I almost feel like I should give Young 3 grades; one of how he was at the wedding, one with the quality of the video and one for how long it took me to get my video.
1. Young was amazing at the wedding. We really wanted to have someone who would not be annoying to us or the guests. We didn't want someone who would ask people to say something to the camera and whatnot. Young was great about this. He really seemed to be there anything was happening that needed to be shot and he was quiet so he was not a bother.

2. Once I got the video I was really happy with it, exp. for the price. Young seemed to get everything we wanted. There were some minor things that I asked him to edit and he did those. I really love my video.

3. Here comes the bad part, it took Young 13 months to get me my video!!!!!!!!! His contract said it would take 3-8 months. I kept emailing him and he kept giving me new dates. This happened about 4 times. I will say that I asked Young to 'make it up to me' by throwing in something and he did.

Dan and I were going to, originally, going to use on of the Pastors at our Church, but we didn't have enough time to finish our pre-marital counseling. I was so upset, because our Pastor had done my sisters wedding and we really liked him. I ended up finding Don's information from the knot. Dan and I were so happy that we used him. Don was so nice and very personable. After only meeting us once, he really understood us. He is very perceptive and picks up on people very quickly. We explained to Don that we wanted God included in our ceremony and Don did it beautifully. He really listens to what you want and includes it into your ceremony. Everyone said they they really liked our ceremony and that Don did a great job. Don is a very kind man and it really seems like he cares about the people he marries. He called me the morning of the wedding and it really made me feel better to re go over some detailed with him before the ceremony.
In fact, a few months later Don did my cousin's wedding and it was totally different. He did an amazing job at hers too!

Wow I cannot say enough about how beautiful the flowers were. Allison did such an amazing job. As soon as I walked into the bridal room and saw the bouquets I started to cry. Everything was so beautiful. I mean I knew that they were going to pretty, but I never imagined they would look that amazing.
At first Allison was not able to do my wedding, until Jennifer (my wonderful coordinator) convinced her to take pity on me. She doesn't usually go to my location since it is so far south. I was so pleased that Allison could help. She sat with me for three hours discussing flowers and my ideas for my wedding. She was able to show me flowers on the spot so we could see how they would look. She gave me her opinions without being pushy or rude. She ended up giving me a great price.
Allison and I spoke only days before the wedding and she was able to add wreathes for my flower girls hair and extra arrangements all at the last minute. She never once gave me any grief about adding flowers at such a late date.
My flowers were so fresh. I didn't have one petal that didn't look like it was in its prime, I was just floored at how beautiful they came out. The pictures will not lie.. they were wonderful. Allison was so nice each time I spoke to her. All my guests gushed about how amazing everything looked. Allison had the great idea to add lots of candles to my reception and it really just put the right mood to everything. I would recommend anyone to Flower Allie. She was one of my favorite vendors to work with. She was nice, very reasonable priced, she knew her flowers, she had great ideas, she worked fast and everything looked just amazing. I don't think my wedding would have looked 1/2 as good as it did if Allison was not my florist. If you are looking for a Florist make sure you call her FIRST!!!.

I was very unhappy with the photos that Laurie did for my wedding.
1. The photos were very dated, her style is very 1980's wedding.
2. Not much variety in the pictures. All my bridal shots were from the same distance in the same location. You should not have to be telling your photog how to take pictures on your wedding day.
3. She missed so many detailed shots. I told Laurie, before the wedding, that I wanted lots of the detail shots. My coordinator even reminded her and her husband (assistant) that I wanted them. They both got snippy with her and said that they knew what they were doing. Apparently not because I didn't get a lot of the detail shots.
4. All the reception pictures (that were in color) were very yellow. The room had very low lighting and there was lots of candlelight, causing the yellow glow. That paired with the fact Laurie’s camera was not that nice (I saw some real pro photographers with wayyyy nicer equipment) made the yellow glow. Here is the thing that bugs me, if Laurie had told someone (myself or my DOC) that the lights were too low we would have gladly turned them up. She is in charge of the pictures being nice.

When I told Laurie that I was unhappy with the pictures her response was; 'I don't have unhappy brides'. The only thing that she was willing to offer me was an enlarged picture. Oh that really makes up for having bad photos on my wedding day. I would have been more than happy if she would have offered me a new photo session, some money off or anything. She didn't even try and she didn't care. That’s what makes me really angry. IMO you should not book Laurie. It was the biggest mistake of my wedding. I would give anything to go back in time and change that.

By the way the picture in my profile is not one she took, it was from a trash the dress session by another photographer. I had to photoshop a bunch of my pictures to fix them.

Wow, what do you say about a vendor that saved your butt and wedding? Jennifer and Nicole at OCs Finest were my favorite vendors to work with, they were really a God send!! When you work with OCs finest you don't just get a Day of coordinator. Jennifer was there to help me months before the wedding. Jennifer was so organized, she took care of all the little details so that I didn't have to worry about anything on the day of the wedding. Not only did Jennifer take care of all of my decorations (which there were a lot of) she added stuff that I forgot. For example she added a Thank-you sign to my card bowl and made all the reserved seating signs. My day went so smoothly, my day of coordinators saw to that. I really cannot say enough about those girls. If you need a coordinator I suggest calling them. I never once thought about not having this or that because I knew that my DOCs were going to take care of it. They were always there to help even when I didn't realize I needed help on something. I couldnt have been happier!!