raza8's reviews

Out of town weddings are hard to follow through on the renting of Tux's.
Luckily, the Groom was local and was able to go and try on his rental. Only to find that the sleeves of the jacket and the pants were too long. Both were fixable.

My Father's tux was a different story. He's out of town, we didn't have time to have him come up and try it on. At first they told us that the shoe sole was ripped out of the shoe, and wondered if he could fit in a 13 instead of a 13w. If he could wear just a 13 size, we would have put that down.
Second problem was that pants were too large, by about 2 inches, and if he didn't have his own suspenders they would have fallen off.

Both the Groom and the Father of the Bride went to the store for fittings, I'm not sure what happened to the sizes we wrote down, and the rentals they received.

When we went to pick up the Tux's, we were not told a final charge from the fittings. The alterations done to the Grooms tux, no one called to let us know we could pick it up. This was a bit of a hassle.

Always make time to have the Groom, Groomsmen, and FOB try on rentals.

Nail Topia located on Highland Road, in Waterford, is the place to skip.

Us girls went for the Medi-Pedi, first stop was the Pedi part. Great warm water to soak in. Little pain involved in Pedi. However, the person working on me beat his hands up an down my legs in attempt, to massage my legs (I guess). Which was very uncomfortable, and after the wedding I noticed many bruises, down my legs.

The Manicure was a different story. I have thin nails and very sensitive skin around the nails. She (Nancy) put on long fake nails, and did "fills".
My nails hurt for 2 days. The nail portion was too long for me to be functional.

I had to go to a local nail salon to have the nails filed down to a more comfortable length while my nail grows out.

If getting your nails done, check out the salon before going.
My mistake is, we didn't have time to go to the good place on Thursday and had to settle for this place on Friday.

Beauty should NOT hurt!

www.bridalbeautydetroit.com

Bridal Beauty Detroit was at a Comfort-Inn sponsored bridal show.
Very impressed presentation.

I met with Kim at a salon in WhiteLake, for my trial run of makeup and hair.
Amazing.
If only I could always look this good.

This was the best way to relax before getting in the wedding dress.
Kim arrived at noon to do 3 bridesmaids hair and makeup and my own.
Great service, fantastic price, and they travel to where you need them!!!

With our small wedding party, we are for-going the rehersal portion offered.

I Do Weddings, was the first vendor to answer my inquiry on WeddingWire.com
We booked with half of the fee paid up front.

Very little communication, seems more of a vendor/service you set up and then call at a later date.

Everything worked out great.
Very nice person made our day great!

The good thing about planning a wedding a year in advance, is having time to create the invitations the way the Bride wants them.

It's not for everyone, but I had the time, the means, the patience to put together our invitations, thank you cards, favors, table numbers, activity books, seating scroll. Look into the Do-It-Yourself sites, for alternatives to vendors.

Out of a 12x12 piece of cardstock, I was able to make a pocket folder and a thank you card.

Busy work, kept this Bride very happy through the planning process.

My fiance moved from Illinois to Michigan. I'm on my way to move also. We both really enjoy their park systems, which they call MetroParks.

We knew we wanted to be married in one them. We weren't so sure about a complete outdoor wedding, and found the Discovery Center at Indian Springs Metropark, has an event room. A beautiful, 2 walls of full of windows over-looking a pond. Very natural setting.

We wanted a casual wedding, and having the ceremony and reception here, has classed it up a little bit. The event room, does not need additional decorations. Tables with nice linens is about it. It's a beautiful room.

Hopefully, the weather will stay nice for this weekend, so we can be married outside near the mature Oak trees. But if (good luck) rain does fall, the backup plan is ceremony inside, and we are both okay with that option.

The Discovery Center books up early at Indian Springs Metropark...so plan on visiting it early, they might be booked up through 2010 already.

I had no idea what catering would charge, and since we are having our wedding in one of Michigan's Metro-parks, the choice of caterer was pre-arranged.

We attended the taste testing/dinner that they offered.
Buffet style food never tasted this great.
We are both amazed and so are our parents on the amount of food offered for the price.

Very nice, cheerful people to work with. You can call anytime, and they take time to explain details.

I'm very much lucking forward to the beef tenderloin and chicken supreme plus the many sides of salads, that we picked out from the Full Buffet Menu.

Everyone said the food was fantastic! It was a pleasure to see our guests go for second helpings!!

Located in Oxford, Michigan.
After the first taste test and meeting with this Bakery, I was in love.
The first meeting was very nice, a very clean sitting area. That have wonderful pictures of past cakes, very animated personality, very fun to work with. Prior to the meeting we gave them 3 possible cake choices. At the meeting they left us with 3 six-inch cakes, which we were allowed to take home.

Our final sit down with Sweet & Savory Bake Shop was just a few days/week ago.
I've been dreaming of their Cherry-chip cupcakes for months. Their buttercream frosting is amazing, so light and yummy. It holds up to weather, which is needed having a wedding in August.

This is a bakery, where you can go and pick up yummy deserts all year round.
A must stop when searching for your special day cakes!!!!

http://www.floralverde.com/

Owner, designer, Janet Martineau was very easy to work with. She made great suggests on our limited budget. Our first in-person consultation went over 2 hours. Such a pleasure to work with an expert in this field.

This isn't your run-of-the-mill usual flower designer. Her ideas and creations are amazing. Janet incorporates various flowers, details into her creations. They not only look great, beautiful and eligant, but we were told they will smell amazing.

I cannot wait to hold my bouquet and walk down the aisle.

At the request of my mother, a last minute request, she wanted flowers for our Aunts and Uncles who are attending the wedding. Even though wedding season was in full swing, Janet made time, and came up with possible ideas.

Not only that, but a few a weeks ago, she informed us that she found a way for us to save more money on our flowers. We get our fantastic flower and we pay less, because she found a cheaper florist whole-sale place.

The flowers were amazing!!! The room was much more beautiful with her arrangements!! I was told that there were 75 stems in my bouquet. So gorgeous!!