There were three caterers there. One had a chocolate fountain and fruit display to sample. I couldn't get past the crowd and said I'd come back later. There was one lady talking to me, but she didn't seem to want to go into specifics. Another caterer had three samples - a pasta salad, meatballs and a watermelon gazpacho. The pasta salad was made from orzo pasta, so it was a little hard to eat. The meatballs were sooo good. I was interested in them, but they didn't seem too interested in coming down to Lodi. They made it sound like for them to make a trip like that we would pretty much need to have a kitchen available for them to use.. which we don't. I mean maybe we could let them use my moms kitchen?
Augh.. I dont know. See these are things I don't think about. I need someone else around me, who can kick me when I'm totally being an air head and not thinking about the details of pulling it off.
Another caterer there had a sliced potato thing, which was okay, kind of hard to eat - then i notice its an appetizer. What? Who puts a sliced potato on a toothpick? It was falling apart like there was no tomorrow.
Their pesto spread on a crustini was so good. Their meatball just had the same cream sauce as the potato and it wasn't that good. Maybe because it wasn't what I would have picked.
There was one travel agent there that we talked to and got some books on vacations but thats it.
We talked to a few florists. One seemed promising. All of her stuff looked good, she seemed nice and said she does travel to Lodi. Plus she said she would beat any estimate we got.
Sample of her work:
I realize that I should have taken more pictures of all the stuff. I ended up just taking pictures of things I like. I really like the combination of the different shades of pink roses and those green berries.
She also does centerpieces!
The other florist that was there that we spoke to didn't really go into prices. (which always worries me).
I thought the flowers submerged underwater was pretty neat. It looked really nice.
Aaron and I really liked the pocket fold invitations. I thought we'd do something more simple, traditional. I have never seen or received pocket folds before (except online)..
They do all of the work for us. We give them a list of the addressees and they preprint all the envelopes with their names and addresses so they are in the same font. Plus the reply card is a postcard so it will save us money on postage.
Aaron liked the tree invites:
I really liked these:
Of course they can be different colors:
There was a salon there doing free hair and make-up trials. Since we were so late, They could only do one or the other. So I had them do my hair...
here is their work:
I don't know what is with the random curls attached to my head. There was about six curls attached to the top of my head.. three on each side. After these pictures I took those curls down and just had it curled. I also don't like how they made my bangs go all the way across my forehead. They didn't stay and I kept having to push them aside. See the little break in them, thats where I normally part them. I think it would have looked great like that.
So other than that it was pretty good. When we left, we decided just to go home as it was already 5 and Aaron wanted to do some stuff at home. I've just been going through the piles of brochures and stuff we got. The one thing I dont understand is how high the photographers are!!
$3,000 to $7,000 just to come out and photograph your day. I think thats a lot of money to spend on a gamble that their pictures will come out good? Why can't we spend that money on a nice camera for ourselves and photoshop and just have a savvy friend take some pics? I know for my sisters wedding I think that my pictures came out just as good as the professionals with the exception of some lighting issues and touch-ups.
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