msjanjan's reviews

Excellent service, great prices. I dealt with her strictly through email a month before the wedding. She is so responsive. I told her what I wanted (fingertip veil with scattered crystals and a pencil edge), gave her a measurement, and she shipped and delivered in 2 weeks to my parents' home in CA. When I got to CA, the veil was perfect.

I loved my experience there! They have a great selection! I was looking for something with clean lines and just a little extra something to make the dress special. My dress was Verona by Rivini and I absolutely love my dress! Julie was great to work with and even let me come in and try on the sample again when I wanted to see “my” dress again. She was not pushy and just happy for me when I found my dress. I was jumping up and down in my dress when it finally came in, and Julie played dress up with me, putting veils and barrettes in my hair and not once did I feel that she was pushing the sale on me. Fabulous store! They have nice bridesmaid dresses too.

Stacia is wonderful to work with. We wanted personalized invitations to accommodate the 4 inserts we needed in our invitations. I sent her some images of what we were interested in and Stacia made it work for us. The first proof she sent to us was pretty much perfect. After a few minor changes, and a few weeks turnaround, we had our beautiful invitations (150, each white cardstock insert was mounted on brown thicker paper) in our hands, completely assembled and ready to mail. The invitation, inserts, and the pocketfold were of great quality. Honestly, it was a ton of work, she went above and far beyond for us, and I was thrilled with the results. Her service was quick and everyone LOVED our invitations. Definitely contact her and check out her services!

Christina was one of our best investments. We were planning our wedding from across the country, so we really needed someone on top of things in CA. By the time I booked her, we had pretty much booked all our vendors and we had no other plans to visit CA to do other wedding tasks, but we still needed someone to take care of the logistics of the wedding. We gave her all our contracts, exchanged a couple photos and PowerPoint presentations via email, and discussed how we envisioned our day to proceed. When our 60–day–out meeting rolled around with our caterer to discuss service, linens, set–up, and timing, she had a detailed outline prepared and the trans–continental conference call/meeting took less than an hour. She contacted all our vendors, so by the time we were in CA dealing with family and such, I didn’t need to follow up with them. On our wedding day, she had all things running smoothly and on time. Set–up was great! Even our favors were all lined up with the mug handles pointing in one direction. It was a small detail I had imagined in my head, and forgotten to tell Christina, but she was on top of it. This is just a handful of little things that Christina did to make our planning process easier, I could go on – she handled the lighting discussions with our DJ, helped me decide how to do place cards (the little envelopes are her idea), picked up personal flowers for our morning photos, all things neatly packed up at the end of the night, etc… Overall, I couldn’t have done it without her. She was really the only other person with whom I discussed the wedding, and her insight and service on the day–of was invaluable to me.

Awesome cake! Not too sweet, and sooo tasty! We had fresh strawberries, cheesecake filling, white cake, and buttercream frosting. We received tons of compliments on our cake. Someone even poked it because they thought it was fake! The next day we had a lot of leftover cake, and people stopped by, had some, and raved about it. My brother brought in our top layer to his workplace, and his co–workers loved it! They all said it was the best cake they ever had (even if it was 2 days old!). They thought he was crazy for taking the top layer, but we didn’t need it since we will get a free anniversary cake next year (we just have to fly out to CA for it).

Nicole Thompson from the Newport Beach office did our hair and makeup for us. For the trial she listened to what I wanted and tried out two different looks on me, in addition to trying out simple changes in shade to get the look perfect. On the morning of our wedding, she came with a second girl and they were such sweethearts. We started at 6 am for 9 am ready time, and they were upbeat the whole morning. They were very accommodating with my MOH, BM, a couple aunts, my mom, and a flowergirl. My MIL opted for no no make-up, and they volunteered to even out her skin for her. Awesome work and very professional.

There is a reason why everyone raves about Eric on theknot.com. He is simply really good at what he does. Eric took time to learn the pronunciations of my relatives for their entrance into the reception and he kept the reception rolling. He worked well with our coordinator (Christina of Simply Modern Weddings) and took time to understand the timeline of the reception that she had laid out. He truly went above and beyond what we had expected of a DJ.

Christine was nice to work with. Our bouquets were beautiful and provided to us in green vases. The flowers in our reception and cocktail hour were beautiful. Our church flowers were gorgeous. She had really high quality tulips with long stems.

Dirk was easy to work with. We booked him less than 2 weeks before the wedding, and the transaction happened quickly and smoothly. He sent us a straightforward contract, we sent payment, he sent us a signed contract back, all within 2 days. The day of, he arrived on time, and he worked very well with our photographer and coordinator. Great price, great service, very responsive.

Brian was one of our favorite vendors. We found his services on wpja.com. When we met him, we liked him immediately because of his modest and laid-back personality. He and his assistant (Ben) were on time and personable. I have a tendency to look very angry in photos, and Brian would take a few seconds to remind me to relax my eyebrows so that I wouldn't look like a grumpy bride. Brian made us feel so comfortable, had us naturally laughing, and got some great shots. The church that we married in had a lot of restrictions for photographers, but he worked well with it. There was a point where we had to take some group photos after the church ceremony, and he was able to work with my ridiculously big extended family. We received our photos of our April 26 wedding in time for our June 8 at–home reception, and we were thrilled with the results! First off, they came in a cute leather DVD folio with 2 photos decorating the folio. Second, the photos are perfect. There are so many touching photos. For our wedding, I really wanted our photographer to capture not only us, but also the charm of our families (especially since I don't get to see my family too often now that I live on the East Coast), and he did a great job. We have to narrow our album down to 80–90 photos, and I started out with 500 favorites out of over 1000 images.