I wanted a quartet to play during our ceremony instead of having a DJ play music over speakers. We were lucky to come across the student group at UCF that does weddings. From what I was able to hear, they played beautiful music. I also heard some of what they played during our cocktail hour, and I was happy about that as well. Plus, you can't beat what we paid for a quartet of students!

Okay, so my in-laws' gift to us was hiring a videographer for us. They hired Bella Pictures, and I honestly would have preferred that they would have paid for any videographer that we selected, and we would have made up any difference in the price. Not saying that Bella Pictures was bad, but they definitely didn't leave a good taste in our mouths. The way that they spoke to us when we contacted them and kept in contact, it was like we were being an inconvenience and talking down to us. Then on our wedding day, the people that showed up was not who we were told was going to be there, so my husband had to explain everything to them again of specifics that we wanted. A few of our guests also said that they were rude to them. I am glad though that our video came fast and was very professional and great. But the way they handle their clients must be rectified!

When we booked Jason and Sara, their prices were half of what they are now. I am so glad that we booked them then, not only because of their price, but because we have nothing but amazsing things to say about them. None of the Orlando photographers that we looked into really completely sold us, so we were lucky that Concept Photography was available (they're from Merrit Island, and they don't have a travel fee!) They are absolutely fun and just great to have at your wedding! We loved our engagement photos, and when we got our wedding photos, we were even more amazed and completely blown away. We loved that they had a slide show playing during our reception of the photos that they had already taken! Book Jason and Sara now if you have the chance!

I love love love love Lee! He is such a great guy to be around; his personality and humor is infectious. He is also very talented and absolutely amazing when it comes to producing the work he does! All our of bouquets and arrangements and centerpieces were just fabulous! He delivered exactly what I imagined and paid for!

My husband and I wanted both our ceremony and reception at one venue, but we didn't want it at a hotel or golf club. We loved the fact that the center was still very new, and fell in love with the place as soon as we got onto the grounds. The location was perfect for us because we also live in Lake Mary, and it was really their rental rates that sold us!

Our ceremony took place in the Rotunda, and it was ABSOLUTELY beautiful! The ceremony was during sunset, so the lighting added such an amazing and romantic glow (which I loved because we were not permitted to have candles in the rotunda.) The view from the Rotunda was also very picturesque, and that was an added bonus that I know our guests liked.

Our reception was in the Grand Ballroom, and it was amazing. I loved all the tall windows, and their colors really worked well with our tiffany blue and chocolate color scheme with accents of pink. They have their list of only approved caterers to use, which we actually liked because it took a lot of legwork out of our hands to look into every catering company in Orlando.

We really loved our wedding at the Lake Mary Events Center, and highly recommend it to other couples!

There was no way I wanted to leave my house before the ceremony for anything, and that included having my hair and makeup done. I looked around to vendors that would travel to me, and found that Patricia LeJeune did. I did a hair and make-up trial with her first to make sure, and I was very pleased that she got everything exactly the way I wanted after the first shot! I booked her right away, and didn't even mind that she charged a $50 travel fee. I did inquire about having her do my bridal party's hair as well (they took care of their own makeup), and she said that that would not be a problem because she would bring in help. The day of our wedding, they all did an amazing job! Even a couple of girls, who saw Patricia doing my airbrush makeup, changed their minds in doing their own makeup and had her girls do theirs as well! We all looked incredibly beautiful, and our hairs were fantastic!

When we received our Invitations, they were nice, but not great. I decided that it needed some extra "bling" to really make it nice, so I went to Jo-Ann and picked up some rhinestones and thin ribbons to add. I put the rhinestones on half the invitations, and the ribbons on the other half (didn't want to overload the invitations). The items definitely spruced the invitations up! I really love Jo-Ann and can always find what I am looking for at a really great price!

This website is just so freaking awesome! Not only do their promotions for free items NEVER expire, but their prices and their quality of their products is freaking awesome as well!

We didn't want to order anything really fancy because we knew that people would end up throwing it away, so we decided to design everything ourselves and order them from VistaPrint using whatever promotion we could to get a great deal (free shipping, free postcards, free magnets, etc.) We ordered every paper need that we could think of from VistaPrint - our invitations, save-the-date cards, magnets, thank you cards. VERY VERY happy and pleased with VistaPrint!

There was a Bridal Show at the Rosen right after we became engaged, so we decided to check it out with our parents and some of our friends. Overall we had a great time. We got to try different samples of hors d'oeuvres, cake, chocolate fountains and etc. We also watched the fashion show, which is where I saw the Maggie Sottero dress that I fell in love with, as well as the dress that I wanted my Bridal Party to wear. We also met with a lot of great vendors, and those that really caught our eye went onto our list of people to look into. We did find some vendors there that we didn't think belonged there. It was very annoying though to get like hundreds of emails afterwards.

A couple of my Bridal Party girls needed their dresses altered. They checked at David's Bridal for how much it would be, but what they quoted really sounded ridiculous to them. My Mom gets her stuff altered at Tina's Master Tailors, so she recommended that they go to them. Not only was their price to alter their dresses a lot less, but they got their dresses back in 2 days!!