding party had to be in Florida by 3PM on Wednesday to do there final fitting. Well that wan't going to happen, most of the wedding party wasn't arriving until 5PM that day. Their only option was to pick the tux up here and do the final fitting here and then bring the tux down with them. So with that being said we decided there was no point in using them and started looking around here. We used Formals by Antonio which is in Rocky Hill on the Silas Deane Highway. The guy there was awesome to work with, he really knew what he was doing and had a huge selection. The color vest I was looking for was very hard to find but he was able to go through a wholesaler and order it for me! They went above and beyond to make us happy. He also is not charging us for having the tuxes over the normal rental time this may also be because December isn't a common wedding month here though. I would check them out if I were you!!!
Hahaha good luck, I hope you can pull something off! I am the oldest and only daughter so I have been able to get away with things too!!!
I believe its a 10% discount if you get your dress at Mariella's. He gave us the discount even thought I didn't get my dress there! I was actually there last weekend though. My cousin is getting married in April so we were getting bridesmaid gowns! As far as for the guys they told us 3 months ahead of time was good. They don't need as much time as we do I guess
By the way your planner won't think you are crazy! I had so much stuff I brought with me and they loved. The florist was really impressed, she said I made things really easy since I pretty much knew what I wanted and had pictures to help her out. She didn't need to spend a lot of time with me because we weren't starting from the bottom. It is good to bring lots of pictures to show them the style you are trying to achieve.
I used Impressions for my invites and LOVED them! I had a specific invite that I designed from scratch and Shelley worked with me to make it happen! Yes, they are expensive, but the customer service and end product can't be beat!
As for Beaute Speciale, I had 12 girls get hair and makeup done too. My ceremony started at 7:30pm and they came at 1pm.
Our timings might be a little different since I got married at the WP but our first look was at 6:30, so an hour before the ceremony started. The boys had their pictures before our first look, and then I had some pictures with the girls after our first look.
And double check about the sparklers, but I wanted them and was told a definite no. Boo! I hope that its different for you because the pictures would be amazing!!
I think your timeline looks great. We are having a 5pm ceremony and 1 is our "start" time!
No way! Which side? haha I just went and read through your entire PJ because I am obsessed! Loved your plans and your reviews!! We are debating a videographer but I really want a photo booth too (obsessed with pictures). Thanks for reading!!
Your timeline looks good. When you go to your planning session your planner will give you a rough draft of timing for everything on the day of your wedding. You will have a much better idea if everything you are thinking will work! Also, as far as the food at cocktail hour our planner told us they will have plates made up for DF and I along with whatever we would like to drink. I was very happy to hear this because I though we were going to have to miss cocktail and I am sure we won't be eating much before the wedding
Portland, literally right over the bridge! I grew up here, but I did live in Middletown for about a year (Westlake area) right after DH and I got engaged. Thanks for the compliments! I am hoping to get around to a TR soon...I am procrastinating because I hate uploading stuff to photobucket. I'd def recommend a videographer, even if just for the ceremony. That was such a blur for me afterwards and I'm so glad we have it all on film. I'm actually much happier now, four months after my wedding, that we did videography because you lose the little details over time and it is so fun to go back and see it all happen again. Can't wait to read more, I have to catch up on everything over the last couple days!
Today I received an email from Jennifer Brune for my floral? Anyone heard of her? She asked me to fill out a questionnaire in prep for my meeting with them (PS on 10/4). The actual email is signed Laura Kidd, Floral Director.
I am crossing my fingers we are assigned Elizabeth because everyone on the boards who gets her can't say enough good things and floral is very important to me! I can't believe it's getting so close!!
I think that means you have Laura but don't worry, she gets great reviews too! I have seen her on some of the TV specials for Christmas stuff in Disney. I think she's been around a long time, so she knows her stuff!