TheExperience: VIP was a really fun one, we got to hear from an excellent invitations company. Pam, owner of Paper Pod Designs is so great with creating the perfect invitation for your event. She was able to tell us all about the details that go into the invitation options. Unknown to me there really are about a million options but her samples were some of the best I have seen. They are creative and fun but still have a very classy look.
She created a game for everyone to play, when you arrived you went up to her table of invites and guessed the price. It was surprising how affordable custom invites really can be!
After hearing from Pam of Paper Pod Designs, Jean from Weddings from the Heart Wedding Planning.
Jean was able to address so of the most common concerns or myths about a wedding planner. She was able to tell everyone about how hiring a wedding planner would help take stress off the bride and their family members on the day of the wedding as a wedding planner is a great person to have speak with other vendors on your behalf. Also that wedding planners are not always too expensive, you might be surprised they can usually make a package to fit your budget and what you might need.
One of the things that sticks out in my mind about Weddings from the Heart is that she is always looking out for you the bride and she seems to be very patient. She is always very friendly and kind which I find very important on the wedding day when they are around all your family and friends.
(And I love that she offers Butterfly Releases to her clients! How romantic is that!! And they start at $55, which is a great price point!)
Kathy of Your Dream Day was up next, she spoke about the reality of wedding planning, and the myths that sometimes come from the reality TV shows focused on wedding planning.
Such as the TV shows that are featured on TLC and WE are hundreds and hundreds of hours and they edit that down into the best or worst 30 minutes so there is tons of things you never see.
She is a ball of energy and seems to be that way all the time! She has been planning weddings in the Ohio area since 2004. And been voted Best of The Knot, Wedding Wire Bride's Choice, and more. She will be opening a new office in the Cleveland area very soon so she is growing and growing all the time.
Last planners to speak were the very amazing girls of Pink with Envy Event Planning Services. They have a great little hot pink room located inside the Wedding Connection on the 2nd floor, if you ever want to stop by and see them. Brooke, Jenny, & Jennifer were made the cutest little 911 bride kits for the wedding day for all the brides. They are a fun group of girls! They have tons of options in there packages of event planning, even just Day Of Planning which is very affordable at $1200-$1500. They can do anything you need in your wedding planning process just contact them for all their pricing and options.
If you live in the Dayton Area and still have your Reach Magazine around they have a promotion inside the Wedding Section.
After hearing from all these great ladies we all boarded the A Sanannah Nite Limousine Services Bus to go out on a venue tour through Dayton. If I do say so myself, I have been on tons of party buses throughout shooting weddings and that bus was VERY nice! I would highly recommend them to anyone!
Tracy our driver took us to Hilton Garden Inn of Beavercreek first!
They set up a mini reception in one of the small ballrooms to give us some ideas and see what kinds of things can be done to make things just like your dream wedding you have in mind.
Gigi's Cupcakes of Beavercreek provided us all with a cupcake to sample as well as this very nice display cupcake tower wedding cake you see pictured above.
The backdrop seen here was set up in the ballroom as well by Entertainment Unlimited Events, and the sweetheart table is completely furnished from the millions of options offered by Prime Time Party Rentals.
Josie DeDominici was there to greet us and give us a tour of her hotel and talk to us about the different options that the Hilton Garden Inn of Beavercreek offers to their wedding clients.
NEXT STOP: The Hope Hotel where Billie Meeks was there to greet us and give us the grand tour.
The Hope Hotel is a great options if you have a large wedding reception, as it has a ballroom to hold up to 500 guests. It is huge! The options are unlimited when if comes to making the space your own.
Billie had Prime Time Party Rental put together a few table settings for everyone to enjoy and get ideas from.
Next we made a quick stop at Beavercreek Golf Club were they had great little snacks for us! We all loved them. They showed us around and gave us lots of great ideas and options. If you have not had the chance you should really head out there and check it out! They have a great space for you to get ready in, to have the ceremony, cocktail hour and the reception. So many great options, and a great place for pictures too!
NEXT STOP:
The Schindler Banquet Center, where we were greeted by some of the sweetest ladies. They had some champagne punch and snacks. Which was a very nice touch!
As many of you in the area might not know is that they now are able to offer wine and champagne at their wedding receptions! Previously this was not an option but they are glad to be able to provide it now!
And Attention Photographers....do you see all these windows, they are like that around the whole entire room! Just beautiful, a photographers dream! And brides that book in the summer would have a beautiful bright wedding reception without being outside in the heat! :-)
A HUGE thank you to Caleb of Finest View Videography for capturing our day on video!
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