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[planningtime]

As we all know this thread is always a useful and popular one, so let's get it going for all of the Lower Mainland Brides:

Date: June 24/06
Ceremony/Reception: www.redwoods-golf.com
Officiant: Brent Sheppard www.heyrev.com
DJ: www.dansemuzik.com
Decor/Flowers/Cake/Co-Ordinator: www.lisagregoryspecialevents.com
Limos: www.silverladylimo.com
Photographer: Christopher Johnson www.cmjphoto.com
Videographer: www.maplestreetproductions.com
Dress: Lisa's Bridal (and second pair of earrings)
BM Dresses: www.everythingbutthegroom.ca
Shoes: Love Those Shoes, Cloverdale
FG Dresses: Ebay (angelic kinds/butterflyxtc)
Tux's: www.blackandlee.com
Wedding Night Hotel: www.sheraton.com
Honeymoon: BCAA Travel Langley www.sandals.com
Invitiations/Place Cards/Favor Tags/Seating Chart: www.paperpoet.ca
Hair: Long time friend/hairdresser
Tiara and 1st pair of Earrings: Ebay
FH's ring: www.titaniumera.com
My rings: Custom made by family friend's jeweller
Veil: www.thebridesproject.com
Guest Book: www.guestbookstore.com
Registries: The Bay & Home Outfitters www.hbc.com BCAA Travel Langley www.bcaa.com


That is about everything, I think. Hope it helps the brides who are still planning!!

[teazel2]

Ceremony/reception site: Minter Gardens www.mintergardens.com
Officient: Brenda Janzen
Rings: Ben Moss
Photographer: Audra's Photography www.audrasphotography.com
Limo: Gentleman Jims
Overlays: Valley Weddings www.valleyweddings.ca
Favours (tree seedlings): Surrey Tree Growers (BC Forestry Grower)
Brulap from Rona & Raffia from Walmart
DJ: Party Central DJ Services www.djqueen.com
Tuxes: Western Tux www.westerntux.com
Bridesmaids Dresses: NetBride www.netbride.com
Wedding Dress: Heart to Heart Bridal Gallery
Invites: Canadian Wedding Treasures: www.canadianwedding.ca
Save the Dates: Made myself
Wedding Night: Harrison Hot Springs Resort www.harrisonresort.com
Registries: The Bay and Home Outfitters www.hbc.com
Hair & Makeup: Champers www.champerssalons.com
Flowers: 99 Nursery www.99nurseryflorist.com
Cake: A friend
Centerpieces: Vases & River rock from Micheals.. Gerberas from FMIL's cousin who works for a flower wholesaler

Thats all I can think of right now

El

[Grelly]

We're getting married in July, here's what we have so far:

Dress: The Drawing Room
BM Dresses: RW & Co.
Ceremony/reception venue: Farmhouse Lifestyle
Officient: Gisa Laslo
Flowers: Suzanne from WB
Photographer: Karen McNeil
Hair & Makeup: Pamper Me Pretty
DJ: included with venue
Event Coordinator: On Edge Events and also the coordinator at Farmhouse Lifestyle
Decorator: included with venue ( I think that this is the main reason why FH wanted our wedding here - we don't have to worry about setting up, cleaning up or taking everything down, also decoration such as fresh flowers, floral arrangments and centrepieces are included with the venue )

[Chuckerboo]

Well ladies you are all LIGHTyears ahead of me....
My wedding date is not yet set in stone, but approximately a year and half away, so I do not have any vendors YET. BUT!!!! As soon as I do, I will make sure I post them!!!

[platinumcheetah]

Ceremony/reception: Hotel Le Soleil www.hotellesoleil.com
Marriage Comissioner: Maureen Hunter
Photography: Mark Budworth Softlight Photography www.softlightphotography.com
Bridal Gown: Bliss Consignment Bridal www.blissconsignment.com/
Suit: Tip Top Tailor
Flowergirl Dress: Ducklings and Daffodils stores.ebay.ca/Ducklings-and-Daffodils
BM dresss: Le Chateau
Limo: Pacific Harmony www.limoharmony.com/
Cake: Simone
Make-up: Elegance by Stephanie elegancebystephanie@hotmail.com
Hair: Leanne (don't know what company "name" she goes by)
Honeymoon: exitnow.ca www.exitnow.ca

[kiena]

Hi everyone, i know my wedding date's a bit far away but since i'll be gone from Apr to 3 weeks prior the date, I thought I should take care of some things!

