ZanySuzy's reviews

I honestly wasn't expecting a honeymoon because we were putting every cent into finalizing everything with the new house that we bought, but my husband surprised me the weekend after our wedding with a drive up to St. Augustine. We stayed the entire weekend at Casa Monica Hotel, and I absolutely loved every minute! St. Augustine is steeped in such rich culture that I loved walking around. The hotel is also so incredibly beautiful!

Cudget.net was one of the only other sites outside of eBay that I got decor for our wedding. I really wanted a mix of red and pink glass votive holders to add color and flood the Winter Park Farmers Market with candlelight, and I couldn't find them at a decent rate on eBay. So when a friend suggested I look on Cudge.net, I ordered them right then and there once I saw what I wanted online! I was so thrilled with the prices and how many I got in each package! They also delivered them in less than a week afterwards. I did find that about 5 votives were broken, but when I contacted their customer service about that, they remedied the situation immediately and to make up for the broken pieces, they send me an additional 15 in each color!

When we first became engaged, we discussed our budget in length. My husband knew that I had been dreaming of my wedding since I was little, but I realized that I wanted to be able to make our perfect home rather than blow all of our savings on one day. I didn't see our low budget for our wedding as a sacrifice, but a teaser for the rest of our lives together with our house! So instead of getting our favors, invitations, and other decorations at retail stores, I chose to search around on eBay, and found such great deals on EVERYTHING! Hello, my name is Zany Suzy, and I am addicted to eBay!

The food and service that we received from Kahuna Grill was amazing! The food was just incredible and very reasonably-priced. They even worked with our budget and what we were looking for. Our package also included our linens and the bar, and we were very happy with everything.

The Winter Park Farmers Market doesn't look like much inside, but you realize that this brick building has so much personality once you go inside! It is very reasonably priced to rent, and includes tables and chairs.

Tex is a friend of a friend of a friend of ours that attended UCF with him, and he was willing to do our wedding as our overall budget wasn't all that. He was starting off with his wedding business, and did very well. He took close to 1500 photos, and it was difficult to narrow down what we wanted to get printed for our albums.

Debra was very easy to work with. The bouquets, flowers and centerpieces came out beautifully!

We wanted a location that was was outdoors yet simple. The gazebo/area at Langford Park was perfect for our ceremony, as it is simply beautiful and had plenty of space for our guests to be seated comfortably. We only paid $80 for the rental, which included the chairs! PERFECT!

A few of my friends use AltaModa to get their hair done, so I went ahead and booked appointments in the morning for my bridal party and myself to get our hair done. Everything turned out wonderful and we looked beautiful, but when we returned to the hotel room to finish getting ready, my hair started falling apart!! I was not happy about it and there was no time to return to the spa, so my girls frantically fixed my hair! It managed to hold though the ceremony and through our pictures, but once we arrived at the WP Farmer's Market for our reception, my hair had officially fallen apart. Oh well. At least my girls' hairs were okay!

I love wearing Mary Kay makeup, and the majority of us girls use their products as well. So, I decided that instead of hiring a professional artist to come to us and do our makeup, I ordered the makeup and products that we would use (this was part of my gifts to my girls as well), and that Shelly, one of my Bridesmaids, who is absolutely terrific in applying makeup, would be our professional for the day! It turned out so well, and I am glad that we did it this way!