I met with Lara tonight to talk about "wedding stuff" at the Vortex in Little 5 points.
She had gotten back from the wedding on the beach (she got married at a castle on the beach) and a honeymoon in Ireland.
So freaking cool.
We had dinner (they have the BEST sweet potato fries there EVAH!!!) and drinks and chatted about where we were with things.
The hot topic was the fact that I got an e-mail from Uli saying that her superiors wouldn't sign the contract for Silverbell because they separate their time blocks into events finished before 5pm and events after 6pm. So, that left us in a bit of mess due to the fact that we were planning on guests arriving at 3:30ish and leaving at 8:30 or 9:00 pm.
So of course this sent me into a tizzy and unfortunately, I received this e-mail after 5 pm and I couldn't reach Al on the phone to ask what I should do and I couldn't reach anyone at the church to see if I could change the time, or if it was even available.
DRAMA!!!!!
So basically the options were:
Change the ceremony to time to 5pm (if it's available).
Hold the ceremony at 2pm and just have a break in between but risk guests leaving and not coming back.
Hold the ceremony at 2pm and find a place to have an interim cocktail hour before leading guests to the Silverbell.
To me, the only logical option is changing the ceremony time to 5pm, but I need to get approval before forging ahead.
We also talked about the budget, needing to set up a time to visit Hall's for decor (though honestly I'm becoming less inspired about messing with centerpieces), the DJ issue and the videographer issue.
I'm in a bit of a conundrum with the DJ. Joel Rabbe of Lethal Rhythms quoted me a price of $1695. I have no doubt that he will do an amazing job and I completely trust Laura's opinion. However, I don't think I can afford that and I think Charles from Spectrum will do my wedding for easily half the price.
The conundrum is that a majority of our guests are older and thus we won't necessarily need my version of a "party" which is what Joel does.
We need more of a traditional DJ, but still one who is not a big cheeseball. We'll do a lot of traditional things and I'll definitely be anal about a timeline. So, I think I may just go with Charles. Still trying to figure out what I want.
The videographer contestants are now Old Glory Productions, Moon Rize Studios and Atlanta Media Group.
I'm going to make Al watch the Old Glory demo tonight and compare it with MoonRize Studios.
So, after watching the ENTIRE demo of Old Glory, Al formed opinions on two things.
First, he really likes Old Glory's style because it is truly a documentary and if someone couldn't make it to the wedding, we could send them a copy of this and it would be a true representation fo the day. He like the coloring, the steady hand and the fact that the videographer got EVERYTHING, all the details, etc.....
I've always had Old Glory on my radar because they really are good at the particular style they do and their highest package is $1800 and then the love story is an additional $300 (which I may shop around for becuase I would like that to be more of a cinematic thing then a documentary thing, so we'll see).
Secondly, Al thinks that the bridesmaids dresses should be floor length and formal, but with no annoying sashes that drag and something that might not necessarily be strapless......I just never know with him :)
I hate to say it, but I'm now in agreeance with him on this one. Since we moved the ceremony time to 5pm, it will be a more formal evening wedding, so...yeah, bridesmaids should have floorlength dresses. On the demo the poor girls had strapless dresses (which they proceeded to pop out of, hike up and generally mess with all night) and very long sashes that acted like trains. However, when the ceremony was over, they all had to loop and tie them so that they didn't trip on them for the reception and they looked very odd.
So...note to self. So as to not annoy my bridesmaids - v-neck or some type of neckline that is not strapless dress and absolutely no streamer sashes.
Trust me, you will thank me for this ladies.
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