jspahn
Disney Bride October 2009
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Welcome everyone! I thought I would start my TR off with vendor reviews - but first a little refresher:
Welcome Dessert Party - October 10, 2009 - Italy Isola West
Wedding Date: October 12, 2009
Ceremony Location: EPCOT France
Reception Location: Living Seas Salon
Here is a link to all of our pictures: http://www.ourmagicalwedding.com/weddingphotos
David and Vicki also did a slideshow for us of some of our pics - check it out:
http://shareitvideo.com/watch.php?v=241555575390830
AND... if you want any info on planning, here is my PJ
OK, here we go with reviews - i will break them up in 2 posts because they are rather long!
Beaute Speciale – Ana: A+ My hair did not budge!! My hair is pretty straight normally, and I wanted long curls and a half up half down style. From personal experience I can tell you my curls usually fall out in about an hour. I don’t know what Ana did, but my hair looked perfect from getting dressed that morning, all the way through our reception and dancing, to more pictures after. All of the bridesmaids hair styles also stayed in place and looked great!
Carolyn Allens: B We had couple of minor snafus with Carolyn Allens… a few weeks before the wedding I had called to make sure that all the guys had sent in measurements etc. While on the phone with Keith, I adjusted the times for the tux fitting and the dress steaming. Originally tux fitting was 9am Friday, dress steaming at 1:00 on Sunday. I changed it to 8am and 1:30 respectively. Well, I called the day before the fitting to reconfirm everything – and spoke to Keith again. He had no record of the change to the times we had spoken about. He still had us down for 9am and 1pm. Fine, we got that fixed. THEN the day of the dress steaming, I got a call from them asking when I was going to be back in my room – which confused me since my fiancé was waiting in the room for the steamers… turns out they were not at the right room. JEEZ! Tux fitting itself was fine, and they did and OK job with steaming. They made it easy for us by bringing tuxes to us, and letting us leave them with bell services after.
Planner: Ken Weaver A Ken was awesome. He made a lot of things happen for us (like keeping David and Vicki), and did everything he could to make sure things went smoothly. In the planning process he also helped point out ways we could save money. He has been at DFTW the longest (along with Marion I think) so he knows his stuff. We were very very happy with Ken, and feel lucky our request for him was granted at the beginning. I know there were times I must have drove him nuts, but it never showed – a true professional and a great guy.
Assistant: Jen Flores B- Jens grade actually would have been lower, but she redeemed herself shortly before the wedding. Through out the process we felt that whenever Jen answered our emails it was like she didn’t actually read my questions or she would give us answers that didn’t apply to us and the venues we’d picked. AND the biggest complaint we had was her taking vacation without notice. Which you wouldn’t think was a big deal BUT…. Ken had told us back in April that he would be out for 3 weeks in June on vacation, and not to worry Jen would be around. Fine. Love that he gave us so much notice. Even the day before he went on vacation, we were in the midst of changing our dessert party and rehearsal dinner, and he said just make sure we emailed Jen with everything while he was gone. Fine. Well that was like Tuesday… and Friday morning (we were still working out the whole rehearsal dinner/dessert party thing) we got an email from Jen saying she would be out starting that afternoon until the following Friday. Excuse me?!? You are both on vacation!? And you gave us no notice at all, nor did you tell me who your back up was!? OMG. This was one of my few Bridezilla moments. Anyway… Jen did redeem herself just a couple weeks before the wedding. She is the one who drew the concept picture for the grooms cake – and it was awesome.
Reservations: Anaeli Q A- Anaeli was great really. Very nice, very helpful, on top of our reservations, helped us find hotel rooms for my last minute procrastinators. BUT a lot of things got screwed up with reservations beginning at 7pm on the Thursday night before the wedding – after Anaeli left work, and she is off on Friday and Saturday. I am not sure that she could have helped with the things that happened, and the full blame belongs with Coronado (see below), but I wonder if there wasn’t something more she could have done beforehand to prevent the issues.
