Wedding Vendors in Cedar Rapids

Pretty Little Vows made our wedding day so much easier! Shayla was organized, professional, and made sure everything stayed on track so we could truly enjoy our day. I highly recommend her to any bride looking for a stress-free wedding experience! 💍

The people at facets are amazing! Mary is a rock star and almost knows what I want before I even have to tell her! They drew up a totally custom wedding band for my engagement ring that was also purchased there and I can't wait to see it when it's done! They will be our life long jewelry store go to! Highly highly recommend!

Han

4.6 out of 5 rating

4.6

Rev. Mark Hall did our wedding ceremony vows. Prior to the wedding, he gets to know us through a phone call, and then gave us a few examples of vows to choose from, or use our own. On our wedding day, despite the rain and people coming late, he was very flexible to adapt to the schedule, etc. A pleasure to work with! Thank you!

Brittany

5.0 out of 5 rating

5.0

We were uncertain if we would need a wedding coordinator, but the first meeting with Brianne answered questions we had and made us consider factors that had not crossed our mind. It was evident that her expertise would be a blessing for our planning and day of coordination. I appreciate her guiding us, helping prioritize what is important, and getting to know us as a couple. Our wedding day was truly Stress Free. Even when we realized I forgot my veil at the hotel, Brianne and her assistant were on it! Her timeline skills were impressive. We really did not need to think about anything the day of our wedding other than being present, which is exactly what we wanted. Please hire Brianne for your wedding, it will be the best decision.

I rented the Silver City Limo Bus for our wedding. They were on time, the bus was very clean and the driver was great! I know they are located in Davenport but they came all the way to Cedar Rapids for me! I would definitely recommend The City Limo Bus to anyone looking for a fun party bus or wedding party transportation!

As a wedding planner who works with BreadGarden Market Catering often, they’re truly one of our go-to teams in the Iowa City area. Their communication is reliable, the food is always good, and they genuinely care about making every event a success. Christa is fantastic to work with—organized, responsive, and always willing to go the extra mile—and the rest of the team is just as great. They’re easy to collaborate with, dependable on event days, and consistently deliver a great experience for both our couples and their guests. We love working with BreadGarden and highly recommend them for weddings and events.

Garrett Rain was amazing! He called the week of the wedding to discuss details we had previously spoken to Twisted Mics about and made sure he had everything correct so that we could have the best and most personal experience possible! All staff was responsive and answered any questions we had. I also did a mash up song for my father daughter dance and they took care of that for me! Everyone loved the music at our reception!

