My OCTOBER 9 SandCastle WEDDING REVIEW! Really Long...with advice! ***NOW UPDATED WITH LINK TO PROOFS AND HM REVIEW & PICS***

A few of our Duet Proofs

Bora Bora Honeymoon Review w/PICS


Okay.... and here begins my review.... this is going to be long and detailed but I have so much to share that I think will be helpful to future brides so I hope you enjoy it and I don’t bore you! I REALLY wanted to wait until I got my proofs... or at least some good pics, but some people (ahem ) kept pressuring me to post it anyway – so here it is, finally!!

First, let me explain my rating system. It’s a scale of 1 - 10 with partial points available. A vendor only gets a ten from me if they go above and beyond and that usually means getting a little something for free, or a really nice deal/discount of some sort. When a vendor does that, it really shows that they are willing to go the extra mile to make a client happy and that’s what matters. And in the end, a lot of it is really about the money (when it comes to vendors, that is) because we all know how expensive weddings are. We pay them a lot of money to make our wedding days awesome, not just adequate, so they really have to earn that 10 from me. I will be a tough critic. But I will try my best to give an “LIW safe”, yet honest & fair review.


My wedding day was amazing and everything went extremely well with only one minor hitch which you will read about. It was the most beautiful day of my life and definitely the happiest so far. I was very happy with the way everything turned out but I must warn you that I am the type of person that can find something to complain about with everything... my “buts” in this case are just the little things that you have to be honest about, they aren’t really complaints. It’s hard to explain, but you’ll understand once your day comes if you are a bride to be and if you are already married, you probably know exactly what I mean. I don’t really have any regrets about my wedding day and I would live the day over again in a heartbeat. All the stress of planning is REALLY all worth it in the end because you’ll never have a day like this again... and it is such a momentous occasion, such a beautiful life event – that it truly deserves all the fuss we make about it.

So that said, lets begin at the beginning. The last 30 days leading up to my wedding day were the most fun, memorable, exciting, and not really as stressful as I would have thought. ENJOY that time girls, because it goes really fast. Try not to fight with your FH during this time and take the little bumps in stride so that you remember what a special and fun time this is. I did and I ended up being amazingly calm the two days before the wedding and didn’t really have any freak outs.... (well, maybe one tiny one). But it’s really an amazing time because everyone finally starts getting excited with you, and you get to see all your hard work slowly falling into place. So enjoy!!