Weddingbee Blog

In February Mr. High Wire’s parents, brother, and brother’s girlfriend all came into town and we went on a cake and flower consult! For some reason I kept switching the letters around, hence the post title—”Flakes and Cowers.”

This vendor does catering, cakes, flowers, linens, decor, and coordinating! What a one-stop shop.

It was really tempting to dive head first and book this one vendor for as many things as possible. It means fewer vendors that we have to coordinate with on the day of, right?

So much of the wedding industry is fueled by word of mouth. Companies blossom and die by the reviews people post of them online. My biggest piece of advice is to read, read, read every review you can find about a wedding vendor in advance of meeting them. You don’t want to find out an affordable caterer served cold roast beef instead of filet mignon at your own wedding, right? If you read reviews online, you’d know well in advance about issues like this.

While this vendor didn’t have 100% positive reviews based on all of their services, they DID have great reviews on both their cake and flower services. So, I felt comfortable meeting them. We do plan on serving cake at the wedding and want to have some floral decor throughout, but I can safely say that these two are not at the tippity-top of our priority list. So here was where we were willing to spend a little less and take a chance on a vendor without perfect marks across the board.

The owner quoted us a great price for what we were looking for. (I’ll share my cake/flower inspiration in a future post.) The quote also included some colored linens! This was a big fat “probably impossible” addition to the wedding…but since this vendor had so many types of services under their belt, they also quoted us a great deal on linens for the reception. We are having brown pin-tuck overlays over the venue-provided white tablecloths. They are going to look somethin’ like this:

Image via A to Z Party Rental

Who knew one could be so excited about linens??

Sunday of that weekend, all the ladies trekked over to the Dallas Bridal Show. This is where it’s at, folks. This show was well executed and very well put together: a vast improvement over the Great Bridal Expo we went to a few weeks before. It was also fun when vendors would ask questions like, “So, do you have a DJ yet?” or “Do you have a dress yet?” and I could respond with a resounding, “YES, yes I do.”

More on The Dress later!

Did you read reviews before booking your vendors? Anyone have any funny stories from bridal shows?