Larisa&Eric June 6, 2011**7/7 Weee'reee Baaack!**

[Kristinella]

Hello! Just caught up on your planning. Sorry about your dress confusion..but when I was looking at your "cheat" dress the shop looked VERY familiar! By any chance are you at The Country Bride on Street Road? If so..ask for Yvonne and she will take AMAZING care of you!!! She is who introduced me to me in my dress..she is FANTASTIC!!!

 

[lzimm13]

Hello! Just caught up on your planning. Sorry about your dress confusion..but when I was looking at your "cheat" dress the shop looked VERY familiar! By any chance are you at The Country Bride on Street Road? If so..ask for Yvonne and she will take AMAZING care of you!!! She is who introduced me to me in my dress..she is FANTASTIC!!!

why yes! I am! and I did have Yvonne! I loved her! I wish she could just make me be able to afford the cheat dress or that I'd seen it earlier!

 

[lzimm13]

We went bridesmaids dress shopping yesterday! but I was a bad bride and I didn't take any pictures All of the girls chose different dresses which I was happy about. My MOH Chose this one

My best friend from the DCP chose this one

and my niece-to-be chose this one

and she looks soooo cute in it! she 15 and as skinny as humanly possible so they had to clip her like woah into all the dresses! it was so funny!

I'm so happy that is all done. I thinking about getting some kind of accessory in cream for them to break up all the green.

I also solved my dress dilema! I got crinoline for my dress so it pouffs a little!! Yay! I'll have to post a picture of that soon too!

In other news: I emailed the roots to see if we can do our mini engagement session while we're in Florida for our planning session. In the reply email I got hit with a brick wall. They said they are moving to Nashville at the end of October and won't be in Florida the week I'm there. They're not charging travel fees for existing or future customers because they want to keep the market that they have built in orlando and they will be down days in advance of everyone's events and they could do a mini-session around the same time as the wedding

This is heartbreaking to me. This is the one part of our PS trip I was looking forward to the most. I wanted to use the pictures to make our guest book and we're not going to be in FL any other time, or Nashville for that matter. This is my one week of vacation that I get until the wedding. What do I need more pictures of the wedding week for!? thats utterly pointless. This session is included in my package that I'm paying dearly for. I made all kinds of room in my budget just so I could have them for our wedding and now I feel like I'm being jipped! I don't know how to respond to the e-mail. I don't want to make them not like us, or be a pain in the *** for fear that our wedding will become un-important to them and the quality of our photography will suffer but at the same time I want to stand up for myself and the $4000 I'm paying! The kicker for me is I had no clue this was going on. Granted it's not exactly my business to know where they live or whatever but I couldn't get a "hey, FYI we're not going to be around before your wedding so you might want to get that mini-session in before we move" I don't know what to do

 

[pixie921]

In other news: I emailed the roots to see if we can do our mini engagement session while we're in Florida for our planning session. In the reply email I got hit with a brick wall. They said they are moving to Nashville at the end of October and won't be in Florida the week I'm there. They're not charging travel fees for existing or future customers because they want to keep the market that they have built in orlando and they will be down days in advance of everyone's events and they could do a mini-session around the same time as the wedding

This is heartbreaking to me. This is the one part of our PS trip I was looking forward to the most. I wanted to use the pictures to make our guest book and we're not going to be in FL any other time, or Nashville for that matter. This is my one week of vacation that I get until the wedding. What do I need more pictures of the wedding week for!? thats utterly pointless. This session is included in my package that I'm paying dearly for. I made all kinds of room in my budget just so I could have them for our wedding and now I feel like I'm being jipped! I don't know how to respond to the e-mail. I don't want to make them not like us, or be a pain in the *** for fear that our wedding will become un-important to them and the quality of our photography will suffer but at the same time I want to stand up for myself and the $4000 I'm paying! The kicker for me is I had no clue this was going on. Granted it's not exactly my business to know where they live or whatever but I couldn't get a "hey, FYI we're not going to be around before your wedding so you might want to get that mini-session in before we move" I don't know what to do

I'm sorry this is happening, and I understand your frustration! What I would do is call them and explain what you've written above, and see what they say. You are the client and I'm sure they'll be willing to try and come up with some sort of alternative that might work, or possibly give you a reduced rate? You could then consider hiring a different photographer for the photo session so you can make you guest book like you've planned.

 

[Sccrmnky2005]

Yes, I would def. call them and see what you can resolve with them. If you can't get them to get a session in for you while your down in FL then I would ask them to refund you the money that the session would cost you. And try to find another photographer to do your e-pics while your vacationing in FL. I know there are many many in florida that will do it for you, and at a good price. I had mine done in April this year and I used David and Vicki Arndt, they have a very good repor on the boards and they usually charge $200+ taxes. They will make you feel very confortable and you will get great e-pics on your vacation. Let me know if you want more info on them. I'll try to help you out!

