LohLoh's reviews

My maid of honor stocked up on bachelorette party essentials from Party City. We ended up having 2 bachelorette parties - one was a cheesy typical bar-trolling one, and the items she purchased from Party City were perfect for it. We had car decorations, crowns, sashes, tattoos, inappropriate items and glowing buttons. Plus, everything there is CHEAP!

I wanted to attend a bridal show just to see what kind of options were out there and to gather some ideas. This show was so crowded that you could barely move, it was hard to see the vendor's displays which was a major deterrant for me to consider certain vendors. The overhead speaker was so loud that everytime they would make an announcement I cringed. It was just completely too much for me to handle. I didn't feel like I got anything accomplished except giving myself a lot of stress!

My mother hosted a bridal tea for me at the Pineapple Room. I've always loved Cheekwood and it was such a great surprise to have one of my wedding events there. After tea and lunch we walked around the gardens and just enjoyed a beautiful day. Cheekwood is kept absolutely perfect - looking back, I wish we had our ceremony there.

My engagement ring is actually my husband's grandmother's, but we needed a place to get our wedding bands. I really didn't want to go to one of those big jewelry stores, and while we were downtown one day we passed by Village. The first wedding band I tried on was what I ended up with. It was absolutely exquisite and matched my engagement ring. My husband was pickier than I was when it came to choosing his wedding band, but the staff was patient and helpful.

My husband and his family are italian, so since they were the ones planning the rehearsal dinner, his mom asked me if I knew any good Italian places in Nashville. Valentino's was the first to pop into my head - especially because my husband had taken me on quite a few dates there! Our rehearsal dinner was fairly small - we wanted to keep it intimate with just our family and a few close friends. My husbands Italian family completely approved - the food was wonderful as always and the service was attentive and perfect.

My maid of honor thought it would be fun to do a tour of bars that we had never been to in Nashville for my bachelorette party. She chose this place because she thought the name was so cute! Well, what she didn't realize was that it was a gay bar for women. After getting over the initial shock, we had the best time! I was able to enjoy being with my close girlfriends without a bunch of drunk guys trying to hit on us or making trouble. If you want to try something different, this is definitely an option!

I really wanted my bridesmaid's to have matching shoes since they were wearing tea-length gowns, but I didn't want to add another major expense for them. I found a pair of shoes on Zappo's that was the EXACT shade of gold I wanted, was reasonably priced, and the shoes were cute enough that I know my girls ended up wearing those shoes for other events after the wedding! What was really nice is since a few of the girls were from out of town, they could order online and have them shipped without having to pay shipping.

We had several hotels do room blocks for us to give our guests options in different price ranges. This one was our more 'pricey' option. I can't remember the name of the girl we dealt with, but she was wonderful to work with. Most of our guests did end up staying here because the rate was so affordable for such a nice hotel, and the location is ideal for out of town guests who wanted to do some downtown site seeing while they were there. We had to add a few more rooms to the block at the last minute and the hotel accommodated our request with no rate changes or issues.

I chose to get my bridesmaids gowns from Watters and Watters. I didn't want my bridesmaids to end up spending an arm and a leg, but I didn't want cheap looking dresses either. One of my bridesmaids is from Columbia and was actually looking for her own wedding dress in The Spoiled Lady when she came across the bridesmaid's dress we ended up going with. She called me and told me she found a gown she loved and asked if I would meet her down there. Since I hadn't found anything myself yet I figured it was worth it to check out what she had found. First of all, the gown was gorgeous. Second, very reasonably priced. And third, and I think most important, the sales service there was above and beyond. The shop was a little further out of Nashville than I expected to find something like this dress, but I'm so glad we did!

Again, our reception site was so elegant that it didn't need much, so we wanted some linens that were elegant and simplistic to complement the decor, not compete with it. We chose a beautiful neutral pintuck linen for our tables and some gorgeous hemstitch linen napkins. BBJ was wonderful to work with, but we ended up getting charged for a couple of missing napkins and a missing linen. When I spoke to the reception site, they told me that the shipment had actually been one table linen short (thank goodness we ordered a few extras!). I was frustrated that we were charged for their mistake, but once we called and explained what happened, they took the additional charge off.