I'm so happy to be writing a review about Iris City Cleaners ... My husband and I just had a vintage-themed wedding two weeks ago, and I can say truthfully, Iris City Cleaners, in southeastern IA, really came through for us. Not only are they among a quite limited number of clothes cleaners that specialize in antique garment cleaning and restoration (and one of the the ONLY ones in Iowa!) -- they were SO accommodating, friendly, willing to go out of their way to help us (from the owner himself, Ed, staying a couple extra hours past closing time to wait for us to drive there from where we lived ~ 2 hours away), and committed to giving my vintage dress a true personal attention and care. They truly went out of their way to help us. Even though I gave them just under a month to clean my dress (typically, for this kind of cleaning, it's good to give the cleaner a lot more time), Iris City Cleaners didn't complain or chide me, but instead embraced the task and the owner himself took it upon himself to personally handle the analysis and cleaning of my dress. For those of you ladies or gents now in the same position I was in ... with a vintage garment but not sure where to confidently turn in the Upper Midwest for expert vintage cleaning ... I'll elaborate my story a little more. It's a little long, but hopefully it will let you know there's a fantastic resource out there in Iris City Cleaners where you'll get treated with genuine kindness and personal attention. It's nice to know there really are some businesses out there that still really care about the individual customer.... I had purchased a true antique dress -- a lovely 19-teens-era late Edwardian style raw silk dress -- on eBay way back in July. This dress was truly one-of-a-kind: a beige raw silk dress with an apron-style front-piece covered in elaborate wildflower and wild grass hand embroidery that wrapped around in faux straps around in V-shape on the back; antique tatted lace bands around the elbows, and full sleeves adorned at the wrists with a cuff of the same delicately detailed embroidery.. The eBay seller I worked with was great, and felt fairly sure the dress was in solid shape ... but you sometimes just can't tell with those old dresses. So needless to say, I was more than a little anxious about the thought of subjecting my dress to even a professional antique garment cleaning (let alone a conventional dry cleaning!). While the dress was in excellent overall condition, it definitely had some deep-set wrinkles and creases, some set-in dirt along the bottom hem, a single somewhat noticeable spot right in the chest area -- along with some other wee spots and "foxing" spots -- and probably plenty of storage dust. While the dress fit and I could have worn as-is for my wedding, I really preferred to clean her and feel she was refreshed and perked up for her next public appearance at my special day. I kind of waited to the last minute, however, in part because there are just so *few* cleaners out there who really know how to handle antique and vintage garments -- which often require special care and special treatments -- and in part because my mother (who lives in western PA) had wanted to try to be involved. I lost a LOT of time looking around for vintage cleaners ... and believe me, I looked and *looked* I was despairing, actually, of even being able to find an antique garment cleaning expert anywhere remotely close. There are some around the coasts, and in places like California .... but I live in central Iowa, and it's a veritable desert as far as antique cleaning experts. I had found a couple in the Twin Cities area, but that was at least 3 hours' drive (which I was willing to drive -- but with all the driving we were already doing between IA and mid-MO to plan our wedding, I really didn't want to have to drive in the opposite direction with everything else on our plates) ... Then I found a place in western PA and decided to try there first, so my mother could be involved. Sadly, though the place in PA claimed on its website to have experience working with antique garments, it definitely didn't. Don't be fooled when a cleaning site says it is a "Couture Cleaner" ... just marketing hype if it can't live up to what it claims. The lady I spoke to on the phone had assured me my dress would get hand-washed ... when I got there in person, I learned they were going to put it through some standard mass-cleaning process. They seemed terrified to even touch a dress as old as mine.... like they were more worried about the liability of damaging my dress than really trying to help us as individuals, or look at the unique circumstances of my dress. Needless to say, I did NOT entrust my dress to them. After I came back to Iowa, I almost gave up on the idea of getting my dress cleaned, since we were so behind on other wedding planning stuff and didn't have time to go to Minneapolis. But ... perfectionist that I am ... decided to try a little more Web research, and trying yet more different search terms. Somehow, I stumbled onto Iris City Cleaners -- I think I found the website of the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists and did a state search. Iris City Cleaners was closest to us ... and then when I visited their website and learned they have expertise in antique garment cleaning, I called immediately. My wedding date was Oct. 29, 2011 ... and I probably called at the end of September ... I explained my situation, and how I'd had such difficulty finding a specialized cleaner for my nearly 100-year-old dress. They were so warm and friendly right from the get-go. We scheduled a time to come down on a Friday after work, while my husband and I were en route to Missouri (where we got married) for wedding related business -- and Iris City Cleaners was right on the way. We had hoped to get out of work earlier than we did, so we could get to Iris City Cleaners before closing time ... but we got held up. We were worried they might have closed and we might have missed them .... When I called to let them know we were running late, they didn't seem to mind at all. Becky, one of the employees, said she'd be sure she or someone else was there -- even though it would mean they'd be heading home later on a Friday night. Ed himself greeted us, and spent at least 20 minutes doing a preliminary examination of the dress right there with us .... talking to us about some of the concerns with old dresses, about the history of my dress and where I'd gotten it, about the process. He was warm and personable, and inspired confidence from the get-go. Not only that, he was the most genuinely friendly, customer-focused business person I've encountered in a long, long time .... He told me he'd do a test of my dress fabric's strength before anything else -- taking a very small sample from an inside piece of extra fabric -- and would use it to decide how to proceed. He also worked with an expert colleague in Boston after testing the fabric to decide on the best treatment for my dress .... He was timely and responsive in his email communications after the fact, and made a point of emailing me just to give me updates how the dress was progressing. This really put my mind at ease that the dress was going to be okay, and that I'd have it in time for my wedding. In addition, Ed had a knowledgeable seamstress he works with look at the dress and make some additional repairs to strengthen some of the seams. When the dress was finally completed and we went down to pick her up, Ed personally escorted us about 10 miles down the road that Saturday to the seamstress' home just to make sure that after the cleaning, there was nothing else that should be adjusted -- and if so, to get it done. If all his hard work and attentiveness to date hadn't already proved his personal dedication and customer focused-attitude, the fact that he took this time because he personally wanted to ensure everything was perfect with the dress he'd had in his care certainly demonstrated that. And let me just add that on top of Ed's thorough and scientific process in evaluating my dress, hand-washing it himself, consulting other experts to make sure he was using the best methods -- he even did some touch-up work on my dress himself, re-threading some loose threads in the embroidery back in place, and giving me a special little gift of an English sixpence, as the tradition goes, for luck during my wedding and after. I can't say enough how grateful we are to Ed and Iris City Cleaners for everything they did for us and for my dress... The cleaning made the embroidery on my dress shine; the spot on the front was successfully removed; and all the hard-set wrinkles were expertly and completely smoothed out. My dress was lovely, and I felt even more special wearing her -- and I can now feel confident that my special dress has been given a new lease on life and will last for many more years.

Literally could not have asked for a better team to work with! Words aren’t enough to describe how absolutely PERFECT our wedding was. Ashley at Unique Events brought our vision to life and made it even more beautiful than I could’ve imagined — not even exaggerating. She was such a joy to work with! Great communication, so creative and so reassuring — I trusted her ideas and input through the whole process! Haley was our day of coordinator and seriously, she was absolutely made for this job. I can’t thank her enough for making me feel so special, important and beautiful. Her efficiency and confidence was exactly what we needed and made the day so smooth and seamless! I’m recommending everyone I know to The Harmac, Haley the DOC and Ashley at Unique Events!!

Emily

5.0 out of 5 rating

5.0

We cannot recommend Andrew Kruse and the Ultimate Entertainment team enough! From the moment we booked to the very end of our wedding night, everything was seamless. The planning process was super easy thanks to their website and online tools, definitely helped us remember details we would have otherwise missed. Andrew was beyond professional and friendly. He took the time to walk through everything with us before the big day, and even helped us troubleshoot when we couldn’t find our coordinator (he didn’t have to, but we were so grateful he did). On the day of, he was flexible, calm, and went above and beyond. The AC went out on the hottest day of the year, and he powered through with such grace. I even made a last-minute dress change and one of my bridesmaids asked him to reintroduce me and he nailed it without hesitation. Our music was exactly what we wanted. He honored our preferences and communicated with us before playing any guest requests, just as we’d discussed. We truly can’t imagine a better DJ experience. Andrew exceeded all our expectations and made the night unforgettable. Huge thank you as well to Sean for all the support leading up to the day. Choosing a DJ can feel risky, but we absolutely made the right choice. We’ll be recommending UE—and Andrew specifically—to all our friends getting married in the future! Thank you so, so much to the UE team and Andrew! ❤️