Vendor Reviews

Tamaron Country Club: A+

The food was excellent and everyone was raving about it all night long. Kelly the reception manager went out of her way to accommodate any requests we had. She made sure our candy buffet was kept full, she made sure all the vendors set up things up exactly how I had wanted, she even let us borrow a golf cart and take pictures on the golf course. The wait staff was very friendly and helpful. When my husband and I sat down at our table a waitress brought over a plate of hors d’oureves for us. Mandy helped with the bulk of our planning and I couldn’t have pulled this off without her. She made me feel like I was the only bride she was working with.

Toledo Museum of Art – Green Room: A

Lorrie is the new special events coordinator and she is so sweet. I really enjoyed working with her. She attended the rehearsal and went though what would happen the next day. She made sure all the vendors knew what time to arrive and where to set up. Lorrie also helped the girls out telling them when to walk down the aisle. For the most part everything went smoothly, there was a bit of confusion once the ceremony started but everything worked out in the end. Most of the confusion can be blamed on my Grandma, Aunt, and Uncle who all decided to show up late, I was going to go ahead without them, but they showed up right before the girls were going to go down the aisle.

Rev. Hope Mary Nagley: A+

Hope is so full of energy and spunk! She is just amazing, I can’t say enough good things about her. She kept the rehearsal running smoothly and same with the wedding day. The ceremony we picked out was beautiful. I love how she lets you pick out everything for the ceremony. She will send you packages to go though and pick out vows, readings, ect. If you don’t find anything you like she just keeps sending more things until you find the perfect one. She did an excellent job.

Emery’s Flowers and Company: A+

Ken is fantastic! I knew from our first meeting he was going to do amazing things for us. We really clicked and he helped make the ideas I had even better. Our flowers turned out better than I could have imagined. We used Gerbera Daisy’s and Rose’s for almost all of the flowers. Ken did an excellent job with the ceremony decorations (potted mums). I also gave him pictures of pumpkin ideas I had with branches and lights, they came out awesome. We received so many compliments on our flowers. Our centerpieces were medium sized pumpkins with roses and gerbera daisy’s.

Candlelight Occasions: A

They did everything that I asked and all the decorations came out great. They did an amazing job with the palladium windows and garden arch at the Museum. They really transformed the room into something special. At Tamaron they originally set up panels in the wrong spot but Kelly saved the day and knew where they were supposed to go so the error was fixed long before the reception started.

Thrush’s: A+

They decorated the cake exactly how we asked. All the flavors were wonderful according to our guests. The icing was a bit thick. The piece of cake we cut was nothing but icing!

Millennius String Quartet: A+

Virgil has been wonderful to work with. We did most of our communicating via e-mail. I was able to choose all the songs that I wanted for the ceremony. They arrived on time and sounded wonderful. If you’re on the fence about a string quartet, go for it, it is so worth the money. I am so glad we went with Millennius.

Everlasting Images: A+

From what we’ve seen so far the pictures are amazing! I love how they set up a slideshow at the reception! We had Sam, Nichole, and one of Sam’s cousin’s shoot our wedding. Nichole was at the Beauty Bar on time and took tons of pictures. They have a lot of great ideas so just go with the flow. I thought a few poses were a bit odd but after I saw them on the slideshow, they were unbelievable! They kept everything moving after the ceremony and we were done with pictures in record time. My husband and I even had extra time to head downtown with them to take pictures before the reception.

Beauty Bar: A+

Everyone’s hair and make-up turned out great. Samantha found enough girls to open the salon early for us at 9:30! All of our appointments started at 10 and we were out by 12:15! We were ahead of schedule. Tina and Devin did my hair and make-up. Everything was excellent.

After Hours: A

What’s a wedding without a Tux that is the wrong size? Everyone’s was fine except for my husband’s. His tux jacket was two sizes too big. The girl managed to rush order him a new jacket and it arrived the next day. Thankfully they insist on you trying the tux on two days before the event. In the end everything was fine.

Belamere-Suites: A+

Perfect wedding night accommodations! The bed was so huge and so comfortable. Our room had candles light and rose petals in the shape of a heart on our bed when we arrived. The Jacuzzi tub was the best thing ever. It was great to relax in the Jacuzzi after a long day. I love the private garage too, no need to worry about emptying your car of anything. We just took things out of the car as we needed them. We will definitely stay here again!

Vendor Reviews from 10/27

I wanted to get these up sooner but we just got back last week and I needed to get my house back in order. If you want anymore detail about any of the vendors and my experience with them you can email me at roberts1027@yahoo.com

DIY invitations from formal-invitations.com – A+

Great service, price, and delivery time. Our invites turned out beautiful and they only cost just over $1 for each.

Our outer envelopes were from envelopemall.com – A+

I wanted a nicer envelope than what formal invites could offer, so I got some Antique Gold ones from envelopemall and they were beautiful and went perfectly with our invites.

Bridesmaid dresses – netbride.com – A+

The dresses were $50 cheaper than thru the dress store. Customer Service was phenomenal. I became very paranoid so I was emailing a ton of questions before ordering and they answered all within 24 hours. When I went to order the dresses I wanted to make sure I filled the order form out right, so I called and they walked me thru it. The dresses came in with no problems all the right sizes and they came in 5 weeks early.

