While this might not be the first place you think of for your rehearsal dinner, it did offer us excellent service and food. This restaurant offers fairly inexpensive packages for dinner in comparison to other restaurants who offer group or banquet packages. The food is also excellent. I had been going to this restaurant with my grandmother for years, as it was a favorite of hers and we never had a bad experience. However, if you are looking for a private room, this place does not offer one. We were seated in the middle of the dining room at several tables. Also the décor is more rustic / country cabin like. While it wasn’t my first choice for our rehearsal dinner, as my in-laws choose it base on its price, the food and service far out-weighted its other shortcomings. A private room would’ve been nice to have, our family and friends had a great time and an excellent meal.

This was the site of my bridal shower thrown by my aunt. She was able to get a private room, which was fantastic. The room offered more than enough space for tables to be set up for the guest to sit at as well as an ample amount of space for opening gifts. The food was excellent! She went with finger foods, tiny sandwiches, egg rolls, tiny quiche and meatballs, which was a hit with guests. We also had a selection of soft drinks and a Champaign punch.

We booked our honeymoon pretty far in advance to spend seven days and six nights at Sandal Royal Caribbean in Jamaica. We did not use a travel agent and booked the trip ourselves directly through Sandals. About a month prior to the wedding we learned of a price decrease and we were able to get a couple hundred bucks back.

The entire experience was wonderful. We had a great time at the resort and the food was excellent. We were also able to visit some of the other Sandals resorts in Montego Bay, which gave you different options for dinner. There was also more than enough activities going on during the day, as well as if you wanted to you could take trips off of the resort for an additional fee.

I highly recommend going the ultra all-inclusive resort route. It was a very hassle free and relaxing vacation.

While I did not purchase my dress from this store, I did order my bridesmaids dresses from them. The store had fairly large selection of bridesmaid’s dresses (while this may vary depending on the time of the year, they do, do a lot of business for prom and homecoming – and carry a large selection of dresses for those occasions). It did take the estimated time of 4 months for the dresses to come in; however we received them in plenty of time for the girls to get them altered.

Since my bridesmaids were not in the area, alterations were done elsewhere.

I used them for my boutonnieres and bouquets only. The shop was able to take on my smaller order, however dealing with Debbie the resident wedding florist / coordinator was a bit difficult. She would not return phone calls, which several of the shops other employees informed me of. She had also called me about two weeks prior to the wedding, after having agreed to create what I had requested (I also put down a deposit) to tell me that she would be on vacation. Fortunately after a lot of scrambling another florist at the shop was able to handle my order. However the day of the order was completely wrong. The boutonnieres were all the wrong color (white instead of pink for the groomsmen and my father) and my bouquet was white when it should’ve been pink as well. Since the flowers were still what I wanted (correct flowers, just the wrong colors) and it was too late to do anything about it, I didn’t’ get upset. I did call the store to tell them know I was dissatisfied but nothing ever came of it. My bouquet also wilted and turned brown by the end of the ceremony. Based on my own experience in dealing with their wedding florist / coordinator I would not recommend using them for your wedding.

We had Beverly from the Michaels store in Cranberry do the large arrangements for the church. She did everything herself and we ended up with two huge pieces that if done in real flowers would have cost atleast grand for about a hundred and fifty bucks. They were simply beautiful!

Additionally, Beverly's work as been featured in at least one prominate bridal magazine. She also has and will do all of the flowers for your wedding (i.e center peices and bouquets). If your wedding is in this area I highly reccommend checking out her work.

These guys were fantastic! I called a few days prior to the wedding because I realized that two trips with a ½ hour ride was going to be tough to do leaving at 2 for a 3pm wedding. I was able to get an extra hour and I even got a discount so that the increase was minimal! The limo looked fantastic the day of and the drive arrived at about noon for a 1pm pickup. I was very pleased with the service we received!

Over all he did a fantastic job, the dance floor was packed all night and he had all of the specific songs we had selected. My one compliant is that he didn’t play some of the specific songs that were on our must play list. The list was not overly large (maybe ten songs in all) and a few were not played. And to not play a polka at a wedding where 75% of the guests are Polish is a bit of mistake. I also requested that there we no line dances played, with the exception if in an emergency (i.e. no one was dancing) the electric slide could be played. Well it along with a few other line dances were played when the dance floor was packed. But the guests were happy and had a fantastic time so these small issues are not very big in the whole scheme of things.

I chose N-Focus (Bob Carroll, Photographer) because of his photo style (less posed, more candid pictures) and a recommendation from a close friend. While he was great the day of the wedding, spending 10 hours with us, my satisfaction ends there. At times it was difficult to reach him and he was often slow or unresponsive to emails. It took over a month for us to see proofs of the photos, which while I was impressed with many of the shots seemed to be missing something (i.e other requested photo’s and the number of photos we received were far less in number than other brides). We promptly choose the prints we wanted for ourselves and our parents plus the pictures for the bridal album. It has now been over a year since the wedding and I have not yet received my album. We eventually received the prints after several months and the quality was mediocre. I have also not heard from him in over six months and do not expect at this point to receive the products for which I paid in full up front for. Current I have filed complaints with the appropriate regulatory authorities and I am awaiting resolution. I strongly urge Pittsburgh brides not to even consider using N-Focus as their wedding photographer.

There were few issues in the beginning, but in the end I was very happy with everything! The packaged priced (which was very reasonable) included, dinner, the cake, and alcohol. There were also added extras that we were able to get for a small cost that really added to the room, extra lighting, chair covers with sashes, and mirrors for the tables (renting is much easier than buying it yourself). The food was great and they gave you enough so that you didn’t need to hit a drive thru on the way home. The cake was exactly as I wanted it and it matched the picture I had given them. We’ve been getting tons of raves from family and friends about how beautiful the reception was and how great the food was!