Charmeng's reviews

The photobooth was a hit for all ages. Partybooths was the most affordable company I could find. Their service was great. I think they were running slightly behind schedule in terms of arrival time, and they called my wedding coordinator to let her know that they were running late, but that everything would be setup in time for their start time. There was always a line to take pictures, and everyone kept coming up to us to let us know how much they loved the booth. Since we had a large wedding, partybooths sent us two attendants to manage the booth. My only gripe was that the camera was setup a little off-center so many people were cutoff in their pictures. It was something we probably could've notified them about, but there was too much going on. Partybooths was definitely worth it.

We ordered all our paper (except for our invitations) from paperandmore.com. We used their paper for all our signage, programs, escort envelopes, menu placecards, table numbers. Our vellum for our candles also was purchased from them. We received our order a mere 3 days after placing our order. The quality of the paper was superb, and their prices are great. Since we purchased so much of our paper from them, they gave us 10% off our purchase and all future purchases. I highly recommend them

I had very minimal floral needs for my wedding. Most of the flowers were personal flowers (i.e. bouquets, bouts, and corsages). My bouquet and my girls' bouquets were a lot smaller than I thought they would be. The bouquet was pretty, but it was a lot smaller than I had wanted my bouquet to be. The biggest frustration that I had was during the planning process. I had met with Anne once when I booked her and I had given her a list of what I was looking for. Every time I e-mailed her to ask for something or to get a price estimate, she was very slow to respond. Also, when I met with her a month before our wedding to finalize our needs, she took extensive notes. However, when she e-mailed me the things that we had discussed, the floral needs was the list that we had made at our initial meeting, and not the meeting we had just attended. I had to remember all the changes that we had made from the initial meeting to the most current meeting. It was as if the second meeting had never happened. In the end, I'm glad that I didn't have centerpieces because I don't know if my vision and her work would have been one in the same. And the vases that she had put on the head table for my girls to put their bouquets in didn't even have water. I'm glad that flowers were very low priority for me. On the bright side, the dahlias that she had placed at every setting looked fabulous. It really gave the pop of color that I wanted the table to have.

If I could give her 10 stars I would! I could probably go on and on about how awesome Maria Chang is, but instead I'll give more specific reasons why Maria Chang is so worth every penny!

- My girls were indecisive over whether they wanted to have their hair and/or make-up done with Maria or not. When we finally decided to have all the girls' hair done by Maria, it was only a week or two before the wedding. She didn't have to try to accommodate my girls, but she was able to get two of her other colleagues to come do my girls' hair.
- During my hair and make-up trial, she gave me tips on how to improve my hair for the wedding. She also had many different hair accessories, which helped me decide what I wanted to put in my hair the day of.
When my MOHs didn't know how they wanted to tie their sashes, Maria showed them different ways to tie it, and then she tied both of their sashes for them
- She did my hair and make-up in the morning for my tea ceremony, came with me to my tea ceremonies (at two different houses), came back to the hotel to fix my hair and make-up for my bridal gown, came along for our pre-ceremony photo shoot, stayed with me in my bridal suite when all my girls had to line-up for the procession, stayed during the church ceremony, touched me up for the post-ceremony pictures, and then finally touched me up again for the cocktail hour. SHE'S AMAZING!
- She made me and my girls feel and LOOK breathtaking!
- She felt like a DOC that was assigned to only me. She gave me water to drink, she bustled my dress, she fixed my veil. She really catered to my every need, to make sure that I was taken care of on my big day.

All my girls were so amazed by Maria's work and how devoted she was to making it the best day of my life, that they all want to hire her for their weddings! I loved Maria! She was definitely money well spent.

Si is such a sweet lady. She really listened to what I wanted for the alterations for my dress, and made it fit very well on me. She was also able to fit in my girls for alterations even though their dresses came only a month before the wedding. My girls' dresses were all 2 sizes too big, and she fixed them perfectly. There was a little mishap in which she took in too much for a few of the girls, and she was able to fix it with a 24 hours turnaround time. She did such great work. All my bustles held up, none broke. And she is incredibly affordable!

They had the suits I needed from sizes 3-10. Our groomsmen were wearing pinstripes, and I was so excited to find pinstripe suits for my little boys. They were at a great price, and good enough quality too. I went to both the Eastridge Mall and Oakridge Mall locations in San Jose

The flower girls' dresses were purchased from this website. The prices would probably have been the same had the dresses been purchased at Little Angels. There were no problems, and they received their dresses quickly. They came out looking beautiful.

The reason why the Men's warehouse got an average grade is because we had confirmed our order with them twice, well before the deadline to make changes. And then on the day of the deadline, they called to confirm the order, and it was all wrong. We couldn't understand how the order was so wrong when an associate had called us a week prior and recited our correct order. Then on the day of the wedding, it was as if the tuxedos were made of cheap material. My DH had his 2nd button on his tuxedo pop off, leaving the best man to sew it back on. The best man also had one of his buttons come off. Another groomsman had his cufflinks break. And yet another groomsman was given an ENTIRELY different order. The salesperson switched the orders and gave the groomsman someone else's tux. I absolutely LOVE the way the tuxedos looked in person and in pictures. I just wished that the mishaps didn't happen, and that the quality of the tuxedos were better.

The salespeople at Bella Mia listened to what I wanted and I was able to find my dress there. However, they were the only store who refused to tell me who the designer of the dresses I tried on. I went to over 8 stores in the bay area, and they were the only ones who "didn't know" the designer of ANY of the dresses I tried on, which was annoying. I even tried calling them to find out if some other associate knew, but they all gave me the same answer that they didn't know. Miraculously, when I finally purchased my dress there (since they quoted my the cheapest price in the bay area), when they rung my order up, it listed the designer and style of my dress without them needing to call the manufacturer as they had constantly told me. Also, when I picked up my dress I wanted to try it on to make sure everything was ok. But they said that "all the dressing rooms were already reserved for other appointments." I think that if you bought your gown from them, the least they could do was allow you to try it on to make sure that the gown was in great condition. Besides their work ethic, the dress was beautiful and it arrived two months early. No complaints about the dress.

I absolutely loved working with Susanne! She was so patient with me since I had no idea what I wanted for my invites. She was always quick to respond to any of my concerns. I know there are some companies that charge for multiple mock-ups, but Susanne produced multiple mock-ups until my FI and I were both happy for no add'l cost. All of Susanne's mock-ups were fabulous, and by the final product we were so blown away. We've gotten so many compliments on our invites from our guests, telling us they're so beautiful and unique. Not only is Susanne's quality of work outstanding, but she was so easy to work with too. Every conversation with her felt like I was talking to a friend instead of a vendor. She really understood the look we were going for for our wedding and was able to make an invite to compliment the feel. I would highly recommend her!