Date: Sept 9, 2006
Ceremony/Reception Venue: Stanley Park Pavillion, Martin Quat http://www.stanleyparkpavilion.com/
Marriage Commissioner: Ivy Leung
Photography: Erin Gilmore www.eringilmorephotography.com
String Quartet: Syrinx Quartet, http://syrinx.trideja.com/
DJ: Echowave DJ Productions http://www.echowavepro.com/
Cake: Cupcakes on denman http://www.cupcakesonline.com/
Wedding Dress and veil: Colleen, Bisou Bridal www.bisoubridal.com
BM dress: Shannon, custom made
Tux: Classy Formal Wear www.classy.ca
Florist: Jan, Hong's Nursery (family friend) http://www.hongs.ca/
Hair: Nadia, Axis on West Georgia
Makeup: Behnaz, Chanel at Holt Renfrew
Favours, Invites, Programs, Seating Charts, Thank You cards: DIYs with material from Paper Poet www.paperpoet.ca and Essential Packaging http://www.essentialpackaging.com/ Tea from Granville Island Tea Company http://www.granvilletea.com/ and containers from IKEA.
Wedding night hotel: Hotel Vancouver

left to do's: shoes and accessories, registry.
If anyone has questions about these vendors, please feel free to ask!

[Beautiful]

Date: April 22/06
Ceremony: Maple Ridge CLA
Reception: Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavillion
Officiant: Rev. James McAlister
DJ: http://www.soundsgreatvancouver.com/
Photographer: Sara Borck http://www.saraborck.com
Dress/BM Dresses/Shoes: Lisa's Bridal
FG Dresses: My mom is making them
Tux's: TipTop Tailors in Coquitlam Centre
Honeymoon: Disneyland and Cali.
Invitiations/Place Cards/Favor Tags/Seating Chart: Myself
Hair: Mark - Hairformer Studio Maple Ridge
FH's ring: http://www.benmoss.com
Guest Book: http://www.staples.ca
Registries: The Bay & Home Outfitters www.hbc.com
Packaging: http://www.creativepackaging.ca/

[shaunna02]

Well we just started planning so only have the majors so far

Ceremony: The Chapel At Stanley Park
Officiant : Rev Allan Burnett (comes with the chapel)
Reception: Grouse Mountain
Photographer: Daniela Ciuffa

[mindylwk2]

Date: December 16th
DJ: He is one of chris's freinds that has his own gigs and stuff at different events. i will post his web site when i ask him for the site name..
BM Dresses: i got them both off ebay. They are the same dress and same colour. jere is a link if you wanna see the dress. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1
FG Dresses: OFF ebay as well....We are still deciding on three or four dresses.
My rings: We got my rings from a place in bretwood mall. Not sure the name. We got it 4 years ago.
Registries: I am not sure as of yet where we are going to register....

as you can see i havn't done much. It is hard to sit down with chris and go through things. With a 4 year old and a 11 month old . And he doesn't get home from work till after 1am...And the places that we looked at online we wanted. Well they are already booked for our day. So we have to keep looking...

[Angel_Bride_07]

This is what I have so far...

Ceremony ~ Minoru Chapel
Reception ~ Quilchena Golf and Country Club
Tux's ~ Moore's

I will post more once we have booked them.

[planningtime]

This is a great wealth of information ladies ... I hope we are helping the brides who are just getting into the midst of their planning!!

[Jenner&Marko]

Hi, here are my vendors:

Dress: Sposabella (Edmonton)
Rings: Adamas Jewlers (Edmonton)
Church: St. Christopher's Anglican
Reception: Grouse Mountain
Flowers/Decorator: Larissa @ Bridal Beginnings
Cake: Cakewalk (Karen Malcolm)
Invites: Evergreen Stationary (Edmonton)
Limo: Silverlady
Photographers: JNJ Photography
Videographer: Family friend
Tuxes: Black & Lee
Hair & Make-up: Absolute Spa (Hotel Vancouver)
Honeymoon: Carnival Eastern Caribbean cruise

I am pretty much finished everything. We just need to order our favors and meet with some of the vendors for the last time.

[yoyo]

Ceremony: Beach Grove Golf Club
Reception: Beach Grove Golf Club
Officiant: Bob Buzza
Photographer: Kumiko at www.hee.ca
Videographer: Mark from One Red Shoe
Hair and Make up: Pamper Me Pretty
Cake: Thea from www.sweetthea.com
Flowers: The Flower Box from Commercial Drive
Decorators: Jack and Jill
Limo: SUV
Dress: Bryan's Bride

I am getting there...^_^

[Chuckerboo]

Originally Posted by planningtime

This is a great wealth of information ladies ... I hope we are helping the brides who are just getting into the midst of their planning!!

Planningtime, I just thought I would say that it was your vendor list that brought me to find Lisa Gregory Events. Thank you SO much for posting your vendors! It has already been a HUGE help to me!

