We got our wedding cake from Rossmoor for our wedding on June 20th, 2009. We went to a tasting a few months before to select the flavors and everything was delicious. We ended up selecting a white cake with a caramel mousse filling, white cake with raspberry and amaretto filling and red velvet with cream cheese filling, all with buttercream frosting.

The cake was delivered to the reception in perfet condition and looked absolutely gorgeous! There is a pic in my bio if you'd like to see it. The cake was moist and even more delicious than it was at the tasting. My only complaint would be I wish I wouldve had more than a few bites!

Rossmoor was very accommodating, they upgraded my cake twice at no cost and I was able to rent a cake stand from them as well. I highly recommend them.

We had our ceremony and reception at the Reef on June 20, 2009. It was an amazing night and would not have been like that if it werent for all the attention and time that went into our event. We worked with Ashley for the reception and details and Claudia for the rehearsal and the day of the wedding. They went above and beyond, making sure the staff had what they needed from us to set up the room properly.

The food was amazing and we got so many compliments on the dinner. We were able to customize our duet meal, choosing a chicken picatta and filet with melted boursin cheese on top. The filet with the boursin was delicious and a favorite of many of our guests. Several people said it was the best meal they had ever had at a wedding. We were also very impressed with how the salads were served. We expected a pre-plated salad to be served to the guests and it was a nice surprise to see the staff serving the salad table-side.

The service staff was excellent and our captain, Albino, was a pleasure to work with. He is an amazing captain and a great asset to The Reef. There was a spill on the dance floor later in the evening and before we could find a server to let them know, someone had already come out on the dance floor to clean it up. We were kept up to date with the bar tab the entire evening which was nice not to have to worry about.

All in all it was a fabulous night, everyone enjoyed the venue (with a view of the Long Beach Harbor on both the ceremony Sunset Deck and through the wall-to-wall windows in the Harborview Ballroom, how could you not!?) and the service was excellent.

I worked with Andrea and Shayna from Something Blue Stylists. Andrea did all of our hair and Shayna did everyones makeup. Both did a fabulous job and I couldnt be happier with how everything turned out. They arrived early and began to set up. We were supposed to be done at 2:30pm (started at 10) and they finished almost an hour early! We did hair for me (the bride), 4 bridesmaids, mother of the bride and flower girl. We did makeup for me, 4 bridesmaids, mother of the bride and mother of the groom. Everyone looked fantastic and they were all super happy with the makeup and hair. One of my friends is getting married in October and she decided right after she got her hair and makeup done she wanted Andrea to do her wedding too! My hair stayed curled and my makeup lasted all day and night, not one thing rubbed off! I have already recommended Andrea to several friends who have booked with her and would not hesitate to continue recommending her! Amazing, amazing job...

The Aerialist Press did an absolutely amazing job on my 175 thank you cards. They were on lovely cardstock with beautiful letterpress and very affordable. Communication was excellent and I was sent photo updates along the way. The whole turn around process was less than a month and I received the thank you cards & envelopes in a nicely packaged box. I highly recommend this company! PM me if you would like me to send a picture of the product.

I will start off by saying a couple thinsgs. 1) sorry for the SUPER LONG review. 2) that I did love the design of our invitations but the process to get there (and after) was horrible. I worked with Isabelle, the owner. She is very nice but I felt she was very scatterbrained. It was hard to get ahold of her by phone, either no one answered or it took a very long time for my voicemails to be returned. I resorted to emailing, which I am glad I did so I could have saved conversations to refer to. I did not find the bad reviews of this company until after I placed my order and began having problems. I completely agree with everything that "chelbug" wrote in her review.

Our first appoinment she was late meeting us and did not call. We sat outside the store for at least 30 minutes waiting for her to arrive. We went through all the details after we picked the invitation design and was told we would have a proof in a couple weeks. After getting home, I realized she wrote down the incorrect date of our wedding on the receipt. I emailed her immediately to point out the error and gave her the correct date.

