kep809's reviews

I wanted to do the flowers myself although my mom was strongly opposed to that. I'm glad I let her win that battle though because Oneco Florist did a wonderful job! Everything arrived on time and the flowers looked amazing! Mom said it was well worth the money spent just not having to worry about it!

For our favors we bought five different Christmas ornaments from Khol's. My mom ended up driving all over Florida one weekend in order to hit up every Khol's store around to get these ornaments because they said they couldn't order in bulk even though they had already told me we could. The ornaments turned out beautiful and everyone loved them but it was a pain having to go all over creation to gather 150 of them.

I was happy with the dj at our wedding reception, as he was not a "cheesy" dj. Howvere, there were a few things on my end that would have been helpful had he handled them. We had very specific songs we wanted to hear at different times during the evening but the majority of them he said he didn't have which left me buying songs on itunes and burning them onto cds for him two days before the wedding. Granted, I was a little late sending in my forms however I didn't receive a phone call from him until the week of the wedding. The reception music was good though and he did manage to throw some requests in towards the end of the night. Overall, he did a good job keeping the party rolling once it started I just wish it had been a little less work on my end.

We won three free dance lessons in a raffle the weekend before our wedding. The owners, Souhad and Tess, works us in that week and taught us a few key moves for our first dance. It wasn't going to be perfect but they were excited to give us the help even in such short notice!

Kelly works at Lakewood Ranch Country Club and she is in charge of catering/weddings/etc. She is absolutely wonderful to work with! She coordinated everything from the screen for our slideshow to the linens for the tables. She headed up the rehearsal and kept things running smoothly the day of the wedding. Kelly definitely knows what she's doing out there and anyone planning to get married at LWR CC should rest easy knowing Kelly is in charge!

This bridal salon was wonderful to work with. After we picked out the dresses, the girls either came in to be measured or called in their measurements. The only problem we came across was one of my girls was pregnant and they overestimated what her size would be once the dresses came in so the dress was way too big. They altered it as best they could though. The dresses came in with plenty of time for alterations and I think the dresses looked good on all of the girls.

Lakewood Ranch Country Club was a beautiful spot to have our ceremony. They were easy to work with and our outside ceremony site was simple but absolutely beautiful. Everything was set up just like we had talked about and everything from the rehearsal to the ceremony ran smoothly. There was lots of staff there to help and everyone was friendly and very knowledgable as to their job that day.

This company arrived on time and started filming although I don't really remember her being around much. Hopefully she got some good footage although it will be awhile before we get to see it. She told my mom it would be 4-5 months before the video would be fully edited and ready for us.

Gayle was awesome to work with! She made the bridal cake and groom's cake exactly like what I had in mind and she made tasting samples of whatever kinds of cake and fillings we wanted to try. The cakes arrived on time to the reception and they looked beautiful and tasted fabulous! I highly recommend using Gayle for your cake needs!