[ronmel]

Date: July 21 2006
Ceremony/Reception: www.riverside-palace.com
Officiant: Clarence Ash
DJ: provided by the Hall
Decor/Flowers/Cake/Co-Ordinator: Suzanna Verkick
Limos: not sure yet
Photographer: Mark from www.progressivephotography.net
Videographer: not sure yet
Dress: MJM wedding store
BM Dresses: indian store in surrey
Shoes:shoe warehouse
FG Dresses: havnt got it yet
Tux's: www.blackandlee.com
Wedding Night Hotel: holiday inn
Honeymoon: Matie Point, Fiji
Invitiations/Programs: made my own
Hair: parent of one on the children i teach
Tiara:
michels
Earrings and necklace: Heart to Hreat Bridal
FH's ring: Harry Riches
My rings: Harry riches
Veil: micheals
Guest Book: havn't bought it yet
Registries: The Bay & Home Outfitters www.hbc.com , home outfitters, and Linen n' things

[Maddy]

Oh I always loved these threads over on WB. So I will try my best to list all of our vendors:

- ering, both wedding bands purchased at Creative Goldsmiths in Langley (on the By-Pass)

- Ceremony and reception at Grouse Mountain http://www.grousemountain.com/grouse...n-weddings.cfm

- Photographer is Frozen Reflections http://www.frozenreflections.com/

- Marriage Commissioner is Maureen Hunter mehunter@shaw.ca

- first dress http://www.blissconsignment.com/ second dress Bridal Gallery in New Westminster

- first veil from tietheknotshop.com (DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM!) and second veil just ordered from Helen at www.thebridesproject.com

- favour boxes and ribbon (still need to buy the jordan almonds somewhere) http://papermart.com/pages/cs_ordering_information.htm

- guest book is ceramic platter (have not ordered yet) from http://www.serendipity-crafts.com/index.html

- FH and groomsman and FFIL getting tuxes from Debonair Formal (next to Bridal Gallery in New Westminster)

- cake, I have no idea. this has been "assigned" to FH.

- invites www.paperpoet.ca

- DJ is Howzat Sound (Brian O'Reilly)

- flowers and centerpieces, Suzanna Verkirk, of Starburst 604-942-4621 (I supply the vases and deliver to her and she will do the flowers in them and bring to the venue)

- makeup Positive Eyedentities, Kelsey 604-857-4745 she is coming to us and does air-brushed makeup

- hair is Absolute Spa in Hotel Vancouver

- wedding night and night before wedding we are staying at Hotel Vancouver

Whew, I think that's it for now!

[jennaboo]

Hi Ladies,
Here are my Vendors:

Venue: Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club
Officiant: Marilyn Knipp
Photography: Davidoff Photography
Videography: Marliss Productions
DJ: Hot Wax
Ceremony Musicians: Musical Occasions
Dress/veil/headpiece: Lisa's Bridal
BM Dresses: David's Bridal
FG Dresses: Ebay
Invites: www.paper-source.com
Caterers: Friends of ours
Cake: My Momma
Wine: my parents

We are getting married July 2, 2006 (yikes! less than 3 months) and I'm in the works of florist, decorator, hair/make-up and fh is picking tuxes. I will update the vendors once I get them!!

[mizzmasterd]

Wow, thanks everybody who posted - this is really helpful! We have only booked my date yet, so I will add when I get a bit more organized.

[Snow_kitten]

Well so far we have....

Venue for ceremony & reception: Pinnacle Lodge in Sun Peaks http://www.pinnaclelodgesunpeaks.com/


Commissioner: Sherin Jensen

Photographer: Matt Crossman Photography http://www.mattcrossmanphotography.com/

Wedding Dress: http://www.netbride.com

BM Dresses: Don't know yet but likely from Champagne & Lace
http://champagneandlace.com/

DJ: Don't know yet, but if anyone knows of a good one in the Kamloops area I would love to know!!

Jewelery: A bridal shop in Chilliwack, silk and white satin i do believe.

Shoes: Sterling

E-ring and other rings: Spence Diamonds in Langley

Invitations: Making ours, supplies from Paper Poet, Michaels and a scrapbooking shop in Abby.

Flowers: Costco

I am sure there is more, but that is all I can think of for now

[monicaman]

Hi,

Clarence Ash will be my officiant as well this Dec , just want to know ure opinon on him?

Tks
Monica

Originally Posted by ronmel

Date: July 21 2006
Ceremony/Reception: www.riverside-palace.com
Officiant: Clarence Ash
DJ: provided by the Hall
Decor/Flowers/Cake/Co-Ordinator: Suzanna Verkick
Limos: not sure yet
Photographer: Mark from www.progressivephotography.net
Videographer: not sure yet
Dress: MJM wedding store
BM Dresses: indian store in surrey
Shoes:shoe warehouse
FG Dresses: havnt got it yet
Tux's: www.blackandlee.com
Wedding Night Hotel: holiday inn
Honeymoon: Matie Point, Fiji
Invitiations/Programs: made my own
Hair: parent of one on the children i teach
Tiara:
michels
Earrings and necklace: Heart to Hreat Bridal
FH's ring: Harry Riches
My rings: Harry riches
Veil: micheals
Guest Book: havn't bought it yet
Registries: The Bay & Home Outfitters www.hbc.com , home outfitters, and Linen n' things