After not receiving a proof within a couple weeks, I emailed her to follow up. We received the first proof over a month after the initial visit. The date was spelled wrong for our wedding date, the location was spelled wrong, the RSVP card had the wrong RSVP by date and did not include wording we had discussed (that she brought up to begin with!) and the directions card was a complete mess. Things were capitalized that were not supposed to be, or not capitalized when they should be. Grammer was not consistent throughout, and the zip code and phone number for the hotel was incorrect. The directions card alone took about 4-5 proofs before it was finally ok to pring. I also did not get a proof of the outer tab after several requests. It took multiple emails (over 10 on my end) to finally get correct proofs. Because of all the errors, she offered to do an actual mock up of the invitation for me to see. While the inside was beautiful and what I wanted, the outside had wrong tab, even though we had discussed it several times and I told her EXACTLY what I wanted (it was even a tab to a sample invite she had that I referenced). It did not include the inserts so I could check and see if there were any mistakes on that.

She sent me a new proof of the tab, and the date was incorrect and she put the wrong name for the groom. I specified that I wanted his full name on the actual invite but his shortened name on the tab (aka if his name were Nick, I wanted Nicholas on the invite and Nick on the tab). She also sent revised Directions cards that again were incorrect. All in all, it took almost 2 months to get correct proofs and approve them to begin printing.

At the time of contracting, she offered to print the guest addresses on the envelopes at no additional charge, which was very nice. When I emailed her because I realized a few addresses were wrong on my part, the day before we were supposed to pick up, I asked her to add a few envelopes that I would pay for. She offered to print them and asked me to send the full list again (which means she had completely forgotten about printing the addresses)

The day the invites were supposed to be ready to pick up, we went there at the time agreed upon. She told us the printer had not arrived and didnt know when they would be there. We had to ask her to call the printer and ask when it would be delivered. She called later and said they would be in the following day. When we finally went to pick them up, there was still part of my order that was missing. She tried charging me for the printing of the addresses which I had in writing that would be no charge. I had to sit there and go line by line calculating everything to get the correct price for her.

I went home immediately and proceeded to count each and every piece to my order (after reading chelbug's review that she was shorted stuff). I hoped for the best and after counting realized I had 4 different parts of the invitations that I was shorted! Each part was short anywhere from 20-40 pieces! I emailed her and told her what was missing and set up a time a week later to go pick everything up. Even after that, I was still short 3 pieces of 1 part of the invite but gave up. I had to email her at least 4 more times to find out if another part of the invitations I ordered had come in yet before she answered me.

When putting together my invitations, I was also dismayed to find another part of chelbug's review was correct - at least half of the tabs were cut crooked! I had to recut each piece to make sure it didnt look crooked. The actual invites were also printed off-center. Only by about 1/4 an inch which is something probably only I would notice but it still made me mad. I put together my invitations and went through and alphabetized the envelopes when I realized an entire column of addresses were not printed on the envelopes and therefore I was shorted 11 envelopes!

The invitations look beautiful (after I cut the crooked parts and made them straight) and I am very happy with them overall. However, I would have paid someone else more money to do my invitations so I did not have anxiety every single time I got an email from her fearing that something else in the proof would be wrong or that they would be completely wrong when I went to pick them up. Spend more money and get better quality somewhere else! Though I did not end up using them for my invitations I did seek out Artiface in Costa Mesa during this process. They were VERY helpful and accommodating and I ended up ordered bulk paper from them at a cheaper cost to make my own menu cards and place cards (and to use on the invites that were missing pieces!) I highly recommend them if you are looking for quality work.

EDITED TO ADD on 10-5-09 - This vendor HAS gone out of business, my SIL just called to tell me she drove by there going to another store and Taylor Your Memories was closed and locked up! Good riddance!

I used to live up the street from the Dresser and would drive by it every day on my way to work waiting until I could go inside I finally was able to last month and loved it! I worked with Alice who was so great and helpful, she even let me take pictures so I could remember each dress. I did go to a few different stores after to see additional selections but ended up coming back to the Dresser to order my Maggie Sottero dress, as it was a few hundred dollars cheaper than the other places I looked! They have a great selection and Alice is awesome. I have already referred a couple friends to them and they too loved the selection and helpfulness of their staff.