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We ended up getting our reception flowers from wholeblossoms.com when we were dissatisfied with our florist. We used calla lilies, rose petals, spider mums, and super select hydrangeas. I was so nervous using an online florist, but I just made sure I was home when the flowers would be delivered so I could immediately put them in water and prepare them. When they arrived, they were beautiful and perfect. They recommended ordering a few days before the event to allow the flowers to bloom, so I did that, and it was definitely a good idea. The calla lilies were HUGE! It was amazing. I had a lot of people to help me with the flowers, so I know not everyone can do this, but I recommend it! I also had a problem right when I ordered (there was a small mistake in my order) and I immediately called, and they resolved the issue very quickly.
We decided to go with Flowers with Feeling, because we felt that they were the most flexible with our budget. We showed Tammy pictures, and she seemed to think that was do-able. The first meeting went fine. But then when it came to the showing of the centerpieces, they were the wrong shade and they were puny. They were so small. When talking about making them any larger, it seemed like doubling was our only option. But since they had a 50% deposit, we were stuck with them. So we decided to just cut the reception flowers. Before the wedding, they seemed fine with all the changes that I made and generally communications (although it was harder to get a hold of Tammy during the summer), but the day of the wedding there was no communication. I never saw the flower person. We couldn't find the corsages and boutonnieres, and when we did, they were all mixed up (and some of them had colors that were never discussed). It was all a mess. People didn't get their pins, and it was horrible. The pew bows we had were small and unattractive, and the altar arrangements were horrible. They were supposed to be a collection of ivory flowers accented with greenery, but it was more like a huge mass of cheap greenery. The cake flowers were nothing like the flowers we were supposed to get, and for $40, we got what looked like a pile of limp hydrangea petals. There were also dahlias there, even though we didn't want any dahlias on the cake. My bridesmaids' "bouquets" were 5 stems of flowers wrapped together, and were very small and pathetic. My red rose bouquet looked amazing, but that was the only thing that I was happy with from the florist. I was very disappointed overall.
We met with Naomi, and she gave us a bit of a hard sell, but the samples were great. She completely sold us on her passion fruit butter cream, and she helped us pick a cake design. We brought a few pictures in, and our cake at the wedding looked exactly like the picture. It was perfect. We got a different type of cake for each of our layers, and each layer tasted great, although I couldn't taste the passion fruit butter cream I was so excited about, and the color of one of the layers seemed a little intense (really really yellow). But I was more concerned about the taste, which was excellent (especially the fondant! amazing). Naomi followed up with me right after the wedding, and was very professional and responsive. I would recommend using her in the future. My mother-in-law also used her for our rehearsal dinner cake, which was really cute and tasted great as well.
Shelley's Bridal Couture West Dundee, Illinois 60118
I bought my dress at a sample sale, and that is the only reason I would have come here. They gave me a hard sale, and implied that the dress I wanted would be too expensive for me. I'm glad I didn't order my dress from them, though, because I ordered my slip through them, and it took them six months to get it in, which seemed a bit ridiculous. It wasn't a special order size or anything. They told me it would take 6-8 weeks. I called them every week after 10 weeks, and they kept telling me that it would be in "next week" or "soon". Shelley is supposed to be in between noon and 4 pm, but multiple times when I'd call between those hours and ask to speak to her, I would be told that she "had just stepped out" and that she would call me right back, but I wouldn't get a call back, or I would hours or days later. It was such a frustrating experience. Then when I went to pick up my slip finally (they didn't call me when it came it, I had to call them, and have them tell me "oh yeah, it's in"), it took them forever to find it, they had to ask me multiple times what size I had ordered (shouldn't they know it?) and finally Shelley found it, and told me as she was giving it to me that "it's a different style than the one you originally ordered." And it wasn't a different style than I had ordered, but if it were, I would think it would be more appropriate and professional to call me and tell me that some time around when it was ordered, not when I'm there to pick it up. I would recommend avoiding this place if you can.
It all ended up fine just because I don't care about music that much, but this was the worst part of my wedding. If I could have changed one thing, it would have been the DJ. He didn't play some songs we requested as must plays, including two songs that were supposed to be dedicated to my parents and my husband's parents. Throughout the night the music just kept stopping (either mid-song or long breaks between songs). Also, songs would just start and stop, such as the father-daughter dance which starting playing multiple times before it was actually supposed to play. He didn't seem to particularly like our choices in music or understand what we wanted. He didn't play songs that my bridal party requested because it would be too much 80s music, but he played a bunch of random songs "from today" because more songs from today needed to be played according to him. Also, he played a Michael Jackson tribute medley, which was a little weird. I wish he had asked me about that before the wedding. I like Michael Jackson music, but it was just a little much. I also asked him not to play any music that was too suggestive or had swearing since the room would be full of my family, and he didn't respect that either. And he chose to play some really cheesy slow songs, and not to play some of the ones that we requested. Overall, it was just a disaster. He decided to override the music we wanted him to play, and played the music he wanted to. And I complained to The Pros after the wedding, and I have received no response. No professionalism, no flexibility, no understanding.
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