Welcome Dessert Party - October 10, 2009 - Italy Isola West
Wedding Date: October 12, 2009
Ceremony Location: EPCOT France
Reception Location: Living Seas Salon
Here is a link to all of our pictures: http://www.ourmagicalwedding.com/weddingphotos
David and Vicki also did a slideshow for us of some of our pics - check it out:
http://shareitvideo.com/watch.php?v=241555575390830
AND... if you want any info on planning, here is my PJ
OK, here we go with reviews - i will break them up in 2 posts because they are rather long!
Beaute Speciale – Ana: A+ My hair did not budge!! My hair is pretty straight normally, and I wanted long curls and a half up half down style. From personal experience I can tell you my curls usually fall out in about an hour. I don’t know what Ana did, but my hair looked perfect from getting dressed that morning, all the way through our reception and dancing, to more pictures after. All of the bridesmaids hair styles also stayed in place and looked great!
Carolyn Allens: B We had couple of minor snafus with Carolyn Allens… a few weeks before the wedding I had called to make sure that all the guys had sent in measurements etc. While on the phone with Keith, I adjusted the times for the tux fitting and the dress steaming. Originally tux fitting was 9am Friday, dress steaming at 1:00 on Sunday. I changed it to 8am and 1:30 respectively. Well, I called the day before the fitting to reconfirm everything – and spoke to Keith again. He had no record of the change to the times we had spoken about. He still had us down for 9am and 1pm. Fine, we got that fixed. THEN the day of the dress steaming, I got a call from them asking when I was going to be back in my room – which confused me since my fiancé was waiting in the room for the steamers… turns out they were not at the right room. JEEZ! Tux fitting itself was fine, and they did and OK job with steaming. They made it easy for us by bringing tuxes to us, and letting us leave them with bell services after.
Planner: Ken Weaver A Ken was awesome. He made a lot of things happen for us (like keeping David and Vicki), and did everything he could to make sure things went smoothly. In the planning process he also helped point out ways we could save money. He has been at DFTW the longest (along with Marion I think) so he knows his stuff. We were very very happy with Ken, and feel lucky our request for him was granted at the beginning. I know there were times I must have drove him nuts, but it never showed – a true professional and a great guy.
Assistant: Jen Flores B- Jens grade actually would have been lower, but she redeemed herself shortly before the wedding. Through out the process we felt that whenever Jen answered our emails it was like she didn’t actually read my questions or she would give us answers that didn’t apply to us and the venues we’d picked. AND the biggest complaint we had was her taking vacation without notice. Which you wouldn’t think was a big deal BUT…. Ken had told us back in April that he would be out for 3 weeks in June on vacation, and not to worry Jen would be around. Fine. Love that he gave us so much notice. Even the day before he went on vacation, we were in the midst of changing our dessert party and rehearsal dinner, and he said just make sure we emailed Jen with everything while he was gone. Fine. Well that was like Tuesday… and Friday morning (we were still working out the whole rehearsal dinner/dessert party thing) we got an email from Jen saying she would be out starting that afternoon until the following Friday. Excuse me?!? You are both on vacation!? And you gave us no notice at all, nor did you tell me who your back up was!? OMG. This was one of my few Bridezilla moments. Anyway… Jen did redeem herself just a couple weeks before the wedding. She is the one who drew the concept picture for the grooms cake – and it was awesome.
Reservations: Anaeli Q A- Anaeli was great really. Very nice, very helpful, on top of our reservations, helped us find hotel rooms for my last minute procrastinators. BUT a lot of things got screwed up with reservations beginning at 7pm on the Thursday night before the wedding – after Anaeli left work, and she is off on Friday and Saturday. I am not sure that she could have helped with the things that happened, and the full blame belongs with Coronado (see below), but I wonder if there wasn’t something more she could have done beforehand to prevent the issues.
We are starting to get back to working on stuff that ws on hold because of wedding planning. IE working on the house! Next project is redoing the flooring in our finished basement. If that goes well, we will do the bedrooms next. How is married life treating you?
I am glad you were able to do the Delux instead. Honestly our original plans were to stay at Boardwalk, but ALL of our bridal party didnt want to spend the money for that, so it was silly for us to be the only ones at Boardwalk. In retrospect, I wish we had stayed at Boardwalk and just figured out a plan for the bridal party.