David’s Bridal – C-

I went there before I decided to make my own dress. I called and made the appointment and the person I worked with had poor customer service. She had me pick out several dresses that I liked out of a magazine. I figured she’d see the style I was going for and would suggest other dresses. Nope she just pulled the 4 dresses I picked and that was it. So I felt she just didn’t want to sell me a dress. When I went back with my bridesmaids we got absolutely no help what so ever.

Atlas Bridal – B+

I went there 3 times the first time I went with my sister and had made no appointment, and they were very helpful. Second time I went with 3 of my bridesmaids, no appointment, and they helped us with dressing rooms and with writing down the dress styles. The third time was their MOB & MOG dress show weekend or something like that in which you had to make an appointment. I made an appointment for my mom and when we got there we got no help what so ever and they were helping other mothers get dresses and dressing rooms that came in with no appointment.

DJ – Ultimate Nights (Brian) – A+

Brian was great. He made sure we stuck to our time line. He would come up and tell us when the next event was a couple songs before it was suppose to happen. He played a great variety of music and kept the dance floor full.

Cake – Wixey Bakery – A-

The one bite of cake that I got didn’t taste anything like I remembered in the tasting, but it was still good and we received compliments about the cake all night. We only had 2 pieces left over I believe.

Tuxes – Robert’s Formal Wear – A+

They were awesome! Top notch and worth the drive out to Sylvania
y> for. Excellent customer service and all the guys looked great.

Rings – Kay’s – B-

He got my engagement ring there and his wedding ring. Customer Service was mediocre. I don’t know if at other jewelry stores that if you are putting something on their store credit account and have to take it home even if it’s the wrong size while they order the right size make sure you get an approximate delivery date and if it’s not in the day call them. This happened to us the right size ring didn’t get ordered and luckily I called and we had it the next week.

Registry – Linen-n-Things – A+

I love this store and they have a completion program. They gave us registry cards and they also mailed us like 100 10% of registry item coupons to give to our guests. We got great service when we went to register and when we were walking around the store all the associates were asking how they could help.

Registry – Wal-Mart – D

I don’t know about other stores but the one in Oregon has terrible customer service. The only reason we registered here is because this is the only real big store they have in my hometown. We got no help when we went to register, we had to figure it out all by ourselves. Then for some reason our guests couldn’t pull up our registry by my FI’s name. We tried continually to work with customer service to fix it and it never got fixed.

Rehearsal Dinner - Macomber Lodge in Pearson
Park – A+

All I can say was perfect. We had a lot of out of town guests, so we rented the lodge for the day and were able to spend some extra time with them here. It was easy for all the guests to find and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Hair – Cutting Edge – A+

I had to find a new hair salon 2 weeks before the wedding. They had just recently opened like a month or 2 before so I stopped and talked to them. They were all helpful and very affordable. I went in for my trail and everything went great. The day of it only took just over an hour for 4 of them to do my hair and my bridal parties’ hair. Which was 6 people. Everyone’s hair looked great and stayed in all night.

Manicures & Pedicures – John Kohi’s – A+

They were great. We all got to have out pedicures done together and than they keep us all together when we got manicures done. Plus they set out fruit, muffins, & danishes for us and we had a great selection of beverages to choose from. They also took pics for us and sent them to me.

Ceremony & Reception – Toledo Zoo

I’m going to give the Toledo Zoo 2 separate grades.

The first grade I give them is an A for the day of and the wedding coordinator, Jamie. The day of our wedding went smoothly and everything was perfect even though we had to have our ceremony inside. They decorated just they I wanted them to and as far as I know there were no problems. Jamie was the greatest she was there to do everything. I was so very greatful for that. And they did all of the set up and tear down and cleaning. We didn’t want any of our family to have to work on our day.

The second grade I give the zoo is for the salesperson, Maria King, Which I give a C-. She started there about 3 months after we had put down the deposit with another salesperson, who had left the zoo. I felt she just didn’t have very good customer service skills and needs to be trained a little more for what she is doing. On 2 occasions I had to go over her head to her boss which I didn’t like doing but it was the only way I got my issues resolved. One of the issues had to deal with the contract and Maria couldn’t tell me where in the contract something was stated, and hadn’t taken the time to find where it was stated and to show me.

Honeymoon – Carnival Cruise Lines – A

Our cruise was great. We actually sailed right after the Tropical Storm Noel which turned into a hurricane, so a lot of people got seasick. Not me but my husband got a little queasy but not too bad and we had a lot of fun.

Paragon String Quartet.
Perrysburg, OH. 419-874-9397


Great to work with. this sounds beautiful in the chapel

Sarah J Photography
419-699-1639
PO Box 140872
Toledo OH 43614
http://sarahjphoto.net/

All I can say is she is amazing to work with. sweet nice funny and takes amazing pictures

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Love her and Mary!! We haven't seen all the pics, but the ones on their websites are fantastic. Both of them were fun to work with and very professional.

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