All You Need is Love: Vendor Reviews

Catch up on all the recaps by clicking "Our Wedding" at the top.

So now between the wedding and honeymoon recaps, I figured now would be a good time to do vendor reviews and final thoughts of the wedding. This post has the vendor reviews, and then tomorrow I'll post the final thoughts of the whole wedding experience!

First-- I wanted to say thank you to all of you who have been reading these recaps and all your sweet comments! It has been great for Matt & I to relive the day, too. I just wanted you to know that it meant a lot to me to read your comments!

Vendor Reviews
I absolutely loved all of our vendors, from the photographer, to the reception venue, to the florist, to the baker. I would recommend them all to anyone getting married in the Houston area. You can get their contact information from their websites I have linked to.

Photography- Kasey Lynn Photography: Kasey did an amazing job, as did her second shooter. Throughout the whole wedding-planning process, Kasey was very prompt with responding to my emails and silly questions and was very easy to work with. We are so happy with her pictures and seriously could not have asked for anything more.

Reception venue- Amerigo's Grille: This restaurant is gorgeous, the food is amazing, and the service is outstanding. However, I wish we could have had a longer reception. I felt rushed during the whole thing and I just hope my guests didn't feel the same way. But since they are a restaurant, I completely understand why we had to clear out at the time we did. I didn't want to push the ceremony any earlier because we had several out of town guests, etc. In the end it all worked out and we got to talk to everyone, but if I could change one thing, that would be it.

Floral- LZ Floral: Lara is very easy to work with and as you may know from reading my past posts, I had a lot of floral changes just because I was indecisive. She was very flexible but also made sure we stuck to our budget.

Bakery- Kiss the Cook Cakes: The cake was amazing, both the decorating and taste, and we couldn't have asked for a better value! What more can you ask for?

All You Need is Love: The Wine Cellar Pictures

Catch up by clicking on "Our Wedding" at the top of the page! All pictures by Kasey Lynn Photography.

After we finished the cake and pie cutting, our photographer stole us for some more portraits in the wine cellar. These are DEFINITELY some of my favorite pictures of the day and it was nice to take a little break from the hustle and bustle of the reception.






After these pictures, we went to the last few tables to chat, and then went upstairs to change! One of my bridesmaids came to help me while the others passed out the bubbles to the guests because...

Up next- we leave!

All You Need is Love: Family Portraits

Catch up on the past wedding recaps by clicking on "Our Wedding" at the top!

So we were finally married!! After retreating to the bridal suite for a few minutes, they had cleared out the sanctuary so we could take the family and wedding party pictures. They all turned out quite well, in my opinion.

All pictures taken by Kasey Lynn Photography.

Though our pastor isn't blood-related, I really liked this picture because Matt & I have the largest smiles on our face.

My family & me

Love this picture :)

Matt's parents & us

Both sets of parents

The whole (immediate) family

All You Need is Love: Picture time #2

Need to catch up?

Here are all the things we DIY'ed for the wedding/reception
Here are our flowers
Everyone started arriving on Thursday
Friday, pre-rehearsal
Then we rehearsed
And of course ate
Then we woke up and my mom & I got our hair done
The girls got all prettied up!
Find out what the guys were up to
The details-- my something's
I finally got to put on my dress
The girls' pictures are taken

After all the girls were safely back in our room, it was time for the guys to get some portraits taken. I imagine this process went well- I haven't heard anything to the contrary.

My handsome groom

Groomsmen + ushers

John, my brother

Brandon
Cameron
And Josh-- Matt's brother. See a resemblance?

All of Matt's family-- I really like this one!

And all pictures by Kasey Lynn Photography

All You Need is Love: Picture time #1

[Real life update-- just wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe 4th of July weekend! My parents are coming up here for the weekend so they get to see our new apartment for the first time. I'm pretty excited to see them again!]

Need to catch up?

Here are all the things we DIY'ed for the wedding/reception
Here are our flowers
Everyone started arriving on Thursday
Friday, pre-rehearsal
Then we rehearsed
And of course ate
Then we woke up and my mom & I got our hair done
The girls got all prettied up!
Find out what the guys were up to
The details-- my something's
I finally got to put on my dress

Right after getting dressed and confirming that Matt was in his proper room, the bridesmaids and I got to take portraits outside! These are pretty self-explanatory, so I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Mary, my MOH-- LOVE this girl so much!

Brittany, one of my closest 'old' friends

Lindsey- my new sister! I just love her dearly

Kara-- last year's roommate and provider of dogs for stress relief

My mommy and me :)

Again, all pics by the amazing Kasey of Kasey Lynn Photography

Bridal Portraits, for real

[Again, this is another scheduled post. Don't worry, I do not have computer access on our honeymoon!]

You can read my first post about my bridal portrait experience here.

Here are just a few of the amazing pictures. I love so many and it was hard narrowing it down to just a few to post here. All these pictures, unless otherwise noted, were taken by Kasey Lynn Photography.

Probably my favorite

Kasey: "Walk down the street, acting like your best friends are making you laugh." Me: "So much dress!"

Gotta love squatting in your wedding dress :)

These may have made an appearance at the reception. And will be prominently featured in Disney World.

  So, which one is your favorite? I'll be excited to read your thoughts when we get back!! :) 

And I also have one more to share with you... this was when my parents fit me in the back of my mom's Camry on the way to the bridal portraits.

Taken by my dad; I know my head's cut off, but I still love this picture.