Milwaukee Wedding

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I am despirately looking for a venue for our wedding in september 2011. we saw a place today that we just love because of the large ceilings and warehouse/industrial feel it has, but is not availalbe until late october. does anyone know any sort of large warehouse type places or any unique locations at a low cost and would hold between 200-250? any help or suggestions are much appreciated!

Thanks!!

Hello Milwaukee brides! Thank you for opening this message! Trust me, you will be so glad you did in the end.

I just got married on July 17 in Milwaukee and everything about my day was perfect....except for one thing- the DJ. His name is DJ Robert (Robb) Chojnacki. Might also be listed under ROLO DJ (out of New Berlin, WI). He was assigned to us by the entertainment company we went through- Direct Entertainment LLC (direct-entertainment.com). They are a huge entertainment company and have offices nationwide. For this reason, I should have been very cautious about them, but I wasn't. We were getting a great deal. $1,400 for a DJ AND a videographer for the wedding. Let me just say you TOTALLY get what you pay for and we were SO disappointed...both with the DJ and the videographer. But the DJ was absolutely TERRIBLE! Let me tell you why:

My husband and I worked SOOO hard putting together our music list for the DJ. We even had personal conversations with him about all the songs we wanted to hear and he assured us we would. Some of the songs we picked out were very special to us and evoke happy memories that we wanted to relive the night of our wedding. We did not get to. He totally disregarded our ENTIRE list! We may as well have never given him one to begin with and saved hours of selecting songs. So during the reception, I went over to ask him why he wasn't playing the songs we selected. He had to dig through a pile of papers under his equipment to pull out our music list to talk to me. He didn't even care to take the list out for reference! Also, his equipment was VERY outdated. It was an old stereo system that played CDs. I was shocked that he didn't have digital system. As a result, his old equipment made the CDs skip in the middle of songs he was playing which made the entire dance floor agitated.

And speaking of agitation- he looked flustered, frustrated and angry the entire night. Even shouting at me a couple times about how the hotel I selected (a five star hotel) was a nightmare! I was baffled at the treatment he gave me and was floored when he pulled me aside and ordered me to fill out a comment card while guests were trying to talk to me. He said to fill it out or he couldn't get paid. I filled it out for him, but was so upset that he dragged me away from my wedding to fill out a stupid comment card! So unprofessional!

Other things that he did that were awful-

1.) Our first dance (a dance i was looking forward to for pretty much my whole life) was stopped right in the middle and he just started it all over again. Had to re-dance to the first dance all over again.

2.) Not only did he not refer to the selected music list, but he completely disregarded the DO NOT PLAY list we gave him. Played songs and styles we absolutely HATE!

3.) Complained and nagged my mother on where his dinner was.

4.) Read the names wrong for the people in the wedding party during the grand march!

5.) Sabotaged our other vendors by telling them the wrong information and schedule for how things were going to happen. The videographer had all the wrong cues (even though he was very unprofessional as well- also came from Direct Entertainment) and the photographers were scrambling to capture important moments they almost missed because he didn't give them time to set up or anything.

6.) He makes stupid jokes all night. Guests were asking me where I even found the DJ. And his voice is very high pitched and squeeky. Kinda hurts your ears when he's talking through the microphone. Numerous guests asked me to tell him to "just stop talking". So embarrassing.

If you do anything right when planning a wedding, please do your research and ask others for recommendations on DJs. I did not do this and just went with the cheapest. Trust me, they're cheap for a reason. I was humiliated by my DJ during my wedding. Don't let him do this to you on your special day.

Any of you ladies in (or around) Milwaukee and want to go out??  I keep seeing pics from other brides from other cities having GtGs...making fun PW shirts and stuff and I think it would be fun!!!

Let me know if anyone likes the idea and we'll see if we can pull something together!

I am looking for a reasonable & nice location for the bridal shower in the greater Milwaukee area.

Thanks!!

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As my best friend used to say, I'm just a little girl from the Midwest with Southern ties living in Manhattan.  I'm originally from Milwaukee, attended college at Boston University, returned to Milwaukee for a year of fun, moved to Dallas for a complete change of pace and a good career start, and then followed a job to New York City where I've been for the past 3 years.

I met my awesome fiance while living in Dallas, thanks to my Delta Delta Delta sorority connection to his mom.  We now both live and love the Big Apple (any Texan who moves to New York City for a girl must really be in LOVE!).

We're getting married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 14, 2011.

And yes, I'm a big fan of LOST. :)

My fiance, Mike, and I met in 2005 after I had graduated college and finished an internship. I started working as a event and banquet manager at a  restaurant where he was the bar manager. It was actually a place that I worked all through high school and when I came home from college on breaks. Mike had also worked for the same company, but a different location, during the same time period and we never met. We were friends for a few monthes and it soon became much more.

I knew we would be getting engaged soon ( I thought by the end of 2008) but Mike totally surprised me on April 18th. He had called me at work during the day and said that his brother had asked us to babysit their two kids that night and the next morning. Mike asked that I call him on my way home from work so he could tell his brother when to drop the kids off. Being totally oblivious to anything I called Mike on my way home and looked forward to a night with my two favorite kids. As I pulled into our condo I noticed the shades were closed in the kitchen...'Weird!' I thought to myself, I never close the shades in the kitchen. I wrote it off to Mike probably broke something and didn't want me to freak out when I pulled in. When I opened the door to our condo I was shocked, everywhere you looked there were rose petals, vases of flowers and candles. I immediately thought that it looked like the epdisode of friends were Monica proposes to Chandler and vice versa. I gasped and called Mikes name. He was waiting for me with the ring and asked and through tears, laughter and the typical 'are you serious?' questions.

We will be married on September 19, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme of our wedding is family. We are using photos of Mike and I as part of our table numbers and we have a table with pictures of old family weddings going back four generations.  This theme will also be played up with our name cards, and with the photo booth that we will have for guests to use.

We are getting married on September 19, 2009 at St. Monica's Chuch in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. It is a gorgeous, huge, old church with a lot of character. I'm a little scared about the actual walk down the aisle as it is 151 feet long!

The ceremony will take place at the Italian Conference Center in Milwaukee. My family is Italian and so this place has very important meaning to my family. Not to mention that the food is amazing! We are planning on 250 people at the dinner and reception.  We have six couple standing up with us and they range from family to friends, a ring bearer and flower girl and two ushers.

Vendors:
Photograher: Expressive Photography-Caitlyn Jeffreys

Florist: Twins Floral

DJ: All Star Music-Craig

Photobooth: Party Picture Booth

My Dress: Marisa 796 in ivory with white lace, I adore my dress. It is not something that I would have ever picked out for myself but Kira at Zita's Bridal was amazing and said that I had to try it on, it would look better on me than the hanger. She was right, I didn't want to take it off.

My Shoes: Manolo Blahnik-Svelti Nappa Silver

Bridesmaid Dresses: Dessy and After Six in Clover with Ivory accent-there are four different styles the girls can choose from.

Invitations are being done by a friend who is a very talented graphic designer.

I am creating our table numbers, rehearsal dinner invites, name cards and some other small things. I am also in search of 10 16" (about) tall glass cylinder vases for my floral arrangements and 15 round bowls/vases about 5-6" tall.

We took our engagement pictures in early October, on a gorgeous Indian Summer day. The pictures were taken at Lake Park in downtown Milwaukee overlooking Lake Michigan. We will also take some of our wedding photos there. Our photographer is Caitlyn Jeffrey from Expressive Photography. She is FANTASTIC! Here are some of my favorites.