Chica's reviews

Like many brides, I thought I could do my own wedding album to reduce wedding costs. I'd done a couple albums on blurb and thought it should be fairly easy. My photographer gave me a disk w/edited images 3 months after the wedding ... then over a year went by and I still hadn't even tried to do an album and friends and family kept asking about it. Making an album for our engagement pictures or my son's b-day party was way easier than doing my wedding album with over 800 edited pictures to choose from!!!!

So I started looking at uploaded wedding albums on blurb to get ideas, when I noticed that Pittelli Photography had AMAZING albums. I immediately contacted them to see if they did album designs outside of their own photography. I got an email from Autumn the same day, saying they did and the price was very reasonable. So I decided to throw money at the "situation" and within a week, my wedding alburm was ready for review. I emailed them a couple changed, which were done right away.

Once I got the final album, it made me re-live how special that day was ... which is priceless. Autumn and Craig have a great gift!!!

Tressa was amazing. She was my b-pic photographer during a marathon session in L.A. She was very patient and made me feel comfortable. I am so happy w/the photos, they are edgy, artistic and beautiful ... they look like they belong in a magazine. Highly recommended!!!!

Words can't explain how happy I am w/Nat and Art. They did an amazing job of capturing our day. We took our engagement px just 3 weeks before the wedding and Nataly made sure she had them available for us to display at the wedding. They are truly professional and affordable.

I was recommended to Tammy by my hairdresser. She is an amazing make-up artist. For my trial, I didn't have any inspiration pictures, I just told her that I wanted natural make up w/glammed up eyes and that is exactly what she gave me w/no direction whatsoever. At the wedding, she was very professional, arrived early and did a fabulous job on me and my mom's makeup. Everyone kept commenting on how good my makeup looked and it even lasted all night!!

Carmen has been my hairdresser for over 3 years, so when I got engaged, there was no question that she was going to do my hair. The look I wanted required me to get extensions, which she added and blended w/my hair perfectly. At the wedding, no one knew the difference and thought it was all my hair (well technically it was, since I paid for it, haha), but she made my hair look better than the inspiration picture I showed her!

Hiring the right DJ was very important for us. My family speaks Spanish and his family speaks English, so we needed someone that could do a good job at making sure that everyone had a good time. My "must haves" included: a dj that was also an mc, bilingual, knowledge of r&b, hip hop, rap, salsa and merengue. I met Louie threw a good friend of mine and never saw him work, but basically trusted my friends judgement, which could have been a disaster. But luckily I was only impressed by Louie, he played everything that we requested and made sure that the dance floor was crowded at all times. He arrived early and was one of the last people to leave, he even gave me a CD with all of my wedding music, which I still play in my car!

Words can't express how happy I was w/Mardy, she is such a sweetheart. She arrived early, was very professional and made sure that everything ran smoothly on my wedding day. If there was a problem, I never knew about it. At the end of the night, she made sure that everything was packed into the cars and was the last person to leave. Hiring Mardy was one of the best investments we made for the wedding.

I was recommended to Jia Jia's by PW bride Ms. Sumomo. They did an amazing job on the flowers for our wedding. Vicki was able to find the perfect shade of the dark red roses for my bouquet and even had some good suggestions that saved us money. They are very professional, do quality work and are truly affordable. Our flowers turned out better than I imagined!

Thanks to PW bride Miss Mandy, we hired East Side Mario's for our wedding. They were the first caterer we visited and after meeting Danielle, we were sold and booked them right on the spot. Our guests were impressed by the pass tray hors d'oevres during cocktail hour. We had an open bar all night and they made sure they were stocked up on everything our families needed. Not only was the food delicious, but the price was on point!!! Danielle and her staff were great, they were so nice that they even set up the table runners and centerpieces. Afterwards, they put the leftover cake in those little chinese "to go" boxes, and our guests were able to just grab a box on their way out.

Gorgeous! My fiance and I just booked this site for our ceremony & reception. What I like about this place is that you can bring your own caterer / liquor / bartender, etc. and there are no special insurance requirements. Tamra is wonderful and very eager to help you. Highly recommended. I will write an update after my wedding.

UPDATE: 8/12/08
I have nothing but positive things to say about the Clarke Estate and their staff. Tamra ran the rehearsal dinner w/my coordinator and made sure everything was perfect. Everyone at my wedding was so impressed by how gorgeous the grounds at the Clarke Estate are.