GOOD LUCK, I hope things work out for you!

 

[helloirishkitty]

I would definitely talk to the roots. We are considering them (I originally wanted them, but then found out how $$ they are, so we then booked Studio 222 but I'm having a hard time paying for them because it's only $600 less than the roots... sorry for the long story) and they have included a "mini-session" the day before the wedding in our package. I would have been beyond p*ss*d if I had paid for an engagement session and would only get a "mini-session". I wish we had time for an engagement session- we're only going to be in WDW for two days for our planning session so we don't have the time

I would talk to them. Studio 222 was going to charge $500 for an engagement session and they're prices seem to be comparable to the roots'.

 

[DisneyDiva84]

Im so sorry to hear about that

We are using Randy Chapman and honestly if he did that to us I'd be so peeved. I would definitely reach out to them. This is the happiest day and week of your life, do not let a simple thing like a photographer ruin it

 

[princesswendy720]

I have to agree with everyone else. An engagement session, which you were promised, should take place some time before the wedding I would think I'm surprised they're not more forthcoming with the information, but I'd imagine they don't want to turn people off from booking them for Orlando area events. I would ask if you can have the engagement shoot refunded and schedule one with a different photographer. Studio 222 is charging us $350 for our engagement shoot (we're too far away from our wedding date to book a package - but this will be deducted from our package price once we do book).

 

[BecBennett]

Ouch, that's not nice

This doesn't really fix the problem, but it could be a sort of alternate you could consider. We're not doing an engagement shot, but we want the photo guest book, so what I'm doing is getting pics of DF and I that we've gotten through the years, as well as some baby pics etc. and I'm going to turn them into the guest book.

It's probably not as nice looking as some profession engagement pics, but I figure it will be fun to do, and fun for the guests to look through

Just an idea, but I really hope you're able to come to some sort of arrangement.

 

[lzimm13]

Ok so maybe I was a little bit vague? or came off differently than I meant to. Let me try and clarify.

It was a mini-session originally, not a full session, and it was technically complimentary. I think though, as a consumer, that when someone says "complimentary" we hear "rolled into the price"(or maybe thats me). My main problem is I was sincerely really excited for it and excited to meet them. They are not by any means ruining anything. As long as they're there for the wedding, which I'm sure they will be, it will all be fine. I'm not worried about them traveling, I know they've traveled for other stuff and they seem like the very prepared/responsible types. I don't want to put a black mark on their reputation buy any means, that was not my intent at all.

I've thought about it quite a bit, and I think I'm going to call them and try my damndest to line something up before the wedding. If worse come to worst I'll take the mini session the Friday or Saturday before the Wedding and we'll have met them and been in front of the camera before so it won't be entirely new to us. Here's hoping!

 

[lzimm13]

So I emailed the roots like I explained above...Right now I'm waiting on a reply.

Other than that we've decided on a cake idea. We're going to try to meld these two designs

I'm pretty sure one of them is a disBride...I think its the wavy one. lol

Other than that I got nothin. lol

 

[*Pixiedust1438*]

I really like the bridesmaid dresses as well as the cakes. What are your colors again? Sorry about the drama with the roots, I agree they should have informed their clients of the move. I deff. get that you want to meet them before the big day, I feel the same way. Hopefully you can figure something out. I guess you could always hire a different photographer to do the e-shoot if you could get a good price, and then do a shoot with the roots in June before the actual wedding, at least that way you could still have your e-shoot and meet the roots before the wedding day. I would ask the roots to pay for your e-shoot, or at least half of it, since they can't do it as promised. I don't think they can argue that they will do it right before the wedding... that's not really an ENGAGEMENT shoot then!

 

[2nd Time Bride]

Love the wavy cake! Hope it goes well with the Roots, I have my fingers crossed for you!

 

[lzimm13]

I really like the bridesmaid dresses as well as the cakes. What are your colors again? Sorry about the drama with the roots, I agree they should have informed their clients of the move. I deff. get that you want to meet them before the big day, I feel the same way. Hopefully you can figure something out. I guess you could always hire a different photographer to do the e-shoot if you could get a good price, and then do a shoot with the roots in June before the actual wedding, at least that way you could still have your e-shoot and meet the roots before the wedding day. I would ask the roots to pay for your e-shoot, or at least half of it, since they can't do it as promised. I don't think they can argue that they will do it right before the wedding... that's not really an ENGAGEMENT shoot then!

The colors are Pistachio(green) and like cream and gold...I love it lol.

Love the wavy cake! Hope it goes well with the Roots, I have my fingers crossed for you!

Thanks!


As for the Roots we worked something out and I'm really happy!! I told them I wanted to do a guest book with the pictures and they offered to do a guest book of their photography from the parks! AND we are still doing the shoot the weekend before the wedding so we can meet and all that fun stuff! I'm really excited for this guest book and it might even be a better idea then what we had originally!

