Quote: Originally Posted by WSUgal Hi Chell!
I have a fellow HHI bride! Yeah! Thanks for all your helpful info.
I have looked at Sheri's Edible Designs for cakes. I love her cakes because they are so unique and affordable. Have you gone there for a taste testing? This is the vendor that I would like to use, but she hasn't contacted me back by email in a week or so. I couldn't download her contract because she has a program that she uses that I don't have. So, I asked her if she could send it in a different way like microsoft word or just snail mail it to me. She hasn't replied back. I just might have to call her! Ohhh...if you have tasted her cakes you will have to let me know which ones are your favs!
I love the beach pics you sent. What beach is that? We decided to get married at Palmetto Dunes: The Dunes House. We will have a beach wedding and the reception will be right at the Dunes House. We are getting pretty reasonable rates because our wedding is on a Thursday. This is the best day to do it for us as bro-in-laws have to leave on Saturday. It has really helped to have a weekday wedding b/c vendors have been more available and rates are cheaper.
Flowers are my next big adventure. I don't want a whole lot of flowers, just a bridal and bridesmaid bouquets and something for moms. You have a smart idea by bringing down your own! We will be down there all week, so I am going to have to rely on vendors down here. But, flowers aren't a big deal to me, so that shouldn't cut to much into the budget!
Have you found a photographer? I am just signing a contract with a photographer right now. She is from Bluffton, so she is much more reasonable with prices plus she has great photojournalistic style! I am so excited about her! Her name is Shelly Hutchinson (Shelly Hutchinson Photography ~ Weddings, Portraits, Life ~ Bluffton, South Carolina). If you need her info, just let me know!
I am so excited to have an HHI bride friend! Thanks for all your help!
Yeah, I had my tasting already and OMG her cakes are to die for...the groom picked the flavors for me to try, as he lives in Atlanta. I tried the: Red Velvet, Dbl Choc. Pecan, Chocolate Cheese cake and the It's Island time. They were all so good, it was hard to pick, but we went with the Island time for the wedding cake (it was so lite and not at all what I had in my mind it would be like). She said another cpl just had their tasting and picked it as a joke and liked it so much, they picked it for their cake too, lol. And I am doing the Choc. Cheese Cake for the grooms cake. I am going by there today and I can tell her to get back with you!!
PD is really nice. Yeah, doing it during the week is cheaper, smart Idea. We are getting married at Mitchellville Beach park, off Beach City Rd. I like it because it is undeveloped and secluded. That and Fish Haul Creek Park (actually where I took the pictures, MBP is just on the otherside of that pier, crazy if you ask me, BWE) are fairly new beaches so not many people, especially tourists (he he) don't know about 'em.
Have not found a photographer w/in my budget yet. WE LOVE the photojournalic style, but the ones I like are through the roof, Tim Zielenbach is absolutely amazing and even more amazingly $$$$ like the cheapest pkg he offered was $4600 I will look up your girl, though forsure!
Flowers off Island are probably more reasonable. Affairs to Remember Quoted me $325 for my bouquet I don't think so.... And we have used her for the last year and a half for EVERYTHING, so I was real suprised she couldn't do any better than that after all the money We have spent in there, but oh well. She did tell me she had six other weddings (big ones) that same wknd, so maybe she priced it so I wouldn't use her, IDK
If there is anything you need me to do to help, let me know. I will only be here one wk after the wedding though. But I will help in anyway I can if you need it.