We went with The Lighthouse because we really felt that they had everything under control and that we would not have to be involved in every detail… on the day of we wanted to feel like guests at our wedding.

About 2 months prior to our wedding we were assigned Randall as our event manager. He handled choosing the menu and and all the other details that needed to be taken care of like dropping things off a few days prior and making sure he coordinated with Elaine on timing for the day. He was really great to work with. My only complaint was that he was hard to get in touch with prior to the day of. My other complaint with The Lighthouse was when we booked the place they told us transportation at the end of the night would not be a problem for our guests and that they would arrange to have a bunch of cars waiting. Turned out they were not prepared for the number that needed transport and there were people walking out into the streets to hail cabs. I was disappointed by this as if I had know I would have arranged for a bunch of town cars or something. Other than those 2 small things, The Lighthouse were an absolute pleasure to work with…

The Abigail Kirsch food was amazing and I am still hearing about how good it was from the guests. The waitstaff provided excellent service to all the guests and treated us like the king and queen – constantly available to get us anything we wanted. We had our ceremony on an angle looking into the corner of the glass room (the way most people do it) so there was some breakdown necessary after the ceremony and setup of the lowest level needed prior to the reception. This all happened seamlessly and I didn’t even know it was occurring. Before the reception started, we were brought in to see the room before the maddness started which was really nice. We got to have a quiet moment to take it all in and see everything before everyone was in there.

Overall, I was extremely happy with The Lighthouse and would definitely recommend it.

I hear that the limo and driver were very nice but I never rode in it so it’s hard to say. They arrived on time to pick up FI and the GMs and were behind after that getting people to the LH but that was due to traffic not them. I didn’t give a 5 star because I didn’t hear any special raves about it.

Peter was an absolute dream to work with from beginning to end. We sorted out all of the details prior to the day of via e-mail which included timing, music for the ride & decorations for the cab. He was there on time and even had good suggestions for where in the city (specific streets) we should take pics on in the West Village (we wanted a cobble stone – old world NY feel). He also picked us up at the end of the night and had “Just Married” on the back window of the cab as we had requested. It really looked perfect! If what you’re looking for is a vintage checker cab or any other vintage car they have – definitely give Peter a call.

Leading up to the wedding, I wasn’t sure if I had made the right decision hiring a day-of planner. It seemed like I had it all under control and that it was going to be a waste of my $. Granted, she did a whole timeline of the day for me and laid out all my payments and everything which I really did need help with but I was starting to feel like that was going to be it. Then a few days before the event she really kicked it up and totally came through.

First I had an incident with my photographer which she worked with me and them to resolve (more about that in the photog review) when I did not have time because I had a full day of spa appointments booked. On the day of she was simply amazing. She was at the hotel and made sure everyone was coordinated and ready and dressed on time – there were an awful lot of people to deal with and it would have been very overwhelming for me to handle that alone. She also did a ton at the Lighthouse from making sure the photo guest book was being worked on to taking envelopes from me and putting them in the bridal suite to keeping family informed and coordinated and paying all my vendors their final payments. I really felt having her was a great thing and one of the better decisions I made.

The only reason I didn’t give a 5 star was because my grandparents were annoyed that she got them organized a few times to take a pro pic with us but it never wound up happening. I don’t consider it her fault the pic didn’t happen (that’s obviously partially on me and the photographer) but for making them stand and wait a few different times telling them that it would.

I found Michele by recommendation from other brides. I was looking for my envelope sets to be done beautifully and not cost me what seems to be the going rate of $5 or so a set in the city. Michele did a beautiful job on my inner & outer envelopes as well as my placecards. She was also easy to work with and got everything done when she said she would – even though she was in the middle of moving at the time! I couldn’t have been happier with her and would suggest anyone looking for calligraphy that’s not outrageously priced hould definitely check her out. She sends samples of her writing styles by e-mail and you can meet with her in person on Staten Island or get things back and forth via mail.

I absolutely LOVED my invites. They were exactly what I wanted and the paper quality was better than what I was expecting from an online vendor. JeanM were easy to work with – I called to place my order. I paid like $5 or $10 prior to ordering the invites to have sample paper & ribbon sent. This was a good move since they looked different in person and I would up ordering different colors than I had originally wanted. The only reason I did not give a 5 star was because I didn’t love how they printed the hotel info insert. It wasn’t spaced correctly and the lettering on one line appeared to be bigger than the rest. Since it was just one of the inserts, though, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal and didn’t complain so – who knows – they may have reprinted them for me if I did.


FAVOR TAGS

I wanted something monogrammed for our wedding, and chose the favor tags as the place to do it. They were really cute and looked great but were on much lighter weight paper than I was expecting considering I paid about $100 for 175 tags or so.

I didn’t want to spend a whole lot on STD’s so I looked until I found something I liked that was reasonable. I was very happy with the finished product. I give an A- because the envelope paper was lighter weight than I would have liked and because the the wine colored printing wasn’t as bright as I would have liked – it wasn’t raised printing like I expected. But for the price I paid, I was very happy.