I can’t say I really care about the invitations all that much. They’re pretty pieces of paper that eventually get thrown away. I know some people are really into the paper products, I’m not one of them. I’m just looking for something that looks nice and is reasonably priced. I think The American Wedding offers the best invitation bang for your buck. We ordered three samples …

Save the Dates
We ordered our Save the Dates from VistaPrint this weekend designed by the lovely Jenn.

Dresses
We went on a trip to Bijou Bridal on Saturday to look at more dresses. They had me pick whatever seven dresses I wanted to try on. Three didn’t look good at all, two that were OK, one that looked adorable, but made me look like a little girl playing dress up, and one that I loved. Unfortunately, the one I loved was also twice the price that we wanted to spend on a dress. I like it, but I don’t know if I like it that much. After all, I’ll only be wearing this thing once. It was definitely more of what I imagined my dress to be than Martina. It had just the right amount of beading and just enough pickups. They wouldn’t let me take any pictures and it’s by their in-house designer, so I don’t have a picture to share with you, but trust me, it was nice.

Officiants
My original plan was to meet at least three of all the vendors, but since I’m a little short on dates I can meet with people on, unless we don’t like Celia for some reason, she’s probably going to be the only officiant we meet with.

Celia Milton has a million amazing reviews all over the internets. She seems pretty awesome and she has a wordpress blog. We’re meeting with her the Sunday after I come back from TX.

Photographers
I’m definitely making sure we meet with at least three photographers because we don’t have a very large photography budget, and they are very expensive, so I have to be a bit more careful in selecting one.

We’re meeting with Bill Mitchel Photography because we’ve lived down the street from their studio for years and they have very reasonable prices.

I think I might make an appointment with Garden State Photo. They have good reviews, their pictures seem nice and again, good prices.

My favorite right now is Marco Ricca. I think his photos are excellent and his prices are very reasonable for the quality. I also fully appreciate that you don’t need flash to view his site.

DJs
I have only found a few so far that do karaoke.

Espessway Music, who I’ve blogged about before. I’m going to speak with them later today.

Ultimate Entertainment, who don’t have the best website ever.

And then there’s Elite Entertainment, who keep sending me a million emails that I ignore because I’m lazy like that.

Someone in the weddingplans community posted about these. They’re wooden invitations from Cards of Wood. Certainly a unique invitation idea. Especially if you’re going for a nature type of theme.