iluvasoldier
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2010
- Messages
- 278
Vendor review
Hair/make-up: Candi Ekstrom
I liked her price and the fact I was able to do a trial run of my hair before hand. Being OCD there was no way I could go in to my wedding day not knowing if my hair would look how I wanted.
She must have used an entire large bottle of hairspray in my hair. Although I liked the final product, if did not hold past the ceremony. My bridesmaids' hair held better, and we used less hairspray and did it ourselves; we curled their hair with a straightener, Candi did mine with a curling iron.*
When it comes to make-up, I feel I should have just done my makeup. IMO my face was too dark, lips too dark, and it just felt caked on. Of course I haven't seen the photos yet. She told me you have to do things a little darker for them to really show in photos; guess we'll find out when I see the photos.
Photography: Elegant Imagery
I fell in love with their work at a bridal show and continued to fall more in love as I looked at their photos online.*
They got lost on Disney property trying to get to the GF so they were late. also, the photographer was more about asking me what I wanted him to do instead of taking the initiative to say, "let's do this...". He had my planners number and vise versa, and even though I'd discussed through email many times about our first look photo, he still wasn't sure what exactly was going on.
However, I saw some of the raw pictures on his camera that night and loved them. I'm supposed to see my photos at the 8 week mark which is a week away or so.*
I paid $3,500. They were there 6pm-12:30 pm. I also had a photo booth. Included in my photo package is the following:
FREE Wedding Planner Day-Of Timeline (which I didn't need because I had wonderful Kathy)
No Location Limitations
Unlimited photos
ALL wedding pictures come in a hard copy print size of 4x6!
ALL images are edited and optimized including black and white, European spot color, HDR/hi def, other artistic effects and*Live Photo option
Three High Resolution DVDs with print from release (print your images anytime, anywhere, any size)
Three Slideshow CDs set to your favorite music with your pictures
One Large Magazine Style Coffee Table Album approx 15x11 in size 10 pages/20 sides!
Online Ordering Website for friends and family
Also with the photo booth comes a disc with ALL the photos taken in the photo booth.*
I can't give my overall review for my photographer until I see the photos, but if it is anything like their previous work, I'll be amazed.
Flowers: Jonathons flowers
Amazing! For MORE floral than what I had with Disney floral, it was HALF the price! He did such An amazing job. He was so on time that I never even saw him. He dropped off the bouquets and boutineers while I was getting ready, then did the ceremony decorations during our first look photos, and got the reception set up during the ceremony. I'm not a big flower person so I went with a bridesmaid size bouquet. Perfect! Then my 2 bridesmaids each carried 5 calla lillies. My jr bridesmaid carried 5 red carnations. They were great. Our moms got a boutineer but they had some ribbon and baby's breath to make it more feminine. My dog Mozart, who walked me down the aisle, even got a boutineer to clip to his leash. My aisle decor was great! The floating petals and petals down the aisle were the perfect low key amount of flowers. (note
isney would not let him use their hoses for water so he had to carry and transport his own. Poor guy had to have 20gallons of water on hand). The reception center pieces were great. The same cylinder look from the aisle was around the main centerpiece, which had 4 calla lillies in it. Again a small amount of floral but just perfect for me. Now, my reception center pieces were not supposed to have water in the main tall cylinder with the 4 callalillies, but in the end it still looked good so there wasn't much of a worry.*
More reviews (mainly on Disney) to come
Hair/make-up: Candi Ekstrom
I liked her price and the fact I was able to do a trial run of my hair before hand. Being OCD there was no way I could go in to my wedding day not knowing if my hair would look how I wanted.
She must have used an entire large bottle of hairspray in my hair. Although I liked the final product, if did not hold past the ceremony. My bridesmaids' hair held better, and we used less hairspray and did it ourselves; we curled their hair with a straightener, Candi did mine with a curling iron.*
When it comes to make-up, I feel I should have just done my makeup. IMO my face was too dark, lips too dark, and it just felt caked on. Of course I haven't seen the photos yet. She told me you have to do things a little darker for them to really show in photos; guess we'll find out when I see the photos.
Photography: Elegant Imagery
I fell in love with their work at a bridal show and continued to fall more in love as I looked at their photos online.*
They got lost on Disney property trying to get to the GF so they were late. also, the photographer was more about asking me what I wanted him to do instead of taking the initiative to say, "let's do this...". He had my planners number and vise versa, and even though I'd discussed through email many times about our first look photo, he still wasn't sure what exactly was going on.
However, I saw some of the raw pictures on his camera that night and loved them. I'm supposed to see my photos at the 8 week mark which is a week away or so.*
I paid $3,500. They were there 6pm-12:30 pm. I also had a photo booth. Included in my photo package is the following:
FREE Wedding Planner Day-Of Timeline (which I didn't need because I had wonderful Kathy)
No Location Limitations
Unlimited photos
ALL wedding pictures come in a hard copy print size of 4x6!
ALL images are edited and optimized including black and white, European spot color, HDR/hi def, other artistic effects and*Live Photo option
Three High Resolution DVDs with print from release (print your images anytime, anywhere, any size)
Three Slideshow CDs set to your favorite music with your pictures
One Large Magazine Style Coffee Table Album approx 15x11 in size 10 pages/20 sides!
Online Ordering Website for friends and family
Also with the photo booth comes a disc with ALL the photos taken in the photo booth.*
I can't give my overall review for my photographer until I see the photos, but if it is anything like their previous work, I'll be amazed.
Flowers: Jonathons flowers
Amazing! For MORE floral than what I had with Disney floral, it was HALF the price! He did such An amazing job. He was so on time that I never even saw him. He dropped off the bouquets and boutineers while I was getting ready, then did the ceremony decorations during our first look photos, and got the reception set up during the ceremony. I'm not a big flower person so I went with a bridesmaid size bouquet. Perfect! Then my 2 bridesmaids each carried 5 calla lillies. My jr bridesmaid carried 5 red carnations. They were great. Our moms got a boutineer but they had some ribbon and baby's breath to make it more feminine. My dog Mozart, who walked me down the aisle, even got a boutineer to clip to his leash. My aisle decor was great! The floating petals and petals down the aisle were the perfect low key amount of flowers. (note
isney would not let him use their hoses for water so he had to carry and transport his own. Poor guy had to have 20gallons of water on hand). The reception center pieces were great. The same cylinder look from the aisle was around the main centerpiece, which had 4 calla lillies in it. Again a small amount of floral but just perfect for me. Now, my reception center pieces were not supposed to have water in the main tall cylinder with the 4 callalillies, but in the end it still looked good so there wasn't much of a worry.*More reviews (mainly on Disney) to come
you can't really go wrong with Disney food.
