Wedding Vendors!

Why are there photos of animals under Wedding Vendors? Because we spent a day of our honeymoon at the zoo! I made these photos into blank folded notecards and sell them on Etsy :)

We got married in October in State College, PA, and it was so difficult to find and choose vendors that I thought I would share here!

I got my dress from Dillards.com! Lovely flowy dress, not very expensive.

We had our flowers done by Woodrings of State College. They are AMAZING! They're SO nice, and will work with any price range. I didn't want to go too low but I didn't want to spend tons of $ on flowers either - they did lots of gerbera daisies and gorgeous arrangements that were bright and colorful for fall. We did mini gerbera boutonnieres and they were lovely. The centerpieces were gorgeous, not very expensive, and they did them in such a way that we could take home the entire centerpieces (containers included). I adore Woodrings!

Our cake was done by Heather Luse of Delectable Delights. She is SO wonderful to work with! We met with her and saw her beautiful examples on display, and she worked with us to find out exactly what we wanted, which was cupcakes - spice for half and the others in yellow cake. She decorated them beautifully with fall leaves, and arranged them the day of the wedding along with the people from Woodrings, so there were flowers on the cake stand, etc.

We had the actual wedding at Toftrees, and their wedding planner is FANTASTIC!!! She is so helpful, nice, informative, detail-oriented, and amazingly organized! Toftrees did a great job, the food was delicious, and they were VERY willing to work with us on dietary issues such as nut allergies and vegetarian dishes, as well as special requests of cider and other details!

I got my stationery at Wedding Paper Divas, which was really inexpensive and lovely! You do have to contact them by phone with all questions or problems to get a timely answer, but they are great and really friendly.

However, if I had known about Etsy when I was planning, I would have bought stationery from SandyPhotoArt - check out her shop, it's gorgeous! Here is one of her invitations that I LOVE:



We used apples as place card holders (using the Martha Stewart Pear idea!), bought those from Way Fruit Farm near State College. They're very friendly and have lots of great apples and other fruits! Very inexpensive. Harner Farms is fantastic too but at the time they didn't have enough Honeycrisp apples. They do have very cute goats though (Moe and Jo!):)

I got the wedding guest book at Michael's. Horrible. Couldn't find what I wanted, and the one we did finally get fell apart while people were signing it! I wish I had known about Etsy!!!

My friend and I got the programs from Staples - bought a little CD template and paper - we made one at home and ended up getting the rest laser printed at Kinko's, which worked out fine.

The musicians were AMAZING - Emily and Eric McKee. They were so lovely to work with, and played beautiful classical and celtic music.

I hope someone finds this helpful! I know I found the cake person (Heather) through someone else's blog! :)

Good luck planning!