My wedding suppliers

Ok so it is about time I put down my suppliers for my fabulous wedding!!!

My day cost under $9,000 for EVERYTHING and I mean every little thing!! (I kept a spreadsheet) I probably could have got it cheaper by cutting back on some things, but I didn’t want to compromise so didn’t. Some savings were made by:

• only had 50 people
• morning wedding on a Sunday and in winter (23 August 09)
• had sit down, but platters of food for people to help themselves to as little or as much as they wanted
• didn’t have exclusive use of restaurant but this didn’t affect the day at all due to the layout of the restaurant
• had ceremony & reception at same location
• shopped around on everything
• kept it simple (it is very easy to get caught up in wedding stuff – be strong!!!)

My Suppliers:

PhotographerGemma Clarke Photography – http://www.gemma-clarke.com/

Everyone who has seen my pics is raving about them. I cannot highly recommend Gemma enough. Her pictures are absolutely amazing!!! She is also a beautiful person too – so lovely. Greg & I are NOT photogenic at all but she has captured us so well, we look stunning. My children (bridesmaid, flower girl & best man) all look stunning too. I would recommend Gem in a heartbeat – please check her out for your photos. She does a budget deal too (you just get a disc). This is what I got (the up to 6 hr one) and it was a little above my budget but TOTALLY worth it (I was skeptical too). TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!

Cake

Michelle Rea - http://www.inspired-by-chocolate-and-cakes.com/Inspired-By-Michelle.html

Mobile Phone 0437 893 932 Email inspiredbymichelle@gmail.com Site may take a little while to load. Michelle is totally amazing with what she does with cakes. I got a budget cake and I received so many comments about how fantastic it was it was amazing. It was a beautiful work of art that tasted even better than it looked. It was a choc mud with white & dark truffles on top and decorations. Brilliant!!! Highly highly recommend Michelle – even if you are on a budget – my cake was only about $100 more than a Michels Patisserie one!!!!

Dress - second hand from ebay for $100 hehe, but was a Barbara Wilson dress (who is a designer apparently!!) A friend did minor alts to it (hem etc)

Wrap - from Wrapor in UK - website - http://www.wraporshrug.co.uk/ Can highly recommend them, they send fabric samples and are really lovely to deal with. Brilliant communication, great delivery, nothing was too much trouble- Really lovely.

Fascinator - Hats By Kelly Anne at Ebay. Has a store: http://stores.shop.ebay.com.au/Hats-by-Kelly-Anne__W0QQ_armrsZ1 Email - http://webmail.bigpond.com/webedge/do/mail/message/mailto?to=hatsbykellyanne%40y7mail.com Can also highly recommend to deal with as she was lovely, great communication etc. Made the hat specially for me.

Flowers - Ebay seller name: hadwel . http://myworld.ebay.com.au/hadwel/ Email - http://webmail.bigpond.com/webedge/do/mail/message/mailto?to=pmc28748%40bigpond.net.au Also highly recommend to deal with. Had great ideas, great communication, well priced etc They wern't quite as nice as fresh but I had them for months (didn’t want to muck around in the morning with flowers), they wouldn't bruise or get wrecked and looked great in the pics. My girlfriends who asked about them didn't realise they were fake until I told them!!!!

My celebrant was Philip Holland - http://www.sydneycelebrant.net/Home.html or http://www.philipholland.com.au/ He was a really lovely guy and was great to deal with too. Had a great PA system and spoke beautifully. Highly recommended.

Venue

Regal Rendezvous Restaurant at Annangrove (10 mins from Dural). http://www.regalgardens.com.au/ click on restaurant link Beautiful location, beautiful food – excellent day had by all. They had just been taken over by a greek family and know their stuff (I think they own about 6 restaurants). Everything was wonderful. They did platters of food on the tables which worked out great for everyone. My parents & I also went for lunch prior to the day and it was devine. The gardens looked great and we got some brilliant pictures.

My makeup lady was Kath from Kats Eyes Makeup http://www.katseyes.com.au/ Kath did a wonderful job of my and my daughters makeup and was at our place at 6.15am!!! Can highly recommend Kath, she is very professional.

My bon bons were little choc hearts from ebay and pouches from The Pouch Place http://www.thepouchplace.com.au/ The pouches were well prices and delivered quickly. As were the choccies!!!

Leave me a message if you want to know more!!!!!