 

[2nd Time Bride]

The colors are Pistachio(green) and like cream and gold...I love it lol.



Thanks!


As for the Roots we worked something out and I'm really happy!! I told them I wanted to do a guest book with the pictures and they offered to do a guest book of their photography from the parks! AND we are still doing the shoot the weekend before the wedding so we can meet and all that fun stuff! I'm really excited for this guest book and it might even be a better idea then what we had originally!

That's great news!!! I am so glad it's all working out for you!!

 

[lzimm13]

So I've got a little something to update. We got our rings forever ago, it was like the first thing we did after we got engaged. We had an awesome experience at the place where he bought my e-ring (Steven Singer for anyone who lives in the Philly area!) so we decided we wanted to go back there for our rings. I told him over and over again to look online before we go shopping for real. His attitude was like "its a circular piece of metal...I don't want any diamonds, what other decision do I have to make?" So we get down there and we look for my ring first...It was a super easy decision and I love it. Then we moved on to his ring and he found out theres gold, white gold, platinum, palladium, titanium, tungsten, rings with ridges, and round rings, and square rings, and ones that are textured and so on. So we spend 45min looking at the mens rings and all of 15min finding mine, which is fine with me cause we both walked away happy. For reference this is what his ring looks like

and Today he BBM's me a link to this techie/geek website that he reads all the time and writes the phrase "I want it!" after it. Of course I think its a video game or something. NOPE! Its a wedding band. http://gizmodo.com/5640256/id-like-my-ring-samurai-style?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+(Gizmodo)

for those of you who don't want to follow the link heres a picture

These rings are forged using the same process that has been used to make samurai swords for hundreds of years! It creates that wood grain pattern in the ring and they do it with all different color metals so it can be customized if you'd like. Is that totally nerdy and awesome? Yes! Is that totally him? Of course! Can we afford to buy another ring? no.

I think this is his version of the dress crisis. lol

 

[*Pixiedust1438*]

I think this is his version of the dress crisis. lol [/QUOTE]



What does your band look like? The second band he likes is really neat!

 

[lzimm13]

mine is white gold with very small round and rectangular diamonds in a pattern like this ooo=ooo=ooo around most of the band. I really wish I had pictures of it but its currently locked in his parents safe and I never got pictures before it went in!

 

[lzimm13]

New News!!!

We weren't going to have a rehearsal dinner because it's not in our budget. Mom was adamant about it for a while but when she saw I didn't really care to have one she gave up. lol

We were at his parents house last night and his parents offered to pay for a rehearsal dinner! It gets better. I asked, "Should we look for a cute cheap place in celebration or do you wanna do it on Disney property?"

His dad grabbed my hand and looked me straight in the eye and said "Whatever you want"


He knows the magic words! So now I'm looking at places on Disney Property cause of course thats the coolest way to do it!

....The rehearsal isn't going to count towards our minimum is it?

 

[lzimm13]

MOH issues!

THis is a long story but I really really need advice.

My MOH is a girl I've known since I was 7 We were inseparable then over the years a lot has happened including 2 suicide attempts on her part. I've been here throughout and she has (understandably) become a different person. I honestly feel a little under appreciated compared to the other people she surrounds herself with. I would say we've grown apart a bit. we still talk and hang out and keep up but we dont really mesh as well as we once did. I initially made her MOH because it was kind of assumed, both ways and I didnt want to say "btw, your not my MOH" and start drama or hurt her, the last thing I wanted to do was hurt her, and I wouldn't abandon her for the world.

My second bridesmaid is a girl I met through the Disney College program, I lived with her for 4 months there and even though we live 1000 miles away we have managed to stay in touch. DF loves her (which can't be said for my MOH) and we bonded differently than me and my MOH. We were both adults and pretty much the people we're going to be for the rest of our lives.

The nasty side of it is my MOH is unreliable and fickle. My second bridesmaid is the exact opposite, she's loyal and understanding. On my more emotional nights I've cried about how I don't think MOH is going to be around as a friend forever and how I wish second Bridesmaid's name is the one that would be listed under witness on our marriage certificate(not that it matters in the end)

So MOH texts me tonight asking me if DF honestly likes her, that she's been trying to figure something out. so I tell her the truth. "He doesn't hate you, but your not his favorite person." and then she tells me she's not sure she should be the MOH. second bridesmaid is happy with her position and knows I value her friendship and is not by any means trying to take over the role of MOH. after a long text conversation we have resolved to meet on friday and talk in person.

I dont know what to do, at this point in life I feel like I'm closer to second bridesmaid and she better represents me and DH as a couple, but I've known MOH forever. I don't want MOH to decide not to be MOH and then be upset all day becasue she wishes she could have been but I also don't want her to be uncomfortable as MOH.

HELP! What do I say/do!?